Very easy about the cell wall of conidia and hyphae on the example of #Aspergillus fumigatus. Don't forget to subscribe to my Fungal Channel! 🍄 #mycology #fungi #phdlife #AcademicTwitter #education youtu.be/bZ4tVo1G5gg

We’ve had a really productive lab research workshop over the past 2 days, making great progress on several upcoming manuscripts from the group, including papers from the FUTURE OAK Synbiogas and #BacstopAOD projects

After a rather unexpected 6-week break, I came back to the lab today to find this beautifully overgrown isolate in one of the agar plates that remained on my bench. One isolate out of the thousands of our culture collection at FUTURE OAK. Such a pretty growth pattern!! 😍🧫🦠🌳

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I will be running 100k throughout September for Great Ormomd Street hospital No pressures or expectations but if you fancy chipping in a quid or two I'm sure the kids would appreciate it. fundraise.gosh.org/fundraisers/ed…

Currently on my annual latitudinal #Greggs transect. Climate change has so many ecological impacts - I worry that this northwards range expansion will result in the extinction of several other baked goods outlets due to competition effects.

I am very happy that the last paper from my postdoc with Corinne Vacher at @INRAE_BIOGECO is out in Molecular Ecology

Marine Cambon and colleagues found that the composition of leaf fungal communities, but not bacterial communities, is related to #droughttolerance in #Neotropical trees. 🔓 Read this trending paper from our #phyllosphere focus issue: doi.org/10.1094/PBIOME…

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👀Exciting new PhD opportunity starting Sep 2024! SWBio DTP project on microbial interactions in wetwood of broadleaf trees🌲, supervised by Sarah Christofides & Lynne Boddy at Cardiff Uni and me & Robin Thorn at UWE. Click here for more info: swbio.ac.uk/bioscience-for…

I am very happy that the pre-print of our work is out, showing that chemical elicitors from a beetle larvae triggers proliferation and virulence of a plant bacterial pathogen. See the thread below and check out the paper to learn more: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

The "tree surgery" was finally on today 🤩 We started the last experimet of the FUTURE OAK project, testing the effect of microbial SynComs in oak saplings! Happy to have the best team all along James McDonald Usman Hussain Ed Pyne Marine C. Cambon Jim Downie

Interested in the effects of veteranisation on fungal communities? Check out our paper published in the Arboricultural Association journal. We found communities in veteranised oak branches differed to natural dead branch communities FungusProf Emma Gilmartin 🍄 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Looking forward to presenting some updates on how RNA and DNA viromics can be used to understand how we influence viral communities both around us, and within us 🏞️🚜💩

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/.../10.1002/an… A comprehensive study on secondary metabolite biodiversity of the largest organism on Earth was just published by Angewandte Chemie, involving @MS_Fungi and BIOTEC. Congrats to all coauthors and many thanks for funding from Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Calling aspiring ecologists! 🌿 Join British Ecological Society for the 10th anniversary of the Undergraduate Summer School Apply now! #BESUG24 #careers #ecology britishecologicalsociety.org/learning-and-r…

I have a PhD opening in the lab to look at improving detection speed of viruses and bacteria in freshwater with sample processing and nanopore findaphd.com/phds/project/r…

The deadline to apply for our Undergraduate Student Vacation Bursaries is coming soon. Awards of up to £3,300 enable students to gain valuable practical experience in any area of fungal biology research. Find out more: britmycolsoc.org.uk/society/grants…

Congratulations to the newly minted Dr Ed Pyne who passed his PhD viva with minor corrections yesterday 👏💪 look out for some cool papers on fungal combative interactions coming soon. Thanks to examiners AberMycol and Dr Ellie Jameson and chair Prysor Williams