🔥 pitch by Monika Fischer at #ISME18 on her work examining soil microbial community recovery following prescribed burns in a Northern California mixed conifer forest. Check out her rad poster #056 at this evenings poster session to learn about her findings!

So many rad female fire scientists at #ISME18 !! Fantastic 🔥 pitch from Neem J. Patel, who burned a couple forests using prescribed fire and then followed the soil microbial communities for 18months afterward. Go visit her at poster # 536 to learn how the microbes responded! 🍄🦠

Check out our latest paper all about fire-following Ascomycetes🍄! Stellar comparative genomics led by Andrei Steindorff & Igor Grigoriev Joint Genome Institute DOE Office of Science 🧬6 new fungal genomes 🔥 selection for charcoal-tolerance genes 🍄 fruiting body development nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

Diversity of genomic adaptations to the post-fire environment in Pezizales fungi points to crosstalk between charcoal tolerance and sexual development MycoCosm; Monika Fischer; Traxler Lab; @BHenrissat ow.ly/pQnz50KBh0S

Thrilled to announce that Matt will be giving his tenure talk at the Berkeley Plant & Microbial Biology seminar this Wednesday @ noon (PT)! Join us in person or on Zoom!

My new talk for iBiology will be posted on Nov 15! In the meantime, check out the 2022 Share Your Research trailer youtu.be/uCRTqL4COxc via YouTube

Best papers of 2022 in ecology and evolution, according to members of Mordecai (Erin Mordecai), Peay (mykophile), and Fukami labs at Stanford University web.stanford.edu/~fukamit/paper…

Student-focused one-day microbiology conference at UC Berkeley next month!!! Open to all! Registration is FREE! ....as a former chair of this event, I'm totally biased in saying this is one of the most awesome micro events ever. Come hang, share your work, met new micro-pals!

Having a data/file organizing day and realized I never finished my annual tradition of updating this plot of CA wildfires (total acres burned +highlighting specific named fires that burned >100,000acres). 2022 was a phenomenally moist year, with nary a fire >100K!🔥

Massive CONGRATS to newly minted Dr. Neem J. Patel !!! 🎉🎉🎉 Absolutely phenomenal Phinishing Talk. My heart is bursting 🥹. It’s been such and honor and a privilege to be her postdoc mentor and partner in science! Watch out, cause she’s on fire!!🔥 Traxler Lab Berkeley Plant & Microbial Biology

Getting ready for the GRC to kick off ! 🥳🥳. So great to spend time with current and former labmates ! Jovana Kaljevic Ophélie Remy @LalouxLab Luis Streptomyces coelicolor Traxler Lab #BacCell23 #TraxLab

Enjoying the progress of Mira's amazing work with post-fire microbes Traxler Lab! Glad to see you again since our great time at Dubrovnik #SSAMM2022! Love these academic connections ❤️ #ASP2023

We are seeking a new faculty member in Soil Carbon Science, more details here: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assistant…

Monika Fischer showing off some pyrophilous mushrooms #msafungi2024

Not ideal that I'm losing my voice the day I needed to give my talk at #MSAfungi23! But the Fungi and Fire session this morning was awesome! 🍄🍄🔥🔥Dr Sydney Glassman Monika Fischer

Super stoked to share this paper, now in its final form @Environmicrobi !! Thanks to the reviewers who helped us improve our story that began with a totally epic time-series of post-fire soil samples and ends with a dynamic and pyrophilous subcommunity! doi.org/10.1111/1462-2…

Exploring the world of Sensory Transduction in microorganisms at #GRCSTIM2024 in Ventura, California! 🌐 Here's a snapshot of our brilliant team, soaking in knowledge and forging scientific connections. 🔬 #TeamScience #ResearchCommunity #LabLife #ScienceConference

🌟Congrats to our own Dr. Monika on joining UBC Botany and @forestry.ubc.ca on Bluesky as Assistant Professor! 💪 We are incredibly excited for the launch of the Fischer Fire Fungi Lab this fall. Best of luck, Monika Fischer! You've made our team proud! 🔥🍄 #TeamSuccess #UBC #FireFungiLab

Excited to see research uncovering a family of anti-phage lanthipeptides in Actinos. Including systems related to our work on Cvn8 in Streptomyces! Great work of MDMLab and Helena Shomar #Microbiology #PhageDefense #Actinos

"UBC Forestry has an incredible research community representing a broad diversity of approaches and perspectives."🍄🔥 Meet Monika Fischer, the newest #UBCForestry and UBC Botany Assistant Professor👋 💡 Get to know her in our latest In The Spotlight: bit.ly/3WruK0k