An iconic peach pathogen for the diagnostics class.

First report of southern corn rust for 2025 comes from Jackson Co, FL. Thanks Caleb Traugh! While none yet known in GA, corn growers in extreme SW GA with corn at tassel or beyond should take threat seriously. Weather now very favorable for infection and spread. UGA Extension

I'm thrilled to share that I've joined the Universidad Miguel Hernández UMH in Spain as an Assistant Professor of Microbiology! Excited for this new chapter and the opportunities ahead

New research shows the ways that genome-scale-enabled Earth system models can advance our understanding of microbial ecosystems and their role in ocean biogeochemistry. Learn more in this week’s issue: scim.ag/4dQQwBV

SPECIAL FOCUS: MYCORRHIZAL NETWORKS Functional Ecology: Vol 39, No 6 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652435/2…

Check out our latest review in Molecular Cell! We discuss how formaldehyde, a toxic metabolic by-product, threatens genome stability and disrupts cellular homeostasis. 👏Terrific job by the talented #MartaValverde Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute (IJC) 📰👉authors.elsevier.com/a/1lDFm3vVUPVa… cell.com/molecular-cell…

#TheLastOfUs: A fungus that actually infects the human brain 🧠 A recent #G3journal paper presents a valuable auxin-inducible genetic toolkit for conditional mutation in the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans, which can cause meningitis: buff.ly/rIkC09R

New in J. Fungi: Pinsky & Kornitzer reveal how iron chelation with BPS triggers Candida albicans to form hyphae - via a conserved Yak1–WDR68 kinase–WD40 pair! 🔬🌱 A deep dive into fungal morphogenesis and cell differentiation. 📖doi.org/10.3390/jof100… #FungalGenomics #Candida

Did you know some underutilized crops can withstand 42°C and produce 30% more food per drop of water than wheat? 🔗 Discover how neglected and underutilized crops like quinoa, cowpea & lentils could transform dryland agriculture: icarda.org/media/blog/neg…

🎶 רוקדים את חיים 13.6 | מבשלת הבירה ISIS, מושב דקל (דרום) מזמינים אתכם ליום של מוזיקה, שמחה ואהבה – בסדרת הופעות חיות ומגוונות לזכרו של חיים כצמן 💛 בואו לחגוג את חייו – עם צלילים, קצב, וחיבורים מהלב. כל ההכנסות קודש לפרויקט ההנצחה של חיים. causematch.com/hayim-he/512393

🤩Botrytis cinerea in a new light: woody trunk endophytes that interact with Botryosphaeriaceae members of the Grapevine Trunk Disease complex and modulate disease expression: bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… #OpenAccess

BRCA2 C-terminal clamp restructures RAD51 dimers to bind B-DNA for replication fork stability dlvr.it/TLFcFT

In our latest paper, we uncover condensin II as a novel BLM interactor critical for genome stability in S phase. Condensin II contributes to BLM localization at active forks and undergoes a transient structural change in S phase.nature.com/articles/s4200…

Our reviewed preprint on koji-fungus is out eLife - the journal. We analyzed why Aspergillus oryzae is an excellent enzyme producer and discovered a trait, 10-fold increase in hyphal cell volume and nuclear number. This also applies to other industrially bred fungi. doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

Between alarms and sheltering, I learned last night that my postdoc mentor, Professor Atul Butte Atul Butte, has passed away, and he is only 55 years old. This is devastating news 💔. Atul was a giant in so many ways. He was a visionary leader in translational bioinformatics

After being stuck in Hong Kong after ISSCR meeting unable to fly back home, I managed to get on a plane to London to stay with family.. only to learn now in the air that our institute was hit. My team is all safe which is what matters. My lab sustained serious blast damage but we

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A transcription balance required for genome stability 🧬⚖️ Our work on RNA Pol II transcription speed control by the DNA helicase RECQL5 and the transcription-coupled DNA repair complex is now on ⁦⁦NatureStructMolBiol⁩ #CryoEM #transcription nature.com/articles/s4159…

Hypermutator fungal pathogens: from threat to meltdown dlvr.it/TMNYW8

We have updated our IS-MPMI poster (doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…) to feature some ER retention data we had lying around but neglected to include in the first version. This shows recoded Pwl2-HDEL is retained in the ER, confirming it is secreted via the ER, and virulence is restored