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Weeeeeeeee! chapter II Tardigadre & Volvox 🔬by Penny Fenton

Most robust thing in the Lab. Would trust it with my life #EppendorfLife

This looks like a zen garden. Does this count Contamination Club

The embargo is lifted. Apologies to every author/editor who will now have to rewrite every science & Irish history book. New evidence reveals that Irish Potato Famine was caused by the virus Potato virus X & not the oomycete Phytophthora infestans, rewriting science & history

If you want to literally play with a microscope, try our new LEGO based one: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…. Plans and multi-language guides to teach kids are on GitHub: github.com/tobetz/LegoMic…. Sub-micron resolution thanks to a smartphone lens. Please RT, so that it reaches the kids!

Found this beautiful baby on a cherry tree on campus

I got Covid (and am fully vaccinated with Pfizer). Out of curiosity I documented for my specific case how the number of virus particles developed and compared them to my mild symptoms. This is what it looks like: (PS Today is day 7 :) )

I made a felt bolete and she made Suzy #mushroom

Today I had the chance to try an experimental dish prepared by the restaurant Alchemist. Oyster mushroom mycelium. As a microbiologist it felt so wrong to eat the contents of a Petri dish but I am glad I did; it was delicious! An interesting and promising alternative food source.

The diet of biotrophs! Sweet with a pinch of acid... Congrats to Matthias Kretschmer James Kronstad Kronstad Lab and collabs incl. BrumerLab Djihane Damoo (Dji), PhD @danielcroll for this remarkable and elegant paper. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… UBC Dept of Microbiology and Immunology Michael Smith Labs IRTG_PRoTECT

Glad to have been part of this stunning paper by Kretschmer et al. Thanks to James Kronstad, Matthias Kretschmer, @danielcroll, BrumerLab, Sherry Sun and christopher Lee IRTG_PRoTECT

Did some nice microscopy of infected maize seedlings with U.maydis #cornsmut

I'm delighted that I could contribute to Connie Chang's fantastic article on the looming threat of fungal infections. There is so much we still need to learn about how fungi evolve human virulence and drug resistance! nationalgeographic.com/magazine/artic…

Prosecutors dropped charges against Adnan Syed on Tuesday, in the 1999 case chronicled in the hit podcast “Serial" ti.me/3rIZObT

Do you want to learn more about Cryptococcus neoformans pathogens? Interested in basidiomycete plat and human pathogens? Come join us for #CanFunNet23 for a plenary talk by James Kronstad to have all your molecular pathogenesis questions answered!

Enjoy some insane drone footage of Iceland’s volcano. The drone didn’t survive, but the footage did. Skilled piloting by Airbazoo

Maize. Corn in all its colors. A few varieties of Zea mays.

💡🌽Herbicides as fungicides: targeting heme biosynthesis in the maize pathogen Ustilago maydis: bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…