Had an incredible and unforgettable first time at Asilomar #Fungal24!! Extremely surreal to be awarded a prize for my Fusarium poster from Li-Jun Ma herself 🙇‍♀️ Thanks to all the organisers and to our postdocs Hannah Blyth 👩‍🔬 George Lund for being great company ❤️❤️

Neil Brown British Mycological Society & British Society for Plant Pathology One Health meeting in Bath, UK: Future soils & environmental stress adaptation in #fungi can provide a platform for the evolution of more aggressive & drug resistant #pathogens #Aspergillus #Fusarium #fungal #mycology

Thanks Genetics Society of America and congratulations to all the winners 👏👏

NEW preprints: I had fun studying worm-eating #fungi 🪱🍄 with new collaborators in these latest preprints 📰. Among other insights, we find that worm-eating fungi horizontally acquired a bacterial #gene that helps with attracting their #prey 🤯🤯 #biology #science #animal #bio

Take-all disease can decimate second wheat and barley yields. At Rothamsted Research scientists are looking at new sustainable ways to tackle the fungus, including biological control. Find the full video at: youtube.com/watch?v=JcVlx7… #PlantHealthWeek #TakeAll #wheat Delivering Sustainable Wheat

Save the date for UK Fungus Day 2024! What will you be doing on 5th October? Let us know if you're planning an event, preparing some fungus-inspired art work, taking some photos, or anything else! ukfungusday.co.uk

Funding for fungi! News from @KewScience

📣 John Innes Foundation #PhD: Addressing fundamental questions about the spread of one of the world's most important #root #diseases - take-all. With Prof Neil Hall and Mark McMullan @mcmullan0.bsky.social at the Earlham Institute, Anne Osbourn and Rothamsted Research. ➡️ okt.to/ja2iCf

Happy to say that the preprint for my manuscript is out! Have a read to find out about Knr4 - a conserved fungal specific gene necessary for virulence and stress tolerance in two pathogens of wheat 🌾🍄 Rothamsted Research biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

📻ICYMI catch Kim Hammond-Kosack with @HillFT Farming Today Cereals Event talking about breeding new crops for regen farming 🌱🚜 Item starts around 7:15... bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Had a lot of fun helping with this thread at #WomenInWheat 😊🌾

Awesome findings showing how DON mycotoxin facilitates plasmodesmatal entry during Fusarium infection!

The Fusarium graminearum effector protease FgTPP1 suppresses immune responses and facilitates Fusarium Head Blight Disease biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_plants

It is great to see how far the TPP1 story has come! Thank you Helm Lab and Martin Darino for bringing it all together 😊😊😊

Morning fueled by FungiDB mug. Hoping that the efforts for alternative funding avenues will allow these resource to keep providing their unique and key services and grow.

I have had a fantastic four years completing my PhD Rothamsted Research 😊 Honoured to have ended it by receiving the Karp Award! Thank you Donna Fellowes for organising such a lovely leaver's ceremony 🥰

Check out this PhD with a great group! Can vouch for Rothamsted Research being a great place to do a PhD for anyone interested in helping food security!!

Proud to say my PhD work has been published and is accompanied with a short press release! Please have a read if you are interested in the use of transcriptomics for the control of fungal diseases 🌾🍄‍🟫👩‍💻👩‍🔬

So happy to see this work that started during the first year of my PhD is now out! Well done Reynaldi D. and Martin Darino for completing the story of the Fusarium protease TPP1 🥳🥳