The race to save B.C.’s bats canadiangeographic.ca/articles/the-r…

🥁 New Publication Alert: Our manuscript on the ☕️ and #microbiome relationship is out in Nature Microbiology: nature.com/articles/s4156… 1/12

Fungi in Canada: McMaster University researchers survey six provinces, one territory to study trends in environmental fungi. McMaster IIDR ow.ly/InHv50Ui9Z5

We are excited to announce the winners of the 2024 #AgarArt Contest! Congratulations to Jeeyoung Lee, our overall winner, for her piece titled, "Petri Dish Jazz Club." You can learn about the other winners on our website: asm.org/Events/ASM-Aga…

PRESENTATION RECORDING HAS BEEN POSTED! CoriLausen gives updates on our work with our conservation partners re: the Probiotic Project & our work to improve survival rates of bats. Also an update on our work with First Nations & training batworkers vimeo.com/1052449453

What Is It Like to Be a Bat From Their Point of View? A fascinating new book carefully explains how otherworldly weird bats survive and thrive using their unique senses, their ecological importance, and what they need from us. psychologytoday.com/us/blog/animal…

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🦇🎣🦇 Happy to share our study on 🐟fish-eating 🦇#bats! Our findings reveal, for the first time, that Rickett's big-footed #myotis (Myotis pilosus) consumes marine fishes. It consumes more 🐠fish during the dry season, and more 🦋insects during the wet months.

“The smell of familiarity”. Check out this new 📄 by Sofia Rizzi and collaborators on #Bechstein 🦇 #roosting selection. They suggest that females use #conspecific #odours in roost selection. #Animal #Behaviour 👀🔎 doi.org/10.1016/j.anbe…

In #AnimalMicrobiome 🔍Investigating effects of water temperature on the gut microbiota & metabolome of olive flounder 📢Higher temperatures diversify gut bacterial communities & alter metabolite profiles 👉doi.org/pnct

Meet Jon Stokes, one of our plenary speakers! Dr. Stokes McMaster University focuses on the development and application of leading-edge machine learning techniques for novel drug discovery and design tasks. Register for #CFN25 to hear his talk in August!

Meet Joe Heitman, one of our plenary speakers! Dr. Heitman Duke Blue Devils is a Co-Director and Fellow of the CIFAR program Fungal Kingdom: Threats & Opportunities. His research studies model & pathogenic fungi addressing fundamental questions of scientific and medical importance

White-nose syndrome has infected millions of bats in North America. Now, researchers have finally identified the source: large caves in western Ukraine, likely visited by explorers who unwittingly brought the spores back with them to the United States. scim.ag/3FxEbWt

Check out the session themes related to medicine! #CFN25 is gearing up to have some excellent talks related to these topics and more! Submit your abstracts to speak in one of these sessions by this Friday, June 13: canfunnet.conferences.uwo.ca/registration

Dionysia odora subsp. odora Primulaceae Kermanshah, Iran April 2025 | Elevation: 1850 m This species looks like a natural bonsai. #primulaceae #Iran #botany

Did that program scroll by too quickly for you to see what #CFN25 has in store for you this year? Not to worry, the program is up on our website! No really. Hurry to canfunnet.conferences.uwo.ca to see all the content we have to offer in August! Registration is still open!

Exciting news in Alberta! Our @wcscanada.org Western Bat Team developed a probiotic treatment to help improve survival rates for bats facing white-nose syndrome. We have applied it for the 1st time outside of the study area! 🦇 cbc.ca/player/play/vi…

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In #Microbiome 🔍Investigating the diversity and activity of fungi in oxygen minimum zones (OMZ) of the ocean 🚨Fungi are key contributors to particle remineralization in the ocean, modulating the coupled cycles of carbon & nitrogen in OMZs 👉doi.org/pzxh

E. coli expressing GFP. Spun down 1 ml of culture, discarded supernatant, and visualized cell pellets with UV light. Thanks to Sebastian S. Cocioba for the strain. Sebastian S. Cocioba🪄🌷