Hmmm, why do fairy rings grow outwards?! Boel shows her three supervisors how to dig and move around parts of rings - to figure this out! Stay tuned (a couple of years) to see where the fungi goes 😅

This does not happen very often: A lectureship in mycology at SLU, Uppsala. 🍄 Spread the word!!...and find it here: slu.se/en/about-slu/w…

We can now finally share our paper on the whole-genome phylogeny and comparative genomics of the fungal order Sordariales! Check out the new paper by Noah Hensen (they/them) et al. here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #fungi #phylogenetics #Sordariales

Today, we are having our semi-annual meeting with our @UU_University and Systematic Biology Programme colleagues working on fungi. A day to talk all things fungi, full of presentations of our newest research!

Markus Hiltunen from Johannesson Lab explaining mutation rates in the fairy ring mushroom Marasmius oreades. Perplexingly low mutation rate in this fungus!

Just back from Szeged, and a visit to the Laszlo G. Nagy group. We had a blast, hearing about all the interesting ongoing projects, shared ours and planned collaborative work on inheritance in basidiomycetes. And some great food and drinks, too! Thanks so much for hosting us!

Our paper on spore formation in Morchella galilaea, is published online in Frontiers in Microbiology. Xi-Hui Du shows intriguing data on variability in ascospore size, number and shape and conidia produced directly from ascospores in this species! frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Trying to avoid sideprojects, but …. now, lab-grown mycelia of the local Morchella importuna is back into the ground, together with quicklime and other good stuff. High risk (of freezing), but high gain (if it works!). Excited to see what comes up next year!!

This week, Noah did their halftime PhD seminar on "genomic traits in thermophilic fungi" with Aelys Humphreys as external reviewer! Great work Noah!

Alert: the first chapter of Ivar’s PhD is out! Here we can learn about how crapaud (a TE in Podospora... i.e., not a frog!) evolves. Great work, IvarW, we look forward to more TE and RIP-stuff from you. mobilednajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Research on Fungi is acknowledged by the election of our PI to be a member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences. How awesome! 🥳

Really great presentation by Petter today at his halftime seminar. We are all so excited to see these projects move forward! Awesome work Petter!

After a long silence on here, I am now proud to inform you that I got elected to join the ESEB equality committee! I am very excited about working to improve equality, very happy to join, and looking forward to all the good work we will do together. eseb.org/prizes-funding…

Marieke van der Poel came from Utrecht to is join us for an internship. She got her own lab T-shirt 😊 and will let the (spore-) killers go alive again by picking up the work on meiotic drive in Neurospora! Thanks for joining us!

Yes, we work on fungi… but, one or two of those prokaryotes also gets in! Here is a study on Microcoleus, together with our friends from Czech @dvorikus published in Nature communications. Check it out and read about barriers to gene flow in a microbe! link.springer.com/article/10.103…

One more piece of work from Lore’s PhD-thesis is published! Here, she presents chromosome-level assemblies of the remaining species of the Podospora species complex - and make an attempt to resolve their phylogenetic relationships. Go, Podo, go! academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-ar…

Interested in evolutionary genomics/population genomics and plant genetics? Want to do your PhD in beautiful Stockholm? We have two 4-year PhD student positions available in my group at Stockholm University. More info, see tanjaslottelab.se Please RT #ecrchat #PhD 1/4

Looking for a 2-year postdoc in Scandinavia? Join Martin Lascoux's group Plant Dept Uppsala to study polyploid genomics in re-synthesised Capsella. Application due in last than 1 month! uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jo…

Great Noah! Go for it!

Yesterday, our team ran the Blodomloppet in Stockholm, to help draw attention to the importance of blood donation. We all ran 5 or 10 kilometers, we all made it to the finish, and got to recharge with a picnic! #blodomloppet