Expeditions can be hard to maneuver as a mother & scientist. Intense & exciting to have my essay published in The New York Times exploring how Expeditions can be an Academic Act of Defiance Mapping fungi w/family SPUN New York Times Opinion: tinyurl.com/5adc5cwf (photo 2011, Kenya)

The Genome Explorer Genome Browser biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

For anyone starting DNA barcoding work, primer diagrams or maps can be useful to visualise where primers bind to DNA regions; where they overlap or nest; and to suggest different primers. Here are a few examples, and let us know if you have any better ones! 👇 🐝🐄 🐟 For

2024 Westerdijk Institute PhD&Pstdoc Retreat starts with a fantastic atmosphere!🌸🌸🥰🥰

Míriam Santos gave a very interesting talk about prize-winning artisinal cheeses in Brazil and the intraspecific variability in Geotrichum candidum on them. #fungi #bloomyrind #artisanalminascheese #geotrichumcandidum #galactomycescandidus #biodiversity UFLA

FBR has just published our commentary that we have compiled on suggestion of the editors. This will hopefully help to clarify why the search for complex plant metabolites in cultures of fungal endophytes is not an attractive research goal but more related to phantom hunting.

Another new clinically relevant fungus has been published in #Mycopathologia 'Aspergillus hubkae, a novel species Isolated from a patient with probable invasive pulmonary aspergillosis' by the Westerdijk Institute team of Jos Houbraken See link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Een groep studenten van firda_roc laboratoriumtechniek uit Leeuwarden, bezocht vandaag ons instituut. Ze kregen rondleidingen en mochten schimmels determineren. Het was ons een genoegen! Tot volgend jaar? Jos Houbraken

We are so very proud of Team Westerdijk! Second place 1/4 Marathon for the team that was brought together by Yanfang Guo . Beautiful shirts 😁sponsored by Westerdijk Institute Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen Utrecht Science Park

Het Westerdijk Institute doet mee met bodemonderzoekmetjeonderbroek 🩲, van @030Natuurlijk. 16 mei hebben wij "onze" 3 onderbroeken (of wat er van over was...) weer opgegraven. utrechtnatuurlijk.nl/bodemonderzoek/ Filmpje!! 🎞️ Jos Houbraken #BiodiversityDay music: #audionautix

Dr Jan Dijksterhuis geeft 9 juni van 14.30 tot 15.30 uur een lezing in de bibliotheek op de Neude in Utrecht over de rol van schimmels en andere organismes zoals bacteriën in de bodem. De lezing is voor volwassenen. GRATIS, wel graag inschrijven! lnkd.in/d_nztaE9

Susceptibility testing of environmental & clinical Aspergillus sydowii demonstrates potent activity of various antifungals #OpenAccess #Mycopathologia by Eelco Meijer Bram Spruijtenburg Jacquomo Jos Houbraken et al CWZ Nijmegen Center of Expertise in Mycology Radboudumc/CWZ Westerdijk Institute doi.org/10.1007/s11046…

Our research reveals a new player: the acidophilic fungus Acrodontium crateriforme, which not only thrives on sundew leaves but also helps these amazing plants speed up their prey digestion! See full paper here: nature.com/articles/s4156…

Aspergillus species in Iceland: species distribution and cyp51A mutation testing in a 7.5-year clinical isolate collection bioRxiv Landspítali Westerdijk Institute De KNAW Bert Gerrits vd Ende Jos Houbraken ISHAM ECMM ESCMID Fungal Infection Study Group (EFISG) doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

Westerdijk Institute zoekt een #Communicatie medewerker! Welke topper helpt ons om verhalen over ons mycologisch onderzoek en onze wereldvermaarde collectie van levende schimmels te delen met de wereld? Meer hier: 👉 vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Utrecht-Co…👈 #vacature #kombijonswerken #job Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen

It's Food and Indoor Mycology Course Week again! And we are ready for our students to arrive. 😀🍄🔬. #fortheloveoffungi #mycology #fungi Jos Houbraken

Last week, we held our Food & Indoor Mycology course. A week dedicated to studying fungal cultures, and working with (barcode) sequences for identification purposes. The course participants were very enthusiastic and eager to apply the acquired knowledge in their work! Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen

Last Tuesday, our colleague Bart Kraak gave a workshop for the working group feed microbiology of the European Feed Microbiology Organisation in Lichtenwalde, Germany. Participants were introduced fungal identification, with focus on feed-associated genera. Jos Houbraken

🎙️ New Interview Alert The Scientist sat down with Ferry Hagen 🔬🧫🧬 from the Westerdijk Institute to discuss a global health challenge: the silent pandemic of antifungal resistance. Read here: the-scientist.com/the-silent-pan…

We are looking for a Doctoral Candidate with a #bioinformatics background to use metagenomics to study microbial pathogens in non-clinical niches as part of #SPOILCONTROL MSCA Doctoral Network DN DC5 - Pathogenic Flora spoilcontrol.hub.inrae.fr/phd-projects/d… Apply here: bsc.es/join-us/job-op…