PhD student at @ualberta.bsky.social (University of Alberta)
lichen symbiosis | evolution | fungal biology
Canada 🇨🇦
he/him, but for #fungi, such concepts are irrelevant
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I just had my PhD candidacy. Grateful for a challenging and incredibly helpful examination, and for the committee’s time and thoughtful questions. A real privilege to discuss my work with such excellent scholars: @spribille.bsky.social @j-karst.bsky.social, Glen Uhrig, Daniel Stanton and Joel Dacks
A newly published study takes a major step toward solving one of lichen biology’s biggest questions, namely, how these symbiotic organisms produce their remarkable array of compounds known as lichen acids.
A new review paper from our lab courtesy of @jazzsynbio.bsky.social is published in Trends in Biotechnology
In this review, we look at the many opportunities for synthetic biology to be used in the research and applications of Holobionts.
Whilst at Whitlingham C.P. today I walked past this thistle rosette and twigged that it looked slightly unusual. I stopped and had a closer look, noticing that one of the leaves has edged by the slime mould Diachea leucopodia.
Is overeating driven by hedonism? @danasmall.bsky.social &co argue that the pleasure of eating food is not a driver of the #obesity epidemic, but rather the regular consumption of an unhealthy diet blunts sensitivity to interoceptive signals that drive food reward #neurosky 🧪
plos.io/4nTlHQc
