🔬 A fluorescent view of Candida albicans in action:
🔵 Blue = growth structures spreading through tissue
🟢 Green = energy “powerhouses”
🔴 Red = storage & recycling hubs
📸 Dr Tina Bedekovic
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Today’s #ImageOfTheWeek: Cryptococcus neoformans, a fungus that can infect people with weakened immune systems.
Not all strains are the same - by staining with calcofluor white to highlight chitin in the cell walls we can identify differences in the cell wall.
📸 Eduardo Galue Mozo, MRC CMM
📽️ Behind the scenes at the MRC Centre for Medical Mycology
Ian, one of our lab technicians, preparing agar plates 🧫 a routine step behind vital fungal infection research.
Tackling these infections takes skill & precision behind the scenes.
#ImageOfTheWeek #LabLife
Organoids are tiny 3D “organs” grown in the lab. They help researchers study disease, test drugs, and advance personalised medicine without human or animal testing.
Image shows organoids infected with Candida albicans. 🔬
📷 O. Ross & E. Hickey
#ImageOfTheWeek #Fungus #FungalInfection #Microscopy
With the ROTOR+ from @singerinstruments.bsky.social the Usher Lab can screen entire fungal genomes in under an hour, at densities up to 1536 colonies.
What used to take days (or months of analysis) can now be done in an afternoon.
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Registration is now open for #MycoTalks S6 E9 with David Underhill and Chiung-Yu Hung
📅 25 June 2026
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