We dive into the dynamics of #starships 🚀 in a fungal pathogen to ask: how might these giant #transposons impact human health? We find they drive genome-wide variation, encode clinically-relevant traits and even transpose within the same strain! 🍄🧪 out today in mBio #goteam doi.org/10.1128/mbio...
New risk maps developed by Sandip Mondal, @mycomile.bsky.social, Horacio Lopez-Nicora, and others, help soybean farmers spot charcoal rot before it strikes. 🫛 Read the press release: www.apsnet.org/about/newsro...
Read the original article in Phytopathology: doi.org/10.1094/PHYT...
The new extended deadline for MSA abstracts is March 21st! #MSAfungi25
No “one size fits all” option exists for treating fungal infections in large part
due to genetic and phenotypic variability among strains. Accounting for strain heterogeneity
is thus fundamental for d...
Its #fungus time! Come join us in Madison this summer for #MSAfungi25 🧪🍄🔬 Abstracts due March 17
📣Call for Abstracts for the Mycological Society of America 2025 Annual Meeting this summer in Madison, Wisconsin. Submit your abstract by March 17th! #MSAfungi25
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A campaign to match scientists who've been unjustly fired from federal positions with illustrators to tell their stories — this looks pretty neat
Are you a member of @msafungi.bsky.social and employee of the US Federal Government who recently lost their job or who otherwise needs support during recent implementation of executive orders? We would like to connect with you to understand how the Society can help. Please DM to let us know.
🚨 Washington State asked a judge yesterday to hold the Trump admin in contempt for canceling a grant to Seattle Children’s to study gender-affirming care.
“Injunctions are not suggestions — they are binding orders of the Court. Defendants may not evade this Court’s orders through game-playing.”
