Mycoscopers from the first Mycology Bioimaging Initiative Training course, held at the University of Cape Town, and hosted by UCT's Institute for Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine and the African Microscopy Initiative

The project builds on our work over the last several years, including a wonderful microscopy training course hosted last summer in Cape Town by @uctidm-mu.bsky.social, along with @caronjacobs.bsky.social @darrenthomson.bsky.social, Lucian @clairehoving.bsky.social and @rdangarembizi.bsky.social

If you build it… they will not come..
Great idea for an article! Kudos!

Benefits of having collaborators visit, whooo!

These pods look so great, need to watch!

graphical abstract. Left is a fungal cell surrounded by bacteria, and the Hog1 cascade is turned on. Right is a fungal cell covered in mannan fibrils that prevent IgA and caspofungin and increase CLR recognition by macrophages

Candida albicans is usually hanging out with bacterial neighbors, so what happens to the fungus during co-culture?
The bacteria secrete metabolites that induce massive cell wall remodeling that change immune recognition and drug resistance. Read more in our new paper: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Today, our animation synthesizing decades of research on actin-mediated endocytosis in budding yeast was published:
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

The result of a fantastic Iwasa-Drubin lab collaboration.

@margotriggi.bsky.social @jiwasa.bsky.social
movie.biologists.com/video/10.124...

I stopped doing reviews for Scientific Reports a long time ago as the standard of manuscript I was being sent was what I will politely describe as not great.

But this...

We just released a new major version of TrackMate (v8), the cell and organelle tracking plugin of Fiji.

It ships many new features, detailed below, but that are articulated around the following:

FPbase Fluorescence Spectra Viewer An interactive fluorescence spectra viewer to evaluate the spectral properties of fluorescent proteins, organic dyes, filters, and detectors.

The FPbase spectra viewer just had it's biggest software refactor in 6 years. It *should* be largely invisible to the end user (hopefully just faster and less buggy). Please let me know if you find any issues as you use it!

www.fpbase.org/spectra/

I spent 3 months angrily bashing that table, without knowing what was inside!

Did you visit Carl Zeiss’s grave?

Wirshing, Lew et al. @mit.edu address how mothers partition growth equally among their buds in the multi-budding yeast Aureobasidium pullulans. Equal partitioning stems directly from effective equalization of #polarity sites. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

#Cytoskeleton #Development

Me and the #MycBio25 cohort had a great time today. Got to see an OpenScope in the wild @uctidm-mu.bsky.social and play for a whole day on an @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social LSM980 - been 3 years since I’ve used a point scanner confocal on fungi

This is so cool!

What’s everyone’s open source code-free 3D visualisation tool for fluorescence microscopy? #Fiji

Cool beans! Thrilling to see your lab grow Mike!

Me and @caronjacobs.bsky.social are gearing up to deliver this workshop in a few weeks. Excited to discuss the almighty combo of pathogenic fungal cells and the fluorescence microscope!

Running IA workshop using web-based Fiji deployment (ImJoy) Hello, I am looking to give image analysis workshops in LMIC locations where deployment of Fiji software is quick and easy. I was thinking of making use of the browser-based IMJOY Fiji platform. Has...

See my post on web-based deployment of Fiji for image analysis workshops forum.image.sc/t/running-ia...

Advice / input appreciated.

Best microscopy based workshop/conference swag?

Absolutely thrilled to have been awarded an MRC Programme Grant to study the role of fungi in eczema together with @neil-gow.bsky.social, Helen Alexander and Carsten Flohr (both King's College London). 2 postdoc positions availble at jobs.exeter.ac.uk (Job References Q05626 and Q05627)

#COYR #ScottishCup25

I was 3 when we last won the Scottish Cup, the same as my boy! Hope he doesn’t have to wait another 35 yrs!

Napoli's Scottish midfielder #8 Scott McTominay (R) celebrates with teammates after scoring a goal during the Italian Serie A football match between Napoli and Empoli FC at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium in Naples on April 14, 2025. Napoli's Uruguayan defender #17 Mathias Olivera fights for the ball with Empoli's Italian forward #99 Sebastiano Esposito.

Napoli are crowned Serie A champions.

Goals from Scott McTominay and Romelu Lukaku made sure of it on a dramatic final day

They finish just one point ahead of Inter to win the fourth league title in their history.

Great to have Lucian Duvenage from @mrccmm.bsky.social CapeTown ✈️ to do MYCOscopy w/ @balloulab.bsky.social in Emergomyces Africanus - an emerging fungal pathogen yeast that needs more Mycology bioimaging tools. Here are some Macropahges brimming with them (green yeast)

Read preprints. Cite preprints. Email people and tell them you loved their preprint. Email people you hated their preprint. Embrace preprints, preprints are good.

Anyone got experience of using Trello w/ TEAMS? Seems like a very nice integration for project tasks / progress contained within MS Office

Trying again.. any thoughts on below? #fluorescence

Awsome Awsome idea!
We’ve got some fungal hyphae that have us stumped
Could play into a generic filamentous episode (neuron peeps likely have solutions)

Cool/weird that ITV picked this up, usually home to some trashy stuff.