The VEO Group has a position open for a PhD student to investigate Fungi-bacteria interactions in complex communities! Check out this position and many more at the JSMC website 👇👇
www.jsmc-phd.de/admission/va...
The lab of Johannes Zimmermann at Jena University has an opening for a PhD position - exciting research in a highly innovative group: www.jsmc-phd.de/admission/va...
Voici un tout nouveau cycle d'apprentissage : "Construction and analysis of eukaryotic pangenome graphs". Venez apprendre à construire et analyser un graphe de pangénome pendant 2 jours à partir du 30 novembre à 14h.
Infos et inscriptions ici : bioinfo.genotoul.fr/index.php/ev...
Phd Position alert 🚨
Join our project ASTRAfun (Adaptation and Starship Traffic in Root-Associated fungi), in which we will use computational models to unveil the hidden dynamics of fungal evolution.
It’s not going to be just regular fun. It’s going to ASTRAfun. 🤓
www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
Hey #fungal26 our lab is hiring a postdoctoral researcher for an NSF funded project in ectomycorrhizal competition. Come find me for more info!
www.lotuslofgren.com/pd2026
If you wanna know more about my work, my research stay, or my train trip: come say hi at poster 459C! 👋
However if I am soon leaving Ann Arbor, I am not coming back to Jena just yet: I will now travel to Pacific Grove by train (all the way from Chicago!) to present the results of my work to #Fungal26. I am so excited!
I would also like to thank @teresaomeara.bsky.social, who integrated me in her group like if I was a full time member. I was very happy to connect with other fungal people, and hear about all your cool projects! 🍄
Not only did I learn a ton, but I also got to meet incredible scientists of various disciplines, receive feedback on my project, and have a taste of the US culture!
I stayed for two and a half months in the group of @maom.bsky.social, where I learned how to apply co-expression network analysis to my own data. 👩💻
I am extremely thankful for this incredible opportunity. Thank you so much to have given me such a warm welcome, I had a wonderful time in your group 🤩
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My research exchange at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor is coming to an end! This stay was possible thanks to the scientist exchange funds grant of @microverse.bsky.social.
Here is a thread🧵of thankfulness for my wonderful stay in Michigan!
Do you work with the Aspergillus fumigatus model isolates Af293 or CEA10? If so, we want to collaborate with you! In return for your lab's participation we will sequence your strain for free and provide co-authorship on the final paper.
Learn more here: asp-fumi-seq-project-2025.vercel.app
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This tool, available as a GNU GPLv3 one, is available here gratools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
It can extract stats, subgraphs, fasta, count specific nodes and identify specific paths, in an easy and visual way
Now officially published in Current Biology 🥳🥳 @mfseidl.bsky.social @binfutrecht.bsky.social
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Roommates found!
Thank you all for sharing, I truly appreciate 😄
Looking forward to the conference!
Anyone looking for roommates for #Fungal26 in Asilomar?
I will participate and I am looking for someone to share a room for the week!
I'm a female PhD student, looking to share a room with another female. Please DM me if you'd like to team up with me 😄
Reposts appreciated!
New preprint: 🚀🧬 Starship in the genome of the lichen fungus Xanthoria. Discovery of giant transposons Starships challenged what we thought we knew about fungal genomes. But what about Starships in #lichen fungi? Let us present Tangerine! 🖥️ 🧪 🦠 🧫 #SymbioSky doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Funded PhD position 1/9: Explore RNA modification by natural products across species & benefit from the PhD training program ILRS 2.0.
Apply by 13 Dec.
🎓 lmy.de/szeVW
#PhDOpportunity #ScienceJobs #LeibnizHKI
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Third lab retreat in the books! We once again headed to the city of Eisenach for two days of project presentations, soft skills workshops, and science discussions. We also played the beautiful Mycology board game!
Hi Bluesky community - I'm teaching computational genomics again in the Spring term; always happy to have auditors or folks Zoom in. Just have your students email me for deets.
1/ Ever needed to annotate TEs in a fungal genome, but didn't know where to start?
We have released #MycoMobilome, a community-focused non-redundant database of transposable element consensus sequences for the fungal kingdom, constructed from >4,000 fungal genomes!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
📣 I’m excited to share two open positions in my lab @leibniz-hki.de. For this interdisciplinary project with @luziagyr.bsky.social, I’m seeking (1) an enthusiastic PhD student interested in fungal natural product research and genetic engineering, as well as (2) a technical assistant 👇🏻
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Congrats to the group's first PhD student, the newly minted Dr. Brassington!!
Phillip relocated back to Oceania in the period between submitting his dissertation and his oral defense, so we had to make do with a virtual defense, but I am still incredibly proud of him.
Want to understand how entire fungal chromosomes can be horizontally transferred?
Join us to unravel the mechanism/consequences of horizontal chromosome transfer in a fungal pathogen as part of an ERC-funded project. Postdoc/PhD positions available.
fungal-evolutionary-genetics.de/open-positio...
Heads up: ignore samtools dot org, similarly minimap2 dot com and likely others. It's owned by a known phishing site and while the binaries they offer look valid currently (but note they may be serving us different binaries to others), that could change.
Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned
🌱🔥🫁 From compost heaps to human lungs: Understanding how Aspergillus fumigatus has acquired the ability to infect humans
Opportunistic fungal pathogens like Aspergillus fumigatus primarily live in the environment, thriving in very diverse ecosystems such as soils and compost heaps.
Just a few more days to apply! ⏰
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My group at is hiring a PhD student to explore how fungal pathogens that live in the environment will adapt their genomes, acquire new phenotypes, and perhaps even increased infectivity as a result of climate change. Please share!
More info and applications at @ jobs.uni-jena.de/vrbup
📣 I’m recruiting a #Postdoc to help us further our understanding on the infection strategies of our human fungal pathogen. If you’re enthusiastic about research, our interdisciplinary group @leibniz-hki.de will be a good fit for you! Please share!
jobs.hki-jena.de/jobs/Postdoc...
We finished this edition with a delightful keynote by Jean Monlong who guided us through his journey about finding SVs in pangenomes #JOBIM2025 👏🏻
