Forest Service Will Close Research Stations That Study Wildfire Risk Scientists say their work on fires and climate change could be lost as the agency moves its headquarters to Utah from Washington and shuts 57 research stations.

The U.S. Forest Service is closing 57 of its 77 research facilities in 31 states under a reorganization plan announced this week, threatening science that looked at how wildfires, drought, pests and global warming are putting pressure on forests.

I find it too slimy for my taste, maybe there’s a way to cook it that improves it though?

Taxonomic novelties and host associations of Sordariomycetes from wetland-dwelling Poales in Thailand Poales is one of the largest orders of monocotyledonous plants, comprising families such as Cyperaceae, Poaceae, and Typhaceae. These plant families dominate the macrophytes found in tropical lentic a...

Taxonomic novelties and host associations of Sordariomycetes from wetland-dwelling Poales in Thailand

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Beyond Koch’s postulates: The pathobiome paradigm in grapevine esca disease Abstract. Esca is one of the most damaging fungal diseases of grapevine and continues to defy Koch’s postulates. Although Phaeomoniella chlamydospora, Phae

Beyond Koch’s postulates: The pathobiome paradigm in grapevine esca disease

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Fantastic fungi found with ability to freeze water Can fungi influence the weather? Turns out, they just might. An international group of researchers that includes Virginia Tech's Xiaofeng Wang and Boris A. Vinatzer discovered the identity of fungal…

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Ecotourism activities alter diversity of bacteria, archaea, and fungi in the freshwater stream of the Agua Azul Waterfalls in southeastern Mexico www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03...

Stay tuned for the final typeset release and more manuscripts to come! This is a product both of my dissertation (which I’m defending Oct 3rd, wish me luck!) and of years of collaborative work on the NSF EPSCoR-funded project AIMS (Aquatic Intermittency effects on Microbiomes in Streams). Thanks all

Among other insights, my favorite part of working on this was finding out that 1) freshwater lichens exist (👀!) and 2) that they may serve as bioindicators of stream drying 🌡️ Got me a bit obsessed with this group and now I look for them everywhere, see photos of some I found in an Idaho stream!

Fungal communities across a surface water permanence gradient in a non-perennial prairie stream network Abstract. Over half of the world’s streams are non-perennial, drying at some point in space and time, but most research on stream-inhabiting fungi comes fr

Excited to share that my *first* first author paper has been accepted at ISME Communications 🎉 Open Access!
It's a survey of fungal communities 🧬🍄 across a stream permanence gradient in a non-perennial stream network of the Konza prairie 🦬 🌾, Kansas USA.

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Fungal communities across a surface water permanence gradient in a non-perennial prairie stream network Abstract. Over half of the world’s streams are non-perennial, drying at some point in space and time, but most research on stream-inhabiting fungi comes fr

Fungal communities across a surface water permanence gradient in a non-perennial prairie stream network

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This is my first lead author paper, thanks for sharing it!

Charlie Bond and Larissa Kemajou Tchamba are heading up a special session on aquatic microbial ecology today at SE SFS/ GWRC. Excited to see the diversity of talks on microbes!