Congrats to John Yangyuoru Kupagme for graduating his PhD thesis on African soil fungi, supervised by myself and Dr. Sergei Põlme. The thesis available here: dspace.ut.ee/items/e65b43...

African fungi mapped within a PhD project led by John Kupagme, an African PhD student.
www.bioacad.com/article/doi....

This exciting new paper assesses how to balance land use for conservation, agriculture, and renewable energy. I learned a lot from this collaborative effort led by Cameryn Brock ... building on our past #sparc #BIEN & #BIOFI efforts. Check out the new publication! 🧪🌐🌾 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ph.D. defended and the long read journey ends in frozen lands.
Deep thanks to @sanslan.bsky.social and @tedersoo.bsky.social. Special thanks to @owenwangensteen.bsky.social for a demanding and fair defence as the main opponent.
Thanks to all @myco-microbio.bsky.social members for their support.

Global Soil Mycobiome Consortium dataset now extended to soil protists and animals (GloSED), including 4000 samples. Pre-publication data available at: zenodo.org/records/1782...
#fungi #soil #ecology #database

Our review about plant endophytes an other leaf-inhabiting fungi out - check it out:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1mdbN6Do0q...

EUKARYOME v2.0 reference database now available. A major release including >300,000 new eDNA reads with metadata, quality-screened ROD (meta)genome DB, and updated fungal higher-level taxonomy (following the Mycokeys paper).
Download at: eukaryome.org/download/

New fungal phylum-level system, with red font indicating novel taxa and size taxonomic diversity.

Fungal phylum-level classification update now available! Used "innovative taxonomy" to describe >100 taxa, from species to phylum, based on long reads, characteristic nucleotides and env-samples.
mycokeys.pensoft.net/article/1616...

#fungi #taxonomy #PacBio #classification #eDNA

MarieCurie postdoc co-applications on offer in University of Tartu, Estonia:
Fungi in reforestation
AMF in agriculture
Global biogeography of fungi
Fungal Host/substrate specificity
Human pathogens in soil, sediment, compost
DNA-based taxonomy of fungi
UNITE/FungalTraits further development

EUKARYOME new release now available eukaryome.org/download/ This time special on early diverging fungal lineages and nucleariids. Also EUK sequences with all metadata available. Will also be available via UNITE soon.

Postdoc in plant-microbe interactions and microbial ecology - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at Department of Agroecology - Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Aarhus University

A postdoc position in Aarhus University now officially available for applications:
international.au.dk/about/profil...

Custom PhD positions in my team: High-quality motivated candidates are welcome to design their doctorate research topic for a project competition in the University of Tartu, Estonia. Keywords: bioinformatics, biodiversity, fungi, metagenomics, databases, mycorrhiza, DNA-based taxonomy, biogeography

Post-Doc position for 3 years available jointly between University of Tartu (Estonia) and University of Aarhus (Denmark) on soil microbiome and biogeography. Skills required: bioinformatics, metagenome analysis, microbiology
Contact: leho.tedersoo@ut.ee

EUKARYOME v1.9.3 now available in eukaryome.org

A special release of long reads of marine microeukaryotes