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Djihane Damoo (Dji), PhD retweeted
💡🌽Herbicides as fungicides: targeting heme biosynthesis in the maize pathogen Ustilago maydis: bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.w…
Djihane Damoo (Dji), PhD retweeted
Enjoy some insane drone footage of Iceland’s volcano. The drone didn’t survive, but the footage did. Skilled piloting by @airbazoo – at Texas, USA
Djihane Damoo (Dji), PhD retweeted
Do you want to learn more about Cryptococcus neoformans pathogens? Interested in basidiomycete plat and human pathogens? Come join us for #CanFunNet23 for a plenary talk by @james_kronstad to have all your molecular pathogenesis questions answered!
Djihane Damoo (Dji), PhD retweeted
Prosecutors dropped charges against Adnan Syed on Tuesday, in the 1999 case chronicled in the hit podcast “Serial" ti.me/3rIZObT
Djihane Damoo (Dji), PhD retweeted
I'm delighted that I could contribute to @changcon's fantastic article on the looming threat of fungal infections. There is so much we still need to learn about how fungi evolve human virulence and drug resistance!
nationalgeographic.com/magaz…
Did some nice microscopy of infected maize seedlings with U.maydis #cornsmut
Djihane Damoo (Dji), PhD retweeted
Today I had the chance to try an experimental dish prepared by the restaurant Alchemist. Oyster mushroom mycelium. As a microbiologist it felt so wrong to eat the contents of a Petri dish but I am glad I did; it was delicious! An interesting and promising alternative food source.
Glad to have been part of this stunning paper by Kretschmer et al.
Thanks to
@james_kronstad, Matthias Kretschmer, @danielcroll,
@BrumerLab, Sherry Sun and
@Chris_WJ_Lee
@IRTG_PRoTECT
New study in @ScienceMagazine: Organic acids and glucose prime late-stage fungal biotrophy in maize. By Matthias Kretschmer, Jim Kronstad & colleagues @james_kronstad, @BrumerLab, @danielcroll @dji_science @Chris_WJ_Lee @UBCMicroImmuno @ubcmsl #Ustilago
science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
Djihane Damoo (Dji), PhD retweeted
The diet of biotrophs! Sweet with a pinch of acid...
Congrats to Matthias Kretschmer @james_kronstad @KronstadLab and collabs incl. @BrumerLab @dji_science @danielcroll for this remarkable and elegant paper.
science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
@UBCMicroImmuno @ubcmsl @IRTG_PRoTECT
Djihane Damoo (Dji), PhD retweeted
I got Covid (and am fully vaccinated with Pfizer). Out of curiosity I documented for my specific case how the number of virus particles developed and compared them to my mild symptoms. This is what it looks like:
(PS Today is day 7 :) )
Djihane Damoo (Dji), PhD retweeted
If you want to literally play with a microscope, try our new LEGO based one: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…. Plans and multi-language guides to teach kids are on GitHub: github.com/tobetz/LegoMicros…. Sub-micron resolution thanks to a smartphone lens. Please RT, so that it reaches the kids!
Djihane Damoo (Dji), PhD retweeted
The embargo is lifted.
Apologies to every author/editor who will now have to rewrite every science & Irish history book.
New evidence reveals that Irish Potato Famine was caused by the virus Potato virus X & not the oomycete Phytophthora infestans, rewriting science & history
Most robust thing in the Lab. Would trust it with my life #EppendorfLife
Djihane Damoo (Dji), PhD retweeted
Let's see if this works. Putting together a little CellPAINT movie for my talk at #EMBOStructBio tomorrow. Try it yourself at ccsb.scripps.edu/cellpaint/ !