News from fungal evolutionary genomics lab at UC Riverside; genomics; biological crusts; zygomycetes; chytrids; phylogenomics; bioinformatics; population bio
Riverside, CA
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Delighted to announce the publication of our new study on N assimilation pathways in Laccaria bicolor & poplar ECM in @PlantPhys. Special thanks to Feng and Xinyin for their key contributions to this work, which builds upon research I initiated in 1985!
academic.oup.com/plphys/adva…
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Here is something to distract you from the gloom: What can metagenomics tell us about the taxonomic composition of lichen symbioses? A peer-reviewed version of our analysis of >400 lichen metagenomes from around the world is now out in @PLOSBiology. 1/12 doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio…
ALT SEM of a lichen crossection
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I'm excited to share a preprint from some of my PhD work - we found a 'Pathogenic #fungus expresses effector proteins in combination with a symbiotic #virus to behaviourally manipulate house fly hosts'. Thanks to @HenrikLicht and co-authors! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Great @Radiolab episode on Wildfire smoke + microbial and fungal dispersal and fungal disease radiolab.org/podcast/9d52097… - awesome to hear these scientists Naomi Hauser and Leda Kobziar explain discovery process and the implications 🔥🦠@UCDavisEHSC @zazoolka
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Major thank you to @AnnaSelmecki and @talbotlabTSL for putting on an amazing #FungalGRC2024. My head and heart are so full from the cool science and wonderful community.
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EUKARYOME: a new SSU-ITS-LSU reference database, well suited for analysis of SSU and LSU short-read amplicons of protists, animals and early-diverging fungi, and long-read amps of all eukaryotes! Curated by specialist researchers.
eukaryome.org/
academic.oup.com/database/ar…
preprint describing new black fungi species isolated from biological crusts in CA deserts in JTNP and Boyd Deep Canyon @JoshuaTreeNPS @ucanr @UCRCNAS 🌵lead by @TaniaKurbs biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Congratulations to the new PATH team!!!
Announcing the 2024 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease buff.ly/4bHHdBR #bwfpath
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Register for free to learn more about #aquaticfungi conservation!
🌊🍄🔬🍄🌊
May 22nd at 10AM EDT
With @LauraGarzoli, Alice Retter, @MissSynedra, and @huzefaraj.
@ProtectSpecies @CatiaCanteiro @MonniKaboom @IndianapolisZoo
#aquatic #fungi #chytrids #chytrid
Don't miss our webinar on Aquatic Fungi Diversity!
We will be talking about marine and ground water fungi, aquatic fungi parasites, and how aquatic fungi are an important source of chemical diversity!
Registration link: tinyurl.com/aquaticfungi
#BiodiversityDay #PartofthePlan
Stajich Laboratory retweeted
Register for this amazing meeting before 19th May. Our theme is Understanding Fungal Communication: Mechanisms, Interactions and Consequences. @AnnaSelmecki and I promise you fantastic speakers, including many early career scientists, thought-provoking discussion & lots of fun!
Stajich Laboratory retweeted
Attention #biocrust researchers 📣 We're starting a monthly internationally biocrust reading group! Each month we'll read and discuss a biocrust paper from around the world. Sign up below to join in on the fun! (Amazing idea by @PhillipsMichala!) forms.gle/HDHqgu1qFxk11mMDA
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HELP, I’m looking for info on biodiversity in deserts and other drylands! Plants, microbes, animals, cultural - any statistics/factoids/thoughts would be awesome. Anything on specific places or biome as a whole. Just trying to get all the context. Please respond here or DM me🏜️
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The curators of INVAM discuss #amf, field applications of AM fungi, and the @FungiInvam process at @KUEcoResearch. The presenters:
1) Jim Bever
2) @lizkoziol
and 3) Terra Lubin
Check it out!
youtu.be/3Ia-iKdpiFU?si=xxNf…
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1/42 New preprint: turns out MuLTEE is not only the longest running multicellularity evolution experiment (1000 days and counting), but also the longest running polyploidy evolution experiment! It reveals how whole-genome duplication (WGD) arises and impacts long-term evolution.
Stajich Laboratory retweeted
Expeditions can be hard to maneuver as a mother & scientist.
Intense & exciting to have my essay published in @nytimes exploring how Expeditions can be an Academic Act of Defiance
Mapping fungi w/family @spununderground @nytopinion: tinyurl.com/5adc5cwf
(photo 2011, Kenya)
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Genomic analyses of gains in strawberry breeding (@MitchFeldmann and Steve Knapp). ".. photoperiod-insensitive, PERPETUAL FLOWERING hybrids in the 1970s that doubled yields and drove the dramatic expansion of strawberry production in Ca."
nature.com/articles/s41467-&…
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New Phytologist has just published a special issue: "Mycorrhizal research now"
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…
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Interested in fungi that glow in the dark? A new paper is just out on the extraordinay GIGANTIC bioluminescent fungal networks in the Amazon. Online copy at: treediseases.cfans.umn.edu/s…
