Alert: a freshly minted doctor just passed all quality filters! 🎓
Zero chimeras detected, PhD successfully validated.
Heartfelt congratulations from all of us at MMC! 💐🧬
Postdoctoral Position in Forest Diversity, Biodemography, and Global Change at WSL (2026)
WSL Switzerland is hiring a Postdoctoral researcher in forest diversity and biodemography to study climate-driven changes in global forest ecosystems. Two-year position with extension option.
It sounds very interesting! Due to the time difference, it will be 5 AM for us. Would you mind sharing, if the speaker has given their permission for the video to remain on your YT channel for longer so we could watch it at a different time?
4 PhD Fully Funded Positions in Environmental Research at UFZ, Germany
The Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) is offering four fully funded PhD positions within the new PSOL PhD College, focusing on innovative solutions for PFAS removal across governance, biology, stormwater…
🧬 Long-read metabarcoding is powerful, but chimera filters can trash good reads. Our new study benchmarks three algorithms on full-length ITS and shows how false positives distort results.
🔗 peerj.com/articles/204...
#Metabarcoding #LongRead #Bioinformatics #Chimeras
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
📢Are you attending the Living Data 2025 next week?
@isabelrfernandes.bsky.social will present the preliminary results from #FUNACTION.
www.livingdata2025.com/program.html...
Find her during the week if you want to know more about our project and activities to conserve #aquaticfungi.
The team at our research site in the alps
📣 New PhD student position opening in my lab!
Soils are full of microbes, but how many are active?
Surprisingly, we still lack reliable methods to answer this.
If you are interested in microbial dormancy and are fascinated by the Alps and glacier forefields, contact me.
🏔️ 🦠 💤 🧬 🎓
🧬 New at Eukaryome: the Online Sequence Identification Tool is now live!
Submit sequences directly on the site and get instant taxonomic identification — no downloads needed.
Come find us at eukaryome.org
#eukaryome #bioinformatics #taxonomy
Proud moment for MMC: a member presenting her work to the world 🌟🧬
Who lives underground?
Find out now in our new paper published in @nature.com.
Key finding: 90% of predicted mycorrhizal biodiversity hotspots lie outside protected areas.
Read here: buff.ly/WmDqAP3 🧵
PhD Funded Position in Computational Microbial Biotechnology at CNB Madrid, Spain
Apply for a fully funded PhD position in computational microbial biotechnology at CNB Madrid. Join the AMBIZIONE project and contribute to cutting-edge research in synthetic microbial communities.
Read more from here: ERC grant will support placement of tens of thousands of previously unknown fungi on evolutionary tree ut.ee/en/news/erc-...
We’re thrilled to share that @tedersoo.bsky.social has secured an ERC Advanced Grant! 🎉 One of Europe’s top research honors—huge congratulations from all of us at Mycology and Microbiology Center! 🙌 #ERCGrant #AcademicExcellence
Yesterday, we had the chance to present our proposal to the Estonian Environmental Board and Climate Ministry: 29 more fungal species for protection, in addition to the ~40 already listed. My favorite: Rigidoporus crocatus—locally common in wet alder forests, globally rare. Our responsibility!
Image of three people wearing a blue, an orange and a green T-shirt. The design on the shirts is the same by featuring the logo for MMC and some fungi and tiny creatures, e.g. bacteria on the chest.
🍄🧫 You might spot us more easily now…
The Mycology & Microbiology Center has new T-shirts!
Whether it’s fungi in the forest or microbes in the lab, we’re all about the small things that matter. Keep an eye out! We will be in Helsinki next week for the #EcologyOfSoilMicroorganisms2025
Paper out in Journal of Environmental Management: How we manage forests today shapes what is possible tomorrow. We show that thinning may undermine long-term goals for carbon and biodiversity in boreal spruce forests.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
PhD in Plant-Microbe Interaction – Fully Funded at University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
🌿 Position Summary: Join the University of Amsterdam (UvA) for a fully funded 4-year PhD exploring the molecular interaction between lettuce and the fungal pathogen Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. lactucae. You’ll…
Postdoctoral Job in Plant-Microbiome Chemical Communication at University of Amsterdam
Join the University of Amsterdam as a postdoctoral researcher exploring chemical communication between plants and their microbiome. Work on groundbreaking eclepin research, plant resilience, and sustainable…
A vital partnership: Most land plants team with mycorrhizal fungi to survive. This ancient partnership has helped both plants and fungi thrive over much of Earth. Fungi receive carbon that plants fix through photosynthesis, while plants gain access to nutrients and water. Scientists know much more about the aboveground world than the subterranean ecosystem.
Most land plants team with mycorrhizal fungi to survive. This ancient partnership has helped both plants and fungi thrive over much of Earth.
Learn more on #EarthDay: scim.ag/4cMgplJ
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
Photograph of the living wall at Oecologicum, University of Tartu.
Join us for our Editor-in-Chief Symposium: Microbes as hidden or prominent players in plant life, hosted by Maarja Öpik!
🗺 Tartu, Estonia
📅 8–10 July 2025
💡 Abstract and travel grant deadline: 12 May
🔗 www.newphytologist.org/symposia/eic
#PlantScience
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.
A postdoc position in Aarhus University now officially available for applications:
international.au.dk/about/profil...
New Junior Professor Chair (CPJ) in the Biological Station in Roscoff. "The position is focused on the ecological, evolutionary, and functional roles of marine fungi, crucial to understanding our oceans"
www.sb-roscoff.fr/fr/2025/02/2...
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
While oil palms and pastures alter tropical stream microorganisms, riparian buffers offer a lifeline. 🚑💧 Saving biodiversity could depend on protecting these green corridors.
🔗 Read more: doi.org/10.1111/fwb....
#eDNA #FreshwaterBiology #conservation
Memory card game developed by #FUNACTION members is now available to all!
Enjoy! 🍄💧
Share widely!
#aquaticfungi #conservation
Winter nature challenge. ❄️ Today, the view is a lot less winter wonderland-like ...
River Emajõgi in Tartu, Estonia on Monday, January 13th, 2025. Photo by J. Lees.
❄️ Postdoc position in Arctic terrestrial ecology ❄️
If you're interested in Arctic plants, fieldwork and multi-site syntheses, please apply! You'd be replacing me and joining a lovely and dynamic team at University of Edinburgh. DM me with any questions!
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