Jorge Amich

Do you work with the Aspergillus fumigatus model isolates Af293 or CEA10? If so, we want to collaborate with you! In return for your lab's participation we will sequence your strain for free and provide co-authorship on the final paper.

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Establishing thresholds for azole tolerance and persistence in Aspergillus fumigatus to study their impact on voriconazole treatment in vivo Antimicrobial tolerance and persistence are phenomena that enable pathogenic microbes to survive for extended periods in the presence of high concentrations of cidal drugs. Current evidence suggests t...

Thrilled to share the new results from the lab!

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Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, Non-Tenure Track, Infectious Diseases - Internal Medicine, McGovern Medical School in Texas, United States | Faculty & Physicians at UTHealth Houston Apply for Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, Non-Tenure Track, Infectious Diseases - Internal Medicine, McGovern Medical School job with UTHealth Houston in Texas, United States. Faculty & Physicians...

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We provide an useful tool for future clinical and research studies

Furthermore, we believe our results should urge the community to consider and investigate these phenomena, to clarify and understand their importance in therapeutical failure

We optimized an easy-to-perform assay to detect azole tolerance and persistence in A. fumigatus. With it, we screened all the clinical isolates received in the Spanish Mycology Lab in 2022 and 2023.
We show that tolerance can reduce the efficacy of voriconazole treatment in a model of infection

Establishing thresholds for azole tolerance and persistence in Aspergillus fumigatus to study their impact on voriconazole treatment in vivo Antimicrobial tolerance and persistence are phenomena that enable pathogenic microbes to survive for extended periods in the presence of high concentrations of cidal drugs. Current evidence suggests t...

Thrilled to share the new results from the lab!

doi.org/10.64898/202...

We are recruiting a Research Tech! Funded by the @wellcometrust.bsky.social, join us to work on Mucorales adaption in collaboration with Becky Hall (University of Kent)
Deadline: 5th January
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Exciting news! I have two positions open in my lab at the UoManchester: one PDRA and one Research Tech.
Join our team to study evolutionary mycology and help us understand antifungal resistance in fungal pathogens. A fantastic opportunity to join the brilliant Manchester Fungal Infection Group!

Congratulations Aaron!
Great thesis and great defence!
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Research Associate (PDRA) in Fungal Infection Biology :Oxford Road

We are recruiting two Research Associates! Funded by the
@wellcometrust.bsky.social , join us to work on Mucorales adaption in collaboration with Becky Hall (University of Kent) www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Deadline: 1st October

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Imidazole propionate is a driver and therapeutic target in atherosclerosis - Nature Imidazole propionate produced by gut microbiota is associated with atherosclerosis in mouse models and in humans, and causes the development of atherosclerosis through activation of the imidazoline-1 ...

This paper blew my mind!

It can really have massive implications

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Toward the consensus of definitions for the phenomena of antifungal tolerance and persistence in filamentous fungi. After registering, you will receive a co... Organised by EFISG

Next Tuesday I am giving a @efisg-escmid.bsky.social webinar to explain our proposed definitions for the phenomena of antifungal tolerance and persistence in filamentos fungi, and provide guidelines for their detection and quantification

Sign up here if interested👇

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Well deserved @chownbioinf.bsky.social ! Congratulations!

The Microbiology Society, with the British Mycological Society, is delighted to announce Dr Harry Chown of Imperial College London, UK, as the 2025 Tony Trinci Award winner. Read more here: microb.io/4jUSinB @chownbioinf.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

We have updated our database of funding opportunities for Early-Career Researchers (private foundations, federal, international)

We have 456 entries, for which we provide $ amount, deadline, eligibility criteria, etc.

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I think this is a very important topic, reviewer fatigue

How many invitations do your receive per week? For me it's well over ten.

New ideas/approaches are needed

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A polyene macrolide targeting phospholipids in the fungal cell membrane - Nature Mandimycin, a polyene macrolide, exhibits strong antifungal activity and possesses a mode of action that is distinct from other compounds of this class.

Wow, new antifungal with novel mechanism of action

Looks really promising

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Outstanding work!

And so many posibiities to use this going forward...

Illustration depicting the ways in which fungi can exchange genetic material with each other. Starship mediated HGT is confirmed experimentally in this preprint.

We did it! We caught Starship #transposons moving between #fungal species in the lab, including between species separated by ~100my. We think Starships are a mediator of HGT in fungi, akin to conjugative elements in bacteria. Check out the preprint. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How was it? In the end I went for dinner with the Spanish gang. Maybe next time I can manage!

En route to #asperfest and @ecfg172025.bsky.social
Can you believe it's my first time? I'm excited to see old friends and meet new ones. And of course, for five days of outstanding fungal research!

Revealing how fungi build planet-altering ‘road’ networks Imaging study reveals how fungal networks are constructed.

"Fungi made Earth’s land liveable..."

Such important organisms... so underestimated!

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Thank you to my co-authors and friends Mike Bromley, Gustavo Goldmann and Clara Valero
(not on bluesky yet!)

Toward the consensus of definitions for the phenomena of antifungal tolerance and persistence in filamentous fungi | mBio Antimicrobial tolerance and persistence are definitions that describe the ability of microorganisms to survive the action of antimicrobial drugs for extended periods. These phenomena are distinct from...

Antifungal tolerance and persistence are gaining relevance in fungal pathogens. However, the terminology is unclear, particularly for filamentous fungi. In this Perspective we propose tailored definitions and discuss methods for detecting and studying these phenomena
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