🧵 New paper out in @PlantPhysiology! We asked: how do trees talk to their fungal partners during ectomycorrhizal symbiosis? Turns out, tiny secreted peptides play a big role. 1/
Read the full paper here 👇
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Curious about applying cryogenic electron tomography to your microbial work? Give our latest @pnas.org paper a read to find out how.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Carbon–phosphorus exchange rate constrains density–speed trade-off in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal growth www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Microbiomes in mushroom-forming fungi by Bae et al. www.maxapress.com/article/doi/...
Just accepted:
Truong C, Corrales A, …, Urrutia-Jalabert R, Godoy R, Sheldrake M, Furci G, Kiers TE, Marín C. 2026. Large-diameter trees contribute disproportionally to fungal diversity in a coniferous forest with one of oldest living trees on Earth. Biodiversity & Conservation
I'm delighted to inform you that our paper "Ecological genomics of saprotrophy to biotrophy transitions in the genus Clitopilus" was published in IMA Fungus. A long standing collaboration with Zhilin Yuan at RISF, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Hangzhou:
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Are you a researcher translating fungal science into real conservation action?
📣 Call for abstracts now open
📍14–17 April 2026 in Uppsala, Sweden
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Grant amount: Up to $10,000 USD
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Great postdoc opportunity in Sweden!! With the one and only David Wardle 🧪🌐
www.umu.se/en/work-with...
See you all in Quito. Check our fantastic keynote speakers!
A global map showing sites where AMF data were analyzed for this Fungal Ecology paper
A phylogeny showing the distribution of AMF fungi across different biomes.
What is the global richness of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF)? A recent paper in Fungal Ecology by @steffilutz.bsky.social and colleagues provides updated estimates of AMF richness from 4,733 sampling sites across the globe doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...
Fig. 1 Effect of domestication on bacterial alpha diversity across different crop species.
Shedding new light on the effects of #domestication in #plant–microbe interactions
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👆 A #Commentary by @loretorresm.bsky.social on this article by Hernández-Terán et al.
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A 20 year rewilding project in Colombia’s Magdalena River Valley.
Led by @adricorrales.bsky.social, with support from Micaela Tosi, Daniela León, Fundación Jardín Botánico de Medellín & Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation.
Read Adriana's SPUN Explainer: www.spun.earth/articles/rew...
The NSF strategic plan FY 2026-30 is available for public comment until Jan 27. Please make your voice heard! www.nsf.gov/od/updates/n...
SPUN and NYU Law’s More-than-Human Life (MOTH) Program have partnered on a new initiative to support SPUN’s Underground Explorers grantees in advocating for mycorrhizal fungal communities across Earth's ecosystems.
🔗 Find out more about the Underground Advocates Program: buff.ly/KhbJmvS
AEM Director and AEM Chair headshots
A new platform for scientific collaboration is here. The ASM Applied & Environmental Microbiology (AEM) Scientific Unit unites experts in the microbial sciences to translate discovery into solutions for climate resilience, food security, & sustainability. asm.social/2LI
Bacterial communities show distinctive spatial diversity patterns in productive truffle orchards amended with peat-based substrate link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Come work with us in beautiful Santa Barbara!
We need help keeping the world’s largest living library of mycorrhizal fungi alive. The INVAM mycorrhizal culture collection is at risk due to federal funding cuts. Its loss would be catastrophic.
Link to donate:
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"The changing roles of Escherichia coli" -- a short essay by yours truly.
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How I confronted my growing cynicism about academia—and rekindled my sense of purpose | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Ectomycorrhizal fungi recruit hyphae-associated bacteria that metabolize thiamine to promote pine symbiosis
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In defense of a broad-based liberal arts education:
"Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Mycorrhizal control of microbial gene transcription and taxonomic composition in the rhizosphere and bulk soil
#ISMEJournal from Ricardo Arraiano-Castilho
academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...
Emergent collective alignment gives competitive advantage to longer cells during range expansion
@natcomms.nature.com from @jauffred.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our paper is out in Plant and Soil!🎉 Microbial mechanisms underlying the reduction of soil mineral nitrogen availability by ectomycorrhizal tree introduction in cedar plantations🌲🌳Many thanks Sawada-san for leading this great work!!
link.springer.com/10.1007/s111...
We’ve posted a new preprint providing evidence that endophytic fungi facilitate resource transfer through common mycelial networks. A neat aspect of our study is that we measured fungal functional changes when connected to more than one plant, not just the plants!
doi.org/10.21203/rs....
