Charissa de Bekker PhD (she/her)

zombieantdoc.bsky.social

04 October 2025 18:44

Which fungal 🍄 molecules cause zombie 🧟‍♀️ ant 🐜 behaviors? @williamycete.bsky.social has begun to answer this question! He found a peptide that binds to scramblase and affects important odor-dependent behaviors in ants. Spoiler: worms 🪱 played a key role in this research 🧐 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Jo Rhodes

drjorhodes.com

16 August 2025 05:36

Comparative genomics reveals intra and inter species variation in the pathogenic fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis: academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... from @hyphaltip.bsky.social and his PhD student Mark Might make this the next group read

Ryan Wick

rrwick.bsky.social

21 May 2025 08:36

New preprint! Autocycler is a tool for long-read consensus assembly of bacterial genomes. It's like Trycycler but can be run fully automated (without any human intervention). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/6)

Steven Robbins

stevenjrobbins.bsky.social

21 May 2025 08:34

Very excited to present the Great Barrier Reef Microbial Genomes Database (GBR-MGD), a comprehensive DB of 1000s of high-quality prokaryote, virus, plasmid, and chromosome-level eukaryote MAGs using Nanopore long reads. Subthreads incoming. Please share widely. 🙂 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

European Commission

ec.europa.eu

08 May 2025 14:44

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF