PhD student at Bangor. Cardiff uni graduate. loves trees, mushrooms and all things that dwell in the forest 🌳🍄🌲 Mycology | Ecology | Arboriculture

Joined July 2018
Congratulations to the newly minted Dr @PyneEd who passed his PhD viva with minor corrections yesterday 👏💪 look out for some cool papers on fungal combative interactions coming soon. Thanks to examiners @AberMycol and @Ellie__Jameson and chair @PrysorWilliams
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The deadline to apply for our Undergraduate Student Vacation Bursaries is coming soon. Awards of up to £3,300 enable students to gain valuable practical experience in any area of fungal biology research. Find out more: britmycolsoc.org.uk/society/…
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/.../… A comprehensive study on secondary metabolite biodiversity of the largest organism on Earth was just published by @angew_chem, involving @MS_Fungi and BIOTEC. Congrats to all coauthors and many thanks for funding from @MSCActions
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Looking forward to presenting some updates on how RNA and DNA viromics can be used to understand how we influence viral communities both around us, and within us 🏞️🚜💩
Join us this Wednesday at 10am EST for the ECR Viromics Webinar featuring Luke Hillary. Register here: go.osu.edu/ecrviromicswebina…
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Interested in the effects of veteranisation on fungal communities? Check out our paper published in the @ArbAssociation journal. We found communities in veteranised oak branches differed to natural dead branch communities @FungusProf @ECGilmartin tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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The "tree surgery" was finally on today 🤩 We started the last experimet of the @FutureOak_ project, testing the effect of microbial SynComs in oak saplings! Happy to have the best team all along @jamesemcdonald @Usman_Hussain_S @PyneEd @marine_cambon @cenococcum
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I am very happy that the pre-print of our work is out, showing that chemical elicitors from a beetle larvae triggers proliferation and virulence of a plant bacterial pathogen. See the thread below and check out the paper to learn more: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor…
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👀Exciting new PhD opportunity starting Sep 2024! SWBio DTP project on microbial interactions in wetwood of broadleaf trees🌲, supervised by Sarah Christofides & Lynne Boddy at Cardiff Uni and me & Robin Thorn at UWE. Click here for more info: swbio.ac.uk/bioscience-for-s…
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Marine Cambon and colleagues found that the composition of leaf fungal communities, but not bacterial communities, is related to #droughttolerance in #Neotropical trees. 🔓 Read this trending paper from our #phyllosphere focus issue: doi.org/10.1094/PBIOMES-04-2…
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I will be running 100k throughout September for Great Ormomd Street hospital No pressures or expectations but if you fancy chipping in a quid or two I'm sure the kids would appreciate it. fundraise.gosh.org/fundraise…
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After a rather unexpected 6-week break, I came back to the lab today to find this beautifully overgrown isolate in one of the agar plates that remained on my bench. One isolate out of the thousands of our culture collection at @FutureOak_. Such a pretty growth pattern!! 😍🧫🦠🌳
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We’ve had a really productive lab research workshop over the past 2 days, making great progress on several upcoming manuscripts from the group, including papers from the @FutureOak_ @synbiogas and #BacstopAOD projects
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Very easy about the cell wall of conidia and hyphae on the example of #Aspergillus fumigatus. Don't forget to subscribe to my Fungal Channel! 🍄 #mycology #fungi #phdlife #AcademicTwitter #education youtu.be/bZ4tVo1G5gg
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There's a campaign to save our Sweet Chestnut Trees, which are at risk from pests and disease Here's Royal Horticultural Society plant pathologist @Jassydrak on the risks to our trees and what we should be looking for to see if a tree is damaged #KayBurley SK
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A new knot tying competition record has been set at the #ARBShow 🚨 For over 5 years no one has been able to beat Mat Graham’s incredible times but this year Jay Parker completed the challenge in an incredible 15.25 seconds! A massive thank you to Mat who volunteered on the stand offering his expert advice to competitors. Take a look at the moment the new record was set. The knots were: Bowline, Prussik, Alpine butterfly, Blake's hitch & Figure of 8. #arboristsoftiktok #arborists #treework #arbshow23
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