Anna Bazzicalupo
@abazzical.bsky.social
research leader at kew gardens | fungi | evolution | adaptation
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New research in #GENETICS suggests accessory chromosomes in #fungi #fusarium might be maintained because of Spok genes and not because of their beneficial effects on virulence.
Learn more about this work from @fungage-lab.bsky.social and colleagues: buff.ly/R2CRa3O
Learn more about this work from @fungage-lab.bsky.social and colleagues: buff.ly/R2CRa3O
November 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
New research in #GENETICS suggests accessory chromosomes in #fungi #fusarium might be maintained because of Spok genes and not because of their beneficial effects on virulence.
Learn more about this work from @fungage-lab.bsky.social and colleagues: buff.ly/R2CRa3O
Learn more about this work from @fungage-lab.bsky.social and colleagues: buff.ly/R2CRa3O
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Such a pleasure to be involved with this short film, filmed and scripted by the amazingly talented @amykingwild.bsky.social.
Woods Mill is my local woodland managed by @sussexwildlife.bsky.social. Amy has captured it wonderfully - makes me want to go for an autumnal woodland scamper right now!
Woods Mill is my local woodland managed by @sussexwildlife.bsky.social. Amy has captured it wonderfully - makes me want to go for an autumnal woodland scamper right now!
Take two minutes of peace with this beautiful film by
@amykingwild.bsky.social featuring @clareblencowe.bsky.social buff.ly/a3Qnjr0
#fungi #autumn #mycelium #Sussex
@amykingwild.bsky.social featuring @clareblencowe.bsky.social buff.ly/a3Qnjr0
#fungi #autumn #mycelium #Sussex
Woods Mill's Fungi
It's that time of year - look what's coming up through the forest floor.
A short film created by Amy King with the voice of Clare Blencowe.
Filmed at Woods Mill Nature Reserve, near Henfield.…
buff.ly
September 27, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Such a pleasure to be involved with this short film, filmed and scripted by the amazingly talented @amykingwild.bsky.social.
Woods Mill is my local woodland managed by @sussexwildlife.bsky.social. Amy has captured it wonderfully - makes me want to go for an autumnal woodland scamper right now!
Woods Mill is my local woodland managed by @sussexwildlife.bsky.social. Amy has captured it wonderfully - makes me want to go for an autumnal woodland scamper right now!
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I’m super happy to present the first discoveries of the RIKEN-Cambridge Joint Crop Symbiosis Research Team, based in Japan 🇯🇵
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
A thread 👇
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
A thread 👇
Reductive evolution of the DNA replication machinery in endosymbiotic fungi
The molecular machinery for replicating and repairing DNA accurately is critically important for life and highly conserved across the Tree of Life. Here we show that two major lineages of fungi, Glome...
doi.org
September 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I’m super happy to present the first discoveries of the RIKEN-Cambridge Joint Crop Symbiosis Research Team, based in Japan 🇯🇵
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
A thread 👇
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
A thread 👇
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Thrilled to share that the final chapter of my PhD with @rokaslab.bsky.social is now out in @natcomms.nature.com 🎉
Read it to find out how population structure impacts pathogenicity in Aspergillus flavus, a fungus that infects humans 🧪
rdcu.be/eAToj
Read it to find out how population structure impacts pathogenicity in Aspergillus flavus, a fungus that infects humans 🧪
rdcu.be/eAToj
Population structure in a fungal human pathogen is potentially linked to pathogenicity
Nature Communications - Genetic diversity between clinical and environmental fungal isolates of Aspergillus flavus is poorly studied. Here, the authors analysed genomic data from a global set of...
rdcu.be
August 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Thrilled to share that the final chapter of my PhD with @rokaslab.bsky.social is now out in @natcomms.nature.com 🎉
Read it to find out how population structure impacts pathogenicity in Aspergillus flavus, a fungus that infects humans 🧪
rdcu.be/eAToj
Read it to find out how population structure impacts pathogenicity in Aspergillus flavus, a fungus that infects humans 🧪
rdcu.be/eAToj
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Our Fungal Conservation column is out in Field Mycology 26 (2).
www.fieldmycology.org/index.php/jo...
🍄 Fungi and the Planning and Infrastructure Bill
🍄 British fungi on the Global Red List
🍄 An audit of nationally important fungal assemblages in Welsh SSSIs
#fungi #fungalconservation #PIB
www.fieldmycology.org/index.php/jo...
🍄 Fungi and the Planning and Infrastructure Bill
🍄 British fungi on the Global Red List
🍄 An audit of nationally important fungal assemblages in Welsh SSSIs
#fungi #fungalconservation #PIB
Fungal Futures: Conservation news and views
| Field Mycology
www.fieldmycology.org
August 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Our Fungal Conservation column is out in Field Mycology 26 (2).
www.fieldmycology.org/index.php/jo...
🍄 Fungi and the Planning and Infrastructure Bill
🍄 British fungi on the Global Red List
🍄 An audit of nationally important fungal assemblages in Welsh SSSIs
#fungi #fungalconservation #PIB
www.fieldmycology.org/index.php/jo...
🍄 Fungi and the Planning and Infrastructure Bill
🍄 British fungi on the Global Red List
🍄 An audit of nationally important fungal assemblages in Welsh SSSIs
#fungi #fungalconservation #PIB
Reposted by Anna Bazzicalupo
The increasingly powerful term #mycorrhiza warrants attention
#Editorial by Bonfante & Genre.
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Inaccurate AI-generated image generated using: ‘Generate a photo of a plant root system interacting with fungal mycelium in a mycorrhizal interaction’.
#Editorial by Bonfante & Genre.
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Inaccurate AI-generated image generated using: ‘Generate a photo of a plant root system interacting with fungal mycelium in a mycorrhizal interaction’.
July 17, 2025 at 10:01 AM
The increasingly powerful term #mycorrhiza warrants attention
#Editorial by Bonfante & Genre.
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Inaccurate AI-generated image generated using: ‘Generate a photo of a plant root system interacting with fungal mycelium in a mycorrhizal interaction’.
#Editorial by Bonfante & Genre.
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Inaccurate AI-generated image generated using: ‘Generate a photo of a plant root system interacting with fungal mycelium in a mycorrhizal interaction’.
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This #FungiFriday we're celebrating the monumental achievement of Kew Mycologist & Taxonomist Matteo Gelardi!
Last week Matteo and his collaborators Michal Mikšík & Giampaolo Simonini released their book 'European Boletes Volume 1' 🎉
Find out more here: www.fungipress.eu/en/
Last week Matteo and his collaborators Michal Mikšík & Giampaolo Simonini released their book 'European Boletes Volume 1' 🎉
Find out more here: www.fungipress.eu/en/
July 11, 2025 at 11:24 AM
This #FungiFriday we're celebrating the monumental achievement of Kew Mycologist & Taxonomist Matteo Gelardi!
Last week Matteo and his collaborators Michal Mikšík & Giampaolo Simonini released their book 'European Boletes Volume 1' 🎉
Find out more here: www.fungipress.eu/en/
Last week Matteo and his collaborators Michal Mikšík & Giampaolo Simonini released their book 'European Boletes Volume 1' 🎉
Find out more here: www.fungipress.eu/en/
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Sally Otto @sarperotto.bsky.social
and I are back with the next installment of “Reflections on the history of modeling and theory”, supported by @smtpb.bsky.social. Bob Holt shares his personal history and stories of his life in science: www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8hX...
and I are back with the next installment of “Reflections on the history of modeling and theory”, supported by @smtpb.bsky.social. Bob Holt shares his personal history and stories of his life in science: www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8hX...
Robert D. Holt interview
YouTube video by SMTPB
www.youtube.com
May 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Sally Otto @sarperotto.bsky.social
and I are back with the next installment of “Reflections on the history of modeling and theory”, supported by @smtpb.bsky.social. Bob Holt shares his personal history and stories of his life in science: www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8hX...
and I are back with the next installment of “Reflections on the history of modeling and theory”, supported by @smtpb.bsky.social. Bob Holt shares his personal history and stories of his life in science: www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8hX...
Reposted by Anna Bazzicalupo
#OnThisDay in 1856, Charles Darwin noted in his journal, "began...writing species sketch." This "sketch" would form the base of his book On the Origin of Species. 🏺 🧪
May 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
#OnThisDay in 1856, Charles Darwin noted in his journal, "began...writing species sketch." This "sketch" would form the base of his book On the Origin of Species. 🏺 🧪
Reposted by Anna Bazzicalupo
Reposted by Anna Bazzicalupo
Virtual #Conference: 5th Annual CanFunNet #Fungal #Biology
August 6-8 "From Local to Global"
canfunnet.conferences.uwo.ca
Abstract submissions, early registration open until May30
Topics include: Evolutionary Pathways of Fungal Pathogens, Fungal Genomics, Host Interactions, Fungal Resilience
August 6-8 "From Local to Global"
canfunnet.conferences.uwo.ca
Abstract submissions, early registration open until May30
Topics include: Evolutionary Pathways of Fungal Pathogens, Fungal Genomics, Host Interactions, Fungal Resilience
May 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Virtual #Conference: 5th Annual CanFunNet #Fungal #Biology
August 6-8 "From Local to Global"
canfunnet.conferences.uwo.ca
Abstract submissions, early registration open until May30
Topics include: Evolutionary Pathways of Fungal Pathogens, Fungal Genomics, Host Interactions, Fungal Resilience
August 6-8 "From Local to Global"
canfunnet.conferences.uwo.ca
Abstract submissions, early registration open until May30
Topics include: Evolutionary Pathways of Fungal Pathogens, Fungal Genomics, Host Interactions, Fungal Resilience
Reposted by Anna Bazzicalupo
Check out these exciting opportunities for a dual award PhD in plant and soil sciences 🤩 at @sheffieldpps.bsky.social and @westsyduhie.bsky.social: www.sheffield.ac.uk/biosciences/... each PhD project will involve at least 1 year spent at each institution - pls repost 🙏
World class training - International dual award PhDs in Plant & Soil Science now open
These new studentships offer a unique opportunity to join a vibrant and collaborative research community spanning two world-class institutions in Sheffield, UK and Sydney, Australia.
www.sheffield.ac.uk
May 8, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Check out these exciting opportunities for a dual award PhD in plant and soil sciences 🤩 at @sheffieldpps.bsky.social and @westsyduhie.bsky.social: www.sheffield.ac.uk/biosciences/... each PhD project will involve at least 1 year spent at each institution - pls repost 🙏
This is fantastic
This year’s #metgala was based on M.L. Miller’s groundbreaking book, Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity.
...As usual some celebs missed the theme, dressing as some of our favourite fungi 🍄✨
Starting with Cynthia Erivo as Cosmospora arxii 🍄🧵👇
...As usual some celebs missed the theme, dressing as some of our favourite fungi 🍄✨
Starting with Cynthia Erivo as Cosmospora arxii 🍄🧵👇
May 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
This is fantastic
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Thought-provoking commentary by @amyforsythe.bsky.social just dropped on our recent study of individual heterogeneity in life-history trajectories! Always exciting to see the conversation evolve.
@marcofesta.bsky.social
📄 Read it here:
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
@marcofesta.bsky.social
📄 Read it here:
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
May 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Thought-provoking commentary by @amyforsythe.bsky.social just dropped on our recent study of individual heterogeneity in life-history trajectories! Always exciting to see the conversation evolve.
@marcofesta.bsky.social
📄 Read it here:
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
@marcofesta.bsky.social
📄 Read it here:
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Congratulations!!!
Celebrating a major milestone this week. 🎉
My first issue as editor of the British Mycological Society’s Field Mycology publication is now online and available #OpenAccess for all to read.
➡️ fieldmycology.org
Please read and share!
My first issue as editor of the British Mycological Society’s Field Mycology publication is now online and available #OpenAccess for all to read.
➡️ fieldmycology.org
Please read and share!
May 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Congratulations!!!
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Brilliant new paper by Jill Anderson and colleagues using 9 years of transplant experiments and integral projection models to predict the capacity of populations for adaptation and persistence under new climates in Boechera stricta. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Adaptation and gene flow are insufficient to rescue a montane plant under climate change
Climate change increasingly drives local population dynamics, shifts geographic distributions, and threatens persistence. Gene flow and rapid adaptation could rescue declining populations yet are seld...
www.science.org
May 2, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Brilliant new paper by Jill Anderson and colleagues using 9 years of transplant experiments and integral projection models to predict the capacity of populations for adaptation and persistence under new climates in Boechera stricta. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Anna Bazzicalupo
Excited to do a postdoc in beautiful Neuchatel / Switzerland🇨🇭?
We have several postdoc positions open at the moment!
Check our website for the full ads here: pathogen-genomics.org/jobs
Happy to answer any question and please spread the word to anyone who might be interested!
We have several postdoc positions open at the moment!
Check our website for the full ads here: pathogen-genomics.org/jobs
Happy to answer any question and please spread the word to anyone who might be interested!
April 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Excited to do a postdoc in beautiful Neuchatel / Switzerland🇨🇭?
We have several postdoc positions open at the moment!
Check our website for the full ads here: pathogen-genomics.org/jobs
Happy to answer any question and please spread the word to anyone who might be interested!
We have several postdoc positions open at the moment!
Check our website for the full ads here: pathogen-genomics.org/jobs
Happy to answer any question and please spread the word to anyone who might be interested!
Reposted by Anna Bazzicalupo
0. Vought, Vance, Rufo, and those attacking academia see scientists as bureaucrats—in the most pejorative sense of the term—who they can "put into trauma" and drive to quit.
They don't understand that science is not just a job. It's a vocation, literally, in the original sense of *a calling*.
They don't understand that science is not just a job. It's a vocation, literally, in the original sense of *a calling*.
April 13, 2025 at 3:22 AM
0. Vought, Vance, Rufo, and those attacking academia see scientists as bureaucrats—in the most pejorative sense of the term—who they can "put into trauma" and drive to quit.
They don't understand that science is not just a job. It's a vocation, literally, in the original sense of *a calling*.
They don't understand that science is not just a job. It's a vocation, literally, in the original sense of *a calling*.
Reposted by Anna Bazzicalupo
Only 60 years ago we still thought fungi to be weird types of plants 🍄🤔🌱
With shared characteristics such as immobility, having a cell wall and growing out of substrates like soil, it was easy for early natural historians to group these two hugely diverse groups together. So how were they split? 🧵👇
With shared characteristics such as immobility, having a cell wall and growing out of substrates like soil, it was easy for early natural historians to group these two hugely diverse groups together. So how were they split? 🧵👇
April 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Only 60 years ago we still thought fungi to be weird types of plants 🍄🤔🌱
With shared characteristics such as immobility, having a cell wall and growing out of substrates like soil, it was easy for early natural historians to group these two hugely diverse groups together. So how were they split? 🧵👇
With shared characteristics such as immobility, having a cell wall and growing out of substrates like soil, it was easy for early natural historians to group these two hugely diverse groups together. So how were they split? 🧵👇
Reposted by Anna Bazzicalupo
If you have experienced direct harm to your work/lab/job due to recent changes at US NSF, & are willing to share this on behalf of the Am. Society of Naturalists and NSF, please DM/ email me ASAP (this is time-sensitive) or submit story here sites.google.com/view/scienti...
Please share widely
Please share widely
Scientists' Stories - How to Contribute
How to contribute a Story
sites.google.com
March 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
If you have experienced direct harm to your work/lab/job due to recent changes at US NSF, & are willing to share this on behalf of the Am. Society of Naturalists and NSF, please DM/ email me ASAP (this is time-sensitive) or submit story here sites.google.com/view/scienti...
Please share widely
Please share widely
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How do you study invisible organisms, such as fungi, from the environment?
We provide a benchmarked meta-barcoding dataset for soil fungi in Australia and Antarctica, combined with +100 predictor variables to fast-track data exploration, research and conservation.
rdcu.be/ebCeu
We provide a benchmarked meta-barcoding dataset for soil fungi in Australia and Antarctica, combined with +100 predictor variables to fast-track data exploration, research and conservation.
rdcu.be/ebCeu
A curated soil fungal dataset to advance fungal ecology and conservation research in Australia and Antarctica
Scientific Data - A curated soil fungal dataset to advance fungal ecology and conservation research in Australia and Antarctica
rdcu.be
February 28, 2025 at 3:30 AM
How do you study invisible organisms, such as fungi, from the environment?
We provide a benchmarked meta-barcoding dataset for soil fungi in Australia and Antarctica, combined with +100 predictor variables to fast-track data exploration, research and conservation.
rdcu.be/ebCeu
We provide a benchmarked meta-barcoding dataset for soil fungi in Australia and Antarctica, combined with +100 predictor variables to fast-track data exploration, research and conservation.
rdcu.be/ebCeu
Reposted by Anna Bazzicalupo
Exciting News! New research has found a plant’s past adaptations can help it survive pollution 🌿
Kew's Mike Fay & partners at Bangor University found Silene uniflora’s salt tolerance helped it adapt to toxic mine waste, giving hope for nature’s recovery!
👉 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Kew's Mike Fay & partners at Bangor University found Silene uniflora’s salt tolerance helped it adapt to toxic mine waste, giving hope for nature’s recovery!
👉 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
February 19, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Exciting News! New research has found a plant’s past adaptations can help it survive pollution 🌿
Kew's Mike Fay & partners at Bangor University found Silene uniflora’s salt tolerance helped it adapt to toxic mine waste, giving hope for nature’s recovery!
👉 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Kew's Mike Fay & partners at Bangor University found Silene uniflora’s salt tolerance helped it adapt to toxic mine waste, giving hope for nature’s recovery!
👉 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Here is our preprint on metal cross-tolerance evolution in yeast! @sarperotto.bsky.social Penny Kahn, Eully Ao, and Joel Campbell www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Evolution of cross-tolerance to metals in yeast
Organisms often face multiple selective pressures simultaneously (e.g., mine tailings with multiple heavy metal contaminants), yet we know little about when adaptation to one stressor provides cross-t...
www.biorxiv.org
February 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Here is our preprint on metal cross-tolerance evolution in yeast! @sarperotto.bsky.social Penny Kahn, Eully Ao, and Joel Campbell www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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✨Excited to share our new article on time lags/genetic extinction debts, online now in Trends in Ecology & Evolution
#KewScience
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#KewScience
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Mind the lag: understanding genetic extinction debt for conservation
The delay between disturbance events and genetic responses within populations is a common but surprisingly overlooked phenomenon in ecology and evolut…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 27, 2024 at 9:38 AM
✨Excited to share our new article on time lags/genetic extinction debts, online now in Trends in Ecology & Evolution
#KewScience
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#KewScience
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Congratulations to Matt Osmond on publication of the final version of "Estimating dispersal rates and locating genetic ancestors with genome-wide genealogies"
elifesciences.org/articles/72177
elifesciences.org/articles/72177
Estimating dispersal rates and locating genetic ancestors with genome-wide genealogies
A new method to infer the spatial history of genetic ancestors from a sequence of trees along a recombining genome.
elifesciences.org
December 20, 2024 at 10:23 PM
Congratulations to Matt Osmond on publication of the final version of "Estimating dispersal rates and locating genetic ancestors with genome-wide genealogies"
elifesciences.org/articles/72177
elifesciences.org/articles/72177