Delma Childers
@childerslab.bsky.social
Microbiologist working on pathogenic fungi and drug adaptation. Lab page that intermittently shares updates.
New preprint! This work is Gabriela Fior Ribeiro's second first-author manuscript, @logantom.bsky.social's first manuscript, and is the culmination of our long-standing collaboration with @ewjwallace.bsky.social's group at University of Edinburgh.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Antifungal exposure can enhance Candida glabrata pathogenesis
Azole antifungal drugs directly inhibit lanosterol 14-α-demethylase and indirectly affect the expression of metabolic, transmembrane transporter, and cell wall organization genes in fungal pathogens. ...
www.biorxiv.org
August 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
New preprint! This work is Gabriela Fior Ribeiro's second first-author manuscript, @logantom.bsky.social's first manuscript, and is the culmination of our long-standing collaboration with @ewjwallace.bsky.social's group at University of Edinburgh.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Delma Childers
Request for my fellow fungal researchers! Do you have a tote bag from Asilomar 2024 hanging around that you don’t use/want? A friend has lost theirs and they’re gutted
April 17, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Request for my fellow fungal researchers! Do you have a tote bag from Asilomar 2024 hanging around that you don’t use/want? A friend has lost theirs and they’re gutted
**New paper alert!
I'm so proud of Gabriela Ribeiro's paper from her PhD work. Big thanks to our amazing KCL colleagues, Emily and Jon. Together we showed how the N. glabratus/C. glabrata cell wall can alter host outcomes in diverse infection models.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I'm so proud of Gabriela Ribeiro's paper from her PhD work. Big thanks to our amazing KCL colleagues, Emily and Jon. Together we showed how the N. glabratus/C. glabrata cell wall can alter host outcomes in diverse infection models.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Mannan is a context-dependent shield that modifies virulence in Nakaseomyces glabratus
Fungal-host interaction outcomes are influenced by how the host recognizes fungal cell wall components. Mannan is a major cell wall carbohydrate and can be a glycoshield that blocks the inner cell ...
www.tandfonline.com
April 16, 2025 at 8:06 AM
**New paper alert!
I'm so proud of Gabriela Ribeiro's paper from her PhD work. Big thanks to our amazing KCL colleagues, Emily and Jon. Together we showed how the N. glabratus/C. glabrata cell wall can alter host outcomes in diverse infection models.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I'm so proud of Gabriela Ribeiro's paper from her PhD work. Big thanks to our amazing KCL colleagues, Emily and Jon. Together we showed how the N. glabratus/C. glabrata cell wall can alter host outcomes in diverse infection models.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
PhD alert! Know a promising student who wants to do an interdisciplinary, funded PhD guided by experts in microbiology, antifungal drug resistance and chemistry? Please send them our way: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
EASTBIO: Resistance isn’t futile: Uncovering novel antifungals to combat drug resistance at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - EASTBIO: Resistance isn’t futile: Uncovering novel antifungals to combat drug resistance at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
December 13, 2024 at 12:29 PM
PhD alert! Know a promising student who wants to do an interdisciplinary, funded PhD guided by experts in microbiology, antifungal drug resistance and chemistry? Please send them our way: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Paper alert! Great collaboration with Jane Usher about fungal metabolism and disease: journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
journals.plos.org
December 11, 2024 at 9:10 PM
Paper alert! Great collaboration with Jane Usher about fungal metabolism and disease: journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
Reposted by Delma Childers
That feeling that with every step “this is the time it will get better” and then realizing - nope. It’s systemic. It’s exhausting. We need to talk about it. But if you do- you’re the problem.
"Women full professors are 19% more likely than men at the same career stage to leave academia, as compared with 6% for women assistant professors and 10% for associates."
Women faculty feel ‘pushed’ from academia by poor workplace climate
The gender gap in faculty attrition worsens after tenure, according to a new study
www.science.org
December 9, 2024 at 1:33 PM
That feeling that with every step “this is the time it will get better” and then realizing - nope. It’s systemic. It’s exhausting. We need to talk about it. But if you do- you’re the problem.