Jo Rhodes
@drjorhodes.com
Yoga bunny. Cake guru. Scientist by day. Assistant Professor at @unibirmingham.bsky.social
Interested in fungal ‘omics and One Health, evolutionary biology and popgen, epidemiology and promoting women in STEM
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Interested in fungal ‘omics and One Health, evolutionary biology and popgen, epidemiology and promoting women in STEM
🏳️🌈
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Jo Rhodes
@drjorhodes.com
· Nov 13
A long time ago in this same galaxy, we asked ourselves "where does azole antifungal resistance in fungi come from?"
So we set about sampling Aspergillus fumigatus to build a collection of 1000+ samples spanning a century from 34 countries.
So we set about sampling Aspergillus fumigatus to build a collection of 1000+ samples spanning a century from 34 countries.
The Dutch are super logical, but there is a subset that decide to let off fireworks during the daytime. No country is perfect, I guess.
December 31, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The Dutch are super logical, but there is a subset that decide to let off fireworks during the daytime. No country is perfect, I guess.
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Releasing alignism, a small tool that I have found useful for doing multiple sequence alignment in browser.
hgbrian.github.io/alignism/
- The hard work was done by the awesome biowasm team!
- Does tree building too
- V fast compared to e.g., muscle on EBI
- Not tested that much!
hgbrian.github.io/alignism/
- The hard work was done by the awesome biowasm team!
- Does tree building too
- V fast compared to e.g., muscle on EBI
- Not tested that much!
December 30, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Releasing alignism, a small tool that I have found useful for doing multiple sequence alignment in browser.
hgbrian.github.io/alignism/
- The hard work was done by the awesome biowasm team!
- Does tree building too
- V fast compared to e.g., muscle on EBI
- Not tested that much!
hgbrian.github.io/alignism/
- The hard work was done by the awesome biowasm team!
- Does tree building too
- V fast compared to e.g., muscle on EBI
- Not tested that much!
Reposted by Jo Rhodes
💾 any2fasta 0.8.1 is released!
The FASTA format is now 40 years old (Pearson & Lipman) and any2fasta makes it easy for your scripts and pipelines that accept FASTA to also accept other formats, even if compressed! eg. .gbk.gz
#bioinformatiocs #microbiology #genomcs
github.com/tseemann/any...
The FASTA format is now 40 years old (Pearson & Lipman) and any2fasta makes it easy for your scripts and pipelines that accept FASTA to also accept other formats, even if compressed! eg. .gbk.gz
#bioinformatiocs #microbiology #genomcs
github.com/tseemann/any...
Release Next time I'll try to be FASTA · tseemann/any2fasta
New features
Option -k is keep processing even when some inputs fail
option -g to include GBK version suffix
option s to strip desc from>id desc in ID lines
Support for PDB protein structure forma...
github.com
December 30, 2025 at 5:16 AM
💾 any2fasta 0.8.1 is released!
The FASTA format is now 40 years old (Pearson & Lipman) and any2fasta makes it easy for your scripts and pipelines that accept FASTA to also accept other formats, even if compressed! eg. .gbk.gz
#bioinformatiocs #microbiology #genomcs
github.com/tseemann/any...
The FASTA format is now 40 years old (Pearson & Lipman) and any2fasta makes it easy for your scripts and pipelines that accept FASTA to also accept other formats, even if compressed! eg. .gbk.gz
#bioinformatiocs #microbiology #genomcs
github.com/tseemann/any...
Today was a good day for our former PhD student Hugh Gifford, who got his first first-author paper out! Such a huge contribution to the mycology field and our understanding of Candida auris infection: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Xenosiderophore transporter gene expression and clade-specific filamentation in Candida auris killifish (Aphanius dispar) infection - Communications Biology
Arabian killifish embryonic yolk sac microinjection of the emerging human fungal pathogen Candida auris and dual host-pathogen RNA-seq reveal an expanded and transcriptionally upregulated family of xe...
www.nature.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Today was a good day for our former PhD student Hugh Gifford, who got his first first-author paper out! Such a huge contribution to the mycology field and our understanding of Candida auris infection: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Last day in the office today, and so pleased to receive this copy of One Health and Mycology, for which I contributed a chapter. Many thanks to @acgerstein.bsky.social @shapirorebecca.bsky.social and @ene-lab.bsky.social for all your hard work over the last couple of years to pull this together!
December 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Last day in the office today, and so pleased to receive this copy of One Health and Mycology, for which I contributed a chapter. Many thanks to @acgerstein.bsky.social @shapirorebecca.bsky.social and @ene-lab.bsky.social for all your hard work over the last couple of years to pull this together!
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More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review www.nature.com/articles/d41...
December 17, 2025 at 9:47 AM
More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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New PhD project @imibirmingham.bsky.social, supervision by @drjorhodes.com and myself, now open!
'Multi-omic surveillance of microbial dynamics in river and flood-impacted environments: implications for public health in a changing climate'
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Deadline 9 Jan 2026!
'Multi-omic surveillance of microbial dynamics in river and flood-impacted environments: implications for public health in a changing climate'
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Deadline 9 Jan 2026!
Multi-omic surveillance of microbial dynamics in river and flood-impacted environments: implications for public health in a changing climate at University of Birmingham on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Multi-omic surveillance of microbial dynamics in river and flood-impacted environments: implications for public health in a changing climate at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAP...
www.findaphd.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
New PhD project @imibirmingham.bsky.social, supervision by @drjorhodes.com and myself, now open!
'Multi-omic surveillance of microbial dynamics in river and flood-impacted environments: implications for public health in a changing climate'
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Deadline 9 Jan 2026!
'Multi-omic surveillance of microbial dynamics in river and flood-impacted environments: implications for public health in a changing climate'
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Deadline 9 Jan 2026!
Come to Birmingham and do a PhD with myself and @wvschaik.bsky.social!
PhD position (Birmingham, UK)
Environmental modelling of microbial dynamics in river and flood-impacted environments
with Johanna Rhodes, Willem van Schaik, Marie Chattaway, Claire Jenkins
at University of Birmingham
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2433
Environmental modelling of microbial dynamics in river and flood-impacted environments
with Johanna Rhodes, Willem van Schaik, Marie Chattaway, Claire Jenkins
at University of Birmingham
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2433
December 12, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Come to Birmingham and do a PhD with myself and @wvschaik.bsky.social!
We are looking for a CHEF-DRII machine gel mould! Does anyone have one they no longer need or does anyone have experience of 3D printing their own?
December 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
We are looking for a CHEF-DRII machine gel mould! Does anyone have one they no longer need or does anyone have experience of 3D printing their own?
Reposted by Jo Rhodes
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders.
Aluminum is an ADJUVANT.
It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine.
That’s it.
Aluminum is an ADJUVANT.
It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine.
That’s it.
December 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders.
Aluminum is an ADJUVANT.
It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine.
That’s it.
Aluminum is an ADJUVANT.
It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine.
That’s it.
Genomic evidence for a-α heterothallic and α-α unisexual mating and recombination in an environmental Cryptococcus deneoformans population journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
Genomic evidence for a-α heterothallic and α-α unisexual mating and recombination in an environmental Cryptococcus deneoformans population
Article summary This study compares conclusions drawn from multilocus sequence data and whole-genome SNP data regarding genetic diversity and reproduction in an environmental population of Cryptococcu...
journals.plos.org
December 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Genomic evidence for a-α heterothallic and α-α unisexual mating and recombination in an environmental Cryptococcus deneoformans population journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
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University of Birmingham, UK, are advertising a permanant position (Assistant or Associate Professor) in *Forests under Global Change*. A wide net has been cast - ecology, physiology, modelling, remote sensing, functioning, biodiversity, management... 🌲🌱🌳🌳🦌🌳🛰️🐿️🌲🔬🌳
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...
December 5, 2025 at 8:07 AM
University of Birmingham, UK, are advertising a permanant position (Assistant or Associate Professor) in *Forests under Global Change*. A wide net has been cast - ecology, physiology, modelling, remote sensing, functioning, biodiversity, management... 🌲🌱🌳🌳🦌🌳🛰️🐿️🌲🔬🌳
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...
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This is scary. "Three of the five worst harvests on record have now occurred since 2020, leaving some farmers asking whether the growing impacts of the climate crisis are making it too financially risky to sow their crops." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK farmers lose £800m after heat and drought cause one of worst harvests on record
Many now concerned about ability to make living in fast-changing climate after one of worst grain harvests recorded
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:16 AM
This is scary. "Three of the five worst harvests on record have now occurred since 2020, leaving some farmers asking whether the growing impacts of the climate crisis are making it too financially risky to sow their crops." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
It's been a year since I started at @unibirmingham.bsky.social School of Biosciences, and I can honestly say it has been a wonderful year with supportive colleagues, fantastic students and great science! I'm so excited about the research we're doing
December 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
It's been a year since I started at @unibirmingham.bsky.social School of Biosciences, and I can honestly say it has been a wonderful year with supportive colleagues, fantastic students and great science! I'm so excited about the research we're doing
Reposted by Jo Rhodes
Finally out!
A large European diversity panel reveals complex azole fungicide resistance gains of a major wheat pathogen
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
A big thanks to @danielcroll.bsky.social & @GabrielScalliet
#azole #DMI #GWAS #fungicide #resistance #zymoseptoria #Europe
A large European diversity panel reveals complex azole fungicide resistance gains of a major wheat pathogen
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
A big thanks to @danielcroll.bsky.social & @GabrielScalliet
#azole #DMI #GWAS #fungicide #resistance #zymoseptoria #Europe
A large European diversity panel reveals complex azole fungicide resistance gains of a major wheat pathogen | mBio
Sustainable food production requires the management of disease agents attacking crops.
Application of antifungal compounds is among the key elements of pathogen containment;
however, resistance can ri...
journals.asm.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Finally out!
A large European diversity panel reveals complex azole fungicide resistance gains of a major wheat pathogen
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
A big thanks to @danielcroll.bsky.social & @GabrielScalliet
#azole #DMI #GWAS #fungicide #resistance #zymoseptoria #Europe
A large European diversity panel reveals complex azole fungicide resistance gains of a major wheat pathogen
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
A big thanks to @danielcroll.bsky.social & @GabrielScalliet
#azole #DMI #GWAS #fungicide #resistance #zymoseptoria #Europe
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SPUN is #hiring 👉 spun.bamboohr.com/careers
We're looking to fill the following positions:
1. Fungal Molecular Ecologist
2. Designer
3. Communications Assistant
Apply now and share with your networks 🌍
#Careers #Fungi #ScienceJobs #ScienceCommunication #Mycology
We're looking to fill the following positions:
1. Fungal Molecular Ecologist
2. Designer
3. Communications Assistant
Apply now and share with your networks 🌍
#Careers #Fungi #ScienceJobs #ScienceCommunication #Mycology
November 25, 2025 at 11:37 AM
SPUN is #hiring 👉 spun.bamboohr.com/careers
We're looking to fill the following positions:
1. Fungal Molecular Ecologist
2. Designer
3. Communications Assistant
Apply now and share with your networks 🌍
#Careers #Fungi #ScienceJobs #ScienceCommunication #Mycology
We're looking to fill the following positions:
1. Fungal Molecular Ecologist
2. Designer
3. Communications Assistant
Apply now and share with your networks 🌍
#Careers #Fungi #ScienceJobs #ScienceCommunication #Mycology
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If you are a field mycologist, fungal biology researcher, or mycology student, join our free webinar on 11 December to hear how publishing your work with BMS journals can support both your career & the global mycology community. 👉 Register now: www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/mycology_pub...
November 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
If you are a field mycologist, fungal biology researcher, or mycology student, join our free webinar on 11 December to hear how publishing your work with BMS journals can support both your career & the global mycology community. 👉 Register now: www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/mycology_pub...
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Join Dr Stephanie Lo's Seminar this Friday on ‘Genomic Surveillance to Inform Vaccine Impact and Design' Register here: microb.io/49tTbRS #JMM
November 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Join Dr Stephanie Lo's Seminar this Friday on ‘Genomic Surveillance to Inform Vaccine Impact and Design' Register here: microb.io/49tTbRS #JMM
Fungal friends: The University of Minnesota is hiring a tenure track medical mycologist, with emphasis on emergence of pathogens, genomics and evolution!
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
New Assistant Professor: Tenure Track - Fungal Biology/Medical Mycology - Minneapolis, Minnesota job with University of Minnesota - Medical School | 12848307
About the Job: The Department of Microbiology & Immunology and the Institute on Infectious Diseases (UMIID) at the University of Minnesota Medical ...
www.nature.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Fungal friends: The University of Minnesota is hiring a tenure track medical mycologist, with emphasis on emergence of pathogens, genomics and evolution!
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
But what else do we have to bring us cheer?!
Stop putting Christmas decorations up before December you maniacs
November 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
But what else do we have to bring us cheer?!
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1,000,000 species of plants and animals at risk of extinction.
- IPBES Global Assessment
- IPBES Global Assessment
November 20, 2025 at 6:10 PM
1,000,000 species of plants and animals at risk of extinction.
- IPBES Global Assessment
- IPBES Global Assessment
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Have you heard of the Sanger Prize? It is a three-month undergrad placement at the Institute, and applications are open.
Hear from our current Sanger Prize holder Beatriz Rodrigues Estevam, here ⤵️
https://sangerinstitute.blog/2025/11/20/unravelling-the-mysteries-of-the-worm-through-bioinformatics/
Hear from our current Sanger Prize holder Beatriz Rodrigues Estevam, here ⤵️
https://sangerinstitute.blog/2025/11/20/unravelling-the-mysteries-of-the-worm-through-bioinformatics/
November 20, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Have you heard of the Sanger Prize? It is a three-month undergrad placement at the Institute, and applications are open.
Hear from our current Sanger Prize holder Beatriz Rodrigues Estevam, here ⤵️
https://sangerinstitute.blog/2025/11/20/unravelling-the-mysteries-of-the-worm-through-bioinformatics/
Hear from our current Sanger Prize holder Beatriz Rodrigues Estevam, here ⤵️
https://sangerinstitute.blog/2025/11/20/unravelling-the-mysteries-of-the-worm-through-bioinformatics/
Reposted by Jo Rhodes
🌟 Watch Liam Shaw, author of Dangerous Miracle and Computational Biologist present: Dangerous Miracle: A Brief History of Antibiotics at the TARGetAMR monthly webinar series! 💊
💻 Now live on our Website & YouTube
➕ Dr Desy Muliana Wenas ECR Presentation
👉 www.targetamr.org.uk/hdrevents/ta...
💻 Now live on our Website & YouTube
➕ Dr Desy Muliana Wenas ECR Presentation
👉 www.targetamr.org.uk/hdrevents/ta...
November 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
🌟 Watch Liam Shaw, author of Dangerous Miracle and Computational Biologist present: Dangerous Miracle: A Brief History of Antibiotics at the TARGetAMR monthly webinar series! 💊
💻 Now live on our Website & YouTube
➕ Dr Desy Muliana Wenas ECR Presentation
👉 www.targetamr.org.uk/hdrevents/ta...
💻 Now live on our Website & YouTube
➕ Dr Desy Muliana Wenas ECR Presentation
👉 www.targetamr.org.uk/hdrevents/ta...
As if my group outing would include anything other than cake
November 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
As if my group outing would include anything other than cake