Paul Rowley
@drpaulrowley.bsky.social
A biologist studying toxin production by fungi. I work with bacterial, yeast, viral, and human experimental systems.
The Rowley/Ytreberg/Patel labs at UI have led a multidisciplinary study to characterize a new yeast toxin! Published in the ASM's flagship Journal - mBio. Eight undergraduate authors contributed to the study, a great team effort! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... @uidaho.bsky.social
The Saccharomyces killer toxin K62 is a protein of the aerolysin family | mBio
Pore-forming toxins are potent biological weapons used across nature, from virulence
factors to immune defense proteins. This study identifies K62, a little-known antifungal
toxin produced by a wild y...
journals.asm.org
November 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The Rowley/Ytreberg/Patel labs at UI have led a multidisciplinary study to characterize a new yeast toxin! Published in the ASM's flagship Journal - mBio. Eight undergraduate authors contributed to the study, a great team effort! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... @uidaho.bsky.social
The latest paper from my lab! Aerolysin toxins in Saccharomyces yeasts (they "seemed" to be yeast-specific - so maybe(?) don't worry!) | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
The Saccharomyces killer toxin K62 is a protein of the aerolysin family | mBio
Pore-forming toxins are potent biological weapons used across nature, from virulence
factors to immune defense proteins. This study identifies K62, a little-known antifungal
toxin produced by a wild y...
journals.asm.org
November 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The latest paper from my lab! Aerolysin toxins in Saccharomyces yeasts (they "seemed" to be yeast-specific - so maybe(?) don't worry!) | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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🎉 Big news! We've been awarded the 2025 @aaas.org Kavli Science Journalism Gold Award for The Leap, our audio documentary that features the scientists behind some of the biggest breakthroughs of our time. sjawards.aaas.org/news/2025-aa... 1/
November 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
🎉 Big news! We've been awarded the 2025 @aaas.org Kavli Science Journalism Gold Award for The Leap, our audio documentary that features the scientists behind some of the biggest breakthroughs of our time. sjawards.aaas.org/news/2025-aa... 1/
So proud AGAIN. My undergraduate won the poster prize at an ASM meeting for the second year running. Great job Lily Givens!!! She is looking for a PhD position…
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 AM
So proud AGAIN. My undergraduate won the poster prize at an ASM meeting for the second year running. Great job Lily Givens!!! She is looking for a PhD position…
Sad to announce that one of the co-discoverers of the killer yeast phenotype passed away today - Canon Malory Makower. Not a scientist, but a priest. It feels odd because today my students presented work on the toxin he discovered at an @asm.org meeting. www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
Obituary: Canon Malory Makower
Henry Long writes
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November 9, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Sad to announce that one of the co-discoverers of the killer yeast phenotype passed away today - Canon Malory Makower. Not a scientist, but a priest. It feels odd because today my students presented work on the toxin he discovered at an @asm.org meeting. www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
Honored to have been on a panel to discuss what it takes to be a scientist and a human before a screening of the PBS film on the legendary Phil Sharp (Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution). @uidaho.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Honored to have been on a panel to discuss what it takes to be a scientist and a human before a screening of the PBS film on the legendary Phil Sharp (Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution). @uidaho.bsky.social
Last week I interviewed with KTVB about my work on killer yeasts and met the charismatic host, Mellisa Paul! Can't wait for it to air on Idaho Today! @ktvb7.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Last week I interviewed with KTVB about my work on killer yeasts and met the charismatic host, Mellisa Paul! Can't wait for it to air on Idaho Today! @ktvb7.bsky.social
My students are writing as if it is 2024, let’s see if it pays off… www.science.org/content/arti...
Delays, uncertainty plague NSF fellowship for graduate students
After an unusual award process this year, applicants for next year are waiting for overdue guidelines
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September 23, 2025 at 2:58 AM
My students are writing as if it is 2024, let’s see if it pays off… www.science.org/content/arti...
With deep sadness, we mourn the passing of Nobel Laureate Dr. David Baltimore (1938–2025), whose discovery of reverse transcriptase and pioneering work in virology, immunology, and cancer biology transformed modern science and inspired generations of researchers.
September 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
With deep sadness, we mourn the passing of Nobel Laureate Dr. David Baltimore (1938–2025), whose discovery of reverse transcriptase and pioneering work in virology, immunology, and cancer biology transformed modern science and inspired generations of researchers.
The Rowley lab has just birthed another PhD! Congratulations, DR. Jack Creagh-Grave. A job well done. Stay tuned in 2025 for two major publications on killer toxins based on his work!
July 15, 2025 at 8:10 AM
The Rowley lab has just birthed another PhD! Congratulations, DR. Jack Creagh-Grave. A job well done. Stay tuned in 2025 for two major publications on killer toxins based on his work!
Another successful event delivered at the University of Malaysia.
June 24, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Another successful event delivered at the University of Malaysia.
An undergraduate's curiosity led us down an interesting path to document a novel and unexpected association of Yarrowia lipolytica with onychomycosis (a fungal infection of the nail).
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The Association of Yarrowia lipolytica with Onychomycosis.
Onychomycosis, a common fungal nail infection, is typically caused by dermatophytes or Candida species, but rare fungal pathogens can also be involved…
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June 23, 2025 at 2:08 AM
An undergraduate's curiosity led us down an interesting path to document a novel and unexpected association of Yarrowia lipolytica with onychomycosis (a fungal infection of the nail).
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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We currently have a call for support that has gone out to European labs, to support FlyBase-UK. We are asking our colleagues from labs in the US and other countries to wait for a similar call to them that will go out in the near future, to support the US sites. We thank you for your patience.
URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯
Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.
This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.
This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
My lab studies bacterial infections. We spend a lot of time looking at (or for) species-specific genetic and genomic databases for hosts and microbes. FlyBase is the best of all—there is literally no comparison. Its existence is under threat. Please donate.
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June 3, 2025 at 9:17 PM
We currently have a call for support that has gone out to European labs, to support FlyBase-UK. We are asking our colleagues from labs in the US and other countries to wait for a similar call to them that will go out in the near future, to support the US sites. We thank you for your patience.
"at a cost of only 0.24 percent of gross national income, we provided humanitarian aid that saved about six lives every minute around the clock"
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Opinion | The Waste Musk Created
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June 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
"at a cost of only 0.24 percent of gross national income, we provided humanitarian aid that saved about six lives every minute around the clock"
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Finally, some relief for my lab - the NSF just provided us with year 4 funding. It is 4 months late, but at least prior awards are being processed. I hope this provides hope for those of you still waiting for your funding renewals.
June 20, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Finally, some relief for my lab - the NSF just provided us with year 4 funding. It is 4 months late, but at least prior awards are being processed. I hope this provides hope for those of you still waiting for your funding renewals.
If you have never seen whooping cough, it is upsetting.
For all those people who haven't got the vaccine for their kids, or themselves - protect our youngsters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3oZ...
For all those people who haven't got the vaccine for their kids, or themselves - protect our youngsters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3oZ...
Infant girl with whooping cough
YouTube video by Mayo Clinic
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June 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
If you have never seen whooping cough, it is upsetting.
For all those people who haven't got the vaccine for their kids, or themselves - protect our youngsters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3oZ...
For all those people who haven't got the vaccine for their kids, or themselves - protect our youngsters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3oZ...
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Still waiting.... My two main sources of federal funding have yet to be renewed by the NIH and NSF. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
www.nature.com
May 13, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Still waiting.... My two main sources of federal funding have yet to be renewed by the NIH and NSF. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
“Having these decisions made by DOGE after months have been spent writing the NOFOs drafts and getting buy-in from [NIH’s institutes and centers] and offices is a huge waste of staff time and resources.”
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Trump officials will screen NIH funding opportunities
Staff at biomedical agency worry about political interference in setting priorities
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March 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
“Having these decisions made by DOGE after months have been spent writing the NOFOs drafts and getting buy-in from [NIH’s institutes and centers] and offices is a huge waste of staff time and resources.”
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Amazing that my kids, doing their homework, triggered a memory of a poem from when I was their age. allpoetry.com/Scythe-Song
Scythe Song by Andrew Lang - Famous poems, famous poets. - All Poetry
Comments & analysis: MOWERS, weary and brown, and blithe, / What is the word methinks ye know, / Endless over-w
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March 5, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Amazing that my kids, doing their homework, triggered a memory of a poem from when I was their age. allpoetry.com/Scythe-Song
What a great day visiting and giving a presentation at Universiti Putra Malaysia. Great questions and great hospitality!
February 21, 2025 at 7:12 AM
What a great day visiting and giving a presentation at Universiti Putra Malaysia. Great questions and great hospitality!
So happy to be brewing - IN MY LAB. Yes, scientific research into killer toxins can be combined with beer! The tragedy is that we are BSL2 - so we can't drink it.
February 21, 2025 at 7:11 AM
So happy to be brewing - IN MY LAB. Yes, scientific research into killer toxins can be combined with beer! The tragedy is that we are BSL2 - so we can't drink it.
Just to prove to everyone that I am working during my sabbatical:
February 17, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Just to prove to everyone that I am working during my sabbatical:
USAID is more than just famine relief…. vital crop research that benefits farmers in the US and around the world. www.science.org/content/arti...
Abandoned crops, fired scientists: Agricultural research hit by U.S. foreign aid freeze
A court ruling may temporarily ease funding problems, but for many projects the long term outlook remains uncertain
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February 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
USAID is more than just famine relief…. vital crop research that benefits farmers in the US and around the world. www.science.org/content/arti...
Throwing out the baby with the bathwater? @uidaho.bsky.social
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Idaho committee advances bill to sever medical school ties
Idaho’s medical doctor training program is in jeopardy under a bill on its way to the House floor.
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February 15, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Throwing out the baby with the bathwater? @uidaho.bsky.social
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