Allison Walker 🇨🇦🌊🍄🔬🧬
@fungaldreamteam.bsky.social
Mycologist. Professor, Acadia University Department of Biology. Director, E.C. Smith Herbarium. Member, IUCN SSC Aquatic Fungi Specialist Group.
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1. You love aquatic fungi
2. You never heard about them but are curious
👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
I would love to connect with you! 🍄💧🤗
Find me next week during #livingdata2025.
Let's talk about #aquaticfungi #conservation.
@funaction.bsky.social @biodiversa.eu @iucnaquafungi.bsky.social @iucnfungi.bsky.social
2. You never heard about them but are curious
👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
I would love to connect with you! 🍄💧🤗
Find me next week during #livingdata2025.
Let's talk about #aquaticfungi #conservation.
@funaction.bsky.social @biodiversa.eu @iucnaquafungi.bsky.social @iucnfungi.bsky.social
📢Are you attending the Living Data 2025 next week?
@isabelrfernandes.bsky.social will present the preliminary results from #FUNACTION.
www.livingdata2025.com/program.html...
Find her during the week if you want to know more about our project and activities to conserve #aquaticfungi.
@isabelrfernandes.bsky.social will present the preliminary results from #FUNACTION.
www.livingdata2025.com/program.html...
Find her during the week if you want to know more about our project and activities to conserve #aquaticfungi.
October 15, 2025 at 12:14 PM
1. You love aquatic fungi
2. You never heard about them but are curious
👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
I would love to connect with you! 🍄💧🤗
Find me next week during #livingdata2025.
Let's talk about #aquaticfungi #conservation.
@funaction.bsky.social @biodiversa.eu @iucnaquafungi.bsky.social @iucnfungi.bsky.social
2. You never heard about them but are curious
👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
I would love to connect with you! 🍄💧🤗
Find me next week during #livingdata2025.
Let's talk about #aquaticfungi #conservation.
@funaction.bsky.social @biodiversa.eu @iucnaquafungi.bsky.social @iucnfungi.bsky.social
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Are you a field mycologist, fungal biology researcher, or mycology student? Join our webinar on 11 December to hear how publishing with BMS journals can support both your career & the global mycology community. 👉 Book now: www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/mycology_pub...
#mycology #research #publishing
#mycology #research #publishing
October 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Are you a field mycologist, fungal biology researcher, or mycology student? Join our webinar on 11 December to hear how publishing with BMS journals can support both your career & the global mycology community. 👉 Book now: www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/mycology_pub...
#mycology #research #publishing
#mycology #research #publishing
🍄Working in fungal conservation? Call for papers for our upcoming special issue in Fungal Ecology 'Fungal conservation: from knowledge to actions' ! Deadline 31 January 2026 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Fungal Ecology | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier - Fungal Ecology | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
Read the latest articles of Fungal Ecology at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
www.sciencedirect.com
September 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
🍄Working in fungal conservation? Call for papers for our upcoming special issue in Fungal Ecology 'Fungal conservation: from knowledge to actions' ! Deadline 31 January 2026 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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Canada Post released this set of 5 #fungi #stamps last week. I'm so pleased to have had the opportunity to illustrate them!
Design by Joce Creative.
More stamp images: www.emilydamstra.com/canada-post-...
#fungifriends #postagestamps #stampcollecting #philately #fungiart #mushrooms #lichens #SciArt
Design by Joce Creative.
More stamp images: www.emilydamstra.com/canada-post-...
#fungifriends #postagestamps #stampcollecting #philately #fungiart #mushrooms #lichens #SciArt
September 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Canada Post released this set of 5 #fungi #stamps last week. I'm so pleased to have had the opportunity to illustrate them!
Design by Joce Creative.
More stamp images: www.emilydamstra.com/canada-post-...
#fungifriends #postagestamps #stampcollecting #philately #fungiart #mushrooms #lichens #SciArt
Design by Joce Creative.
More stamp images: www.emilydamstra.com/canada-post-...
#fungifriends #postagestamps #stampcollecting #philately #fungiart #mushrooms #lichens #SciArt
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Can you believe #CFN25 is just one week away? Keep an eye on your emails for updates from us!
Speakers and Moderators — please double-check the times and locations for your sessions. Registration is open—don't miss our lineup of plenary speakers! Sponsored by @biologists.bsky.social
Speakers and Moderators — please double-check the times and locations for your sessions. Registration is open—don't miss our lineup of plenary speakers! Sponsored by @biologists.bsky.social
July 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Can you believe #CFN25 is just one week away? Keep an eye on your emails for updates from us!
Speakers and Moderators — please double-check the times and locations for your sessions. Registration is open—don't miss our lineup of plenary speakers! Sponsored by @biologists.bsky.social
Speakers and Moderators — please double-check the times and locations for your sessions. Registration is open—don't miss our lineup of plenary speakers! Sponsored by @biologists.bsky.social
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Thrilled to share that I'll be starting my lab @uofguelph.bsky.social this September!
I'll be joining the Department of Food Science and I'm so excited to study yeast diversity in this context!
I'll be joining the Department of Food Science and I'm so excited to study yeast diversity in this context!
June 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Thrilled to share that I'll be starting my lab @uofguelph.bsky.social this September!
I'll be joining the Department of Food Science and I'm so excited to study yeast diversity in this context!
I'll be joining the Department of Food Science and I'm so excited to study yeast diversity in this context!
Join us tonight for this public lecture, if you are in St. John's, Newfoundland!🍄
www.mun.ca/research/eve...
www.mun.ca/research/eve...
Research Spotlight - Weresub Lecture with Yolanda Wiersma: Nothing Rotten! Finding inspiration in fungi | Office of the Vice-President (Research)
www.mun.ca
June 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Join us tonight for this public lecture, if you are in St. John's, Newfoundland!🍄
www.mun.ca/research/eve...
www.mun.ca/research/eve...
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“Distribution of haploid chromosomes into separate nuclei in two pathogenic fungi”🍄🧬 a plot twist in the story of multinucleate filamentous fungi! Really cool and bizarre new work from the lab of Xin Li! @science.ubc.ca @ubcbotany.bsky.social @science.org
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
www.science.org
May 31, 2025 at 1:46 PM
“Distribution of haploid chromosomes into separate nuclei in two pathogenic fungi”🍄🧬 a plot twist in the story of multinucleate filamentous fungi! Really cool and bizarre new work from the lab of Xin Li! @science.ubc.ca @ubcbotany.bsky.social @science.org
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
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Check out this amazing special issue. The editorial from Joe Heitman nicely sets the scene and there are some spectacular reviews from many mycologists. I am glad to have been part of this, including in the 'MyShroom' section! #Fungi
Our newest special issue is now live! Check it out to discover more about diverse and beautiful Fungi🍄🍄🟫🍄 On the cover: the fly agaric, Amanita muscaria, releasing its spores in the early morning light. www.cell.com/current-biol...
June 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Check out this amazing special issue. The editorial from Joe Heitman nicely sets the scene and there are some spectacular reviews from many mycologists. I am glad to have been part of this, including in the 'MyShroom' section! #Fungi
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No plans for #BiodiversityDay?
Join us to celebrate aquatic fungi diversity in this free webinar with talks on marine arenicolus fungi, freshwater lichens, fungi as bioindicators, & driftwood fungi. 💧🍄
🗓️ 22 May, 2pm UTC
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/aquaticfungi...
#AquaticFungi
Join us to celebrate aquatic fungi diversity in this free webinar with talks on marine arenicolus fungi, freshwater lichens, fungi as bioindicators, & driftwood fungi. 💧🍄
🗓️ 22 May, 2pm UTC
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/aquaticfungi...
#AquaticFungi
May 16, 2025 at 10:53 AM
No plans for #BiodiversityDay?
Join us to celebrate aquatic fungi diversity in this free webinar with talks on marine arenicolus fungi, freshwater lichens, fungi as bioindicators, & driftwood fungi. 💧🍄
🗓️ 22 May, 2pm UTC
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/aquaticfungi...
#AquaticFungi
Join us to celebrate aquatic fungi diversity in this free webinar with talks on marine arenicolus fungi, freshwater lichens, fungi as bioindicators, & driftwood fungi. 💧🍄
🗓️ 22 May, 2pm UTC
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/aquaticfungi...
#AquaticFungi
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Two weeks left for abstract submission and early bird registration for CanFunNet: canfunnet.conferences.uwo.ca/registration
This virtual conference will be held Aug 6-8, 2025, register now if you plan to present!
This virtual conference will be held Aug 6-8, 2025, register now if you plan to present!
Registration for CanFunNet25 is Now Open! | 5th Annual CanFunNet Fungal Biology Conference
This year, we are excited to go west for the first time with CanFunNet for a virtual meeting hosted by the University of Alberta in Edmonton. Continuing in the footsteps of previous meetings, our prog...
canfunnet.conferences.uwo.ca
May 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Two weeks left for abstract submission and early bird registration for CanFunNet: canfunnet.conferences.uwo.ca/registration
This virtual conference will be held Aug 6-8, 2025, register now if you plan to present!
This virtual conference will be held Aug 6-8, 2025, register now if you plan to present!
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Our theme is "From Local to Global" join us as we explore themes related to:
- Fungal Plant Pathology
- Medical Mycology
- Fungal Genetics and Genomics
- Fungal Ecology and Evolution
- Big Data in Fungal Biology
- Fungal Symbioses
and more!
- Fungal Plant Pathology
- Medical Mycology
- Fungal Genetics and Genomics
- Fungal Ecology and Evolution
- Big Data in Fungal Biology
- Fungal Symbioses
and more!
May 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Our theme is "From Local to Global" join us as we explore themes related to:
- Fungal Plant Pathology
- Medical Mycology
- Fungal Genetics and Genomics
- Fungal Ecology and Evolution
- Big Data in Fungal Biology
- Fungal Symbioses
and more!
- Fungal Plant Pathology
- Medical Mycology
- Fungal Genetics and Genomics
- Fungal Ecology and Evolution
- Big Data in Fungal Biology
- Fungal Symbioses
and more!
Reposted by Allison Walker 🇨🇦🌊🍄🔬🧬
Our theme this year is "From local to global" and we can't wait to learn about a the amazing fungal research being done across Canada and beyond.
We also want to hear about the impacts of your research whether those inform local decisions or have global relevance.
We also want to hear about the impacts of your research whether those inform local decisions or have global relevance.
May 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Our theme this year is "From local to global" and we can't wait to learn about a the amazing fungal research being done across Canada and beyond.
We also want to hear about the impacts of your research whether those inform local decisions or have global relevance.
We also want to hear about the impacts of your research whether those inform local decisions or have global relevance.
Hot off the press, a new paper by Jake, @tremblay-ecology.bsky.social and co-authors! journal.afonet.org/vol96/iss2/a... 'Insights from a decade of using the Motus network to track boreal bird species from Observatoire d’oiseaux de Tadoussac, Québec to temperate and tropical wintering grounds'
Journal of Field Ornithology: Insights from a decade of using the Motus network to track boreal bird species from Observatoire d’oiseaux de Tadoussac, Québec to temperate and tropical wintering ground...
Migration is the least-studied phase of the life cycle for many bird species, despite its importance to the full understanding of their life history traits and conservation. Between 2014 and 2023, we ...
journal.afonet.org
April 17, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Hot off the press, a new paper by Jake, @tremblay-ecology.bsky.social and co-authors! journal.afonet.org/vol96/iss2/a... 'Insights from a decade of using the Motus network to track boreal bird species from Observatoire d’oiseaux de Tadoussac, Québec to temperate and tropical wintering grounds'
Student award alert ! Are you a student working with fungi in 🇨🇦 who published a paper in 2024? The annual Luella K. Weresub Memorial Award recognizes the best student paper in fungal biology, & honours Dr. Luella K. Weresub, a well-known Canadian mycologist. Apply by Mar 31, '25. Value: $1k
March 28, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Student award alert ! Are you a student working with fungi in 🇨🇦 who published a paper in 2024? The annual Luella K. Weresub Memorial Award recognizes the best student paper in fungal biology, & honours Dr. Luella K. Weresub, a well-known Canadian mycologist. Apply by Mar 31, '25. Value: $1k
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Way to go Jake, Trevor Avery, Danielle Quinn & co-authors! new research hot off the press from Acadia U esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
An accurate and efficient semiautomated approach to counting birds: Estimating Northern Gannet colony size in Canada
Improving the efficiency of population monitoring and conservation programs is beneficial, so long as the accuracy of the information collected is not diminished. The need to expeditiously estimate t....
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Way to go Jake, Trevor Avery, Danielle Quinn & co-authors! new research hot off the press from Acadia U esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Allison Walker 🇨🇦🌊🍄🔬🧬
An #AquaticFungi valentine!
The perfect ascospores for today 🖤
The perfect ascospores for today 🖤
February 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
An #AquaticFungi valentine!
The perfect ascospores for today 🖤
The perfect ascospores for today 🖤
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How does a 🍄 genome change in evolutionary transition to life on another 🍄 ?
Congrats @ccgallen.bsky.social on first results on this strange Sporothrix we started studying during the pandemic. TLDR: +-1/3 of genome lost in switch to life in matrix of another fungus, but intriguing CAZymes gained
Congrats @ccgallen.bsky.social on first results on this strange Sporothrix we started studying during the pandemic. TLDR: +-1/3 of genome lost in switch to life in matrix of another fungus, but intriguing CAZymes gained
GXM-based gels make Cryptococcus deadly to humans and jelly fungi wobbly. But how is GXM broken down? We set out to find an organism that makes a living in GXM, and found one. 1/5
Excited to share this paper out now in
@genomebiolevol.bsky.social w/ @spribille.bsky.social
🔗 bit.ly/4aGwSqk
Excited to share this paper out now in
@genomebiolevol.bsky.social w/ @spribille.bsky.social
🔗 bit.ly/4aGwSqk
Massive gene loss in the fungus Sporothrix epigloea accompanied a shift to life in a glucuronoxylomannan-based gel matrix
Abstract. Fungi are well known for their ability to both produce and catabolize complex carbohydrates to acquire carbon, often in the most extreme of envir
bit.ly
January 31, 2025 at 7:50 AM
How does a 🍄 genome change in evolutionary transition to life on another 🍄 ?
Congrats @ccgallen.bsky.social on first results on this strange Sporothrix we started studying during the pandemic. TLDR: +-1/3 of genome lost in switch to life in matrix of another fungus, but intriguing CAZymes gained
Congrats @ccgallen.bsky.social on first results on this strange Sporothrix we started studying during the pandemic. TLDR: +-1/3 of genome lost in switch to life in matrix of another fungus, but intriguing CAZymes gained
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Rural communities in Québec are embracing ‘mushroom tourism’ to boost local economies
Rural communities in Québec are embracing ‘mushroom tourism’ to boost local economies
Mycotourism (mushroom tourism) merges nature, culinary experiences and rural traditions. Quebec’s growth in this niche is notable, yet it remains relatively unknown.
theconversation.com
January 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Rural communities in Québec are embracing ‘mushroom tourism’ to boost local economies
Come join us at the best small Biology Department in Canada www2.acadiau.ca/files/files/... 🍁 Tenure track Assistant Professor, Biopharma and Animal Physiology
www2.acadiau.ca
January 6, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Come join us at the best small Biology Department in Canada www2.acadiau.ca/files/files/... 🍁 Tenure track Assistant Professor, Biopharma and Animal Physiology
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Happy New Year 🎉 - CanFunNet 🍁🍄 virtual meeting is back for 2025!
Mark your calendars 📆 Aug 6-8 and keep an eye out for abstract submission announcements!
Mark your calendars 📆 Aug 6-8 and keep an eye out for abstract submission announcements!
January 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Happy New Year 🎉 - CanFunNet 🍁🍄 virtual meeting is back for 2025!
Mark your calendars 📆 Aug 6-8 and keep an eye out for abstract submission announcements!
Mark your calendars 📆 Aug 6-8 and keep an eye out for abstract submission announcements!