INVAM
@invam.bsky.social
The world's largest collection of arbuscular mycorrhizae fungi. Housed at the University of Kansas.
We provide research AMF, education, training, and industry support.
https://invam.ku.edu/
We provide research AMF, education, training, and industry support.
https://invam.ku.edu/
Thrilled to see the INVAM fungal collection—and our dedicated curators—featured in the Fall issue of @sierramagazine.bsky.social Preserving the world’s largest library of mycorrhizal fungi to power ecosystem restoration, science, and sustainable ag. 🦠🌱🌍
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Sierra Magazine Fall 2025: The Library of Spores
Behind the effort to grow mycorrhizal fungi for ecosystem restoration Photos by Arin Yoon Share This Article NESTLED AMID KANSAS’S rolling hills and …
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September 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Thrilled to see the INVAM fungal collection—and our dedicated curators—featured in the Fall issue of @sierramagazine.bsky.social Preserving the world’s largest library of mycorrhizal fungi to power ecosystem restoration, science, and sustainable ag. 🦠🌱🌍
🔗 digital.sierramagazine.org/publication/...
🔗 digital.sierramagazine.org/publication/...
Apply for a research grant to come visit us at INVAM!
If you're looking to visit (a) herbarium collection(s), or improve or maintain small collections of plants/fungi/algae, consider applying for an @iaptglobal.bsky.social Research Grant or Small Collections Grant! Applications for the 2026 round will open soon. www.iaptglobal.org/grants
September 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Apply for a research grant to come visit us at INVAM!
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If you're looking to visit (a) herbarium collection(s), or improve or maintain small collections of plants/fungi/algae, consider applying for an @iaptglobal.bsky.social Research Grant or Small Collections Grant! Applications for the 2026 round will open soon. www.iaptglobal.org/grants
September 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
If you're looking to visit (a) herbarium collection(s), or improve or maintain small collections of plants/fungi/algae, consider applying for an @iaptglobal.bsky.social Research Grant or Small Collections Grant! Applications for the 2026 round will open soon. www.iaptglobal.org/grants
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📣 Call for papers! Special issue of #FungalEcology on “Fungal conservation: from knowledge to actions” co-edited by Susana C. Gonçalves @cfemycolab.bsky.social & Jonathan Cazabonne @jonathancazabonne.bsky.social. Deadline for manuscripts: 31 Jan 2026. Find out more: www.linkedin.com/company/brit...
August 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
📣 Call for papers! Special issue of #FungalEcology on “Fungal conservation: from knowledge to actions” co-edited by Susana C. Gonçalves @cfemycolab.bsky.social & Jonathan Cazabonne @jonathancazabonne.bsky.social. Deadline for manuscripts: 31 Jan 2026. Find out more: www.linkedin.com/company/brit...
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Call for symposia at @ICOM2026 is open until 15 October.
The 13 conference of @mycorrhiza_ims #Mycorrhiza will take place in Cairns, Australia, 12-17 July 2026!
@southmycorrhiza @karst_justine @fmartin1954 @1pantunes #soil #fungi
icom2026.org/symposia/
The 13 conference of @mycorrhiza_ims #Mycorrhiza will take place in Cairns, Australia, 12-17 July 2026!
@southmycorrhiza @karst_justine @fmartin1954 @1pantunes #soil #fungi
icom2026.org/symposia/
August 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Call for symposia at @ICOM2026 is open until 15 October.
The 13 conference of @mycorrhiza_ims #Mycorrhiza will take place in Cairns, Australia, 12-17 July 2026!
@southmycorrhiza @karst_justine @fmartin1954 @1pantunes #soil #fungi
icom2026.org/symposia/
The 13 conference of @mycorrhiza_ims #Mycorrhiza will take place in Cairns, Australia, 12-17 July 2026!
@southmycorrhiza @karst_justine @fmartin1954 @1pantunes #soil #fungi
icom2026.org/symposia/
A landscape architect visited INVAM. We showed that while our compound scope + $$$$ camera setup takes stunning shots of fungi in roots, you can still get surprisingly good ones with a $300 box-store scope and a phone. Check out these roots—AM fungal structures stained dark blue, absolutely loaded!
August 14, 2025 at 1:10 AM
A landscape architect visited INVAM. We showed that while our compound scope + $$$$ camera setup takes stunning shots of fungi in roots, you can still get surprisingly good ones with a $300 box-store scope and a phone. Check out these roots—AM fungal structures stained dark blue, absolutely loaded!
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We are hiring a full time lab technician to assist with several long-term richness/biodiversity/microbe/drought/restoration manupulation experiments at the KU field station. Applications due this week! Please share.
Job Posting - Research Technician share.google/GsSTtiW4rIm5...
Job Posting - Research Technician share.google/GsSTtiW4rIm5...
July 31, 2025 at 6:52 PM
We are hiring a full time lab technician to assist with several long-term richness/biodiversity/microbe/drought/restoration manupulation experiments at the KU field station. Applications due this week! Please share.
Job Posting - Research Technician share.google/GsSTtiW4rIm5...
Job Posting - Research Technician share.google/GsSTtiW4rIm5...
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Access the full paper and data here! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
TraitAM, a global spore trait database for arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - TraitAM, a global spore trait database for arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
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May 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Access the full paper and data here! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The latest publication from our lab!
The famous "glomalin" from arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi is not a protein but a polysaccharide from AM fungi, so we renamed it "glomalose". Glomalin-related proteins are bacterial proteins stuck in this glomalose.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The famous "glomalin" from arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi is not a protein but a polysaccharide from AM fungi, so we renamed it "glomalose". Glomalin-related proteins are bacterial proteins stuck in this glomalose.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
June 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The latest publication from our lab!
The famous "glomalin" from arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi is not a protein but a polysaccharide from AM fungi, so we renamed it "glomalose". Glomalin-related proteins are bacterial proteins stuck in this glomalose.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The famous "glomalin" from arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi is not a protein but a polysaccharide from AM fungi, so we renamed it "glomalose". Glomalin-related proteins are bacterial proteins stuck in this glomalose.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
This podcast explores INVAM, the world's largest AM fungi collection housed at @universityofkansas.bsky.social, to uncover what makes #mycorrhizae great!
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New episode of Up From Dust!
Soil health is all the rage. It's also big $$$. But what if the products you're buying aren't worth the dough?
Come learn about a kind of microbe everyone wants in their soil -- and the billion-dollar industry that sells it. www.kcur.org/2025-04-01/t...
Soil health is all the rage. It's also big $$$. But what if the products you're buying aren't worth the dough?
Come learn about a kind of microbe everyone wants in their soil -- and the billion-dollar industry that sells it. www.kcur.org/2025-04-01/t...
April 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
This podcast explores INVAM, the world's largest AM fungi collection housed at @universityofkansas.bsky.social, to uncover what makes #mycorrhizae great!
🧪🦠🔬🍄🌏
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New episode of Up From Dust!
Soil health is all the rage. It's also big $$$. But what if the products you're buying aren't worth the dough?
Come learn about a kind of microbe everyone wants in their soil -- and the billion-dollar industry that sells it. www.kcur.org/2025-04-01/t...
Soil health is all the rage. It's also big $$$. But what if the products you're buying aren't worth the dough?
Come learn about a kind of microbe everyone wants in their soil -- and the billion-dollar industry that sells it. www.kcur.org/2025-04-01/t...
April 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
New episode of Up From Dust!
Soil health is all the rage. It's also big $$$. But what if the products you're buying aren't worth the dough?
Come learn about a kind of microbe everyone wants in their soil -- and the billion-dollar industry that sells it. www.kcur.org/2025-04-01/t...
Soil health is all the rage. It's also big $$$. But what if the products you're buying aren't worth the dough?
Come learn about a kind of microbe everyone wants in their soil -- and the billion-dollar industry that sells it. www.kcur.org/2025-04-01/t...
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Teaching the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi lab next week at @universityofkansas.bsky.social! I’ve prepped spores from ten different species to showcase the diversity in color, shape, and size. Fungal diversity is truly beautiful!
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Huge thanks to @invam.bsky.social for donating the materials!
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Huge thanks to @invam.bsky.social for donating the materials!
February 21, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Teaching the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi lab next week at @universityofkansas.bsky.social! I’ve prepped spores from ten different species to showcase the diversity in color, shape, and size. Fungal diversity is truly beautiful!
🍄🧪🦠🌏
Huge thanks to @invam.bsky.social for donating the materials!
🍄🧪🦠🌏
Huge thanks to @invam.bsky.social for donating the materials!
Teaching the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi lab next week at @universityofkansas.bsky.social! I’ve prepped spores from ten different species to showcase the diversity in color, shape, and size. Fungal diversity is truly beautiful!
🍄🧪🦠🌏
Huge thanks to @invam.bsky.social for donating the materials!
🍄🧪🦠🌏
Huge thanks to @invam.bsky.social for donating the materials!
February 22, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Check out our new paper using our database and pipeline to uncover novel diversity in AMF! As always, made possible by an amazing team effort ✨
dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
Uncovering Diversity within the Glomeromycota: Novel Clades, Family Distributions, and Land Use Sensitivity
Using a recently developed pipeline for phylogenetic placement of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) with samples across sites in Alaska, Kansas, and Brazil, we find evidence for three putative novel...
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January 9, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Check out our new paper using our database and pipeline to uncover novel diversity in AMF! As always, made possible by an amazing team effort ✨
dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
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Hey BlueSky! I made a starter pack for folks working on mycorrhizal symbioses. LMK who else to include! go.bsky.app/285P8Tn
February 1, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Hey BlueSky! I made a starter pack for folks working on mycorrhizal symbioses. LMK who else to include! go.bsky.app/285P8Tn
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I’ve merged both starter packs - here’s 71 microbial natural products researchers - want to be added? Let me know! go.bsky.app/72NeGsT #microsky #secmet #naturalproducts #specializedmetabolites
January 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I’ve merged both starter packs - here’s 71 microbial natural products researchers - want to be added? Let me know! go.bsky.app/72NeGsT #microsky #secmet #naturalproducts #specializedmetabolites
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How resilient are AMF cultures? Gi. decipiens SCT711C and Paraglomus sp. SCT771G stored for 8 years at 4C still kicking and alive. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year for you all folks!! Cheers
December 20, 2024 at 1:43 PM
How resilient are AMF cultures? Gi. decipiens SCT711C and Paraglomus sp. SCT771G stored for 8 years at 4C still kicking and alive. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year for you all folks!! Cheers
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Second day of the X Workshop on Taxonomy of Glomeromycota and we already discussed the spore development model, observed 10 spp. in Gigasporaceae, discussed methods to grow these fungi and visited facilities of CICG. We are ready to dive in Acaulosporaceae and Entrophosporaceae tomorrow!!
December 4, 2024 at 12:14 AM
Second day of the X Workshop on Taxonomy of Glomeromycota and we already discussed the spore development model, observed 10 spp. in Gigasporaceae, discussed methods to grow these fungi and visited facilities of CICG. We are ready to dive in Acaulosporaceae and Entrophosporaceae tomorrow!!
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Hello,
I think we need a starter pack on mycorrhizal ecology, don't you think?
I started on one, who did I miss...
go.bsky.app/bqwe5h
I think we need a starter pack on mycorrhizal ecology, don't you think?
I started on one, who did I miss...
go.bsky.app/bqwe5h
Mycorrhizal ecology
Join the conversation
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November 16, 2024 at 10:35 PM
Hello,
I think we need a starter pack on mycorrhizal ecology, don't you think?
I started on one, who did I miss...
go.bsky.app/bqwe5h
I think we need a starter pack on mycorrhizal ecology, don't you think?
I started on one, who did I miss...
go.bsky.app/bqwe5h
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🌾🌍🌱🍄🌿🌳🌺🧪Articles in latest newsletter #BUC2024 by students who competed in it. What is a Fungarium? Read about RBG Kew's Fungarium and work on taxonomy, identification and distribution of fungi. Download the whole article at botanicaluniversitychallenge.co.uk/the-thymes/
November 17, 2024 at 11:40 AM
🌾🌍🌱🍄🌿🌳🌺🧪Articles in latest newsletter #BUC2024 by students who competed in it. What is a Fungarium? Read about RBG Kew's Fungarium and work on taxonomy, identification and distribution of fungi. Download the whole article at botanicaluniversitychallenge.co.uk/the-thymes/
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Lab is all set and organized to receive students, technicians and researchers from Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina and Peru to attend the X Workshop on Taxonomy of Glomeromycota. Four days learning about AMF spore morphology, spore wall, germinal walls, and how to grow them. Excited!!
November 29, 2024 at 7:39 PM
Lab is all set and organized to receive students, technicians and researchers from Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina and Peru to attend the X Workshop on Taxonomy of Glomeromycota. Four days learning about AMF spore morphology, spore wall, germinal walls, and how to grow them. Excited!!
Rob Ramos and @CamilleDelavaux visited us to sequence some of the collection. INVAM curators Jim Bever, Terra Lubin, Peggy Schultz and @lizkoziol.bsky.social spent hundreds of hours isolating #AMF spores, and Rob & Camille worked really hard to make sure this project was a success! 🧪 🍄📷🔬
November 15, 2024 at 5:29 PM
Rob Ramos and @CamilleDelavaux visited us to sequence some of the collection. INVAM curators Jim Bever, Terra Lubin, Peggy Schultz and @lizkoziol.bsky.social spent hundreds of hours isolating #AMF spores, and Rob & Camille worked really hard to make sure this project was a success! 🧪 🍄📷🔬
November 14, 2024 at 1:39 PM
