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Maribel Navarro Mendoza
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Fungal Genetics. Biology. Mom. Star Wars. Food Tourist. Murciana.👩‍🔬🧬Assistant Professor at Universidad Miguel Hernández.
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@lucianomartelotto, not on Bluesky, on a new Spatial RNA imaging method, PRISM. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Now added to #SingleCell #Spatial #Method bit.ly/scmethodstable
High-plex spatial RNA imaging in one round with conventional microscopes using color-intensity barcodes - Nature Biotechnology
The 64-plex fluorescence imaging of RNA in tissues is achieved in one imaging cycle
www.nature.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Very excited to see the final version of our kingdom-scale fungal genome defense manuscript out in @plosbiology.org !

This work has been a major project of @tbadet.bsky.social during his time in our lab.

We hope to stimulate much more exciting work on fungal TEs.

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
October 16, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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We’re taking action to make housing more affordable — for more people, more quickly.

📢 Today, we’re launching a public consultation on our revised State aid rules to help Member States boost affordable housing.

ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Commission consults on revised State aid rules for better access to affordable housing
The European Commission has today launched a public consultation on the revision of the State aid rules to help Member States with affordable housing. This revision of the services of general economic
ec.europa.eu
October 3, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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🚨 Fungi + viruses + mammalian lungs? Buckle up! Our new paper in
@natmicrobiol.nature.com
uncovers the story of a deadly fungus and its gnarly viral hitchhiker — and how this duo may change how we diagnose & treat fungal disease 🍄🫁🚨 doi.org/10.1038/s415... ⬇️
Aspergillus fumigatus dsRNA virus promotes fungal fitness and pathogenicity in the mammalian host - Nature Microbiology
A mycovirus infecting the pathogenic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus enhances its stress tolerance and virulence in mice.
doi.org
August 14, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I'm thrilled to share that I've joined the Universidad Miguel Hernández in Spain as an Assistant Professor of Microbiology! Excited for this new chapter and the opportunities ahead.
June 4, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Our latest preprint is out describing amr.watch - a platform for monitoring AMR trends from global genomics data: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/6)
April 22, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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WHO reports on the critical lack of medicines and diagnostic tools for invasive fungal diseases.
#PublicHealth

www.who.int/news/item/01...
WHO issues its first-ever reports on tests and treatments for fungal infections
WHO's reports addressing the critical lack of medicines and diagnostic tools for invasive fungal diseases, shows urgent need for innovative research and development (R&D) to close the gaps. Fungal dis...
www.who.int
April 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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The organization's reports discuss the small number of newly approved treatments, the limited, late-stage antifungal pipeline, and challenges around diagnostics for this class of infections. #IDsky #Medsky
WHO Issues First Reports on Diagnostics, Therapies For Fungal Infections
The organization's reports discuss the small number of newly approved treatments, the limited, late-stage antifungal pipeline, and challenges around diagnostics for this class of infections.
www.contagionlive.com
April 1, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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born too late to get a two Western blot Nature paper, born too early to be a science TikTokker, born just in time to start a postdoc during a global pandemic and look for faculty positions during a historic hiring freeze
March 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Post-doc in fungal molecular cell biology. Seeking person with an understanding of gene expression and phenotypic analysis, who is interested in epigenetic regulation in fungi, to explore mechanisms of antifungal resistance in Zymoseptoria tritici and Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Email me! #ECFG17
March 4, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Such an exciting 3rd Symposium on the Basal Fungal Kingdom! a complete success! Intriguing discussions with this amazing community. Now #ECFG17!
March 2, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Excited to see everyone at the conference and at the Basal Fungal Kingdom Symposium!
There's just over one week until we kick off ECFG17 in Dublin! ⏰

The detailed programme is available to browse on our website, start planning your schedule now:

ecfg17.org/ecfg-17-2025...

Registration is still available, more information below:

ecfg17.org/registration/
February 23, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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I am thrilled to share our new review on holocentric chromosomes. It was a lot of fun to write it together with Ines Drinnenberg!
Same but different: Centromere regulations in holocentric insects and plants doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
February 21, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Delighted that the final version of our Candida parapsilosis outbreak +MLST creation manuscript is out now in The Lancet Microbe.
doi.org/10.1016/j.la...

Thread of the main findings below!
Redirecting
doi.org
November 16, 2024 at 11:11 AM
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And on the 7th day, the lord rested…

But the pathogens didn’t, so here are 7️⃣ IDSky starter packs

1 go.bsky.app/LnAQjdq
2 go.bsky.app/JNfSvQT
3 go.bsky.app/FeogT7o
4 go.bsky.app/D1zxj4E
5 go.bsky.app/NgGSPeF
6 go.bsky.app/22VBL8z
7 go.bsky.app/Bf7denw

Bonus:
TxID go.bsky.app/95rzmLi
a cartoon of a hand saying thanks god okilly dokilly
Alt: Ned Flanders from the Simpsons says “Thanks God”. A hand drops from above the cloud in an ok sign and says “okilly dokilly”
media.tenor.com
November 17, 2024 at 4:11 PM
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Small but mighty: targeted antifungal liposomes of a smaller size are superior in treating cryptococcal meningitis

Xiarong Li's lab developed amphotericin B packaged in liposomes coated with dectin

Smaller DectiSomes™️ ++ more effective in🐁 model of Cryptococcosis

journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
November 18, 2024 at 4:52 PM
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Cool story on fungal epimutaions!
November 15, 2024 at 5:37 AM
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It's great to be back in the light!💙🦋 In case you missed it while on the dark side, check out our latest preprint on the heritability of RNAi epimutations mediating drug resistance 🧬 biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... More details? ▶️🧵
RNAi epimutations conferring antifungal drug resistance are inheritable
Epimutations modify gene expression and lead to phenotypic variation while the encoding DNA sequence remains unchanged. Epimutations mediated by RNA interference (RNAi) and/or chromatin modifications ...
biorxiv.org
November 14, 2024 at 9:35 PM
Testing, testing, one two, one two... 👋
November 18, 2024 at 2:49 PM