Mark A. Anthony
@anthomycota.bsky.social
Ecologist into fungi, forests, and global change. Assistant professor at University of Vienna 🇦🇹 Also into 🏋️♂️🏃♂️🌈🏄🌋👾
www.fungalecologylab.com
www.fungalecologylab.com
Coming to the @egu.eu General Assembly in 2026? Consider submitting an abstract to our mycorrhizae session if you are working on these organisms and their linkages to ecosystem functioning. Last year, this new session was a huge hit, so let's make year two even better!
November 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Coming to the @egu.eu General Assembly in 2026? Consider submitting an abstract to our mycorrhizae session if you are working on these organisms and their linkages to ecosystem functioning. Last year, this new session was a huge hit, so let's make year two even better!
This week as part of the @pilzfestspiele.at - our group showed mycorrhizal fungal colonized roots, our culture collection, posters of results, and we had a massive turnout! People are becoming increasingly interested in fungi @cemess.bsky.social @ter-cemess.bsky.social
www.fungalecologylab.com
www.fungalecologylab.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
This week as part of the @pilzfestspiele.at - our group showed mycorrhizal fungal colonized roots, our culture collection, posters of results, and we had a massive turnout! People are becoming increasingly interested in fungi @cemess.bsky.social @ter-cemess.bsky.social
www.fungalecologylab.com
www.fungalecologylab.com
Oh yeah, I may have made www.fungalecologylab.com team hats
August 28, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Oh yeah, I may have made www.fungalecologylab.com team hats
What a week and almost 2 more to go sampling our Mycobiome x Climate Change exp (144/576 done)! We added isotopes to track 🍄 transfer, collected seedlings (so much 🍄🟫) and you can see the myco treatment effects! Grateful for such a great team in the lab! Thanks @snsf.ch and @wwtf.at for support!
August 28, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Off to CH 🇨🇭 to fix our climate change x mycobiome experiment after a surprise and massive snowfall in Valais clobbered a bunch of trees!
May 2, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Off to CH 🇨🇭 to fix our climate change x mycobiome experiment after a surprise and massive snowfall in Valais clobbered a bunch of trees!
#EGU2025 has been a bop! I’m having a great time, especially at the poster sessions! The Fungal Ecology Lab was well also represented today with @zhiyuanxu.bsky.social and Christos 🍄🌲💧
May 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
#EGU2025 has been a bop! I’m having a great time, especially at the poster sessions! The Fungal Ecology Lab was well also represented today with @zhiyuanxu.bsky.social and Christos 🍄🌲💧
Beautiful start to field work with Artin Zarsav in Lens, Switzerland to track our climate change and fungal manipulation experiments
March 15, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Beautiful start to field work with Artin Zarsav in Lens, Switzerland to track our climate change and fungal manipulation experiments
January, 2025: Starts with a bang with new experiments, analyses, and lots of nice group hangs! I cannot wait to see what the second year of #FEL (Fungal Ecology Lab) brings!
February 1, 2025 at 7:53 AM
January, 2025: Starts with a bang with new experiments, analyses, and lots of nice group hangs! I cannot wait to see what the second year of #FEL (Fungal Ecology Lab) brings!
December, 2024: We destructively sample our first controlled experiment in the lab!
February 1, 2025 at 7:53 AM
December, 2024: We destructively sample our first controlled experiment in the lab!
November: We finish installing our plant growth chambers!
February 1, 2025 at 7:53 AM
November: We finish installing our plant growth chambers!
November, 2024: Teaching Methods in Ecosystems and Biogeochemistry, here isolating MAOM and POM from forest soils.
February 1, 2025 at 7:53 AM
November, 2024: Teaching Methods in Ecosystems and Biogeochemistry, here isolating MAOM and POM from forest soils.
October 2024, we start getting quite good at fungal endophyte culturing
February 1, 2025 at 7:53 AM
October 2024, we start getting quite good at fungal endophyte culturing
Vienna Night run with fabulous colleagues @ter-cemess.bsky.social
February 1, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Vienna Night run with fabulous colleagues @ter-cemess.bsky.social
Two weeks of field work across Switzerland with @wslresearch.bsky.social sampling our climate change experiment! September, 2024.
February 1, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Two weeks of field work across Switzerland with @wslresearch.bsky.social sampling our climate change experiment! September, 2024.
June, 2024: I joined the Blenders (a grass roots, queer group) and we hosted a Pride Party for our Department (plus an amazing glitter beard, so come on!).
February 1, 2025 at 7:53 AM
June, 2024: I joined the Blenders (a grass roots, queer group) and we hosted a Pride Party for our Department (plus an amazing glitter beard, so come on!).
May, 2025 -- Vienna gets beautiful and the wine season can kick off.
February 1, 2025 at 7:53 AM
May, 2025 -- Vienna gets beautiful and the wine season can kick off.
Close scientific collaborator and friend Nadine Keller visits for the second time to employ molecular tools from our group to study fungi in dipterocarp forests! April, 2024.
February 1, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Close scientific collaborator and friend Nadine Keller visits for the second time to employ molecular tools from our group to study fungi in dipterocarp forests! April, 2024.
Artin and I repairing broken roofing from our global change installations back in Switzerland. March, 2024.
February 1, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Artin and I repairing broken roofing from our global change installations back in Switzerland. March, 2024.
January, 2024. The Vienna Science Ball. I immediately learned how fancy Vienna can be!
February 1, 2025 at 7:53 AM
January, 2024. The Vienna Science Ball. I immediately learned how fancy Vienna can be!
It's been one year since I started the Fungal Ecology Lab at the @univie.ac.at. This has been the most exciting and rewarding year of my life. I am so lucky to work with this team of talented scientists. Some highlights 🍄🌲✨
February 1, 2025 at 7:53 AM
It's been one year since I started the Fungal Ecology Lab at the @univie.ac.at. This has been the most exciting and rewarding year of my life. I am so lucky to work with this team of talented scientists. Some highlights 🍄🌲✨
10 full length ITS libraries pooled from 1500 DNA samples isolated across 50+ climate change experiments globally! Ready for sequencing 🧬
What a huge week and incredible lab effort with unstoppable PhD Artin Zarsav & the one and only gel master @tommansfield.bsky.social at @cemess.bsky.social 🍄🍄🟫
What a huge week and incredible lab effort with unstoppable PhD Artin Zarsav & the one and only gel master @tommansfield.bsky.social at @cemess.bsky.social 🍄🍄🟫
January 31, 2025 at 7:49 PM
10 full length ITS libraries pooled from 1500 DNA samples isolated across 50+ climate change experiments globally! Ready for sequencing 🧬
What a huge week and incredible lab effort with unstoppable PhD Artin Zarsav & the one and only gel master @tommansfield.bsky.social at @cemess.bsky.social 🍄🍄🟫
What a huge week and incredible lab effort with unstoppable PhD Artin Zarsav & the one and only gel master @tommansfield.bsky.social at @cemess.bsky.social 🍄🍄🟫
How does variation in ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity affect tree growth? What are the knowledge gaps to more fully answering this question?
See my review out today in Fungal Ecology: doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...
See my review out today in Fungal Ecology: doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...
January 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
How does variation in ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity affect tree growth? What are the knowledge gaps to more fully answering this question?
See my review out today in Fungal Ecology: doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...
See my review out today in Fungal Ecology: doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...
Fungal Ecology Lab @cemess.bsky.social pancake night!
We eat more than mushrooms 😊.
@tommansfield.bsky.social @zhiyuanxu.bsky.social
@giuliabubu.bsky.social plus many more not on BS!
We eat more than mushrooms 😊.
@tommansfield.bsky.social @zhiyuanxu.bsky.social
@giuliabubu.bsky.social plus many more not on BS!
January 23, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Fungal Ecology Lab @cemess.bsky.social pancake night!
We eat more than mushrooms 😊.
@tommansfield.bsky.social @zhiyuanxu.bsky.social
@giuliabubu.bsky.social plus many more not on BS!
We eat more than mushrooms 😊.
@tommansfield.bsky.social @zhiyuanxu.bsky.social
@giuliabubu.bsky.social plus many more not on BS!
Yesterday we sampled our Robinia pseudoacacia experiment where we observed big difference in plant growth depending on interactions with microbes from its native versus invasive range! Great nodule formation and amazing effort led by lab member, Yuanhao 🍄🟫🦠
November 26, 2024 at 6:42 AM
Yesterday we sampled our Robinia pseudoacacia experiment where we observed big difference in plant growth depending on interactions with microbes from its native versus invasive range! Great nodule formation and amazing effort led by lab member, Yuanhao 🍄🟫🦠
We finally finished installing all the modifications to our plant growth chambers! I am so grateful for a wonderful team able to culture and sequence microbes but also use powertools!
November 25, 2024 at 5:31 PM
We finally finished installing all the modifications to our plant growth chambers! I am so grateful for a wonderful team able to culture and sequence microbes but also use powertools!