Huge thanks to all co-authors who contributed to this work — and especially to Giuseppe Ianiri, whose deep expertise in fungal genetics and generous collaboration were central to making this project a reality. Grateful to have worked together!

Malassezia is typically viewed as an opportunistic pathogen — but for the first time, we show evidence that it plays a mutualistic role in the skin.

"Ultimately, these changes lead to insufficient activation of a pathway controlled by the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR)"

not to be that smug guy on the Internet but this is why I keep yelling about AhR and Regulatory T cells and immune conditions

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