Mycology and Microbiology Center
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Mycology and Microbiology Center (MMC) connects researchers working at various research facilities in Estonia.
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Fungal phylum-level classification update now available! Used "innovative taxonomy" to describe >100 taxa, from species to phylum, based on long reads, characteristic nucleotides and env-samples.
mycokeys.pensoft.net/article/1616...
#fungi #taxonomy #PacBio #classification #eDNA
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#fungi #taxonomy #PacBio #classification #eDNA
October 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Fungal phylum-level classification update now available! Used "innovative taxonomy" to describe >100 taxa, from species to phylum, based on long reads, characteristic nucleotides and env-samples.
mycokeys.pensoft.net/article/1616...
#fungi #taxonomy #PacBio #classification #eDNA
mycokeys.pensoft.net/article/1616...
#fungi #taxonomy #PacBio #classification #eDNA
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📢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 11:55 AM
📢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.
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📣 New PhD student position opening in my lab!
Soils are full of microbes, but how many are active?
Surprisingly, we still lack reliable methods to answer this.
If you are interested in microbial dormancy and are fascinated by the Alps and glacier forefields, contact me.
🏔️ 🦠 💤 🧬 🎓
Soils are full of microbes, but how many are active?
Surprisingly, we still lack reliable methods to answer this.
If you are interested in microbial dormancy and are fascinated by the Alps and glacier forefields, contact me.
🏔️ 🦠 💤 🧬 🎓
October 13, 2025 at 12:20 PM
📣 New PhD student position opening in my lab!
Soils are full of microbes, but how many are active?
Surprisingly, we still lack reliable methods to answer this.
If you are interested in microbial dormancy and are fascinated by the Alps and glacier forefields, contact me.
🏔️ 🦠 💤 🧬 🎓
Soils are full of microbes, but how many are active?
Surprisingly, we still lack reliable methods to answer this.
If you are interested in microbial dormancy and are fascinated by the Alps and glacier forefields, contact me.
🏔️ 🦠 💤 🧬 🎓
🧬 New at Eukaryome: the Online Sequence Identification Tool is now live!
Submit sequences directly on the site and get instant taxonomic identification — no downloads needed.
Come find us at eukaryome.org
#eukaryome #bioinformatics #taxonomy
Submit sequences directly on the site and get instant taxonomic identification — no downloads needed.
Come find us at eukaryome.org
#eukaryome #bioinformatics #taxonomy
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October 14, 2025 at 11:46 AM
🧬 New at Eukaryome: the Online Sequence Identification Tool is now live!
Submit sequences directly on the site and get instant taxonomic identification — no downloads needed.
Come find us at eukaryome.org
#eukaryome #bioinformatics #taxonomy
Submit sequences directly on the site and get instant taxonomic identification — no downloads needed.
Come find us at eukaryome.org
#eukaryome #bioinformatics #taxonomy
Proud moment for MMC: a member presenting her work to the world 🌟🧬
Had the chance to talk about #environmentalDNA! I was on Kuku Raadio's show "Kuue samba taga" and shared how #eDNA samples are helping to solve nature's mysteries.
Listen here: kuku.pleier.ee/podcast/kuue...
#conservation #KukuRaadio #science
Listen here: kuku.pleier.ee/podcast/kuue...
#conservation #KukuRaadio #science
September 23, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Proud moment for MMC: a member presenting her work to the world 🌟🧬
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Who lives underground?
Find out now in our new paper published in @nature.com.
Key finding: 90% of predicted mycorrhizal biodiversity hotspots lie outside protected areas.
Read here: buff.ly/WmDqAP3 🧵
Find out now in our new paper published in @nature.com.
Key finding: 90% of predicted mycorrhizal biodiversity hotspots lie outside protected areas.
Read here: buff.ly/WmDqAP3 🧵
July 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Who lives underground?
Find out now in our new paper published in @nature.com.
Key finding: 90% of predicted mycorrhizal biodiversity hotspots lie outside protected areas.
Read here: buff.ly/WmDqAP3 🧵
Find out now in our new paper published in @nature.com.
Key finding: 90% of predicted mycorrhizal biodiversity hotspots lie outside protected areas.
Read here: buff.ly/WmDqAP3 🧵
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PhD Funded Position in Computational Microbial Biotechnology at CNB Madrid, Spain
Apply for a fully funded PhD position in computational microbial biotechnology at CNB Madrid. Join the AMBIZIONE project and contribute to cutting-edge research in synthetic microbial communities.
Apply for a fully funded PhD position in computational microbial biotechnology at CNB Madrid. Join the AMBIZIONE project and contribute to cutting-edge research in synthetic microbial communities.
PhD Funded Position in Computational Microbial Biotechnology at CNB Madrid, Spain
Apply for a fully funded PhD position in computational microbial biotechnology at CNB Madrid. Join the AMBIZIONE project and contribute to cutting-edge research in synthetic microbial communities.
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August 5, 2025 at 3:34 AM
PhD Funded Position in Computational Microbial Biotechnology at CNB Madrid, Spain
Apply for a fully funded PhD position in computational microbial biotechnology at CNB Madrid. Join the AMBIZIONE project and contribute to cutting-edge research in synthetic microbial communities.
Apply for a fully funded PhD position in computational microbial biotechnology at CNB Madrid. Join the AMBIZIONE project and contribute to cutting-edge research in synthetic microbial communities.
We’re thrilled to share that @tedersoo.bsky.social has secured an ERC Advanced Grant! 🎉 One of Europe’s top research honors—huge congratulations from all of us at Mycology and Microbiology Center! 🙌 #ERCGrant #AcademicExcellence
📣 Good news: 281 top researchers have just won ERC Advanced Grants!
The new funding, worth nearly €721 million, is part of the 🇪🇺 EU’s #HorizonEurope programme.
Find out more 👉 europa.eu/!JYKxkD
#ERCAdG #FrontierResearch @ec.europa.eu
The new funding, worth nearly €721 million, is part of the 🇪🇺 EU’s #HorizonEurope programme.
Find out more 👉 europa.eu/!JYKxkD
#ERCAdG #FrontierResearch @ec.europa.eu
June 18, 2025 at 11:19 AM
We’re thrilled to share that @tedersoo.bsky.social has secured an ERC Advanced Grant! 🎉 One of Europe’s top research honors—huge congratulations from all of us at Mycology and Microbiology Center! 🙌 #ERCGrant #AcademicExcellence
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Yesterday, we had the chance to present our proposal to the Estonian Environmental Board and Climate Ministry: 29 more fungal species for protection, in addition to the ~40 already listed. My favorite: Rigidoporus crocatus—locally common in wet alder forests, globally rare. Our responsibility!
June 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Yesterday, we had the chance to present our proposal to the Estonian Environmental Board and Climate Ministry: 29 more fungal species for protection, in addition to the ~40 already listed. My favorite: Rigidoporus crocatus—locally common in wet alder forests, globally rare. Our responsibility!
🍄🧫 You might spot us more easily now…
The Mycology & Microbiology Center has new T-shirts!
Whether it’s fungi in the forest or microbes in the lab, we’re all about the small things that matter. Keep an eye out! We will be in Helsinki next week for the #EcologyOfSoilMicroorganisms2025
The Mycology & Microbiology Center has new T-shirts!
Whether it’s fungi in the forest or microbes in the lab, we’re all about the small things that matter. Keep an eye out! We will be in Helsinki next week for the #EcologyOfSoilMicroorganisms2025
June 13, 2025 at 9:46 AM
🍄🧫 You might spot us more easily now…
The Mycology & Microbiology Center has new T-shirts!
Whether it’s fungi in the forest or microbes in the lab, we’re all about the small things that matter. Keep an eye out! We will be in Helsinki next week for the #EcologyOfSoilMicroorganisms2025
The Mycology & Microbiology Center has new T-shirts!
Whether it’s fungi in the forest or microbes in the lab, we’re all about the small things that matter. Keep an eye out! We will be in Helsinki next week for the #EcologyOfSoilMicroorganisms2025
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Paper out in Journal of Environmental Management: How we manage forests today shapes what is possible tomorrow. We show that thinning may undermine long-term goals for carbon and biodiversity in boreal spruce forests.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Balancing biodiversity, carbon, and profit with pathogen risk: Effects of felling age and thinning in spruce forests
Global forestry is balancing multiple societal needs, including carbon sequestration and biodiversity conservation, in addition to timber production. …
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June 5, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Paper out in Journal of Environmental Management: How we manage forests today shapes what is possible tomorrow. We show that thinning may undermine long-term goals for carbon and biodiversity in boreal spruce forests.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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PhD in Plant-Microbe Interaction – Fully Funded at University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
🌿 Position Summary: Join the University of Amsterdam (UvA) for a fully funded 4-year PhD exploring the molecular interaction between lettuce and the fungal pathogen Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. lactucae. You’ll…
🌿 Position Summary: Join the University of Amsterdam (UvA) for a fully funded 4-year PhD exploring the molecular interaction between lettuce and the fungal pathogen Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. lactucae. You’ll…
PhD in Plant-Microbe Interaction – Fully Funded at University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
🌿 Position Summary: Join the University of Amsterdam (UvA) for a fully funded 4-year PhD exploring the molecular interaction between lettuce and the fungal pathogen Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. lactucae. You’ll investigate effector gene function in host-pathogen systems, contributing to solutions for lettuce wilt disease—an urgent global agricultural challenge. This interdisciplinary project is part of a collaboration between UvA, Utrecht University, and industry partners.
agristok.net
May 27, 2025 at 9:51 AM
PhD in Plant-Microbe Interaction – Fully Funded at University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
🌿 Position Summary: Join the University of Amsterdam (UvA) for a fully funded 4-year PhD exploring the molecular interaction between lettuce and the fungal pathogen Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. lactucae. You’ll…
🌿 Position Summary: Join the University of Amsterdam (UvA) for a fully funded 4-year PhD exploring the molecular interaction between lettuce and the fungal pathogen Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. lactucae. You’ll…
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Postdoctoral Job in Plant-Microbiome Chemical Communication at University of Amsterdam
Join the University of Amsterdam as a postdoctoral researcher exploring chemical communication between plants and their microbiome. Work on groundbreaking eclepin research, plant resilience, and sustainable…
Join the University of Amsterdam as a postdoctoral researcher exploring chemical communication between plants and their microbiome. Work on groundbreaking eclepin research, plant resilience, and sustainable…
Postdoctoral Job in Plant-Microbiome Chemical Communication at University of Amsterdam
Join the University of Amsterdam as a postdoctoral researcher exploring chemical communication between plants and their microbiome. Work on groundbreaking eclepin research, plant resilience, and sustainable agriculture. Apply by June 8, 2025.
agristok.net
May 27, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Postdoctoral Job in Plant-Microbiome Chemical Communication at University of Amsterdam
Join the University of Amsterdam as a postdoctoral researcher exploring chemical communication between plants and their microbiome. Work on groundbreaking eclepin research, plant resilience, and sustainable…
Join the University of Amsterdam as a postdoctoral researcher exploring chemical communication between plants and their microbiome. Work on groundbreaking eclepin research, plant resilience, and sustainable…
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Most land plants team with mycorrhizal fungi to survive. This ancient partnership has helped both plants and fungi thrive over much of Earth.
Learn more on #EarthDay: scim.ag/4cMgplJ
Learn more on #EarthDay: scim.ag/4cMgplJ
April 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Most land plants team with mycorrhizal fungi to survive. This ancient partnership has helped both plants and fungi thrive over much of Earth.
Learn more on #EarthDay: scim.ag/4cMgplJ
Learn more on #EarthDay: scim.ag/4cMgplJ
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MarieCurie postdoc co-applications on offer in University of Tartu, Estonia:
Fungi in reforestation
AMF in agriculture
Global biogeography of fungi
Fungal Host/substrate specificity
Human pathogens in soil, sediment, compost
DNA-based taxonomy of fungi
UNITE/FungalTraits further development
Fungi in reforestation
AMF in agriculture
Global biogeography of fungi
Fungal Host/substrate specificity
Human pathogens in soil, sediment, compost
DNA-based taxonomy of fungi
UNITE/FungalTraits further development
April 15, 2025 at 8:44 AM
MarieCurie postdoc co-applications on offer in University of Tartu, Estonia:
Fungi in reforestation
AMF in agriculture
Global biogeography of fungi
Fungal Host/substrate specificity
Human pathogens in soil, sediment, compost
DNA-based taxonomy of fungi
UNITE/FungalTraits further development
Fungi in reforestation
AMF in agriculture
Global biogeography of fungi
Fungal Host/substrate specificity
Human pathogens in soil, sediment, compost
DNA-based taxonomy of fungi
UNITE/FungalTraits further development
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Join us for our Editor-in-Chief Symposium: Microbes as hidden or prominent players in plant life, hosted by Maarja Öpik!
🗺 Tartu, Estonia
📅 8–10 July 2025
💡 Abstract and travel grant deadline: 12 May
🔗 www.newphytologist.org/symposia/eic
#PlantScience
🗺 Tartu, Estonia
📅 8–10 July 2025
💡 Abstract and travel grant deadline: 12 May
🔗 www.newphytologist.org/symposia/eic
#PlantScience
April 9, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Join us for our Editor-in-Chief Symposium: Microbes as hidden or prominent players in plant life, hosted by Maarja Öpik!
🗺 Tartu, Estonia
📅 8–10 July 2025
💡 Abstract and travel grant deadline: 12 May
🔗 www.newphytologist.org/symposia/eic
#PlantScience
🗺 Tartu, Estonia
📅 8–10 July 2025
💡 Abstract and travel grant deadline: 12 May
🔗 www.newphytologist.org/symposia/eic
#PlantScience
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EUKARYOME new release now available eukaryome.org/download/ This time special on early diverging fungal lineages and nucleariids. Also EUK sequences with all metadata available. Will also be available via UNITE soon.
March 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM
EUKARYOME new release now available eukaryome.org/download/ This time special on early diverging fungal lineages and nucleariids. Also EUK sequences with all metadata available. Will also be available via UNITE soon.
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A postdoc position in Aarhus University now officially available for applications:
international.au.dk/about/profil...
international.au.dk/about/profil...
Postdoc in plant-microbe interactions and microbial ecology - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Agroecology - Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Aarhus University
international.au.dk
February 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
A postdoc position in Aarhus University now officially available for applications:
international.au.dk/about/profil...
international.au.dk/about/profil...
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New Junior Professor Chair (CPJ) in the Biological Station in Roscoff. "The position is focused on the ecological, evolutionary, and functional roles of marine fungi, crucial to understanding our oceans"
www.sb-roscoff.fr/fr/2025/02/2...
www.sb-roscoff.fr/fr/2025/02/2...
Open position Junior Professor Chair (CPJ)
Open position Junior Professor Chair (CPJ) 2025. CNRS EE-BIO
www.sb-roscoff.fr
February 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
New Junior Professor Chair (CPJ) in the Biological Station in Roscoff. "The position is focused on the ecological, evolutionary, and functional roles of marine fungi, crucial to understanding our oceans"
www.sb-roscoff.fr/fr/2025/02/2...
www.sb-roscoff.fr/fr/2025/02/2...
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Custom PhD positions in my team: High-quality motivated candidates are welcome to design their doctorate research topic for a project competition in the University of Tartu, Estonia. Keywords: bioinformatics, biodiversity, fungi, metagenomics, databases, mycorrhiza, DNA-based taxonomy, biogeography
January 30, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Custom PhD positions in my team: High-quality motivated candidates are welcome to design their doctorate research topic for a project competition in the University of Tartu, Estonia. Keywords: bioinformatics, biodiversity, fungi, metagenomics, databases, mycorrhiza, DNA-based taxonomy, biogeography
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While oil palms and pastures alter tropical stream microorganisms, riparian buffers offer a lifeline. 🚑💧 Saving biodiversity could depend on protecting these green corridors.
🔗 Read more: doi.org/10.1111/fwb....
#eDNA #FreshwaterBiology #conservation
🔗 Read more: doi.org/10.1111/fwb....
#eDNA #FreshwaterBiology #conservation
The Impact of Oil Palm Plantations and Pastures on Benthic Prokaryotic and Fungal Communities in Tropical Streams
The expansion of oil palm plantations and cattle grazing lands has a detrimental impact on freshwater ecosystems, causing ecological degradation and biodiversity loss in the tropics, although litt...
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February 3, 2025 at 10:09 AM
While oil palms and pastures alter tropical stream microorganisms, riparian buffers offer a lifeline. 🚑💧 Saving biodiversity could depend on protecting these green corridors.
🔗 Read more: doi.org/10.1111/fwb....
#eDNA #FreshwaterBiology #conservation
🔗 Read more: doi.org/10.1111/fwb....
#eDNA #FreshwaterBiology #conservation
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Memory card game developed by #FUNACTION members is now available to all!
Enjoy! 🍄💧
Share widely!
#aquaticfungi #conservation
Enjoy! 🍄💧
Share widely!
#aquaticfungi #conservation
Ready to level up your outreach by including #AquaticFungi? Ready to print, easy to use. Aquatic Fungi In Nature - Memory Game is fun and generates teachable moments to introduce these important fungi. @funaction.bsky.social Team 🇸🇪
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zenodo.org/records/1472...
January 29, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Memory card game developed by #FUNACTION members is now available to all!
Enjoy! 🍄💧
Share widely!
#aquaticfungi #conservation
Enjoy! 🍄💧
Share widely!
#aquaticfungi #conservation
Winter nature challenge. ❄️ Today, the view is a lot less winter wonderland-like ...
River Emajõgi in Tartu, Estonia on Monday, January 13th, 2025. Photo by J. Lees.
River Emajõgi in Tartu, Estonia on Monday, January 13th, 2025. Photo by J. Lees.
January 15, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Winter nature challenge. ❄️ Today, the view is a lot less winter wonderland-like ...
River Emajõgi in Tartu, Estonia on Monday, January 13th, 2025. Photo by J. Lees.
River Emajõgi in Tartu, Estonia on Monday, January 13th, 2025. Photo by J. Lees.
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❄️ Postdoc position in Arctic terrestrial ecology ❄️
If you're interested in Arctic plants, fieldwork and multi-site syntheses, please apply! You'd be replacing me and joining a lovely and dynamic team at University of Edinburgh. DM me with any questions!
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If you're interested in Arctic plants, fieldwork and multi-site syntheses, please apply! You'd be replacing me and joining a lovely and dynamic team at University of Edinburgh. DM me with any questions!
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Post-doctoral research associate: Arctic terrestrial ecology
We are looking for a PDRA to be part of the TundraTime project, studying the impact of climate change on vegetation and terrestrial ecosystem functioning in the Arctic tundra and impacts of Arctic veg...
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January 6, 2025 at 10:13 AM
❄️ Postdoc position in Arctic terrestrial ecology ❄️
If you're interested in Arctic plants, fieldwork and multi-site syntheses, please apply! You'd be replacing me and joining a lovely and dynamic team at University of Edinburgh. DM me with any questions!
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
If you're interested in Arctic plants, fieldwork and multi-site syntheses, please apply! You'd be replacing me and joining a lovely and dynamic team at University of Edinburgh. DM me with any questions!
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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RP PLS! Iʻm hiring 3 postdocs at U Hawaiʻi to study yeast diversity and evolution, marine fungi, and the genomics of microbiomes in experimental foodwebs. All of these projects have existing datasets and LATITUDE to pursue individual interests and "blue sky" ideas www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/5d7u4...
November 26, 2024 at 7:19 PM
RP PLS! Iʻm hiring 3 postdocs at U Hawaiʻi to study yeast diversity and evolution, marine fungi, and the genomics of microbiomes in experimental foodwebs. All of these projects have existing datasets and LATITUDE to pursue individual interests and "blue sky" ideas www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/5d7u4...