Neil Gow
@neil-gow.bsky.social
Medical mycologist, science, nature and the great outdoors. Fine malts and hill lochs. Editor of: The Cell Surface, and sectional editor of Molecular Microbiology.
Bunch of autumn flowers.
November 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Bunch of autumn flowers.
SWBio DTP PhD (Univ Exeter): Will global warming speed up antifungal resistance? Work with Prof Gabriel Yvon-Durocher, Prof Neil Gow & team. Experimental evolution, multi-omics & modelling on medical/crop pathogens. Apply: bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo... #PhD #AMR #ClimateChange #Mycology
November 5, 2025 at 11:40 AM
SWBio DTP PhD (Univ Exeter): Will global warming speed up antifungal resistance? Work with Prof Gabriel Yvon-Durocher, Prof Neil Gow & team. Experimental evolution, multi-omics & modelling on medical/crop pathogens. Apply: bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo... #PhD #AMR #ClimateChange #Mycology
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Tell 'em Tom
"November has tied me
To an old dead tree
Get word to April
To rescue me
November's cold chain
Made of wet boots and rain
And shiny black ravens
On chimney smoke lanes
November seems odd
You're my firing squad
November"
"November has tied me
To an old dead tree
Get word to April
To rescue me
November's cold chain
Made of wet boots and rain
And shiny black ravens
On chimney smoke lanes
November seems odd
You're my firing squad
November"
November 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Tell 'em Tom
"November has tied me
To an old dead tree
Get word to April
To rescue me
November's cold chain
Made of wet boots and rain
And shiny black ravens
On chimney smoke lanes
November seems odd
You're my firing squad
November"
"November has tied me
To an old dead tree
Get word to April
To rescue me
November's cold chain
Made of wet boots and rain
And shiny black ravens
On chimney smoke lanes
November seems odd
You're my firing squad
November"
Great day in FAILSAFE co-sponsored symposium on fungal AMR in Bangkok. @mrccmm.bsky.social @efisg @escmid.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social @youngisham.bsky.social @msgerc.bsky.social @gw4amr.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Great day in FAILSAFE co-sponsored symposium on fungal AMR in Bangkok. @mrccmm.bsky.social @efisg @escmid.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social @youngisham.bsky.social @msgerc.bsky.social @gw4amr.bsky.social
New review on the major new insights offered by solid state NMR on fungal cell wall organisation led by Tuo Wang. @mrccmm.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.tc... @cellsurfacebio.bsky.social @youngisham.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @msgerc.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.tc... @cellsurfacebio.bsky.social @youngisham.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @msgerc.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
New review on the major new insights offered by solid state NMR on fungal cell wall organisation led by Tuo Wang. @mrccmm.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.tc... @cellsurfacebio.bsky.social @youngisham.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @msgerc.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.tc... @cellsurfacebio.bsky.social @youngisham.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @msgerc.bsky.social
FAILSAFE funding tackling fungal AMR globally in action at our symposium in Bangkok. Great to meet the team non virtually at last. @mrccmm.bsky.social @gw4amr.bsky.social @antimicrobial.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 9:32 AM
FAILSAFE funding tackling fungal AMR globally in action at our symposium in Bangkok. Great to meet the team non virtually at last. @mrccmm.bsky.social @gw4amr.bsky.social @antimicrobial.bsky.social
Ready for an exciting few days in Bangkok talking about fungal AMR at a FAILSAFE special symposium of the Thailand Biotechnology Society. @gw4amr.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Ready for an exciting few days in Bangkok talking about fungal AMR at a FAILSAFE special symposium of the Thailand Biotechnology Society. @gw4amr.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social
Encouraging to find a packed audience at the Sidmouth Science Festival to hear about how good and bad fungi shape the world. @mrccmm.bsky.social. Also thanks to Ian Leaves for mycohelp. @britmycolsoc.org.uk @bsmm-meeting.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social @youngisham.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Encouraging to find a packed audience at the Sidmouth Science Festival to hear about how good and bad fungi shape the world. @mrccmm.bsky.social. Also thanks to Ian Leaves for mycohelp. @britmycolsoc.org.uk @bsmm-meeting.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social @youngisham.bsky.social
Happy U.K. Fungus Day. This was drawn using the ink from a shaggy ink cap growing in my own garden.
October 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Happy U.K. Fungus Day. This was drawn using the ink from a shaggy ink cap growing in my own garden.
Many congratulations to Connie Lass-Florl as the very worthy 2025 recipient of the TIMM E. Drouhet lecture. Fantastic overview of the puzzles brought byAspergillus terreus infections. @youngecmm.bsky.social @ecmmcandidaiv.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Many congratulations to Connie Lass-Florl as the very worthy 2025 recipient of the TIMM E. Drouhet lecture. Fantastic overview of the puzzles brought byAspergillus terreus infections. @youngecmm.bsky.social @ecmmcandidaiv.bsky.social
A true hero in our field - Hatim Sati - giving an overview of the impact and advocacy of WHO on awareness of fungal infections. Watch out for the new Blueprint document on actionable interventions in November. @youngecmm.bsky.social @ecmmcandidaiv.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social @who.int
September 19, 2025 at 11:54 AM
A true hero in our field - Hatim Sati - giving an overview of the impact and advocacy of WHO on awareness of fungal infections. Watch out for the new Blueprint document on actionable interventions in November. @youngecmm.bsky.social @ecmmcandidaiv.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social @who.int
Great to be up and running at TIMM12 in Bilbao. @youngecmm.bsky.social @ecmmcandidaiv.bsky.social - a feast of medical mycology being basic and clinical mycology. @mrccmm.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @youngisham.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Great to be up and running at TIMM12 in Bilbao. @youngecmm.bsky.social @ecmmcandidaiv.bsky.social - a feast of medical mycology being basic and clinical mycology. @mrccmm.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @youngisham.bsky.social
What better place for our lab lunch that the fabulous Forest Fungi restaurant in Dawlish Warren, Devon England.
September 18, 2025 at 5:10 AM
What better place for our lab lunch that the fabulous Forest Fungi restaurant in Dawlish Warren, Devon England.
🌡️ Fungi in a warming world: join our PhD on Candida auris evolution – thermal tolerance, immunity & antifungal resistance. Based at Exeter & Bristol, GW4 BioMed2 MRC DTP : www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... #InfectiousDiseases #PhD #GW4 #Exeter #Bristol #MedicalMycology #AMR #ClimateChange
September 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM
🌡️ Fungi in a warming world: join our PhD on Candida auris evolution – thermal tolerance, immunity & antifungal resistance. Based at Exeter & Bristol, GW4 BioMed2 MRC DTP : www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... #InfectiousDiseases #PhD #GW4 #Exeter #Bristol #MedicalMycology #AMR #ClimateChange
New work from the Prasad lab showing that Candida auris can become amphotericin resistant either by multiple, sterol dependent and sterol independent mechanisms. dx.doi.org/10.1111/mmi..... @mrccmm.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @bsmm-meeting.bsky.social
August 7, 2025 at 7:56 AM
New work from the Prasad lab showing that Candida auris can become amphotericin resistant either by multiple, sterol dependent and sterol independent mechanisms. dx.doi.org/10.1111/mmi..... @mrccmm.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @bsmm-meeting.bsky.social
Wang lab shows that in response to echinocandins C. albicans thickens its wall while C.auris stiffens the wall via regulating B1,6 glucan and strengthening B1,6 - Mannan interactions. ; www.nature.com/articles/s41... @youngecmm.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social
July 10, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Wang lab shows that in response to echinocandins C. albicans thickens its wall while C.auris stiffens the wall via regulating B1,6 glucan and strengthening B1,6 - Mannan interactions. ; www.nature.com/articles/s41... @youngecmm.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social
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Absolutely thrilled to have been awarded an MRC Programme Grant to study the role of fungi in eczema together with @neil-gow.bsky.social, Helen Alexander and Carsten Flohr (both King's College London). 2 postdoc positions availble at jobs.exeter.ac.uk (Job References Q05626 and Q05627)
June 23, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Absolutely thrilled to have been awarded an MRC Programme Grant to study the role of fungi in eczema together with @neil-gow.bsky.social, Helen Alexander and Carsten Flohr (both King's College London). 2 postdoc positions availble at jobs.exeter.ac.uk (Job References Q05626 and Q05627)
We're thrilled to have been awarded a £3.3M grant by the Medical Research Council to study the treatment and potential cure for eczema. This 5-year res. programme brings together experts from the MRC Centre for Medical Mycology in Exeter and St John’s Institute of Dermatology at KCL. @exeter.ac.uk
June 23, 2025 at 10:16 AM
We're thrilled to have been awarded a £3.3M grant by the Medical Research Council to study the treatment and potential cure for eczema. This 5-year res. programme brings together experts from the MRC Centre for Medical Mycology in Exeter and St John’s Institute of Dermatology at KCL. @exeter.ac.uk
A must-read synthesis by Joe Heitman about how we see the world through the fungal lens. Fungal Kingdom: A Rosetta Stone for Biological Discovery. Highly recommended. @mrccmm.bsky.social
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June 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
A must-read synthesis by Joe Heitman about how we see the world through the fungal lens. Fungal Kingdom: A Rosetta Stone for Biological Discovery. Highly recommended. @mrccmm.bsky.social
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Check this latest analysis showing how Beta-glucan shaving of the wall can disguise Candida from immune detection. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2423864122).
June 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Check this latest analysis showing how Beta-glucan shaving of the wall can disguise Candida from immune detection. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2423864122).
A new immune receptor for recognition of fungal chitosan. doi.org/10.1016/j.tc.... @mrccmm.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @youngecmm.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @bsmm-meeting.bsky.social @lsiexeter.bsky.social
June 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
A new immune receptor for recognition of fungal chitosan. doi.org/10.1016/j.tc.... @mrccmm.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @youngecmm.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @bsmm-meeting.bsky.social @lsiexeter.bsky.social
Please repost: We have a postdoc position in Antifungal Immunity Research available to study T cell responses and fungal sensitization in atopic dermatitis. @lableibundgut.bsky.social @neil-gow.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social
For more details, visit: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
For more details, visit: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
June 3, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Please repost: We have a postdoc position in Antifungal Immunity Research available to study T cell responses and fungal sensitization in atopic dermatitis. @lableibundgut.bsky.social @neil-gow.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social
For more details, visit: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
For more details, visit: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
Please repost: We have a postdoc position in Fungal Cell Wall Research available to study the Malassezia-host interaction interface in the context of atopic dermatitis. @lableibundgut.bsky.social @neil-gow.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social
For more details, visit: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
For more details, visit: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
June 3, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Please repost: We have a postdoc position in Fungal Cell Wall Research available to study the Malassezia-host interaction interface in the context of atopic dermatitis. @lableibundgut.bsky.social @neil-gow.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social
For more details, visit: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
For more details, visit: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
Reposted by Neil Gow
The LeibundGut-lab at the @mrccmm.bsky.social, in collaboration with @neil-gow.bsky.social, recruits two postdocs to study the skin commensal yeast Malassezia in atopic dermatitis #fungalrecognition and #fungalimmunology jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr... jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
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May 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
The LeibundGut-lab at the @mrccmm.bsky.social, in collaboration with @neil-gow.bsky.social, recruits two postdocs to study the skin commensal yeast Malassezia in atopic dermatitis #fungalrecognition and #fungalimmunology jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr... jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...