Conference Dr Nora A. Foroud

by | Mar 21, 2023 | Activities

Fusarium graminearum is a fungal pathogen involved in Fusarium head blight (FHB) disease of wheat and related cereals. The Fusarium genera (phylum Ascomycota) is comprised over 100 species and while not all are pathogens, it is said that all plant species are...

Conference Dr Tobias Bollenbach

by | Jan 18, 2023 | Activities

Antibiotic resistance is an increasingly serious public health concern. At the same time, this phenomenon provides a rare opportunity to observe evolution in real time in the laboratory. Among the most challenging open questions in this field is how resistance...

Conference Dr Teresa O’Meara

by | Jan 17, 2023 | Activities

Teresa O’Meara started her lab at the University of Michigan in August, 2019, and her lab is focused on understanding the biology of the human fungal pathogens Candida auris, Candida albicans, and Cryptococcus neoformans. Teresa went to the University of Chicago...

Conference Dr Sarah Jane Gurr

by | Nov 16, 2022 | Activities

Of the various challenges to food security, the threat of fungal (and oomycete) infection of our calorie and commodity crops outstrips that posed by bacterial and viral diseases combined (Fisher et al., 2012 Nature; Fones et al., 2020 Nature Food). We face a future...

Conference Dr Myron Smith

by | Oct 12, 2022 | Activities

Genetic characterization has allowed us to approximate the physical characteristics of fungal individuals. Even so, our concepts of ‘the individual’ are challenged by indeterminant organisms such as fungi. An understanding of the fungal ‘sense of self’ requires a...