Monika Fischer
@MonikaSFischer
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It’s happening! ScienceTwitter is finally becoming ScienceSky! Come join us on BlueSky. Here’s a handy list of BlueSky “starter packs” designed to help you find your people over there. #scicomm #mycofam @MSAFungi @MSAStudents docs.google.com/document/d/1p2…
Anyone have (recent) experience shipping soils, genetically modified organisms, and/or living biological samples (i.e. 🍄) from the USA 🇺🇸 > 🇨🇦Canada??? I’d love to chat with you! 😁
Read about pyrophilous fungi and interviews featuring me @amelia_rnelson @MonikaSFischer @LauraBogar et al
Fungi may be our best friends in helping the earth recover from a devastating wildfire. bit.ly/3UUlMXh
SO much fungal diversity at UBC right now! Twas lovely to share with this great group - thanks for organizing @BGSA_UBC !! We’ll do it again soon!
Fun Friday PM #mycowalk on @ubc campus with @MonikaSFischer @UBCForestry @UBCBotany. Lots of cool mushrooms, so much diversity right here on campus including #amanita 🍄 #ganoderma #laccaria #puffballs and so many more!!!
Heartbreaking news. Serious question: how do we get more sustainable funding for precious resources like this? cbc.ca/amp/1.7360805
My 3rd PhD chapter with @wilkinslab is now out in @ISMEComms! We use an 11 year wildfire burn scar chronosequence in CO/WY to discern whether different microbial life history strategies help taxa thrive/survive in burned soils 🦠🔥 academic.oup.com/ismecommun/art…
New work out of Steve Free's lab characterizes the biosynthetic pathway to synthesize galactosaminogalactan, which acts as an adhesive, in Neurospora. Loss of any pathway gene causes a loss of polysaccharides. Great job, Steve and team! mdpi.com/2076-2607/12/8…
New paper in Nature Communications - Drivers and Impacts of the Record-Breaking 2023 Wildfire Season in Canada. The 2023 wildfire season in Canada was unprecedented in its scale and intensity. rdcu.be/dRs0B
Check out our new paper in @Geoderma_Jrnl! This is my first first-authorship and sets the stage for the use of pile burns as a proxy for high severity wildfires in soil microbiome research, potentially filling in temporal gaps in the lit 🔥 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
"UBC Forestry has an incredible research community representing a broad diversity of approaches and perspectives."🍄🔥 Meet @MonikaSFischer, the newest #UBCForestry and @UBCBotany Assistant Professor👋 💡 Get to know her in our latest In The Spotlight: bit.ly/3WruK0k
The Hill-Maini lab website is live @bioe_stanford @Stanford. We are hiring for multiple postdocs who are excited about synbio/food/sustainability in filamentous fungi and building an inclusive and lab culture that fosters creativity! Spread the word!!! hillmainilab.com
📣🍄 Love fungi? Be our voice! We are hiring a Communications Director! Spread the word! fundis.org/about/jobs
Our lab is recruiting a lab manager / technician! Please consider applying or help circulate. Applications due July 10. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/lab-manag…
So excited for Vayu to fully realize his fungal biology / culinary technology dreams!!! This lab is gonna be one to watch for sure! 👀 …congrats!!! 🍻
Excited to share I will be joining @Stanford @bioe_stanford this fall as an asst. prof! My group will harness fungi for food and sustainability applications. We’ll soon be recruiting on all fronts - stay tuned !! Grateful to @BalskusLab @Keasling_Lab @UCB_MillerInst for support!
Thrilled to announce that I will be joining @UBCBotany and @ubcforestry as an Assistant Professor very soon! Stay tuned for updates from the Fischer Fire Fungi Lab, opening this fall in beautiful, fungiful, Vancouver, BC! 🔥🍄🔥
My friend and collaborator Manuel is looking for PhD students to join his new lab in Mexico!! If you're interested in fungal genomics, this is a great opportunity. Please retweet! #Fungi #Genomics #Obesity #CRISPR
Does anyone have a multi-mode plate reader that they love?! Looking for something that will read absorbance, fluorescence, and luminescence, with bonus points for intuitive software and an overall design that will last for decades.
!!! PhD chapter #2 is now out in @ISMEJournal! This study uses a unique multidecadal chronosequence of burn piles to address whether the soil microbiome is resilient during a burning-induced aboveground ecosystem shift (1/3) academic.oup.com/ismej/article/…
The people have asked for a color-blind scheme, better labelling, and access to data. The people shall receive what they want (except for appropriate salaries) Link to data: github.com/mongiardino/as…
If you ever wondered how much universities pay assistant professors, and how that compares to the local cost of living, wonder no more..
A new paper explores leveraging #citizenscience for #fungalconservation, addressing challenges, offering solutions, and proposing a decision framework for project suitability. doi.org/10.1111/conl.1… Photo: M. Decoussemaeker @ConLetters @dhaelewa @jonathan_czb @cfe_mycolab