Jason Slot
@fungolution
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Fungal Evolution Professor at Ohio State. Opinions my own. Ideas are judged by how competitive they are in an open ecosystem. Refuse to infantilize my audience.
Columbus, OH
Joined July 2011
Bombshell: Oliver Sacks (a humane man & a fine essayist) made up many of the details in his famous case studies, deluding neuroscientists, psychologists, & general readers for decades. The man who mistook his wife for a hat? The autistic twins who generated multi-digit prime
newyorker.com
The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality.
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Microbial inoculants and invasions: a call to action: Trends in Microbiology https://t.co/eVOPg9xwl9
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Dark septate endophytes (DSE) are present in the roots of about 80% of terrestrial plant species. Yet they are largely unknown despite their outsized benefits, particularly in marginal agricultural soils. In soil conditions typical of tropical and subtropical agriculture - pH
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Bark beetle–fungi symbioses reshape nutrient dynamics, fungal decomposer succession, and decay rates in ponderosa pine https://t.co/VY9O8lxIW4
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Bark beetles introduce fungi into trees, shaping both beetle fitness and tree physiology. However, the impact of these symbioses on fungal endophytes, the succession of fungal communities, and...
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Phylogenetic Tree Instability After Taxon Addition: Empirical Frequency, Predictability, and Consequences For Online Inference https://t.co/2xQuxVX7c3
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Abstract. Online phylogenetic inference methods add sequentially arriving sequences to an inferred phylogeny without the need to recompute the entire tree
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A fossil fungus discovered in Scotland shows evidence of plants and fungi sharing nutrients to survive. The fossil, more than 400 million years old, offers hints about the origin of one of the greatest partnerships in the history of life on Earth. https://t.co/rJGS3iGvf8
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War crazed former Bush and Trump official Marshall Billingslea says the ultimate target of a US regime change assault on Venezuela is the entire Latin American left, from Cuba to Brazil to Mexico to Nicaragua Drugs is just the cover for control, like WMD
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📢📢 📢 MMI Published Research | Casadevall Lab A recent study published in @ISME_microbes @ISMEComms finds that some fungi may adapt to higher temperatures in urban areas Read more about the study here ⬇️ https://t.co/Ofkix15Hin Link to study here ⬇️ https://t.co/UbAJOPjpMp
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New paper is online! We used single cell RNA-seq & phylogenetics to identify 2 additional cell type specific TFs that control late-stage vinca alkaloid biosynthesis. The key insights originated from Camptotheca, another species that produce alkaloids. https://t.co/u3MbislpgJ
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This could help increase biodiversity by selecting for nocturnal subspecies of plant pests.
Engineering autonomously #luminescent #plants using fungal #bioluminescence pathway A #ResearchReview by Yu et al. 👇 📖 https://t.co/nAYUXtG9un
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@Grokipedia @Wikipedia 2. COVID-19 Lab Leak Theory I reported on this topic for nearly two years. It's one I not only find extremely important, but have gained an insider into by speaking with experts in science, government, and policy. Scientists differ on the question of whether COVID originated in
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As 3D objects grow, their volume outpaces their surface area (the 2/3 scaling law). Do complex animals follow this simple geometric rule? Pointing to evolutionary constraints, like metabolism or heat exchange, shaping all life. #Biology #Evolution
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Despite their wide variety of sizes, niches and shapes, sharks scale geometrically, pointing to possible fundamental constraints on evolution.
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Neither dead nor alive? Newly discovered ultra-reduced genome, retains only its replicative core. Forms a new branch on the tree of life blurring lines between minimal cellular life and viruses. https://t.co/hdr6eKnwBR
#Microbiology #Archaea #Genomics #Symbiosis #Biology
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Defining the minimal genetic requirements for cellular life remains a fundamental question in biology. Genomic exploration continually reveals novel microbial lineages, often exhibiting extreme...
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Just published! Explore how AI, ML, and multiple 'omics approaches are driving new discoveries in plant pathology in the new Phytopathology Focus Issue, “From Chaos to Clarity: Deriving Meaningful Biology from Big Data in Plant Pathology." 👉 https://t.co/8T1qoS6Ew4
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People with greater purpose in life have mitochondria optimized for energy transformation in their brain.
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What looked like a hearing organ on a tiny stinkbug’s leg turned out to be something far stranger: a fungal nursery that mother bugs use to coat their newly laid eggs in protective symbiotic hyphae, shielding their offspring from parasitic wasps, researchers report in Science.
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New paper just out on the #fungi attacking the historic USS Cairo, a steam-powered ironclad American Civil War ship and now a national treasure on display at the Vicksburg National Military Park in Mississippi https://t.co/Y32JnguH6n
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Latest from the lab: we’ve found that arbitrium phages can cross-communicate across species. Their molecular “language” isn’t as private as we thought. The original idea came from @AlbertoMarina14. As always, he was right. https://t.co/57t55dymdV
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Arbitrium is a communication system that helps bacteriophages decide between lysis and lysogeny via secreted peptides. In arbitrium, the AimP peptide binds its cognate AimR receptor to repress aimX...
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Optimism is associated with a longer life. Stay positive.
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