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Congratulations Alessia Buscaino ene lab Christophe d'Enfert @ElisIrcane et al. on one of the coolest Candida albicans papers of the year! RNAi is found in most isolates, but not in the SC5314 lab strain. Now we need to learn how much biology have we missed...

How to pick a problem. Today in Cell. 1/53
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The 3 hardest things to learn as a scientist:
1. Trust the data, even when it’s not what you expected,
2. Trust the data, allowing it to change your direction,
3. Trust the data, but not too much: test with new data at every turn.

Well deserved!

Cool new study out today in JExpMed from The Jung Lab about commensal fungi protecting against #Candida infections. Insight by me here - link to full article in thread below rupress.org/jem/article/22…

Attention international postdocs:

Applications for the Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowship are now being accepted and are due by May 9!

The Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowship supports the best and brightest minds in their postdoctoral research in Israel,

What a treat to be hanging out with these two great leaders in fungal immunology!

Interested in setting up an interdisciplinary collaboration? It’s simple: the mathematician will only join if there will be new math, the biologist will only join if there will be new biology, the chemist will only join if there will be new chemistry, etc.

To get a productive discussion going don’t say what’s going well - talk about what’s bothering you and watch how people will try to help with cool ideas.

Congratulations on this important transition!

יאיר פארן, נינו של הרב עובדיה יוסף ז'ל חזר משירות מילואים ממושך.
יוצא בחריפות נגד דבריו של הרב הראשי יוסף:
'אין לזה ביסוס הלכתי, אפשר לשמור על אורח חיים דתי גם בצבא, אין בימינו יחוס של שבט לוי, כולם צריכים להתגייס ולתרום.'
סוף סוף קול שפוי.

It is not the dissertation, tenure or retirement, but finding a good collaborator which is truly the important event in your career.

Oded Rechavi One of my earliest lessons as a scientist was someone very senior telling me that ideas are both the most valuable thing in science and also entirely worthless. Valuable, because they are the basis of all research. Without your own ideas you aren't a scientist... 1/2

Candida parapsilosis lives on the skin and causes an increasing number of nosocomial outbreaks.

How does this pathogen move within and between hospitals? How can we quickly detect their spread?

A 🧵from our recent preprint.

Love this description of a mentor!

Graduate students: don’t fall for the myth of the genius. It’s all hard work in science, no matter how some people try to make it look easy.

To PIs. Your legacy won’t be your pubs or awards, people will forget those. Even many Nobel prize winners are forgotten eventually. Your legacy will be the people you trained. Mentor, support and treat them with respect, so they can continue to be good leaders to future trainees.

Amazing discovery alert🦠🍄

A #mycovirus regulates virulence of Aspergillus fumigatus in a🐁model of #aspergillosis

Af strains infected by the mycovirus (Af293) were more deadly, with virulence reversed by clearing the virus (VC) and re-instated with mycoviral re-infection (RI)