First paper of the year & first sole-author paper in Functional Ecology! I examined the relationship between infection intensity & function disruption using #chytrid & 🐸 as a model system | doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

The famed 'Golden Frog' (Atelopus zeteki), in-situ, El Valle, Panama. I got to visit the unreal resident amphibian community living there before amphibian chytrid fungus devastated it- emergent infectious disease sucks.

Please RT: We are looking for a motivated #postdoc to study #amphibian #microbiomes , #chytrid fungus and the microbial-immune interface. Come work with us at the Smithsonian with Brian Gratwicke and our collaborators Amy Ellison Leon Grayfer! 🐸🦠🍄 Apply by May 15th.

We’re betting on amphibians by helping to increase their odds as they face a global pandemic. Given that chytrid fungus (Bd) is widespread, our strategy is to help them cope with this new normal. Learn more in our #NewBlogPost : arcprotects.org/increasing-the…
📷: E. Grunwald #chytrid #🐸

🚨 New #OpenAccess paper in #Oecologia with
David Newell, Laura Grogan, Dr Laura A Brannelly, and #notontwitter Hamish McCallum. We did mark-recapture with juvenile Fleay's barred frogs and found that chytrid did not predict their mortality rates. 1/

link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Looking for ~fun~gus facts between episodes of #tlou ? I'll be talking about the sensory systems of #chytrid fungi next Wed (Feb 22) Abandoned Building Brewery. Come meet fungi with eyes, 'tails', & a certain je ne sais quoi!

Movie: Tracking chytrid spores as they swim, looking for a host.

Hi #SICB2024 , I'm recruiting graduate students interested in evolutionary bioenergetics. Check out my talk on chytrid fungus mitochondria Fri, 8:45 , rm 604.
Visit ryanjweaver.com to learn about projects ready for students to pickup on mitonculear evol and mito physiology

Roses are red
This frog's a bit blue
There's a chytrid pandemic
It's scary and true

Our health is connected
#Frogs , me & you
#WildlifeTrade spreads disease
What will the world do?

#ScienceTwitter #AcademicTwitter #ScienceValentines #OneHealth #ValentinesDay

New Note published TODAY in #DAO

Testing viability stains for chytrid fungus in the lab. Part of Adeline Chew masters thesis

int-res.com/abstracts/dao/…

Boreal #toads are a state-listed #Endangered species in CO & NM. They tend to be susceptible to infection by chytrid (pronounced kit-rid) fungus, & some of their populations have suffered high mortality. More about #chytrid & prevention:
arcprotects.org/increasing-the…
📷: C. Brown/USGS

Targeted genetic intervention to enhance disease resilience in frogs, #chytrid pathogens are hard to eradicate ⁦so is conservation breeding the answer? Dr Tiffany Kosch 👩‍🔬 🤿🐸🧬⁩ talks about her work ⁦IAE⁩ seminar series ⁦Centre for Conservation Ecology & Genomics⁩ ⁦Centre for Applied Water Science⁩ ⁦UC Faculty of Science and Technology⁩

Ranavirus, Rana Toro and Vicky Flechas &l (2023) made today's cover of a leading Colombian newspaper El Espectador 🤩

The American Bullfrog 🐸 is an invasive species in Colombia carrying #Ranavirus and #chytrid fungal pathogens ☠️

Scientific paper here: int-res.com/abstracts/dao/…

Our latest publication, led by Coby McDonald and Kelly Zamudio, demonstrates that both the timing of immune response and the particular immune pathways are specific to infection by enzootic or panzootic chytrid lineages. doi.org/10.1111/mec.16… História Natural de Anfíbios Brasileiros CIDD Penn State Biology

I am happy to share that our work on the establishment of a transient transformation system for the frog-killing chytrid fungus B. dendrobatidis (Bd) is now out in PNAS!
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
Big thanks to co-authors Stephanie Brody, Andrew Swafford , Edgar Medina, & Lillian Fritz-Laylin!

📢 New lab preprint from first author Erik Kalinka! Genetic transformation of the frog-killing chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our new paper is published in #pnas on the 2-speed genomes of #chytrid pathogens of amphibians (Bd and Bsal). Repetitive sequence inc. transposons appears to be shaping their genomes and driving their pathogenicity pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Theresa Wacker

🚨🚨🚨 Come see my talk on Wednesday!!

If you are going to #ESA2023 come hear my talk about skin peptides, chytrid fungi, and such an awesome frog specie.

Also, if you are in Portland and want to meet and talk about science over a coffee send me a DM...

I'm happy to be part of this new collaboration between Texas State University and ESPOL Paolo Piedrahita! Involving undergrad students and exploring the chytrid fungus in Prosperina Protected Forest in Guayaquil. Thank you for the support David Rodriguez, Department of Biology TXST and National Geographic Society

Unfortunately, thousands of amphibian species risk extinction today mainly due to chytrid fungus, habitat destruction, and pollution.

I'm excited to announce a how-to guide to Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of the chytrid fungus Spizellomyces punctatus!

Made possible in part by Moore Foundation. Available as a preprint on Microbiology Society and a complete protocol on protocols.io!

doi.org/10.1099/acmi.0…