Microbial ecology; community interactions; fungus-growing ants; natural product discovery; phylogenomics. Assoc. Prof. @UConn. Maintains @Symbiosispapers.
Joined May 2013
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27 Dec 2024
New lab pub by @katiee_kyle - does your ITS2 data have all the taxa it should? "Untrimmed ITS2 metabarcode sequences cause artificially reduced abundances of specific fungal taxa" in Applied and Environmental Microbiology journals.asm.org/doi/full/10…
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28 Aug 2023
I had a blast chatting with @FoodiePharma and @BalunasLab last week about our newest research on ants, their fungal gardens, and their pathogens. Check out the podcast at podbean.com/ew/pb-8nkg8-148e…
28 Aug 2023
New #podcast episode!!🐜🍄
I speak with @BalunasLab & @KlassenLab about the fascinating ways ants cultivate fungal gardens!
Available anywhere you listen to podcasts!
🎧Direct link: podbean.com/ew/pb-8nkg8-148e…
#fungi #ants #pharmacognosy #chemistry #Science
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28 Aug 2023
New #podcast episode!!🐜🍄
I speak with @BalunasLab & @KlassenLab about the fascinating ways ants cultivate fungal gardens!
Available anywhere you listen to podcasts!
🎧Direct link: podbean.com/ew/pb-8nkg8-148e…
#fungi #ants #pharmacognosy #chemistry #Science
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24 Aug 2023
My new commentary in @PNASNews about @Kaltenpoth_Lab 's paper showing how beewolf wasps protect their symbionts from host chemical defenses. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23… Original paper: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23…
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Ants that farm fungus to eat must weed out pathogenic fungi that contaminate their food supply. A study shows that a class of metabolites called peptaibols produced by the unwanted fungus Trichoderma induces an ant-weeding response. In PNAS: ow.ly/5Sa450OUOAm
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21 Jun 2023
Ants sniff out diseased fungus in their underground gardens. today.uconn.edu/2023/06/rese… Pretty nifty @KlassenLab @PNASNews
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21 Jun 2023
Congratulations to all authors on this incredibly interesting 🐜study out now in @PNASNews that includes work from members of the @KlassenLab & @BalunasLab! COR²E is proud to have supported this research via sequencing in @UConnMars and mass spectrometry in @UConnProteomics. 👏
Did you know ants are avid gardeners? In a new @PNASNews report, UConn environmental microbiologist and collaborators explain how these tiny creatures have refined their weeding skills to distinguish the good garden fungus from the bad. today.uconn.edu/2023/06/rese…
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16 Jun 2023
New paper in @PNAS from @BalunasLab, @KlassenLab and team details how Trachymyrmex septentrionalis ants promote #fungus garden hygiene using Trichoderma-derived metabolite cues: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.22…
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Did you know ants are avid gardeners? In a new @PNASNews report, UConn environmental microbiologist and collaborators explain how these tiny creatures have refined their weeding skills to distinguish the good garden fungus from the bad. today.uconn.edu/2023/06/rese…
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21 Jun 2023
Very happy to announce our latest paper, a collaboration with @BalunasLab @Pdorrestein1 @OberliesGroup. We describe how ants sense pathogens to keep their food fungus healthy. See for more:
today.uconn.edu/2023/06/rese… pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.22…
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31 May 2023
Are you an early career scientist interested in #microbiomes? Apply for an NSF-funded #AgMicrobiomes travel award for the Agricultural Microbiomes Thinkathon hosted by #APSPlantHealth on Aug 12 in Denver, CO! Applications due Fri June 9. Apply here: tinyurl.com/agmicrobiomes202…
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30 Nov 2022
Observation made while writing letters of recommendation to various universities: if your department should have used an Oxford comma in its name but did not, I have noticed.
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30 Nov 2022
(and not just because it's left a grammarly suggestion on my otherwise clean document) #TidyAndNeat
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30 Nov 2022
Shout out to @UConn for launching a new resource for student parents. A group that often gets overlooked. studentparents.uconn.edu/
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24 Nov 2022
My sick kids scuttled our turkey with friends plan (they are almost healthy now after 1 week) but I'm thankful at least for a day off that I can use to putter on home projects. May you find some rest, whatever form it takes.
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MCB Hiring: Lab Assistant
The Molecular and Cell Biology Department is seeking to fill a 12-month Laboratory Assistant position. The successful candidate will provide support for undergraduate teaching laboratories in the Department.
Visit jobs.hr.uconn.edu/cw/en-us/j… for details
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14 Nov 2022
Fantastic efforts by co-first authors @katiee_kyle and Sara Puckett, @BalunasLab, @KlassenLab, @amcaraballor, @ernst_Madeleine, & co-authors! 😎 So fascinating creatures this #ants 🐜, and their ecosystem with a #fungus #garden! #computational #metabolomics #genomics #metabolites
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13 Nov 2022
Trachymyrmex septentrionalis ants promote fungus garden hygiene using Trichoderma-derived metabolite cues biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #bioRxiv
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14 Nov 2022
New lab paper led by @katiee_kyle w/ @BalunasLab @Pdorrestein1 Oberlies labs - ant weeding to protect their symbiotic fungus garden is cued by specific pathogen metabolites biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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14 Nov 2022
Many others involved, esp. co-first author Sara Puckett from @BalunasLab, @amcaraballor from @Pdorrestein1 lab, many others.
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