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Clement Tsui PhD 🇭🇰 🇨🇦 @clementsui.bsky.social · 2d

Identification of the putative gene encoding the RNA subunit of telomerase in Malassezia clade species through comparative genomic analysis url: academic.oup.com/g3journal/ar...

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Clement Tsui PhD 🇭🇰 🇨🇦 @clementsui.bsky.social · 4d

EASYstrata: an all-in-one workflow for genome annotation and genomic divergence analysis url: academic.oup.com/nargab/artic...

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Multidrug efflux pumps and innate azole resistance of Mucor lusitanicus

Clement Tsui PhD 🇭🇰 🇨🇦 @clementsui.bsky.social · 6d

Multidrug efflux pumps and innate azole resistance of Mucor lusitanicus url: academic.oup.com/jac/article/...

AbstractObjectives. This study aims to characterize the possible contribution of eight pleiotropic drug resistance (PDR) transporters to the azole resistan

Genetic and environmental control of parasexual reproduction in the pathogenic Candida species | Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

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Center for Advanced Microbiome Research & Innovation (CAMRI) @camri-igs.bsky.social · 10d

We're hiring a #postdoc with knowledge of the #microbiome, #microbiology, #bioinformatics, #computationalbiology to understand the role of the vaginal microbiome in women's health. #Baltimore #womenshealth

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Clement Tsui PhD 🇭🇰 🇨🇦 @clementsui.bsky.social · 10d

Genetic and environmental control of parasexual reproduction in the pathogenic #Candida species | Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews journals.asm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

SUMMARYCandida species are major yeast pathogens that cause both mucosal candidiasis and life-threatening invasive infections. Most Candida species, including Candida albicans, have long been thought ...

mGem: Submarine mycology—an analog to astromycology | mBio

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Clement Tsui PhD 🇭🇰 🇨🇦 @clementsui.bsky.social · 11d

sounds scary!
mGem: Submarine #mycology—an analog to astromycology | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Astromycology, the study of fungi in space environments, has emerged as a critical field for understanding both their risks and potential applications (1). Among the most pressing concerns is the prot...

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Clement Tsui PhD 🇭🇰 🇨🇦 @clementsui.bsky.social · 11d

Everyone losers 🥲

Dual transposon sequencing profiles the genetic interaction landscape in bacteria

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social · 17d

Are you a PhD student ready to publish a paper? Submit your research to our journal today & enter one of our new journal prizes, celebrating PhD student work in #Botany or #Biology !🧪🌍👇
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Di Jiang @dijiang319.bsky.social · 17d

This week @science.org Dual #transposon sequencing profiles the #genetic interaction landscape in #bacteria | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🦠🔬🧫🧬

Gene redundancy complicates systematic characterization of gene function as single-gene deletions may not produce discernible phenotypes. We report dual transposon sequencing (dual Tn-seq), a platform...

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Clement Tsui PhD 🇭🇰 🇨🇦 @clementsui.bsky.social · 19d

Acquired amphotericin B resistance attributed to a mutated ERG3 in Candidozyma auris | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....

Acquired amphotericin B resistance attributed to a mutated ERG3 in Candidozyma auris | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

In 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) designated Candidozyma auris (previously known as Candida auris) as an urgent antimicrobial threat, making it the first fungal pathogen to...

Dynamic airborne mycobiome in the metropolitan city transit system is driven by seasonality and station type | Microbiology Spectrum

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Clement Tsui PhD 🇭🇰 🇨🇦 @clementsui.bsky.social · 19d

Dynamic airborne mycobiome in the metropolitan city transit system is driven by seasonality and station type | Microbiology Spectrum journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Respiratory infections and allergic reactions caused by airborne fungi have received considerable public attention; however, fungal communities remain poorly investigated. This research performed the ...

Gut fungal profiles reveal phylosymbiosis and codiversification across humans and nonhuman primates

Clement Tsui PhD 🇭🇰 🇨🇦 @clementsui.bsky.social · 21d

Gut #fungal profiles reveal phylosymbiosis and codiversification across humans and nonhuman primates dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Fungi in the gut microbiome (the "mycobiome") are a neglected component of the human holobiont. This study of gut fungal profiles across natural populations of humans and non-human primates reveals si...

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Clement Tsui PhD 🇭🇰 🇨🇦 @clementsui.bsky.social · 21d

Complex Genomic Landscape of Inversion Polymorphism in Europe's Most Destructive Forest Pest url: academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

Clement Tsui PhD 🇭🇰 🇨🇦 @clementsui.bsky.social · 23d

wow, what a mess! Blessings

Fungal resistance in rice is restored by interfamily transfer of an evolutionarily lost co-receptor

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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 24d

How sequencing technology shapes our understanding of river water microbiomes and resistomes: a comparative study journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs

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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 26d

We have a new paper out in Molecular Ecology, led by @devinbendixsen.bsky.social ! Reproductive isolation due to divergent ecological selection is accompanied by vast genomic instability in experimentally evolved yeast populations onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Clement Tsui PhD 🇭🇰 🇨🇦 @clementsui.bsky.social · 25d

Fungal resistance in rice is restored by interfamily transfer of an evolutionarily lost co-receptor: Cell Host & Microbe www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Zhang et al. identify STOM, a previously unknown fungal MAMP, and its receptor-co-receptor pair, STOMR/STOMRh. The evolutionary loss of functional STOMRh in monocots restricts immune recognition, whil...

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