One of our student offices is ready with desks and chairs. There are some unoccupied seats, but not for long... The lab has open positions for 1 postdoc and 2 fully funded PhD students!

Postdoc: jobs.bc.cas.cz/en/detail/266
PhD: jobs.bc.cas.cz/en/detail/271

#hiring #newPI #LFEE #TeamLaboul

We are inviting applications for a postdoctoral researcher to support the Laboratory of Fungal Ecology and Evolution, and join our project studying obligatory multitrophic interactions. jobs.bc.cas.cz/en/detail/266 #LFEE #LuminaQuaeruntur #postdoc #hiring

But what is that slug doing over there?🐌🍄🤔

Always a good time to promote our paper on #mycophagy (= consumption of fungi by other orgamisms) in invertebrates, a massive global review by former #TeamLaboul member Brianna Santamaria. doi.org/10.3390/jof9...

Everything starts small: the first slide of what will become the lab's permanent slide collection at the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Entomology. This likely is a #newspecies of bat fly-associated Arthrorhynchus from Papua New Guinea! 🪰🍄🇵🇬 #LFEE

Our workshop on #citizenscience started today, supported by a #VisegradFund grant! First off, @michieldegroot.bsky.social is talking about next-level citizen science on Hesperomyces harmoniae, a microfungus parasitizing the invasive Harmonia axyridis, and our #Beetlehangers database.

Since today, our Laboratory of Fungal Ecology and Evolution has a logo, thanks to our postdoc @thereremouse.bsky.social, and microscopes! #LFEE

Our PhD student Aneira Williams participated in the first #FunDive Barcoding Campaign in Warsaw. Together with 17 other participants, she extracted DNA from 216 fungal specimens and prepared 192 samples for Nanopore sequencing! Quite an exciting first week of the PhD! @jzpawlowska.bsky.social

#TeamLaboul is expanded with a number of bachelor students for a few weeks, working on their thesis research. From left to right: Warre, Danny, Daphne, Michiel, Felix, and our bachelor students Emile, Tine, and Iebe 💪🏼🍄🐞

Postdoc Morgan Hughes gave a departmental seminar today about her PhD and previous postdoc research on #bats, and the work we will be undertaking at the #BiologyCentre on extinction risks of multitrophic systems. Well done today, @thereremouse.bsky.social! #TeamLaboul #LFEE

We work with bats, bloodsucking flies, ladybirds—and they're all part of our logo, designed by Riccardo Borges. #TeamLaboul

First lab picture! From left to right: Thomas E. Martin, Warre Van Caenegem, Danny Haelewaters (PI), Matthias Weiss, Morgan Hughes, Libelje Mortier, and Daniela Hlávková ❤️🍄

All these bat flies were removed from one individual long-fingered bat (Myotis capaccinii)! Landing in our nets must be like a spa day... #parasitism #ectoparasites #batflies #bats #chiroptera

This is what we are all about. This is our jam. Welcome to our niche little wheelhouse. #parasites #parasitology #batflies #nycteribiidae #laboylbeniales #microfungi #chiroptera #bats

Our illustrious leader, Danny Haelewaters PhD was awarded a fellowship grant at the CAS in Prague on 25th October, making it official: our lab is opening on Jan 1st!