Nick Read @NickReadMFIG
Cell biologist passionate about high quality live-cell imaging and experimental analysis of filamentous fungi. Also love people, music, reading and food. University of Manchester Joined June 2014-
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This is an excellent proposal: theguardian.com/business/2019/…
Something you won’t hear Boris, Farage and co shouting about: ➡️ foreign students who stay to work in the UK pay £3.2bn in taxes ➡️ non-British graduates do not take jobs from local residents. ...pls RT so everyone knows about it! #ChangePolitics theguardian.com/education/2019…
John is a mycological legend. I invited him to give the keynote address at the 9th International Mycological Congress in Edinburgh of which I was the main organizer. His talk was entitled “The poetry of mycological accomplishment and challenge". It was published in FBR.
John is a mycological legend. I invited him to give the keynote address at the 9th International Mycological Congress in Edinburgh of which I was the main organizer. His talk was entitled “The poetry of mycological accomplishment and challenge". It was published in FBR.
Schizophyllum commune has been a very important genetic model. I was particularly tuned into the fantastic experimental work on fungal developmental biology that Jos Wessels did with it in the late 1970's and 1980's.
I wonder whether mitochondria show similar movement along fungal hyphae?
I wonder whether mitochondria show similar movement along fungal hyphae?
Shame to have missed you all on the dance floor! Brings back memories
Rinna Richardson MFIG Manchester: Recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis affects 372 million women globally over their lifetime and has a strong host mucosal component.
This review is very relevant in relation to the extraordinary desiccation-resistance of many types of fungal spores
So well deserved. Well done Louise
Interesting thoughts of @ACasadevall1 on the "pathogenic potential" of microbes, realising that microbes form a continuum from non-pathogens to pathogens #FUNGAL19 msphere.asm.org/content/2/1/e0…
Why your immune system is key in the fight against cancer wired.co.uk/article/immune…
How do airway epithelia consume microbes and why? Everything you need to know. Congratulations to Margherita Bertuzzi and Gemma Hayes on an encyclopaedic effort. Microbial uptake by the respiratory epithelium: outcomes for host and pathogen academic.oup.com/femsre/advance…
absolute bonkers!
BBC News - Chalara dieback ash tree fungus spreading 'more quickly' bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-…
I really hope James gets an award for his journalism. Telling it like it is and recognising the mess we are in. #exitbrexit
If the NHS was seen as a science organisation it would be one of the biggest in the world, with 50,000 scientists in it — Simon Stevens, chief exec. NHS #LTF2030
A Deblais presents bounded assemblies of rod-like robots made motile through self-vibration. Wonderful model to understand the emergence of persistent motion. #APSmarch journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/1…
Characterization of a Novel Ourmia-Like Mycovirus Infecting Magnaporthe oryzae and Implications for Viral Diversity and Evolution. dlvr.it/R0RL1V

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