Johannesson Lab

News from our research group at Stockholm University. We study evolution of fungi: in the lab, in the field and by the computer. Tweets are from lab members!

[Johannesson Lab @JohannessonLab]

Yesterday, our team ran the Blodomloppet in Stockholm, to help draw attention to the importance of blood donation. We all ran 5 or 10 kilometers, we all made it to the finish, and got to recharge with a picnic! #blodomloppet

[Johannesson Lab @JohannessonLab]

Great Noah! Go for it!

[Noah Hensen (they/them) @NoahHensen]

Also, I just saw two really cute dogs. Just thought y'all should know.

[Mario Vallejo-Marin @nicrodemo]

Looking for a 2-year postdoc in Scandinavia? Join Martin Lascoux's group @PlantEcoEvo_UU to study polyploid genomics in re-synthesised Capsella. Application due in last than 1 month! https://t.co/cQyPNkA1kx

[Tanja Slotte @tanjaslotte]

Interested in evolutionary genomics/population genomics and plant genetics? Want to do your PhD in beautiful Stockholm? We have two 4-year PhD student positions available in my group at Stockholm University. More info, see https://t.co/PBKPku4RGU Please RT #ecrchat #PhD 1/4

[Johannesson Lab @JohannessonLab]

One more piece of work from Lore’s PhD-thesis is published! Here, she presents chromosome-level assemblies of the remaining species of the Podospora species complex - and make an attempt to resolve their phylogenetic relationships. Go, Podo, go! https://t.co/X79q6YVGAC

[Johannesson Lab @JohannessonLab]

Yes, we work on fungi… but, one or two of those prokaryotes also gets in! Here is a study on Microcoleus, together with our friends from Czech @dvorikus published in Nature communications. Check it out and read about barriers to gene flow in a microbe! https://t.co/tMZqOU2xKX

[Johannesson Lab @JohannessonLab]

Marieke van der Poel came from Utrecht to is join us for an internship. She got her own lab T-shirt 😊 and will let the (spore-) killers go alive again by picking up the work on meiotic drive in Neurospora!
Thanks for joining us!

[Noah Hensen (they/them) @NoahHensen]

After a long silence on here, I am now proud to inform you that I got elected to join the @eseb_org equality committee! I am very excited about working to improve equality, very happy to join, and looking forward to all the good work we will do together.

https://t.co/DjhHv3bCKK

[Johannesson Lab @JohannessonLab]

Really great presentation by @PetterBMadsen today at his halftime seminar. We are all so excited to see these projects move forward! Awesome work Petter!

[Johannesson Lab @JohannessonLab]

Research on Fungi is acknowledged by the election of our PI to be a member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences. How awesome! 🥳

[The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences @ScienceAcad_swe]

Five new members of the Academy 🌟

At the General Meeting on 17 January, Love Dalén, Stockholm University, Marie Carlén, Karolinska Institutet and Hanna Johannesson, Stockholm University were elected new members of the Academy´s class for biosciences. Eva Malmström Jonsson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, was elected new member of the class for engineering sciences and Thomas Nilsson, Chalmers University of Technology was elected new member of the class for physics.

Read more: https://t.co/eHzAAWMGKu

From left:
Hanna Johannesson, holder of the Bergianus professorship and Professor at the department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University.

Marie Carlén, Professor at the department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet.

Love Dalén, Professor in Evolutionary Genomics at the department of Zoology, Stockholm University.

Eva Malmström Jonsson, Professor in Coating Technology at the division of Coating Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

Thomas Nilsson, Professor of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology.

@Stockholms_univ @karolinskainst @KTHuniversity @chalmersuniv

[Johannesson Lab @JohannessonLab]

Alert: the first chapter of Ivar’s PhD is out! Here we can learn about how crapaud (a TE in Podospora... i.e., not a frog!) evolves. Great work, @Iv_wster, we look forward to more TE and RIP-stuff from you. https://t.co/1A5w7pxx5D

[Johannesson Lab @JohannessonLab]

This week, Noah did their halftime PhD seminar on "genomic traits in thermophilic fungi" with @AelysHumphreys as external reviewer! Great work Noah!

[Johannesson Lab @JohannessonLab]

@LoreAment That's what we call dedication!!!

[Johannesson Lab @JohannessonLab]

Trying to avoid sideprojects, but …. now, lab-grown mycelia of the local Morchella importuna is back into the ground, together with quicklime and other good stuff. High risk (of freezing), but high gain (if it works!). Excited to see what comes up next year!!

[Johannesson Lab @JohannessonLab]

Our paper on spore formation in Morchella galilaea, is published online in Frontiers in Microbiology. @XiHui_Du shows intriguing data on variability in ascospore size, number and shape and conidia produced directly from ascospores in this species! https://t.co/d7C514uxuL

[Johannesson Lab @JohannessonLab]

Just back from Szeged, and a visit to the @laszlognagy group. We had a blast, hearing about all the interesting ongoing projects, shared ours and planned collaborative work on inheritance in basidiomycetes. And some great food and drinks, too! Thanks so much for hosting us!

[Laszlo G. Nagy @laszlognagy]

Markus Hiltunen from @JohannessonLab explaining mutation rates in the fairy ring mushroom Marasmius oreades. Perplexingly low mutation rate in this fungus!

[Johannesson Lab @JohannessonLab]

Today, we are having our semi-annual meeting with our @UU_University and @SystBio_UU colleagues working on fungi. A day to talk all things fungi, full of presentations of our newest research!

[Johannesson Lab @JohannessonLab]

We can now finally share our paper on the whole-genome phylogeny and comparative genomics of the fungal order Sordariales!

Check out the new paper by @NoahHensen et al. here:
https://t.co/BOnn6840ko

#fungi #phylogenetics #Sordariales

[Hanna Johannesson @H_S_Johannesson]

This does not happen very often: A lectureship in mycology at SLU, Uppsala. 🍄 Spread the word!!...and find it here: https://t.co/6rSyY91fok