Jonathan Klassen

Microbial ecology; community interactions; fungus-growing ants; natural product discovery; phylogenomics. Assoc. Prof. @UConn. Maintains @Symbiosispapers.

[Jonathan Klassen @KlassenLab]

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 https://t.co/aDWu95GuMy

[Jonathan Klassen @KlassenLab]

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 https://t.co/8uZrjtk5dJ

[Foodie Pharmacology Podcast @FoodiePharma]

New #podcast episode!!🐜🍄

I speak with @BalunasLab & @KlassenLab about the fascinating ways ants cultivate fungal gardens!

Available anywhere you listen to podcasts!

🎧Direct link: https://t.co/Di4hvO6FIT

#fungi #ants #pharmacognosy #chemistry #Science

[Foodie Pharmacology Podcast @FoodiePharma]

New #podcast episode!!🐜🍄

I speak with @BalunasLab & @KlassenLab about the fascinating ways ants cultivate fungal gardens!

Available anywhere you listen to podcasts!

🎧Direct link: https://t.co/Di4hvO6FIT

#fungi #ants #pharmacognosy #chemistry #Science

[Jonathan Klassen @KlassenLab]

My new commentary in @PNASNews about @Kaltenpoth_Lab 's paper showing how beewolf wasps protect their symbionts from host chemical defenses. https://t.co/qDoRNAzNHE Original paper: https://t.co/XZZqdZTs59

[PNASNews @PNASNews]

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: https://t.co/3ekyChIiea

[Kim Krieger @Epitopic]

Ants sniff out diseased fungus in their underground gardens. https://t.co/pha0ghm6N6 Pretty nifty @KlassenLab @PNASNews

[UConnCOR²E @UConnCORE]

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. 👏

[U-M Medical School Research @UMichMedScience]

New paper in @PNAS from @BalunasLab, @KlassenLab and team details how Trachymyrmex septentrionalis ants promote #fungus garden hygiene using Trichoderma-derived metabolite cues: https://t.co/xHBWU2Tkr6

[UConn @UConn]

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. https://t.co/Tpr8Y4oZEV

[Jonathan Klassen @KlassenLab]

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:
https://t.co/g1w1nEjBWP https://t.co/2EOLNGIj32

[Jonathan Klassen @KlassenLab]

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: https://t.co/kb9aU4LTqz

[Jonathan Klassen @KlassenLab]

(and not just because it's left a grammarly suggestion on my otherwise clean document) #TidyAndNeat

[Jonathan Klassen @KlassenLab]

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.

[Jonathan Klassen @KlassenLab]

Shout out to @UConn for launching a new resource for student parents. A group that often gets overlooked. https://t.co/12lCflqLca

[Jonathan Klassen @KlassenLab]

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.

[UConn MCB @UConnMCB]

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 https://t.co/xypDYQJgrP for details

[Jonathan Klassen @KlassenLab]

@patrickgsgrady @sarahmhird @UConn Sad. I remember that news too, something about extra certification something something?

[Jonathan Klassen @KlassenLab]

@sarahmhird @patrickgsgrady @UConn (Not that electric buses wouldn't be excellent if the power is green)

[Jonathan Klassen @KlassenLab]

@sarahmhird @patrickgsgrady @UConn I think the story's a bit more complicated than that. There was some technical obstacle, which is why the buses got transferred to WRTD https://t.co/DfTyAHei5y. UConn isn't in charge of its own buses anymore, even if they are branded that way.

[Justin van der Hooft @jjjvanderhooft]

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