Truffle Smith Lab

Cool truffle article in Science Magazine that is worth checking out: sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagazin…

Excited about our new paper in the journal Mycorrhiza by @CaiafaMarcos @MAJusino @karlsenayala and others in the Smith Lab. One of the first papers to examine the ectomycorrhizal fungi of North American Cistaceae plants: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Check out the new paper in Mycologia by Alassane Sow et al. - a collaboration by our lab and Greg Bonito's lab at MSU describing two edible North American truffles. @BenLemmond @JudVanWyk : tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Elated to share that this January, I’ll be opening the doors to the Lofgren Mycology Laboratory at Berkeley in the @PMB_Berkeley dep. Our group will work on the ecology and evolution of fungi and their hosts, with a focus on ectomycorrhizal symbiosis, metabolism, and genomics.

I’ve enjoyed recent debates about common mycorrhizal networks and the #woodwideweb as well explained in this nice @nature_news piece by @Aisling_Irwin BUT I disagree with one misconception that I think is being propagated in these discussions 1/n nature.com/articles/d4158…

What is the most common fungus in Florida? it might very well be this putatively introduced mushroom species, Marasmius vagus: edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/PP… The rapid expansion of the range of this fungus in Florida is captured nicely by Sarah Prentice in this new extension document

Congratulations to Dr. Claudia Paez and our other co-authors on this new paper describing Parvodontia relampaga - the causal agent of relampago blight of woody plants in Florida, USA (sciencedirect.com/science/articl…)

On 25th day of #WomensHistoryMonth I am celebrating our collaborator, incredible #plantpathologist & director of @ClinicPlant, Dr. Romina Gazis. Her #research is focused on #microbial #diversity, #fungal #endophytes & #HostPathogenInteractions. trec.ifas.ufl.edu/faculty/romina…

Take a trip through the evolutionary history of the mushroom genus Psilocybe . The genes for the psychoactive compound psilocybin were transferred horizontally between species up to five times between 40 million and 9 million years ago. In PNAS: ow.ly/42uV50QsGxU

Please check out this excellent new article by @K_Nattapol and collaborators on phylogenomics of bird's nest fungi. authors.elsevier.com/c/1iSDD3m3nNE2…

Assistant Professor of Forest Pathology at the University of Florida. So much fungus! Search chaired by @JiriHulcr if you have questions. explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/5295…

@ImperfectFunGuy two relevant papers are: Lazarus KL et al (2017) on the genus Syncephalis and Reynolds et al (2019) on the genus Piptocephalis . both genera have crazy long ITS regions

Domestication through clandestine cultivation constrained genetic diversity in magic mushrooms relative to naturalized populations: Current Biology cell.com/current-biolog…

Connecting the multiple dimensions of global soil fungal diversity: a comprehensive 6-dataset analysis of drivers of alpha, beta, gamma and phylogenetic diversity of fungi globally by Vladimir Mikryukov and co-workers. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

@ryanbstephens @BenLemmond Lovely Imaia!

Found some #truffles on a hike today in eastern Tennessee. What do you think @BenLemmond? Next to a stream pretty much popped out of the ground. Still don’t have the lab set up so won’t be able to look at the spores for awhile.

Congratulations to @ufplantpath faculty members on their tenure and promotions: Dr. Romina Gazis and Dr. Ozgur Batuman have been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor and awarded tenure. Dr. Mathews Paret and Dr. Matthew Smith have been promoted to the rank of Professor.

A nice news piece with coverage on the recent paper by Ben Lemmond and collaborators: blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/news/2023/06/2… @UFPlantPath @UFCALS

New publication by PhD student Ben Lemmond on accidental cultivation of Tuber brumale in the USA. Thanks also to our excellent collaborators Greg Bonito and Alassane Sow from Michigan State. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Cathie Aime was recently awarded the Josef Adolf von Arx Award from the Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, reserved for individuals who has made an outstanding contribution to taxonomic research of fungal biodiversity, marking a distinguished career in mycology. Congrats!

The Smith Fungal Biology Lab at the University of Florida is looking for a full-time research technician to work on several ongoing projects related to fungal systematics, ecology, and evolution. Details are below! Questions? email <trufflesmith@ufl.edu>