David Showalter

I’m excited to share this @USDA_ARS post-doc opportunity in Ithaca, New York. The fellow will join my lab and the @BushleyKathryn lab to broadly investigate insect killing fungi via comparative genomics. Please consider applying and share widely! 🍄 🧬 💻 zintellect.com/Opportunity/De…

Blue ash thriving in the aftermath of emerald ash borer. #eab #invasivespecies

@albesant2 @Garrett_Lab I look forward to reading

@lmillernpr The queerness of fungi argued by @queendom_fungi catalystjournal.org/index.php/cata…

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🌈 🌳🌈 🦎🌈🦢🌈 🍬🌈 Queer Ecology education FUN PACK alert! As we release our ep, The Seagulls, I wanted to share this THREAD of teachers--essays, books, scientists, instas, tiktoks, podcasts and more--that casually flipped my understanding of nature over the last year. 🧵

@JoeBuckInNature @Vans ER, uh oh. Hope things turn out okay. Sending good vibes.

@SarahMackAttack Dr. Mac Sara, Professor Squidman, lots of potential alter egos

@showalterdn I wanna meet this squid guy

While @SeanMartorana was painting the mural last week he overheard 2 young men talking by the Squidmobile “Yo there’s the squid facts hotline” “Yeah I love that. Really cool.” “Do you know that dude?” “Na I don’t know the squid guy.” People assuming I’m a man cracks me up 😂

@SarahMackAttack You’re 100 times cooler than the squid guy ever could be

One time I was driving through the neighborhood and two guys walking around the corner said “oh shit it’s the squid guy!”, so I popped my head out the window and waved. I imagine that moment is how Ashton Kutcher felt in punk’d when he would pop out from behind the door.

Job alert! We're looking for a seed bank manager to help us establish a new seed bank @holdenarboretum and develop #restoration partnerships in the region. #HoldenScience holdenfg.org/career-and-int…

@Amelia_Lindsey Yeah. The polyploids figure it out somehow. I wonder what the 3D organization of some of those paralogues are. HiC everything.

@Amelia_Lindsey @r_racicot They talk about challenges for transcription profiling. Uh, yeah, I’d say.

@Amelia_Lindsey @r_racicot Whatttt?!

@Amelia_Lindsey @r_racicot And of course weird Wolbachia

@Amelia_Lindsey @r_racicot Holy CNV, Batman!

@Amelia_Lindsey Grasshoppers are doing some crazy stuff academic.oup.com/gbe/article/12… As are axolotls pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… And yes, fungi are odd. Sometimes GC content is a better measure because of repeat induced point mutation (RIP) genome defense frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

@mycomile @UWMadison Oh man! What a great fit. Congratulations, and I can’t wait to see what you get into.

Very excited to share that I'll be starting a lab as an assistant professor at @UWMadison's Dept of Plant Pathology this Fall! 🧑‍🔬🧬🎉 We'll delve deeper into the evolution of fungal interactions, with a focus on figuring out what on earth Starships are doing🌱🍄🚀👀

@CaseyKulla So. Much. Camas.

@CaseyKulla ODF HQ

In our study published today in @ScienceMagazine, we provide a proof of concept for the potential use of ancient microbes as a source for developing new drugs by synthesising previously unknown metabolites from reconstructed gene clusters. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…