Jonathan Klassen

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Jonathan Klassen

@KlassenLab

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

Storrs, CT, USA Sumali Mayıs 2013

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Jonathan Klassen@KlassenLab·27 Ara

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 journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.11…

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Jonathan Klassen@KlassenLab·28 Ağu

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 podbean.com/ew/pb-8nkg8-14…

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: podbean.com/ew/pb-8nkg8-14… #fungi #ants #pharmacognosy #chemistry #Science

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Foodie Pharmacology Podcast@FoodiePharma·28 Ağu

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Jonathan Klassen@KlassenLab·25 Ağu

My new commentary in @PNASNews about @Kaltenpoth_Lab 's paper showing how beewolf wasps protect their symbionts from host chemical defenses. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Original paper: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

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PNASNews@PNASNews·26 Haz

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: ow.ly/5Sa450OUOAm

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Kim Krieger@Epitopic·22 Haz

Ants sniff out diseased fungus in their underground gardens. today.uconn.edu/2023/06/resear… Pretty nifty @KlassenLab @PNASNews

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UConnCOR²E@UConnCORE·22 Haz

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. 👏

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. today.uconn.edu/2023/06/resear…

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U-M Medical School Research@UMichMedScience·16 Haz

New paper in @PNAS from @BalunasLab, @KlassenLab and team details how Trachymyrmex septentrionalis ants promote #fungus garden hygiene using Trichoderma-derived metabolite cues: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

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UConn@UConn·21 Haz

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Jonathan Klassen@KlassenLab·22 Haz

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: today.uconn.edu/2023/06/resear… pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

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Jonathan Klassen@KlassenLab·31 May

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: tinyurl.com/agmicrobiomes2…

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Jonathan Klassen@KlassenLab·30 Kas

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

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Jonathan Klassen@KlassenLab·30 Kas

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.

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Jonathan Klassen@KlassenLab·30 Kas

Shout out to @UConn for launching a new resource for student parents. A group that often gets overlooked. studentparents.uconn.edu

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Jonathan Klassen@KlassenLab·24 Kas

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.

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UConn MCB@UConnMCB·23 Kas

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 jobs.hr.uconn.edu/cw/en-us/job/4… for details

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Jonathan Klassen@KlassenLab·17 Kas

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

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Patrick G.S. Grady, Ph.D. (he/him)@patrickgsgrady·17 Kas

@sarahmhird @KlassenLab @UConn Good to know! I avoided all that news because I used to drive the buses as an undergrad job - when WRTD & the private company took over they fired all my friends ☹️

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Jonathan Klassen@KlassenLab·16 Kas

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

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Jonathan Klassen@KlassenLab·16 Kas

@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 today.uconn.edu/2020/10/uconn-…. UConn isn't in charge of its own buses anymore, even if they are branded that way.

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Justin van der Hooft@jjjvanderhooft·15 Kas

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

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@katiee_kyle @FoodiePharma @PNASNews @Kaltenpoth_Lab @UConnMars @UConnProteomics @PNAS @Pdorrestein1