TheKellerLab

🚨I will be hiring two postdoctoral scholars to start early 2025 at our new lab at UC Berkeley🚨 If you are attending MSA in Toronto next week and want to chat about either of these positions, please contact me! 🌱🍄 📄Details & application instructions: static1.squarespace.com/static/5679c5c…

🚨job alert!🚨 An exciting opportunity to study #fungi and their secondary metabolites in the Rush lab at Oak Ridge. Please pass it along: #postdocposition jobs.ornl.gov/job/Oak-Ridge-…

In addition to summarizing the field, we included some novel analyses that give insight into the untapped biosynthetic potential within the fumigatus species complex (hint, it's a lot). There's still much work we must do as a community!

Our latest review summarizing every characterized BGC and their elucidated products in Aspergillus fumigatus has now been published! Open access. We hope this is a helpful resource to the fumigatus community 😁 @MDPIOpenAccess mdpi.com/2309-608X/10/4…

New Research: Vibrio gazogenes-dependent disruption of aflatoxin biosynthesis in Aspergillus flavus: the connection with endosomal uptake and hyphal morphogenesis #microbiology frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

This is a back-to-back publication with @BayramLAB which shows similar findings on the conservation of the KERS chromatin regulatory complex in Aspergillus flavus sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We are excited to share our latest paper led by @dianiluciano on the role of the histone demethylase KdmB in Penicillium expansum. Here, we show that KdmB mediates virulence and secondary metabolite production in the apple host. #s0080" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

#MDTP Student Highlight: Nayanna M. Mercado-Soto @Nay_MMS is a 3rd year PhD candidate in Keller Lab (@TheKellerLab) and Huttenlocher lab studying Aspergillus fumigatus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in the zebrafish larval model. #WomenInSTEM #PhDChat #UWGrad #NSFGRFP

Exciting research being done by CMB student, Grant Nickles, and the Keller lab! @GrantNickles18 news.wisc.edu/fueled-by-new-…

Curious if your fungus of interest contains any ICS BGCs? You can find out for yourself! We've created a website to host all ICS BGC predictions made in the study. Check it out at: isocyanides.fungi.wisc.edu. 🌐🔍

📢 Exciting news! 🎉 My FIRST, first-author research paper is now available in @NAR_Open! 📚 🔗: academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar…

Phantom #Threads – Fungal protein ZfpA protects the infection from the immune system and antifungal drugs #fungalinfection Image & research by @TJSchoen et al Huttenlocher Lab, @TheKellerLab @UWMadison in @PLOSpathogens. Read more on bpod.mrc.ac.uk/archive/2023/7… with @MRC_LMS

Congratulations to Nancy Keller from @UWMadisonMMI who was awarded a patent in May! Share your idea with us: warf.org/disclose See the patent: warf.org/wp-content/upl…

Close encounters of the microbial kind: Nancy Keller @TheKellerLab will explain how #bacteria and #fungi reside together in diverse environments. Hear more on this & other talks at our Annual Scientific Meeting. Book your place at: britmycolsoc.org.uk #research #microbiology

#Invasive plants and animals get all the limelight. But a deadly #mushroom is spreading east after being introduced to the US west coast. Our work opens the opportunity to explore why. news.wisc.edu/death-cap-mush…

Check out our collaborative project with @JeanMichelAne, @TheKellerLab on mapping GRNs in Aspergillus and a visualization tool grasp.wid.wisc.edu to explore our resource. Work led by outstanding trainees: Spencer Halberg-Spencer, @saptarshipyne01, Cristobal Carriel!

Check out this podcast featuring our former lab member, Dr. Luciano-Rosario @dianiluciano !

What makes the 🍄☠️death cap☠️🍄 so deadly? Our paper @ISMEjournal explores the #toxin gene family of #Amanita phalloides showing differences between mushrooms, #invasive and native ranges, and revealing ancient origins Ft @TheKellerLab and Pringle Lab nature.com/articles/s4139…

ASM wrote a press release on our paper. Check it out here 😁--> asm.org/Press-Releases…

In our latest study, we shed light on a fascinating group of specialized metabolites secreted by Penicillium species. These compounds play a crucial role in regulating the development of cheese rinds 🧀 by selectively inhibiting specific bacterial community members 🦠.

We are proud to present our newest paper, “LaeA-regulated fungal traits mediate bacterial community assembly” 🧀🍄. This work was in collaboration with @ORNL, @LupoLabs, and @MTDrott. Available now at: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…