Lab News

Domique Imhof recently joined our Lab for his Master's thesis as part of his Master's studies in Microbiology and Immunology at ETH Zürich.

The aim of his thesis, supervised by Blanka, is the characterization of septal pore cap constituents in the model mushroom Coprinopsis cinerea.

We wish Dominique a joyful and successful stay in our Lab!

Markus presented Shurui's poster at the annual meeting of the Fungal Molecular Biology Society of Japan (Okinawa, 3-4 Nov).

Shurui's latest results contribute to the genetic dissection of the antinematode defense response in Coprinopsis cinerea.

lukas-ripps — *Fig.1. almost shows Lukas (left) delivering a talk about Omphalotin A. The person identity was confirmed by Lukas himself.*

Well done Lukas for delivering a flashlight talk at the 2nd International Conference on RiPPs in Seoul, South Korea (Fig.1).

Lukas described how we characterized the macrocyclase responsible for the cyclization of Omphalotin A, a fungal natural product exhibiting strong toxicity against nematodes.

Congratulations to Shurui for winning the poster prize at the Kiel conference on Molecular Biology of Fungi 2024!

Shurui presented his latest findings concerning differences in anti-nematode defense across Coprinopsis cinerea monokaryotic strains.

Way to go!

On October 2, Markus delivered a seminar at the University of Tsukuba (Japan), where he is currently a visiting professor.

His talk provided an outlook of the group's latest results and future research directions.

We are happy to welcome Xiaoyu to the Lab for her internship until August 2025!

Xiaoyu is completing her Bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences at Imperial College London and will be working on fungal-nematode interactions under Shurui Mai's supervision. Specifically, she will investigate the initiation and spatio-temporal regulation of the inducible anti-nematode defense response in Coprinopsis cinerea.

We wish her the very best of luck and a fantastic stay here in Switzerland!