@MFIG

@UofMMFIG

The Manchester Fungal Infection Group (MFIG), The University of Manchester. Our Mission - To understand and reduce the burden of human fungal diseases.

Manchester, England Joined April 2014

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Latest posts 5

@MFIG @UofMMFIG Mar 10, 2025

Proud to be part of #BritishScienceWeek25

We're at @McrMuseum sharing our research with KS3 pupils. Lots of interesting conversations raising awareness of #antifungalresistance and #fungalinfections.

#bsw25

@MFIG @UofMMFIG Jun 12, 2024

Latest work from our group @bromleymichael

Thanks to many people involved and all collaborators

Norman van Rhijn @NormanRhijn Jun 12, 2024

Our latest work is out in @NatureComms !!🚨🚨
This has been about 10 years in the making

Some highlights:
➡️Genome wide generation of protein kinase mutants
➡️Development of Bar-seq in vitro and in vivo
➡️Target gene (YakA) and showing it is druggable

nature.com/articles/s4146…
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@MFIG @UofMMFIG Mar 23, 2024

One of the latest MFIG papers in collaboration with @MycologyRefManc on a novel mycobiome diagnostic in @BioMedCentral

bmcmicrobiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

link.springer.com Development of a novel mycobiome diagnostic for fungal infection BMC Microbiology - Amplicon-based mycobiome analysis has the potential to identify all fungal species within a sample and hence could provide a valuable diagnostic assay for use in clinical...

@MFIG @UofMMFIG Mar 16, 2024

#Fungal24 @MBottery last but not least explaining azole resistance in Aspergillus fumigatus: answering the big WHY and HOW does a fungus develop resistance?

@MFIG @UofMMFIG Mar 13, 2024

@NormanRhijn explains the dangers of cross resistance due to using analogous anti fungal compounds in the environment and in the clinic #Fungal24