Xanthones produced by the filamentous fungus Aspergillus nidulans protect its sexual structures from predation by arthropods.

Genome-wide chromatin mapping during bacterial-fungal cocultivation identifies the Myb-like transcription factor BasR as the major regulatory node of bacteria-triggered production of fungal secondary metabolites.

The fungus Aspergillus nidulans produces secondary metabolites during sexual development to protect itself from predators.

In filamentous fungi the AP-2 complex, which in mammals is an adaptor of clathrin-mediated endocytosis, is recruited to specific clathrin-independent apical endocytosis necessary for proper lipid maintenance and polar growth.

Uso1 critically regulating traffic in the ER/Golgi interface is a coiled-coil protein traditionally regarded as a tether, but a forward genetic screen revealed that its essential role appears to involve its ability to interact with SNAREs.

A silent gene cluster of the fungus Aspergillus fumigatus is activated by a bacterium and leads to the production of a novel spore germination inhibitor targeting the inducing bacterium.

Fungal hyphae constantly undergo signal oscillations, comparable to a cell 'monologue' until they meet another hypha with which they then coordinate signal oscillations and transit into a cell-to-cell dialogue.

A novel form of self-fertility evolved in Cryptococcus depauperatus, a close relative to the human pathogenic Cryptococcus species, in which sexual development is attained by self-signaling of a cognate pheromone and pheromone-receptor pair.

Elevated methionine levels, or a shortage of nitrogen or iron, induce terrein production in the fungus Aspergillus terreus.

The first quantitative live-cell microscopy this work shows depicting the order of events preceding secretion in budding yeast.