News: IMCI affiliated Podcast, Protecting Idaho potatoes from fungi with new tools

We are celebrating the release of Episode 11.1 of the Vandal Theory Podcast featuring our very own Marty Ytreberg with the support of his Drug Discovery working group which aired yesterday.

Beginning with the founding of the working group, Ytreberg shared his experience of finding an interdisciplinary community of researchers, brought together around the issue of fungal disease. In an unexpected turn of events, the group, originally founded to address human fungal diseases, re-tooled their efforts, finding quick success in developing antifungals for Idaho potatoes.

Marty shares the team’s successes in isolating fungal diseases and creating mechanisms which eliminate only the disease without harming the plant or other wildlife, a “tricky process”.

Marty Ytreberg personally wanted to share the fact that the Drug Discovery working group, founded in 2021, has been meeting bi-weekly since.

U of I link: Designing new fungicides | The Vandal Theory | University of Idaho

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