Science Queeries

1 Sep 2025

Take me to a Fungi Town

Biology, Botany, Ecology, Environment, Immunology, Microbiology, Science & Medicine, Uncategorized

No detail is spored in this episode with a really fun-gal. When we think of infectious diseases, we often think of bacterial infections like pneumonia and tuberculosis, or viral ones like flu and COVID. Fungi often don’t come to mind – yet collectively, fungal infections surpass any other infectious disease on the global death toll.

There’s still mush-room for discovery to develop new treatments to tackle ever-adapting fungi that never stop moulding to suit their changing environment. Dr Cat chats to Dr Jane Usher at the University of Exeter, who investigates fungi that can infect us to ensure that they can’t.

This episode originally aired 26th August, 2025.

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