TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rillig, Matthias C.
A1  - Bielcik, Milos
A1  - Chaudhary, Veer Bala
A1  - Grünfeld, Leonie
A1  - Maass, Stefanie
A1  - Mansour, India
A1  - Ryo, Masahiro
A1  - Veresoglou, Stavros D.
T1  - Ten simple rules for increased lab resilience
JF  - PLoS Computational Biology : a new community journal
N2  - When running a lab we do not think about calamities, since they are rare events for which we cannot plan while we are busy with the day-to-day management and intellectual challenges of a research lab. No lab team can be prepared for something like a pandemic such as COVID-19, which has led to shuttered labs around the globe. But many other types of crises can also arise that labs may have to weather during their lifetime. What can researchers do to make a lab more resilient in the face of such exterior forces? What systems or behaviors could we adjust in 'normal' times that promote lab success, and increase the chances that the lab will stay on its trajectory? We offer 10 rules, based on our current experiences as a lab group adapting to crisis.
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008313
SN  - 1553-734X
SN  - 1553-7358
VL  - 16
IS  - 11
PB  - PLoS
CY  - San Fransisco
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bielcik, Milos
A1  - Aguilar-Trigueros, Carlos A.
A1  - Lakovic, Milica
A1  - Jeltsch, Florian
A1  - Rillig, Matthias C.
T1  - The role of active movement in fungal ecology and community assembly
JF  - Movement Ecology
N2  - Movement ecology aims to provide common terminology and an integrative framework of movement research across all groups of organisms. Yet such work has focused on unitary organisms so far, and thus the important group of filamentous fungi has not been considered in this context. With the exception of spore dispersal, movement in filamentous fungi has not been integrated into the movement ecology field. At the same time, the field of fungal ecology has been advancing research on topics like informed growth, mycelial translocations, or fungal highways using its own terminology and frameworks, overlooking the theoretical developments within movement ecology. We provide a conceptual and terminological framework for interdisciplinary collaboration between these two disciplines, and show how both can benefit from closer links: We show how placing the knowledge from fungal biology and ecology into the framework of movement ecology can inspire both theoretical and empirical developments, eventually leading towards a better understanding of fungal ecology and community assembly. Conversely, by a greater focus on movement specificities of filamentous fungi, movement ecology stands to benefit from the challenge to evolve its concepts and terminology towards even greater universality. We show how our concept can be applied for other modular organisms (such as clonal plants and slime molds), and how this can lead towards comparative studies with the relationship between organismal movement and ecosystems in the focus.
KW  - Filamentous fungi
KW  - Microbial community
KW  - Active movement
KW  - Modular organisms
KW  - Interference competition
KW  - Fungal space searching algorithms
KW  - Fungal foraging
KW  - Fungal highways
KW  - Clonal plants
KW  - Slime molds
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-019-0180-6
SN  - 2051-3933
VL  - 7
IS  - 1
PB  - BMC
CY  - London
ER  -