Sergio M. Latorre

#PhageSky A bacterial long-term evolutionary tradeoff, dating as far as 200 years in the past.
Very proud to have a small contribution in this great work from Karasov & Burbano Labs led by @taliamycota.bsky.social & Jiajun Cui & Emma Caullireau. Please read the thread by @hernanaburbano.bsky.social:

19.11.2025 17:09 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Hmmm.... Only part of it. The complete answer is only revealed in my seminar 🤣

15.11.2025 02:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What a great week at Nanjing Agricultural University! Huge thanks to Prof. Souomeng Dong for the invitation to share my research and to his entire team for being such generous hosts. I learned so much from hearing about their work and am thrilled about our future plans together

14.11.2025 11:14 — 👍 15    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

#2025ISMPMI @danielkroll.bsky.social presenting large scale comparative genomics of fungicide resistance evolution and new pathogen strains emergence

16.07.2025 07:23 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Fascinating talk by Dr. Talia Karasov (University of Utah) on how plant pathogens weaponize phage-derived tailocins to wipe out bacterial rivals.
Microbes fighting microbes—nature’s own biotech.
#ISMPMI2025 #Tailocins #MicrobialWarfare

16.07.2025 07:34 — 👍 37    🔁 10    💬 2    📌 0

Happening now...

15.07.2025 08:02 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How Rice Blast Fungus stays one step ahead? I'll talk about the evolutionary dynamics of its pangenome.
Whether you're into evolutionary insights, curious about methods, or just love a good fungal story, swing by my poster:
* P-280
* Tuesday, 9:55-11 :30

#2025ISMPMI

13.07.2025 09:42 — 👍 3    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

Thanks for having me at #pint25
Great discussing #evolution and #pandemics with such a wonderful audience
@pintofscience.uk @uclopenscience.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

22.05.2025 16:40 — 👍 18    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Spatial population structure of wheat powdery mildew in Europe. Isolation-by-distance in the Europe+_2022_2023 samples belonging to the N_EUR population (top left), S_EUR2 population (top right), and the complete Europe+_2022_2023 dataset (bottom left). Genetic distance is the number SNPs between a pair of individuals, scaled by the total number of loci compared. Geographic distance is measured between sampling locations of pairs of individuals, in kilometers. The colors represent the density of the data points, with warmer colors corresponding to higher density. 1,000 randomly sampled data points for each dataset are plotted in black. Bottom right: Effective migration surfaces estimated using FEEMS for the Europe+_2022_2023 dataset. The colors indicate the inferred relative intensity of gene flow along each edge of the spatial graph. Orange corresponds to lower-than-average effective migration and blue, higher-than-average. The grey circles show the nodes of the spatial grid the samples were assigned to, based on their sampling locations. The size of the node is proportional to the number of samples assigned.

#PopulationGenetics of microbial #pathogens can inform decisions that impact society; @smlatorreo.bsky.social explores a @plosbiology.org study on wheat powdery mildew #fungus which uses genomic data to predict continental-scale dispersion routes 🧪 Paper: plos.io/43qfH9F Primer: plos.io/44YjHQN

07.05.2025 08:44 — 👍 15    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Population genomics and molecular epidemiology of wheat powdery mildew in Europe Agricultural diseases are a major threat to sustainable food production. This study of wheat powdery mildew, a disease caused by the fungus Blumeria graminis, shows that the population structure can b...

Here the link of the original work:
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

06.05.2025 09:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Population genetics of plant fungal threats: Insights from wheat powdery mildew Population genetics studies of microbial pathogens are demonstrating the potential of evolutionary theory to inform decisions that impact society. This Primer explores a recent study on wheat powdery ...

"Population genetics of plant fungal threats: Insights from wheat powdery mildew"

I wrote this Primer inspired by the great work of @jigisha1.bsky.social , @fmenardo.bsky.social and colleagues

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

@uclnews.bsky.social @plosbiology.org

06.05.2025 09:41 — 👍 16    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0

A primer by Sergio Latorre @smlatorreo.bsky.social tinyurl.com/ye8zwcrc on the paper by Jigisha et al. "Popgen and molecular epidemiology of wheat powdery mildew" @plosbiology.org tinyurl.com/357nkey8 @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @cloeucl.bsky.social

06.05.2025 08:25 — 👍 11    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Local genetic adaptation to habitat in wild chimpanzees How populations adapt to their environment is a fundamental question in biology. Yet, we know surprisingly little about this process, especially for endangered species, such as nonhuman great apes. Ch...

With some delay... but some good news.
The final version of our paper Local Genetic Adaptation to Habitat in Wild Chimpanzees is out in Science. Great PanAfrican (PanAf) collaboration led by PhD student (now Dr!) Harrison Ostridge. 🧪#PopGen #evobio www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

03.02.2025 10:41 — 👍 54    🔁 19    💬 3    📌 1

Great read to start the 2025 with a good dive into plant pathogen genomics. Thanks for this beautiful work @wagnercfagundes.bsky.social @thorstenlangner.bsky.social

24.01.2025 10:45 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0