MJ Grey

Thanks for posting @reviewcommons.org

If you're interested you can also find the reviewed version here:
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Really keen to get people's perspectives on the population genetics of reservoirs, and what they tell us about variation associated with emergent crop pathogens.

Developing a crop- wild-reservoir pathogen system to understand pathogen evolution and emergence Evidence for those pathogen genes selected specifically for success on crops.

📃 A new publication from @mcmullan0.bsky.social and the Hall Group studies pathogen genetic diversity to uncover how #crop #pathogens may be evolving in wild reservoirs. 🌱

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Starship discovery reveals new frontiers of fungal genome evolution New insights into large mobile fungal genome elements, called Starships, have revealed more about how they jump between fungal species and influence their evolution.

For a quick summary check out the @earlhaminst.bsky.social news piece about the paper 👇
www.earlham.ac.uk/news/starshi...

Starship giant transposable elements cluster by host taxonomy using k-mer-based phylogenetics Abstract. Starships are a recently established superfamily of giant cargo-mobilizing transposable elements in the fungal subphylum Pezizomyotina (phylum As

Our recent paper is out where we propose kmer-based phylogenetics for fungal Starship TEs (which are unalignable as highly variable). We think it could help with spotting bonafide HGT events (and suggest direction of transfer?)
doi.org/10.1093/g3jo...
@mcmullan0.bsky.social @norwichmicro.bsky.social

Host-pathogen environmental genetic surveillance: pathogen emergence and crop protection

www.earlham.ac.uk/studentship/...

Studentship opportunity in the Hall group for a host-pathogen environmental genetic surveillance project working alongside the BBRO and here at the @Earlham Institute! Have a look and share with those you think might be interested!

Thank you Rowena 😊

Thank you Jess!

My paper is finally published! If you are struggling with attaining high molecular weight gDNA from fungal tissues maybe this will help you out. Thank you to our comms team at @earlhaminst.bsky.social for helping to put this together. Thank you to the co-authors for their contribution!

Gaeumannomyces tritici, the culprit behind the wheat disease take-all, has had its genome mapped! Dr. Hill and team have sequenced 9 near-chromosome level genomes of this species, along with potential antagonist species G. hyphopodioides and G. avenae (oat take-all). #starships #transposableelements

Excellent talks today!

This would be pretty cool and it’s in one of the cool groups here at the Earlham!

Hi all!!! 👋

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I'm hiring a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg...
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Norwich Single-Cell and Spatial Symposium Now in its eighth year, and extended to a two-day event, the Norwich Single-Cell and Spatial Symposium at Earlham Institute covers single-cell and spatial genomics technologies and their application…

Registration & abstract submission is now open for #EISingleCell25!

Join us in June to hear from leading experts, explore innovative applications, and network with peers across the #singlecell and #spatial #genomics field. 🧪

Postdoctoral Research Scientist

Applications close 20 January for a #postdoc to join Prof Irene Papatheodorou on a collaborative project as part of the #GutCellAtlas programme.

At the Earlham Institute, you'll join an active community of experimental and computational biologists working on a wide range of #cellular #genomics.

Thanks.
Do get in touch if you're at #PAG32 and you'd like to chat about host pathogen co-evolution, fungi, crop genetic reservoirs, and wild crop relatives.

Two decades of bacterial ecology and evolution in a freshwater lake Nature Microbiology - A 471-metagenome time series from Lake Mendota in Wisconsin, USA, reveals seasonal and decadal shifts in bacterial functional and ecological dynamics, especially in response...

After 24 years of work, I’m thrilled to announce the TYMEFLIES dataset, which comprises metagenomes from Lake Mendota (Madison, WI), collected roughly every 10 days (471 samples) for 20 years! @quendi.bsky.social @robinrohwer.bsky.social

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The censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife biology & advocacy group ?
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Ants best humans at test of collective intelligence

"When people work together, they can achieve great things. But if they can’t talk, they’re not necessarily smarter than ants"

Original paper
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News
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Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics uncover the role of B chromosomes in driving plant invasiveness https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.31.630906v1

Structural variation reshapes population gene expression and trait variation in 2,105 Brassica napus accessions - Nature Genetics Multiomics joint analyses based on a structural variant (SV) map from 16 genome assemblies and 2,105 resequenced accession genomes shed light on the regulatory effect of SVs on gene expression and tra...

🌱 Daniel Kliebenstein contributed to an article on how structural variants reshape gene expression and traits in Brassica napus, offering insights for evolution, breeding, and genome editing.

▶️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#PlantGenomics #PlantBreeding