Our latest work on NLR PAV is now online as a preprint. Great collaboration with tellierlab Gustavo A. Silva and Edeline Gagnon biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Unrelated oomycetes and arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi both have coenocytic hyphae with hundreds of moving nuclei - check out the paper by Edouard Evangelisti et al. on Phytophthora nuclei if you want to know more mBio doi.org/10.1128/mbio.0…

Faculty Job in my department - Assistant Professor in Fungal Biology - UC Riverside aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01824

Happy to see this paper out! Zitong Yu CRISPRed wheat gluten genes to achieve 47-fold reduction in immunotoxicity; step towards developing safer wheat-based products! K-State Department of Plant Pathology KansasWheat K-State Research #NIFAImpacts onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

This paper is SUPER interesting for our field... Had completely missed it! Repair of DNA double-strand breaks leaves heritable impairment to genome function biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Some highlight #PAG31 thus far Most useful tool: mPong-Cas9 transposase for targeted genome insertion Keith Slotkin assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-26790… Best named software: Swift-TE, short read TE analysis Claire Menard Interesting Biology: Evo Epigenome-recruited DNA repair Grey Monroe

📢Happy to see our latest publication 📜on the 3D genome of #Verticillium, previously on bioRxiv, now online in Nature Communications: rdcu.be/dzvgv 🎉🍾. Great work by David T Vittorio Martin Kramer Gabriel Lorencini Fiorin David E Cook & Michael F Seidl

Ayden McVey from David E Cook lab kicking off #Magnafest #Fungal24 talking about epigenetic regulation during blast fungus infection.

Our next speaker at #Magnafest #Fungal24 is Michael Richter from Wilson Lab UNL talking about the role of acyl-coA binding protein Acb1 in biotrophic membrane biogenesis.

Next up #magnafest #fungal24 is Angus Bucknell from The Sainsbury Laboratory talking about prediction of effector function through structural homology.

Kicking off #Fungal24 plenary session 1 Thorsten Langner on genome evolution in fungi

Kicking off #Fungal24 is Thorsten Thorsten Langner on genome evolution of the rice blast fungus #CelebratingAlumni #2speedgenome

And now we are talking about one of my favourite subjects: dikaryon genomics! Melania Figueroa covering it all from Robigus to high-throughput effector screening in plant protoplasts #Fungal24

Fantastic plenary presentation at #Fungal24 by Yukiyo Sato as chairs choice on how the fungus #Verticillium adapts to environmental changes through large-scale genomic rearrangements. What a great performance! 🥳 #ProudPI

Cool talk of Ksenia Krasileva on fungal effectors and fungal immune systems at #Fungal24

Super nice talk by Anouk van Westerhoven on her most recent work on genome evolution in Fusarium oxysporum nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Theoretical Biology & Bioinformatics @ UU Faculty of Science, Utrecht University Phytopathology @ WUR #proudPI

Could not be any happier to hear about the new research from Jun Jun Huang now with Heitman lab at Duke. Identification of novel TE activity in RNAi mutants #Fungal24

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our team @MPI_Bio. If you're interested in adaptive evolution of plant pathogens and supernumerary chromosomes 🧬please apply! Please RT 📢 For info about ongoing projects check out our webiste: bio.mpg.de/302180/thorste…

Excited to share our preprint! Plant tandem kinase proteins (TKPs) provide resistance to Magnaporthe by direct effector binding. TKPs are an emerging class of disease resistance proteins. Thanks to Yi-Chang Sung Yinghui Li Tzion Fahima Soichiro Asuke biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to share our latest discovery on distinct evolutionary trajectories following RNAi loss in Cryptococcus, now published in PNASNews! Huge thanks to Connor, Vikas Yadav, @magwenelab, Heitman lab at Duke and everyone who supported this work! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…