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Great news: Nature Communications has highlighted our recent paper on Powdery mildew as one of the 50 best papers recently published in the area of microbiology and infectious diseases. nature.com/collections/je… nature.com/articles/s4146…

Open postdoc position in my group at the University of Zurich. People interested in evolutionary genomics as well as machine learning are welcome. Let us study the mystery of polyploid robustness. URPP Evolution in Action #postdoc #polyploidy #wheat #Arabidopsis jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stellen…

Good news! I recently got funding for 2 PhD positions to do research on transposable element evolution. If you are interested or know someone who might be, please contact me (best by email).

We had the pleasure to be part of the Einkorn wheat (Triticum monococcum) genome project. We analyzed for the first time fully assembled wheat centromeres and found that LTR retrotransposons are the main components that drive their dynamic evolution. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Very grateful to have been able to contribute to this collaborative effort with 28 authors. We show e.g. that two LTR retrotransposon families preferentially insert in einkorn centromeres, contributing to their dynamic evolution. thomas wicker nature.com/articles/s4158…

Having a great time at #ICTE2024 . I finally took some time to summarize the complicated reverse transcription of #LTR_retrotransposons in cartoon format. Let me know if there are major errors and feel free to use it for teaching or for bedtime reading

we are happy that we finally got our #Einkorn #Wheat centromere analysis published in Mobile DNA . mobilednajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

we are Xcited 🙃 that our paper on wheat introgressions has finally been published in TheorApplGenet link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Great news: our article on the analysis of 76 barley genomes has just been published nature.com/articles/s4158…