Trailblazing work on a huge within-species mt dataset!

Pretty humbled to join the editorial board of mBio this autumn. This is clearly one of my favourite journals and I am excited to make a contribution. Send us your best work on fungal evolution and genomics!

Do fungal Starships 🚀 matter for human health? We dive into the pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus and connect the dots between these unusual transposons and strain variability. Spoiler alert: biofilms, secondary metabolites and intra-strain variation, oh my! biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Amazing story coming out from Emile! Very impressed how you pulled together such a comprehensive insight into Aspergillus evolution driven by Starships.

Yes, agreed! We are also "chatGPT-curious" in our lab. Teaching them to think was always the goal. How your writing gets there is secondary.

This is a very interesting read!

Amazing Leen Abraham - congrats! #ProudFormerPI

Tralamazza et al. suggest that gene loss likely facilitated the global spread of a major wheat fungal pathogen by modulating its climate tolerance and metabolic capabilities. Sabina Tralamazza Daniel Croll Université Neuchâtel nature.com/articles/s4146…

Big congrats Anne! Beautiful and important work!

Excited to see our peer-reviewed work on recurrent horizontal mini-chromosome transfer in the blast fungus now out! ✨ academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-ar… Thanks team 🌈 Sergio Latorre Thorsten Langner Sophien Kamoun Hernán A. Burbano Yu Sugihara Joe Win Adeline Harant Angus Malmgren

Crossing Germany back to 🇨🇭by ICE after an exciting conference in Kiel! Current status: 30‘ into the journey and 30‘ late. Train driver just exited train to turn some key outside in the middle of nowhere. Wish me luck! 🤞

have you ever gazed out at some fungus and wondered what else could be in there?✨ Check out our new Trends in Genetics review on fungal #Starships 101: what we know so far and where we think the field is headed. Great job Andrew and Aaron Vogan 🍄🚀 authors.elsevier.com/a/1jnz5cQbJBL8h