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More than happy to share this Fungal Tree of Life poster. This was an outreach project collaboration with University of Szeged arts student Beáta Bús. Free to distribute! Such a fun project and learning experience. High res version here: group.szbk.u-szeged.hu/sysbiol/nagy-l… 1/n

Farewell to ⁦Torda Varga⁩ , good luck ⁦KewGardens⁩ for your genomics and mycorrhiza endeavors . It has been a pleasure ⁦BRC Biochem⁩ for the last 7 years! Emotional moments… ⁦Neha Sahu⁩ ⁦Hongli Wu⁩ ⁦Xiao-Bin Liu⁩ ⁦Zhihao Hou⁩ @vmate5

New preprint: In the globally prevalent pathogenic fungus Armillaria we detected #HGT affecting putative #wooddecay, #pathogenicity genes, necrotrophy-causing SSPs & a lot more. Heroic work by Neha Sahu , Thanks for the collaboration A/Prof Jonathan Plett, Joint Genome Institute & others.

#preprint: 'taxonomic' and 'genomic' fungi do not match. We inferred that fungal evolution was characterised by continuous shedding of protist gene families and episodic evolution of novelty, with two large bursts of duplication. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Detecting contamination in eukaryotic genomes, a new tool from the lab. Stunned by the extent of bacterial and fungal contamination of genomes. We show that contamination strongly impacts ancestral genome content analysis in the eukaryotes. Thread 1/6 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Yayy Armillaria!🍄🌲 HGT, unusual wood decay, forest pathogens, and even glowing in the dark! 🌟I'm convinced the next sci-fi should feature this fascinating genus! #Genomics #Fungi #Armillaria #wooddecay #ssps #effectors #hgt #plantpathogens

Contamination in published genomes is widespread. We present a new HGT-aware tool for decontamination, ContScout, published in Nature Communications. Idea and development by Balazs Balint, with key contributions from SysBio-Szeged, Joint Genome Institute, NERSC, #FICUS datascience. 1/n rdcu.be/dxwIF

Great science, amazing talks and catching up with Laszlo G. Nagy and Zhihao Hou after a year!! Such a fantastic week at #FungalGRC2024

Reunion in GRC

Mycena has superstrange genomes: a big expansion but no WGD, up to 97k genes. Some gene influx from ascomycetes by HGT. Most novel genes are conserved. Great collaboration with Francis M. Martin Joint Genome Institute Mate.Viragh @DrHyfe Christoffer Harder Cover Cell Genomics shorturl.at/fhwPm BRC Biochem

Sporulation sounds so basic for fungi, but do we know its genetics? New preprint Zhihao Hou of BRC Biochem explores the transcriptional network of postmeiotic spore morphogenesis in mushrooms. Csenge Földi Hongli Wu Mate.Viragh Xiao-Bin Liu biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Sporulation is one of the most fundamental traits of fungi, but do we know its genetics? We explore this in mushroom-forming fungi a new Current Biology paper Zhihao Hou, BRC Biochem. Csenge Földi Hongli Wu Mate.Viragh Xiao-Bin Liu sciencedirect.com/science/articl…