Cristina Cristina Barragan discussing mini-chromosome mChr diversity in a clonal rice blast fungus population in Italy 🇮🇹 Coming soon to a preprint server near you 😉 #openriceblast #BLASTOFF

0/ Very happy to announce my last PhD paper is finally out, years after my PhD completion. I had been very busy with my postdoc research, but made it back to this work! A journey into #Bioengineering secreted proteases for #PlantImmunity. 🌱🔬 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

That is a wrap. Great Magnafest 2024 at #Fungal24. See you all in Ireland at #EFGC2025. Thanks to Ely Oliveira Garcia for co-organising and for Thorsten Langner and Martin Egan for volunteering to organise next years Magnafest 2025

📑 New Preprint: Multiple horizontal mini-chromosome transfers drive genome evolution of clonal blast fungus lineages ➡️ biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Cristina Barragan Sergio Latorre Angus Malmgren Adeline Harant Joe Win Yu Sugihara Hernán A. Burbano Sophien Kamoun Thorsten Langner

Our own Cristina Barragan from Sophien Kamoun The Sainsbury Laboratory talking about horizontal mini-chromosome transfer in the rice blast fungus #fungal24

Graft incompatibility between pepper and tomato can be attributed to genetic incompatibility between diverged immune systems biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_plants

Very excited to share our latest preprint about coevolutionary dynamics between NLRs and their inhibitor! Solanaceae helper NLR NRC3 evolved to evade the inhibition by cyst nematode effector SS15 over 19 Mya (1/12) #EvoMPMI #NLRbiology #PlantPath #PlantSci doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

Very excited to share our latest paper! We solved the structure of the helper NLR NRC2 activated by the virus resistance protein Rx using cryo-EM. It forms a hexameric inflammasome-like resistosome! 1/14 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Multiple Horizontal Mini-chromosome Transfers Drive Genome Evolution of Clonal Blast Fungus Lineages buff.ly/3TuUOFT #science #evolution #biology #genome

What are the immediate consequences of genome doubling on chromatin accessibility & transcription, and how do these change over evolution? Read our latest paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution to find out! Big shoutout to co-authors Kirsten Bomblies and Adrián Gonzalo ✨ [1/6] academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-ar…