Mark McMullan @mcmullan0.bsky.social
@mcmullan0
Evolutionary biologist -population genomics -wild-agricultural pathogen evolution, invasion and adaptation (Wheat & Beets) @EarlhamInst
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http://www.earlham.ac.uk/mark-mcmullan 06-09-2012 14:05:27
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So, this afternoon I got home to find a lovely letter from NORTHERN 🚆 telling me about how they wanted to prosecute me for using the below ticket to travel on the specified route at a peak time. I paid £1.90 less than the fare they say I should have paid. A thread 🧵
Tomorrow (10th October) we will have some great sessions on: JBrowse2 with Colin Diesh JBrowse at 8am UTC Intro to Manual Curation (Bird Microchromosomes) with Tom Mathers @tom-mathers.bsky.social at 1pm UTC We'll also stream live on YouTube, so no one misses out! Darwin Tree of Life Earth BioGenome Project 🌍
Santa Walker studied an MSci in Biotechnology from University of Aberdeen, spending her Year in Industry at the Earlham Institute exploring resistance genes in wild seabeet. This month Santa returned to EI to begin her PhD research with Neil Hall and Sally Warring.
University of Aberdeen Neil Hall Sally Warring Jess Peers, now in her fourth year of PhD, rejoined the Earlham Institute after her placement year investigating the genetic diversity and divergence of the ash dieback pathogen with Dr Mark McMullan. Jess Peers
BLOG - A pint of the living dead – making beer with zombie plants 🌱🍻 This #Halloween, Sam Mugford @samtmugford.bsky.social reveals the strange science of #phytoplasmas, a group of plant-infecting bacteria, and how he made his own delicious zombie beer… Read (if you dare): okt.to/kwtZzX
Very happy to see anna-liisa laine's & my article out in Science Magazine today! We reveal that the more a plant species invests in defense, the less potential it has for growth. All made possible by lots of public data & amazing open science contributions! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
BLOG - How, and why, do plants and microbes interact? Microbes have evolved over the past 3.5 billion years to survive in diverse habitats, including in/on plants. But whilst some are beneficial, others can cause devastating diseases Centre for Microbial Interactions okt.to/943IhA
We're happy to present a pre-print from the Hogenhout lab (Saskia Hogenhout), describing how a family of proteases in aphid oral secretions suppress plant immunity
Exciting news! The latest hifiasm release from Haoyu Cheng and Heng Li adds beta support for Oxford Nanopore simplex R10 reads. Initial results look very promising. 🚀 Check it out: github.com/chhylp123/hifi…"
