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Somehow we managed to time the release of our new Starship preprint on the same day. doi.org/10.1101/2023.1… We demonstrate that recurrent HGT of adaptive genes are mediated by Starships across fungi. This elevates HGT to a major mode of evolution and adaptation in fungi!

AMF genomes can be "jam-packed" with Transposable elements (TE) that drive genome biology and regulation in many organisms. The talented Jordana Oliveira now determines TE diversity and regulation in multiple 9 model strains using curated datasets. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I have debated if/how to share this, because this paper is both exciting but also the hardest I have ever written because of *waves hands in all directions*. It also would NOT be in-print without two amazing Masters students Angus Bucknell and Hannah Wilson who did the work 1/2

I told you my poster has a cow on it! It was the busiest poster day I ever experienced and even lost my voice after talking (shouting😲) 3 hours nonstop 😬#Fungal24

@jessiemacalpine Cowen Lab alum bringing home a post doc poster award at #Fungal24!! 🍄🎉 Congrats to Jessie and all the other winners!!

Phylogenomics of 710 fungal genomes from the biomedically and technologically important genus Aspergillus reveal that ~8% are misidentified - population-level sampling is important. 🧬Jacob L Steenwyk Jos Houbraken RokasLab & many amazing collaborators journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/sp…

NEW preprint: #PhyKIT is a command-line tool for analyzing multiple sequence alignments and phylogenies. Here, we detail #protocols for using PhyKIT to build #phylogenomic supermatrices, quantifying biases/#errors therein, identifying putative radiations & so much more.

Bringing Starships 🚀 to the people: our new workflow for finding giant transposons is out! We used starfish on a kingdom wide 🍄database and found 100s of Starships in 100s of species.. and that's just scratching the surface: doi.org/10.1093/nar/gk… Aaron Vogan

FBR has just published our commentary that we have compiled on suggestion of the editors. This will hopefully help to clarify why the search for complex plant metabolites in cultures of fungal endophytes is not an attractive research goal but more related to phantom hunting.

Just did a podcast with Emile Gluck-Thaler and Horacio Lopez-Nicora. Really cool stuff! We discussed massive mobile elements (starships) and what role they might be playing in fungal genomes: sites.libsyn.com/416264/s3e27-b… Crop Protection Network North Central IPM Center OhioStatePlantPath UW–Madison Division of Extension Daren Mueller Ed Sikora

Come join us! Our institute Leibniz-HKI is looking for a Post-Doc who will work on therapeutic microbes with the perspective to establish an own research group! Please spread the word 📣 jobs.hki-jena.de/jobs/Postdocto…

Zach Konkel built CLOCI to detect gene clusters based on the signatures of their evolutionary processes. Not just secondary metabolite clusters...all kinds of clusters. And of course we present fun new horizontal gene cluster transfers. academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar…

NEW publication out in Nature Microbiology!🥳 The conidial surfaceome (surface proteins) of #Aspergillus fumigatus contains unique proteins absent in non-pathogenic relatives. KOs revealed 33 genes affect #pathogenesis and related traits, indicating the surfaceome impacts virulence

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

Dive into the massive genomes of plant pathogenic rust fungi! 🌿🍄 Our study reveals how ancestral & recent bursts of transposition have shaped these remarkable genomes. 👏 Congrats to Emma.C on her 1st PhD paper! 🙌 @SebbyRust, Emmanuelle Morin biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to share the published version of our paper: Thermal Adaptation in Worldwide Collections of a Major Fungal Pathogen 🌍🔥 Congrats to Silvia Miñana Posada and Feurtey Alice for leading this great work! 🎉 Read it here: apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/MP…

Lesson 1: Plant pathogens are in constant coevolutionary conflict with their hosts Lesson 2: Plant pathogen genomes are highly diverse Lesson 3: Plant pathogen genomes are non-randomly organised Lesson 4: Diverse mechanisms drive genomic diversity in plant-pathogen populations

Fungal genomes are 🤯🤯🤯 We wrote this review to summarise some lessons we learned in the last 20 years of fungal genomics. Excited to see where our field is going in the next 20 years to come! Thanks a lot to all co-authors YuSeng Huang Thorsten Langner and Sophia 🧵👇