🚨Preprint alert! If you you’ve been following the centromere field recently, you’ve seen some (excellent) work showing that repeat copy number is highly variable in centromere region leading to massive variation in size. Here we try to understand how that variation impacts centromere functionality:

Wanted to advertise the presentations from my lab occurring at #Dros26! It’s my first time getting to bring my trainees and can’t wait for them to share their work.

UGA Genetics is hiring! Please share! An ideal candidate will employ genetic models of disease in a research program with an emphasis on epigenetics, aging, chromosome biology, gene regulation, systems biology, or drug resistance mechanisms. jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/675651/a...

Registrations and abstract submissions are now open for the always stellar #fungal #genetics conference at lovely Asilomar, CA - March 17-22, 2026. Thank you to @genetics-gsa.bsky.social for the amazing partnership with the fungal community. Hope to see you there!

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Given the tremendous diversity of microorganisms in the world, why do only a small fraction cause disease? My essay in #PLOSBiology argues that the answer is lack of opportunity and that humans encounter only one new bacterial pathogen for every 1.4b years lived. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Assistant/ Associate Professor of Mycology at UGA - Go be part of a Legendary Fungal Group fungi.franklinresearch.uga.edu and dept of plant pathology plantpath.caes.uga.edu www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/445...

Come work with Fungal Group at UGA!

#Fungal infections are hard to treat due to #DrugResistance. @blakebillmyre.bsky.social &co use a high-throughput #TNseq system in #Cryptococcus neoformans to identify >1400 essential genes & reveal a role for #mitochondrial genes in #fluconazole sensitivity @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4dz3iVm

Enjoyed my first visit to Clemson for the CBEP/EPIC meeting. Great science and a really nice view!

New paper on meiotic drive from the Zanders lab!