DIAMOND v2.1.15 now supports all taxonomy features for BLAST databases, and support for using BLAST databases has also been added to the Bioconda version github.com/bbuchfink/di...

I had such fun thinking, reading and writing this Tansley Review on #arbuscular #mycorrhizal #fungal mycelia. We need a more fungal-centric view to better understand not only the AM fungi, but also their many ecological roles. @newphyt.bsky.social 🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/DHGB3S....

#JobOffer 💼 Un poste susceptible d’être vacant de Professeur en stabilité des génomes devrait s’ouvrir pour la rentrée 2026 au sein de l’Institut Jacques Monod ➡️ Informations concernant ce poste et la procédure de candidature 🔗 www.ijm.fr/poste-de-pro...

Serial innovations, HGT and gene loss led to the formation of the replisome of the eukaryotic ancestor

Fungal #GenomeSize variation is largely driven by TEs & lineage-specific genome defenses. @tbadet.bsky.social & @danielcroll.bsky.social show that presence/absence of RIP mutation systems influences #genome architecture, identifying a likely novel defense mechanism @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4hcC5tx

🇨🇦 My department is recruiting a new tenure-track professor! If you do computational work on microbes and can teach in French reasonably well, please consider applying! Dry-wet lab hybrids also welcome. www.rh.ulaval.ca/emplois-disp... @ulaval.ca

Check out this new Levine-Lampson collaboration, led by the talented Hyuk-Joon Jeon. We explored the consequences of inheriting long telomeres from dad and short telomeres from mom. Or the reciprocal. Turns out, parent-of-origin matters (in mice, at least). authors.elsevier.com/c/1loW-3QW8S...

Previously on BioRxiv, and now a final version of our paper is out! What a great lesson in plant self-organization: Auxin targets its own transporter through a cell-surface kinase complex in a positive feedback loop www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Learn about loss and retention of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in carnivorous plants in our latest publication in @newphyt.bsky.social ! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The great Claudio Scazzocchio- fungal geneticist and polymath - giving keynote first talk in Chania - on the evolution of nitrogen utilization in eukaryotes #IFBC25

Very excited to share that my first 1st author publication is available at the journal of #NewPhytologist ! Congratulations to the entire team that worked on this project including the #KewFungarium Team. 👏 🍄‍🟫 If you are interested in the topic, feel free to read it here: doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Really excited to share our latest paper led by @simonaube.bsky.social. Fascinating results examining whether regulatory mutations can lead to adaptation as fast as coding mutations do. #mevosky #evobio #evoSky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to share our Review on human PGC development covering the latest in vivo observations & in vitro developments, esp. in the last 5 years. Have a read! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/... From: @astar-gis.bsky.social @ki.se Warwick University, @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social

New preprint! 🐛 Root-knot nematodes hijack root cells, turning them into feeding sites and making plants very sick. Using a cross-species scRNA-seq approach we mapped this process and show how this knowledge can be used to engineer resistant crops.🌱 A summary🧵 : www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I’m super happy to present the first discoveries of the RIKEN-Cambridge Joint Crop Symbiosis Research Team, based in Japan 🇯🇵 doi.org/10.1101/2025... A thread 👇

The call for #ICOM2026 Symposia applications is now open until October 15. Please see: icom2026.org/symposia/

We are excited to announce the SMBE Fellows Program! ✍️ Designed to provide networking and mentorship opportunities to early-career researchers through scientific writing in evolutionary biology for @molbioevol.bsky.social and @genomebiolevol.bsky.social 📆 Aug. 31 🔗 smbe.org/smbe-fellows-program

Very happy to share this paper, out in Nature, written with Henning, whom I met during my sabbatical at @oistedu.bsky.social From bench to big boss: mitigating the widening gap between PI and lab An important topic....would be curious to hear your thoughts... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Guess the ggplot colour palette!

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Great article. The evolution of symbiotic nitrogen fixation is fascinating and complicated 🎢

So happy I had a chance to contribute to this review! Nice summary and thoughts on past, present and future attempts to transform #arbuscular #mycorrhizal #fungi 🍄🧬

Opinion | Beyond ‘Grit’ and ‘Growth Mindsets’ Focusing on internal traits distracts us from the work of encouraging behaviors that support student success, Jarek Janio writes. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/442Suug

Hey my fellow Germans! I wasn't aware, but there is an AvH-JSPP postdoc fellowship, dedicated to German citizens aiming to do their postdoc in Japan. It covers salary + travel to Japan + startup for your life in Japan. Let me know if you are interested! www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/apply/spo...

Our new paper is out! We observed a loss of function in mating compatibility for HD genes for the first time in basidiomycete fungi, and new evolutionary strata in the absence of sexually antagonistic selection! @tatianagiraud.bsky.social More details here 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nice concept! Single-Allele Chromatin Tracing Reveals Genomic Clustering of Paralogous Transcription Factors as a Mechanism for Developmental Robustness in T Cells www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Clade-wide fungal proteome analysis reveals structure-function conservation in divergent Dicer proteins 🍄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This is wild. Chromosome distributions into different nuclei! Distribution of haploid chromosomes into separate nuclei in two pathogenic fungi www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

'Genome sequences provide evidence for ancient fungal assault on the ancestors of land plants' -->Does this mean that mycorrhizas evolved from an antagonistic relationship between plants and fungi? Is this a correct interpretation? www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Weehee! 🎈

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Sigh. academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

🍁🚨 WE'RE HIRING!🚨🍁 Our baby lab at the University of Toronto is expanding, many many thanks to funding from #CIHR and @hfspo.bsky.social. We are in search of a technician, postdoc, and PhD students! Further details on our website (sawhlab.netlify.app/people/), please share!

With @hybridzones.bsky.social & @jenncoughlan.bsky.social, we have been working on an update to Daven Presgraves' influential 2010 review on hybrid incompatibilities (shorturl.at/cJndf). The preprint is available here (shorturl.at/DTC48) with an updated table of almost 100 incompatibilities!

Common cause vs sampling intensity variation in the earliest eukaryote diversity dynamics in the Proterozoic Eon: "...we favor the explanation that the pattern of early eukaryote diversity is driven by variations in paleontological sampling." doi.org/10.1017/pab.... 🧪 #Paleobio ⚒️ #Geology #EvoBio

Canada joins Horizon Europe programme

First post on Bluesky!! ☀️ Very happy to share that my main postdoc work ‘Systematic Discovery and Design of Synthetic Immune Receptors in Plants’ is finally out on Biorxiv! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... The full story is summarized here:

Co-evolution of transposons and small RNA pathways in African cichlid fishes 🐠! An expansion of Argonaute genes likely driven by PiggyBacs 🧬 Congrats @migueldvalmeida.bsky.social et al

I have extended the deadline to apply for this post-doctoral role to work with me on the Biochemistry of Starship Transposon to this Sunday the 5th of January...original deadline set on a holiday set by HR (not me)! edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

New carefully conducted study from @michela-audisio.bsky.social finds little evidence for previous, spectacular claims of massive carbon transfer between roots of trees (but support for plant-fungus carbon transfer). nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A nematode gene family evolved by fusing with a transposon! This is such a cool story, congratulations @migueldvalmeida.bsky.social et al! 🙌