@tobybarilbio.bsky.social and I are very excited to release MycoMobilome! A very extensive effort to discover, QC and annotate TEs across the fungal kingdom. 👉 Ready-to-use for your own genome with a simple tutorial! 👉 Metadata about TEs discovered in your genome! 👉 Contribute and get recognition!

1/ Ever needed to annotate TEs in a fungal genome, but didn't know where to start? We have released #MycoMobilome, a community-focused non-redundant database of transposable element consensus sequences for the fungal kingdom, constructed from >4,000 fungal genomes! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A great turnout for our latest Microverse Seminar! 🍕🔬 @ameliabarberphd.bsky.social, Junior Group Leader #FungalInformatics, shared fascinating insights in her talk “From Ecology to Genomes: Unraveling Fungal Pathogenicity Across Scales.” Lively discussions and great connections followed!

Congrats to the group's first PhD student, the newly minted Dr. Brassington!! Phillip relocated back to Oceania in the period between submitting his dissertation and his oral defense, so we had to make do with a virtual defense, but I am still incredibly proud of him.

Registration open for #Fungal26 genetics-gsa.org/fungal-2026/ at Asilomar.

Population structure in a fungal human pathogen is associated with clinical prevalence #Aspergillus flavus @annemakerofhats.bsky.social ‪@ameliabarberphd.bsky.social‬ @rokaslab.bsky.social#Aspergillus #fungi #infection #PopulationGenomics #mycology

Very excited to see the final version of our kingdom-scale fungal genome defense manuscript out in @plosbiology.org ! This work has been a major project of @tbadet.bsky.social during his time in our lab. We hope to stimulate much more exciting work on fungal TEs. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Want to understand how entire fungal chromosomes can be horizontally transferred? Join us to unravel the mechanism/consequences of horizontal chromosome transfer in a fungal pathogen as part of an ERC-funded project. Postdoc/PhD positions available. fungal-evolutionary-genetics.de/open-positio...

If you saw my talk on the population structure of #Aspergillus flavus at Fungal Genetics in 2024, you might have heard someone ask "how does Aspergillus oryzae fit into the picture?" If so, you heard my answer was "wait and see--we're working on this exact topic" Well, the wait is over! Preprint ⬇️

Open postdoc position in in my lab in Berlin @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de. Join us to push the frontier in ancient microbial genomics. Please apply until Oct 17th. Reach out in case you have any questions. www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/2193291/job_...

Fabio doing some excellent scicomm about his postdoc project in the group!

Excited to share our new publication, out today in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s41.... @kanchanj.bsky.social led this fascinating fungal-bacterial interaction project. We are grateful for our wonderful collaborators Brian Peters and David Underhill.

Just a few more days to apply! ⏰

I thought the Aspergillus fumigatus pan-genome was pretty wild when we started this project. Aspergillus flavus said, "hold my beer..." Not only does it have a strong population structure with differences between environmental and clinical strains, only 58%of genes are conserved across the species!

Really interesting work. Bottom line: re-annotate everything using the same pipeline for pangenome studies!

A nice walkthrough on the limitations of generic slide titles and how assertive titles really help keep you on track and your audience following your desired narrative. My group can attest that I agree 💯% that slides should have a concrete summary statement as the title, with very few exceptions.

Aspergillus fumigatus reference strain Af293 carries a mycovirus that boosts heat+oxidative stress resistance and infection fitness. 😲💥 I encourage you to check out Neta's thread and I'm delighted my group could play a small role in this exciting study!!

New #preprint from talented graduate student for a workflow we have been using for a while into a formal usage www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New PhD position @uni-jena.de and at our #ClusterOfExcellence! Join @ameliabarberphd.bsky.social's group to study #ClimateChange & #FungalPathogens. Interdisciplinary training, vibrant research network & great working conditions. Apply by Aug 31: jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/a... @uni-jena.de

My group at is hiring a PhD student to explore how fungal pathogens that live in the environment will adapt their genomes, acquire new phenotypes, and perhaps even increased infectivity as a result of climate change. Please share! More info and applications at @ jobs.uni-jena.de/vrbup

My group at is hiring a PhD student to explore how fungal pathogens that live in the environment will adapt their genomes, acquire new phenotypes, and perhaps even increased infectivity as a result of climate change. Please share! More info and applications at @ jobs.uni-jena.de/vrbup

Last week we enjoyed a lovely day of socialising and networking with the groups of @mgblango.bsky.social and @slavi-jan.bsky.social. We broke into teams for a scavenger hunt and visited a palace outside Weimar. We were even joined by special guest @mulveylab.bsky.social while he was visiting!

📣 I’m recruiting a #Postdoc to help us further our understanding on the infection strategies of our human fungal pathogen. If you’re enthusiastic about research, our interdisciplinary group @leibniz-hki.de will be a good fit for you! Please share! jobs.hki-jena.de/jobs/Postdoc...

I’m happy to share with you that I’m now Postdoctoral Researcher at the FSU Jena @uni-jena.de in the group of Amelia Barber @ameliabarberphd.bsky.social

📣 We have a postdoc position in fungus-microbiota interactions! Apply here: jobportal.uni-koeln.de/bewerben/2197 ⁩ For more details, visit: bewerbungsmanagement.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...

Postdoc position in new area for lab on yeast biodiversity. See www.findapostdoc.com/search/job-d.... Please forward! @ucd-sbbs.bsky.social

New preprint: we sequenced one soil sample with ultra-deep hybrid metagenomics and found… → 800+ MAGs → 11,000+ BGCs → and still nowhere near saturation. Soil is wild. Preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #microbiome #metagenomics #BGCs #naturalproducts #secmet

Big congrats to our Junior Group Research Leader Dr. @ameliabarberphd.bsky.social 🎉 She’s been named a #CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar for her work on fungal pathogens. 👉 Read the full story here: www.microverse-cluster.de/en/news/amel... #CIFAR #GlobalScience

Team Microverse in Motion crushed the Jena Company Run! 🏃‍♂️💨 Fastest man: Hans-Dieter Arndt Fastest woman: @ameliabarberphd.bsky.social Microbes aren’t the only ones moving fast! 🦠💪

Wir sind überglücklich – sowohl unser bestehender Exzellenzcluster @microverse.bsky.social als auch der neue Cluster "Imaginamics" werden im Rahmen der Exzellenzstrategie des Bundes und der Länder gefördert! 🎊 #ExStra @dfg.de Die Reaktionen unseres Präsidenten und der Cluster-Sprecher*innen ⬇️

I am honoured and delighted to join the #CIFAR family as an Azrieli Global Scholar. Looking forward to working with this fantastic community to tackle complex global challenges through interdisciplinary collaboration! cifar.ca/cifarnews/20...

Both Jena Clusters got funded!!!! 🥳 The emotions are overwhelming!!! Here's to amazing future science with this incredible team and the amazing people that made it possible!!!

We dive into the dynamics of #starships 🚀 in a fungal pathogen to ask: how might these giant #transposons impact human health? We find they drive genome-wide variation, encode clinically-relevant traits and even transpose within the same strain! 🍄🧪 out today in mBio #goteam doi.org/10.1128/mbio...

🎉 We’re hiring! Two ERC-funded #PostdocJobs on insect–phytopathogen mutualisms are available in my lab. Explore the chemical and molecular evolution of symbioses! 🧪Chemical ecology: tinyurl.com/chem-ecol-symb 🦠Phytopathology & mutualisms: tinyurl.com/symb-plantpath #SymbioSky #PlantPathology

@esgem-sg.bsky.social Webinar coming up 6th May with @ameliabarberphd.bsky.social "Candida parapsilosis: sequencing for clinical microbiology" together with ESCMID Fungal Infection Study Group. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... I'm looking forward to learning about fungal sequencing!

Excited to do a postdoc in beautiful Neuchatel / Switzerland🇨🇭? We have several postdoc positions open at the moment! Check our website for the full ads here: pathogen-genomics.org/jobs Happy to answer any question and please spread the word to anyone who might be interested!

Are you interested in a postdoc in Germany on fungal pathogen biology, genomics, or antifungal resistance? My Uni (@uni-jena.de) is hosting a free two-day masterclass in June on preparing MSCA Postdoc Fellowships with it as host. If you are interested in writing a fellowship with me, get in touch!

Do you run a research lab working on Aspergillus? The Aspergillus Genomes Research Policy Committee is looking to host a list of Aspergillus labs on its webpage! Drop us a message with your lab website and a photo and we'll get it listed. Have a look here for inspiration aspgrpc.com/aspergillus-...

New post doc opportunity in our team at Kiel University in the north of Germany. We are looking for a motivated molecular biologists to unravel plant-microbe interactions in grasses. Please see: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/... More to our research and group here: www.environmental-genomics.de

If you're attending, make sure you listen to the coolest parallel session, being held on Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning on antifungal resistance... including a talk by yours truly!

A small appeal to young scientists looking for internship and PhD positions - websites are hard to maintain, papers can take years to publish & often end up behind a paywall. Read the preprints if you really want to know what a lab is up to. If they don’t preprint… this tells you something too ;)

We did it! We caught Starship #transposons moving between #fungal species in the lab, including between species separated by ~100my. We think Starships are a mediator of HGT in fungi, akin to conjugative elements in bacteria. Check out the preprint. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I'm very genome biased, but lots of interesting talks in this session! Thanks to @lablabella.bsky.social for chairing.

Proud PI day. @marionperrier.bsky.social gave her first conference talk at #asperfest and won a poster prize there as well! 💯🥳

7 PhD positions open at Kiel University in our graduate program TransEvo focused on translational evolutionary biology. Two of the projects focused on adaptive evolution of crop pathogens. Check out: www.kec.uni-kiel.de/news_events/...

PhD studentship for UK citizens! Understand how Endosymbionts Impact Mucoralean Fungi Drug Resistance Profiles. These are devastating invasive fungal infections that need urgent research. Work with my team @mrccmm.bsky.social, @forestcita.bsky.social, and UKDSTL www.surrey.ac.uk/bbsrc-wessex...

From lesions to lessons: 2025 marks the 20th anniversary of filamentous plant pathogen genomics. In our new review, we present lessons we learned over the past 2 decades and discuss the future of plant pathogen genomics. Take a first look! apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/...