Our lab day out at Mundesley beach- the victorious blue team, limbo competition, dodge ball, tug of war and Magnaporthe themed sandcastles!

Arctic and Antarctic environments reveal novel yeast families, genera and species 🔗 𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞: https://doi.org/10.3114/persoonia.2025.55.03

Voorhies et al. apply a novel genotype to phenotype mapping method to study temperature-responsive growth in the pathogenic fungus Coccidioides posadasii, finding a variant linked to the thermally responsive dimorphism transcription factor Ryp1. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf135 #genome #biology

📣 Happy to see the journal publication 📄 of our work on Starships 🚀 in Verticillium fungi: terrific work led by @yukiyosato.bsky.social rdcu.be/exBSp

O'Donnell et al. investigated the evolution of Starships - a class of giant transposons - in Aspergillus and Penicillium, finding that domesticated lineages exhibited greater Starship content than relatives from non-human environments. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf125 #genome #evolution #TEsky

#2025ISMPMI Want to know about transcriptional regulation driving pathogenicity in the blast fungus? Come to my poster (P-156) session today! From 13:30 to 15:15 🌾

Curious about how novel #plant #pathogens emerge? Check out our microreview on whether #fungal disease outbreaks are instigated by Starship #transposons. We present three examples that we think are evidence of outbreaks caused by Starship HGT. bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...