Ursula Oggenfuss
@oggenfussursula.bsky.social
🍄🧬 Screening trough fungal genomes to detect 🔻transposable elements🔻 and structural variation
The best two things in one database: Transposons and Fungi
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...
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...
October 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The best two things in one database: Transposons and Fungi
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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...
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...
October 29, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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...
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...
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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...
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...
Open Positions
ERC-funded project on the mechanism of horizontal transfer of entire fungal chromosomes PhD PostDoc
fungal-evolutionary-genetics.de
October 13, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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...
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...
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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
October 16, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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
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At its meeting of 17 and 18 September 2025 and upon application of Joël Mesot, President of ETH Zurich, the ETH Board appointed eight professors. The Board also awarded the title of "Professor of Practice" once.
More info:
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Eight professors appointed
At its meeting of 17 and 18 September 2025 and upon application of Joël Mesot, President of ETH Zurich, the ETH Board appointed eight professors. The Board also awarded the title of
ethz.ch
September 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
At its meeting of 17 and 18 September 2025 and upon application of Joël Mesot, President of ETH Zurich, the ETH Board appointed eight professors. The Board also awarded the title of "Professor of Practice" once.
More info:
More info:
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The first paper of my PhD is now available as a preprint! 🎉
Transposable elements (TEs) don't just jump within fungal genomes, they also move extensively between species. In this study, we screened over 1,300 fungal genomes and found a conservative estimate of 5,500+ horizontal transfer events.
Transposable elements (TEs) don't just jump within fungal genomes, they also move extensively between species. In this study, we screened over 1,300 fungal genomes and found a conservative estimate of 5,500+ horizontal transfer events.
www.biorxiv.org
June 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
The first paper of my PhD is now available as a preprint! 🎉
Transposable elements (TEs) don't just jump within fungal genomes, they also move extensively between species. In this study, we screened over 1,300 fungal genomes and found a conservative estimate of 5,500+ horizontal transfer events.
Transposable elements (TEs) don't just jump within fungal genomes, they also move extensively between species. In this study, we screened over 1,300 fungal genomes and found a conservative estimate of 5,500+ horizontal transfer events.
Happy Barbara Day, happy #TransposonDay2025 to all that celebrate! Every day we get to work on transposons is such a privilege and joy, and I will never not be amazed by these jumping weirdos -the neutral, the bad and the good. Share some black walnut brownies with your friends today!
🧬🌽 Happy Transposon Day! 🌽🧬
Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025
Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025
June 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Happy Barbara Day, happy #TransposonDay2025 to all that celebrate! Every day we get to work on transposons is such a privilege and joy, and I will never not be amazed by these jumping weirdos -the neutral, the bad and the good. Share some black walnut brownies with your friends today!
For those interested in repeat-induced point mutations (RIP) in fungi: Thomas Badet set up an amazing meeting in beautiful Neuchâtel #TEsworldwide #Transposon
🔥 Exciting news! The first Symposium on Repeat-Induced Point mutations is happening June 30 – July 1 at the University of Neuchâtel🇨🇭!
🔹 Want to join? Register here > forms.gle/XWTd4gJAXZSx...
🚨 Limited spots available! So first come, first served!
🔹 More info > crolllab.github.io/ripm2025/
🔹 Want to join? Register here > forms.gle/XWTd4gJAXZSx...
🚨 Limited spots available! So first come, first served!
🔹 More info > crolllab.github.io/ripm2025/
RIPM 2025
Symposium on Repeat-induced Point Mutation research, 30.6 - 1.7, Neuchatel, Switzerland
crolllab.github.io
March 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
For those interested in repeat-induced point mutations (RIP) in fungi: Thomas Badet set up an amazing meeting in beautiful Neuchâtel #TEsworldwide #Transposon
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🔥 The event will bring together molecular biologists, evolutionary geneticists, and bioinformaticians to explore RIP’s role in transposable element control, genome integrity, and fungal adaptation.
Looking forward to seeing you in Neuchâtel! 🏔️ #RIPM2025 #FungalGenomics #EvolutionaryBiology
Looking forward to seeing you in Neuchâtel! 🏔️ #RIPM2025 #FungalGenomics #EvolutionaryBiology
March 28, 2025 at 9:47 AM
🔥 The event will bring together molecular biologists, evolutionary geneticists, and bioinformaticians to explore RIP’s role in transposable element control, genome integrity, and fungal adaptation.
Looking forward to seeing you in Neuchâtel! 🏔️ #RIPM2025 #FungalGenomics #EvolutionaryBiology
Looking forward to seeing you in Neuchâtel! 🏔️ #RIPM2025 #FungalGenomics #EvolutionaryBiology
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🔥 Exciting news! The first Symposium on Repeat-Induced Point mutations is happening June 30 – July 1 at the University of Neuchâtel🇨🇭!
🔹 Want to join? Register here > forms.gle/XWTd4gJAXZSx...
🚨 Limited spots available! So first come, first served!
🔹 More info > crolllab.github.io/ripm2025/
🔹 Want to join? Register here > forms.gle/XWTd4gJAXZSx...
🚨 Limited spots available! So first come, first served!
🔹 More info > crolllab.github.io/ripm2025/
RIPM 2025
Symposium on Repeat-induced Point Mutation research, 30.6 - 1.7, Neuchatel, Switzerland
crolllab.github.io
March 28, 2025 at 9:47 AM
🔥 Exciting news! The first Symposium on Repeat-Induced Point mutations is happening June 30 – July 1 at the University of Neuchâtel🇨🇭!
🔹 Want to join? Register here > forms.gle/XWTd4gJAXZSx...
🚨 Limited spots available! So first come, first served!
🔹 More info > crolllab.github.io/ripm2025/
🔹 Want to join? Register here > forms.gle/XWTd4gJAXZSx...
🚨 Limited spots available! So first come, first served!
🔹 More info > crolllab.github.io/ripm2025/
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@guidopuccetti.bsky.social, Gabriel Scalliet and I are excited to share our latest work.
Resistance in agriculture emerges fast, but we fail to grasp how the myriad mutations in pathogen populations contribute to this.
Please check out and share our latest preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Resistance in agriculture emerges fast, but we fail to grasp how the myriad mutations in pathogen populations contribute to this.
Please check out and share our latest preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
March 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
@guidopuccetti.bsky.social, Gabriel Scalliet and I are excited to share our latest work.
Resistance in agriculture emerges fast, but we fail to grasp how the myriad mutations in pathogen populations contribute to this.
Please check out and share our latest preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Resistance in agriculture emerges fast, but we fail to grasp how the myriad mutations in pathogen populations contribute to this.
Please check out and share our latest preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Honestly I am worried about the impact Trump policies will have on the future of third world PhD students who wants to do it abroad. Americans leaving for Europe will make the process even more harder for people coming from developing and underdeveloped nations.
March 1, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Honestly I am worried about the impact Trump policies will have on the future of third world PhD students who wants to do it abroad. Americans leaving for Europe will make the process even more harder for people coming from developing and underdeveloped nations.
Reposted by Ursula Oggenfuss
Interested in #fungal accessory chromosomes or toxin/antidote genes? Check out our new preprint! We show that the Spok gene family in Fusarium include active toxin/antidote genes. We present a model for how these genes influence the evolution of fungal genomes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
February 11, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Interested in #fungal accessory chromosomes or toxin/antidote genes? Check out our new preprint! We show that the Spok gene family in Fusarium include active toxin/antidote genes. We present a model for how these genes influence the evolution of fungal genomes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This goes on the top of my break reading list! It has everything that could be asked for: Starships! Transposable elements! Fungi! And an amazing group of scientists! #TEsky #transposons
December 23, 2024 at 4:11 PM
This goes on the top of my break reading list! It has everything that could be asked for: Starships! Transposable elements! Fungi! And an amazing group of scientists! #TEsky #transposons
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#TEsky Please circulate! The interdisciplinary research group I'm part of is looking for two postdocs to work on transposons with us here at the U of Guelph in Ontario Canada. philjobs.org/job/show/28330
Postdoctoral Fellow , University of Guelph, Canada
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Postdoctoral Fellow , University of Guelph, Canada
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December 23, 2024 at 2:10 PM
#TEsky Please circulate! The interdisciplinary research group I'm part of is looking for two postdocs to work on transposons with us here at the U of Guelph in Ontario Canada. philjobs.org/job/show/28330
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RP PLS! Iʻm hiring 3 postdocs at U Hawaiʻi to study yeast diversity and evolution, marine fungi, and the genomics of microbiomes in experimental foodwebs. All of these projects have existing datasets and LATITUDE to pursue individual interests and "blue sky" ideas www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/5d7u4...
November 26, 2024 at 7:19 PM
RP PLS! Iʻm hiring 3 postdocs at U Hawaiʻi to study yeast diversity and evolution, marine fungi, and the genomics of microbiomes in experimental foodwebs. All of these projects have existing datasets and LATITUDE to pursue individual interests and "blue sky" ideas www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/5d7u4...
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If you like #Transposons 👾 check out this feed and tag your posts with #TEsky! Thanks @tobybarilbio.bsky.social 🤗 bsky.app/profile/did:...
November 15, 2024 at 6:58 AM
If you like #Transposons 👾 check out this feed and tag your posts with #TEsky! Thanks @tobybarilbio.bsky.social 🤗 bsky.app/profile/did:...
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I have asked ResearchGate over at the ex-platform to explain and to cancel the partnership with an unserious publisher like MDPI. If they don't, I too will delete my profile and leave the site. I suggest others in #science do the same.
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I’ll be deleting my ResearchGate account today. If you feel that one website that builds silly and useless metrics partnering with a predatory journal publisher is bad for science (and other scholarly pursuits), I suggest you do the same. 🧪⚒️
November 17, 2023 at 10:35 PM
I have asked ResearchGate over at the ex-platform to explain and to cancel the partnership with an unserious publisher like MDPI. If they don't, I too will delete my profile and leave the site. I suggest others in #science do the same.
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🧬💚New preprint out, led by Ludwig and our fresh MSc graduate Kristin: Reliable repetitiveDNA consensus sequences from short reads -- do they exist and how can you do them? Is it worth in times of ONT/PacBio? Can newer genome assembly tools help?
🧬🖥️📈find out: doi.org/10.1101/2023...
🧬🖥️📈find out: doi.org/10.1101/2023...
October 31, 2023 at 10:49 AM
🧬💚New preprint out, led by Ludwig and our fresh MSc graduate Kristin: Reliable repetitiveDNA consensus sequences from short reads -- do they exist and how can you do them? Is it worth in times of ONT/PacBio? Can newer genome assembly tools help?
🧬🖥️📈find out: doi.org/10.1101/2023...
🧬🖥️📈find out: doi.org/10.1101/2023...
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Very cool work from @oggenfussursula.bsky.social on transposable element derived domains in fungal proteomes 🍄 I’m super excited to see more such insights into the fungal kingdom, so much more to learn
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A systematic screen for co-option of transposable elements across the fungal kingdom
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
www.biorxiv.org
October 26, 2023 at 7:06 AM
Very cool work from @oggenfussursula.bsky.social on transposable element derived domains in fungal proteomes 🍄 I’m super excited to see more such insights into the fungal kingdom, so much more to learn
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Amazing work led by Ursula Oggenfuss @oggenfussursula.bsky.social and helped Thomas Badet now out as a preprint. Please check it out and tell us what you think.
"A systematic screen for co-option of transposable elements across the fungal kingdom"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
"A systematic screen for co-option of transposable elements across the fungal kingdom"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 25, 2023 at 3:01 PM
Amazing work led by Ursula Oggenfuss @oggenfussursula.bsky.social and helped Thomas Badet now out as a preprint. Please check it out and tell us what you think.
"A systematic screen for co-option of transposable elements across the fungal kingdom"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
"A systematic screen for co-option of transposable elements across the fungal kingdom"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...