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Yukiyo Sato
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Postdoc @Team Thomma in University of Cologne, studying plant-microbe interactions, viruses, and fungal genomics
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mcdonaldmeganc.bsky.social
Our latest pre-print on TE-mediated tandem duplication of the ToxB effector is now online...still a puzzle for us but we think it is in a Helitron! Together with amazing collaborators, Reem Aboukhaddour and Ryan Gourlie #TE #fungi
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The virulence gene ToxB is both amplified and disrupted by transposons in the wheat pathogen Pyrenophora tritici-repentis
### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, https://ror.org/051dzs374 Alberta Grain Saskatchewan Wheat Development Commissio...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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tobybarilbio.bsky.social
TEs aren’t just genomic parasites, they’re also engines of genomic novelty.

Our new study with ~2,000 Z. tritici genomes shows repeated TE mobilization waves during global expansion.

With @danielcroll.bsky.social & @guidopuccetti.bsky.social

🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#TEworldwide
Historic transposon mobilisation waves create distinct pools of adaptive variants in a major crop pathogen - Nature Communications
In this study, the authors analysed a large genomic dataset to trace how jumping genes shaped the global spread of a major wheat pathogen and reveal bursts of activity over decades that drove adaptati...
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November 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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metalichen.bsky.social
Our paper on the #genome of the Trebouxia #photobiont from Xanthoria is now out in @newphyt.bsky.social! Check below for a near-chromosome level assembly, secretome analysis, evidence of ancient HGT, and transcriptomic comparison of the alga in symbiosis and in pure culture
doi.org/10.1111/nph.70728
the top half shows two panels with microscopy images. Left is a light-microscopy image of a group of algal cells. The cells are round with different sizes. Two arrows point at sporangia: one looks as if someone stuffed 8 footballs in a thin elastic bag. The other is perfectly round and contains many small spores within. The right panel shows the same group of cells, but in fluorescent microscopy, where green color shows chloroplasts. In each cell the chloroplasts are globular with small lobes sticking out. The bottom half shows a photo of Xanthoria lichen - bright yellow and leafy growing on a tree branch
November 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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zarizarah.bsky.social
🚨My very first (co-)first author paper got published in @pnas.org 🥳

We describe the tripartite interkingdom interaction between a yeast, the oomycete pathogen Albugo laibachii and a bacterium, mediated by a GH25 lysozyme 🦠

Thanks to everyone involved!

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
GH25 lysozyme mediates tripartite interkingdom interactions and microbial competition on the plant leaf surface | PNAS
Microbial communities inhabiting plants have emerged as crucial factors in regulating plant health and defense against disease-causing pathogens. T...
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November 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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leocastanedo.bsky.social
🛑Exciting update from our work with @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social team on the ericoid mycorrhizal symbiosis❗❗

🔥New results support a conserved three-gene module and master regulator for nutrient-responsive intracellular accommodation of fungal symbionts🤯

Check the nice thread below👇🏼
#plantscience
katharinamel1.bsky.social Katharina Melkonian @katharinamel1.bsky.social · 17d
1/ It is my pleasure to share the latest preprint of the team: "Symbiotic diversification relies on an ancestral gene network in plants"

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Here, we identified and functionally validated a novel master regulator of intracellular symbioses!

A thread ...
#PlantScience
Symbiotic diversification relies on an ancestral gene network in plants
Symbioses have been fundamental to colonization of terrestrial ecosystems by plants and their evolution. Emergence of the ancient arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis was followed by the diversification o...
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November 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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cbarragan.bsky.social
My new Emmy Noether Group is recruiting!

🔬 Two PhD positions in plant pathogen evolution

🧬 Start: April 2026 (flexible)

📍 Dept. of Phytopathology & Plant Protection @rstam.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de

⏰ Apply by 15 Dec 2025

🔗 More info: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/...

Do get in touch or share 😊
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November 3, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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izzysaurlab.bsky.social
Postdoc position in my lab in Cologne starting early next year or latest in spring to get this exciting project started.

jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...
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November 2, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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antonkraege.bsky.social
I’m very happy to see my fist article now officially published 🥳 great work by my partner in crime @wolki95.bsky.social and the rest of @teamthomma.bsky.social! Find it here: doi.org/10.1111/nph.... or have a look at the 🧵⬇️
October 30, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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teamthomma.bsky.social
📣 Now announcing the journal publication 📄 of our work in @newphyt.bsky.social on how Verticillium undermines the plant's 🌱 "cry for help": terrific work by @antonkraege.bsky.social & @wolki95.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph....
Undermining the cry for help: the phytopathogenic fungus Verticillium dahliae secretes an antimicrobial effector protein to undermine host recruitment of antagonistic Pseudomonas bacteria
During pathogen attack, plants recruit beneficial microbes in a ‘cry for help’ to mitigate disease development. Simultaneously, pathogens secrete effectors to promote host colonisation through vario...
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October 30, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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tobybarilbio.bsky.social
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...
October 29, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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danielcroll.bsky.social
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/...
October 16, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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teamthomma.bsky.social
📣 New @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social preprint, another joint-venture of @wolki95.bsky.social & @antonkraege.bsky.social, co-directed by @nicksnelders.bsky.social. Here’s a 🧵
biorxiv-plants.bsky.social bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · Oct 2
Differential contributions of an antimicrobial effector from Verticillium dahliae to virulence and tomato microbiota assembly across natural soils https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.30.679524v1
October 14, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social
Please re-post:

Interested in chromatin and its evolution? Good news! There's still time to join us in beautiful Catalonia (9-12 Dec) to discuss eukaryotic, bacterial, archaeal, and viral chromatin and how it all hangs together meetings.embo.org/event/24-evo...

Abstract deadline: 30 September
EvoChromo: Evolutionary approaches to research in chromatin
Chromatin is the complex of DNA, RNA and protein that is found making up the chromosomes in eukaryotic cells. Chromatin is essential for proper genome function and is involved in chromosome segregati…
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September 8, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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angusb.bsky.social
Delighted that our work on the Sanctuary Starship #transposon is now published! A big thanks to all co-authors, especially to the ever-amazing @mcdonaldmeganc.bsky.social for her mentorship!

doi.org/10.1128/mbio...
Sanctuary: a Starship transposon facilitating the movement of the virulence factor ToxA in fungal wheat pathogens | mBio
The work presented here expands our understanding of a novel group of mobile genetic elements called Starships that facilitate the horizontal exchange of numerous genes between fungal pathogens. Our a...
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September 6, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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mesny.bsky.social
📣 NEW PREPRINT 📝

We identified evolutionary origins of many fungal effectors!
We show that fungi secrete lots of antimicrobial proteins, and that some of them were repurposed by plant pathogens for host immune suppression.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

cc @teamthomma.bsky.social
Plant-associated fungi co-opt ancient antimicrobials for host manipulation
Evolutionary histories of effector proteins secreted by fungal pathogens to mediate plant colonization remain largely elusive. While most functionally characterized effectors modulate plant immunity, ...
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August 15, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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mcmullan0.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Really nice. Especially nice RIP result linked to ancestral sex hypotheses. Which then links nicely to plastic genomic regions and adaptation in the face of asexual reproduction.
Starship giant transposons dominate plastic genomic regions in a fungal plant pathogen and drive virulence evolution - Nature Communications
Giant transposons, known as ‘Starships’, mediate horizontal gene transfer between fungal genomes. Here, Sato et al. show that Starships occupy genome regions crucial for infection in a plant pathogeni...
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July 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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teamthomma.bsky.social
📣 Happy to see the journal publication 📄 of our work on Starships 🚀 in Verticillium fungi: terrific work led by @yukiyosato.bsky.social
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Starship giant transposons dominate plastic genomic regions in a fungal plant pathogen and drive virulence evolution
Nature Communications - Giant transposons, known as ‘Starships’, mediate horizontal gene transfer between fungal genomes. Here, Sato et al. show that Starships occupy genome regions...
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July 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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fungage-lab.bsky.social
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/...
Model of Starship mediated transfer of the ToxA gene, that is present on a separate mobile element named ToxhAT. Blue: ToxhAT; Green: Starship Horizon; Yellow: Starship Sanctuary.
July 15, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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tsung-ta.bsky.social
Thanks to everyone who came by my poster today for discussion! #2025ISMPMI

If you weren’t able to make it but still interested in the potential role native plasmids play within Sphingomonas-plant interactions. Can check it out now on Zenodo zenodo.org/records/1591...
Small DNA, Big Impact? Exploring the role of plasmids in Sphingomonas – plant interactions
This poster was presented at the 2025 IS-MPMI, Cologne Submitted Abstract Plasmids provide traits that can enable bacteria to adapt to unique and changing environments. Sphingomonas, an often-benefici...
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July 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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jromeijn.bsky.social
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.
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June 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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teamthomma.bsky.social
Last week, our latest @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint was released, a joint-venture of @antonkraege.bsky.social & @wolki95.bsky.social and co-directed by @nicksnelders.bsky.social a 🧵
biorxiv-plants.bsky.social bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · Jun 11
Undermining the cry for help: The phytopathogenic fungus Verticillium dahliae secretes an antimicrobial effector protein to undermine host recruitment of antagonistic Pseudomonas bacteria https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.09.658588v1
June 16, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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biorxiv-plants.bsky.social
Undermining the cry for help: The phytopathogenic fungus Verticillium dahliae secretes an antimicrobial effector protein to undermine host recruitment of antagonistic Pseudomonas bacteria https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.09.658588v1
June 11, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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luckystrike1984.bsky.social
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...
JSPS Research Fellowship
The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellowship supports you as a highly qualified postdoc from Germany in conducting your research in Japan – regardless of discipline.
www.humboldt-foundation.de
June 6, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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teamthomma.bsky.social
📣 We have a postdoc position in fungus-microbiota interactions! Apply here: jobportal.uni-koeln.de/bewerben/2197
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For more details, visit: bewerbungsmanagement.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...
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June 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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ccilelorrain.bsky.social
Excited to share the first PhD preprint of @iglavincheska.bsky.social — now on bioRxiv!
We explored the 3D genome of Zymo and found:
🧬 Rabl-like conformation
🧩 Accessory chr tethered to core centromeres
🏰 Self-interacting domains and boundaries with insulator motifs
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
May 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM