Julie Noah
@jmnoah.bsky.social
Post-doc in @teamthomma.bsky.social
Interested in genomic evolution of fungi
Interested in genomic evolution of fungi
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Responses to Temperature Shocks in Zymoseptoria tritici Reveal Specific Transcriptional Reprogramming and Novel Candidate Genes for Thermal Adaptation | Phytopathology® apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/full/10....
Responses to Temperature Shocks in Zymoseptoria tritici Reveal Specific Transcriptional Reprogramming and Novel Candidate Genes for Thermal Adaptation | Phytopathology®
Pathogens’ responses to sudden temperature fluctuations, spanning various temporal scales, are critical determinants of their survival, growth, reproduction, and homeostasis. Here, we combined phenoty...
apsjournals.apsnet.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Responses to Temperature Shocks in Zymoseptoria tritici Reveal Specific Transcriptional Reprogramming and Novel Candidate Genes for Thermal Adaptation | Phytopathology® apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/full/10....
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Lifestyles shape genome size and gene content in fungal pathogens.
buff.ly/tec1Tds
buff.ly/tec1Tds
November 7, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Lifestyles shape genome size and gene content in fungal pathogens.
buff.ly/tec1Tds
buff.ly/tec1Tds
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⭐ Today's #EMBOMobileGenome programme kicked off with a keynote lecture presented by Orsolya Barabas:
➡️ 'Mechanistic underpinnings of conjugative
transposition of antibiotic resistance'
We're all here until Friday, with lots of interesting talks, poster session, and a fun social programme ahead!
➡️ 'Mechanistic underpinnings of conjugative
transposition of antibiotic resistance'
We're all here until Friday, with lots of interesting talks, poster session, and a fun social programme ahead!
November 4, 2025 at 3:08 PM
⭐ Today's #EMBOMobileGenome programme kicked off with a keynote lecture presented by Orsolya Barabas:
➡️ 'Mechanistic underpinnings of conjugative
transposition of antibiotic resistance'
We're all here until Friday, with lots of interesting talks, poster session, and a fun social programme ahead!
➡️ 'Mechanistic underpinnings of conjugative
transposition of antibiotic resistance'
We're all here until Friday, with lots of interesting talks, poster session, and a fun social programme ahead!
Reposted by Julie Noah
Undermining the cry for help: the phytopathogenic fungus Verticillium dahliae secretes an antimicrobial effector protein to undermine host recruitment of antagonistic Pseudomonas bacteria
Kraege et al. @teamthomma.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Kraege et al. @teamthomma.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
October 31, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Undermining the cry for help: the phytopathogenic fungus Verticillium dahliae secretes an antimicrobial effector protein to undermine host recruitment of antagonistic Pseudomonas bacteria
Kraege et al. @teamthomma.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Kraege et al. @teamthomma.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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📣 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
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, ...
www.biorxiv.org
August 15, 2025 at 7:47 AM
📣 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
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
Reposted by Julie Noah
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.
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...
www.nature.com
July 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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.
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.
Reposted by Julie Noah
📣 Happy to see the journal publication 📄 of our work on Starships 🚀 in Verticillium fungi: terrific work led by @yukiyosato.bsky.social
rdcu.be/exBSp
rdcu.be/exBSp
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...
rdcu.be
July 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM
📣 Happy to see the journal publication 📄 of our work on Starships 🚀 in Verticillium fungi: terrific work led by @yukiyosato.bsky.social
rdcu.be/exBSp
rdcu.be/exBSp
Reposted by Julie Noah
A pangenomics-enabled platform for the high-throughput discovery of antifungal resistance factors in crop pathogens https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.18.665620v1
July 20, 2025 at 4:17 AM
A pangenomics-enabled platform for the high-throughput discovery of antifungal resistance factors in crop pathogens https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.18.665620v1
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Connections are in action in Cologne! At #2025ISMPMI, the poster sessions aren’t just about groundbreaking research—they’re about meeting peers, collaboration, and sharing ideas that move plant-microbe science forward.
Full poster hours here: bit.ly/44LqCvc
#plantscience #networking
Full poster hours here: bit.ly/44LqCvc
#plantscience #networking
July 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Connections are in action in Cologne! At #2025ISMPMI, the poster sessions aren’t just about groundbreaking research—they’re about meeting peers, collaboration, and sharing ideas that move plant-microbe science forward.
Full poster hours here: bit.ly/44LqCvc
#plantscience #networking
Full poster hours here: bit.ly/44LqCvc
#plantscience #networking
Reposted by Julie Noah
L’affaire des souches chinoises de #Fusarium graminearum interceptées aux États-Unis : mon analyse à chaud ▶️ zenodo.org/records/1560...
June 5, 2025 at 10:49 AM
L’affaire des souches chinoises de #Fusarium graminearum interceptées aux États-Unis : mon analyse à chaud ▶️ zenodo.org/records/1560...
Reposted by Julie Noah
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...
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
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...
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...
Reposted by Julie Noah
panREPET: a reference-free pipeline for detecting shared Transposable Elements from pan-genomes to retrace their dynamics in a species
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
Pangenome of cultivated beet and crop wild relatives reveals parental relationships of a tetraploid wild beet
doi.org/10.1101/2023...
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
Pangenome of cultivated beet and crop wild relatives reveals parental relationships of a tetraploid wild beet
doi.org/10.1101/2023...
panREPET: a reference-free pipeline for detecting shared Transposable Elements from pan-genomes to retrace their dynamics in a species
The role of transposable elements (TEs) in host adaptation has gained lots of interest in the recent past. Individuals of the same species undergo independent TE insertions, causing genetic variabilit...
doi.org
May 20, 2025 at 5:16 AM
panREPET: a reference-free pipeline for detecting shared Transposable Elements from pan-genomes to retrace their dynamics in a species
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
Pangenome of cultivated beet and crop wild relatives reveals parental relationships of a tetraploid wild beet
doi.org/10.1101/2023...
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
Pangenome of cultivated beet and crop wild relatives reveals parental relationships of a tetraploid wild beet
doi.org/10.1101/2023...
Reposted by Julie Noah
📜Transposon activity eliminates a crucial fungal secondary metabolite cluster while preserving pathogenicity
🧑🔬 Jelmer Dijkstra, Gert H.J. Kema, et al.
📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#️⃣ #PlantImmunity #FusariumOxysporum #Fusarium #Transposons #FungalGenomics #Fungi
🧑🔬 Jelmer Dijkstra, Gert H.J. Kema, et al.
📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#️⃣ #PlantImmunity #FusariumOxysporum #Fusarium #Transposons #FungalGenomics #Fungi
Transposon activity eliminates a crucial fungal secondary metabolite cluster while preserving pathogenicity
Summary
### Competing Interest Statement
The authors have declared no competing interest.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, https://ror.org/0456r8d26, AG - 4425
Dioraphte Foundation, https://ror.o...
www.biorxiv.org
May 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
📜Transposon activity eliminates a crucial fungal secondary metabolite cluster while preserving pathogenicity
🧑🔬 Jelmer Dijkstra, Gert H.J. Kema, et al.
📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#️⃣ #PlantImmunity #FusariumOxysporum #Fusarium #Transposons #FungalGenomics #Fungi
🧑🔬 Jelmer Dijkstra, Gert H.J. Kema, et al.
📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#️⃣ #PlantImmunity #FusariumOxysporum #Fusarium #Transposons #FungalGenomics #Fungi
Reposted by Julie Noah
📣 Short-term #postdoctoral #position in plant disease epidemiology modeling @inrae-bioger.bsky.social @inrae-save.bsky.social @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social. Please share it! 🙏
eng-bioger.versailles-saclay.hub.inrae.fr/content/down...
eng-bioger.versailles-saclay.hub.inrae.fr/content/down...
March 3, 2025 at 9:20 AM
📣 Short-term #postdoctoral #position in plant disease epidemiology modeling @inrae-bioger.bsky.social @inrae-save.bsky.social @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social. Please share it! 🙏
eng-bioger.versailles-saclay.hub.inrae.fr/content/down...
eng-bioger.versailles-saclay.hub.inrae.fr/content/down...
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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...
Reposted by Julie Noah
Excited to share our recent work on the evolution of ectomycorrhizal plants! 🌳 🧬 🖥️
doi.org/10.1111/nph.70054
With: Yvet Boele, @puginiercamille.bsky.social, @mbianc.bsky.social, Cyril Libourel, @maximebonhomme.bsky.social, @kellerjeanphd.bsky.social, @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social
A thread: (1/5)
doi.org/10.1111/nph.70054
With: Yvet Boele, @puginiercamille.bsky.social, @mbianc.bsky.social, Cyril Libourel, @maximebonhomme.bsky.social, @kellerjeanphd.bsky.social, @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social
A thread: (1/5)
Ectomycorrhizal symbiosis evolved independently and by convergent gene duplication in rosid lineages
Click on the article title to read more.
doi.org
March 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Excited to share our recent work on the evolution of ectomycorrhizal plants! 🌳 🧬 🖥️
doi.org/10.1111/nph.70054
With: Yvet Boele, @puginiercamille.bsky.social, @mbianc.bsky.social, Cyril Libourel, @maximebonhomme.bsky.social, @kellerjeanphd.bsky.social, @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social
A thread: (1/5)
doi.org/10.1111/nph.70054
With: Yvet Boele, @puginiercamille.bsky.social, @mbianc.bsky.social, Cyril Libourel, @maximebonhomme.bsky.social, @kellerjeanphd.bsky.social, @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social
A thread: (1/5)
Reposted by Julie Noah
1/ Transposable elements are often called "jumping genes" because they mobilize within genomes. 🧬
But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯
Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A short thread 🧵👇
But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯
Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A short thread 🧵👇
March 17, 2025 at 11:56 AM
1/ Transposable elements are often called "jumping genes" because they mobilize within genomes. 🧬
But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯
Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A short thread 🧵👇
But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯
Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A short thread 🧵👇
Reposted by Julie Noah
Science, research & public health face unprecedented attacks in the U.S.
We stand with our American colleagues & support the Stand Up for Science call.
Join the global march tomorrow, incl. in Paris! 🧪✊
📍 March 7, 13:30 – Place Jussieu
🔗 More info: standupforscience.fr
#StandUpForScience
We stand with our American colleagues & support the Stand Up for Science call.
Join the global march tomorrow, incl. in Paris! 🧪✊
📍 March 7, 13:30 – Place Jussieu
🔗 More info: standupforscience.fr
#StandUpForScience
March 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Science, research & public health face unprecedented attacks in the U.S.
We stand with our American colleagues & support the Stand Up for Science call.
Join the global march tomorrow, incl. in Paris! 🧪✊
📍 March 7, 13:30 – Place Jussieu
🔗 More info: standupforscience.fr
#StandUpForScience
We stand with our American colleagues & support the Stand Up for Science call.
Join the global march tomorrow, incl. in Paris! 🧪✊
📍 March 7, 13:30 – Place Jussieu
🔗 More info: standupforscience.fr
#StandUpForScience