The strains differ, but it is hard to pinpoint specific genomic features. Moreover, under lab conditions the strains behave relatively similar.
Do A atra can be pathogen or (harmless) endophyte dependent on the host it infects?
New Preprint: Alternaria atra from distinct ecological roles share functional genomic repertoires
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
A while ago we sequenced A atra collected as pathogen from wild tomato. We compared this with new genomes of strains that grew endophytic in Tillandsia.
That's a good name for software:
MKado: a toolkit for McDonald-Kreitman tests of natural selection
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Yeah. Had a look at the first set of project reports today. Graphs look fine, superficially the analysis looks good. But the biological interpretation and the discussion....
Please share with potentially interested colleagues :)
#Bioinformatics #Genomics #EvolutionaryBiology
🌾 We have an open postdoc position in Plant Genomics in our group at HHU Düsseldorf!
If you enjoy computational biology, asking big questions, and the satisfaction of code working on the first try, check out schneebergerlab.org/career/
Apply by Mar. 31 | 3-year postdoc | German skills required
Shame I can't make it this year... Looks like a great program again.
Hey everyone joining us @ #MBP2026 in mid March, we just released the conference program. Please check it out here: syncandshare.lrz.de/dl/fiPnsPinb... we are super excited to see you all soon and to talk 🌱🔬🥼 over 🍻all night long!
Beautiful! 🥰
You catch Ralstonia with a butterfly net?
After a long drive into Central Java, we set up the mobile lab in the plantation office
Nice! Enjoy.
I miss being in the field, but hope to be able to go to Peru again this year for new sampling! 😁
We have a new insect parameter set for unmasked genomes and a new fungal parameter set for unmasked genomes. Both deliver accuracy superior to previous models for insects and fungi. #genomeannotation #geneprediction github.com/Gaius-August...
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Most microbes do not coevolve with *hosts* even when found associated with hosts
Wondering why there was so much noise coming from the department kitchen... Turns out both the uni HPCs aredown, so it's break time... 🙈
PhD opening
Join a collaborative, interdisciplinary project the Excellence Cluster Future Forests @uni-freiburg.de, working on CRISPR/Cas in poplar to understand how trees cope with climate stress.
Apply here: uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...
@dompsfr.bsky.social @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social
Professorship Molecular Botany. Bremen, Germany.
#plantscijobs #plantscijob
www.academics.de/jobs/profess...
Plant genome sequencing workflow. Details: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-026-12623-z
Need a genome sequence of your favourite plant? We laid out instructions for a complete workflow based on ONT sequencing:
"Cookbook for plant genome sequences"
doi.org/10.1186/s128...
#Genomics #LongReads #PlantSciences #Bioinformatics
@puckerlab.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social
Applications for our MSc programme Agrigenomics are now open!
Are you interested in learning about genomics methods (molecular and computational) in the context of agricultural sciences (either on crops or animals), consider applying!
www.uni-kiel.de/en/aef/study...
Great news — forward looking voices are finally prevailing in the discussion on genome editing in crop plants!
ECRs in plant–microbe interactions:
Join us in Norwich for an intensive, interactive 1.5-week Summer Conference at TSL (20–31 July). Lots of opportunities for networking and deep discussions.
(We also plan to offer hands-on practical sessions using our technologies 🔬🧬)
Peer Review is broken because a generation of Editors were trained that peer review is sacrosanct. Thus we have Editors who are clerks, sending and re-sending manuscripts to reviewers until they are happy. That's not the job. Be an Editor, not a clerk. Use your skill and judgement. Make decisions.
Gold OA: the gift that keeps on giving
Host microenvironment in potato–Phytophthora infestans interaction revealed by single-cell spatiotemporal transcriptome www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dear @dfg.de So, I will spend months writing a grant and you will let people judge it with AI tools that are trained on predatory journals like Frontiers, MDPI or alike that are practically not peer-reviewed??? Is this how you will select cutting edge science??? #idiocracy
Towards a quantitative view of NLR evolution in genome space -- check out where we think the field of #NLR #evolution research is heading in this review led by Luzie Wingen and Aurélien Tellier.
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
#plantscience
🌍 Internationale Studierende: Der globale Markt ordnet sich neu
USA, Kanada, Australien und Großbritannien ziehen die Bremse. Der Gastbeitrag von Britta Baron zeigt, wer davon profitiert – und wie Deutschland einen Sonderweg geht.
Im Wiarda-Blog:
👉 www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2026/01...
I can't say I am surprised. I once had a brief chat with LLMs about my own profile, and it made up several papers and journals that I had not written or submitted to. This BS will be the new normal. It already is. And we are totally letting it happen.
Just wow...
