A quick reminder that the #GGFungi2026 Call For Projects closes on 21st April — just a few days away! 

If you’re considering applying, now is the time:
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Méditerranée : la culture des céréales par un groupe de femmes tunisiennes YouTube video by Fondation de France

Méditerranée : la culture des céréales par un groupe de femmes tunisiennes youtu.be/751Ak6fyUJo?...

Don’t Perish! A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Scientific Paper (2026 edition) Great science deserves to be read — not buried under unclear writing. This is the updated 2026 edition of your favorite guide to writing…

I just published Don’t Perish! A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Scientific Paper (2026 edition)

Great science deserves to be read—not buried under unclear writing. This is the updated 2026 edition of your favorite guide to writing scientific papers.

medium.com/p/dont-peris...

GGFungi2026 | GetGenome GetGenome is excited to announce #GGFungi2026 Call for Projects - an open call to support the fungi research community to generate sequencing data for non-pathogenic fungi. Eligible researchers must b...

#GGFungi2026 - an open call to support the fungi research community to generate sequencing data for non-pathogenic fungi. Eligible researchers must be based in a research institute or university within an eligible country and actively working with non-pathogenic fungi. @getgenome.bsky.social

The March newsletter has arrived!

> #GGFungi2026 gaining interest from around the world getgenome.net/callforproje...

> Submit your abstract for the Early-Career Symposium
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> Highlights from Asilomar 2026

> Community-led initiatives making real impact

Register now! 5 days to go. Transferable skills online training:

A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Scientific Paper

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The stinky sandwich that changed everything What APH Career Day 2026 taught us about building a life in plant science

I just published: The stinky sandwich that changed everything

What APH Career Day 2026 taught us about building a life in plant science

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GetGenome is present at the Asilomar Fungal Genetics Conference #fungal26

Come and visit and spread the word about #ggfungi2026

Today’s @TheSainsburyLab @JohnInnesCentre Friday seminar is Michael Laub @michael_laub8 on anti-phage immune systems

Hosted by our one and only AmirAli @amiralito_

En Tunisie, la cochenille ravage les figues de Barbarie : "c'est un désastre pour les agriculteurs" YouTube video by Les Observateurs France 24

En Tunisie, la cochenille ravage les figues de Barbarie : "c'est un désastre…” youtu.be/BMq8UjmHrO0?...

Africa features heavily here, yet African researchers are not in the lead, and instead relegated to a couple of middle-authorship. Thoughts?

ViroiDoc MSCA Doctoral Network announces workshop:

What: Don’t Perish! A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Scientific Paper

When: Thursday, 2 April 2026, 9:30–12:30 CET

Where: online, Webex

This event in English is open free of charge. Registration will open soon.

www.viroidoc.eu/b/dont-peris...

Quiz time!

Attending @micronorwich Annual Conference? ReSay Podcast organising micro-quiz / mega-impact. You can register here buff.ly/uP2iWNI

There are prizes on offer, £2 entry fee will go toward
@getgenome.bsky.social supporting researchers across global south. Donations are matched too!

#GGFungi2026 Call For Projects is now open for applications getgenome.net/callforproje...

We will be holding an information session today 3rd March at 14:00 CET (08:00 Eastern US; 18:00 PKT). To sign up please complete this short form - forms.office.com/e/DssYYkkY9Z

GetGenome Newsletter -- February 2026

✔️#GGFungi2026 now open for applications!

✔️ECR Symposium: Open for abstract submission and virtual attendance

✔️Stay up to date by joining the mailing list today

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The Microbial Genomics ECR Symposium will return again this summer!

Co-organised by @norwichmicro.bsky.social and @getgenome.bsky.social the symposium will take place on 15th July 2026 at the John Innes Conference Centre.

Please register here: web.novogene.com/2026TheMicro...

Last newsletter of 2025 highlighting a few of GetGenome’s recent activities.

Graduate Scholarships | Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford Discover the graduate funding and collaboration opportunities at EIT Oxford. There are currently two pathways for full funding to pursue a DPhil/PhD at the University of Oxford. Doctoral students play...

Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) provides fully funded scholarships forDPhil/PhD study at University of Oxford, where students directly aim to solve some of humanity’s most enduring challenges. Applications now open! www.eit.org/scholars/gra...

GetGenome in 2025: onward and upward 2025 was a big year for GetGenome. We doubled down on our mission to democratize genomics, connect early-career researchers, and amplify…

I just published: GetGenome in 2025: onward and upward

2025 was a big year for @GetGenome. We doubled down on our mission to democratize genomics, connect early-career researchers, and amplify microbial voices from every corner of the planet.

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7 random unsolicited tips for students and early career researchers You might not want to hear them, but here they are anyway.

More unsolicited advice for early career researchers:

8. Just do it!

Just keep moving, keep taking initiative, and good things will follow. It’s the only sensible way to spend our limited time on this planet and value life. kamounlab.medium.com/7-random-uns...

Battling crop diseases without borders | John Innes Centre DEWAS is one of the world’s largest crop pathogen surveillance and advisory systems, protecting wheat productivity in food vulnerable areas of East Africa and South Asia.

GetGenome is proud to partner with @johninnescentre.bsky.social , @cimmyt.bsky.social , @gatesfoundation.bsky.social and #DEWAS to advance a bottom-up, equitable approach to access genomics 🌾 🧬

“Battling crop diseases without borders” www.jic.ac.uk/blog/battlin...

Check our November 2025 newsletter.

Remember, you can find our previous newsletters here - getgenome.net/network

GetGenome October 2025 newsletter highlighting a few of GetGenome’s recent activities.

Remember, you can find our previous newsletters here - getgenome.net/network

Hela Gargouri kicking off the Tunisian Bioinformatic Congress #Tbio2025 in Sousse 🇹🇳

@GetGenome is proud to support this event!

GetGenome Newsletter -- September 2025 getgenome.net/network

🌍 Early Career Researcher from an Arab or African country? Fellowships available for 3–12 months at Nanjing Agricultural University. Apply by Oct 15 — don’t miss out!

Warmest congrats to Nourelhouda Abdelkafi and colleagues at University of Sfax 🇹🇳 for their paper "Comparative genomics of three rhizobacteria strains indicate functional complementarity for inoculum development" #GGTunisia2022 #GetGenome doi.org/10.1016/j.rh...

Defence systems encoded by core genomic islands of seventh pandemic Vibrio cholerae | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Vibrio cholerae, the causative agent of cholera, has triggered seven pandemics, with the seventh pandemic emerging in 1961. The success of seventh pandemic El Tor (7PET) V. cholerae as a human pathogen is linked to its acquisition of mobile genetic ...

Excited to share my latest review, now published in the Royal Society theme issue on ‘The ecology and evolution of bacterial immune systems' (available OA):

Defence systems encoded by core genomic islands of seventh pandemic Vibrio cholerae royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...