#GGFungi2026 Call for Projects is now closed.

Thank you for your interest: 76 Applications from 18 countries!

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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Submission deadline in one week!

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

📢CALL FOR COLLABORATION📢

My PhD student Warre is looking for flies infected with #Laboulbeniales fungi. Especially Musca domestica!

If you have any, store in 96% ethanol or in the freezer, record on @inaturalist.bsky.social, and/or contact Warre.

#TeamLaboul #LFEE #LuminaQuaeruntur

Distinct modes of sequence evolution and epigenetic modifications underpin the origins of Starship-mediated variation in Pyricularia fungal plant pathogens www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01...

PAQman: reference-free ensemble evaluation of long-read eukaryotic genome assemblies www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09....

O'Donnell et al. investigated the evolution of Starships - a class of giant transposons - in Aspergillus and Penicillium, finding that domesticated lineages exhibited greater Starship content than relatives from non-human environments.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf125

#genome #evolution #TEsky

📢 New paper out in Mol Syst Biol!
During the development of WT yeast colonies, small cell subpopulations experience transient, high-intensity mutational bursts. Such hypermutation episodes are modulated by the DNA damage tolerance pathway 🧬
🔗 www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Postdoc_Evol_Genomics_Sorbonne.docx Postdoctoral position in Yeast Evolutionary Genomics Hosting unit Laboratory of Computational, Quantitative, and Synthetic Biology (CQSB). The CQSB is an interdisciplinary research unit within the ...

🚨 We're hiring! 🚨
A 2-year postdoc position is now open in our lab to explore the fascinating world of yeast polyploid genomes, their structure, stability, and adaptive potential.

🔗 More info here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Please repost!

#Postdoc #Genomics #Yeast #Polyploidy #Evolution

We show eukaryotic #HGT across >100 million years of evolution through simple co-culture: the fungal equivalent of taking yourself for a swim with a platypus and walking away with a new bill 🧪🍄🦆🚀 Great work everyone!

A natural mechanism of eukaryotic horizontal gene transfer www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02....