Phd Position alert 🚨
Join our project ASTRAfun (Adaptation and Starship Traffic in Root-Associated fungi), in which we will use computational models to unveil the hidden dynamics of fungal evolution.
It’s not going to be just regular fun. It’s going to ASTRAfun. 🤓
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Good question! To my knowledge there are a few cases known of genetically different fungi fusing, but those lineages were still within the same genus
My guess would be EVs, larger vectors (viruses, Starships?), maybe hyphael fusion
Now officially published in Current Biology 🥳🥳 @mfseidl.bsky.social @binfutrecht.bsky.social
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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...
Transposable elements hitchhike on Starships across fungal genomes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06....
In this study, we screened over 1,300 fungal genomes and found a conservative estimate of 5,500+ horizontal transfer events. Strikingly, in some fungi, up to 70% of their TE content appears to be the product of horizontal transfer of TEs
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.
Extremely proud of @anouk-vw.bsky.social successfully defending her PhD thesis yesterday at @w-u-r.bsky.social
