danielcroll.bsky.social
We want to understand how pathogens adapt and cause diseases. Also passionate about TEs, pangenomes & population genomics, bioinformatics and conservation genomics.
Professor of Evolutionary Genetics @ University of Neuchatel 🇨🇭
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Amazing - congrats all!
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Wonderful! Conditions look still good around Flüela!
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It is sad that even basic research needs to be defended with utility. For me, basic research is in the same category as art: civilized societies can't do without it, because we all want to know who we are and what our place in the natural world is -- questions that only science can answer.
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Not sure what scares me more... the giant size of that TE, the fact that it carries along a herpes virus genome or the thought of an actual Teratorn.
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Great to see this out! Congrats @fmenardo.bsky.social and @jigisha1.bsky.social !
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That's such an astonishing story! Big congrats to Sylvia and you!
Thanks also for making me rethink TEs!
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Congrats Klaus! 😉
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Congrats Dave!!
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Yes, of course! (replying for your friend, obviously) 😉
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We have a postdoc position on "Evolution of cross-kingdom RNA crosstalk". The project is on sRNA evolution in plant pathogens studied via pangenomics.
You find the full ad here: pathogen-genomics.org/jobs/
Happy to answer any question!
Please spread the word to anyone who might be interested.
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We have a postdoc position on "Fungal population genomics" focused on domestication and co-invasion processes in diverse fungi.
You find the full ad here: pathogen-genomics.org/jobs/
Happy to answer any question!
Please spread the word to anyone who might be interested.
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We have a postdoc position on "Beetle-fungus co-invasion genomics" looking at ambrosia beetle/fungi symbionts across the globe. Collab with WSL Zurich.
You find the full ad here: pathogen-genomics.org/jobs/
Happy to answer any question!
Please spread the word to anyone who might be interested.
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We have a postdoc position on "Deep learning for evolutionary genomics" with a focus on genome structure evolution, introgression detection and more.
You find the full ad here: pathogen-genomics.org/jobs/
Happy to answer any question!
Please spread the word to anyone who might be interested.
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Congrats Hassan - amazing!
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Well, I will surely ask the question 😊
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... And bonus points if you figure out the website acronym!
Took me a few seconds.
(sorry can't offer free registration though)
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With @riccardobaroncelli.bsky.social, @mfseidl.bsky.social, @mcdonaldmeganc.bsky.social, Luigi Faino, Lea Atanasova, Alessandra Villani and Matteo Schiavinato!
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Thanks Russ!
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In conclusion, we find that the species experienced multiple historic waves of TE expansions and the generated genetic diversity now contributes to the pathogen's evolutionary potential.
Please read here the preprint and share it: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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We tried to tie together the timing of a TE family expansion with potential adaptive functions. These could be linked to fungicide resistance gains or other pathogen traits.
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A large and diverse number of TE families show high variation in copy number among populations.
The variation in TE numbers often tracks the expansion out of the pathogen's origin in the Middle East.
We then focused on the TEs showing the most dramatic recent expansions across the genome.