Fungal evolutionary ecology, genomics, bioinformatics, sci-art, code, data viz. She/her/Dr.
Asst. Prof. at Berkeley, PMB
Joined September 2014
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Elated to share that this January, I’ll be opening the doors to the Lofgren Mycology Laboratory at Berkeley in the @PMB_Berkeley dep. Our group will work on the ecology and evolution of fungi and their hosts, with a focus on ectomycorrhizal symbiosis, metabolism, and genomics.
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Our lab is organizing the Bay Area Population Genomics conference at @ University of California, Berkeley, led by Postdoc Xing Wu
Where: Bakar BioEnginuity Hub When: November 8
Register/apply for a talk/poster until Oct 1:
forms.gle/XphGBFSKZh22KXfVA!
Web
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Morning fueled by FungiDB mug. Hoping that the efforts for alternative funding avenues will allow these resource to keep providing their unique and key services and grow.
ALT Photo of a coffee mug with the logo and words FungiDB.org
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Our newest paper in Current Biology demonstrates how small changes in a disordered protein sequence enable fungi to grow at different temperatures. @1stLinesSci cell.com/current-biology/ful…
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I am super excited that one of the most interesting finding in my lab was published in @NatureMicrobiol !!
Have you heard about the fungus that helps carnivorous plants digest insects? 🐜🍃
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In the past years, we used k-mer binning to obtain genome info for #AMF species hard to cultivate.
Here, we pushed it further to obtain a view of the G. pyriformis #cyano and MRE endosymbiont genomes.
Top work by MSc Essam Sorwar, @jordana_olive and @madhubioinfo 👍👏🤘
Happy to share that "Assembly and comparative analyses of the Geosiphon pyriformis metagenome" is out! @Blunt_Microbe @madhubioinfo
doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16…
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Zach Konkel built CLOCI to detect gene clusters based on the signatures of their evolutionary processes. Not just secondary metabolite clusters...all kinds of clusters.
And of course we present fun new horizontal gene cluster transfers.
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🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 Come join us at @DukeU as a Lab Manager and work alongside @jacanamama and myself. Apply now to be part of our teams! #JobSearch #LabManager #Research #Biology academicjobsonline.org/ajo/j…
@AnyiMazo and I are hiring a lab manager at Duke! Emphasis on molecular labwork. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/j…
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Thrilled to inform you that our article "Intraspecific diploidization of a halophyte root fungus drives heterosis" has been published online Nature Communications
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A joint project with Zhilin Yuan's CAF lab in Hangzhou
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Colourful, convoluted, and so important to soil health - our paper combining the musings of mycologists, molecular biologists, and ecologists on the evolution of mushroom morphology is now out: tiny.cc/ehkzyz
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Do fungal Starships 🚀 matter for human health? We dive into the pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus and connect the dots between these unusual transposons and strain variability. Spoiler alert: biofilms, secondary metabolites and intra-strain variation, oh my! biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor…
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Mycena has superstrange genomes: a big expansion but no WGD, up to 97k genes. Some gene influx from ascomycetes by HGT. Most novel genes are conserved. Great collaboration with @fmartin1954 @jgi @Vmate5 @DrHyfe @cbharder Cover @CellGenomics shorturl.at/fhwPm @BiochemBrc
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Excited to share our new paper on fungal necromass (aka dead hyphae) decomposition! Here, we show how fungi modify necromass and discuss the role of fungal-bacterial interactions on necromass decay.
The dream team @BeidlerKatilyn @FranFungi @UMNFuN
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🚨I will be hiring two postdoctoral scholars to start early 2025 at our new lab at UC Berkeley🚨 If you are attending MSA in Toronto next week and want to chat about either of these positions, please contact me! 🌱🍄
📄Details & application instructions: static1.squarespace.com/stat…
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Now online! A genomic compendium of cultivated human gut fungi characterizes the gut mycobiome and its relevance to common diseases dlvr.it/T7CgL5
Thanks to my mentorship network @cramer_lab, @TheKellerLab, @magwenelab, @DukeHeitman, @sarambranco, and the rest of my Mycofam. I wouldn’t be here without the community, training, and
opportunities I’ve received across @umncbs, @UCRiverside, @DukeBiology and the Tri-i MMPTP.