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Amelia Barber

@ameliabarberphd.bsky.social

Group leader at @fzborstel.bsky.social and professor at @uni-kiel.de. CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar Fungal pathoecology, antimicrobial resistance, and genome stuff. Always up for an adventure or bike ride. https://barber-lab.com

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Amelia Barber@ameliabarberphd.bsky.social · last mo.

Exciting news! After a wonderful four years at @uni-jena.de, I'm excited to announce the next chapter as a group leader at @fzborstel.bsky.social and professor at @uni-kiel.de.

Balance of the Microverse@microverse.bsky.social · last mo.

Congratulations to @ameliabarberphd.bsky.social on her next career step! From July 1, she joins @fzborstel.bsky.social & @uni-kiel.de as Group Leader and Professor. We'll miss her interdisciplinary spirit and fungal expertise. Best of luck in Kiel and Borstel, Amelia! 🦠💻

Eva Stukenbrock @estukenbrock.bsky.social · 6mo ago

What enables a fungus to invade a mammal host? @marco-guerreiro.bsky.social unravels signatures of translation adaptation among pathogenic and non-pathogenic species of Trichosporonales. See more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Genomic and physiological signatures of adaptation in pathogenic fungi - Nature Communications

Emerging fungal pathogens have detrimental impacts on crops, animals, and humans, however little is known about their transition to a pathogenic lifestyle. This study demonstrates that the transition ...

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John Lovell@jotlovell.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This article is now published! academic.oup.com/nargab/artic... We’ve added a few new analyses. First off, we show that, while gene presence absence variation (PAV) scales with evolutionary distance in both plants and animals, the base level and rate of accrual are both twice as high in plants.

Evolutionary and methodological considerations when interpreting gene presence–absence variation in pangenomes

Abstract. While graph-based pangenomes have become a standard and interoperable foundation for comparisons across multiple reference genomes, integrating p

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John Lovell@jotlovell.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Determining presence-absence variation (PAV) across reference genomes is a major goal of pangenome analysis. It turns out that A LOT of gene PAV is due to methodological artifacts. We explore the causes of this in soybean and cotton datasets in our recent preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

pangenome 'expansion' curves for cotton and soybean
Balance of the Microverse@microverse.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Zoom in, look closer! Our Microverse Wimmelbild hides the faces, ideas & discoveries that made 2025 unforgettable. Can you spot them all? Season’s greetings & here’s to a curious, collaborative 2026! Illustration: Hannes Naumann

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Marion Perrier@marionperrier.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Anyone looking for roommates for #Fungal26 in Asilomar? I will participate and I am looking for someone to share a room for the week! I'm a female PhD student, looking to share a room with another female. Please DM me if you'd like to team up with me 😄 Reposts appreciated!

Amelia Barber@ameliabarberphd.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Third lab retreat in the books! We once again headed to the city of Eisenach for two days of project presentations, soft skills workshops, and science discussions. We also played the beautiful Mycology board game!

Six smiling people stand in two rows in a seminar room. Each is holding a large piece of paper with drawing summarising the presentations of another group member. Six smiling people are standing together outside, dressed in winter coats and hats. In the background is the Wartburg Castle.Six smiling people sit around a table playing the board game Mycology
Amelia Barber@ameliabarberphd.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Third lab retreat in the books! We once again headed to the city of Eisenach for two days of project presentations, soft skills workshops, and science discussions. We also played the beautiful Mycology board game!

Six smiling people stand in two rows in a seminar room. Each is holding a large piece of paper with drawing summarising the presentations of another group member. Six smiling people are standing together outside, dressed in winter coats and hats. In the background is the Wartburg Castle.Six smiling people sit around a table playing the board game Mycology
Toby Baril@tobybarilbio.bsky.social · 9mo ago

TEs aren’t just genomic parasites, they’re also engines of genomic novelty. Our new study with ~2,000 Z. tritici genomes shows repeated TE mobilization waves during global expansion. With @danielcroll.bsky.social & @guidopuccetti.bsky.social 🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #TEworldwide

Historic transposon mobilisation waves create distinct pools of adaptive variants in a major crop pathogen - Nature Communications

In this study, the authors analysed a large genomic dataset to trace how jumping genes shaped the global spread of a major wheat pathogen and reveal bursts of activity over decades that drove adaptati...

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Daniel Croll@danielcroll.bsky.social · 9mo ago

@tobybarilbio.bsky.social and I are very excited to release MycoMobilome! A very extensive effort to discover, QC and annotate TEs across the fungal kingdom. 👉 Ready-to-use for your own genome with a simple tutorial! 👉 Metadata about TEs discovered in your genome! 👉 Contribute and get recognition!

Toby Baril@tobybarilbio.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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...