Check out my interview about my PhD project, featured in the Arab and Near East Plant Protection Bulletin! ๐ฟ Special thanks to Prof. Ibrahim Al-Jboory for this great opportunity. Read it here: asplantprotection.org/en/issue-97-...
Ammar Abdalrahem
@ammarabdalrahem.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher at IRD Montpellier, France PHIM ยท Plant Health Institute Evolution | Fungi ๐โ๐ซ๐งซ๐งฌ๐จโ๐ป
Happy to be at #SMBE2026 honored to give a talk about our research on fungal mitochondria ๐. The energy here in Copenhagen is just incredible ๐
๐จInterested in #evolutionary #genomics and #popgen #theory? My lab just opened a 1+ year #postdoc position to work on sex chromosome dosage compensation. At #CEFE Montpellier ๐ bit.ly/4eMWDIh Informal enquiries welcome to me๐ or Paul Saunders and Sylvain Glรฉmin at #SMBE2026 Thanks for sharing!
Tickets to Copenhagen are booked! Iโm going to #SMBE2026 to talk about our work on fungal mitogenome diversity ๐ ๐ Read the paper: rdcu.be/fpjru Looking forward to catching up and grabbing a coffee during the breaks โ ๐ฌ
Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution@official-smbe.bsky.social ยท 2mo ago#SMBE2026 Open Symposium 2: Comparative genomics and phylogenetics ๐๏ธ Mon Jun 29, 3:50pm ๐ smbe2026.org/programme
๐ข EffectorGeneP is finally here! Stop missing small, single-exon or orphan genes from your favourite pathogen genome. Current tools only annotate 15%-78% of effector genes, EffectorGeneP finds 95% - including the large AvrSr26 family in stem rust. #Bioinformatics ๐ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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New preprint out! We generated haplotype-phased genome assemblies for two poplar rust fungi. These resources open new opportunities to explore rust genome architecture, haplotype diversity, and TE-driven evolution. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Really happy to have played a small part in this cool piece of work led by @guido-valverde.bsky.social and @msabrysarhan.bsky.social. We characterised S. pyogenes in a pre-Columbian Bolivian mummy (suggesting circulation before European contact) #VivaBolivianMummies www.nature.com/articles/s41...
An ancient genome of Streptococcus pyogenes from a pre-Columbian Bolivian mummy - Nature Communications
Streptococcus pyogenes is a human pathogen responsible for a range of diseases. Here, the authors reconstruct an ancient S. pyogenes genome from a pre-Columbian Bolivian mummy, supporting that the pat...
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Thrilled to share our paper now out in Nature Plants ๐ We developed a genome-host association (GHA) approach to study pathogen adaptation directly from field metadata by using the originating host cultivar as phenotype. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Genomeโhost association mapping reveals wheat pathogen genes involved in host specialization - Nature Plants
This study introduces genomeโhost association (GHA), leveraging natural epidemics to map the genetic landscape of host adaptation in the pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici. Applied to 832 wheat fungal stra...
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We are thrilled to announce Paolo Crosetto's presentation titled "The Drain of Scientific Publishing: Why Publishing Has Become a Challenge for Science and How It Can Be Improved" in our upcoming PCI Webinar on March 19th at 4 PM (GMT+1)!! ๐คฉ To learn more and sign up, please visit buff.ly/bxYWPCz
PCI Webinar Series - Peer Community In
The PCI webinar series is a series of seminars on research practices, publication practices, evaluation, scientific integrity, meta-research, organised by Peer Community In
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โญ๏ธ A six-month-old baby has died from freezing conditions in Gaza City, a direct result of Israelโs blockade and deliberate restriction of aid. This brings the number of children who have died from the cold since the beginning of the winter season to nine. ๐ฅ Video by Hamza Qraiqea
1/๐งต Major milestone unlocked for mycology! ๐ We just published a massive genomic resource in ๐๐๐ข๐๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐๐ข๐ ๐๐๐ญ๐, releasing 2,695 complete circular mitochondrial species assembled from public data This single dataset nearly ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐the known mitochondrial diversity of the Kingdom Fungi rdcu.be/eYZ2h
CMM International Fund for Global Advancement of Medical Mycology! Thanks to everyone who joined our recent webinar and Q&A session. If you missed it, find our more about the fund and application process here: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/med...
#E-PoPP2025: Fabien Halkett @umr-iam.bsky.social on population genetics of partially clonal organisms doi.org/10.1101/2025...
PhDone! Congratulations Dr. @ammarabdalrahem.bsky.social! ๐๐๐๐จโ๐๐ A big thank you to @tatianagiraud.bsky.social, @sofarndhnd.bsky.social & @wheatpath.bsky.social for being on the PhD jury! ๐ธ @mireiagoga.bsky.social
In a Consensus Statement in Nature Microbiology, a consortium of #microbiome scientists discusses current sequencing data sharing policies and proposes the use of a Data Reuse Information tag to promote equitable and collaborative data sharing. go.nature.com/4o1Gl1f ๐งช
Glad to be part of the Data Reuse Consortium behind this @natmicrobiol.nature.com paper. Soon, ENA/NCBI submissions will include a Data Reuse Identifier (DRI) โ like a DOI for papers. If you use microbiome sequencing data ๐ฆ ๐งซ๐ฌ๐งโ๐ป, you need to read this ๐ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A roadmap for equitable reuse of public microbiome data - Nature Microbiology
In this Consensus Statement, a consortium of microbiome scientists discuss current sequencing data sharing policies and propose the use of a Data Reuse Information (DRI) tag to promote equitable and collaborative data sharing.
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Alex Probst@alexjprobst.bsky.social ยท 10mo agoNew article on equitable reuse of public sequencing data, published in @natmicrobiol.nature.com! Led by the Data reuse core team @lhug.bsky.social @environmicrobio.bsky.social Cristina Moraru, @geomicrosoares.bsky.social, @folker.bsky.social and with Anke Heyer and The Data Reuse Consotrium!
#OurFridaySeminar: @ammarabdalrahem.bsky.social presents his new results on #functional and #evolutionary comparison of #sexual and asexual lineages of #poplar #rust
It started as a master thesis project by Markus Hiltunen, and ended up in this publication in Science. What a fun project to work on! Thanks Markus - and all other coauthors, too, for a great team work! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Early germline sequestration in a basidiomycete fungus
In sexual organisms, inheritance of new mutations is highly dependent on the timing of germline definition. Here, we used the fairy ringโforming fungus Marasmius oreades to challenge the general assum...
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Evolution Students@ssegrad.bsky.social ยท last yr.๐ Exciting news! The 2025 Evolution Art/Photo Exhibition is happening on Gather.Town ๐ผ๏ธ๐ธ ๐ Date: August 1st ๐ Time: 4 PM to 5 PM ET Come explore evolution-themed works by grad students & hear the stories behind them! ๐ RSVP here: forms.gle/aFY2kx9zk1ia... #SciArt #EvoArt2025 #EvoPhoto2025
The scope of #fungi #biodiversity is only beginning to be fathomed. Every day almost ten new species are described. ๐๐คฏ David Hibbett Lรกszlรณ Nagy and Henrik Nilsson introduce the fungal tree of life. www.cell.com/current-biol...
Our new paper is out! We observed a loss of function in mating compatibility for HD genes for the first time in basidiomycete fungi, and new evolutionary strata in the absence of sexually antagonistic selection! @tatianagiraud.bsky.social More details here ๐ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Repeated loss of function at HD mating-type genes and of recombination in anther-smut fungi - Nature Communications
Basidiomycete fungi typically have two mating-type loci located on different chromosomes. Here, Lucotte et al. report the convergent loss-of-function of mating-type genes across several species of phy...
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Pascal Frey @pascal-frey.bsky.social from @umr-iam.bsky.social is the keynote speaker on the rapid evolution of Melampsora larici-populina in France #iufro2025CH
Hi everyone! This is my first post on ๐ฆ, and I took this photo with my phone to join the #EvoPhoto2025 competition. ๐ ๐ข๐๐ญ๐ฒ ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐๐๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง From wild ancestors to supermarket shelves๐๐๐ #apple #evolution #photo #phd @ssegrad.bsky.social
