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MJ Grey

@greymj.bsky.social

I’m an environmental scientist interested in sustainable agriculture, and plant pathology. Passionate about the natural world. Decades of scientific experience and actively looking for my next role.

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Mark McMullan@mcmullan0.bsky.social · last yr.

Thanks for posting @reviewcommons.org If you're interested you can also find the reviewed version here: doi.org/10.7554/eLif... Really keen to get people's perspectives on the population genetics of reservoirs, and what they tell us about variation associated with emergent crop pathogens.

Developing a crop- wild-reservoir pathogen system to understand pathogen evolution and emergence

Evidence for those pathogen genes selected specifically for success on crops.

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Review Commons@reviewcommons.org · last yr.

Wild plants serve as reservoirs for crop pathogens-study finds populations and genes linked to resistance evasion. McMullan et al. 2025 @mcmullan0.bsky.social; lab of @neilhall.bsky.social at @earlhaminst.bsky.social 🆕 #preprintpeerreview @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social --> doi.org/10.1101/2021...

Rowena Hill@rowenahill.bsky.social · last yr.

Our recent paper is out where we propose kmer-based phylogenetics for fungal Starship TEs (which are unalignable as highly variable). We think it could help with spotting bonafide HGT events (and suggest direction of transfer?) doi.org/10.1093/g3jo... @mcmullan0.bsky.social @norwichmicro.bsky.social

Starship giant transposable elements cluster by host taxonomy using k-mer-based phylogenetics

Abstract. Starships are a recently established superfamily of giant cargo-mobilizing transposable elements in the fungal subphylum Pezizomyotina (phylum As

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MJ Grey@greymj.bsky.social · last yr.

My paper is finally published! If you are struggling with attaining high molecular weight gDNA from fungal tissues maybe this will help you out. Thank you to our comms team at @earlhaminst.bsky.social for helping to put this together. Thank you to the co-authors for their contribution!

Earlham Institute@earlhaminst.bsky.social · last yr.

A new paper published today in @bio-protocol.bsky.social presents a protocol for isolating High Molecular Weight DNA from fungi. Lead author @greymj.bsky.social collaborated with researchers at @rothamsted.bsky.social to modify protocols from two commercial extraction kits. buff.ly/M02HgvR

MJ Grey@greymj.bsky.social · last yr.

Gaeumannomyces tritici, the culprit behind the wheat disease take-all, has had its genome mapped! Dr. Hill and team have sequenced 9 near-chromosome level genomes of this species, along with potential antagonist species G. hyphopodioides and G. avenae (oat take-all). #starships #transposableelements

Rowena Hill@rowenahill.bsky.social · last yr.

The final version of our paper on genomics of understudied fungal root pathogens/endophytes of wheat is now out! The result of close ongoing collab between @earlhaminst.bsky.social (@mcmullan0.bsky.social @greymj.bsky.social @neilhall.bsky.social et al) and @rothamsted.bsky.social rdcu.be/edlB9

Earlham Institute@earlhaminst.bsky.social · 2y ago

Registration & abstract submission is now open for #EISingleCell25! Join us in June to hear from leading experts, explore innovative applications, and network with peers across the #singlecell and #spatial #genomics field. 🧪

Norwich Single-Cell and Spatial Symposium

Now in its eighth year, and extended to a two-day event, the Norwich Single-Cell and Spatial Symposium at Earlham Institute covers single-cell and spatial genomics technologies and their application…

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Mark McMullan@mcmullan0.bsky.social · 2y ago

Thanks. Do get in touch if you're at #PAG32 and you'd like to chat about host pathogen co-evolution, fungi, crop genetic reservoirs, and wild crop relatives.

Earlham Institute@earlhaminst.bsky.social · 2y ago

Heading to #PAG32 this weekend? @mcmullan0.bsky.social will be presenting two talks from the @neilhall.bsky.social Group on their work in #pathogen #genomics, focusing on two key projects in sea beet and wheat take-all. pag.confex.com/pag/32/meeti...

Mark McMullan's talk at PAG Conference: 'Wheat take-all genomics and giant transposable elements (starships) that cluster by host taxonomy using Kmer-based phylogenetics. Mark will present his talk on Sunday 12 January at 4.00PM PST during the Fungal Genomics session.
Brett Baker@archaeal.bsky.social · 2y ago

After 24 years of work, I’m thrilled to announce the TYMEFLIES dataset, which comprises metagenomes from Lake Mendota (Madison, WI), collected roughly every 10 days (471 samples) for 20 years! @quendi.bsky.social @robinrohwer.bsky.social rdcu.be/d5put A thread…

Two decades of bacterial ecology and evolution in a freshwater lake

Nature Microbiology - A 471-metagenome time series from Lake Mendota in Wisconsin, USA, reveals seasonal and decadal shifts in bacterial functional and ecological dynamics, especially in response...

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AltYellostoneNatPar@altyellonatpark.org · 2y ago

The censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife biology & advocacy group ? So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky If you could, please help us regain our following Follow Retweet and Repeat ;-) Together we can change the world.

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UCDavisPlants@ucdavisplants.bsky.social · 2y ago

🌱 Daniel Kliebenstein contributed to an article on how structural variants reshape gene expression and traits in Brassica napus, offering insights for evolution, breeding, and genome editing. ▶️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PlantGenomics #PlantBreeding

Structural variation reshapes population gene expression and trait variation in 2,105 Brassica napus accessions - Nature Genetics

Multiomics joint analyses based on a structural variant (SV) map from 16 genome assemblies and 2,105 resequenced accession genomes shed light on the regulatory effect of SVs on gene expression and tra...

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