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Andi Wilson, PhD

@drandiwilson.bsky.social

NNF-funded postdoc at UCPH 🍄🦗🌿🇩🇰 I post about Science🔬 & Chronic Migraine 💊 She/Her 🏳️‍🌈 Opinions are my own

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Andi Wilson, PhD@drandiwilson.bsky.social · last mo.

Squeezed in a flash talk at #SMBE2026 ⚡️ A great opportunity to share some very new research from my postdoc, looking at what genes are important for plant-fungus interactions 🌾🍄 Also pretty cool that I got to present in the beautiful main hall ✨️

A photo of me presenting my presentation on root symbiotic entomopathogenic fungi
Andi Wilson, PhD@drandiwilson.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Thrilled to be hosting this session with @henriklicht.bsky.social and @agesiorska.bsky.social 🥳 Already looking forward to @danielcroll.bsky.social's talk and the other talks and posters that'll form part of this session! 🤩

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution@official-smbe.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Organisers - Henrik H. de Fine Licht | University of Copenhagen - @drandiwilson.bsky.social | University of Copenhagen - @agesiorska.bsky.social | University of Copenhagen Invited Speaker - @danielcroll.bsky.social | University of Neuchatel

SMBE2026 Symposium 3 | Genome plasticity and evolutionary innovation Organisers - Henrik H. de Fine Licht — University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Male) - Andi M. Wilson — University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Female) - Aleksandra Z. Gesiorska — University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Female) Invited Speaker - Daniel Croll — University of Neuchatel, Switzerland (Male)
Jo Rhodes@drjorhodes.com · 9mo ago

A great genomics paper from my friend and colleague @drandiwilson.bsky.social on the expansion of heat stress related proteins in Rhizina undulata bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Thermotolerance and post-fire growth in Rhizina undulata is associated with the expansion of heat stress-related protein families - BMC Genomics

Background Rhizina undulata is an important tree pathogen, infecting a wide variety of conifer species, including those in the genus Pinus. The fungus relies on heat shock-mediated activation of its a...

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Andi Wilson, PhD@drandiwilson.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Excited to share our newest article, out in BMC Genomics! We looked at genomes of a bunch of Pezizomycetes without & without associations with fire to figure out how Rhizina undulata survives fire 🔥 R. undulata needs high temperatures for germination = fire is important for its life cycle 🔥

The different species considered in this study, including those with and without known associations with fire, particularly in post-fire environments.
Andi Wilson, PhD@drandiwilson.bsky.social · last yr.

The most elegant diagram to explain what the scientific process and the average research project looks like ✨️ So many side tracks that eventually don't make it into the final story, but are an integral part of the process. From Yanai & Lercher (2025) in Nature Biotech

A figure with three diagrams. The first is labeled "plan" and is a straight line of arrows from top to bottom. The second is labeled "process" and is a tree-like diagram, branching out from top to bottom, showing multiple different paths from one starting point to multiple end points. The third is labeled "publication" and is the same tree-like diagram from before, but with a single track highlighted to show what actually makes it into the publication
Andi Wilson, PhD@drandiwilson.bsky.social · last yr.

10 years ago, I published my first, first-author paper 🤩 In some ways, it feels like just yesterday and I'm still a baby masters student 🥹 In other ways, it feels like this was 100 years ago 👵 Either way, the joy of seeing your work published never goes away ❤️

A screenshot of a fb memory from 10 years ago, showing the publication of my first, first author paper in fungal genetics and biology. The title is "Unisexual reproduction in Huntiella moniliformis".
Andi Wilson, PhD@drandiwilson.bsky.social · last yr.

Super excited to share our newest paper, out in Current protocols! A collab btwn FABI & UCPH, we put together protoplast extraction protocols for 5 different fungal genera! 🍄 With applications for genome editing & long read seq, we hope this will be super useful! 🧪🧬

A screenshot of the article title and author list: "Extracting Protoplasts from Filamentous Fungi Using Extralyse, An Enzyme Used in the Wine Industry" Andi Wilson, Alida van Dijk, Bianke Marx, Deanne du Plessis, Grant Terblanche, Simoné Bornman, P. Markus Wilken, Tuan A. Duong, Henrik H. De Fine Licht, and Brenda D. Wingfield
Andi Wilson, PhD@drandiwilson.bsky.social · last yr.

This little plate and its tiny bacteria left me heartbroken on Wednesday evening 💔 After months of planning and preparing, a pre-pilot trial and a pilot trial, I started my large RNAseq experiment last week 🥳 If everything went to plan, I'd be done by 28 March. But biology had other plans... 🧬

A photo of a green gloved hand holding a small petridish with bacteria growing all over it in tiny white colonies
Kelly@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · last yr.

When you’re chronically ill, it can be incredibly hard to maintain a baseline. There’s so much pressure to pretend that you’re better. To smile and deliver a convincing “I’m fine”. To play through the pain. Sometimes the best thing you can do for your body is rest, yet it’s so hard to do:

It's Time to Throw Away the 'Coulda, Woulda, Shouldas' and Practice Radical Rest

When you're chronically ill you can't push your body the way non disabled people do. You have to learn to rest. There's few words more damaging to us than the 'coulda, woulda, shouldas'

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