S. Lorena Ament
Evolutionary biologist interested in genomics, speciation, reproductive strategies, fungi, and biodiversity. And cats! She/her
- I submitted this ms to a journal about a 1.5 months ago, and the status remains "Awaiting Referee Assignment". The editor says they are struggling to find a second reviewer... Are these waiting times normal? Should I offer a fresh list of potential reviewers or is that inappropriate? 💔 #postdoclife
- Reposted by S. Lorena AmentAre you excited about pangenomics? If so, join us in Edinburgh on 8-9th June to discuss the latest methods & insights from using these approaches across biodiversity! More details here: royalsociety.org/science-even... Organised together with @henrylnorth.bsky.social & @joanameier.bsky.social!
- Would you say that Neurospora crassa is declining as a model organism for fungal biology? 💛 No way, that orange fun-guy is alive and well! 🔴 Yeah, not so many people work with it nowadays ... 🔵 Neuro-who? 📅 Ends: December 31, 2025, 10:03 PM UTC 📊 Show results
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- Reposted by S. Lorena AmentA recent shift in centromere size and DNA content in Podospora pseudocomata co-occurs with the loss of a fungal genome defense system biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
- Reposted by S. Lorena AmentOur paper on Zymoseptoria tritici 3D genome organization is officially out! @iglavincheska.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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- "When the female bugs lay their eggs, they rub the cultivated hyphae across the egg mass. The hyphae grow to envelope the eggs and physically exclude attentive parasitoid wasps until the bugs hatch." #fungi #symbiosis
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- Wound healing is a hallmark feature of all life, including single cells. In a new preprint, Ambika Nadkarni @biochembika.bsky.social investigates a new dimension in cellular wound healing: how cells recover AFTER the wound has been closed www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by S. Lorena AmentDo you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
- Our paper was included in the Collection "Microbial Genomics of Eukaryotes" from the @microbiologysociety.org 🧬 😁 #genomics #longreadsequencing www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/micr...
- Happy to see this out! "Reconstructing NOD-like receptor alleles with high internal conservation in #Podospora anserina using long-read sequencing", now in @microbiologysociety.org! 🧬 Keep reading for a simple explanation 🧵 1/n #Fungi #Allorecognition www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
- O.o "From genotype to phenotype with 1,086 near telomere-to-telomere yeast genomes" | Nature share.google/IAaPSj5t9OvQ... #pangenome #fungi #yeast
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- Reposted by S. Lorena AmentHybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... ), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants
- "Rapid establishment of species barriers in plants compared with that in animals" by Monnet et al #Speciation www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- mRNA A-to-I editing in vegetative cells of Fusarium #fungionsky #fungi #epigenetics link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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- Reposted by S. Lorena Ament🌎👩🔬 For 15+ years biology has accumulated petabytes (million gigabytes) of🧬DNA sequencing data🧬 from the far reaches of our planet.🦠🍄🌵 Logan now democratizes efficient access to the world’s most comprehensive genetics dataset. Free and open. doi.org/10.1101/2024...
- Reposted by S. Lorena AmentCheck out our new paper on adopting a trait-based framework for protist diversity! We make the case for a unified protist trait database, how to build it, and how it could transform research on protist ecology and evolution. #protistsonsky
- Hello there 🦋 Happy to share our piece "Towards a trait-based framework for protist ecology and evolution" in @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social Let's build a unified trait 📏 database to unlock transformative insights into protist 🔬 ecology 🌍 and evolution ⏳ ▶️ doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... #protistsonsky
- Sclerotina and its weird-ass arrangement of different chromosomes in two separate nuclei still follow normal meiosis, it turns out. #fungi #meiosis www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by S. Lorena AmentA pangenomics-enabled platform for the high-throughput discovery of antifungal resistance factors in crop pathogens biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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- Reposted by S. Lorena AmentNew preprint: we advertise DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly eco-evo-archaeo journals. 1/6 #AcademicPublishing #ecoevo #archaeology #EthicalPublishing #SocietyJournals #DiamondOpenAccess doi.org/10.32942/X24...
- Happy to see this out! "Reconstructing NOD-like receptor alleles with high internal conservation in #Podospora anserina using long-read sequencing", now in @microbiologysociety.org! 🧬 Keep reading for a simple explanation 🧵 1/n #Fungi #Allorecognition www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
- NOD-like receptors (NLRs) are intracellular proteins that play key roles in the innate immune system of plants and animals. But in fungi we know the function of only a few cases: they all work in heterokaryon incompatibility (rejection between different strains during vegetative fusion). 2/n
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- Reposted by S. Lorena AmentURGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯 Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below. This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
- My lab studies bacterial infections. We spend a lot of time looking at (or for) species-specific genetic and genomic databases for hosts and microbes. FlyBase is the best of all—there is literally no comparison. Its existence is under threat. Please donate. www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
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- Reposted by S. Lorena AmentWe did it! We caught Starship #transposons moving between #fungal species in the lab, including between species separated by ~100my. We think Starships are a mediator of HGT in fungi, akin to conjugative elements in bacteria. Check out the preprint. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Getting massive FOMO from all the #ECFG17 posts. It looks fun!
- Reposted by S. Lorena AmentOn #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience let me remind you that we are NOWHERE NEAR parity. A few examples. 1. Women are credited less in science than men. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- "fastmixture generates fast and accurate estimates of global ancestry proportions and ancestral allele frequencies" by Santander et al. in PCI Evol Biol #genomics #popgen evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/PCIEvolBiol/...
- So it turns out that #NCBI SRA doesn't take pod5 raw files from Nanopore runs 🫠. Where are people putting their raw files then? #bioinformatics #Nanopore #genomics #sciencereproducibility #OpenScience
- Where can I find examples of "Equality, Diversity and Inclusion" statements (to apply for faculty positions)? Any tips to not sound fake af, cliché, or unoriginal? #PostdocLife #AcademicLife #ScienceCareers #DiversityInScience
- Reposted by S. Lorena AmentStoked about this manuscript, many years in the making. We present an original resource of ~700 highly curated plastid MAGs of marine pelagic algae. Among these we found a novel deep branching group of plastid genomes; we informally call them leptophytes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- We wrote a review in a slightly different, lighthearted style 😁. "Starship Discovery: A Collaborative Approach to Uncover Massive Transposable Elements" 🚀🧬 Thank you and congratulations to the coauthors! #fungi #genomics #transposons #science #Podospora link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
- Reposted by S. Lorena AmentWith more #MycoSky arriving here by the day, lets gather everyone and rebuild. Please let me know if I’ve missed out on you or anyone relevant 🍄🟫😎 go.bsky.app/FYRJn6Mat://did:plc:ha5fl2xl7ii63gjlciksonta/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lahrz2ijpr2x
- Reposted by S. Lorena AmentJOB ALERT! A fully funded PhD opportunity awaits at Uppsala University, Sweden, focusing on the evolution and biology of lichen photobionts. The position will involved field work, molecular lab work and data analyses (from meta-omics to pop genetics). #PhDposition www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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- Non-native English speakers need 50% more time to write a paper When they do, they face a 2.5 times higher chance of being rejected because of language journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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