Emile Gluck-Thaler
Understanding fungal interactions using genes, genomes and Starships 🧬🍄🚀Evolutionary Biologist and Asst Prof @UWMadison's Dept. of Plant Pathology | he/him |
plantpath.wisc.edu/faculty/emile-gluck-thaler/
- Reposted by Emile Gluck-ThalerExcited to do a postdoc in beautiful Neuchatel / Switzerland🇨🇭? We have several postdoc positions open at the moment! Check our website for the full ads here: pathogen-genomics.org/jobs Happy to answer any question and please spread the word to anyone who might be interested!
- Reposted by Emile Gluck-ThalerI am honoured and delighted to join the #CIFAR family as an Azrieli Global Scholar. Looking forward to working with this fantastic community to tackle complex global challenges through interdisciplinary collaboration! cifar.ca/cifarnews/20...
- We dive into the dynamics of #starships 🚀 in a fungal pathogen to ask: how might these giant #transposons impact human health? We find they drive genome-wide variation, encode clinically-relevant traits and even transpose within the same strain! 🍄🧪 out today in mBio #goteam doi.org/10.1128/mbio...
- Reposted by Emile Gluck-ThalerNew risk maps developed by Sandip Mondal, @mycomile.bsky.social, Horacio Lopez-Nicora, and others, help soybean farmers spot charcoal rot before it strikes. 🫛 Read the press release: www.apsnet.org/about/newsro... Read the original article in Phytopathology: doi.org/10.1094/PHYT...
- Reposted by Emile Gluck-ThalerThe new extended deadline for MSA abstracts is March 21st! #MSAfungi25
- 📣Call for Abstracts for the Mycological Society of America 2025 Annual Meeting this summer in Madison, Wisconsin. Submit your abstract by March 17th! #MSAfungi25 msa.joynconference.com/v2/
- Reposted by Emile Gluck-ThalerAre you a member of @msafungi.bsky.social and employee of the US Federal Government who recently lost their job or who otherwise needs support during recent implementation of executive orders? We would like to connect with you to understand how the Society can help. Please DM to let us know.
- Its #fungus time! Come join us in Madison this summer for #MSAfungi25 🧪🍄🔬 Abstracts due March 17
- 📣Call for Abstracts for the Mycological Society of America 2025 Annual Meeting this summer in Madison, Wisconsin. Submit your abstract by March 17th! #MSAfungi25 msa.joynconference.com/v2/
- Reposted by Emile Gluck-Thaler📣Call for Abstracts for the Mycological Society of America 2025 Annual Meeting this summer in Madison, Wisconsin. Submit your abstract by March 17th! #MSAfungi25 msa.joynconference.com/v2/
- Reposted by Emile Gluck-ThalerA campaign to match scientists who've been unjustly fired from federal positions with illustrators to tell their stories — this looks pretty neat
- Reposted by Emile Gluck-Thaler🚨 Washington State asked a judge yesterday to hold the Trump admin in contempt for canceling a grant to Seattle Children’s to study gender-affirming care. “Injunctions are not suggestions — they are binding orders of the Court. Defendants may not evade this Court’s orders through game-playing.”
- NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics. At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- We show eukaryotic #HGT across >100 million years of evolution through simple co-culture: the fungal equivalent of taking yourself for a swim with a platypus and walking away with a new bill 🧪🍄🦆🚀 Great work everyone!
- We 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...
- Reposted by Emile Gluck-ThalerIf you loved #ECFG17 (or had FOMO seeing posts of all the cool research) consider connecting with the fungal community virtually this summer at #CFN25 🍄 We'll be opening registration soon! Follow us to stay up to date!
- It's happening! We are coming back with virtual meetings! Save The Date - August 6-8, 2025. 📅🇨🇦🍄🛜. Check your emails or social media for more details. PS. Contact us if you want to receive emails! #CFN25 #SaveTheDate #FungiareBack
- Reposted by Emile Gluck-ThalerHow do you find Starships in fungal genomes? Starfish or course! ⭐🎣 Developed by @mycomile.bsky.social #ecfg17 @fungage-lab.bsky.social Try it out on your pezizo genome! github.com/egluckthaler...
- Reposted by Emile Gluck-ThalerWe are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org
- Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
- Huge thank you to the Cornell Plant Path grad students for inviting me out to meet and speak with them 🙏🧬🍄 uncertain times now, but seeing all their passion and drive gives me hope for the future of #science
- Reposted by Emile Gluck-ThalerElon Musk has now illegally fired: - USDA employees amidst a bird flu outbreak - FAA chair amid a plane crash epidemic - People in charge of protecting us from nuclear attack At this point Musk has to be considered a terrorist attacking the United States.
- Reposted by Emile Gluck-Thaler@asm.org this better not be anticipatory obedience. I have 5 lab members planning on going to ASM microbe this year. I will absolutely pivot to another meeting if ASM gives in to anti-DEI efforts.
@vscooper.micropopbio.org and @mostlymicrobes.bsky.social while downloading scientist spotlights for teaching from the site; ASM has also scrubbed the entire IDEAA page including resources on LGBTQ+ scientists at asm.org/IDEAA/resources/pride-month
- Reposted by Emile Gluck-ThalerFollowing thermal adaptation, we investigated Zymoseptoria tritici's responses to extreme temperature stresses using transcriptomics and kmer-based GWAS. 🌡️🧬 Check out our findings in the preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Emile Gluck-Thaler@tbadet.bsky.social and I have a preprint out on transposon silencing in fungi! Genome size evolution is fascinating and showcases the dynamic nature of transposon activation. What we understand less are the dynamics of transposon defense systems encoded by the genomes. doi.org/10.1101/2025...
- Reposted by Emile Gluck-ThalerFrom lesions to lessons: 2025 marks the 20th anniversary of filamentous plant pathogen genomics. In our new review, we present lessons we learned over the past 2 decades and discuss the future of plant pathogen genomics. Take a first look! apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/...
- What an awesome story! amazing to see so many connections with virulence factors 🤯🌱🚀
- 📣New year, new preprint @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social 🎉! A study led by the brilliant @yukiyosato.bsky.social showing that Starship giant transposons dominate plastic genomic regions in the fungal plant pathogen Verticillium dahliae and drive virulence evolution. 🧵[1/12] doi.org/10.1101/2025...
- Reposted by Emile Gluck-ThalerWe're launching our Bluesky feed with Starships! Check out our December issue for a featured review on these gigantic transposable elements written by Emile Gluck-Thaler and colleagues. There's plenty more inside the issue! The complete Table of Contents is here: www.cell.com/trends/genet...
- Excited to share our review on everything we know so far about #fungal #starships and new questions to take the field forward 🚀🍄 Great work team! @fungage-lab.bsky.social
- Thrilled to have our recent review on giant #fungal #transposons, called Starships, featured on the cover of Trends in Genetics! Accompanied by some fantastic artwork! With @mycomile.bsky.social. www.cell.com/trends/genet...
- Reposted by Emile Gluck-ThalerThrilled to have our recent review on giant #fungal #transposons, called Starships, featured on the cover of Trends in Genetics! Accompanied by some fantastic artwork! With @mycomile.bsky.social. www.cell.com/trends/genet...
- Reposted by Emile Gluck-ThalerNEW Publication!😄 Here, we show how #PhyKIT — a broadly applicable toolkit for #phylogenomics — can be used to construct phylogenomic data matrices (& quantify biases therein), detect anomalies in predicted orthology, calculate gene-gene coevolution, & more! 🔗: tinyurl.com/yc5ja4xz
