Ursula Oggenfuss
🍄🧬 Screening trough fungal genomes to detect 🔻transposable elements🔻 and structural variation
- Reposted by Ursula Oggenfuss#Azole resistance in #Candida albicans poses a growing threat, and is linked to #StressResponse. @annaselmecki.bsky.social &co show that mutations in the oxidative stress TF Cap1 promote #DrugResistance while exposing a lethal vulnerability at high azole doses @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4rOrfOz
- Reposted by Ursula OggenfussI have a postdoc position in metagenomic exploration available in my group. Candidates with documented experience in phylo & metagenomics and preferably with petabase-scale data mining and GLM workflows are encouraged to apply. Come join us! 🧬🦠💻 Please repost Apply here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
- Come join us! Soon I will be advertising a postdoc vacancy in my group as part of my @erc.europa.eu AdG project 'DARK ROOTS'. Focus of the project will be on phylo- and metagenomic mining of novel prokaryotic lineages. I will soon post a link here - stay tuned, and please repost! #asgardarchaea
- Reposted by Ursula OggenfussNow officially published in Current Biology 🥳🥳 @mfseidl.bsky.social @binfutrecht.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...
- Reposted by Ursula OggenfussExtensive horizontal transfer of transposable elements shapes fungal mobilomes @currentbiology.bsky.social by @jromeijn.bsky.social et al from @mfseidl.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...
- Reposted by Ursula OggenfussOur paper on Zymoseptoria tritici 3D genome organization is officially out! @iglavincheska.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- The best two things in one database: Transposons and Fungi
- 1/ Ever needed to annotate TEs in a fungal genome, but didn't know where to start? We have released #MycoMobilome, a community-focused non-redundant database of transposable element consensus sequences for the fungal kingdom, constructed from >4,000 fungal genomes! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Ursula Oggenfuss1/ Ever needed to annotate TEs in a fungal genome, but didn't know where to start? We have released #MycoMobilome, a community-focused non-redundant database of transposable element consensus sequences for the fungal kingdom, constructed from >4,000 fungal genomes! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Ursula OggenfussWant to understand how entire fungal chromosomes can be horizontally transferred? Join us to unravel the mechanism/consequences of horizontal chromosome transfer in a fungal pathogen as part of an ERC-funded project. Postdoc/PhD positions available. fungal-evolutionary-genetics.de/open-positio...
- Reposted by Ursula OggenfussFungal #GenomeSize variation is largely driven by TEs & lineage-specific genome defenses. @tbadet.bsky.social & @danielcroll.bsky.social show that presence/absence of RIP mutation systems influences #genome architecture, identifying a likely novel defense mechanism @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4hcC5tx
- Reposted by Ursula OggenfussAt its meeting of 17 and 18 September 2025 and upon application of Joël Mesot, President of ETH Zurich, the ETH Board appointed eight professors. The Board also awarded the title of "Professor of Practice" once. More info:
- Reposted by Ursula OggenfussThe first paper of my PhD is now available as a preprint! 🎉 Transposable elements (TEs) don't just jump within fungal genomes, they also move extensively between species. In this study, we screened over 1,300 fungal genomes and found a conservative estimate of 5,500+ horizontal transfer events.
- Happy Barbara Day, happy #TransposonDay2025 to all that celebrate! Every day we get to work on transposons is such a privilege and joy, and I will never not be amazed by these jumping weirdos -the neutral, the bad and the good. Share some black walnut brownies with your friends today!
- 🧬🌽 Happy Transposon Day! 🌽🧬 Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025
- For those interested in repeat-induced point mutations (RIP) in fungi: Thomas Badet set up an amazing meeting in beautiful Neuchâtel #TEsworldwide #Transposon
- 🔥 Exciting news! The first Symposium on Repeat-Induced Point mutations is happening June 30 – July 1 at the University of Neuchâtel🇨🇭! 🔹 Want to join? Register here > forms.gle/XWTd4gJAXZSx... 🚨 Limited spots available! So first come, first served! 🔹 More info > crolllab.github.io/ripm2025/
- Reposted by Ursula Oggenfuss🔥 The event will bring together molecular biologists, evolutionary geneticists, and bioinformaticians to explore RIP’s role in transposable element control, genome integrity, and fungal adaptation. Looking forward to seeing you in Neuchâtel! 🏔️ #RIPM2025 #FungalGenomics #EvolutionaryBiology
- Reposted by Ursula Oggenfuss🔥 Exciting news! The first Symposium on Repeat-Induced Point mutations is happening June 30 – July 1 at the University of Neuchâtel🇨🇭! 🔹 Want to join? Register here > forms.gle/XWTd4gJAXZSx... 🚨 Limited spots available! So first come, first served! 🔹 More info > crolllab.github.io/ripm2025/
- Reposted by Ursula Oggenfuss@guidopuccetti.bsky.social, Gabriel Scalliet and I are excited to share our latest work. Resistance in agriculture emerges fast, but we fail to grasp how the myriad mutations in pathogen populations contribute to this. Please check out and share our latest preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Ursula OggenfussHonestly I am worried about the impact Trump policies will have on the future of third world PhD students who wants to do it abroad. Americans leaving for Europe will make the process even more harder for people coming from developing and underdeveloped nations.
- Reposted by Ursula OggenfussInterested in #fungal accessory chromosomes or toxin/antidote genes? Check out our new preprint! We show that the Spok gene family in Fusarium include active toxin/antidote genes. We present a model for how these genes influence the evolution of fungal genomes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- This goes on the top of my break reading list! It has everything that could be asked for: Starships! Transposable elements! Fungi! And an amazing group of scientists! #TEsky #transposons
- 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 Ursula Oggenfuss#TEsky Please circulate! The interdisciplinary research group I'm part of is looking for two postdocs to work on transposons with us here at the U of Guelph in Ontario Canada. philjobs.org/job/show/28330
- Reposted by Ursula OggenfussRP PLS! Iʻm hiring 3 postdocs at U Hawaiʻi to study yeast diversity and evolution, marine fungi, and the genomics of microbiomes in experimental foodwebs. All of these projects have existing datasets and LATITUDE to pursue individual interests and "blue sky" ideas www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/5d7u4...
- Reposted by Ursula OggenfussIf you like #Transposons 👾 check out this feed and tag your posts with #TEsky! Thanks @tobybarilbio.bsky.social 🤗 bsky.app/profile/did:...
- Reposted by Ursula OggenfussI have asked ResearchGate over at the ex-platform to explain and to cancel the partnership with an unserious publisher like MDPI. If they don't, I too will delete my profile and leave the site. I suggest others in #science do the same. 🧪
- Reposted by Ursula Oggenfuss🧬💚New preprint out, led by Ludwig and our fresh MSc graduate Kristin: Reliable repetitiveDNA consensus sequences from short reads -- do they exist and how can you do them? Is it worth in times of ONT/PacBio? Can newer genome assembly tools help? 🧬🖥️📈find out: doi.org/10.1101/2023...
