Sergio M. Latorre
smlatorreo.bsky.social
Sergio M. Latorre
@smlatorreo.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher at UCL. Ancient Genomics and Evolution. https://github.com/smlatorreo
#PhageSky A bacterial long-term evolutionary tradeoff, dating as far as 200 years in the past.
Very proud to have a small contribution in this great work from Karasov & Burbano Labs led by @taliamycota.bsky.social & Jiajun Cui & Emma Caullireau. Please read the thread by @hernanaburbano.bsky.social:
Our new collaborative work led by @taliamycota.bsky.social
Jiajun Cui & Emma Caullireau between my lab @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @cloeucl.bsky.social & the Karasov Lab (tkarasovlab.org) @uofubiology.bsky.social
and collaborators: @plantricia.bsky.social et al.

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November 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
What a great week at Nanjing Agricultural University! Huge thanks to Prof. Souomeng Dong for the invitation to share my research and to his entire team for being such generous hosts. I learned so much from hearing about their work and am thrilled about our future plans together
November 14, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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#2025ISMPMI @danielkroll.bsky.social presenting large scale comparative genomics of fungicide resistance evolution and new pathogen strains emergence
July 16, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Fascinating talk by Dr. Talia Karasov (University of Utah) on how plant pathogens weaponize phage-derived tailocins to wipe out bacterial rivals.
Microbes fighting microbes—nature’s own biotech.
#ISMPMI2025 #Tailocins #MicrobialWarfare
July 16, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Happening now...
How Rice Blast Fungus stays one step ahead? I'll talk about the evolutionary dynamics of its pangenome.
Whether you're into evolutionary insights, curious about methods, or just love a good fungal story, swing by my poster:
* P-280
* Tuesday, 9:55-11 :30

#2025ISMPMI
July 15, 2025 at 8:02 AM
How Rice Blast Fungus stays one step ahead? I'll talk about the evolutionary dynamics of its pangenome.
Whether you're into evolutionary insights, curious about methods, or just love a good fungal story, swing by my poster:
* P-280
* Tuesday, 9:55-11 :30

#2025ISMPMI
July 13, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Thanks for having me at #pint25
Great discussing #evolution and #pandemics with such a wonderful audience
@pintofscience.uk @uclopenscience.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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#PopulationGenetics of microbial #pathogens can inform decisions that impact society; @smlatorreo.bsky.social explores a @plosbiology.org study on wheat powdery mildew #fungus which uses genomic data to predict continental-scale dispersion routes 🧪 Paper: plos.io/43qfH9F Primer: plos.io/44YjHQN
May 7, 2025 at 8:44 AM
"Population genetics of plant fungal threats: Insights from wheat powdery mildew"

I wrote this Primer inspired by the great work of @jigisha1.bsky.social , @fmenardo.bsky.social and colleagues

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

@uclnews.bsky.social @plosbiology.org
Population genetics of plant fungal threats: Insights from wheat powdery mildew
Population genetics studies of microbial pathogens are demonstrating the potential of evolutionary theory to inform decisions that impact society. This Primer explores a recent study on wheat powdery ...
journals.plos.org
May 6, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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A primer by Sergio Latorre @smlatorreo.bsky.social tinyurl.com/ye8zwcrc on the paper by Jigisha et al. "Popgen and molecular epidemiology of wheat powdery mildew" @plosbiology.org tinyurl.com/357nkey8 @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @cloeucl.bsky.social
May 6, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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With some delay... but some good news.
The final version of our paper Local Genetic Adaptation to Habitat in Wild Chimpanzees is out in Science. Great PanAfrican (PanAf) collaboration led by PhD student (now Dr!) Harrison Ostridge. 🧪#PopGen #evobio www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Local genetic adaptation to habitat in wild chimpanzees
How populations adapt to their environment is a fundamental question in biology. Yet, we know surprisingly little about this process, especially for endangered species, such as nonhuman great apes. Ch...
www.science.org
February 3, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Great read to start the 2025 with a good dive into plant pathogen genomics. Thanks for this beautiful work @wagnercfagundes.bsky.social @thorstenlangner.bsky.social
January 24, 2025 at 10:45 AM