At 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.

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The 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!

For those interested in repeat-induced point mutations (RIP) in fungi: Thomas Badet set up an amazing meeting in beautiful Neuchâtel #TEsworldwide #Transposon

🔥 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

🔥 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/

@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...

Barbara McClintock also spent some time working on fungi (Neurospora), so it is more than fair to keep on mentioning her

Honestly 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.

It is similar in Switzerland, and beyond advertised positions, cold calls with a good letter of specific interest for a lab are possible as well. I liked that it is a job, not continuation of school. And as a plus, there are amazing mountain hikes and rock climbing on the weekends!

Interested 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

#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

RP 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...

If you like #Transposons 👾 check out this feed and tag your posts with #TEsky! Thanks @tobybarilbio.bsky.social 🤗 bsky.app/profile/did:...

Could I be added as well, please? Thank you for doing this! I am a postdoc studying transposable elements and structural variation in fungi 🧬➰🍄 scholar.google.com/citations?us...

I 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.

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🧬💚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...

Thank you! And I agree, this project opened many more questions for me than I had at the start. Fungi are amazing!

Very cool work from @oggenfussursula.bsky.social on transposable element derived domains in fungal proteomes 🍄 I’m super excited to see more such insights into the fungal kingdom, so much more to learn
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Amazing work led by Ursula Oggenfuss @oggenfussursula.bsky.social and helped Thomas Badet now out as a preprint. Please check it out and tell us what you think.

"A systematic screen for co-option of transposable elements across the fungal kingdom"

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...