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Ksenia Krasileva @kseniakrasileva.bsky.social · Jul 16

#2025ISMPMI @danielkroll.bsky.social presenting large scale comparative genomics of fungicide resistance evolution and new pathogen strains emergence

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Debangana Moitra @debanganamoitra.bsky.social · Jul 16

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

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Sergio M. Latorre @smlatorreo.bsky.social · Jul 15

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Sergio M. Latorre @smlatorreo.bsky.social · Jul 13

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

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Sergio M. Latorre @smlatorreo.bsky.social · Jul 13

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

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Sergio M. Latorre @smlatorreo.bsky.social · May 22

Thanks for having me at #pint25
Great discussing #evolution and #pandemics with such a wonderful audience
@pintofscience.uk @uclopenscience.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · May 7

#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

Spatial population structure of wheat powdery mildew in Europe. Isolation-by-distance in the Europe+_2022_2023 samples belonging to the N_EUR population (top left), S_EUR2 population (top right), and the complete Europe+_2022_2023 dataset (bottom left). Genetic distance is the number SNPs between a pair of individuals, scaled by the total number of loci compared. Geographic distance is measured between sampling locations of pairs of individuals, in kilometers. The colors represent the density of the data points, with warmer colors corresponding to higher density. 1,000 randomly sampled data points for each dataset are plotted in black. Bottom right: Effective migration surfaces estimated using FEEMS for the Europe+_2022_2023 dataset. The colors indicate the inferred relative intensity of gene flow along each edge of the spatial graph. Orange corresponds to lower-than-average effective migration and blue, higher-than-average. The grey circles show the nodes of the spatial grid the samples were assigned to, based on their sampling locations. The size of the node is proportional to the number of samples assigned.

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Sergio M. Latorre @smlatorreo.bsky.social · May 6

Here the link of the original work:
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Population genomics and molecular epidemiology of wheat powdery mildew in Europe

Agricultural diseases are a major threat to sustainable food production. This study of wheat powdery mildew, a disease caused by the fungus Blumeria graminis, shows that the population structure can b...

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Sergio M. Latorre @smlatorreo.bsky.social · May 6

"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

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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 ...

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Hernán A. Burbano @hernanaburbano.bsky.social · May 6

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

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Aida Andres @aidaandres.bsky.social · Feb 3

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...

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Sergio M. Latorre @smlatorreo.bsky.social · Jan 24

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

Thorsten Langner @thorstenlangner.bsky.social · Jan 20

From 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!

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From Lesions to Lessons: Two Decades of Filamentous Plant Pathogen Genomics | Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions®

Filamentous plant pathogens pose a severe threat to food security. Current estimates suggest up to 23% yield losses to pre- and post-harvest diseases and these losses are projected to increase due to ...

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