Wagner Fagundes
@wagnercfagundes.bsky.social
Postdoc @ MPI for Biology - Langner's lab. Passionate about evolution in plant pathosystems | #beproud he/him
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Great news for new plant breeding technologies in Europe! 🥳 EU reaches preliminary deal on gene editing!
www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/...
www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/...
New genomic techniques for plant breeding
New genomic techniques can increase food security and mitigate climate change effects. EU rules aim to regulate these plant breeding methods.
www.consilium.europa.eu
December 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Great news for new plant breeding technologies in Europe! 🥳 EU reaches preliminary deal on gene editing!
www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/...
www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/...
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Congratulations to the organizing committee for putting together an excellent first postdoc retreat for MPI-Bio and FML postdocs! Great to see such inspiring talks, strong community building, and clear dedication behind the scenes. Well done to everyone involved🎊
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This week we had a blast during our very first postdoc retreat of the MPI for Biology Tübingen and the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory! 🎊
We were honored to host Prof. Dr. Nadine Ziemert as our… | Had...
This week we had a blast during our very first postdoc retreat of the MPI for Biology Tübingen and the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory! 🎊
We were honored to host Prof. Dr. Nadine Ziemert as our guest ...
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December 2, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Congratulations to the organizing committee for putting together an excellent first postdoc retreat for MPI-Bio and FML postdocs! Great to see such inspiring talks, strong community building, and clear dedication behind the scenes. Well done to everyone involved🎊
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Finally out!
A large European diversity panel reveals complex azole fungicide resistance gains of a major wheat pathogen
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
A big thanks to @danielcroll.bsky.social & @GabrielScalliet
#azole #DMI #GWAS #fungicide #resistance #zymoseptoria #Europe
A large European diversity panel reveals complex azole fungicide resistance gains of a major wheat pathogen
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
A big thanks to @danielcroll.bsky.social & @GabrielScalliet
#azole #DMI #GWAS #fungicide #resistance #zymoseptoria #Europe
A large European diversity panel reveals complex azole fungicide resistance gains of a major wheat pathogen | mBio
Sustainable food production requires the management of disease agents attacking crops.
Application of antifungal compounds is among the key elements of pathogen containment;
however, resistance can ri...
journals.asm.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Finally out!
A large European diversity panel reveals complex azole fungicide resistance gains of a major wheat pathogen
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
A big thanks to @danielcroll.bsky.social & @GabrielScalliet
#azole #DMI #GWAS #fungicide #resistance #zymoseptoria #Europe
A large European diversity panel reveals complex azole fungicide resistance gains of a major wheat pathogen
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
A big thanks to @danielcroll.bsky.social & @GabrielScalliet
#azole #DMI #GWAS #fungicide #resistance #zymoseptoria #Europe
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Responses to Temperature Shocks in Zymoseptoria tritici Reveal Specific Transcriptional Reprogramming and Novel Candidate Genes for Thermal Adaptation | Phytopathology® apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/full/10....
Responses to Temperature Shocks in Zymoseptoria tritici Reveal Specific Transcriptional Reprogramming and Novel Candidate Genes for Thermal Adaptation | Phytopathology®
Pathogens’ responses to sudden temperature fluctuations, spanning various temporal scales, are critical determinants of their survival, growth, reproduction, and homeostasis. Here, we combined phenoty...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Responses to Temperature Shocks in Zymoseptoria tritici Reveal Specific Transcriptional Reprogramming and Novel Candidate Genes for Thermal Adaptation | Phytopathology® apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/full/10....
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TEs aren’t just genomic parasites, they’re also engines of genomic novelty.
Our new study with ~2,000 Z. tritici genomes shows repeated TE mobilization waves during global expansion.
With @danielcroll.bsky.social & @guidopuccetti.bsky.social
🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#TEworldwide
Our new study with ~2,000 Z. tritici genomes shows repeated TE mobilization waves during global expansion.
With @danielcroll.bsky.social & @guidopuccetti.bsky.social
🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#TEworldwide
Historic transposon mobilisation waves create distinct pools of adaptive variants in a major crop pathogen - Nature Communications
In this study, the authors analysed a large genomic dataset to trace how jumping genes shaped the global spread of a major wheat pathogen and reveal bursts of activity over decades that drove adaptati...
www.nature.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
TEs aren’t just genomic parasites, they’re also engines of genomic novelty.
Our new study with ~2,000 Z. tritici genomes shows repeated TE mobilization waves during global expansion.
With @danielcroll.bsky.social & @guidopuccetti.bsky.social
🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#TEworldwide
Our new study with ~2,000 Z. tritici genomes shows repeated TE mobilization waves during global expansion.
With @danielcroll.bsky.social & @guidopuccetti.bsky.social
🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#TEworldwide
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Postdoc position available at Max Planck Institute, Germany, focusing on the genetic basis of polygenic traits in Drosophila. Applications due by Dec 22, 2025. More info: [email protected]. #postdoc
November 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Postdoc position available at Max Planck Institute, Germany, focusing on the genetic basis of polygenic traits in Drosophila. Applications due by Dec 22, 2025. More info: [email protected]. #postdoc
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Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp....
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
GitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap
dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.
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November 6, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp....
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
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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...
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...
October 29, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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...
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...
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📣 I’m excited to share two open positions in my lab @leibniz-hki.de. For this interdisciplinary project with @luziagyr.bsky.social, I’m seeking (1) an enthusiastic PhD student interested in fungal natural product research and genetic engineering, as well as (2) a technical assistant 👇🏻
October 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
📣 I’m excited to share two open positions in my lab @leibniz-hki.de. For this interdisciplinary project with @luziagyr.bsky.social, I’m seeking (1) an enthusiastic PhD student interested in fungal natural product research and genetic engineering, as well as (2) a technical assistant 👇🏻
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Fungal #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
October 16, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Fungal #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
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Tracking the evolutionary trajectory of a young hybrid plant pathogen. New preprint on how triticale powdery mildew evolved in the ~25 years since its emergence. Congrats to @jigisha1.bsky.social and all coauthors! doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Tracking the evolutionary trajectory of a young hybrid plant pathogen
A common mechanism by which emerging plant pathogens gain the ability to infect new hosts is hybridization. Despite its widespread occurrence, the outcomes of hybridization remain largely unpredictabl...
doi.org
October 13, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Tracking the evolutionary trajectory of a young hybrid plant pathogen. New preprint on how triticale powdery mildew evolved in the ~25 years since its emergence. Congrats to @jigisha1.bsky.social and all coauthors! doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Professorship in plant genetics.
The Botanical Institute at Kiel University is advertising a W2 professorship. Great opportunity to do plant research in the north of Germany. See:
www.berufungen.uni-kiel.de/de/dateien/o...
The Botanical Institute at Kiel University is advertising a W2 professorship. Great opportunity to do plant research in the north of Germany. See:
www.berufungen.uni-kiel.de/de/dateien/o...
www.berufungen.uni-kiel.de
October 12, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Professorship in plant genetics.
The Botanical Institute at Kiel University is advertising a W2 professorship. Great opportunity to do plant research in the north of Germany. See:
www.berufungen.uni-kiel.de/de/dateien/o...
The Botanical Institute at Kiel University is advertising a W2 professorship. Great opportunity to do plant research in the north of Germany. See:
www.berufungen.uni-kiel.de/de/dateien/o...
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So happy to see my first first-author paper published! 🎈
A short thread on how Ectocarpus and its TE secrets have kept me busy lately:
rdcu.be/eITQH
A short thread on how Ectocarpus and its TE secrets have kept me busy lately:
rdcu.be/eITQH
Characterization of the transposable element landscape shaping the Ectocarpus genome | Genome Biology
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October 1, 2025 at 8:12 AM
So happy to see my first first-author paper published! 🎈
A short thread on how Ectocarpus and its TE secrets have kept me busy lately:
rdcu.be/eITQH
A short thread on how Ectocarpus and its TE secrets have kept me busy lately:
rdcu.be/eITQH
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I’m super happy to present the first discoveries of the RIKEN-Cambridge Joint Crop Symbiosis Research Team, based in Japan 🇯🇵
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
A thread 👇
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
A thread 👇
Reductive evolution of the DNA replication machinery in endosymbiotic fungi
The molecular machinery for replicating and repairing DNA accurately is critically important for life and highly conserved across the Tree of Life. Here we show that two major lineages of fungi, Glome...
doi.org
September 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I’m super happy to present the first discoveries of the RIKEN-Cambridge Joint Crop Symbiosis Research Team, based in Japan 🇯🇵
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
A thread 👇
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
A thread 👇
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Delighted that our work on the Sanctuary Starship #transposon is now published! A big thanks to all co-authors, especially to the ever-amazing @mcdonaldmeganc.bsky.social for her mentorship!
doi.org/10.1128/mbio...
doi.org/10.1128/mbio...
Sanctuary: a Starship transposon facilitating the movement of the virulence factor ToxA in fungal wheat pathogens | mBio
The work presented here expands our understanding of a novel group of mobile genetic
elements called Starships that facilitate the horizontal exchange of numerous genes between fungal pathogens.
Our a...
doi.org
September 6, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Delighted that our work on the Sanctuary Starship #transposon is now published! A big thanks to all co-authors, especially to the ever-amazing @mcdonaldmeganc.bsky.social for her mentorship!
doi.org/10.1128/mbio...
doi.org/10.1128/mbio...
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How diverse are the individual strains within your species?
How broad is their Pangenome?
How will you choose representatives from the whole collection?
Look no further! PanGene-O-Meter is here for you!
From @haimashkenazy.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
How broad is their Pangenome?
How will you choose representatives from the whole collection?
Look no further! PanGene-O-Meter is here for you!
From @haimashkenazy.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
PanGene-O-Meter: Intra-Species Diversity Based on Gene-Content
Bacterial genome evolution is shaped to a great extent by horizontal gene transfer, detectable as genes with a presence-absence pattern of variation that does not follow phylogenetic relationships acr...
www.biorxiv.org
September 2, 2025 at 7:20 AM
How diverse are the individual strains within your species?
How broad is their Pangenome?
How will you choose representatives from the whole collection?
Look no further! PanGene-O-Meter is here for you!
From @haimashkenazy.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
How broad is their Pangenome?
How will you choose representatives from the whole collection?
Look no further! PanGene-O-Meter is here for you!
From @haimashkenazy.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The #MaxPlanckPostdocProgram offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. The call for applications is open now! 🚀 Take advantage of this opportunity and browse the job vacancies. www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...
September 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
The #MaxPlanckPostdocProgram offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. The call for applications is open now! 🚀 Take advantage of this opportunity and browse the job vacancies. www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...
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Joint #CallForProposals! Within the scope of their Cooperation Agreement, the Brazilian @cnpq-oficial.bsky.social and the DFG are pleased to announce a joint call for German-Brazilian research projects in the fields of agricultural sciences, forestry and veterinary medicine.
Details:
fcld.ly/ifdw69
Details:
fcld.ly/ifdw69
DFG-CNPq: Brazilian-German Joint Call for Proposals in the Fields of Agricultural Sciences, Forestry and Veterinary Medicine
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August 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Joint #CallForProposals! Within the scope of their Cooperation Agreement, the Brazilian @cnpq-oficial.bsky.social and the DFG are pleased to announce a joint call for German-Brazilian research projects in the fields of agricultural sciences, forestry and veterinary medicine.
Details:
fcld.ly/ifdw69
Details:
fcld.ly/ifdw69
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Really happy this is out in preprint - Congratulations to @graemekettles.bsky.social @zymohaider.bsky.social, and everyone involved for their hard work completing this study! It examines a Z. tritici effector that is a molecular mimic of plant LRRs, and suppresses PTI www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Molecular mimicry of plant cell-surface immune receptors by fungal secreted leucine-rich repeat proteins
Leucine-rich repeat (LRR) receptor-like kinases (LRR-RLKs) are important plant immunity proteins. The wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici produces many virulence effectors during infection; however, m...
www.biorxiv.org
August 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Really happy this is out in preprint - Congratulations to @graemekettles.bsky.social @zymohaider.bsky.social, and everyone involved for their hard work completing this study! It examines a Z. tritici effector that is a molecular mimic of plant LRRs, and suppresses PTI www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Transposable elements in brown algae? 🌊
Yes, they’re full of surprises ✨
Come meet Ectocarpus at #ESEB2025!
📍Room 113 - S28.03
🗓️ Thursday, 2:30pm
Yes, they’re full of surprises ✨
Come meet Ectocarpus at #ESEB2025!
📍Room 113 - S28.03
🗓️ Thursday, 2:30pm
August 19, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Transposable elements in brown algae? 🌊
Yes, they’re full of surprises ✨
Come meet Ectocarpus at #ESEB2025!
📍Room 113 - S28.03
🗓️ Thursday, 2:30pm
Yes, they’re full of surprises ✨
Come meet Ectocarpus at #ESEB2025!
📍Room 113 - S28.03
🗓️ Thursday, 2:30pm
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📣 NEW PREPRINT 📝
We identified evolutionary origins of many fungal effectors!
We show that fungi secrete lots of antimicrobial proteins, and that some of them were repurposed by plant pathogens for host immune suppression.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
cc @teamthomma.bsky.social
We identified evolutionary origins of many fungal effectors!
We show that fungi secrete lots of antimicrobial proteins, and that some of them were repurposed by plant pathogens for host immune suppression.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
cc @teamthomma.bsky.social
Plant-associated fungi co-opt ancient antimicrobials for host manipulation
Evolutionary histories of effector proteins secreted by fungal pathogens to mediate plant colonization remain largely elusive. While most functionally characterized effectors modulate plant immunity, ...
www.biorxiv.org
August 15, 2025 at 7:47 AM
📣 NEW PREPRINT 📝
We identified evolutionary origins of many fungal effectors!
We show that fungi secrete lots of antimicrobial proteins, and that some of them were repurposed by plant pathogens for host immune suppression.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
cc @teamthomma.bsky.social
We identified evolutionary origins of many fungal effectors!
We show that fungi secrete lots of antimicrobial proteins, and that some of them were repurposed by plant pathogens for host immune suppression.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
cc @teamthomma.bsky.social
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Happy to be able to finally share our NLR pangenome paper, out now in CHM.
"Pangenomic context reveals the extent of intraspecific plant NLR evolution"
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
#plantscience #plantimmunity #pangenomes #science #nlr
"Pangenomic context reveals the extent of intraspecific plant NLR evolution"
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
#plantscience #plantimmunity #pangenomes #science #nlr
Pangenomic context reveals the extent of intraspecific plant NLR evolution
Individual- and population-level diversity is required for pathogen defense by nucleotide-binding
site leucine-rich repeat (NLR) proteins. Teasdale et al. leverage annotated, divergent
A. thaliana gen...
www.cell.com
August 14, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Happy to be able to finally share our NLR pangenome paper, out now in CHM.
"Pangenomic context reveals the extent of intraspecific plant NLR evolution"
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
#plantscience #plantimmunity #pangenomes #science #nlr
"Pangenomic context reveals the extent of intraspecific plant NLR evolution"
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
#plantscience #plantimmunity #pangenomes #science #nlr
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We’re excited to share our latest work on plant pathogen effector protein evolution @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social. With @kamounlab.bsky.social and Abbas Maqbool.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Rewinding the tape: historical contingency and functional constraints have shaped the evolution of APikL virulence effectors in the blast fungus
Protein evolution is influenced by historical contingencies and functional constraints, but their combined impact on rapidly diversifying pathogen virulence effectors remains poorly understood. Here, ...
www.biorxiv.org
August 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
We’re excited to share our latest work on plant pathogen effector protein evolution @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social. With @kamounlab.bsky.social and Abbas Maqbool.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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1/ Excited to share our latest opinion piece published today in Trends in Microbiology (@cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social):
Hypermutator fungal pathogens: from threat to meltdown
Here, we argue that the origin of hypermutation follows defined principles, rather than...
Hypermutator fungal pathogens: from threat to meltdown
Here, we argue that the origin of hypermutation follows defined principles, rather than...
August 7, 2025 at 8:05 AM
1/ Excited to share our latest opinion piece published today in Trends in Microbiology (@cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social):
Hypermutator fungal pathogens: from threat to meltdown
Here, we argue that the origin of hypermutation follows defined principles, rather than...
Hypermutator fungal pathogens: from threat to meltdown
Here, we argue that the origin of hypermutation follows defined principles, rather than...
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📣 Happy to see the journal publication 📄 of our work on Starships 🚀 in Verticillium fungi: terrific work led by @yukiyosato.bsky.social
rdcu.be/exBSp
rdcu.be/exBSp
Starship giant transposons dominate plastic genomic regions in a fungal plant pathogen and drive virulence evolution
Nature Communications - Giant transposons, known as ‘Starships’, mediate horizontal gene transfer between fungal genomes. Here, Sato et al. show that Starships occupy genome regions...
rdcu.be
July 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM
📣 Happy to see the journal publication 📄 of our work on Starships 🚀 in Verticillium fungi: terrific work led by @yukiyosato.bsky.social
rdcu.be/exBSp
rdcu.be/exBSp