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Michael Thon @mthon@genomic.social retweeted
Our new population genomics study on #Colletotrichum! 🌿🧬 212 global isolates reveal isolation by distance and genetic introgression between lineages, indicating a long history of recombination! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… 🎧 Audio summary: sciencecast.org/casts/vqrc6g…
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Michael Thon @mthon@genomic.social retweeted
Thrilled to see our work on #genome #evolution & transcriptome plasticity of #Colletotrichum #fungi adapted to different #plants published in @GigaScience! Check it out! doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/… @Unibo @distal_unibo @usal @jgi @AITtomorrow2day @UCBerkeley @_Westerdijk_
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Michael Thon @mthon@genomic.social retweeted
Congratulations @SiolySioly7 and team! 🥳
Our new #paper is out 🎉 @FrontMicrobiol 🧬 #Genomics #Colletotrichum 📌 Check out our full paper in doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1… Here is a thread for a brief recap ⬇️
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Michael Thon @mthon@genomic.social retweeted
Congrats Dr T. Boufleur @boufleur_t on your award for best PhD thesis at #USP in soybean anthracnose. We’re very proud of you! Thanks for a wonderful collaboration with Univ Sao Paulo, Bolonia @R_Baroncelli and Salamanca @CIALE_USAL @mthon @UCCiUSAL @investigausal #colletotrichum
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Michael Thon @mthon@genomic.social retweeted
Please consider joining @ElenaBaraldi6, @R_Baroncelli and myself for a full day of Colletotrichum talks and networking at the Colletotrichum satellite workshop in connection with #ecfg16
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Michael Thon @mthon@genomic.social retweeted
26 Oct 2022
👩‍🔬🧑‍🔬Los doctores Virginia Casado del Castillo y Francisco Borja Cuevas Fernández, del grupo de Genética del CIALE, presentaron sus charlas en el XX Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Fitopatología @SEFitopatologia celebrado en Valencia #vlcsef2022 representando a la @usal
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Michael Thon @mthon@genomic.social retweeted
👏🏻 Segundo día de Congreso #vlcsef2022 Mañana seguimos con nuestros pósteres en el edificio Nexus, 2da planta ➡️ Sección interacción Planta-Patógeno #colletotrichum #genome #population #effector
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Michael Thon @mthon@genomic.social retweeted
Curiosity: How many times can one cry while writing the first paper?
17% Zero
50% <10
33% ♾️
6 votes • Final results
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Michael Thon @mthon@genomic.social retweeted
Our new work is out!! Genome evolution and transcriptome plasticity associated with adaptation to monocot and eudicot plants in #Colletotrichum fungi! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… @JCobodiaz @GLeFloch29 @ssukno @mthon @jgi
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Michael Thon @mthon@genomic.social retweeted
8 Jul 2022
🧪🔬¡Hoy ha tocado Campamento Científico! Nuestros investigadores del Grupo de Genética han preparado unos talleres chulísimos y los niños se han divertido mucho con los experimentos!🫧🧫 @UCCiUSAL @AgriEnvironCyL
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Michael Thon @mthon@genomic.social retweeted
My screens now look like this. One paper is coming 🧬💻 #ScienceTwitter #WomenInScience #paper #HomeOfficeSetup #Science #Bioinformatics
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Michael Thon @mthon@genomic.social retweeted
Can someone explain to a new PI why aluminum foil is $100 from Fisher and why I can't just go buy it at Target/Grocery store, etc?
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Michael Thon @mthon@genomic.social retweeted
This was a long time in development with collaborators from around the world and a multidisciplinary effort @FlviaRogrio2 @R_Baroncelli @Crouch_Lab @GMunkvold @MalapiWight @SiolySioly7 @AlbertTenuta @tjcksn @PSU_PlantEpidem @mthon #Colletotrichum biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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…but the amount of data to be analyzed is difficult to be managed. Found this in an actual published paper
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Michael Thon @mthon@genomic.social retweeted
Hello #scientificWorld! Here is my first paper as a co-author 🏁📌 We studied a major effect gene controlling development and pathogenicity in Botrytis cinerea #PhDLife @frontiersin @AcademicChatter #AcademicChatter @R_Baroncelli @mthon doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.66…
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Michael Thon @mthon@genomic.social retweeted
Great meeting:Women in Science in Castilla and Léon (Spain). A lot of brilliant young Ph.D students. 2 #colletotrichum talks! One from our group (fungal genomics) and one from close collaborators (Biostatistics) @ciale, @investigausal , @usal
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