Andi Wilson, PhD @drandiwilson.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Officially here and registered for #SIP2026 🦗 Let me know if you're here and want to meet up, flying somewhat solo for a change! 😅 010
Andi Wilson, PhD @drandiwilson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Squeezed in a flash talk at #SMBE2026 ⚡️ A great opportunity to share some very new research from my postdoc, looking at what genes are important for plant-fungus interactions 🌾🍄 Also pretty cool that I got to present in the beautiful main hall ✨️ 050
Andi Wilson, PhD @drandiwilson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026A career highlight at #SMBE2026 this week, co-hosting a popular symposium with @henriklicht.bsky.social & @agesiorska.bsky.social, starting off with an incredible talk by @danielcroll.bsky.social 🌾 Thanks to all our speakers, who made this a session to remember! 🧬 060
Andi Wilson, PhD @drandiwilson.bsky.social · 01/07/2026#SMBE2026! Join us in Open Session 6, where I'll be giving a flash talk on the work @henriklicht.bsky.social and I have been doing on root-symbiotic entomopathogenic fungi, ie fungi that cause disease in insects and form symbioses with plants! 🦗🌾 It starts in the main hall in 10 mins! 272
Reposted by Andi Wilson, PhDIrene Gallego Romero @ee-reh-neh.bsky.social · 30/06/2026I didn't get a chance to post about this properly, what with prepping for ESHG, but all of you over at #SMBE2026 might get a kick out of Lift&Add 063
Andi Wilson, PhD @drandiwilson.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Hey #SMBE2026! Come check out our symposium tomorrow at 10:20 and 13:20 in Lumbye 😊 We've got a great line up on large scale genomic changes & adaptive evolution, & @danielcroll.bsky.social as our invited guest! 🧬 See you there! Hosted by me, @henriklicht.bsky.social and @agesiorska.bsky.social 041
Andi Wilson, PhD @drandiwilson.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Summer conference season has started! 🧬 #SMBE2026 @official-smbe.bsky.social 061
Reposted by Andi Wilson, PhDSociety for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · 03/12/2025SMBE2026 Symposium 3 | Genome plasticity and evolutionary innovation 📨 Abstract submission smbe2026.org/abstracts 📋 Programme details smbe2026.org/programme #SMBE2026 183
Andi Wilson, PhD @drandiwilson.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Thrilled to be hosting this session with @henriklicht.bsky.social and @agesiorska.bsky.social 🥳 Already looking forward to @danielcroll.bsky.social's talk and the other talks and posters that'll form part of this session! 🤩 062
Reposted by Andi Wilson, PhDJo Rhodes @drjorhodes.com · 13/11/2025A great genomics paper from my friend and colleague @drandiwilson.bsky.social on the expansion of heat stress related proteins in Rhizina undulata bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.comThermotolerance and post-fire growth in Rhizina undulata is associated with the expansion of heat stress-related protein families - BMC GenomicsBackground Rhizina undulata is an important tree pathogen, infecting a wide variety of conifer species, including those in the genus Pinus. The fungus relies on heat shock-mediated activation of its a... 142
Andi Wilson, PhD @drandiwilson.bsky.social · 14/11/2025We hypothesize the expansions of: 1) HSP20 = good at surviving heat 🔥 2) GST = good at dealing with ROS generated during stress & in response to metabolism of PyOm ⚠️ 3) ACD = good at metabolising PyOm 🍽 Taken together, R. undulata survives fire and then thrives in post-fire environments! 000
Andi Wilson, PhD @drandiwilson.bsky.social · 14/11/20253 protein family expansions were discovered in R. undulata. The HSP20 expansion was present in the other fire-associates, but the 2 others were unique to R. undulata! This included GST and ACD enzymes. See below! 🔽 100
Andi Wilson, PhD @drandiwilson.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Excited to share our newest article, out in BMC Genomics! We looked at genomes of a bunch of Pezizomycetes without & without associations with fire to figure out how Rhizina undulata survives fire 🔥 R. undulata needs high temperatures for germination = fire is important for its life cycle 🔥 141
Andi Wilson, PhD @drandiwilson.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Aww, that's bad timing! But good luck in the lab, I hope it goes well ✨️🧪 000
Andi Wilson, PhD @drandiwilson.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Attending the annual #PlantBiologicalsNetworkMeeting in Copenhagen today ✨️ 130
Andi Wilson, PhD @drandiwilson.bsky.social · 22/05/2025The most elegant diagram to explain what the scientific process and the average research project looks like ✨️ So many side tracks that eventually don't make it into the final story, but are an integral part of the process. From Yanai & Lercher (2025) in Nature Biotech 0101
Andi Wilson, PhD @drandiwilson.bsky.social · 12/05/202556 RNAseq samples done and ready to be shipped! 🥳🧬🧫🧪🔬 040
Andi Wilson, PhD @drandiwilson.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Seeing Jennifer Doudna speak this afternoon at the Black Diamond in Copenhagen 🧬🧫🔬 Appropriately dressed in my #CRISPREngineer shirt from @thermofishersci.bsky.social 🧬💁♀️ 030
Andi Wilson, PhD @drandiwilson.bsky.social · 28/04/202510 years ago, I published my first, first-author paper 🤩 In some ways, it feels like just yesterday and I'm still a baby masters student 🥹 In other ways, it feels like this was 100 years ago 👵 Either way, the joy of seeing your work published never goes away ❤️ 150
Andi Wilson, PhD @drandiwilson.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Blood. Sweat. Tears. Locust & root media. 🧪🔬🧫 🦗🌾 011
Andi Wilson, PhD @drandiwilson.bsky.social · 03/04/2025🧪🧬 We acknowledge support from FABI, UCPH, The Novo Nordisk Foundation, and the NRF! And I thank my co-authors for their contributions to this manuscript 🍄🤩 000
Andi Wilson, PhD @drandiwilson.bsky.social · 03/04/2025🧪🧬 We also provide a schematic and lots of in text details on how you can optimize this protocol for use in your own species! 🧬🧪 110
Andi Wilson, PhD @drandiwilson.bsky.social · 03/04/2025🧪🧬 Protocol 5 is for Sclerotinia sclerotiorum- the fungus with a host range of more than 400 plant species! 🌾🍀🌿🌳 This protocol uses immature mycelium as a starting point 100
Andi Wilson, PhD @drandiwilson.bsky.social · 03/04/2025🧪🧬 Protocol 4 is for Ophiostoma novo-ulmi, the Dutch elm disease pathogen 🌲🍄 This protocol uses a DTT-EDTA pre-treatment and uses conidia as the starting material ⚗️ 100
Andi Wilson, PhD @drandiwilson.bsky.social · 03/04/2025🧪🧬 Protocol 3 is for Metarhizium species- fungi that infect and cause death in insects, including various agricultural pests 🦗 The protocol uses mature mycelium as a starting point. 100
Andi Wilson, PhD @drandiwilson.bsky.social · 03/04/2025🧪🧬 Protocol 2 is for Fusarium circinatum- the notorious pine pathogen that causes devastation in natural and managed forests 🌲 This protocol describes extraction from a mixture of mycelium and conidia 100
Andi Wilson, PhD @drandiwilson.bsky.social · 03/04/2025🧪🧬 Protocol 1 is for Ceratocystis species and describes the extraction of protoplasts from mycelium, using a density gradient to purify the protoplasts 🍄🌲 100
Andi Wilson, PhD @drandiwilson.bsky.social · 03/04/2025We present 5 protocols, each optimized in a different fungal genus, for species important in agriculture 🌾 & forestry 🌲 We use an enzyme from the wine industry, #Extralyse, to overcome the reliance on cost-prohibitive lab-grade enzymes whose availability is unreliable 🥲🧪🧬 100
Andi Wilson, PhD @drandiwilson.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Super excited to share our newest paper, out in Current protocols! A collab btwn FABI & UCPH, we put together protoplast extraction protocols for 5 different fungal genera! 🍄 With applications for genome editing & long read seq, we hope this will be super useful! 🧪🧬 151
Andi Wilson, PhD @drandiwilson.bsky.social · 22/03/2025It's taken a while, but I'm finally trying a #MigraineHat.. 😅 I've been an icepack girlie for a very long time, but this 360° cooling effect is 👌 Not to mention the sound and light dulling effect too 😎 #Migraine #ChronicMigraine 030
Andi Wilson, PhD @drandiwilson.bsky.social · 21/03/2025And with that, another 4000-odd seeds have been sowed again 🌱💪 031
Andi Wilson, PhD @drandiwilson.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Wednesday was the first sampling day and... my root and locust media was contaminated by this bacteria left 🧫 But after some tears and a restless night, I know what went wrong and how to fix it 💪 Hopefully with the added experience, setting up Round 2 won't take as long! 🤞 120
Andi Wilson, PhD @drandiwilson.bsky.social · 21/03/2025This little plate and its tiny bacteria left me heartbroken on Wednesday evening 💔 After months of planning and preparing, a pre-pilot trial and a pilot trial, I started my large RNAseq experiment last week 🥳 If everything went to plan, I'd be done by 28 March. But biology had other plans... 🧬 100
Andi Wilson, PhD @drandiwilson.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Safety first ⚠️ #Mycology #MolecularBiology #RNAseq #LiquidNitrogen 020
Andi Wilson, PhD @drandiwilson.bsky.social · 06/03/2025And I can finally say that my pilot experiment starts tomorrow 💪🌱🦗 If everything goes according to plan, the full experiment starts week after next! Let's go! 🤩 #MycoSky #FungiSky #RNASeq 030
Andi Wilson, PhD @drandiwilson.bsky.social · 04/03/2025The hardest ~35g I've ever worked for 😅🌱 Harvesting roots for this experiment has been a challenge 💪 Turns out that 360g of wet weight barley root = 36g dry weight 😂 But we've got the goods and the pilot experiment is underway! 041
Reposted by Andi Wilson, PhDClement Tsui PhD 🇭🇰 🇨🇦 @clementsui.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Genomic divergence across the tree of life | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....pnas.orgGenomic divergence across the tree of life | PNASNucleotide sequence data are being harnessed to identify species, even in cases in which organisms themselves are neither in hand nor witnessed. Bu... 02011
Andi Wilson, PhD @drandiwilson.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Hard relate. Decided not to go for good reasons, but the fomo is still real- especially when I know so many of my favourites fungi people are there! 🍄 020
Reposted by Andi Wilson, PhDJohannes Debler @jwdebler.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Know anything about mycoviruses or fungal plasmids? Come see me at #ECFG17 and help me figure out what this circular element is I keep finding in Ascochyta pathogens of lentil and chickpea. 2267
Andi Wilson, PhD @drandiwilson.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Never gonna get bored of : 1) "Dear Dr Wilson" 2) "... accept your manuscript" 🥳🥳 Happy Monday! 😅 151
Reposted by Andi Wilson, PhDKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/02/2025When you’re chronically ill, it can be incredibly hard to maintain a baseline. There’s so much pressure to pretend that you’re better. To smile and deliver a convincing “I’m fine”. To play through the pain. Sometimes the best thing you can do for your body is rest, yet it’s so hard to do:disabledginger.comIt's Time to Throw Away the 'Coulda, Woulda, Shouldas' and Practice Radical RestWhen you're chronically ill you can't push your body the way non disabled people do. You have to learn to rest. There's few words more damaging to us than the 'coulda, woulda, shouldas' 920936
Reposted by Andi Wilson, PhDAlbert Vilella, PhD. @albertvilella.bsky.social · 27/02/2025The world of #RNA #academicsky #scisky #bluesci 310414
Reposted by Andi Wilson, PhDJason Stajich @hyphaltip.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Two open positions for a lab manger and a laboratory technician. Applications from displaced federal employees are welcome. Lab manager position: www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/410... Lab tech position: www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/391... Please email zlewis@uga.edu if you have questionslinkedin.comZachary Lewis on LinkedIn: Laboratory Research TechnicianWe have open positions for a lab manger and a laboratory technician. Applications from displaced federal employees are welcome. Lab manager position:… 05360
Reposted by Andi Wilson, PhDRiccardo Baroncelli @riccardobaroncelli.bsky.social · 18/02/2025🌿✨ We are excited to announce that the official website for the 1st International Summer School on Plant PathoGenomics is now online! ✨🌿 Explore the details & apply now: www.2p4s2f.com #PlantPathology #Genomics #Bioinformatics #ResearchTraining #2P4S2F 02513
Reposted by Andi Wilson, PhDNatasha Joseph @tashjoeza.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Do you know what never fails to improve my mood? Talking to someone really smart about a thing they know really well, and learning about that thing from them. 2215
Andi Wilson, PhD @drandiwilson.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Scary to think how little we understand about a condition that literally affects 1 billion people Scary to think it wasn't long ago when doctors thought it was psychological. No wonder effective treatment plans have taken so long and are still a long way off for a lot of us 💔 020
Andi Wilson, PhD @drandiwilson.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Interesting Nature News Feature on Migraine and treatments 🧠 Happy that researchers have recognized that the CGRP meds aren't the be all end all, and that they'll be looking into other pathways too ✨️ Just hope I don't need to wait until I'm 70! www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comMigraine is more than a headache — a radical rethink offers hope to one billion peopleDrugs that can prevent or relieve migraine attacks are only effective for some people. Research is starting to untangle the reasons why. 110