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Josje Romeijn

@jromeijn.bsky.social
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PhD student @TBB Utrecht University with an interest in Evolutionary Genomics

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Bram van Dijk 🏳️‍🌈 @bramvandijk.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Phd Position alert 🚨 Join our project ASTRAfun (Adaptation and Starship Traffic in Root-Associated fungi), in which we will use computational models to unveil the hidden dynamics of fungal evolution. It’s not going to be just regular fun. It’s going to ASTRAfun. 🤓 www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
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PhD Position in Computational Modelling of Fungal Evolution
How do giant mobile elements called ‘Starships’ reshape fungal plant pathogens? Help us computationally model their spread and impact in nature and agriculture!
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Josje Romeijn @jromeijn.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Now officially published in Current Biology 🥳🥳 @mfseidl.bsky.social @binfutrecht.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Extensive horizontal transfer of transposable elements shapes fungal mobilomes
Romeijn et al. reveal that horizontal transposon transfer is widespread in fungi, contributing up to 70% of transposon content in some taxa. The authors uncover thousands of events across diverse line...
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Toby Baril @tobybarilbio.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
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...
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Bram van Dijk 🏳️‍🌈 @bramvandijk.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
❤️ www.uu.nl/en/news/paul...
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Paulien Hogeweg elected as EMBO Member
Paulien Hogeweg has been elected as a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). This highly regarded recognition highlights her groundbreaking work on the fundamental principles of...
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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Transposable elements hitchhike on Starships across fungal genomes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Josje Romeijn @jromeijn.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
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.
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Michael Seidl @mfseidl.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Extremely proud of @anouk-vw.bsky.social successfully defending her PhD thesis yesterday at @w-u-r.bsky.social
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