Croll lab at University of Neuchatel. The lab of Daniel Croll wants to understand how pathogens evolve to cause disease. For this, we mainly focus on major crop pathogens to unravel mechanisms of rapi...

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Gaeumannomyces species (Magnaporthales, Ascomycota) occur worldwide as both pathogenic and commensal root-associates of cereal crops and wild grasses,…

PhD student Marine Folgoas reflects on the first year of her PhD and the important role training has played in developing her skills as a researcher.

Emerging fungal pathogens have detrimental impacts on crops, animals, and humans, however little is known about their transition to a pathogenic lifestyle. This study demonstrates that the transition ...

Transposable elements (TEs) are ubiquitous components of the genome whose mobility can be triggered by environmental stress and influenced by genotype…

Researcher in Kerala rainforest sounds alarm after being told frogs had died after being handled by humans

This Theo Murphy meeting organised by Dr Joana Meier, Dr Henry North and Dr Charlotte Wright, will showcase cutting-edge pangenome tools, applied uses of pangenomes which are transforming health and a...

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...

A tutorial on how to visualise gene gain and loss on a phylogenetic tree

4-year Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership (NRPDTP) PhD

4-year Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership (NRPDTP) PhD

Welcome to the lab website of Professor Daniel Gibbs @ University of Birmingham

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology on Simons Foundation

Reticulate evolution has long been recognized as a key mechanism that contributes to genetic and trait diversity. With the widespread availability ...

Giant transposons, known as ‘Starships’, mediate horizontal gene transfer between fungal genomes. Here, Sato et al. show that Starships occupy genome regions crucial for infection in a plant pathogeni...

Abstract. A key prediction of neutral theory is that the level of genetic diversity in a population should scale with population size. However, as was note

Fungi underpin all life on Earth, yet it is estimated that more than 95 per cent of fungal species remain undiscovered. Holding over 1.25 million dried specimens, the Fungarium at Royal Botanic Garden...

YouTube video by International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium

The question of where DNA replication starts in the human genome has finally been addressed, with the conclusion it is largely random.

Evidence for those pathogen genes selected specifically for success on crops.