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Rita Tam

@ritatam.bsky.social
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PhD student at Schwessinger and Rathjen Labs, Australian National University. Rust fungi genomics & evolution. Aligned student with ARC's Future Crop Training Centre. 🍄🧬💻🎮🏍️

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The Tattooed Professor @schwessinger.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Today a long talk on how to use graphs to dissect nuclear haplotype resolved genomes of fungi @ritatam.bsky.social #icom2026
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Australasian Mycological Society @ausmycsoc.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
We are excited to launch "My Fungal Passion", a new short video series celebrating the diversity of fungal research and the people behind it. Share your own fungus story at the link below! www.australasianmycologicalsociety.com/post/tell-yo...
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🎥Tell your fungal story in the AMS Education video Series - My Fungal Passion!
The Australasian Mycological Society (AMS) is committed to promoting teaching and learning in all areas of fungal biology. With the recent decline in mycology education at schools and universities acr...
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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Host adaptation and genome evolution of the broad host range fungal rust pathogen, Austropuccinia psidii www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Australasian Mycological Society @ausmycsoc.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Save the date! 🗓️ Thu 29 May 12pm AEST/2pm NZST Our May seminar will feature Aviya Naccarella from @deakinuniversity.bsky.social on the fungal diet of native mammals Free registration (donations welcome) @ecolsocaus.bsky.social www.australasianmycologicalsociety.com/post/may-202...
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May 2025 AMS virtual seminar: Aviya Naccarella, on fungal diet of mammals!
We invite you to attend our upcoming AMS virtual seminar! This month's seminar will feature Aviya Naccarella, an ecologist at Deakin University. Generalising generalists – comparative fungal diet of t...
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The Tattooed Professor @schwessinger.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Our last science contribution of the year Long-read genomics reveal extensive nuclear-specific evolution and allele-specific expression in a dikaryotic fungus www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #mpmi #plantbiology #plantimmunity #plants #fungi. This was led by very talented Rita Tam plus great support
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Long-read genomics reveal extensive nuclear-specific evolution and allele-specific expression in a dikaryotic fungus
Phased telomere to telomere (T2T) genome assemblies are revolutionising our understanding of long hidden genome biology "dark matter" such as centromeres, rDNA repeats, inter-haplotype variation, and ...
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