Scientist at USDA Cereal Disease Laboratory & University of Minnesota PLPA | Population genomics | Secondary metabolism | The evolution of fungal pathogens
Joined December 2017
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Milton T Drott retweeted
We took a deep dive into some fungal genomes and found Starships, a new family of giant mobile elements carrying host genes and 100s of kb 👜🧬 We learned a bunch (👇🧵) and can't wait to keep exploring 🚀🍄✨🔍 kudos to @Hulk_Vogan Horacio L-N @fungolution and the whole team
The final version of the Starship paper is out! academic.oup.com/mbe/article… Filamentous #fungi harbour massive mobile elements that move genes within and among species. These shape the evolution and adaptation of fungi, and contribute to traits like pathogenicity or metal resistance.
ALT Illustrations of various Starship elements from a wide diversity of filamentous fungi. Conserved cargo genes are highlighted.
Milton T Drott retweeted
How does #superbug #Candida auris compete with C. glabrata in a hospital 🏥 environment?
Our publication in @JoF_MDPI shows common disinfectants can change the balance and contribute to #antimicrobialresistance
Ft. @bsteffan90 @MTDrott @ggoldman10
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The #fungi are under attack! 🍄🐛
How do organisms that are unable run away flailing their hands protect against #insects?
A new insight article by @MTDrott in @eLife examines how fungi defend themselves at different life stages
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If they really did find fungi on Mars, can they please call them #Marshrooms
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Fungi enter the antiSMASH database, with 177 high-quality genomes! It was great to work with you again, @kaiblin @tilmweber ...
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Time-lapse light microscopy footage of a Vampyrella lateritia trophozoite (round) moving along and feeding on cells forming a strand of Spirogyra algae (tubular).
Video: Dr Oliver Skibbe
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Excited to share our new work just published in @ScienceAdvances. This work utilized 1,107 genomes to provide a robust evolutionary framework and to reveal contrasting modes of genome evolution for the largest fungal phylum, #Ascomycota advances.sciencemag.org/cont…
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Vanderbilt biologists (@FractalBryan, @Ann_T_Tate, & Maulik Patel) test evolutionary theories with novel empirical study of ‘cheater’ mitochondria news.vanderbilt.edu/2020/09/… via @VanderbiltU @EvolutionVU @eLife
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Genome expansion in early eukaryotes drove the transition from lateral / horizontal
gene transfer to meiotic sex doi.org/10.7554/eLife.58873
Milton T Drott retweeted
a BRAND NEW review on Penicillium expansum biology, -omics, and management strategies to #bluemold disease of #apples 🍏🍎. Written by our own @dianiluciano in collaboration with Wayne M. Jurick II
#penicillium #apple #foodsafety #fungi @UWMadisonCALS
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3296…
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📢 Open PhD position in my group in combining lab work and comparative genomics to understand how environmental fungi cause human disease. Please RT!
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#PhDposition
Milton T Drott retweeted
On this #FungiFriday we'd like to thank Tracy Debenport for letting us use one of her beautiful photos of #aspergillus as our profile picture. You can find more photos of #fungi 🍄 on her instagram:
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We are excited to see our recent with with @hailceezur from the @NLKProteomics group come to fruition. Checkout our findings of interesting new chemistry uncovered using heterologous expression.
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Still time to apply for a PhD position in my group! 🍄🖥️
Open #PhD position in @frau_dr_barber's new junior research group @microverse_exc: investigate how ecological interactions shape human pathogenicity in #fungi using computational and experimental approaches
➡️ microverse-cluster.de/en/job…
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Milton T Drott retweeted
2 new mSphere papers characterize diversity of morphology, virulence & secondary metabolism found b/t isolates of the model fungus A. nidulans. The results offer new insights into & avenues to utilize this model organism. @MTDrott msphere.asm.org/content/5/2/… @ASMicrobiology #mSphere
Milton T Drott retweeted
Advisor: “And what do we say when we get a rejection?”
Me: “You coulda had a bad bitch....”
Advisor: “No.”
#phdlife #AcademicChatter #academictwitter #phdchat
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What I learned during this week's #TidyTuesday is that nobody bikes to work in most of the US - less than 1% on average! Had grand plans to do more analysis-wise and dig into the demographic data, but life got in the way. #r4ds #rstats #gobybike
code @ github.com/ameliabedelia/tid…
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#AcademicTwitter #mycology #fungi #mold #mushrooms
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In a warming world, fungi in boreal forests are focused on surviving, not decomposing: forbes.com/sites/linhanhcat/…