Emile Gluck‐Thaler

The paper identifies a new transposable element, Tangerine, in the lichen fungus Xanthoria parietina, showing evidence of horizontal gene transfer and potential role in lichen genome evolution.

PAQman evaluates long-read eukaryotic genome assemblies using seven reference-free metrics without requiring a reference genome.

The paper identifies two distinct Starship families in Pyricularia oryzae, showing differences in sequence evolution, epigenetic modifications, and impacts on genome variation and plant-fungal interactions.

The paper introduces starbase, a database and toolkit for exploring Starship mobile genetic elements in fungi, providing curated annotations and tools for classification and comparative analysis.

This study analyzes a large European diversity panel of Zymoseptoria tritici to uncover genetic mechanisms underlying azole fungicide resistance across space and time.

The paper examines how genetic variation in rhizobial bacteria affects host plant responses to parasitic nematodes, revealing transcriptomic and phenotypic differences.

This study identifies giant transposons called Starships in Aspergillus fumigatus that generate genomic and phenotypic heterogeneity across strains.

This study examines how long-term use of Aspergillus sojae in soy fermentation shaped its population structure, genome variation, and phenotypic traits, revealing reduced genetic diversity and loss of aflatoxin production.

This study identifies Starships as active vectors of horizontal gene transfer among eukaryotic species, showing they mediate frequent and precise DNA transfer between distantly related fungi.

The paper uses population genomics to analyze Macrophomina spp. isolates, revealing host specialization and meiotic recombination.

The paper shows that giant transposons in fungi acquire beneficial genes through horizontal gene transfer, enabling rapid adaptation.

The paper identifies copy number variation (CNV) driven by a mobile element as a key factor in thermal adaptation and metabolic changes in the fungal wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici.

The paper develops a computational tool to annotate eukaryotic cargo-carrying mobile elements, identifies new families of elements in fungi, and reveals strategies for their persistence.

The paper compares metabolic gene clusters and mycoparasitism genes in endophytic and non-endophytic Trichoderma genomes to uncover genomic features associated with the endophytic lifestyle.

The paper identifies Starships, large mobile elements in fungi, that mobilize accessory genes and contribute to genome variation and evolution.

The paper identifies novel biosynthetic gene clusters in Dothideomycetes fungi and shows their diversity scales with repertoire size, suggesting limited structural redundancy in secondary metabolites.

The paper identifies gene clusters in fungal genomes associated with phenylpropanoid degradation and links their organization to ecological lifestyles.