Dr. Toby Baril

Postdoc Fellow @UniNeuchatel | #Transposon Analysis + Earl Grey | TE Evolutionary Dynamics + #PopGen | #FirstGen | 🇬🇧🇫🇷 | Ski | Hike | Bike

[Dr. Toby Baril @Toby_Baril_Bio]

Interested in using #EarlGrey for your #Transposon annotation, but not sure where to start? A tutorial with in-depth video is now on #TEHub @hub_te. Make sure to check out the other fantastic resources available whilst there! https://t.co/kuQ7d4AxIP
#Bioinformatics #Genomics

[Dr. Toby Baril @Toby_Baril_Bio]

those linked to fungicide resistance.

Big thanks to Guido Puccetti and Daniel Croll. Excited to see the ends results and to be able to share this!

[Dr. Toby Baril @Toby_Baril_Bio]

Excited to share our latest preprint 🥳
Historic transposon mobilisation waves create distinct pools of adaptive variants in a major crop pathogen
#bioinformatics #popgen #genomics #transposons #foodsecurity #research

https://t.co/wOusiwaY9C

[Dr. Toby Baril @Toby_Baril_Bio]

… when populations arose, and we identified population-specific waves of TE activity as a significant source of variation among populations.

TE activity surged over timescales as short as 25 years(!), and we find repeated instances of TEs with adaptive signatures, including…

[Prof Richard Buggs @RJABuggs]

Four year postdoc position on diploidisation @Kewscience with the great Ilia Leitch
£40,926 - £42,945 per annum @BBSRC funded https://t.co/d2umktl42e

[Cécile Lorrain @CcileLorrain]

Excited to share the published version of our paper: Thermal Adaptation in Worldwide Collections of a Major Fungal Pathogen 🌍🔥 Congrats to @MinanaPosada and @AliceFeurtey for leading this great work! 🎉 Read it here: https://t.co/eYwreBMhVs

[Cécile Lorrain @CcileLorrain]

Dive into the massive genomes of plant pathogenic rust fungi! 🌿🍄
Our study reveals how ancestral & recent bursts of transposition have shaped these remarkable genomes.
👏 Congrats to @Emma______C on her 1st PhD paper!
🙌 @SebbyRust, Emmanuelle Morin

https://t.co/c1y7Hzwy94

[Aaron Vogan @Hulk_Vogan]

We're hiring! If you're looking for a postdoc position and are interested in #fungal genomics and/or giant transposons please apply. We're hoping to find someone with experience transforming A. fumigatus.
https://t.co/XtGxP56CeU

[Jordana Oliveira @jordana_olive]

It is out: "Analyses of transposable elements in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi support evolutionary parallels with filamentous plant pathogens"
@Blunt_Microbe @Ken_M_Mugambi

https://t.co/EcK5O4VmdY

[BMC Series @BMC_series]

Warm welcome to our new #BMCGenomics Editorial Board Members @toby_baril_bio, @Gurjeet85572435 and @Nik_Palevich. We are looking forward to working with you. Interested in joining #BMCGenomics? Visit <https://t.co/l6ev0FAPln>

[Dr. Toby Baril @Toby_Baril_Bio]

Big updates in Earl Grey v5!
- Create de novo TE libraries w/BEAT + skip annotation
- Annotation + defragmentation w/your own TE libraries
- Experimental: Improved Helitron detection w/HELIANO (@ZhenLi89973503)
- notes: https://t.co/U4S2oRbEKe
#Bioinformatics #Transposon #TEhub

[Graeme Kettles @GraemeKettles]

Congratulations to @zymohyda on the first 1st author paper from his PhD. Just out in @MPMIjournal
ZymoSoups: A high-throughput forward genetics method for rapid identification of virulence genes in Zymoseptoria tr… https://t.co/uHDOrY7yCo

[Maria Nattestad @marianattestad]

We just launched Circa 2.0!

Create beautiful circos plots in minutes, without a single line of code. You can try it for free with sample data now!
https://t.co/fvb12bvYTq

[Wagner Fagundes @wagnercfagundes]

🚨Preprint alert🚨
Super happy to share the preprint of one of my PhD chapters in #Zymoseptoria now on BioRxiv:
“Host specialization defines the emergence of new fungal plant pathogen populations”. https://t.co/GW92N9Xq6a 🧵👇[1/8]

[Maaria Kankare @mkankare6]

So, so proud of this paper! TEs in cold adapted D. montana flies https://t.co/qcPlMyDVG9. Amazing collaboration with ’Masse’ Tahami, @GonzalezLab_BCN @NooraPoikela I have been dreaming about this since 2015… 🧬❄️🧬!

[INRAE UMR BF2i (inrae-umr-bf2i.bsky.social) @INRAE_UMR_BF2I]

Mariane P. Gomes, our visiting PhD student, presented her work on the XXIX Congresso Brasileiro de Entomologia e XIII Congresso Latino-Americano de Entomologia. A collab with Fernando Cônsoli, @rita_rebollo & @Toby_Baril_Bio . Parabéns Mariane 😍!

[Dr. Toby Baril @Toby_Baril_Bio]

Anyone need to look for Helitrons? New tool #HELIANO makes this so much easier 🥳 excited to see this out!
https://t.co/CqK11bK4LV

#Transposons #Bioinformatics #Annotation #Genomics

[Aaron Vogan @Hulk_Vogan]

New Starship preprint is up🚀!https://t.co/WT4I3Esw46 We take a deep dive into the population dynamics of these giant #transposons by examining over 500 genomes of the human pathogenic #fungus Aspergillus fumigatus

[Somia Saidi @somia_sd]

Our new tool panREPET, for detecting shared TE insertions among de novo whole-genome assemblies, is now available ! Let's see its applications ⬇️

[Cécile Lorrain @CcileLorrain]

Discover how we identified genes associated with host adaptation in Zymoseptoria tritici. Our genome-host association approach could be a game-changer for plant pathogen studies. Full preprint available now on @ResearchSquare: https://t.co/OVPKUtrFJE #OpenScience @AliceFeurtey