thomas wicker

Great news: our article on the analysis of 76 barley genomes has just been published nature.com/articles/s4158…

we are Xcited 🙃 that our paper on wheat introgressions has finally been published in @TheorApplGenet link.springer.com/article/10.100…

we are happy that we finally got our #Einkorn #Wheat centromere analysis published in @MobDNAjournal . mobilednajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

@roulinlab @UZH_en @agroscope @SamWuest1 I wish you and your family all the best. it was great to have you around and you will be missed.

@genomerambler @ilyavkirov That is a good point, I will add them

@thomaswicker314 @ilyavkirov I think it's very important to label the R repeats at either end, otherwise it's hard to understand why the "jumps" are possible

Having a great time at #ICTE2024 . I finally took some time to summarize the complicated reverse transcription of #LTR_retrotransposons in cartoon format. Let me know if there are major errors and feel free to use it for teaching or for bedtime reading

@PietroSpanu Hi Pietro, sorry, I only have it as JPG or PDF.

@thomaswicker314 Great stuff.... Can we have a ppt of it to use in teaching? My next year's Undergraduates may thank you. (duly acknowledged)

Very grateful to have been able to contribute to this collaborative effort with 28 authors. We show e.g. that two LTR retrotransposon families preferentially insert in einkorn centromeres, contributing to their dynamic evolution. @thomaswicker314 nature.com/articles/s4158…

We had the pleasure to be part of the Einkorn wheat (Triticum monococcum) genome project. We analyzed for the first time fully assembled wheat centromeres and found that LTR retrotransposons are the main components that drive their dynamic evolution. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Good news! I recently got funding for 2 PhD positions to do research on transposable element evolution. If you are interested or know someone who might be, please contact me (best by email).

Open postdoc position in my group at the University of Zurich. People interested in evolutionary genomics as well as machine learning are welcome. Let us study the mystery of polyploid robustness. @UZH_Evolution #postdoc #polyploidy #wheat #Arabidopsis jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stellen…

Great news: Nature Communications has highlighted our recent paper on Powdery mildew as one of the 50 best papers recently published in the area of microbiology and infectious diseases. nature.com/collections/je… nature.com/articles/s4146…

A song about and for TE nerds pi square repeat man youtu.be/oPi1y2Zc-yc via @YouTube

@alexsoti_92, our colleagues and I just published a paper reporting the spread of wheat powdery mildew across the world in historical times. Mildew spread through human migration and trade and locally adapted through hybridization. @NatureComms nature.com/articles/s4146…