thomas wicker
@thomaswicker314
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Researcher on transposable elements and genome evolution. Happily married to the most patient wife in the world and proud father of two daughters. Hobby artist.
Zurich Area, Switzerland
Joined July 2022
Great news: our article on the analysis of 76 barley genomes has just been published
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we are Xcited 🙃 that our paper on wheat introgressions has finally been published in @TheorApplGenet
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we are happy that we finally got our #Einkorn #Wheat centromere analysis published in @MobDNAjournal .
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@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.
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RT @TransposonTamer: Very grateful to have been able to contribute to this collaborative effort with 28 authors. We show e.g. that two LTR…
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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.
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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).
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RT @kkshimizu1: Open postdoc position in my group at the University of Zurich. People interested in evolutionary genomics as well as machin…
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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.
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@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
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