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Rita Tam
@ritatam.bsky.social
PhD student at Schwessinger and Rathjen Labs, Australian National University. Rust fungi genomics & evolution. Aligned student with ARC's Future Crop Training Centre. 🍄🧬💻🎮🏍️
Reposted by Rita Tam
We are excited to launch "My Fungal Passion", a new short video series celebrating the diversity of fungal research and the people behind it.

Share your own fungus story at the link below!

www.australasianmycologicalsociety.com/post/tell-yo...
🎥Tell your fungal story in the AMS Education video Series - My Fungal Passion!
The Australasian Mycological Society (AMS) is committed to promoting teaching and learning in all areas of fungal biology. With the recent decline in mycology education at schools and universities acr...
www.australasianmycologicalsociety.com
September 3, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Reposted by Rita Tam
Host adaptation and genome evolution of the broad host range fungal rust pathogen, Austropuccinia psidii https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.29.656941v1
June 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Reposted by Rita Tam
Save the date!
🗓️ Thu 29 May 12pm AEST/2pm NZST

Our May seminar will feature Aviya Naccarella from @deakinuniversity.bsky.social on the fungal diet of native mammals

Free registration (donations welcome)
@ecolsocaus.bsky.social

www.australasianmycologicalsociety.com/post/may-202...
May 2025 AMS virtual seminar: Aviya Naccarella, on fungal diet of mammals!
We invite you to attend our upcoming AMS virtual seminar! This month's seminar will feature Aviya Naccarella, an ecologist at Deakin University. Generalising generalists – comparative fungal diet of t...
www.australasianmycologicalsociety.com
May 12, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Reposted by Rita Tam
Our last science contribution of the year Long-read genomics reveal extensive nuclear-specific evolution and allele-specific expression in a dikaryotic fungus www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #mpmi #plantbiology #plantimmunity #plants #fungi.

This was led by very talented Rita Tam plus great support
Long-read genomics reveal extensive nuclear-specific evolution and allele-specific expression in a dikaryotic fungus
Phased telomere to telomere (T2T) genome assemblies are revolutionising our understanding of long hidden genome biology "dark matter" such as centromeres, rDNA repeats, inter-haplotype variation, and ...
www.biorxiv.org
December 13, 2024 at 2:44 AM