Made it to #IMC12 ! looking forward for to the conference, reconnecting with friends, and the scorching heat (compared to the UK anyways). I'm giving 2 talks: am 13/08 on my PhD work on lichen metagenomics, and pm 14/08 on our new results on lichen architectures and secretome

Reconnecting with friends ✅

New #preprint alert! What are the core symbionts of lichens? TLDR: we analyzed >400 lichen metagenomes from around the world and found that 4 bacterial groups are as frequent in lichens as the alga, one of the two main partners in the symbiosis. 🧵1/11 biorxiv.org/content/10.110… We aimed to create a global census of lichen-associated organisms based on shotgun metagenomics, and independent from biases associated with culturing and PCR amplification. We used nearly every publicly available lichen metagenome plus de novo data 2/11