Blake Billmyre
@blakebillmyre.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at University of Georgia
Genetics/Infectious Disease
Past Duke CMB/UPGG grad student in the Heitman lab and Postdoc in the Zanders lab at Stowers Institute
Genetics/Infectious Disease
Past Duke CMB/UPGG grad student in the Heitman lab and Postdoc in the Zanders lab at Stowers Institute
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🚨Preprint alert!
If you you’ve been following the centromere field recently, you’ve seen some (excellent) work showing that repeat copy number is highly variable in centromere region leading to massive variation in size. Here we try to understand how that variation impacts centromere functionality:
If you you’ve been following the centromere field recently, you’ve seen some (excellent) work showing that repeat copy number is highly variable in centromere region leading to massive variation in size. Here we try to understand how that variation impacts centromere functionality:
Pericentromeric repeat copy number tunes heterochromatin dosage to control chromosome segregation and gene expression in fission yeast https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.08.723760v1
May 13, 2026 at 3:39 PM
🚨Preprint alert!
If you you’ve been following the centromere field recently, you’ve seen some (excellent) work showing that repeat copy number is highly variable in centromere region leading to massive variation in size. Here we try to understand how that variation impacts centromere functionality:
If you you’ve been following the centromere field recently, you’ve seen some (excellent) work showing that repeat copy number is highly variable in centromere region leading to massive variation in size. Here we try to understand how that variation impacts centromere functionality:
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Wanted to advertise the presentations from my lab occurring at #Dros26! It’s my first time getting to bring my trainees and can’t wait for them to share their work.
March 5, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Wanted to advertise the presentations from my lab occurring at #Dros26! It’s my first time getting to bring my trainees and can’t wait for them to share their work.
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UGA Genetics is hiring! Please share! An ideal candidate will employ genetic models of disease in a research program with an emphasis on epigenetics, aging, chromosome biology, gene regulation, systems biology, or drug resistance mechanisms. jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/675651/a...
Assistant Professor in Genetics - Athens, Georgia (US) job with The University of Georgia Department of Genetics | 675651
Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Genetics
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November 3, 2025 at 6:53 PM
UGA Genetics is hiring! Please share! An ideal candidate will employ genetic models of disease in a research program with an emphasis on epigenetics, aging, chromosome biology, gene regulation, systems biology, or drug resistance mechanisms. jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/675651/a...
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Registrations and abstract submissions are now open for the always stellar #fungal #genetics conference at lovely Asilomar, CA - March 17-22, 2026. Thank you to @genetics-gsa.bsky.social for the amazing partnership with the fungal community. Hope to see you there!
October 31, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Registrations and abstract submissions are now open for the always stellar #fungal #genetics conference at lovely Asilomar, CA - March 17-22, 2026. Thank you to @genetics-gsa.bsky.social for the amazing partnership with the fungal community. Hope to see you there!
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The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
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September 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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Given the tremendous diversity of microorganisms in the world, why do only a small fraction cause disease?
My essay in #PLOSBiology argues that the answer is lack of opportunity and that humans encounter only one new bacterial pathogen for every 1.4b years lived.
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
My essay in #PLOSBiology argues that the answer is lack of opportunity and that humans encounter only one new bacterial pathogen for every 1.4b years lived.
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Why are there so few pathogens? Ecology and evolution in pathogen emergence
Why are there so few pathogens, and what determines their emergence? This Perspective argues that ecological and evolutionary forces (host availability, geographic exposure and microbial innovation) w...
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August 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Given the tremendous diversity of microorganisms in the world, why do only a small fraction cause disease?
My essay in #PLOSBiology argues that the answer is lack of opportunity and that humans encounter only one new bacterial pathogen for every 1.4b years lived.
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
My essay in #PLOSBiology argues that the answer is lack of opportunity and that humans encounter only one new bacterial pathogen for every 1.4b years lived.
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Assistant/ Associate Professor of Mycology at UGA - Go be part of a Legendary Fungal Group fungi.franklinresearch.uga.edu and dept of plant pathology plantpath.caes.uga.edu www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/445...
Assistant or Associate Professor - Fungal Biology/Mycology
The Department of Plant Pathology in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES) at the University of Georgia is recruiting for the position of Assistant or Associate Professor in Fu...
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August 21, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Assistant/ Associate Professor of Mycology at UGA - Go be part of a Legendary Fungal Group fungi.franklinresearch.uga.edu and dept of plant pathology plantpath.caes.uga.edu www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/445...
Come work with Fungal Group at UGA!
🍄 UGA Plant Pathology is hiring TT faculty in Mycology/Fungal Biology/Fungal Ecology at the Asst/Assc level! Please pass along this opportunity to anyone you know who may be interested. I'm on the search committee and happy to answer questions. 🍄 www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/445...
Assistant or Associate Professor - Fungal Biology/Mycology
The Department of Plant Pathology in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES) at the University of Georgia is recruiting for the position of Assistant or Associate Professor in Fu...
www.ugajobsearch.com
August 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Come work with Fungal Group at UGA!
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#Fungal infections are hard to treat due to #DrugResistance. @blakebillmyre.bsky.social &co use a high-throughput #TNseq system in #Cryptococcus neoformans to identify >1400 essential genes & reveal a role for #mitochondrial genes in #fluconazole sensitivity @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4dz3iVm
May 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM
#Fungal infections are hard to treat due to #DrugResistance. @blakebillmyre.bsky.social &co use a high-throughput #TNseq system in #Cryptococcus neoformans to identify >1400 essential genes & reveal a role for #mitochondrial genes in #fluconazole sensitivity @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4dz3iVm
Enjoyed my first visit to Clemson for the CBEP/EPIC meeting. Great science and a really nice view!
October 13, 2023 at 5:02 PM
Enjoyed my first visit to Clemson for the CBEP/EPIC meeting. Great science and a really nice view!
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New paper on meiotic drive from the Zanders lab!
Modeling the Evolution of Populations with Multiple Killer Meiotic Drivers https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.28.560003v1
Modeling the Evolution of Populations with Multiple Killer Meiotic Drivers https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.28.560003v1
Meiotic drivers are selfish genetic loci that can be transmitted to more than half of the viable gam
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October 2, 2023 at 1:41 AM
New paper on meiotic drive from the Zanders lab!