Andi Wilson, PhD
@drandiwilson.bsky.social
NNF-funded postdoc at UCPH 🍄🦗🌿🇩🇰
I post about Science🔬 & Chronic Migraine 💊
She/Her 🏳️🌈
Opinions are my own
I post about Science🔬 & Chronic Migraine 💊
She/Her 🏳️🌈
Opinions are my own
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My super power is turning tea into manuscripts 🫖💪📰
Squeezed in a flash talk at #SMBE2026 ⚡️
A great opportunity to share some very new research from my postdoc, looking at what genes are important for plant-fungus interactions 🌾🍄
Also pretty cool that I got to present in the beautiful main hall ✨️
A great opportunity to share some very new research from my postdoc, looking at what genes are important for plant-fungus interactions 🌾🍄
Also pretty cool that I got to present in the beautiful main hall ✨️
July 2, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Squeezed in a flash talk at #SMBE2026 ⚡️
A great opportunity to share some very new research from my postdoc, looking at what genes are important for plant-fungus interactions 🌾🍄
Also pretty cool that I got to present in the beautiful main hall ✨️
A great opportunity to share some very new research from my postdoc, looking at what genes are important for plant-fungus interactions 🌾🍄
Also pretty cool that I got to present in the beautiful main hall ✨️
A career highlight at #SMBE2026 this week, co-hosting a popular symposium with @henriklicht.bsky.social & @agesiorska.bsky.social, starting off with an incredible talk by @danielcroll.bsky.social 🌾
Thanks to all our speakers, who made this a session to remember! 🧬
Thanks to all our speakers, who made this a session to remember! 🧬
July 2, 2026 at 7:52 PM
A career highlight at #SMBE2026 this week, co-hosting a popular symposium with @henriklicht.bsky.social & @agesiorska.bsky.social, starting off with an incredible talk by @danielcroll.bsky.social 🌾
Thanks to all our speakers, who made this a session to remember! 🧬
Thanks to all our speakers, who made this a session to remember! 🧬
#SMBE2026! Join us in Open Session 6, where I'll be giving a flash talk on the work @henriklicht.bsky.social and I have been doing on root-symbiotic entomopathogenic fungi, ie fungi that cause disease in insects and form symbioses with plants! 🦗🌾
It starts in the main hall in 10 mins!
It starts in the main hall in 10 mins!
July 1, 2026 at 8:08 AM
#SMBE2026! Join us in Open Session 6, where I'll be giving a flash talk on the work @henriklicht.bsky.social and I have been doing on root-symbiotic entomopathogenic fungi, ie fungi that cause disease in insects and form symbioses with plants! 🦗🌾
It starts in the main hall in 10 mins!
It starts in the main hall in 10 mins!
Reposted by Andi Wilson, PhD
I didn't get a chance to post about this properly, what with prepping for ESHG, but all of you over at #SMBE2026 might get a kick out of Lift&Add
Lift&Add is live 🙂 suprised that trying to the answer the simple problem - how do I get more marsupials in my alignments? - has let to a method paper, but happy nonetheless.
academic.oup.com/bioinformati...
academic.oup.com/bioinformati...
Lift&Add—rapid and robust addition of new species to alignments of conserved non-coding sequences
AbstractMotivation. Identifying sequence constraint across long evolutionary distances is a powerful method for the discovery of functional genomic sequenc
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June 30, 2026 at 12:24 AM
I didn't get a chance to post about this properly, what with prepping for ESHG, but all of you over at #SMBE2026 might get a kick out of Lift&Add
Hey #SMBE2026! Come check out our symposium tomorrow at 10:20 and 13:20 in Lumbye 😊
We've got a great line up on large scale genomic changes & adaptive evolution, & @danielcroll.bsky.social as our invited guest! 🧬
See you there!
Hosted by me, @henriklicht.bsky.social and @agesiorska.bsky.social
We've got a great line up on large scale genomic changes & adaptive evolution, & @danielcroll.bsky.social as our invited guest! 🧬
See you there!
Hosted by me, @henriklicht.bsky.social and @agesiorska.bsky.social
June 29, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Hey #SMBE2026! Come check out our symposium tomorrow at 10:20 and 13:20 in Lumbye 😊
We've got a great line up on large scale genomic changes & adaptive evolution, & @danielcroll.bsky.social as our invited guest! 🧬
See you there!
Hosted by me, @henriklicht.bsky.social and @agesiorska.bsky.social
We've got a great line up on large scale genomic changes & adaptive evolution, & @danielcroll.bsky.social as our invited guest! 🧬
See you there!
Hosted by me, @henriklicht.bsky.social and @agesiorska.bsky.social
June 29, 2026 at 9:26 AM
Reposted by Andi Wilson, PhD
SMBE2026 Symposium 3 | Genome plasticity and evolutionary innovation
📨 Abstract submission
smbe2026.org/abstracts
📋 Programme details
smbe2026.org/programme
#SMBE2026
📨 Abstract submission
smbe2026.org/abstracts
📋 Programme details
smbe2026.org/programme
#SMBE2026
December 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
SMBE2026 Symposium 3 | Genome plasticity and evolutionary innovation
📨 Abstract submission
smbe2026.org/abstracts
📋 Programme details
smbe2026.org/programme
#SMBE2026
📨 Abstract submission
smbe2026.org/abstracts
📋 Programme details
smbe2026.org/programme
#SMBE2026
Thrilled to be hosting this session with @henriklicht.bsky.social and @agesiorska.bsky.social 🥳
Already looking forward to @danielcroll.bsky.social's talk and the other talks and posters that'll form part of this session! 🤩
Already looking forward to @danielcroll.bsky.social's talk and the other talks and posters that'll form part of this session! 🤩
Organisers
- Henrik H. de Fine Licht | University of Copenhagen
- @drandiwilson.bsky.social | University of Copenhagen
- @agesiorska.bsky.social | University of Copenhagen
Invited Speaker
- @danielcroll.bsky.social | University of Neuchatel
- Henrik H. de Fine Licht | University of Copenhagen
- @drandiwilson.bsky.social | University of Copenhagen
- @agesiorska.bsky.social | University of Copenhagen
Invited Speaker
- @danielcroll.bsky.social | University of Neuchatel
December 5, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Thrilled to be hosting this session with @henriklicht.bsky.social and @agesiorska.bsky.social 🥳
Already looking forward to @danielcroll.bsky.social's talk and the other talks and posters that'll form part of this session! 🤩
Already looking forward to @danielcroll.bsky.social's talk and the other talks and posters that'll form part of this session! 🤩
Reposted by Andi Wilson, PhD
A great genomics paper from my friend and colleague @drandiwilson.bsky.social on the expansion of heat stress related proteins in Rhizina undulata bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Thermotolerance and post-fire growth in Rhizina undulata is associated with the expansion of heat stress-related protein families - BMC Genomics
Background Rhizina undulata is an important tree pathogen, infecting a wide variety of conifer species, including those in the genus Pinus. The fungus relies on heat shock-mediated activation of its a...
bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:10 PM
A great genomics paper from my friend and colleague @drandiwilson.bsky.social on the expansion of heat stress related proteins in Rhizina undulata bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Excited to share our newest article, out in BMC Genomics!
We looked at genomes of a bunch of Pezizomycetes without & without associations with fire to figure out how Rhizina undulata survives fire 🔥
R. undulata needs high temperatures for germination = fire is important for its life cycle 🔥
We looked at genomes of a bunch of Pezizomycetes without & without associations with fire to figure out how Rhizina undulata survives fire 🔥
R. undulata needs high temperatures for germination = fire is important for its life cycle 🔥
November 14, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Excited to share our newest article, out in BMC Genomics!
We looked at genomes of a bunch of Pezizomycetes without & without associations with fire to figure out how Rhizina undulata survives fire 🔥
R. undulata needs high temperatures for germination = fire is important for its life cycle 🔥
We looked at genomes of a bunch of Pezizomycetes without & without associations with fire to figure out how Rhizina undulata survives fire 🔥
R. undulata needs high temperatures for germination = fire is important for its life cycle 🔥
Attending the annual #PlantBiologicalsNetworkMeeting in Copenhagen today ✨️
November 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Attending the annual #PlantBiologicalsNetworkMeeting in Copenhagen today ✨️
The most elegant diagram to explain what the scientific process and the average research project looks like ✨️
So many side tracks that eventually don't make it into the final story, but are an integral part of the process.
From Yanai & Lercher (2025) in Nature Biotech
So many side tracks that eventually don't make it into the final story, but are an integral part of the process.
From Yanai & Lercher (2025) in Nature Biotech
May 22, 2025 at 7:23 AM
The most elegant diagram to explain what the scientific process and the average research project looks like ✨️
So many side tracks that eventually don't make it into the final story, but are an integral part of the process.
From Yanai & Lercher (2025) in Nature Biotech
So many side tracks that eventually don't make it into the final story, but are an integral part of the process.
From Yanai & Lercher (2025) in Nature Biotech
56 RNAseq samples done and ready to be shipped! 🥳🧬🧫🧪🔬
May 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
56 RNAseq samples done and ready to be shipped! 🥳🧬🧫🧪🔬
Seeing Jennifer Doudna speak this afternoon at the Black Diamond in Copenhagen 🧬🧫🔬
Appropriately dressed in my #CRISPREngineer shirt from @thermofishersci.bsky.social 🧬💁♀️
Appropriately dressed in my #CRISPREngineer shirt from @thermofishersci.bsky.social 🧬💁♀️
May 2, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Seeing Jennifer Doudna speak this afternoon at the Black Diamond in Copenhagen 🧬🧫🔬
Appropriately dressed in my #CRISPREngineer shirt from @thermofishersci.bsky.social 🧬💁♀️
Appropriately dressed in my #CRISPREngineer shirt from @thermofishersci.bsky.social 🧬💁♀️
10 years ago, I published my first, first-author paper 🤩
In some ways, it feels like just yesterday and I'm still a baby masters student 🥹
In other ways, it feels like this was 100 years ago 👵
Either way, the joy of seeing your work published never goes away ❤️
In some ways, it feels like just yesterday and I'm still a baby masters student 🥹
In other ways, it feels like this was 100 years ago 👵
Either way, the joy of seeing your work published never goes away ❤️
April 28, 2025 at 5:54 AM
10 years ago, I published my first, first-author paper 🤩
In some ways, it feels like just yesterday and I'm still a baby masters student 🥹
In other ways, it feels like this was 100 years ago 👵
Either way, the joy of seeing your work published never goes away ❤️
In some ways, it feels like just yesterday and I'm still a baby masters student 🥹
In other ways, it feels like this was 100 years ago 👵
Either way, the joy of seeing your work published never goes away ❤️
Blood. Sweat. Tears.
Locust & root media.
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🦗🌾
Locust & root media.
🧪🔬🧫
🦗🌾
April 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Blood. Sweat. Tears.
Locust & root media.
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🦗🌾
Locust & root media.
🧪🔬🧫
🦗🌾
Super excited to share our newest paper, out in
Current protocols!
A collab btwn FABI & UCPH, we put together protoplast extraction protocols for 5 different fungal genera! 🍄
With applications for genome editing & long read seq, we hope this will be super useful! 🧪🧬
Current protocols!
A collab btwn FABI & UCPH, we put together protoplast extraction protocols for 5 different fungal genera! 🍄
With applications for genome editing & long read seq, we hope this will be super useful! 🧪🧬
April 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Super excited to share our newest paper, out in
Current protocols!
A collab btwn FABI & UCPH, we put together protoplast extraction protocols for 5 different fungal genera! 🍄
With applications for genome editing & long read seq, we hope this will be super useful! 🧪🧬
Current protocols!
A collab btwn FABI & UCPH, we put together protoplast extraction protocols for 5 different fungal genera! 🍄
With applications for genome editing & long read seq, we hope this will be super useful! 🧪🧬
It's taken a while, but I'm finally trying a #MigraineHat.. 😅
I've been an icepack girlie for a very long time, but this 360° cooling effect is 👌
Not to mention the sound and light dulling effect too 😎
#Migraine #ChronicMigraine
I've been an icepack girlie for a very long time, but this 360° cooling effect is 👌
Not to mention the sound and light dulling effect too 😎
#Migraine #ChronicMigraine
March 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
It's taken a while, but I'm finally trying a #MigraineHat.. 😅
I've been an icepack girlie for a very long time, but this 360° cooling effect is 👌
Not to mention the sound and light dulling effect too 😎
#Migraine #ChronicMigraine
I've been an icepack girlie for a very long time, but this 360° cooling effect is 👌
Not to mention the sound and light dulling effect too 😎
#Migraine #ChronicMigraine
And with that, another 4000-odd seeds have been sowed again 🌱💪
March 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
And with that, another 4000-odd seeds have been sowed again 🌱💪
This little plate and its tiny bacteria left me heartbroken on Wednesday evening 💔
After months of planning and preparing, a pre-pilot trial and a pilot trial, I started my large RNAseq experiment last week 🥳
If everything went to plan, I'd be done by 28 March. But biology had other plans... 🧬
After months of planning and preparing, a pre-pilot trial and a pilot trial, I started my large RNAseq experiment last week 🥳
If everything went to plan, I'd be done by 28 March. But biology had other plans... 🧬
March 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM
This little plate and its tiny bacteria left me heartbroken on Wednesday evening 💔
After months of planning and preparing, a pre-pilot trial and a pilot trial, I started my large RNAseq experiment last week 🥳
If everything went to plan, I'd be done by 28 March. But biology had other plans... 🧬
After months of planning and preparing, a pre-pilot trial and a pilot trial, I started my large RNAseq experiment last week 🥳
If everything went to plan, I'd be done by 28 March. But biology had other plans... 🧬
March 11, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The hardest ~35g I've ever worked for 😅🌱
Harvesting roots for this experiment has been a challenge 💪
Turns out that 360g of wet weight barley root = 36g dry weight 😂
But we've got the goods and the pilot experiment is underway!
Harvesting roots for this experiment has been a challenge 💪
Turns out that 360g of wet weight barley root = 36g dry weight 😂
But we've got the goods and the pilot experiment is underway!
March 4, 2025 at 8:06 AM
The hardest ~35g I've ever worked for 😅🌱
Harvesting roots for this experiment has been a challenge 💪
Turns out that 360g of wet weight barley root = 36g dry weight 😂
But we've got the goods and the pilot experiment is underway!
Harvesting roots for this experiment has been a challenge 💪
Turns out that 360g of wet weight barley root = 36g dry weight 😂
But we've got the goods and the pilot experiment is underway!
Reposted by Andi Wilson, PhD
Genomic divergence across the tree of life | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
Genomic divergence across the tree of life | PNAS
Nucleotide sequence data are being harnessed to identify species, even in cases in
which organisms themselves are neither in hand nor witnessed. Bu...
www.pnas.org
March 4, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Genomic divergence across the tree of life | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....