Research Associate, Imperial College London 🍄 Fungal genomics and bioinformatics
Harry Chown
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Really enjoyed presenting at the Royal Institution as part of the Fleming Initiative. I discussed fungal pathogen surveillance and statistical models to identify ecological, environmental, and evolutionary drivers of fAMR hotspots.
Great to chat with everyone and see the breadth of fungal science.
Incredibly happy to share that our work investigating fungal bioaerosol exposure in 118 homes across London has been published in The Lancet Microbe today!
A huge thank you to all the co-authors, collaborators, and community scientists who made this work possible.
You can find the paper below!
@hollytipper.bsky.social & @rachelapayne.bsky.social led work investigating global trends in the literature on #AMR 🧫🦠in wild animals 🦆🦌🦊 and plants 🌿
@istanton.bsky.social @jenmgshe.bsky.social @oxonandrew.bsky.social @danread.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
One question that stuck with me early in my PhD was whether the experimental data underpinning wheat stem rust epidemiological models were still fit for purpose.
Our new review digs into the evidence, how it’s used in models, and where the biggest gaps remain.
New preprint alert! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... from my lab and Evan Snitkin's lab
Defining the Candidozyma auris pan-genome and essentiality
The video recordings of the legend 2025 conference held last December on machine learning for evolutionary genomics are now online !
Feel free to have a look if you missed the conference.
www.canal-u.tv/chaines/lisn...
Our paper "Gene ancestries reveal diverse microbial associations during eukaryogenesis.” is finally out in Nature.
Eukaryogenesis was likely a gradual process shaped by multiple microbial partners and virus-mediated gene transfer, rather than a single binary symbiosis.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Such a good day playing Resistance Reservoirs at the Great Exhibition Road Festival yesterday! Come down to the Underground Adventure Zone 12-6 today to learn about fungal disease and antifungal resistance #GERF2026 @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
Finally a preprint for our tool DAMPA (Australiana included) that generates efficient probe panels for targeted metagenomics from pangenome graphs. Presented at ABPHM and ABACBS last year. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
Harry Chown
www.biorxiv.org
A reminder that this position closes in a few days time!
Sam Hemmings
UKCEH Molecular Ecology
Césarée Morier-Gxoyiya
Fungal One Health and Antimicrobial Resistance (F1AMR) Network
Michael Payne
Teresa O'Meara
Toni Gabaldón
Laurent Jacob
Fiona J Whelan
New research article
Diversity analysis of indoor and outdoor fungal bioaerosols in UK households: a prospective, observational, longitudinal study
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#IDSky #ClinMicro #MycoSky #OpenAccess #OA
The Lancet Microbe
Targeted metagenomics, where samples are enriched for multiple organisms of interest using oligonucleotide probes, is a highly efficient sequencing methodology that is becoming standard practice for g...
After a few technical glitches...
📣 Whelan lab is hiring 📣
We are looking for an entry level technician to help us with our culturing and DNA sequencing prep of cystic fibrosis lung microbiome samples.
Applications close 28 May 2026
Any queries, please reach out!
Strengthening Predictive Models for Wheat Stem Rust Infection Risk in a Changing Climate: Gaps and Opportunities - Morier‐Gxoyiya - 2026 - Plant Pathology - Wiley Online Library bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Césarée Morier-Gxoyiya
There appears to be some technical issues regarding the further particulars document and the pre-screening questions. We are working to get these sorted out asap, please bare with us and check back here for updates!
Fiona J Whelan
Here we review environmental data underpinning epidemiological models for wheat stem rust, highlighting gaps that, once addressed, would significantly enhance the predictive power of these tools.
📣 Whelan lab is hiring 📣
We are looking for an entry level technician to help us with our culturing and DNA sequencing prep of cystic fibrosis lung microbiome samples.
Applications close 20 May 2026.
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
