It’s also true that for many years multicellularity people assumed that animals were the baseline. When they’re definitely the weirdest lineage.

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Grateful to receive support from the DOE Joint Genome Institute through the FY26 Community Science Program Functional Genomics Call! Looking forward to investigate the regulatory mechanisms underlying host adaptation and infection in Botrytis cinerea. @jgi.doe.gov

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True story. We have had to request no perfumes at the core facility here. Reminds me of the no smokers allowed in the tobacco experiments due to virus survival in packaged tobacco.

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My rebuttals run long. But I do provide an executive summary of changes at the beginning. It’s long because I‘ve gotten stung by not responding to the one criticism a reviewer really cared about, so I respond to each and every point from all reviewer.

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From our FY26 Functional Genomics call: Gray mold fungus Botrytis cinerea threatens bioenergy crops. Ritu Singh will map genetic switches driving infection, filling a gap in plant pathogen research. https://jointgeno.me/FGFY26 @ritu2806.bsky.social @annajomu.bsky.social @spicybotrytis.bsky.social

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