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Author
Name Heitman, MD, PhD, Joseph
heitm001@duke.edu
Research field fungal genetics and genomics
Career stage professor
Home university/institution Duke University
Department/Research unit at home university/institution Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Chair/Working group at home institution I serve as the chair of MGM

International activity
Country Germany
Location Bochum
University Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB)
Fund Research School VIP
Type of activity lab visit
Period starts 01-01-2016
ends 31-12-2019
Keywords fungal genetics, genomics, microbiology, infectious diseases
Report Thus far several publications have resulted from collaborations that were formed as a result of this visiting professorship at Professor Ulrich Kuck:

Mating-Type-Specific Ribosomal Proteins Control Aspects of Sexual Reproduction in Cryptococcus neoformans.
Ianiri G, Fang YF, Dahlmann TA, Clancey SA, Janbon G, Kück U, Heitman J. Genetics. 2020 Mar;214(3):635-649. doi: 10.1534/genetics.119.302740. Epub 2019 Dec 27. PMID: 31882399 Free PMC article.

Rampant transposition following RNAi loss causes hypermutation and antifungal drug resistance in clinical isolates of a human fungal pathogen
Shelby J. Priest, Vikas Yadav, Cullen Roth, Tim A. Dahlmann, Ulrich Kück, Paul M. Magwene, Joseph Heitman
bioRxiv 2021.08.11.455996; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.11.455996 (in revision for Nature Microbiology)

Long transposon-rich centromeres in an oomycete reveal divergence of centromere features in Stramenopila-Alveolata-Rhizaria lineages.
Fang Y, Coelho MA, Shu H, Schotanus K, Thimmappa BC, Yadav V, Chen H, Malc EP, Wang J, Mieczkowski PA, Kronmiller B, Tyler BM, Sanyal K, Dong S, Nowrousian M, Heitman J. PLoS Genet. 2020 Mar 9;16(3):e1008646. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008646. eCollection 2020 Mar. PMID: 32150559 Free PMC article.

Convergent evolution of linked mating-type loci in basidiomycete fungi.
Sun S, Coelho MA, Heitman J, Nowrousian M. PLoS Genet. 2019 Sep 6;15(9):e1008365. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008365. eCollection 2019 Sep. PMID: 31490920 Free PMC article.

Genetic and Genomic Analyses Reveal Boundaries between Species Closely Related to Cryptococcus Pathogens.
Passer AR, Coelho MA, Billmyre RB, Nowrousian M, Mittelbach M, Yurkov AM, Averette AF, Cuomo CA, Sun S, Heitman J. mBio. 2019 Jun 11;10(3):e00764-19. doi: 10.1128/mBio.00764-19. PMID: 31186317 Free PMC article.

Fungal genome and mating system transitions facilitated by chromosomal translocations involving intercentromeric recombination.
Sun S, Yadav V, Billmyre RB, Cuomo CA, Nowrousian M, Wang L, Souciet JL, Boekhout T, Porcel B, Wincker P, Granek JA, Sanyal K, Heitman J. PLoS Biol. 2017 Aug 11;15(8):e2002527. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2002527. eCollection 2017 Aug. PMID: 28800596 Free PMC article.

Genomics and Transcriptomics Analyses of the Oil-Accumulating Basidiomycete Yeast Trichosporon oleaginosus: Insights into Substrate Utilization and Alternative Evolutionary Trajectories of Fungal Mating Systems.
Kourist R, Bracharz F, Lorenzen J, Kracht ON, Chovatia M, Daum C, Deshpande S, Lipzen A, Nolan M, Ohm RA, Grigoriev IV, Sun S, Heitman J, Brück T, Nowrousian M. mBio. 2015 Jul 21;6(4):e00918. doi: 10.1128/mBio.00918-15. PMID: 26199329 Free PMC article.
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