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Benjamin Schwessinger

Canberra
As seen in: Nature, PLOS ONE, Genome Biology, BioRxiv, Annual Reviews Journal, Chemistry World
Associate Professor @BiologyANU. Biosecurity, fungal and plant genomics, evolution, and biochemistry. Dad. Swimming, reading, ocean. schwessinger.bsky.social
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A chromosome-scale, haplotype-resolved genome assembly of the barley stripe rust pathogen Puccinia striiformis f. sp. hordei

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By Rita Tam, Mareike Möller, John P. Rathjen, Benjamin Schwessinger, Julian Rodriguez-Algaba, Shideh Mojerlou
| Nature Verified
Abstract Puccinia striiformis f. sp. hordei (Psh) causes barley stripe rust, an economically important disease affecting barley production across multiple temperate regions. Unlike its well-studied wheat-infecting relative P. striiformis f. sp. tritici, genomic resources for Psh remain limited, with no fully documented chromosome-scale, haplotype-resolved reference genomes publicly available.
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High-throughput optimisation of protein secretion in yeast via an engineered biosensor.

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By Joseph Brock, Benjamin Schwessinger, Lydia Murphy, Oliver Smith
| BioRxiv
Abstract Secretion of high value proteins and enzymes is fundamental to the synthetic biology economy; allowing continuous fermentation during production and protein purification without cell lysis. Most eukaryotic protein secretion is encoded by an N-terminal signal peptide; however, the strong impact of signal peptide sequence variation on the secretion efficiency of a given protein is not well defined.
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Genome biology and evolution of mating type loci in four cereal rust fungi

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By Zhenyan Luo, Alistair Ross McTaggart, Benjamin Schwessinger
| BioRxiv
Abstract Obligate heterozygous loci such as sex- or mating-compatibility regions often display suppression of recombination and signals of genomic degeneration. In Basidiomycota, two distinct gene loci confer mating compatibility. These encode for homeodomain (HD) transcription factors and pheromone receptor (Pra)-ligand pairs.
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