Thomas Badet is a lecturer teaching plant pathology at the University of Neuchâtel since 2021. His current research aims at better understanding the evolution of genome architecture with a focus on transposable elements in fungi. For that he implements predictive biology frameworks in the context of quantitative genetics and genome evolution. Thomas’ additional interests span the evolution of Repeat-Induced Point mutations as a fungal-specific mechanism of transposon control, but also the evolution of expression regulation and metabolic modelling in the context of fungicide resistance.

Thomas graduated from the University of Toulouse in 2017, where he worked on the mechanisms of plant disease resistance against a generalist fungal pathogen. His work has led to a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying plant quantitative disease resistance.

No current personal funding.

Scientific collaboration funded by Prof. Daniel Croll.

Bachelor - Introduction to Phytopathology

Master - Plant Pathology

Recent reactivation of a pathogenicity-associated transposable element is associated with major chromosomal rearrangements in a fungal wheat pathogen

T Badet, SM Tralamazza, A Feurtey, D Croll

Nucleic Acids Research, (2023)

Machine-learning predicts genomic determinants of meiosis-driven structural variation in a eukaryotic pathogen

T Badet, S Fouché, FE Hartmann, M Zala, D Croll

Nature communications 12 (1), 1-14 (2021)

A 19-isolate reference-quality global pangenome for the fungal wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici

T Badet, U Oggenfuss, L Abraham, BA McDonald, D Croll

BMC biology 18 (1), 1-18 (2020)

Expression polymorphism at the ARPC4 locus links the actin cytoskeleton with quantitative disease resistance to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum in Arabidopsis thaliana

T Badet, O Léger, M Barascud, D Voisin, P Sadon, R Vincent, A Le Ru, et al,

New Phytologist 222 (1), 480-496 (2019)

Parallel evolution of the POQR prolyl oligo peptidase gene conferring plant quantitative disease resistance

T Badet, D Voisin, M Mbengue, M Barascud, J Sucher, P Sadon, et al,

PLoS genetics 13 (12), e1007143 (2017)

Codon optimization underpins generalist parasitism in fungi

T Badet, R Peyraud, M Mbengue, O Navaud, M Derbyshire, RP Oliver, et al,

Elife 6, e22472 (2017)

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