Balázs Bálint

A new regulator of sporulation sheds light on spore morphogenesis and ballistospory in mushroom-forming fungi

This study identifies SRR1 as a conserved regulator of sporulation and ballistospory in mushroom-forming fungi, revealing its role in spore morphogenesis and identifying downstream targets.

Unraveling Morphogenesis, Starvation, and Light Responses in a Mushroom-Forming Fungus, Coprinopsis cinerea, Using Long Read Sequencing and Extensive Expression Profiling

The paper improves the functional annotation of the mushroom-forming fungus Coprinopsis cinerea by integrating a chromosome-level genome assembly with extensive expression profiling across multiple conditions.

Purging genomes of contamination eliminates systematic bias from evolutionary analyses of ancestral genomes

The paper introduces ContScout, a tool to remove contamination from genomes, showing it reduces bias in evolutionary analyses by eliminating spurious gene origins and inflated gene loss rates.

Genomic innovation and horizontal gene transfer shaped plant colonization and biomass degradation strategies of a globally prevalent fungal pathogen

This study identifies horizontal gene transfer events in Armillaria fungi that contribute to plant biomass degradation and pathogenicity.

CRISPR-interference based modulation of mobile genetic elements in bacteria

This paper develops a CRISPR-interference system to silence bacterial mobile genetic elements, reducing their transposition rates and stabilizing synthetic constructs.

Transcriptomic atlas of mushroom development highlights an independent origin of complex multicellularity

This study constructs a transcriptomic atlas of mushroom development using six species and genome comparisons to identify conserved genes involved in complex multicellularity.

Genome expansion and lineage-specific genetic innovations in the world’s largest organisms (Armillaria)

This study sequenced four Armillaria genomes and analyzed gene expression and proteomics to identify genetic innovations linked to their pathogenicity and rhizomorph development.