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Peer-reviewed work spanning genomics, transcriptomics, microbiomes and metagenomics.

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Peer-reviewed
Giolai, M., Laine, A.L.
A trade-off between investment in molecular defense repertoires and growth in plants
Science · 2024 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adn2779
Busoms, S., da Silva, A.C., Escolà, G., Abdilzadeh, R., Curran, E., Bollmann-Giolai, A., et al.
Local cryptic diversity in salinity adaptation mechanisms in the wild outcrossing Brassica fruticulosa
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2024 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2407821121
Pacheco-Moreno, A., Bollmann-Giolai, A., Chandra, G., Brett, P., et al.
The genotype of barley cultivars influences multiple aspects of their associated microbiota via differential root exudate secretion
PLoS Biology · 2024 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002232
Giolai, M., Verweij, W., Martin, S., Pearson, N., et al.
Measuring air metagenomic diversity in an agricultural ecosystem
Current Biology · 2024 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.07.030
Lundberg, D.S., de Pedro Jové, R., Pramoj Na Ayutthaya, P., Karasov, T.L., Poersch, K., Ding, W., Bollmann-Giolai, A., et al.
Contrasting patterns of microbial dominance in the Arabidopsis thaliana phyllosphere
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2211881119
Bollmann-Giolai, A., Malone, J.G., Arora, S.
Diversity, detection and exploitation: Linking soil fungi and plant disease
Current Opinion in Microbiology · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mib.2022.102199
Konečná, V., Bray, S., Vlček, J., Bohutínská, M., Požárová, D., Rimjhim, R.C., Bollmann-Giolai, A., et al.
Parallel adaptation in autopolyploid Arabidopsis arenosa is dominated by repeated recruitment of shared alleles
Nature Communications · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25256-5
Bollmann-Giolai, A., Giolai, M., Heavens, D., Macaulay, I., et al.
A low-cost pipeline for soil microbiome profiling
Microbiology Open · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1002/mbo3.1133
Paajanen, P., Kettleborough, G., López-Girona, E., Giolai, M., Heavens, D., et al.
A critical comparison of technologies for a plant genome sequencing project
GigaScience · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giy163
Giolai, M., Verweij, W., Lister, A., Heavens, D., et al.
Spatially resolved transcriptomics reveals plant host responses to pathogens
Plant Methods · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1186/s13007-019-0498-5
Karasov, T.L., Almario, J., Friedemann, C., Ding, W., Giolai, M., Heavens, D., et al.
Arabidopsis thaliana and Pseudomonas pathogens exhibit stable associations over evolutionary timescales
Cell Host & Microbe · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2018.06.011
Lorincz, R., Emfinger, C.H., Walcher, A., Giolai, M., Krautgasser, C., et al.
In vivo monitoring of intracellular Ca2+ dynamics in the pancreatic β-cells of zebrafish embryos
Islets · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1080/19382014.2018.1540234
Gufler, S., Artes, B., Bielen, H., Krainer, I., Eder, M-K., Falschlunger, J., Bollmann-Giolai, A., et al.
β-Catenin acts in a position-independent regeneration response in the simple eumetazoan Hydra
Developmental Biology · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2017.09.005
Giolai, M., Gray, M.E., Heavens, D., Woodhouse, M., et al.
Comparative analysis of targeted long read sequencing approaches for characterization of a plant’s immune receptor repertoire
BMC Genomics · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-017-3936-7
Hobi, N., Giolai, M., Olmeda, B., Miklavc, P., Felder, E., Walther, P., Dietl, P., et al.
A small key unlocks a heavy door: The essential function of the small hydrophobic proteins SP-B and SP-C to trigger adsorption of pulmonary surfactant lamellar bodies
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) – Molecular Cell Research · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbamcr.2016.05.010
Giolai, M., Paajanen, P., Verweij, W., Percival-Alwyn, L., Baker, D., Witek, K., et al.
Targeted capture and sequencing of gene-sized DNA molecules
BioTechniques · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.2144/000114484

Patents
Leggett, R., Clark, M., Misra, R., Chooneea, D., Giolai, M., Aanstad, P., Cuber, P.
Methods for extraction and sequencing of nucleic acid
WO Patent WO2024023523A1 · 2024

Preprints & working papers
Bollmann-Giolai, A., Giolai, M., Allen, M., Heavens, D., et al.
Arabidopsis arenosa influences its microbiome as a serpentine soil adaptation strategy
bioRxiv · 2025 · https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.24.678321
Oliva, G.E., Bollmann-Giolai, A., Giolai, M., Malone, J., et al.
Rhizosphere microbiome and plant growth promotion bacteria isolates enhance salinity tolerance in salt-sensitive Brassica fruticulosa
Authorea · 2025 · https://www.authorea.com/doi/full/10.22541/au.174124680.05965302/v1
Martin, S., Heavens, D., Lan, Y., Peel, N., Irish, N., Horsfield, S., Giolai, M., et al.
A comparison of Nanopore data types, basecalling and assembly algorithms: whole plant genome assembly and methylation analysis from a single MinION flow cell
bioRxiv · 2024 · https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.11.13.623402
Heavens, D., Chooneea, D., Giolai, M., Cuber, P., et al.
How low can you go? Driving down the DNA input requirements for nanopore sequencing
bioRxiv · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.10.15.464554

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