New work led by members of the @rokaslab.bsky.social! ☺️ 1,154 yeast genomes in the Saccharomycotina subphylum were surveyed for their relationship between reduced gene repertoires broadly associated with genome stability functions and elevated evolutionary rates.🧬 academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...

With @linder-surprise.bsky.social and the @rokaslab.bsky.social, we recently expanded upon an analysis where glucose uptake rates were inversely correlated with the cell surface area-to-volume ratio, testing 282 species in the Saccharomycotina yeast subphylum. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

In a preprint with the @rokaslab.bsky.social , @linder-surprise.bsky.social developed a high-throughput extracellular acidification rate (ECAR) assay to evaluate glycolytic rate. We highlight how genetic traits, such as aerobic fermentation, can arise convergently with strong constraints. 🧬

This work has also been featured on the DOE Science News Source initiative, Newswise, which promotes credible research news to the public. By publishing accessible summaries of recent studies that reach thousands of media outlets, it helps experts share their work with a broader audience.

We are honored to share that our work, led by @katarina-aranguiz.bsky.social and @linder-surprise.bsky.social, has been featured as a Science Highlight on the DOE's Office of Science website. 200 articles are selected annually to be highlighted. Check it out! 🧫 www.energy.gov/science/ber/...

What started as a project characterizing variation in metabolic rates across yeasts turned into an interesting story about convergent evolution acting on the same key genes through distinct molecular mechanisms with @hittingerlab.bsky.social & @rokaslab.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We often talk about THE whole genome duplication in yeasts, but we find new evidence of additional whole genome duplications in other yeast species! Check out this preprint led by @kylethedavid.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Checkout our new preprint with the @rokaslab.bsky.social!: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... doi: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

With the Opulente Lab at Villanova Univ., we describe a new yeast species: Lachancea rosae sp. nov. f.a., isolated from the hip bud of a wild California rose 🌹. This species unique traits adds to the biodiversity of the Lachancea genus. Open access article: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

New #Yeast paper out from the series #FantasticYeasts!!! @hittingerlab.bsky.social , Dana Opulente & team describe a novel species, Lachancea rosae, isolated from the wild rose Rosa californica 🌹 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

We’re excited to share our latest paper, an international collaboration led by Katharina O. Barros and Jassim Al-Oboudi, describing Pichia senei sp. nov., a novel yeast species isolated from cactus necrosis and bromeliad phytotelmata in Brazil’s Cerrado ecosystem. 🌵🇧🇷

WE ARE #HIRING‼️ Join the @hittingerlab.bsky.social to study yeast evolution, ecology, and bioenergy applications of yeast species as a Research Associate. Apply by August 15 www.glbrc.org/about/job-op... #research #job

Two more weeks to apply for this postdoctoral training position!📆

We have an opening for postdoctoral training! Please apply by 15th August 2025 for full consideration. Here is the ad: hittinger.genetics.wisc.edu/People/Join/...

In another fruitful collaboration with the @rokaslab.bsky.social, Hittinger Lab members @katarina-aranguiz.bsky.social and @linder-surprise.bsky.social , et al. established a ML framework to identify gene families in the yeast subphylum Saccharomycotina whose copy numbers predicted ROS resistance.

Congrats to @emuthemycologist.bsky.social for presenting her first talk at #MSAfungi25!

Hey #MSAfungi25, check out @emuthemycologist.bsky.social's presentation "Galactose growth in the Saccharomycotina yeasts lacking the canonical GAL pathway" today at 3:45pm in the Genetics and Genomics session! @msafungi.bsky.social

Now @hittingerlab.bsky.social introducing their great applied projects.

Having fantastic days of Science with @stelkens.bsky.social and @hittingerlab.bsky.social in the @iatacsic.bsky.social. So inspiring. Great research and better persons ! Thanks to @dperisn.bsky.social @fungialab.bsky.social for organizing it.

Convergent evolution occurs when similar traits arise independently in different lineages. In collaboration with the @rokaslab.bsky.social at Vanderbilt University, we studied the convergent evolution of metabolic traits and gene families in 993 Saccharomycotina yeasts. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Graduate student Sam Davison is the recipient of the 2025 GLBRC Outreach & Education award for his dedication to programming and outreach events! Davison is a regular volunteer at outreach events where he builds connections through imagination and creativity. Huge congrats, Sam!

How many paths lead to evolutionary innovation? How versatile are genomic toolkits? Excited to announce my new @pnas.org paper addressing these questions in collaboration with @rokaslab.bsky.social, @hittingerlab.bsky.social, and the Pennell lab! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🧬 Microbial Marvels: Biodiversity & Evolution of Yeasts Top scientists @hittingerlab.bsky.social & @stelkens.bsky.social reveal how yeasts evolve, adapt, and speciate. @uv.es @upv.es Don’t miss this inspiring workshop! 📅 June 16 📍 @iatacsic.bsky.social🔗https://bit.ly/4mytSC2 #YeastScience

Register for the 5th Virtual CanFunNet Conference: From Local to Global. Join us August 6 - 8th for an amazing line of Plenary Speakers and awesome topics in fungal research. Submit your abstracts by Friday, May 30!

Just out - a collaborative effort examining gene family evolution across yeast species. We found that fast-evolving yeasts lose more genes - especially ones for splicing, metabolism, and cell division. This is consistent with their narrow metabolic niche breadth. www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Check out the latest issue of the Yeast Newsletter: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/... In this issue there are announcements about recent research, upcoming meetings, and excerpts from the newsletter 50 years ago!

Taxogenomics allowed us to evaluate a large collection of Torulaspora isolates and formally describe 12 new species! This was an exciting collaborative project by researchers from 3 continents! See our new paper in Persoonia @westerdijkinst.bsky.social www.ingentaconnect.com/content/nhn/...

Last year I had the pleasure of attending the Fifth International Symposium on Fungal Stress. It was amazing to hear about the wide range of topics and approaches being used to study fungal stress! See this article summarizing the highlights of our meeting: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

To make sustainable biofuel production effective, the process has to be resilient to year to year changes in feedstock. 🌱 We found that increasing the pH increased biofuel titers in inhibitory hydrolysates: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @glbioenergy.bsky.social @uwenergy.bsky.social

Congratulations to @linder-surprise.bsky.social for winning an award for mentoring undergraduates from the office of the Provost! 🎉 @glbioenergy.bsky.social @uwenergy.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... new preprint on predicting antifungal drug resistance in yeasts is out!

Congratulations to Katarina Aranguiz for being recognized with an award for best poster at the UW-Madison Fungal Supergroup Undergraduate Symposium! @glbioenergy.bsky.social @uwbiochem.bsky.social

Congratulations to Lizza Korolev for being awarded the Hilldale Fellowship to support her undergraduate research! @glbioenergy.bsky.social @uwenergy.bsky.social @tksato.bsky.social

And now, we also have a 2-year postdoc position in the Stelkens Lab! 🧪 If you are interested in parallel evolution, genomics, yeast, and climate adaptation, this could be for you! Please apply through U Stockholm's job platform here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

We have a 4-year fully funded PhD position available! Research topics include but are not limited to 1) Parallel evolution of climate adaptation in Europe and South America 2) The genetic architecture of temperature adaptation 3) The evolution of pathogenicity su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

GLBRC researchers Chris Todd Hittinger and Jean Michel Ané were recently elected to the American Academy of Microbiology for their original contributions to the field of microbiology. They were among 65 fellows to receive this honor in 2025. www.glbrc.org/news/two-cen... @hittingerlab.bsky.social

If you're at #ECFG17 🍄 I'd be thrilled to chat with you about my poster today #607. Look for the big yeast near the back of the poster room!

Good morning, Dublin! I'm thrilled to be presenting on the genomics that underlie yeast metabolism and ecology this morning at #ECFG17 🍄

Thanks, Luis! I am deeply honored and humbled to be included among these great scholars. @asm.org

Thanks! I am deeply honored and humbled to be included among these great scholars. @asm.org

For sustainable microbial mediated biofuel production, the process needs to be robust and repeatable. In this preprint with colleagues from the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center we show that raising the pH of plant hydrolysate increases the ethanol yields: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

EXTRA! EXTRA! Read all about it! Latest SGD newsletter! www.yeastgenome.org/blog/sgd-new... - AlphaFold - YeastMine - Community wiki - SGD’s new GENETICS publication - New yeast microPublications - Alliance of Genome Resources 7.4 - Give a Gift/Support SGD - Upcoming conferences - Happy Holidays!

In case you happen to be in Tokyo, Masako Takashima organized on "Yeasts and fermentation: progress brought by genomic data" tomorrow afternoon, 13th December 2024: nodaiweb.university.jp/nric/yeast/i...

For our first academic bluesky post we're excited to share this story on how a #yeast sugar transporter found a new function. Led by Dr. John Crandall, we dissected how an alpha-glucoside transporter in S. eubayanus evolved to transport maltotriose! #MBE academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

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