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...

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

Did you know that U of Guelph's Bachelor of One Health is the first of its kind in Canada? Students take science & social science courses to explore the foundations of health to gain skills needed to implement a One Health approach. To learn more, visit: uoguelph.ca/programs/bac...

Excellent new story about fungal adaptation during human food production. Researchers documented a green to white shift over 8 years of sampling in this Penicillium fungus in the dark cheese caves: 🧀 www.cell.com/current-biol...

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...

🚨postdoc opportunity at UBC🚨 applications are now open for the Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship, due internally Oct. 15 - www.postdocs.ubc.ca/award/killam... I can nominate 1 person and give feedback on that nominee's materials - if interested plz email me by Sept. 10 - join us!

Please help us spread the word! Please amplify! We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝 Applications are due October 6 2025. careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-C... #AcademicJobs #EvoBio

Amazing work from Dr. Anne Hatmaker @annemakerofhats.bsky.social at @canfunnet.bsky.social #CFN25 She takes us on a deep dive into the diversity of Penicillium isolates from diverse habitats

Excited to tune into the CanFunNet meeting! @canfunnet.bsky.social Check out our trainee Isha Jain's presentation on Friday in the Fungal Genetics & Genomics VI starting at 3:50pm #CFN25 Great introduction to CanFunNet with Dr. Horianopoulos @linder-surprise.bsky.social

CanFunNet25 🍄🇨🇦 starts tomorrow! So excited for all the presentations! Check out the conference website for more info: canfunnet.conferences.uwo.ca

Sometimes when I tell people that the clocks used to speed up in my hometown when we were on "smelter time" they look at me like I'm crazy. Here's an article explaining one of the eccentricities of my childhood in northern BC: thetyee.ca/News/2025/07... @thetyee.ca

Bird's nest fungi are always an exciting find!

Check out this postdoc opportunity! As an outgoing postdoc, I can honestly say that Chris helped me reach my goal and I made a lot of friends along the way!

Orthogonal chemical genomics approaches reveal genomic targets for increasing anaerobic chemical tolerance in Zymomonas mobilis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.09.663894v1

So excited for these presentations! 20 concurrent sessions, 9 plenaries and lots of fungal fun! 🍄 #CFN25

New paper out from the Cheeke Lab led by @raeberner.bsky.social with @balachaudhary.bsky.social & Geoff Zahn. Congrats Rae! academic.oup.com/femsle/advan...

Check out the code used to run the machine learning model for this work! zenodo.org/records/1524... Congratulations to @katarina-aranguiz.bsky.social on her first publication!

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.

We're getting so excited for the upcoming virtual meeting! There is still time to register to attend the meeting: canfunnet.conferences.uwo.ca/registration Stay tuned as we'll be releasing the meeting program soon!

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

Very happy to share our new paper on how machine learning predicts gene family expansions which contribute to oxidative stress resistance across diverse yeast species: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We all need a little reminder sometimes 😉

Thrilled to share that I'll be starting my lab @uofguelph.bsky.social this September! I'll be joining the Department of Food Science and I'm so excited to study yeast diversity in this context!

Are you interested in phytopathogenic fungi? are you interested in how plants and fungi work together? #CFN25 will showcase these topics and more! Submit your abstracts to speak in one of these sessions by TODAY!!!: canfunnet.conferences.uwo.ca/registration

Check out the session themes related to medicine! #CFN25 is gearing up to have some excellent talks related to these topics and more! Submit your abstracts to speak in one of these sessions by this Friday, June 13: canfunnet.conferences.uwo.ca/registration

Metabolic ecology of microbiomes: Nutrient competition, host benefits, and community engineering Review by Erik Bakkeren, Vit Piskovsky, and Kevin R. Foster www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

📢 You now have until June 13 to submit your abstract for the 5th Annual CanFunNet Fungal Biology Conference! And for French-speaking people, there’s even a special session dedicated to fungal research in French: Frontières Francophones des Champignons (Francophone Fungal Frontiers)! 🍄

Submitted talks can be for any of our proposed scientific sessions, here are a few popular ones: Fungal Plant Pathology Medical Mycology Fungal Genetics and Genomics Fungal Ecology & Evolution Fungal and Lichen Biodiversity Fungal Applications Fungi as a Biocontrol Big Data in Fungal Biology

Abstract submission is still open until June 13th for CanFunNet's virtual meeting! Register here: conference.has.uwo.ca/Register/def...

I'm "stoked" for this plenary talk at #CFN25🤭

Guess what? We've extended the abstract submission and early bird registration deadlines. You now have until June 13th. Register today and join the fun at #CFN25.

Meet Joe Heitman, one of our plenary speakers! Dr. Heitman @Duke is a Co-Director and Fellow of the CIFAR program Fungal Kingdom: Threats & Opportunities. His research studies model and pathogenic fungi addressing fundamental questions of scientific and medical importance.

Meet Sophien Kamoun, one of our plenary speaker! Dr. Kamoun from @thesainsburylab.bsky.social studies plant-pathogen coevolution and how it impacts mechanisms of virulence and immunity. Register for #CFN25 to hear @kamounlab.bsky.social speak in August.

Excited to do a postdoc in beautiful Neuchatel / Switzerland🇨🇭? We have several postdoc positions open at the moment! Check our website for the full ads here: pathogen-genomics.org/jobs Happy to answer any question and please spread the word to anyone who might be interested!

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!

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!

It's Mycology Monday! May your week put the "fun" in fungi 🍄 #MycoSky #Fungi

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

Two weeks left for abstract submission and early bird registration for CanFunNet: canfunnet.conferences.uwo.ca/registration This virtual conference will be held Aug 6-8, 2025, register now if you plan to present!

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

So incredibly proud of this superstar finishing strong!!! Well done, Kat! 🎓🎉

Our theme this year is "From local to global" and we can't wait to learn about a the amazing fungal research being done across Canada and beyond. We also want to hear about the impacts of your research whether those inform local decisions or have global relevance.

Registration for our virtual meeting which will be held Aug 6-8 is now open! Abstract submissions and early registration are open until May 30th. canfunnet.conferences.uwo.ca/registration

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

It’s out! The evolutionary origins of yeast point centromeres uncovered! “Ancient co-option of LTR retrotransposons as yeast centromeres” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Postdoctoral Fellow position–Investigating the Escherichia coli efflux network and cell envelope to advance next-generation antimicrobial development in the Cox lab, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, UoG, Canada. Please share! www.coxlab.ca/job-opportun... @uofguelph.bsky.social