🍺🥖 Discover Session 5: “Exploring #fermentation as a driver of innovation in food and beverages” at #PYFF9 From new flavours to sustainable production, microbes are transforming food & beverages. Discover how yeast & fungi drive next‑gen fermentation. #Fermentation #Valencia2026

“Es importante que el Estado mantenga financiamiento para ciencia básica, porque aun cuando no haya una aplicación inmediata evidente, es la base de generación de conocimiento que permitirá los desarrollos tecnológicos del futuro que aún no somos capaces de imaginar”. dicyt.usach.cl/index.php/el...

New article today in @yeast-journal.bsky.social! I had the pleasure of collaborating in this work (also with Dr Claudio Martínez), led by Dr Francisco Salinas, in which a new set of #optogenetic #switches was developed in #yeast. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🎤 Meet the PYFF9 speakers! Yeast & Fungi Conference 2026 in Valencia (8–11 Sept) 📢 Registration & abstract submission open 🔗 yeastfungi.efbiotechnology.org/home #Yeast #Fungi #Biotechnology #CallForAbstracts @pyff-9.bsky.social

Congratulations @schacherer.bsky.social! 👏🏼

First Regular Fondecyt grant! Many thanks to Francisco Salinas, Claudio Martínez, Manuel Villalobos-Cid, @litinice.bsky.social, and José Manuel Guillamón for their support. I hope this project will allow us to continue strengthening our collaborations. The best is #yeast to come! shorturl.at/rWf1M

It was a pleasure to participate in this work, led by Dr Manuel Villalobos-Cid, in which regression and #MachineLearning models were applied to characterise #genes associated with quantitative #oenological traits in #yeast. The best is #yeast to come! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We just joined Southern Hemisphere efforts and co-authored a review on yeast research from this side of the world 🌎 Turns out, there’s a lot to tell—and much more to come! Huge thanks to Varela’s team and @pablo-villa.bsky.social for the great collaboration 🍻 academic.oup.com/femsyr/artic...

Awarded! Our "Anillo" project, "A new platform for the diversification and sustainability of the #yeast #biotechnology industry in Chile", seeks the diversification and sustainability of food/feed industries by generating improved yeasts for various applications. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Comparto con ustedes el tercer capítulo de la serie “2100” de la USACH, en el cual Adens González (CECTA) y Tito Pizarro (FACIMED) nos invitan a reflexionar sobre la evolución de la industria alimentaria y los alimentos que consumiremos en el futuro. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nidl...

Nature research paper: From genotype to phenotype with 1,086 near telomere-to-telomere yeast genomes go.nature.com/4nVsl9z

The new issue of #Yeast is out ... with a surprise 😄! This issue marks the 40th anniversary of the creation of our journal, in 1985. To celebrate this achievement, we made a brand new cover with the most beautiful #Yeast front pages 😍 Happy birthday Yeast!!! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10970061...

✨ Latest exciting story of the group in @nature.com. Here, we go beyond SNPs and built a species-wide atlas of genetic variants in yeast. With >1,000 near T2T genomes, we show how large genomic variations affect trait diversity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Looking for science and fun by the ocean next June?🧬🌊 Join at the GSA Yeast 2026 meeting in beautiful Asilomar, Pacific Grove, CA! 📅 Save the date: June 14–18, 2026 ➡️ genetics-gsa.org/yeast-2026/

We had an amazing @official-smbe.bsky.social satellite meeting in Puerto Varas. Great science, colleagues & Patagonian experience. Thanks the organizers @pablo-villa.bsky.social et al & SMBE for putting this together!

Happy to share our first step-by-step #protocol published in @bio-protocol.bsky.social, which uses the pTOMAN-G plasmid to monitor TORC1 activation in #yeast, developed in collaboration with Drs Claudio Martínez and Francisco Salinas. bio-protocol.org/e5356 The best is #yeast to come!

Comparto esta nota sobre el nuevo proyecto dirigido por el Dr. Claudio Martínez, Director de CECTA-USACH, del cual soy co-investigador. Esperamos obtener levaduras vínicas con menor/mayor eficiencia de alcohol e identificar las bases moleculares responsables. bit.ly/4lZZmR9

Mañana Viernes 25 de Abril damos inicio al ciclo de charlas organizadas por CECTA-USACH y la Vicerrectoría de Vinculación con el Medio (VIME). Los esperamos a las 15:00, ya sea través de Zoom (inscripciones en lnkd.in/e9p5_XdX) o en el canal de YouTube de la VIME (www.youtube.com/@VimeUsach).

My first grant project ends today. We studied phenotypic/genetic diversity in TORC1 activation between wild and domesticated yeasts. I am very grateful to Drs F. Salinas, C. Martínez, M. Villalobos-Cid, @matnamo.bsky.social & @litinice.bsky.social, whose collaboration was crucial over these 3 years.

🚨 Registration is now open! 🚨 Join us in Patagonia for the SMBE Satellite Meeting: Molecular Mechanisms of Adaptation and Experimental Evolution🔬 📅 October 6-8, 2025 📍 Puerto Varas, Chile 🇨🇱 🔗 Register here: smbechile2025.cl

Happy to share another research article led by Dr Claudio Martínez (there were two in the same week!) in which I had the pleasure of collaborating, also with Drs Verónica García, María Angélica Ganga & Amparo Querol, published in Journal of Fungi (MDPI). www.mdpi.com/3177160

Happy to share with you this research article published in Fermentation (MDPI) led by Dr Claudio Martínez, in which I had the pleasure of collaborating, also with Dr Jose Manuel Guillamón. www.mdpi.com/3175636

Single nucleotide polymorphisms associated with wine fermentation and adaptation to nitrogen limitation in wild and domesticated yeast strains Full text: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #yeast #yeastbiology #microbiology #biomol

🌳How's life in the limit of life? Here, we investigated changes in fungal community composition 🍄, and got closer to understand how fungi supports Nothofagus forests in the Limit of Life @LiliNucleo. Work led by @saona-la.bsky.social and collaborators!! 👏 academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

Wild Patagonian yeast improve the evolutionary potential of novel interspecific hybrid strains for lager brewing Full text: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... #yeast #yeastbiology #microbiology #biomol From @fcocubillosr.bsky.social Lab

Yipi! Another MS published this week by our group. We used 2 strategies to improve beer fermentation performance in S. eubayanus: ExpEvo + Hybridization (old farmers approach!). Congrats the team! @ibiochile.bsky.social @tomas-p.bsky.social @pablo-villa.bsky.social @official-smbe.bsky.social

High ectomycorrhizal relative abundance during winter at the treeline Full text: academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... #yeast #microbiology #yeastbiology From @saona-la.bsky.social

Hoy apareció en prensa esta nota sobre nuestro proyecto FONDEF IDeA I+D. Casualmente, unos minutos antes habíamos confirmado que hemos obtenido, mediante evolución experimental, levaduras que producen más ergosterol. ¡Gracias por todo, equipo! usach.cl/news/investi...

Optogenetic control of horizontally acquired genes prevent stuck fermentations in yeast Full text: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39772912/

📢 #Yeast2025 News! Registration and abstract submission are NOW OPEN! Join us at the 32nd ICYGMB 📅 Save the Date: 21-24 July 2025 📍 Location: Paris @sorbonne-universite.fr 🔗 Submit: premc.org/yeast2025/su... 🕒 Register now to take advantage of the Early Bird fee premc.org/yeast2025/re...

Looking for fun in a nice place for next summer? Then, join us at the Yeast 2025 meeting! Save the date: 21-24 July 2025 Registration and abstract submission are now open!