Geraldine Butler
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Prof at University College Dublin. Genetics and microbiology, all things yeast.
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Harmit Singh Malik
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Progressive coevolution of the yeast centromere and kinetochore 🤩
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Progressive coevolution of the yeast centromere and kinetochore - Nature
Thousands of centromeres were identified and tracked across two major fungal clades, showing that new centromeres spread progressively and that the kinetochore acts as a filter to determine which new ...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09779-1
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University College Dublin
about 2 months ago
💙💛 Nine UCD projects will share in €34.5 million of funding announced to support “high-risk, high-reward” projects. Funding under the Research Ireland Frontiers for the Future Programme, seven UCD initiatives are supported through the Projects stream, while two were funded under the Awards stream.
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@ucdscience.bsky.social
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UCD School of Biomolecular & Biomedical Science
2 months ago
Exciting recognition for UCD undergraduate research! The
@microbiologysociety.org
has featured the discovery of 2 new yeast species our students helped uncover:Cyberlindnera hibernica (“of Ireland”)& Barnettozyma discipulorum(“of students”)discovered in Glengarriff Woods🍃📄 🔗
bit.ly/3LiJonn
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This is great! Straight into the lab journal club folder
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3 months ago
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Kellen Hoxworth
3 months ago
Higher Ed in 2025 is opening your mailbox to see that your institution has sent you: 1. A Center for Teaching and Learning call to integrate AI into your classroom; and 2. An Office of Academic Integrity email encouraging you to crack down on students who use AI to cheat.
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Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
4 months ago
Wild yeasts live in the forests all around us. Yet, little is known about the role they play in ecosystems. They can be used to develop new
#beer
and bread flavors, but can also serve as a unique model for studying
#climatechange
@stockholm-uni.bsky.social
@stelkens.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/mebnw7v5
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Wild yeasts as a model for climate research | Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
Wild yeasts live in the forests all around us. Yet, little is known about the role they play in ecosystems. They can be used to develop new beer and bread flavors, but wild yeast can also serve as a u...
https://tinyurl.com/mebnw7v5
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Linda Horianopoulos
4 months ago
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...
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Discovery of additional ancient genome duplications in yeasts
Whole genome duplication (WGD) has had profound macroevolutionary impacts on diverse lineages, preceding adaptive radiations in vertebrates, teleost fish, and angiosperms. In contrast to the many know...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.31.673279v1.full.pdf+html
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DjuranovicLab at Brown University RNA Center
5 months ago
Our RAPPL purification of ribosomes and associated material is out. I am really proud of this study in collaboration primary with Pavlovic-Djuranovic lab, as well as Jovanovic and Hashem Labs. This method aims to replace 60 years old purification of ribosomes by sucrose cushions
rdcu.be/ezlhg
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A rapid, simple, and economical method for the isolation of ribosomes and translational machinery for structural and functional studies
Nature Communications - Here, the authors present a method to rapidly isolate actively translating ribosomes in a time- and cost-effective manner using poly-lysine. The method is compatible with a...
https://rdcu.be/ezlhg
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New preprint from lab adding to recent interest in yeast centromeres. There are dramatic changes in structure, but location is conserved
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Centromeres in budding yeasts are conserved in chromosomal location but not in structure.
The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has ‘point’ centromeres, which are much smaller and simpler than centromeres of most other eukaryotes and have a defined DNA sequence. Other yeast taxa have ...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.24.666568v1
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Research Ireland
6 months ago
Research Ireland, on behalf of
@deptoffhed.bsky.social
, have today launched Global Talent Ireland - a new initiative to attract exceptional mid-career and established researchers from across the globe to Ireland. For more information visit:
www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob...
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Global Talent Ireland - Research Ireland
Global Talent Ireland aims to attract exceptional mid-career and established researchers from across the globe to Ireland. Researchers funded through this programme are required to transfer their rese...
https://www.researchireland.ie/funding/global-talent-ireland/
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🧬Jacob L Steenwyk
6 months ago
NEW pub: The role of metabolism in shaping
#enzyme
structures over 400 million years. Now out in
@nature.com
Super grateful to have played a small role in this project - congrats to lead/corr authors Oliver, Benjamin, and Markus!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#alphafold
#evolution
#genomics
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Really enjoying this series.
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UCD Research
7 months ago
🧪👩🔬This Sat 14 June, 12 scientists will bring their fascinating research to Dublin city centre!
#SoapboxScience
Drop by South King St 1-4pm to join them in exploring topics ranging from nematodes & reptiles, to DNA & human health at this FREE event.
ucd.ie/research/new...
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Postdoc position in new area for lab on yeast biodiversity. See
www.findapostdoc.com/search/job-d...
. Please forward!
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PostDoc | Job Details - Postdoctoral fellow level 1 in yeast biodiversity at Conway Institute, University College Dublin
Postdoctoral fellow level 1 in yeast biodiversity at Conway Institute, University College Dublin, listed on FindAPostDoc.com - A jobs site exclusively listing postdoctoral research posts.
http://www.findapostdoc.com/search/job-details.aspx?jobcode=12411
7 months ago
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UCD School of Biomolecular & Biomedical Science
8 months ago
🎉Huge congratulations to Simran Khatri, Stage 3 Pharmacology student,who has been named joint winner of the 2025 Mary Mulvihill Award. Her essay “In Life for Life – A Monologue from the Heart of a Young Researcher,” is a powerful reflection on the ethics of animal research in science.
bit.ly/4mtiwPR
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Fantastic!
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8 months ago
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Microbiology Society
8 months ago
Only one week to go until the abstract submission deadline for Candida and Candidiasis 2025! Make sure to submit your abstract by 15 May 2025 at 23:59 BST. Find out more on our website.
microb.io/Candida2025A...
#Candida2025
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Norman van Rhijn
8 months ago
Felt surreal to be live on Sky News Breakfast talking about fungal pathogens and climate change🍄🟫🗺️ Hopefully more people will learn about the wonderful (and scary) world of fungi this way
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The Irish Times
9 months ago
The global fight for science in the face of Trump’s attacks
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The global fight for science in the face of Trump’s attacks
As Trump takes aim at science and institutions, other nations double down on research and innovation
https://www.irishtimes.com/science/2025/04/17/the-global-fight-for-science-in-the-face-of-trumps-attacks/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&utm_campaign=HP-SubDesc
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Help pupils from Irish schools who won a NASA competition to attend the International Space Development Conference in Florida and showcase their hard work. If you can, please click the link below to donate or share it with others. Thanks for your support!
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Jo Rhodes
9 months ago
Abstract submission for the Candida and Candidiasis conference, held in Berlin 6th-9th October 2025, is open until 15th May:
microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...
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Candida and Candidiasis 2025
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Oded Rechavi
9 months ago
The Tariff rate is calculated the same way as the Impact Factor
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University College Dublin
9 months ago
🔬💎 Exciting news for UCD Professors Oliver Blacque, Peter Haughton, and Eoin Casey, whose projects will receive over €5.3 million in funding from Research Ireland’s Research Infrastructure Programme.
www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...
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UCD research infrastructure projects receive more than €5.3m in funding
https://www.ucd.ie/newsandopinion/news/2025/april/01/ucdresearchinfrastructureprojectsreceivemorethan53minfunding/
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My mother had diphtheria. She survived the hospitalisation; her younger brother did not. Was common in Dublin, now eliminated.
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10 months ago
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Frank McNally
10 months ago
Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. Happy St Patrick’s Day.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=OCbu...
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Danny Boy
YouTube video by Blakwulf
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OCbuRA_D3KU&pp=0gcJCfcAhR29_xXO
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This was part of a fantastic presentation at ECFG17. HGT in real time! Straight to the lab journal club…
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10 months ago
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University College Dublin
10 months ago
💎⛏️ Warmest congratulations to Professor Sarah Gleeson, the newly appointed Director of the iCRAG Research Ireland Centre for Applied Geosciences at University College Dublin.
www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...
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Professor Sarah Gleeson named new iCRAG Director
https://www.ucd.ie/newsandopinion/news/2025/march/05/professorsarahgleesonnamednewicragdirector/
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Goodbye from (most) of the local organising committee for
#ECFG17
, see you all in Helsinki in 2027!
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Many congrats to Profs Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Aoife McLysaght
@tcddublin.bsky.social
featured on Irish stamps.
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Francisco Cubillos
10 months ago
Registration is open for
@official-smbe.bsky.social
satellite meeting in Chile. We have a great lineup of speakers for topics in Microbial ExpEvo and Adaptation 👏👏 Please consider attending. Plenty of scholarships for students and postdocs! Register here: 👇
smbechile2025.cl
@ibiochile.bsky.social
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Neil Gow
10 months ago
We are indebted to Alessia Buscaino for the discovery that the Candida albicans type SC5314 type strain is an RNAi Argonaut mutant. Her great talk today also shows that this is relevant to microbiome and macrophage interactions and has host niche specific consequences.
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LaBella Lab
10 months ago
380 Candida parapsilosis strains sequenced by Geraldine Butler
@yeastpi.bsky.social
These strains are 99.98% similar! They are also phenotypically similar Pangenome analysis to the rescue! 🛟 They find 68 accessory genes... And these are often Major Facilitator Superfamily
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Nick Talbot
10 months ago
Pangenome analysis of Candida parapsilosis and its strategies for generating drug resistance via copy number variation Geraldine Butler
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LaBella Lab
10 months ago
Cheers to 🍻 S. eubayanus - the lager beer! Sean Bergin reveals the population structure of wild S. eubayanus... And finds they are probably poor beer makers
#ecfg17
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Great start to
#ECFG17
today. Think I’ve heard this guy before…
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Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
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PhD positions on yeast available in my lab in science-friendly Ireland!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Diversity and biotech potential of wild yeast isolates from Ireland at University College Dublin on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Diversity and biotech potential of wild yeast isolates from Ireland at University College Dublin, listed on FindAPhD.com
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/diversity-and-biotech-potential-of-wild-yeast-isolates-from-ireland/?p183032
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PhD positions on yeast available in my lab in science-friendly Ireland!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Diversity and biotech potential of wild yeast isolates from Ireland at University College Dublin on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Diversity and biotech potential of wild yeast isolates from Ireland at University College Dublin, listed on FindAPhD.com
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/diversity-and-biotech-potential-of-wild-yeast-isolates-from-ireland/?p183032
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Ian Dunt
11 months ago
Good work George.
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Really glad to see this… there seems to be a remarkable lack of resistance in US science so far.
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11 months ago
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Clement Tsui PhD 🇭🇰 🇨🇦
12 months ago
#PLOSPathogens
: Insights into the origin, hybridisation and adaptation of Candida metapsilosis hybrid pathoge ...
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Insights into the origin, hybridisation and adaptation of Candida metapsilosis hybrid pathogens
Author summary Yeast pathogens of the Candida genus are estimated to cause almost a million deaths each year globally. Although most infections are caused by the five most common Candida species, the ...
https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1012864
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Vaughn Cooper
12 months ago
I am confident that scientific societies will play an unusually important role in the coming years. If you are a microbiologist of any kind, please consider joining
@asm.org
if you haven't already. There are many ways to get involved, including advocacy. To learn more:
asm.org/About-ASM/Vo...
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Volunteer With ASM | Overview
ASM volunteer opportunities range from speaking with legislators about funding research during ASM's annual Hill Day, to writing articles for asm.org, to serving on committees and the Board of Directo...
https://asm.org/About-ASM/Volunteer-With-ASM/Volunteer-With-ASM
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Vincent Hoban
12 months ago
A beautiful morning on
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Belfield campus. The upper lake is teaming, a heron, a coot, lots of mallards and what seems to be our new swan. He(?) started visiting before Christmas and now seems to be in permanent residence. I've a tough job but someone has to do it!
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Plenty of representation from my old school at
#BTYSTE
. Managed to speak to some during breaks in judging, and a few prizes were won!
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12 months ago
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Eoin Lettice
12 months ago
A real pleasure to spend time with the
#BTYSTE
family again this year. The standard of projects are as impressive as ever. The future is bright.
#BTYSTE2025
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Very much enjoyed judging at
#BTYSTE
Young Scientist and Technology exhibition, and many congrats to overall winners Ciara, Saoirse and Laoise Murphy from Tralee. Great communicators and well deserved!
12 months ago
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Rebecca Drummond 🍄
about 1 year ago
There's still time to apply for this postdoc position in our lab. Ideally suited to someone wanting to develop some independent research, we have lots of new projects to select from!
#immunosky
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The MRC Centre for Medical Mycology
about 1 year ago
📽️Our latest
#MycoClinics
and
#MycoTalks
are now on YouTube. MycoClinics S4E2: Dermatomycosis Ali Abdolrasouli and Ananta Khurana
youtu.be/-TzZ-3l0dBM?...
MycoTalks S5E3: Robert A. Cramer and David Moyes
youtu.be/ceB1ugg9toU?...
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