After many attempts, we finally managed to hold a fantastic lab retreat with PhD students, postdocs, young PIs, and former lab members. Great discussions, honest conversations, and real trust-building. Many thanks to @embo.org for supporting this community-building experience.

Excellent experience at the @embo.org Sectorial Meeting on Evolution. Cozy talks on chalk talk format together with different motivated colleagues, getting feedback and super nice conversations. Had the chance to invite the junior PI @pablo-villa.bsky.social Loved the experience! EMBO

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...

Super busy and super fruitful teaching week at the @embo.org PhD Course in Chile 2025. big challenge for many of us, but super proud of the students who got engaged in English across the different modules. 👏🏻 for the trainers as well. PS: also 👏🏻👏🏻 to those involved in the Lab Leadership course!

We had the best scientific time! Thanks @official-smbe.bsky.social for making this happen. We’ll try to repeat this in the future. Stay put! @smbe-chile2025.bsky.social

The SMBE Satellite Meeting in Puerto Varas, Chile, was a resounding success! The meeting brought together >70 researchers from different continents for 3 days of inspiring science, vibrant discussion, and genuine community building. Congratulations to the organization! @smbe-chile2025.bsky.social

Big congratulations to Dilanaz Arisan (@rquatrini.bsky.social 's lab) and Pablo Quintrel (@fcocubillosr.bsky.social 's lab) for winning the best posters awards sponsored by the #Yeast journal at the @smbe-chile2025.bsky.social conference in Puerto Varas 🎉🎉🎉

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!

No te quedes fuera del @EMBO PhD course a realizarse en Chile entre el 13-24 de Octubre 2025 en Santiago. Becas para estudiantes de regiones disponibles. + info meetings.embo.org/event/embo-phd… Favor difundir entre estudiantes de Doc!! @ibiochile.bsky.social

📣 Attention!🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 We’ve extended the scholarship application deadline to June 27th. Don’t miss your chance, submit your application and abstract

🌳🌳 big sampling days in Australia hunting yeast in Nothofagus forests together w/ @cristianvarela and @katehowell Great southern hemisphere collaboration to make sense of yeast ecologyon this side of the world!

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/...

Enhancing Yeast Transformation: Achieving up to a Tenfold Increase Through a Single Adjustment in the Lithium Acetate–Polyethylene Glycol Method Full text: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🚨Speaker Alert 🚨 We’re excited to welcome @schacherer.bsky.social from the University of Strasbourg as a speaker! Join us for the @official-smbe.bsky.social Satellite Meeting Molecular Mechanisms of Adaptation and Experimental Evolution 🧬 Puerto Varas, Chile 🗻🌳 October 6-8, 2025🗓️

Great experience this week at #SarahKnight’s lab in NZ sampling the local beech forest (Nothofagus relative’s), & giving a Departamental seminar to share our findings and common grounds between Chile & NZ. So much in common!! Yeast 💪🏽💪🏽🌳🌳 @ibiochile.bsky.social

Fermentative and metabolic screening of candidate yeast strains hybridisable with Saccharomyces cerevisiae for beer production optimisation Full text: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #yeast #microbiology #saccharomyces

🚨Exciting Update 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce Antonis Rokas from @rokaslab.bsky.social as our confirmed speaker! Join us for the @official-smbe.bsky.social Satellite Meeting Molecular Mechanisms of Adaptation and Experimental Evolution 🧬 Puerto Varas, Chile 🌳🗻 October 6th - 8th, 2025

This project will be carried out in collaboration with @fcocubillosr.bsky.social and @litinice.bsky.social

Antifreeze proteins produced by Antarctic yeast from the genus Glaciozyma as cryoprotectants in food storage full text: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... #yeast #microbiology #saccharomyces

Check out my latest paper on fitness costs and benefits of hosting a killer virus if you're a yeast in the forest! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Systematic profiling of subtelomeric silencing factors in budding yeast Full text: academic.oup.com/g3journal/ar... #yeast #saccharomyces #microbiology

Spoiler alert: In a few days we will announce around 30 PhD positions for the Cluster of Excellence Circular Bioengineering, one of them in my lab at @bokuvienna.bsky.social on synthetic single carbon pathways in yeast. Stay tuned!

This week we’ve been in Bariloche (ARG) sharing the main results on our novel lager yeasts & whisky prototype. Happy to be here thanks to @embo.org 😃🌳 for the @embo.org global investigator lecture at the IWOBY conference. @ibiochile.bsky.social

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

Próximo Martes 11/3 a las 11h00 tendremos un EMBO Webinar acerca de financiamientos EMBO para Chile, particularmente EMBO Global Investigator. Nos vemos!! @embo.org @ibiochile.bsky.social

Laboratory yeast strains are highly diverse in lipid metabolism Full text: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #yeast #saccharomyces #microbiology

Isolation and characterization of haploid heterothallic beer yeasts Full text: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... #yesat #microbiology #saccharomyces

Happy to share this JOVE MS, we provide details on live-tracking maltose metabolism activation in yeast using LUC. We used our ❤️Patagonian Sacch. eubayanus to show how activitation proceeds under beer fermentation 🧐 🍺 @ibiochile.bsky.social @pipemunozg.bsky.social app.jove.com/t/68161/in-viv…

Exciting things ahead—registration for @SMBE_Chile_2025 opens next week 📢 Speaker lineup, fellowships, and more to be announced. Stay tuned for updates on the SMBE Satellite Meeting Chile 2025 Conference in beautiful Puerto Varas, Chile 🌳🗻

The rise and shine of yeast optogenetics Full text: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #yeast #saccharomyces #microbiology

Commercial Saccharomyces cerevisiae baker’s yeasts: strain redundancy, genome plasticity, and colonization of the sourdough environment and the human body Full text: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #yeast #microbiology #saccharomyces

De novo biosynthesis of cannabinoid and its analogs in Yarrowia lipolytica Full text: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #yeast #microbiology #yarrowia

Embracing the systems complexity of microbial ecology and evolution: call for papers #mSystems Editorial by a group of editors, senior editors & editor-in-chief @leonorabit.bsky.social @gilbertjacka.bsky.social @ashley17061.bsky.social @markjmandel.bsky.social journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Microbial inoculants drive disease suppression and rhizosphere modulation for effective management of pepper phytophthora blight Combined B. subtilis and T. harzianum inoculation -in Applied Soil Ecology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Understanding brewing trait inheritance in de novo Lager yeast hybrids Full text: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... #yeast #microbiology #saccharomyces

The 5-Fluorouracil RNA Expression Viewer (5-FUR) Facilitates Interpreting the Effects of Drug Treatment and RRP6 Deletion on the Transcriptional Landscape in Yeast Full text: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #yeast #saccharomyces #microbiology

Super interesting review on recent synthetic biology work in yeast (lots of cool ecology and evolution!) journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... @lflarrondo.bsky.social

We have a new phylogenomics preprint out with @pflieglerlab.bsky.social and @devinbendixsen.bsky.social on the origin of yeast strains for baking, their origin, and their colonisation of sourdough (and humans! 😱) Let us know what you think!

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Sequence-dependent activity and compartmentalization of foreign DNA in a eukaryotic nucleus Full text: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #yeast #biomol #yeastboology #microbiology

What happens to bacterial genomes when they're cloned into yeast? Do they transcribe, do they get silenced, do they get packaged away from the rest of the DNA? This cool study congrats to the Koszul lab team at Pasteur for this great work. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Engineering Saccharomyces cerevisiae for medical applications Full text: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #yeast #yeastbiology #microbiology #molecularbiology :)

A very significant step forward for synthetic genomics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

32nd International Conference of Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology #yeast2025 📌 #yeast #microbiology #yeastbiology #biomol

I am appalled by the ASM's decision to remove DEI content from their website. Here is my email to the American Society for Microbiology, @ASM.org asking them to put everything back as it was. If you are an ASM member, please consider writing them.

Scientific societies: please do not advertise X/Twitter to "live tweet" your conferences this year. Prepare now accounts and instructions to use Mastodon and Bluesky.

Fermentative yeast diversity at the northern range limit of their oak tree hosts Full text: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #yeast #yeastbiology #microbiology #biomol

Call for Papers: Exploring Eco-Evo Applications in Cancer. This Special Issue aims to explore and cultivate the frontier between ecology and evolution and cancer. The lead editor is Jason Somarelli (Duke). EMPH is the society journal of ISEMPH and I'm the EIC. academic.oup.com/emph/pages/e...

Scientists at University of Buenos Aires, EMBL Hamburg, and others mapped yerba mate’s genome, providing surprising facts about its biochemistry and evolution of caffeine biosynthesis. 🧉🧬🧪 Find out more: www.embl.org/news/science... @spcembl.bsky.social

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