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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.
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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
about 1 month ago
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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 🍻
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The Southern Hemisphere yeast frontier: from nature dwellers to accomplished fermenters
This mini-review discusses the different yeast species found in the Southern Hemisphere.
https://academic.oup.com/femsyr/article/doi/10.1093/femsyr/foaf063/8281966?login=false
2 months ago
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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!
3 months ago
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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
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3 months ago
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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
3 months ago
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
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Yeast Journal
3 months ago
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 🎉🎉🎉
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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!
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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!
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7 months ago
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SMBE Chile Adaptation & Evolution Meeting
7 months ago
📣 Attention!🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 We’ve extended the scholarship application deadline to June 27th. Don’t miss your chance, submit your application and abstract
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🌳🌳 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!
10 months ago
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Rike Stelkens
10 months ago
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/...
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Yeast Posting
10 months ago
Enhancing Yeast Transformation: Achieving up to a Tenfold Increase Through a Single Adjustment in the Lithium Acetate–Polyethylene Glycol Method Full text:
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Enhancing Yeast Transformation: Achieving up to a Tenfold Increase Through a Single Adjustment in the Lithium Acetate–Polyethylene Glycol Method
In red are the proposed improvements to the classical yeast transformation protocol.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/yea.3999?campaign=wolearlyview
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SMBE Chile Adaptation & Evolution Meeting
10 months ago
🚨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🗓️
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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
10 months ago
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Yeast Posting
10 months ago
Fermentative and metabolic screening of candidate yeast strains hybridisable with Saccharomyces cerevisiae for beer production optimisation Full text:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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#microbiology
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SMBE Chile Adaptation & Evolution Meeting
10 months ago
🚨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
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Rike Stelkens
10 months ago
This project will be carried out in collaboration with
@fcocubillosr.bsky.social
and
@litinice.bsky.social
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Yeast Posting
10 months ago
Antifreeze proteins produced by Antarctic yeast from the genus Glaciozyma as cryoprotectants in food storage full text:
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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#microbiology
#saccharomyces
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Primrose Boynton
10 months ago
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...
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Yeast Posting
10 months ago
Systematic profiling of subtelomeric silencing factors in budding yeast Full text:
academic.oup.com/g3journal/ar...
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Diethard Mattanovich
10 months ago
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!
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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
10 months ago
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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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10 months ago
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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
10 months ago
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Yeast Posting
10 months ago
Laboratory yeast strains are highly diverse in lipid metabolism Full text:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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#saccharomyces
#microbiology
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Yeast Posting
10 months ago
Isolation and characterization of haploid heterothallic beer yeasts Full text:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
#yesat
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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…
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In Vivo Monitoring of Transcriptional Activity During Metabolic Transition Using a Bioluminescent Reporter in Yeast
Read this JoVE article on In Vivo Monitoring of Transcriptional Activity During Metabolic Transition Using a Bioluminescent Reporter in Yeast
https://app.jove.com/t/68161/in-viv…
10 months ago
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SMBE Chile Adaptation & Evolution Meeting
10 months ago
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 🌳🗻
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Yeast Posting
11 months ago
The rise and shine of yeast optogenetics Full text:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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#microbiology
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Yeast Posting
11 months ago
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
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Yeast Posting
11 months ago
De novo biosynthesis of cannabinoid and its analogs in Yarrowia lipolytica Full text:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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#microbiology
#yarrowia
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Ákos T Kovács
11 months ago
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
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Embracing the systems complexity of microbial ecology and evolution: call for papers | mSystems
Microbial ecology and evolution are broad disciplines that seek to understand the underlying processes that drive the diversification, distributions, and dynamics of microbial cells, populations, comm...
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msystems.00091-25
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Ákos T Kovács
11 months ago
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
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Microbial inoculants drive disease suppression and rhizosphere modulation for effective management of pepper phytophthora blight
Peppers (Capsicum annuum L.) are globally important vegetable crops, yet their production is often compromised by diseases like pepper Phytophthora bl…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S092913932500109X
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Yeast Posting
11 months ago
Understanding brewing trait inheritance in de novo Lager yeast hybrids Full text:
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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Yeast Posting
11 months ago
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/...
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Will Ratcliff
11 months ago
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
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A new flavor of synthetic yeast communities sees the light | mBio
The Earth is populated by a huge diversity of organisms, which rarely exist in isolation. Instead, they constantly interact with other biological agents shaping ecosystems and occupying distinct habit...
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.02008-23
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Rike Stelkens
11 months ago
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!
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Carl T. Bergstrom
11 months ago
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.
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NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-25-068.html
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Yeast Posting
11 months ago
Sequence-dependent activity and compartmentalization of foreign DNA in a eukaryotic nucleus Full text:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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#yeastboology
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Sequence-dependent activity and compartmentalization of foreign DNA in a eukaryotic nucleus
In eukaryotes, DNA-associated protein complexes coevolve with genomic sequences to orchestrate chromatin folding. We investigate the relationship between DNA sequence and the spontaneous loading and a...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adm9466
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Tom Ellis
11 months ago
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.
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Sequence-dependent activity and compartmentalization of foreign DNA in a eukaryotic nucleus
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https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adm9466
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Yeast Posting
11 months ago
Engineering Saccharomyces cerevisiae for medical applications Full text:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#yeast
#yeastbiology
#microbiology
#molecularbiology
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Gilles FISCHER
11 months ago
A very significant step forward for synthetic genomics
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Engineering a genomically recoded organism with one stop codon - Nature
Ochre, a strain of Escherichia coli engineered to have a single stop codon, enables reassignment of four codons for non-degenerate functions, such as incorporation of non-standard amino acids into pro...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08501-x
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Yeast Posting
11 months ago
32nd International Conference of Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology
#yeast2025
📌
#yeast
#microbiology
#yeastbiology
#biomol
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Elisabeth Bik
11 months ago
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.
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Marc Robinson-Rechavi
11 months ago
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.
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Yeast Posting
11 months ago
Fermentative yeast diversity at the northern range limit of their oak tree hosts Full text:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#yeast
#yeastbiology
#microbiology
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Vaughn Cooper
11 months ago
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.
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Exploring Eco-Evo Applications In Cancer
Call for Papers Cancers are essentially large communities of cells, and the individual members act and interact in complex ways. Long-established principles of
https://academic.oup.com/emph/pages/exploring-eco-evo-applications-in-cancer
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EMBL
11 months ago
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...
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This is us 👇👇👏🏻👏🏻
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