Recently I revived my experimental sourdough culture from the -80C freezer and started refreshing it every day. The khachapuri made with it tonight looks quite good:) #yeast

The emerging roles of non-Saccharomyces #yeasts in fermented foods and human health - new minireview from @alexandraimre.bsky.social !

Reproductive Isolation due to Divergent Ecological Selection Is Accompanied by Vast Genomic Instability in Experimentally Evolved #Yeast Populations! #fungalevolution #Saccharomyces new paper from @stelkens.bsky.social

Another traditional brewer has left us. Harald Storli died earlier this week. I visited the family in 2014 and it was an unforgettable experience. Harald is a great loss not just for family and friends, but also for Norwegian brewing culture. www.garshol.priv.no/blog/297.html

Repeated losses of self-fertility shaped heterozygosity and polyploidy in #yeast evolution! #Saccharomyces

#yeast #fungalevolution

Long-term monitoring of a North American cheese cave reveals mechanisms and consequences of fungal adaptation #Fungalevolution

Our latest review on the effect of tyrosol in yeast has just been published. 🔥🔥🔥🍄 link.springer.com/10.1007/s002...

Congratulations to @balintnemeth.bsky.social on his talk on thousands and thousands of #Saccharomyces genomes!

We arrived in Szeged for the annual miniconference of the Hungarian Genetics Society! My PhD student @balintnemeth.bsky.social will present about the #Saccharomyces Compendium and I have a poster about integrating #yeast research into BSc lab classes at the University of Debrecen :)

This is going to be a very nice hop harvest:)

Wow! Very interesting new analysis on #mycobiome. #yeast Kazachstania forms a causal relationship with cardiovascular disease risk in a mendelian two-sample randomization analysis!

"Did alcohol facilitate the evolution of complex societies?" Very interesting thread on a new paper!

Finishing up two manuscripts while brewing a gruit with smoked malts and some fresh hops. Most of the hops I will harvest a few days later :)

Finally, our new -80°C freezer arrived! This is our #yeast lab now, two small rooms for my research group (one half-time and one full-time PhD-student, @balintnemeth.bsky.social, many BSc and MSc-students, and me). Looking forward to start the new semester with them very soon!

Made a nice focaccia with my #yeast experimentally evolving in wheat sourdough:)

Thrilled to share that the final chapter of my PhD with @rokaslab.bsky.social is now out in @natcomms.nature.com 🎉 Read it to find out how population structure impacts pathogenicity in Aspergillus flavus, a fungus that infects humans 🧪 rdcu.be/eAToj

A fantastic natural red from Tenerife, Bodegas La Araucaria 2020 Listán negro, a typical local grape variety. I asked and the winery doesn't use yeast cultures and relies on naturally occuring #yeast

group.szbk.u-szeged.hu/minikonf/ We just registered to the Genetics mini-conference in Szeged! If you are based in Hungary, the deadline is today, there is still some time:) @balintnemeth.bsky.social will present on Saccharoymces phylogenomics, and I'll show our student #kveik and #mead projects.

Jose Paulo Sampaio & Ana Pontes review the biology of #yeast domestication - not just #Saccharomyces!

The Saccharomyces Genome Resequencing Project 5 (#SGRP5) will be presented by @litinice.bsky.social at #ICYGMB32 in Paris 🇫🇷, while I'll be at #ESEB2025 in Barcelona 🇪🇸. If you're around, come say hi - always happy to chat about genomics!

bmcmicrobiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... Our new paper about the #yeast Sugiyamaella novakii, which was described from Hungary, and its mycotoxin tolerance, with a highly continuous ONT-assembled genome!

Tenerife has an old and traditional wine culture with great local grape varieties and wineries also open for current consumer demands. Curiously, only some 4 genomes of #Saccharomyces yeasts have ever been published from Macaronesia, all from Azores. Hopefully we can change that soon in a collab!

Vacation on the beautiful Tenerife with a little #Fungi themed visit to Luis Quijada at the Universidad de La Laguna! It was great to finally meet in-person!

Wow 1000+ Brettanomyces genomes, not just from Belgium and not just from lambic! Awesome, can't wait to check the details on these #yeast s. With recent advancements from two different groups on Lachancea, more and more domesticated yeast have their population structures uncovered, not just Saccharo

Time to ship some yeast around. The samples of #42 and #45 from Latvia are going to the NCYC now that I have paperwork for them. And a possible new farmhouse yeast from Telemark is going to @pflieglerlab.bsky.social to see if it really is farmhouse yeast.

1of2 At home again after a wonderful, inspiring, and overall awesome #Evol2025 in Athens, Georgia! It was great to meet new people, to talk and meet with friends and collaborators @alexandraimre.bsky.social @caitismuheil.bsky.social and to hear great talks on yeasts, evolution, and science overall..

If interested in #yeast phylogenomics, come to my talk on the Compendium of #Saccharomyces at #Evol2025 today at 2:30pm!

SSE Presidential Address at #evol2025!

Great talk about sourdough #Saccharomyces by @caitismuheil.bsky.social at #evol2025

@alexandraimre.bsky.social from NCSU presenting on gut adaptations of probiotic #Saccharomyces at #evol2025 right now!

#Vaccine for #yeast #infections could soon be Reality ... | #fungi | #fungal | #vaginal | #Candida | #climatechange | By @edcara.bsky.social‬ via @gizmodo.com‬

So great to be here in Athens GA for #Evol2025! ASN presidential address about why fund curiousity

And we're rolling! We hope that the in-person attendees made it to Athens safely, and that you're as excited as we are about 4 days with your closest science friends.

This time working with 9- and 12-year-olds: the classes of my two sons will visit our Department and we prepared for it by sampling their hands using agar dishes:) we will check what microbes will grow on the media.

The Wachau, a beautiful place with great wines with local character! Here Spitz an der Donau:)

Visiting Winzer Krems at Sandgrube 13 in Krems, the largest wine producer collective in Austria! I asked and they mostly use Lallemand #yeast incredible technology and quality:)

1of2: The freshly made IPA brew was now inoculated with 18 strains of bacteria to check survival in experimental fermentation conditions in our #kveik bacteria project w/ @balintnemeth.bsky.social and students. Samples for metagenomic DNA taken regularly. The yeasts: Voss and a secret one...

Lab practice with #kveik bacteria is over w/ the biotech students! We saw really great lab reports woth @balintnemeth.bsky.social from students, congratulations! And many thanks to all students for enthusiasm and active participation! Time for a new brew to inoculate with 2 kveiks and 18 BACTERIA :)

📣 Just out: a comprehensive overview of the orders within the phylum Ascomycota, where—together with @michieldegroot.bsky.social, Aimée Blondelle, Michał Gorczak and @dhaelewa.bsky.social—we wrote about Laboulbeniomycetes. ➡️ www.mycosphere.org/pdf/MYCOSPHE... @teamlaboul.bsky.social

#Saccharomyces #yeast strains isolated from Ecuadorian maize chicha!

Almost a #yeast dish! Tremella fuciformis, the silver ear fungus, a popular species in SE Asia, has a yeast-like life stage!

Some new #yeast s just arrived! I am curious what they are capable of! Are some of them maybe kveiks or kveik hybrids?

Machine learning identifies novel signatures of antifungal drug resistance in Saccharomycotina yeasts

Some late afternoon work with a glass of 2 yrs old #mead fermented and bottle conditioned solely by Brettanomyces bruxellensis #yeast

www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1... A symbiotic filamentous gut fungus ameliorates MASH via a secondary metabolite–CerS6–ceramide axis. "Fusarium foetens negatively associated with the human metabolic disease phenotype metabolic dysfunction–associated steatohepatitis" #mycobiome #fungi

New paper out that claims to have found one of the two ancestors of lager yeast. This paper will likely receive a lot of attention, so let's look at what it's actually found. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

My first-ever brew with my new brewmonk, a #kveik IPA with Voss, for a test experiment with kveik bacteria :)

Visiting the Tokaj Wine Region with our guest @raquelvicente.bsky.social and with Andi and @balintnemeth.bsky.social Unique cellars at Hercegkút:) I asked and most wineries rely on local spontaneous yeasts!

Our students w/ @balintnemeth.bsky.social really nailed it, their own DNS isolation from #kveik bacteria, and their own PCR reactions, perfect! Next step is Sanger sequencing. Some strains are already sequenced, some will be complete surprises even for us!