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New paper out: Alya Hussain, Kevin Fotso & @mcmurraylab.bsky.social describe #yeasts and other #fungi isolated from cacti or non-cactus plants, including the new species Coniochaeta udwismasis, and provide new hints at modes of #adaptation to the cactus 🌵🌵🌵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Our new paper was, by definition, an adventure: stepping outside of our comfort zone, embracing the unknown, and engaging in activities where the outcome is uncertain. Includes discovery of a new species and working with a Native American tribe to name it… 🧵👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

In this #Yeast research article, Kanokarn Kocharin, Niran Roongsawang and team report the enhanced production of #recombinant thermophilic xylanase X11P in Ogataea polymorpha via in-silico signal peptide discovery and fed-batch #fermentation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

New article out for the series #technoYeast: Maria Abraham, Christine Iosue & Dennis D. Wykoff developed new molecular tools for genetic manipulation in the Nakaseomyces clade, that can be used for the #evolutionary comparison of signal transduction #pathways onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

In this #Yeast research article, Koichi Tanabe, Atsuhiko Nakata, Mizuki Hosotani & Jun Shima investigate the role of organic acids in glucose repression by measuring GAR+ cells, which undergo a protein-based epigenetic change allowing them to survive longer. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Interested in mitochondria? In this review article, Ferran Gómez-Armengol, Elena Hidalgo & Montserrat Vega discuss pros & cons of methods to study mitochondrial metabolism and homeostasis in fission yeast S. pombe, including in vivo and in vitro approaches. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Thank you for visiting @iamphioxus.bsky.social was great to see you again. I enjoyed both the science and the company and glad to see you are doing great. Come back soon 👋

Not sure how to analyze your #rDNA data? Use rDNAmine, a new #bioinformatic toolkit for capturing and examining large repetitive arrays in Oxford Nanopore #sequencing data 🧬, by Agnieszka Czarnocka-Cieciura and Natalia Gumińska. Now published in #Yeast: 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

In this review, Audrey P. Gasch reflects on the history of the Environmental Stress Response (ESR) in #yeast, from its discovery 25 years ago to more recent insights into its purpose and regulation, focusing on remaining questions in #stress biology. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

new lab preprint - Protein function prediction is a well established problem but proteins exist in different post-translationally modified forms. Here, @julianvangerwen.bsky.social built a ML model to predict the biological process regulated by individual phosphosites www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

It was a pleasure to share my research with the fission yeast community during the last #PombeTalks seminar and talk about our efforts to uncover the role of conserved unknown genes in S. #pombe and a new #mitochondrial gene that we discovered A big thank you to the organisers and the audience ☺️

In this editorial that marks #Yeast 's 40th anniversary, our former editor Stephen Oliver walks us through the journal's history, from its very first steps to the change of the editorial board in more recent years, and wishes the best for Yeast's future 🙂 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

In this review marking our 40th birthday, Edward Archer, Roy Walker, Paige Erpf, Ian Paulsen & Isak Pretorius reflect on the great power of #yeast #genetics, outlining key advances emerging from the Sc2.0 project and the future potential of #synthetic yeasts onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Interested in #flocculation? In this #Yeast article, Devanshu Mehta, Mary Serviss, Keith Schneider, Renee Goodrich & Andrew MacIntosh investigate S. pastorianus flocculation during #brewing #fermentation, finding an association with the level of cell mannose onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Another work on #optogenetics is out in #Yeast: in this review, Riya Joon, Rhythm Phutela & Prashant Khare discuss key advances in the field, with a focus on the EL222 system for protein production in P. pastoris and metabolic engineering in S. cerevisiae 💡💡💡 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The new issue of #Yeast is out (Volume 43, Number 3, May 2026). Scroll down to read more about genome engineering in non-conventional yeasts, #lifespan extension, a new web platform to explore gene conservation and a new set of #optogenetic switches 😀 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Join us in wishing a massive happy 100th birthday to the man who has inspired millions of people around the world to care about nature and look after our planet - the incredible Sir David Attenborough! 🎉

In the latest #Yeast research article, Matías Guerrero, Francisco Salinas and team developed new optogenetic switches based on the BcWCL1 photoreceptor. These systems improve light-controlled gene expression in S. cerevisiae, and versions with C-terminal deletions are the most performant 💡💡💡

The latest #Yeast research article features a tool developed by Guo-Song Jia, @lilindu.bsky.social & team: www.sogweb.org. Based on genome assemblies and annotations of Schizosaccharomyces species, users can explore gene alignments and phylogenetic trees. 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

In the latest #Yeast research article, Yukinori Ozaki, Taku Ozaki and Qiu-Mei Zhang-Akiyama show that glucose restriction extends chronological #lifespan in budding yeast, while auxotrophic markers can induce abnormal cellular states under starvation. 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I am extremely happy to share that the final paper from my PhD in @litinice.bsky.social 's team at @ircan.bsky.social (Université Cote d'Azur, @cnrscotedazur.bsky.social) is now out in @natcomms.nature.com !!! 😁😁😁 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The new #Yeast issue of January-March 2026 (Volume 43, Number 1-2) is now out, with a review on the role of Rad9 in DNA repair, and three research articles spanning the isolation of yeast species from flowers and honeys, and the effects of furanic compounds. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

In our recent study, we created over 1000 intraspecific yeast hybrids by crossing genetically diverse strains and tested how well they grow under harsh industrial conditions such as high ethanol, salt, and organic acids. enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In this #Yeast review article, Wendel Batista da Silveira & team give us an overview of the application of the CRISPR/Cas9 system in oleaginous yeasts. They discuss the main advances in the use of the tool, its technical limitations and future opportunities 🧬 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

In this #Yeast research article, Laise Cedraz Pinto Matos, Amy Milburn and @yorkyeast.bsky.social investigated the physiological effects of #furanic compounds from the Maillard reaction in yeast & found that they have different uptake, efflux, and toxicity. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

In the latest #Yeast research article, Joanna Sękul, Anna Maria Kot, Katarzyna Pobiega and team analyze yeasts isolated from Polish urban #honeys and identify honey-derived S. cerevisiae strains that could be used as novel starters for mead production 🇵🇱 🍯 🐝 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A new #Yeast has been discovered by Carlos Rosa, Susana Johann & team: Candidozyma cisalpinoae. The new species is resistant to azoles, shows other virulence-associated traits and was isolated from Ipomoea flowers in the Tocantins state, Brazil 🌸 🇧🇷 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

In the latest #Yeast review article, A. Kiely, F. O'Halloran, P. Young, N. F. Lowndes, @murielgalway.bsky.social and K. Finn discuss the latest advances in understanding the versatile role of Rad9 in the DNA Damage Response in Saccharomyces cerevisiae 🧬 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

ANNOUNCEMENT: The webpage for the upcoming yeast meetings of 2026 has recently been updated. Have a look at it to find out which exciting #yeast #conferences are ahead!!! 😀 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Compared to the preprint, we added data on the functional effect of the suppressors (about half are LOF). Thanks again to @leopoldparts.bsky.social @ptck72.bsky.social @markashe.bsky.social @nicolo-tellini.bsky.social and all co-authors without Bluesky accounts!

delighted to have contributed to this editorial led by Sakkie Pretorius on the wave of next generation #yeast scientist

📢 In our new study, we identify the predominant natural route to polyploidy in S. cerevisiae. Stepwise polyploidization operates through iterative cycles of events termed "Sporulate–Endoreplicate–Mate" (SEM). Really excellent work led by @cintiagomez.bsky.social 👏 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our paper is now out in Nature: “Ancient co-option of LTR retrotransposons as yeast centromeres” www.nature.com/articles/s41... A short thread on how retrotransposons helped give rise to yeast point centromeres. 1/14

With @litinice.bsky.social, we built a haploid resource from 33 wild Taiwanese Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains — including some of the most genetically divergent Asian lineages — to bring natural yeast diversity into a genetically tractable framework. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

There's a lot more juicy stuff inside so I hope you'll give it a read over at @currentbiology.bsky.social ! Thanks to my (Bluesky) coauthors @linder-surprise.bsky.social, @jlsteenwyk.bsky.social, @ana-pontes.bsky.social, @hittingerlab.bsky.social, & @rokaslab.bsky.social!

The deadline for the submission of papers to the special issue on the International Yeast Meetings of 2025 has been extended to 31 March. Papers should be connected to one of the meetings listed below. Hurry up and don't miss this chance! More information at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Last paper in collaboration with Zhou XU. We explored the natural telomere length diversity in S. cerevisiae and found that ploidy level, and subtelomere structure drive telomere length variation. Higher ploidy levels lead to telomere elongation! genome.cshlp.org/content/earl...

@rcply.bsky.social argues that phylogenetic inferences in sponge–ctenophore–bilaterian relationships based on shared chromosomal rearrangements suffer from insufficient statistical support. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf321 #evobio #molbio

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Last work of the lab showing that Repeated losses of self-fertility shaped heterozygosity and polyploidy in yeast evolution | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The new year has just started and we are happy to share the news that the new issue of #Yeast (Volume 42, Number 12, December 2025) is finally out!!! 😀😀😀 This issue includes two research articles and two reviews. You can browse it at this link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10970061...

Here is our first publication of 2026 which is the first article of a special issue that mark the journal 40 anniversary - happy new year to all the #yeast community

here is our first contribution of yeast in microbiomes led by Jason Tsai group[ with contributions from Alberto and Nelly: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... more to come

📢 Join us in sunny Lisbon 🇵🇹 2-5 June for the @embo.org workshop ☀️ “The rules of the game: biophysical & molecular principles in cellular evolution” Apply by March 1st! Please repost to help spread the word! meetings.embo.org/event/26-cel... #EMBORulesOfTheGame @gimmfoundation.bsky.social

Some more shenanigans on the Ctenophora Porifera debate from @rcply.bsky.social academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...

🗞️ New preprint from the lab, led by our postdoc Ana Garoña (not on here) in collab with @andreagiometto.bsky.social: “Experimental evolution of cellular miniaturization reveals a mechanism for cell size evolution”, aka: “honey, we shrank the yeasts!” 🎥 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Le Grand Prix scientifique franco-taïwanais 2025 du Conseil National des Sciences de #Taïwan et de @academiesciences.bsky.social a été décerné à Gianni LITI, de l'Institut de recherche sur le cancer et le vieillissement de Nice, et Isheng TSAI, du Biodiversity Research Center de l'Academia Sinica.

So excited to see my PhD work finally being published!!! It was such a pleasure working with a great team!!!

Congratulations to EMBO Member Tony Hyman on his appointment as the next Director General of EMBL! We look forward to working with him to strengthen European and global #LifeSciences. Read more: https://www.embo.org/features/embo-congratulates-new-director-general-of-embl/