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/

In this #Yeast review article, Jose Ribamar Ferreira-Junior, Vittoria de Lima Camandona & Mario H. Barros show how Saccharomyces cerevisiae can be used as a model to study the cellular processes underlying #neurodegenerative disorders and to test new drugs 💊 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

In the latest #Yeast research article, Miguel A. Rocha, Gowda Bhavani and Jacob Fleischmann investigate the role of exonuclease-resistant ribosomal RNAs in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, their relationship with nutritional status and the TOR signalling pathway. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The new issue of #Yeast of 2025 (Volume 42, Issue 11, November 2025) is out! It includes papers about new yeast genomes, the biodiversity of yeasts in dough, polyphosphate accumulation and even a new #FantasticYeasts species 😃 You can browse it at this link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10970061...

In the latest #Yeast research article, Alexander Deitert, Lars M. Blank and team investigated the effect of zinc and inositol in polyphosphate accumulation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, revealing their role in energy metabolism and phosphate signalling. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

In this new #Yeast research article Yueting Zheng, Wei Yang, Wei Zhang & teams developed a new expression vector system to produce exogenous proteins in Kluyveromyces marxianus, and they successfully expressed the cap gene of porcine circovirus type 3 (PCV3). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

NEW GENOME ALERT 👇: in this new #Yeast research article @dmattanovich.bsky.social , Brigitte Gasser, Alexandra B. Graf and team published the complete and annotated genome sequence of the Komagataella phaffii type strain, revealing new genes and SNPs. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Ever wondered what is in your Tarhana dough? In the latest #Yeast research article, Burcu Ozel, Bilal Agirman, Omer Simsek and Huseyin Erten investigated the effects of backslopping on the yeast and volatile aroma compound diversity of tarhana. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

1/10 Genome maintenance by telomerase is a fundamental process in nearly all eukaryotes. But where does it come from? Today, we report the discovery of telomerase homologs in a family of antiviral RTs, revealing an unexpected evolutionary origin in bacteria. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The new issue of #Yeast is out ... with a surprise 😄! This issue marks the 40th anniversary of the creation of our journal, in 1985. To celebrate this achievement, we made a brand new cover with the most beautiful #Yeast front pages 😍 Happy birthday Yeast!!! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10970061...

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 🎉🎉🎉

In the latest #Yeast research article, Somsak Likhitrattanapisal, Niran Roongsawang and team investigated the genome of Ogataea polymorpha and its transcriptomic response during growth in sucrose-supplemented medium. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Sex or growth? Life must continually balance these strategies. We forced yeast to choose and captured the trade-off in real time. Evolution rewired existing regulators and fixed them through genetic assimilation, creating specialists for sex at the cost of growth. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

In the latest #Yeast research article, Haili Yu, Fuqiang Ma & team develop a new strain of Komagataella phaffii with increased production of bovine intestinal alkaline phosphatase, thanks to the editing of multiple YPS proteases with CRISPR/Cas9 technology. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

New paper! We generated and/or (re)analyzed ~100 #metagenomics Hi-C datasets to provide a comprehensive analysis of bacterial and viral metagenomes across VERY different environments. Congratulations to all authors especially Amaury Bignaud and @mmarbout.bsky.social for the huge work! #metaHiC

New preprint from the lab: we show that the ability to switch mating type was lost at least 13 times independently in the evolution of S. cerevisiae. At least 27% of isolates are heterothallic with a strong association with polyploidy and heterozygosity www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Big congratulations to Ziv Ben-Moshe, Daishi Shirasaya and Yueming Dong for winning the best posters awards sponsored by the #Yeast journal at the #ISSY38 conference in Warsaw 🎉🎉🎉 #Yeast sponsored prizes in all major yeast conferences in 2025 and will also sponsor prizes at ISSY39 (www.issy39.org)

The special issue will be guest-edited by @pjboynton.bsky.social (Wheaton College Massachusetts, USA) and Pei-Yun Jenny Wu (CNRS Bordeaux, France). You can find more information on the accepted topics and submission instructions by using the QR code below:

We are very happy to announce that #Yeast is launching a new special issue on the International Yeast Meetings of 2025: #ICYGMB32, #pombe2025 and #ISSY38. The deadline for abstract submission is 30th September 2025. Hurry up!!! More info in the thread below. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

New #Yeast paper out from the series #FantasticYeasts!!! @hittingerlab.bsky.social , Dana Opulente & team describe a novel species, Lachancea rosae, isolated from the wild rose Rosa californica 🌹 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#ResultatScientifique 🔎 | Saviez-vous que l’IA peut aider à prévoir comment un organisme réagit à son environnement ? Des scientifiques utilisent la levure comme modèle et réussissent à prédire plus de 200 traits grâce au machine learning ✍️ @litinice.bsky.social 📕 @molsystbiol.org | buff.ly/MliXXKz

Delighted to see @sakshikhaiwal.bsky.social work in print www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.... Huge thank to @univcotedazur.bsky.social for providing extensive support on this project, @pedrobeltrao.bsky.social and Jonas groups for huge help, @cnrs.fr @ircan.bsky.social

@litinice.bsky.social will present “Continental-scale variation of Saccharomyces yeasts” at #ISSY38 in Warsaw 🇵🇱 on Sept 4, 09:00. Don’t miss it.

Improved limonene and geraniol production in Saccharomyces cerevisiae via the modification of the farnesyl pyrophosphate synthetase Erg20p. Read more about it in the latest #Yeast research article by Zeyu Lu, @claudiavickers.bsky.social , Bingyin Peng & team. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Big congratulations to @henrigal.bsky.social (Gregory Batt's lab), Stefano Nenciarini (Duccio Cavalieri's lab) and @rmcgettigan.bsky.social (@mnemon.bsky.social 's lab) for winning the best posters awards sponsored by the #Yeast journal at the ICYGMB32 conference in Paris 🎉🎉🎉 #Yeast2025

The #Yeast2025 meeting has finally reached its end after four days of exciting talks, posters and networking activities. Stay tuned for the upcoming special issue about the conference! More infos will follow in the next coming weeks. 🙂

And now is the end of #yeast2025. Fantastic meeting, superb talks/posters and lots of ideas to bring back to the lab. A lovely community to be part of. In addition, super proud that Ruairi McGettigan, PhD student in the lab, won the best poster award!!! #IGMM #Biolum #proudPI

"Meet the editors" session yesterday at #Yeast2025 in Paris where editors talked about best practices in scientific publishing. Our #Yeast journal was represented by its editor-in-chief @litinice.bsky.social

Great @embo.org keynote lecture from @balazs-papp-lab.bsky.social at the Yeast 2025 in Paris

Don’t miss @litinice.bsky.social presenting “Continental-scale 🌍 variation of Saccharomyces yeasts” 🌳 on Thursday, 24 July at 12:45 PM at #ICYGMB32 in Paris 🇫🇷! @ircan.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social

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!

The third issue of #Yeast of 2025 (Volume 42, Issue 5-7, June 2025) is now out!!! It includes #technoYeast papers about new transformation methods, growth and fermentations, and even a new predacious #FantasticYeasts species 😃 You can browse it at this link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10970061...

The deadline for submissions to the special issue "Yeast in Microbiomes" has been extended to 15 October. We accept manuscripts exploring yeast diversity, interactions, and adaptations in diverse host environments. Hurry up and don't miss this opportunity!!! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

how (yeast) cells re-climb the fitness landscape when they are reprogrammed to a different telomere DNA sequences (human-like)? read the latest from @melaniadangiolo.bsky.social etal , with great help and insights from Eric Gilson, Jonas Warringer and @juliamuenzner.bsky.social (& Ralser lab)

In this new #Yeast research article, Yumiko Oba, Miyuki Higuchi, Naoka Takahashi, Haruko Katsuta, Naoki Koike, Takashi Ushimaru & Yoko Kimura investigated the cooperative role of ATG8 and TORC1 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...