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/...

In the latest #Yeast research article, Erik Y. Bjurström, Praphapan Lasin, Daniel Brunnsåker, Ievgeniia A. Tiukova & Ross D. King investigate the effects of TDA1 deficiency on gene expression during the fermentation and the respiratory phases of growth. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Nikola Tesla était un ingénieur de génie né de parents serbes orthodoxes, à Smiljan, en 1856. Rendons lui justice en rappelant que ce n'est pas une marque de voitures ! 👉 https://l.sciencesetavenir.fr/CIu

Excited to share the first paper of my PhD with @marcofumasoni.bsky.social ‬, now published in @molsystbiol.org 🥳! We explored how nutrient levels influence adaptation to perturbed DNA replication. Here’s what we learned 🧵👇 www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

🎉 The final Yeast 2025 conference program is now live! Check out the full list of oral presentations and posters. We can't wait to share the science (and more 🍷) with you! 🔗 premc.org/yeast2025/ 🔗 yeast2025.exordo.com/programme/at... #Yeast2025

📢 New paper out in Mol Syst Biol! During the development of WT yeast colonies, small cell subpopulations experience transient, high-intensity mutational bursts. Such hypermutation episodes are modulated by the DNA damage tolerance pathway 🧬 🔗 www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

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In the latest #Yeast research article of the series #FantasticYeasts, Pei-Jie Han, Feng-Yan Bai & team describe a new yeast species isolated from a Chinese forest: Saccharomycopsis yichangensis, that can prey on Saccharomyces cerevisiae and other yeasts 😲 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🗞️New preprint out! Together with Adolfo Alsina and Pablo Sartori (both not on here), we combined experiments and theory to extract detailed information on DNA replication dynamics from simple DNA content flow cytometry data. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Send us your papers celebrating yeasts!

Spcg preprint with Bertotti lab and @litinice.bsky.social. It took >5y but proud to say it works—and we know why and how. μSeq infers mutation rates from deep sequencing of single clonal expansions, >10x faster than MALs. Validated in cancer organoids and in yeast. tinyurl.com/4jmk3tkh

New spcg&collabs paper, by Rossana Droghetti: Model for E. coli dynamical balance of amino acid pools, ppGpp signaling, and ribosome allocation to regulate growth, explaining observed damped oscillatory feedback in response to nutrient shifts 🧫 #GrowthLaws www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New spcg preprint with Bokinsky lab (Milan Lacassin), by Andrea Ripamonti. We model the competition for transcriptional resources, and explain new data on E. coli’s second messengers ppGpp & cAMP reshaping gene expression globally. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The deadline for submissions to the special issue "Yeast in Microbiomes" has been extended to 15th July. 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...

We are delighted to introduce @melaniadangiolo.bsky.social as a new member of our editorial board. Melania will be in charge of Communications & Engagement for the #Yeast journal. Welcome aboard!!! 😀 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

I spent a very nice couple of days at the "Hidden Cell, Dark Genome" conference in Edinburgh last week ... and even got to win a supercute eukaryotic cell 🙂 Thanks to the organisers for arranging the meeting!

The second issue of #Yeast of 2025 (Volume 42, Issue 4, April 2025) is now out! It includes papers about mitochondria and ROS, bipolar budding and the ecology of Brazilian yeasts 😀 You can browse it at this link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10970061...

In the latest research article of the series #technoYeast, Han-Ying Jhuang, Dimitra Aggeli & Gregory Lang estimate the efficiency of transformation vs cytoduction in introducing plasmids into #yeast, and show that cytoduction is significantly more efficient. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

32nd International Conference on Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology - Paris - July 21-24, 2025 📢 With nearly 400 abstracts submitted, the #Yeast2025 conference promises to be rich and exciting! Can't wait to see the latest in yeast research premc.org/yeast2025/

The call for the special issue "Yeast in Microbiomes" is still open until 15 April. We welcome submissions of original research articles and reviews on yeast diversity, interactions, and adaptations in diverse host environments, including the human body. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

In this early view research article of the special issue "Yeast in Microbiomes", Cristobal A. Onetto, Jane McCarthy & Simon A. Schmidt evaluate the performance of Hanseniaspora uvarum in diverse grape juices of varying microbial composition. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

A new link between the ER membrane complex and mitochondria: Modesto Berraquero, Víctor A. Tallada & Juan Jimenez show that deletion of oca3/emc2 in fission yeast leads to mitochondrial dysfunction, but is rescued by the disruption of ergosterol biosynthesis. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

In this latest #Yeast review article, Mathilde Kadouch, Pierre Gaspin, Christelle Marchal, Sabine Castano & Christophe Cullin show that adding sorbitol to the classical lithium acetate transformation protocol can increase efficiency up to 10-fold 😀 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

In the latest early view research article of the series #BuddingTopics, Yun-Qing Li, Qing-Jie Xue, Hui Wang, Ang liu, Long-Yu Zhao & Xiu-Zhen Li investigate the role of YlRax1 and YlRax2 proteins during bipolar budding in the #yeast Yarrowia lipolytica. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Hello everybody! The first issue of #Yeast of 2025 is now out. You can browse it at this link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10970061... We are still looking for a beautiful front cover for the new 2025 issues. If you haven't done it yet, send us your most beautiful yeast images at [email protected] 😀

Some science news to brighten up your timelines ☀️ Our latest work on the modifiers that cause changes in gene essentiality between genetic backgrounds, now on bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... So what did we find?

For other recent research published in #Yeast by the same authors, see: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

In the latest #Yeast research article, Ciro R. Félix, Bruno E. S. Nascimento, Victor Tavares & Melissa F. Landell explore the effects of rain and drought on the diversity of yeasts associated with Bromelia laciniosa's leaves in South America. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

For some general concepts to design carbon conserving pathways in yeasts see our review in @yeast-journal.bsky.social here: doi.org/10.1002/yea....