New paper out in Yeast: Fellipe de Mello & team established a collection of ecologically diverse Brazilian yeasts and screened their performance in industrially relevant conditions, discovering some species that could be used for industrial applications 🇧🇷 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Screening of Brazilian Isolated Yeasts Reveals Multiple Potential Chassis for Industrial Biotechnology

Harnessing Brazilian microbial diversity, comprehensive phenotypic screening of 79 yeast isolates identified non-conventional strains with superior multi-stress tolerance and metabolic versatility co...

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In the latest Yeast review article, Takashi Hirasawa discusses the Saccharomyces cerevisiae knockout strain collection and its applications in functional genomics studies, biotechnology and human disease research, including its caveats and future prospects. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Yeast Knockout Strain Collection: Driving Functional Genomics, Biotechnological Applications and Human Disease Research

The knockout strain collection of Saccharomyces cerevisiae has served as a valuable resource for functional genomics and yeast-based biotechnology studies. A comprehensive single-gene knockout strain...

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New paper in Yeast: Luciano Gomes Fietto & team studied the mechanisms of stress response in the #yeast Spathaspora passalidarum and compared it to S. cerevisiae, uncovering sequence and structural divergence of #transcription factors between the two species. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Comparative Genomics and Heterologous Complementation Reveal Sequence and Structural Divergence of Selected Transcription Factors From <i>Spathaspora passalidarum</i>

Comparative genomic analyses identified substantial sequence and structural differences between transcription factors from Spathaspora passalidarum and their Saccharomyces cerevisiae counterparts. He...

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Tired of isolating mitochondria from yeast cells? Lizeth Camacho Lopez, Mazzen Eldeeb, Elliana Mohrhardt & Flavia Fontanesi developed CryoBN-PAGE, a new approach to study the mitochondrial OXPHOS system from whole-cell yeast lysates. Read the article here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

CryoBN‐PAGE: A Rapid and Cost‐Effective Method for the Analysis of Yeast Respiratory Complexes and Their Dynamic Organization

We present cryoBN-PAGE, a method that enables blue native polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis analysis of mitochondrial respiratory complexes and supercomplexes directly from whole yeast cells using c...

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Very happy to share a recent preprint from our lab on multidimensional telomere characterization, which combines state-of-art software development and cross-species analysis on #telomere diversity regarding length, variant repeat, and DNA methylation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Multidimensional telomere diversity and inheritance at individual and population scales

Variation in telomere length, sequence composition and epigenetic state influences genome stability, aging and disease, yet its high-resolution characterization across species remains challenging. Her...

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The first written piece of our telomere work. More to come~

Evomics Lab@evomicslab.bsky.social · 2w ago

Very happy to share a recent preprint from our lab on multidimensional telomere characterization, which combines state-of-art software development and cross-species analysis on #telomere diversity regarding length, variant repeat, and DNA methylation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Many congratulations to Rosalie Wouters from Delft University for winning the best poster award sponsored by the #Yeast journal at the 9th Conference on Physiology of Yeasts and Filamentous Fungi @pyff-9.bsky.social in Valencia 🎉🎉🎉 The prize was awarded by our editor-in-chief @litinice.bsky.social

The new #Yeast issue of September 2026 (Volume 43, Number 5) is now out, with three research articles on various topics and two reviews on the use of yeast to study #stress biology and current methods to study #mitochondrial #metabolism and homeostasis 🙂 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Treat biological databases as infrastructure, not projects www.nature.com/articles/d41... We're quietly defunding the infrastructure modern biology runs on. PomBase, FlyBase, HGNC. have faced, or facing, existential funding crises since 2024. Curation expertise, once lost, is difficult to rebuild.

In this review, Chieh-Ping Lin, Alberto Geroldi, Nelly Selem @litinice.bsky.social and @ishengtsai.bsky.social analyse #yeasts in fungal #metabarcoding samples from the GlobalFungi database, revealing distinct patterns of distribution across environments 🍄 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A Global Synthesis of Yeast in Microbiomes

Yeasts are widespread members of microbial communities across terrestrial, aquatic, and host-associated environments, yet they remain underrepresented in microbiome studies due to low abundance and m....

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New review article out in #Yeast: Stefania Francesconi and team developed a new protocol to investigate the mutational patterns of #quiescent #Schizosaccharomyces #pombe cells, revealing a mutational spectrum distinct from that observed during proliferation. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

In the latest #Yeast research article, Thomas Brune and Ralf Kölling investigated Etl1, a new yeast protein with similarity to the ESCRT-III protein Snf7. Etl1 had strong secondary structure similarity with Snf7 and was located in the plasma membrane. 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Identification of Yeast Protein Sequences With Similarity to the ESCRT‐III Protein Snf7

Endosomal sorting complex required for transport (ESCRT-III) is a membrane remodeling complex involved in a large number of cellular processes. It appears to perform an essential function in eukaryot...

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Great collaboration with Dr. Na Liu and Dr. Jun Ma's teams! It was a fun journey to expand our research footprint into cancer-associated microorganisms. Special thanks to @simonemozzachiodi.bsky.social for critically reading our manuscript and providing valuable feedback. 🧬🦠

Evomics Lab@evomicslab.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Glad to see this joint work on nasopharyngeal microbiota culturomics published in #ScienceTranslationalMedicine, featured as a cover story! By building this local bacterial catalog, we characterized a Fusobacterium-Prevotella mutualism in nasopharyngeal tumors. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

❗Latest review article out in the Yeast journal: Bingyin Peng, Masahiro Tominaga, Chengqiang Wang, Robert E. Speight and Jun Ishii discuss the latest advances in the usage of #transposons as tools for genome engineering in #yeasts and filamentous #fungi 🍄🍄🍄 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Transposons as Tools for Future Genome Engineering in Yeasts and Filamentous Fungi

Applications of transposon-based tools for genome engineering in fungi include transposon-mediated mutagenesis and targeted genomic integration.

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Could laboratory evolution of microbes strengthen pollinator resilience to chemical exposure? Happy to share the latest preprint from our lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Fantastic work by @simonemozzachiodi.bsky.social @davidbaracchi.bsky.social @skamrad.bsky.social et al.

Happy to share our story on the impact of #chemicals on #fungi and #pollinators. We started from a broad screening of agrochemicals toxicity and ended up using #laboratoryevolution to mitigate the negative effect of a common pesticide on #pollinators and their #microbiomes. See below Kiran's post 👇🏻

Kiran R. Patil@kiranrpatil.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Could laboratory evolution of microbes strengthen pollinator resilience to chemical exposure? Happy to share the latest preprint from our lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Fantastic work by @simonemozzachiodi.bsky.social @davidbaracchi.bsky.social @skamrad.bsky.social et al.

❗New research article out in #Yeast: Tomoo Ogata, Katsuaki Kuroki and team study the mechanisms of mating-type-specific gene expression in miso and soy sauce Zygosaccharomyces species, with a special focus on the transcription factor Mata2 🍜 🍶 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The new #Yeast issue of July 2026 (Volume 43, Number 4) is now out, with an editorial on the journal's history, two reviews on recent advances in optogenetics and synthetic biology, and two research articles about flocculation and new bioinformatic tools 🙂 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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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/...

Comparative Analysis of Stress Adaptation in the Yeast Microbiome of Cactus

Yeasts and related fungi isolated from cacti or nearby non-cactus plants were characterized phenotypically and genomically, revealing differences that hint at modes of adaptation to the cactus host.

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MichaelMcMurray lab@mcmurraylab.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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/...

Enhanced Production of Recombinant Thermophilic Xylanase X11P in Ogataea polymorpha via In‐Silico Signal Peptide Discovery and Fed‐Batch Fermentation

Genome-wide signal peptide screening identified a novel Ogataea polymorpha α-mating factor-like peptide (FUN_005010) that markedly improved recombinant thermophilic xylanase X11P secretion. Combined ....

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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/...

Genetic Tools in the Nakaseomyces clade for Evolutionary Comparisons of Signal Transduction Pathways

The genus Nakaseomyces provides four species that are closely related but have different characteristics. For example, N. glabratus (formerly known as Candida glabrata) is a common human pathogen, wh...

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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/...

Sugar Metabolisms Altered By Undissociated Forms of Organic Acids Based on the Emergence of [GAR+] Cells in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

The glucose repression system is a mechanism for effective energy acquisition by glucose assimilation in microorganisms. In yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which is known as a prion-like protein [GA...

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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 👋

Jia-Xing Yue (岳家兴)@iamphioxus.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Great to come back to Nice, an ever charming & cozy city that I’ve spent good five years of my life ! Had a lovely reunion with my postdoc advisor @litinice.bsky.social as well as both old & new friends at @ircan.bsky.social. Until next time, à bientôt ~

Great to come back to Nice, an ever charming & cozy city that I’ve spent good five years of my life ! Had a lovely reunion with my postdoc advisor @litinice.bsky.social as well as both old & new friends at @ircan.bsky.social. Until next time, à bientôt ~

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/...

Methods to Study Mitochondrial Metabolism and Homeostasis in Fission Yeast

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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/...

rDNAmine: A New Tool for the Analysis of Long Repetitive Sequences

This work introduces a novel approach for analysing long repetitive genomic sequences, combining a method to isolate large DNA molecules from individual chromosomes. We also describe the bioinformati...

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I have a postdoc position available in my lab. We are exploring post-redox stress recovery in cells. Please share with potential candidates.

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/...

Twenty‐Five Years of the Environmental Stress Response and the Enduring Power of Yeast in Stress Biology

All organisms must be able to sense and respond to adverse environments, especially those that threaten cellular integrity. The age of genomics clarified the breadth and specificity of cellular stres...

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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 ☺️

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 ☺️