Ben Heineike
heineikeb.bsky.social
Ben Heineike
@heineikeb.bsky.social
Nice new paper by Mariella Obermaier in the Ralser Lab to understand interactions between common drugs co-administered with antifungals and antifungals on C. albicans pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40720257/
Non-antifungal medications administered during fungal infections drive drug tolerance and resistance in Candida albicans - PubMed
<span><b>Introduction.</b> Fungal infections are increasingly concerning, particularly in immunocompromised patients. These patients often suffer from comorbidities and receive multiple, non-antifunga...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
August 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Nice work by @maxhaase.bsky.social about the strange history of yeast centromeres - got to see him present it at #yeast2025
July 25, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Reposted by Ben Heineike
It’s out! The evolutionary origins of yeast point centromeres uncovered!

“Ancient co-option of LTR retrotransposons as yeast centromeres”

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Ancient co-option of LTR retrotransposons as yeast centromeres
The evolutionary origins of the genetic point centromere in the brewer's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a member of the order Saccharomycetales, are still unknown. Competing hypotheses suggest that t...
www.biorxiv.org
April 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Reposted by Ben Heineike
NEW pub: The role of metabolism in shaping #enzyme structures over 400 million years. Now out in @nature.com

Super grateful to have played a small role in this project - congrats to lead/corr authors Oliver, Benjamin, and Markus!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#alphafold #evolution #genomics
July 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
A paper I have been working on with Oliver Lemke in the Ralser lab has just come out: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We used predicted structures to gain insight into the evolution of metabolic proteins in yeast.

A bit more in this linked-in post (www.linkedin.com/posts/benjam...).
The role of metabolism in shaping enzyme structures over 400 million years - Nature
By combining structural biology and evolutionary genomics analyses, the evolution of enzymes over 400 million years is shown to be governed by catalytic function, metabolic network architecture, cost ...
www.nature.com
July 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Reposted by Ben Heineike
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)
July 3, 2025 at 10:46 AM