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Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation @kawresearch.bsky.social · 20d

Wild yeasts live in the forests all around us. Yet, little is known about the role they play in ecosystems. They can be used to develop new #beer and bread flavors, but can also serve as a unique model for studying #climatechange
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Wild yeasts as a model for climate research | Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation

Wild yeasts live in the forests all around us. Yet, little is known about the role they play in ecosystems. They can be used to develop new beer and bread flavors, but wild yeast can also serve as a u...

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Linda Horianopoulos @linder-surprise.bsky.social · Sep 5

We often talk about THE whole genome duplication in yeasts, but we find new evidence of additional whole genome duplications in other yeast species!

Check out this preprint led by @kylethedavid.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Discovery of additional ancient genome duplications in yeasts

Whole genome duplication (WGD) has had profound macroevolutionary impacts on diverse lineages, preceding adaptive radiations in vertebrates, teleost fish, and angiosperms. In contrast to the many know...

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Geraldine Butler @yeastpi.bsky.social · Aug 8

Dublin airport

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Geraldine Butler @yeastpi.bsky.social · Aug 7

Hmm
N: Tromso
E: Brisbane
W: Vancouver Island
S: Melbourne

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DjuranovicLab at Brown University RNA Center @djuranoviclab.bsky.social · Aug 5

Our RAPPL purification of ribosomes and associated material is out. I am really proud of this study in collaboration primary with Pavlovic-Djuranovic lab, as well as Jovanovic and Hashem Labs. This method aims to replace 60 years old purification of ribosomes by sucrose cushions

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A rapid, simple, and economical method for the isolation of ribosomes and translational machinery for structural and functional studies

Nature Communications - Here, the authors present a method to rapidly isolate actively translating ribosomes in a time- and cost-effective manner using poly-lysine. The method is compatible with a...

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Geraldine Butler @yeastpi.bsky.social · Aug 1

New preprint from lab adding to recent interest in yeast centromeres. There are dramatic changes in structure, but location is conserved www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Centromeres in budding yeasts are conserved in chromosomal location but not in structure.

The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has ‘point’ centromeres, which are much smaller and simpler than centromeres of most other eukaryotes and have a defined DNA sequence. Other yeast taxa have ...

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Research Ireland @researchireland.ie · Jul 18

Research Ireland, on behalf of @deptoffhed.bsky.social, have today launched Global Talent Ireland - a new initiative to attract exceptional mid-career and established researchers from across the globe to Ireland.

For more information visit:
www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob...

Global Talent Ireland - Research Ireland

Global Talent Ireland aims to attract exceptional mid-career and established researchers from across the globe to Ireland. Researchers funded through this programme are required to transfer their rese...

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🧬Jacob L Steenwyk @jlsteenwyk.bsky.social · Jul 10

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

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Geraldine Butler @yeastpi.bsky.social · Jul 8

Really enjoying this series.

Edward Burke @edwardburke.bsky.social · Jul 8

Our own @ucddublin.bsky.social Paul Rouse on The Rest Is History
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The Irish War of Independence: Rise of the IRA (Part 1)

Podcast Episode · The Rest Is History · 22/06/2025 · 1h 7m

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UCD Research @ucdresearch.bsky.social · Jun 10

🧪👩‍🔬This Sat 14 June, 12 scientists will bring their fascinating research to Dublin city centre! #SoapboxScience

Drop by South King St 1-4pm to join them in exploring topics ranging from nematodes & reptiles, to DNA & human health at this FREE event.

ucd.ie/research/new...

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Geraldine Butler @yeastpi.bsky.social · Jun 4

Postdoc position in new area for lab on yeast biodiversity. See www.findapostdoc.com/search/job-d.... Please forward! @ucd-sbbs.bsky.social

PostDoc | Job Details - Postdoctoral fellow level 1 in yeast biodiversity at Conway Institute, University College Dublin

Postdoctoral fellow level 1 in yeast biodiversity at Conway Institute, University College Dublin, listed on FindAPostDoc.com - A jobs site exclusively listing postdoctoral research posts.

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UCD School of Biomolecular & Biomedical Science @ucd-sbbs.bsky.social · May 23

🎉Huge congratulations to Simran Khatri, Stage 3 Pharmacology student,who has been named joint winner of the 2025 Mary Mulvihill Award. Her essay “In Life for Life – A Monologue from the Heart of a Young Researcher,” is a powerful reflection on the ethics of animal research in science.
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Geraldine Butler @yeastpi.bsky.social · May 22

Fantastic!

Amelia Barber @ameliabarberphd.bsky.social · May 22

I am honoured and delighted to join the #CIFAR family as an Azrieli Global Scholar.

Looking forward to working with this fantastic community to tackle complex global challenges through interdisciplinary collaboration!

cifar.ca/cifarnews/20...

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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · May 8

Only one week to go until the abstract submission deadline for Candida and Candidiasis 2025! Make sure to submit your abstract by 15 May 2025 at 23:59 BST. Find out more on our website. microb.io/Candida2025A... #Candida2025

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Norman van Rhijn @normanvanrhijn.bsky.social · May 7

Felt surreal to be live on Sky News Breakfast talking about fungal pathogens and climate change🍄‍🟫🗺️

Hopefully more people will learn about the wonderful (and scary) world of fungi this way

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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · Apr 17

The global fight for science in the face of Trump’s attacks

As Trump takes aim at science and institutions, other nations double down on research and innovation

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Geraldine Butler @yeastpi.bsky.social · Apr 10

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Donate to Lexie and Shreya's Space Settlement Contest mission, organized by Fiona Dockery

Hi - our names are Lexie and Shreya and we are two students fr… Fiona Dockery needs your support for Lexie and Shreya's Space Settlement Contest mission

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Geraldine Butler @yeastpi.bsky.social · Apr 10

Help pupils from Irish schools who won a NASA competition to attend the International Space Development Conference in Florida and showcase their hard work. If you can, please click the link below to donate or share it with others. Thanks for your support!

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Jo Rhodes @drjorhodes.com · Apr 4

Abstract submission for the Candida and Candidiasis conference, held in Berlin 6th-9th October 2025, is open until 15th May: microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...

Candida and Candidiasis 2025

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · Apr 3

The Tariff rate is calculated the same way as the Impact Factor

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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · Apr 2

🔬💎 Exciting news for UCD Professors Oliver Blacque, Peter Haughton, and Eoin Casey, whose projects will receive over €5.3 million in funding from Research Ireland’s Research Infrastructure Programme. www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...

UCD research infrastructure projects receive more than €5.3m in funding

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Geraldine Butler @yeastpi.bsky.social · Mar 26

My mother had diphtheria. She survived the hospitalisation; her younger brother did not. Was common in Dublin, now eliminated.

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · Mar 26

Diphtheria:
Spread by an airborne bacterium, causes sore throat, fever, weakness and lethargy.

Can cause heart inflammation, nerve inflamation, blood poisoning.

About 5-10% people die, with young children more vulnerable.

Now eliminated from many countries.

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In the 1920s, the USA saw 100,000 to 200,000 cases of diphtheria every year, with
13,000 to 15,000 deaths (mostly in children under 5, but also in older adults).
10 Vaccines
were introduced in the 1930s and 1940s (depending on the state) and led to a dramatic
fall in cases and deaths from diphtheria. From 1996 through 2018, 14 total cases of
diphtheria were reported in the United States, an average of less than 1 per year.10 They
were likely imported from a country where vaccines weren’t widely available

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Frank McNally @frankie49.bsky.social · Mar 17

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. Happy St Patrick’s Day. m.youtube.com/watch?v=OCbu...

Danny Boy

YouTube video by Blakwulf

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Geraldine Butler @yeastpi.bsky.social · Mar 7

This was part of a fantastic presentation at ECFG17. HGT in real time! Straight to the lab journal club…

Aaron Vogan @fungage-lab.bsky.social · Mar 7

We did it! We caught Starship #transposons moving between #fungal species in the lab, including between species separated by ~100my. We think Starships are a mediator of HGT in fungi, akin to conjugative elements in bacteria. Check out the preprint. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Illustration depicting the ways in which fungi can exchange genetic material with each other. Starship mediated HGT is confirmed experimentally in this preprint.

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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · Mar 6

💎⛏️ Warmest congratulations to Professor Sarah Gleeson, the newly appointed Director of the iCRAG Research Ireland Centre for Applied Geosciences at University College Dublin.
www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...

Professor Sarah Gleeson named new iCRAG Director

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