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Yeast Journal @yeast-journal.bsky.social · 7d

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.

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Sucrose‐Induced Transcriptomic Response in Ogataea polymorpha TBRC 4839 Reveals its Potential for Recombinant Protein Production

Sucrose induction in Ogataea polymorpha triggers a metabolic shift, enhancing carbohydrate metabolism while suppressing amino acid biosynthesis, stress signaling, and cell division. This adaptation o....

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Gaowen Liu @gaowen.bsky.social · 10d

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.
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Yeast Journal @yeast-journal.bsky.social · 12d

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.

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CRISPR/Cas9‐Mediated Construction of a YPS Gene‐Deficient Komagataella phaffii Strain for Enhanced Expression of BIAP Ⅱ

CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genetic modification of a 4-copy Komagataella phaffii strain significantly reduced proteolytic degradation of the target protein BIAP Ⅱ, increasing its final purification yield t...

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Romain Koszul @rkoszul.bsky.social · 19d

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

Martial Marbouty @mmarbout.bsky.social · 19d

You like phages ? In this publication, we use metaHiC and our new version of the MetaTOR pipeline to challenge the traditional view of phages with a narrow host range.
@rkoszul.bsky.social @natmicrobiol.nature.com @cnrs.fr @institutpasteur.bsky.social

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Phages with a broad host range are common across ecosystems - Nature Microbiology

Proximity-ligation-based sequencing from 111 samples and 5 environments reveals that a substantial proportion of phages infect multiple species.

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Gilles FISCHER @gillesfischer.bsky.social · 22d

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
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Repeated losses of self-fertility shaped heterozygosity and polyploidy in yeast evolution

Evolutionary transitions in mating strategy have profound consequences for genetic variation and adaptation. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, mating-type switching is a central feature of the life cycle t...

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Yeast Journal @yeast-journal.bsky.social · 28d

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)

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Yeast Journal @yeast-journal.bsky.social · Sep 8

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:

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Yeast Journal @yeast-journal.bsky.social · Sep 8

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.

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Yeast Call for Papers: International Yeasts Meetings of 2025

Yeast is a microbiology journal for research in the rapidly moving field of yeast biology. We publish the most significant developments in unicellular fungi.

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Yeast Journal @yeast-journal.bsky.social · Sep 2

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 🌹

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Taxogenomic Analysis of a Novel Yeast Species, Lachancea rosae Sp. Nov. F.A., Isolated From the Wild Rose Rosa californica

The discovery, description, and taxogenomic analysis of a novel species of Lachancea revealed correlations between gene content and carbon and nitrogen physiological assays.

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CNRS Biologie @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social · Sep 1

#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
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liti_nice @litinice.bsky.social · Sep 1

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

Predicting natural variation in the yeast phenotypic landscape with machine learning | Molecular Systems Biology

imageimageAn ensemble of phenotypes measured in the genome-sequenced 1,011 S. cerevisiae collection were coupled with genomics and molecular-level data to benchmark machine learning models for quantitative phenotypic predictions at scale. Large-...

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Nicolò Tellini @nicolo-tellini.bsky.social · Sep 1

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

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Yeast Journal @yeast-journal.bsky.social · Jul 28

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.

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Exploiting the Geranylgeranyl‐Pyrophosphate‐Sensing N‐Terminal Domain of HMG‐CoA Reductase 2 to Regulate Farnesyl Pyrophosphate Synthase (Erg20p) for Improved Monoterpene Production in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Dynamic downregulation of the endogenous farnesyl pyrophosphate (FPP) synthase (Erg20p) is crucial to engineer heterologous monoterpene production in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. FPP downstrea...

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Yeast Journal @yeast-journal.bsky.social · Jul 26

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

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Yeast Journal @yeast-journal.bsky.social · Jul 25

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. 🙂

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Fabrice Caudron @mnemon.bsky.social · Jul 24

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

Ruairi McGettigan won the best poster prize at #yeast2025

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Yeast Journal @yeast-journal.bsky.social · Jul 24

"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

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liti_nice @litinice.bsky.social · Jul 23

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

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Nicolò Tellini @nicolo-tellini.bsky.social · Jul 21

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
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Nicolò Tellini @nicolo-tellini.bsky.social · Jul 10

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!

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Yeast Journal @yeast-journal.bsky.social · Jul 8

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:

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Yeast: Vol 42, No 5-7

Yeast is a microbiology journal for research in the rapidly moving field of yeast biology. We publish the most significant developments in unicellular fungi.

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Yeast Journal @yeast-journal.bsky.social · Jul 7

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!!!

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Yeast Call for Papers: Yeast in Microbiomes

Yeast is a microbiology journal for research in the rapidly moving field of yeast biology. We publish the most significant developments in unicellular fungi.

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liti_nice @litinice.bsky.social · Jul 3

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)

Melania D'Angiolo @melaniadangiolo.bsky.social · Jul 3

Superhappy to share the last paper from my PhD in @litinice.bsky.social lab. We evolved yeasts with humanized telomeric repeats and discovered that they adapt through amplification of telomere-binding proteins and inactivation of the DNA damage response.

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The adaptive molecular landscape of reprogrammed telomeric sequences

Telomeric sequences vary across the tree of life and intimately co-evolve with telomere-binding protein complexes. However, the molecular mechanisms allowing organisms to adapt to new telomeric sequen...

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Yeast Journal @yeast-journal.bsky.social · Jul 3

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.

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Cooperative Function of Atg8‐ and TORC1‐Mediated Activities in Yeast

The atg8Δ mutant is sensitive to rapamycin, and both lipidation-dependent and -independent functions of Atg8 are necessary for survival during impaired TORC1 activity. Atg8- and TORC1-mediated functi...

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