#Yeast #Genetics Meeting 2026 is in June - Abstract deadline is TODAY! Submit your abstract, attend the meeting this summer in Pacific Grove, CA at #Asilomar Conference Grounds, a 107-acre protected coastal state park located on the Monterey Peninsula. #Yeast26 #YGM2026 genetics-gsa.org/yeast-2026/
And @groupe-sncf.com to this one 🤣
We have started a project trying to predic the interactions/structures of all yeast protein pairs using an AlphaFold pooling approach. We are making the current dataset open and we welcome collaborations.
www.evocellnet.com/2026/03/mapp...
📢 Reminder: March 5 is the abstract submission deadline for the Yeast Genetics Meeting. Don’t miss the chance to share your work—submit an abstract and encourage colleagues to attend!
genetics-gsa.org/yeast-2026/
Thrilled and honored to be part of the 2026 GSA Award recipient! This honor reflects years of teamwork - huge thanks to everyone who has been part of the #haploteam. Proud to share this with you all! @genetics-gsa.bsky.social
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a headshot of David Botstein
We are deeply saddened to share the news of the passing of David Botstein, a towering figure in modern #genetics and a foundational force behind SGD.
www.yeastgenome.org/blog/in-memo... #yeast #modelOrganism
Sad to learn that David Botstein has passed away. Few people truly shape how you think and do science, and David was definitely one of them. I had a fun and influential time at Princeton with the Botstein, Kruglyak and co gangs. It shaped the way I do science.
www.online-tribute.com/DavidBotstein
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... comparison of commercially available #Saccharomyces #mead yeasts.
Our new preprint w/ @balintnemeth.bsky.social and colleagues compares 13 mead #yeast strains for their phenotype, genome, and presents data on metabolites in experimental mead fermentations.
Finally…
New Perspective!🔥It's fascinating how scientists from different fields but interested in the same question [e.g. genotype-phenoytpe relationship] can have such different perspectives. Here we put in our 2 cents wrt genetic effects being context-dependent, and pheno variation being mostly polygenic
Our paper is now out in Nature:
“Ancient co-option of LTR retrotransposons as yeast centromeres”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A short thread on how retrotransposons helped give rise to yeast point centromeres.
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With @litinice.bsky.social, we built a haploid resource from 33 wild Taiwanese Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains — including some of the most genetically divergent Asian lineages — to bring natural yeast diversity into a genetically tractable framework. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Registration is open for the inaugural GRC conference in the Function of Evolving Systems. Aug 9-14, 2026, Waterville Valley. Truly stellar speaker lineup. Student/postdoc fellowships are available! Please come join us! www.grc.org/function-of-... @joybergelson.bsky.social
New lab preprint - Common and rare variant studies for the same trait identify different genes and here Diederik Laman Trip developed a protein network AI enconding to investigate if traits studied by different approaches converge on the same molecular pathways
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Excited to announce our latest publication in reporting evidence for three (3!) new whole genome duplications (WGDs) in yeasts. Scientists have often wondered why WGD is so rare in fungi, it turns out we may just not have been looking hard enough! 🧪 🍄 🧬
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Expressions of interest: Director at MPI EvolBio (f/m/d) — We invite expressions of interest from distinguished scientists in evolutionary biology with a bold, long-term research vision that complements our Institute. More information: www.evolbio.mpg.de/3856225/Dire...
✨ Latest exciting story of the group in @nature.com. Here, we go beyond SNPs and built a species-wide atlas of genetic variants in yeast. With >1,000 near T2T genomes, we show how large genomic variations affect trait diversity.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📣 #EMBOEvoEco returns in 2026 to uncover the mechanistic foundations of ecological and evolutionary change!
Keynote lectures will spotlight the ecology and evolution of symbiosis.
Submit your abstract for the EMBO Workshop: https://s.embl.org/eae26-01-bl!
Abstract submission for #Yeast26 is now open! 🍞🍺
Browse abstract submission topics online and start preparing your abstract today.
Topics include disease models & aging, evolution & population genetics, gene regulation, genomics & systems biology, and more!
Learn more: buff.ly/qotaLne
Flier for conference with list of name of speakers and discussion leaders, Title for conference "Evolutionary Perspectives of Metabolic, Cellular and Genomic Diversity in Fungi", 50th Anniversary Conference Chairs: Bridget Barker & Elaine Bignell. held June 20-21 GRS, June 21-26, GRC. URL https://www.grc.org/cellular-and-molecular-fungal-biology-conference/2026/ and list of speakers names.
2026 is the 50th anniversary of the Cellular and Molecular Fungal Biology GRC. It will be June 21-26, 2026. Consider attending this is a great meeting if you work in the fungal biology field at genetic / genomic / molecular scale. www.grc.org/cellular-and... 🍄🧬🖥️
article from @gillesfischer.bsky.social echoing
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Last work of the lab showing that Repeated losses of self-fertility shaped heterozygosity and polyploidy in yeast evolution | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
First paper of the year for the HaploTeam, showing how domestication repeatedly reshapes sexual–asexual life cycle trade-offs in yeast, and revealing convergent evolution. Huge kudos to the team, brilliantly led by Jing Hou!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#Yeast #Genetics Meeting abstract submission and registration sites are open! Abstracts due March 5!
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📢 Open PhD position
Phasing polyploid genomes to decipher their phenotypic & adaptive potential
📍 IGBMC - Strasbourg
⏰ Start: Spring
🔍 Profile: MSc in bioinformatics, Python/Bash, R, sequencing data experience a plus.
📩 Application: see below
Haploteam christmas dinner 🎄 to celebrate an intense and demanding year, but one punctuated by great successes. What a fantastic team! Thanks to everyone!
🗞️ New preprint from the lab, led by our postdoc Ana Garoña (not on here) in collab with @andreagiometto.bsky.social: “Experimental evolution of cellular miniaturization reveals a mechanism for cell size evolution”, aka: “honey, we shrank the yeasts!” 🎥
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Don't wait to book your stay at Fungal 2026!
The reservation site for Asilomar Hotel and Conference Grounds is open until January 13, 2026, but spots are filling up fast #Fungal26
genetics-gsa.org/fungal-2026/...
🧬 Join us at #Yeast26 - Yeast Genetics Meeting!
📍 Asilomar, Pacific Grove, CA
📅 June 13–17, 2026
📝 Abstracts & registration open Jan 5 | Abstracts due March 5
🔗 genetics-gsa.org/yeast-2026/
@genetics-gsa.bsky.social
🚨 New preprint! 🚨@haploteam
We built a barcoded collection of 520 natural S. cerevisiae isolates and screened 600+ natural compounds. Six functional response clusters and 100+ GWAS associations reveal how natural variation shapes chemical sensitivity.
🔗 Read the preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202...
