We made a new lager beer! "Indomitus" for wild and untamed. Brewed with a wild yeast strain from Patagonia! This is the result of a super fun collaboration (and lots of hard work) with Francisco Cubillos in Chile (@fcocubillosr.bsky.social) and Andrés Furukawa at the Nils Oscar Brewery in Sweden.
After many attempts, we finally managed to hold a fantastic lab retreat with PhD students, postdocs, young PIs, and former lab members.
Great discussions, honest conversations, and real trust-building. Many thanks to @embo.org for supporting this community-building experience.
Excellent experience at the @embo.org Sectorial Meeting on Evolution. Cozy talks on chalk talk format together with different motivated colleagues, getting feedback and super nice conversations. Had the chance to invite the junior PI @pablo-villa.bsky.social Loved the experience! EMBO
We just joined Southern Hemisphere efforts and co-authored a review on yeast research from this side of the world 🌎 Turns out, there’s a lot to tell—and much more to come! Huge thanks to Varela’s team and @pablo-villa.bsky.social for the great collaboration 🍻
academic.oup.com/femsyr/artic...
Super busy and super fruitful teaching week at the @embo.org PhD Course in Chile 2025. big challenge for many of us, but super proud of the students who got engaged in English across the different modules. 👏🏻 for the trainers as well.
PS: also 👏🏻👏🏻 to those involved in the Lab Leadership course!
We had the best scientific time! Thanks @official-smbe.bsky.social for making this happen. We’ll try to repeat this in the future. Stay put! @smbe-chile2025.bsky.social
Participants of the 2025 SMBE Satellite Meeting on Molecular Mechanisms of Adaptation and Experimental Evolution
The SMBE Satellite Meeting in Puerto Varas, Chile, was a resounding success!
The meeting brought together >70 researchers from different continents for 3 days of inspiring science, vibrant discussion, and genuine community building.
Congratulations to the organization!
@smbe-chile2025.bsky.social
Big congratulations to Dilanaz Arisan (@rquatrini.bsky.social 's lab) and Pablo Quintrel (@fcocubillosr.bsky.social 's lab) for winning the best posters awards sponsored by the #Yeast journal at the @smbe-chile2025.bsky.social conference in Puerto Varas 🎉🎉🎉
We had an amazing @official-smbe.bsky.social satellite meeting in Puerto Varas. Great science, colleagues & Patagonian experience. Thanks the organizers @pablo-villa.bsky.social et al & SMBE for putting this together!
No te quedes fuera del @EMBO PhD course a realizarse en Chile entre el 13-24 de Octubre 2025 en Santiago. Becas para estudiantes de regiones disponibles.
+ info
meetings.embo.org/event/embo-phd…
Favor difundir entre estudiantes de Doc!!
@ibiochile.bsky.social
📣 Attention!🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
We’ve extended the scholarship application deadline to June 27th.
Don’t miss your chance, submit your application and abstract
Would you like to make it to both?? Think about it!!!
🌳🌳 big sampling days in Australia hunting yeast in Nothofagus forests together w/ @cristianvarela and @katehowell Great southern hemisphere collaboration to make sense of yeast ecologyon this side of the world!
And now, we also have a 2-year postdoc position in the Stelkens Lab! 🧪 If you are interested in parallel evolution, genomics, yeast, and climate adaptation, this could be for you! Please apply through U Stockholm's job platform here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Enhancing Yeast Transformation: Achieving up to a Tenfold Increase Through a Single Adjustment in the Lithium Acetate–Polyethylene Glycol Method
Full text: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
🚨Speaker Alert 🚨
We’re excited to welcome
@schacherer.bsky.social from the University of Strasbourg as a speaker!
Join us for the @official-smbe.bsky.social Satellite Meeting Molecular Mechanisms of Adaptation and Experimental Evolution 🧬
Puerto Varas, Chile 🗻🌳
October 6-8, 2025🗓️
Hahahah not sure about that, but certainly curious about what we find!! Maybe Saccharomyces fischerensis!
Great experience this week at #SarahKnight’s lab in NZ sampling the local beech forest (Nothofagus relative’s), & giving a Departamental seminar to share our findings and common grounds between Chile & NZ. So much in common!! Yeast 💪🏽💪🏽🌳🌳 @ibiochile.bsky.social
Fermentative and metabolic screening of candidate yeast strains hybridisable with Saccharomyces cerevisiae for beer production optimisation
Full text: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#yeast #microbiology #saccharomyces
🚨Exciting Update 🚨
We’re thrilled to announce Antonis Rokas from
@rokaslab.bsky.social as our confirmed speaker!
Join us for the @official-smbe.bsky.social Satellite Meeting Molecular Mechanisms of Adaptation and Experimental Evolution 🧬
Puerto Varas, Chile 🌳🗻
October 6th - 8th, 2025
This project will be carried out in collaboration with @fcocubillosr.bsky.social and @litinice.bsky.social
Antifreeze proteins produced by Antarctic yeast from the genus Glaciozyma as cryoprotectants in food storage
full text: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
#yeast #microbiology #saccharomyces
Schematic of lab and field experiments testing for yeast fitness with and without killer viruses. Panel A depicts a classical fitness assay in which a yeast with a virus (or cured of the virus) is cultured with a viral toxin-resistant reference strain and the number of doublings is compared between the two yeasts. Panel B diagrams field chambers made of 12-ml tubes in which a membrane holding yeast cells lines the mouth of the tube; the tube is then buried next to a tree. Panel C depicts a field experiment with the chambers. Yeasts hosting (or cured of) viruses are mixed with virus toxin-resistant reference cells, put onto chamber membranes, and incubated in soil for fifteen days. The relative ratios of tested and reference strains are then used as a proxy for fitness.
Check out my latest paper on fitness costs and benefits of hosting a killer virus if you're a yeast in the forest!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Systematic profiling of subtelomeric silencing factors in budding yeast
Full text: academic.oup.com/g3journal/ar...
#yeast #saccharomyces #microbiology
And tasty!!!
Spoiler alert:
In a few days we will announce around 30 PhD positions for the Cluster of Excellence Circular Bioengineering, one of them in my lab at @bokuvienna.bsky.social on synthetic single carbon pathways in yeast. Stay tuned!
This week we’ve been in Bariloche (ARG) sharing the main results on our novel lager yeasts & whisky prototype. Happy to be here thanks to @embo.org 😃🌳 for the @embo.org global investigator lecture at the IWOBY conference. @ibiochile.bsky.social
Registration is open for @official-smbe.bsky.social
satellite meeting in Chile. We have a great lineup of speakers for topics in Microbial ExpEvo and Adaptation 👏👏
Please consider attending. Plenty of scholarships for students and postdocs!
Register here: 👇
smbechile2025.cl
@ibiochile.bsky.social
Próximo Martes 11/3 a las 11h00 tendremos un EMBO Webinar acerca de financiamientos EMBO para Chile, particularmente EMBO Global Investigator. Nos vemos!!
@embo.org @ibiochile.bsky.social
Hola! 😅 Can I just add something? ‘The Holarctic S. eubayanus are poor beer makers’ since they lack the MAL genes. Patagonian S.e. have multiple MAL copies and make ‘average’ beers 😂. Glad to see S. eubayanus talks!
