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Francisco Cubillos

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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
A QTL analysis from @fcocubillosr.bsky.social lab for natural variation in maltose consumption in Saccharomyces eubayanus (a brewing #yeast 🍻 ) identifies loci associated with differences in maltose metabolism, which carries the transcriptional activator MAL33. More in #GENETICS: 🔗 buff.ly/BoZZutv
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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.
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Francisco Cubillos @fcocubillosr.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
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.
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Francisco Cubillos @fcocubillosr.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
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
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Francisco Cubillos @fcocubillosr.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
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...
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The Southern Hemisphere yeast frontier: from nature dwellers to accomplished fermenters
This mini-review discusses the different yeast species found in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Francisco Cubillos @fcocubillosr.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
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!
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Francisco Cubillos @fcocubillosr.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
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
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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
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
Participants of the 2025 SMBE Satellite Meeting on Molecular Mechanisms of Adaptation and Experimental Evolution
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Yeast Journal @yeast-journal.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
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 🎉🎉🎉
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Francisco Cubillos @fcocubillosr.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
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!
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Francisco Cubillos @fcocubillosr.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
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
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SMBE Chile Adaptation & Evolution Meeting @smbe-chile2025.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
📣 Attention!🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 We’ve extended the scholarship application deadline to June 27th. Don’t miss your chance, submit your application and abstract
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Francisco Cubillos @fcocubillosr.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
🌳🌳 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!
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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/...
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Yeast Posting @yeastpapers.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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....
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Enhancing Yeast Transformation: Achieving up to a Tenfold Increase Through a Single Adjustment in the Lithium Acetate–Polyethylene Glycol Method
In red are the proposed improvements to the classical yeast transformation protocol.
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SMBE Chile Adaptation & Evolution Meeting @smbe-chile2025.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
🚨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🗓️
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Francisco Cubillos @fcocubillosr.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
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
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Yeast Posting @yeastpapers.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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
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SMBE Chile Adaptation & Evolution Meeting @smbe-chile2025.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
🚨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
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
This project will be carried out in collaboration with @fcocubillosr.bsky.social and @litinice.bsky.social
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Yeast Posting @yeastpapers.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
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
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Primrose Boynton @pjboynton.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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...
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.
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Yeast Posting @yeastpapers.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Systematic profiling of subtelomeric silencing factors in budding yeast Full text: academic.oup.com/g3journal/ar... #yeast #saccharomyces #microbiology
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Diethard Mattanovich @dmattanovich.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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!
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Francisco Cubillos @fcocubillosr.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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
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Francisco Cubillos @fcocubillosr.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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
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SMBE Chile 2025
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Francisco Cubillos @fcocubillosr.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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
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Yeast Posting @yeastpapers.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Laboratory yeast strains are highly diverse in lipid metabolism Full text: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #yeast #saccharomyces #microbiology
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Yeast Posting @yeastpapers.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Isolation and characterization of haploid heterothallic beer yeasts Full text: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... #yesat #microbiology #saccharomyces
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Francisco Cubillos @fcocubillosr.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Happy to share this JOVE MS, we provide details on live-tracking maltose metabolism activation in yeast using LUC. We used our ❤️Patagonian Sacch. eubayanus to show how activitation proceeds under beer fermentation 🧐 🍺 @ibiochile.bsky.social @pipemunozg.bsky.social app.jove.com/t/68161/in-viv…
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In Vivo Monitoring of Transcriptional Activity During Metabolic Transition Using a Bioluminescent Reporter in Yeast
Read this JoVE article on In Vivo Monitoring of Transcriptional Activity During Metabolic Transition Using a Bioluminescent Reporter in Yeast
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SMBE Chile Adaptation & Evolution Meeting @smbe-chile2025.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Exciting things ahead—registration for @SMBE_Chile_2025 opens next week 📢 Speaker lineup, fellowships, and more to be announced. Stay tuned for updates on the SMBE Satellite Meeting Chile 2025 Conference in beautiful Puerto Varas, Chile 🌳🗻
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Yeast Posting @yeastpapers.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The rise and shine of yeast optogenetics Full text: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #yeast #saccharomyces #microbiology
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Yeast Posting @yeastpapers.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Commercial Saccharomyces cerevisiae baker’s yeasts: strain redundancy, genome plasticity, and colonization of the sourdough environment and the human body Full text: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #yeast #microbiology #saccharomyces
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Yeast Posting @yeastpapers.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
De novo biosynthesis of cannabinoid and its analogs in Yarrowia lipolytica Full text: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #yeast #microbiology #yarrowia
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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Embracing the systems complexity of microbial ecology and evolution: call for papers #mSystems Editorial by a group of editors, senior editors & editor-in-chief @leonorabit.bsky.social @gilbertjacka.bsky.social @ashley17061.bsky.social @markjmandel.bsky.social journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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Embracing the systems complexity of microbial ecology and evolution: call for papers | mSystems
Microbial ecology and evolution are broad disciplines that seek to understand the underlying processes that drive the diversification, distributions, and dynamics of microbial cells, populations, comm...
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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Microbial inoculants drive disease suppression and rhizosphere modulation for effective management of pepper phytophthora blight Combined B. subtilis and T. harzianum inoculation -in Applied Soil Ecology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Microbial inoculants drive disease suppression and rhizosphere modulation for effective management of pepper phytophthora blight
Peppers (Capsicum annuum L.) are globally important vegetable crops, yet their production is often compromised by diseases like pepper Phytophthora bl…
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Yeast Posting @yeastpapers.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Understanding brewing trait inheritance in de novo Lager yeast hybrids Full text: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... #yeast #microbiology #saccharomyces
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Yeast Posting @yeastpapers.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The 5-Fluorouracil RNA Expression Viewer (5-FUR) Facilitates Interpreting the Effects of Drug Treatment and RRP6 Deletion on the Transcriptional Landscape in Yeast Full text: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #yeast #saccharomyces #microbiology
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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Super interesting review on recent synthetic biology work in yeast (lots of cool ecology and evolution!) journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... @lflarrondo.bsky.social
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A new flavor of synthetic yeast communities sees the light | mBio
The Earth is populated by a huge diversity of organisms, which rarely exist in isolation. Instead, they constantly interact with other biological agents shaping ecosystems and occupying distinct habit...
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
We have a new phylogenomics preprint out with @pflieglerlab.bsky.social and @devinbendixsen.bsky.social on the origin of yeast strains for baking, their origin, and their colonisation of sourdough (and humans! 😱) Let us know what you think!
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
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Yeast Posting @yeastpapers.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Sequence-dependent activity and compartmentalization of foreign DNA in a eukaryotic nucleus Full text: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #yeast #biomol #yeastboology #microbiology
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Sequence-dependent activity and compartmentalization of foreign DNA in a eukaryotic nucleus
In eukaryotes, DNA-associated protein complexes coevolve with genomic sequences to orchestrate chromatin folding. We investigate the relationship between DNA sequence and the spontaneous loading and a...
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Tom Ellis @proftomellis.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
What happens to bacterial genomes when they're cloned into yeast? Do they transcribe, do they get silenced, do they get packaged away from the rest of the DNA? This cool study congrats to the Koszul lab team at Pasteur for this great work. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Sequence-dependent activity and compartmentalization of foreign DNA in a eukaryotic nucleus
In eukaryotes, DNA-associated protein complexes coevolve with genomic sequences to orchestrate chromatin folding. We investigate the relationship between DNA sequence and the spontaneous loading and a...
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Yeast Posting @yeastpapers.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Engineering Saccharomyces cerevisiae for medical applications Full text: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #yeast #yeastbiology #microbiology #molecularbiology :)
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Gilles FISCHER @gillesfischer.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
A very significant step forward for synthetic genomics www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Engineering a genomically recoded organism with one stop codon - Nature
Ochre, a strain of Escherichia coli engineered to have a single stop codon, enables reassignment of four codons for non-degenerate functions, such as incorporation of non-standard amino acids into pro...
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Yeast Posting @yeastpapers.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
32nd International Conference of Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology #yeast2025 📌 #yeast #microbiology #yeastbiology #biomol
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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I am appalled by the ASM's decision to remove DEI content from their website. Here is my email to the American Society for Microbiology, @ASM.org asking them to put everything back as it was. If you are an ASM member, please consider writing them.
Subject: Appalled by the decision to remove DEI content on the ASM website

Dear ASM Leadership,

For over 20 years, I have been a proud member of the ASM, a professional society that not only publishes outstanding microbiology research but also supports diversity, equity, and inclusion within our field.

I am deeply disappointed and angered by ASM’s recent decision to remove online content that highlighted and celebrated non-white, female, and LGBTQ+ scientists. Rather than unquestioningly complying with vague governmental directives to halt and delete inclusion efforts, ASM should have taken a principled stand and kept this content accessible. 

Since ASM is not a federal agency and derives most of its funding from publishing and membership fees, this decision to remove content that so many of us support is both disheartening and perplexing.

I have read ASM’s statement following the recent STAT article, which claims that no content was deleted but is instead "under review." I must ask: under review for what purpose? Will the language be altered? Will key aspects be removed?

I urge ASM to demonstrate integrity and restore the content in its original form.

As BlueSky user Len Kurland worded it nicely, this is the perfect time for Microbial Resistance.


 
Kind regards,

Elisabeth Bik
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Marc Robinson-Rechavi @marcrr.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Scientific societies: please do not advertise X/Twitter to "live tweet" your conferences this year. Prepare now accounts and instructions to use Mastodon and Bluesky.
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Yeast Posting @yeastpapers.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Fermentative yeast diversity at the northern range limit of their oak tree hosts Full text: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #yeast #yeastbiology #microbiology #biomol
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 04/02/2025
Call for Papers: Exploring Eco-Evo Applications in Cancer. This Special Issue aims to explore and cultivate the frontier between ecology and evolution and cancer. The lead editor is Jason Somarelli (Duke). EMPH is the society journal of ISEMPH and I'm the EIC. academic.oup.com/emph/pages/e...
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Exploring Eco-Evo Applications In Cancer
Call for Papers Cancers are essentially large communities of cells, and the individual members act and interact in complex ways. Long-established principles of
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