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Gaowen Liu

@gaowen.bsky.social
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PI in SIAT, big fan of yeast genome evolution research

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Sophie G Martin @sophiemartinlab.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Super excited that this story by @borissieber.bsky.social is now on BioRxiv! For decades, we thought there was no MAPK scaffold for the ERK-like cascade that promotes sexual reproduction in fission yeast ... until Boris found it ! See the thread 👇 and enjoy the paper! doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Gaowen Liu @gaowen.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
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. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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.
https://www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2025.09.26.678705v1
Thrilled to finally share this seven-year story—a journey that began during my postdoc in Sophie’s lab and continued for four more years as I built my own lab in Shenzhen.
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