Harnessing Brazilian microbial diversity, comprehensive phenotypic screening of 79 yeast isolates identified non-conventional strains with superior multi-stress tolerance and metabolic versatility co...

Nature Microbiology - Injecting bacteria into fungal hosts establishes stable endosymbiosis

Earlier this year, three people were hospitalized after eating poisonous mushrooms.

Saccharomycopsis yichangensis sp. nov. occurs in soil from a subtropical forest in central China. This novel species is homothallic and produces asci containing four spheroidal ascospores, which can ...

Aktuelle Ausschreibungen

IMPORTANT DATES Workshop: 30 June – 3 July, 2025 The workshop starts on June 30 at 5pm and ends on July 3 in the evening. Pre-school: June 29 (afternoon) & June 30, 2025 Registration deadline: 15 March, 2025 Notification of acceptance: 22 March, 2025 OVERVIEW Evolutionary rescue is a topic of great interest, from medicine to agriculture to conservation, and from natural observations to experiments to theory. In 2023, we organised a workshop on ‘Mathematical models of evolutionary rescue’. In...

Existing miso and soy sauce yeasts are natural hybrids between Z. rouxii and Z. rouxii-related species. Analysis of existing miso and soy sauce yeasts revealed that there are differences in the ITS a...