Primrose Boynton
@pjboynton.bsky.social
Environmental yeast ecology and evolution! I love model and non-model organisms, and single-celled and filamentous fungi alike. I love R! Assistant Professor at Wheaton College, Massachusetts and senior editor of Yeast, but my posts are my own. she/her
Just sent this to the Biological Data Analysis students and told them they could use it in their final projects 😆
November 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Just sent this to the Biological Data Analysis students and told them they could use it in their final projects 😆
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The special issue will be guest-edited by @pjboynton.bsky.social (Wheaton College
Massachusetts, USA) and Pei-Yun Jenny Wu (CNRS
Bordeaux, France).
You can find more information on the accepted topics and submission instructions by using the QR code below:
Massachusetts, USA) and Pei-Yun Jenny Wu (CNRS
Bordeaux, France).
You can find more information on the accepted topics and submission instructions by using the QR code below:
September 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The special issue will be guest-edited by @pjboynton.bsky.social (Wheaton College
Massachusetts, USA) and Pei-Yun Jenny Wu (CNRS
Bordeaux, France).
You can find more information on the accepted topics and submission instructions by using the QR code below:
Massachusetts, USA) and Pei-Yun Jenny Wu (CNRS
Bordeaux, France).
You can find more information on the accepted topics and submission instructions by using the QR code below:
AI slop is making it harder for me to find useful information. Here's the ScienceDirect overview of "Fungal Metabolism":
August 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
AI slop is making it harder for me to find useful information. Here's the ScienceDirect overview of "Fungal Metabolism":
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I’m looking for folks to send me specimens of golden oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus citrinopileatus) collected from natural areas all over North America. I need specimens from everywhere other than Wisconsin: 2/n
pringlelab.github.io/gom_communit...
pringlelab.github.io/gom_communit...
Pringle Lab UW-Madison
pringlelab.github.io
August 12, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I’m looking for folks to send me specimens of golden oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus citrinopileatus) collected from natural areas all over North America. I need specimens from everywhere other than Wisconsin: 2/n
pringlelab.github.io/gom_communit...
pringlelab.github.io/gom_communit...
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We have an opening for postdoctoral training! Please apply by 15th August 2025 for full consideration. Here is the ad: hittinger.genetics.wisc.edu/People/Join/...
hittinger.genetics.wisc.edu
July 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
We have an opening for postdoctoral training! Please apply by 15th August 2025 for full consideration. Here is the ad: hittinger.genetics.wisc.edu/People/Join/...
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Are you an early-career biologist or ecologist who would benefit from an invited seminar? Would you like to come to UMaine next fall or spring to give a talk? Leave a brief comment with some info about what you do. I'm co-hosting our seminar series again, and am filling out our rosters.
July 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Are you an early-career biologist or ecologist who would benefit from an invited seminar? Would you like to come to UMaine next fall or spring to give a talk? Leave a brief comment with some info about what you do. I'm co-hosting our seminar series again, and am filling out our rosters.
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@pjboynton.bsky.social advertises our upcoming special issue about the #Yeast2025 conference in Paris
July 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
@pjboynton.bsky.social advertises our upcoming special issue about the #Yeast2025 conference in Paris
Hi Friends, what's a HELPFUL way of responding to someone who brags that they don't vote?
I encountered someone IRL who did this yesterday (a stranger), and couldn't think of a productive response
I encountered someone IRL who did this yesterday (a stranger), and couldn't think of a productive response
May 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Hi Friends, what's a HELPFUL way of responding to someone who brags that they don't vote?
I encountered someone IRL who did this yesterday (a stranger), and couldn't think of a productive response
I encountered someone IRL who did this yesterday (a stranger), and couldn't think of a productive response
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Still working on that #ASMicrobe poster? This is your yearly reminder to write microorganism names correctly: genus is capitalized, species is not, and the whole thing should be italicized. You’re welcome @asm.org #Microbe2025 #ClinMicro #ASMMicrobe
May 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Still working on that #ASMicrobe poster? This is your yearly reminder to write microorganism names correctly: genus is capitalized, species is not, and the whole thing should be italicized. You’re welcome @asm.org #Microbe2025 #ClinMicro #ASMMicrobe
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Want to know more about the ecology of wild yeasts, their association with oak trees, temperature, and rainfall? Read the latest by @chloehbk.bsky.social and @javo-pinto.bsky.social
First paper of my postdoc is out:
"Fermentative Yeast Diversity at the Northern Range Limit of their Oak Tree Host" - fun collab to study yeasts in my host country ft. JP, AT, MF and RS!
dx.doi.org/10.1111/1758...
Special thanks to @stelkens.bsky.social - also for the celebratory chocolate cake!
"Fermentative Yeast Diversity at the Northern Range Limit of their Oak Tree Host" - fun collab to study yeasts in my host country ft. JP, AT, MF and RS!
dx.doi.org/10.1111/1758...
Special thanks to @stelkens.bsky.social - also for the celebratory chocolate cake!
May 24, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Want to know more about the ecology of wild yeasts, their association with oak trees, temperature, and rainfall? Read the latest by @chloehbk.bsky.social and @javo-pinto.bsky.social
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In the latest #Yeast research article of the series #FantasticYeasts, Pei-Jie Han, Feng-Yan Bai & team describe a new yeast species isolated from a Chinese forest: Saccharomycopsis yichangensis, that can prey on Saccharomyces cerevisiae and other yeasts 😲
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Saccharomycopsis yichangensis sp. nov., a Novel Predacious Yeast Species Isolated From Soil
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 ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 22, 2025 at 9:21 AM
In the latest #Yeast research article of the series #FantasticYeasts, Pei-Jie Han, Feng-Yan Bai & team describe a new yeast species isolated from a Chinese forest: Saccharomycopsis yichangensis, that can prey on Saccharomyces cerevisiae and other yeasts 😲
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Inquiry deadline TOMORROW!
Excellent opportunity for Palestinian 🇵🇸 students looking to pursue Bachelor/Master degrees
- 97 full scholarships across 37 Italian universities
- Covers fees, housing, meals, health insurance
- €12,000/year average scholarship
Inquiry deadline is May 23
Links below, please circulate widely!
- 97 full scholarships across 37 Italian universities
- Covers fees, housing, meals, health insurance
- €12,000/year average scholarship
Inquiry deadline is May 23
Links below, please circulate widely!
May 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Inquiry deadline TOMORROW!
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Every now again it’s useful to repeat advice about accessing papers that are behind a paywall that excludes you. Email the author. My estimate is that 90% of academics are so thrilled that a living, breathing, possibly even reading, person shows interest that they will swiftly send you a copy.
May 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Every now again it’s useful to repeat advice about accessing papers that are behind a paywall that excludes you. Email the author. My estimate is that 90% of academics are so thrilled that a living, breathing, possibly even reading, person shows interest that they will swiftly send you a copy.
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When I was younger, I believed that if I didn't understand a piece of writing, the fault was likely my own, and I needed to improve my thinking or reading skills. What I've learned since then is that many influential or acclaimed thinkers are just not very good writers.
April 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
When I was younger, I believed that if I didn't understand a piece of writing, the fault was likely my own, and I needed to improve my thinking or reading skills. What I've learned since then is that many influential or acclaimed thinkers are just not very good writers.
This is very bad news.
California reports sharp rise in Valley fever cases for first three months of 2025
California reports sharp rise in Valley fever cases for first three months of 2025
Weather patterns, construction activity and wildfires can all play a role in outbreaks of Valley fever, caused by inhaling a fungus.
www.latimes.com
April 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
This is very bad news.
I completely agree with everything the crab museum folks say here about dragging biology into judging trans and nonbinary people. Thank you!
This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
April 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I completely agree with everything the crab museum folks say here about dragging biology into judging trans and nonbinary people. Thank you!
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Women in the UK face being banned from female toilets and other spaces. This is a disgusting assault on human rights and female dignity.
Share if you agree!!
Share if you agree!!
April 19, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Women in the UK face being banned from female toilets and other spaces. This is a disgusting assault on human rights and female dignity.
Share if you agree!!
Share if you agree!!
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New post doc opportunity in our team at Kiel University in the north of Germany. We are looking for a motivated molecular biologists to unravel plant-microbe interactions in grasses. Please see: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/...
More to our research and group here: www.environmental-genomics.de
More to our research and group here: www.environmental-genomics.de
Aktuelle Ausschreibungen
Aktuelle Ausschreibungen
www.uni-kiel.de
April 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
New post doc opportunity in our team at Kiel University in the north of Germany. We are looking for a motivated molecular biologists to unravel plant-microbe interactions in grasses. Please see: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/...
More to our research and group here: www.environmental-genomics.de
More to our research and group here: www.environmental-genomics.de
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...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
March 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Hi everyone! "Yeast" is looking for its next journal cover for the upcoming 2025 issues. If you have beautiful yeast images that you would like to see on our front cover, please send them to
YEAST@wiley.com
Have a nice day 🙂
YEAST@wiley.com
Have a nice day 🙂
February 28, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Hi everyone! "Yeast" is looking for its next journal cover for the upcoming 2025 issues. If you have beautiful yeast images that you would like to see on our front cover, please send them to
YEAST@wiley.com
Have a nice day 🙂
YEAST@wiley.com
Have a nice day 🙂
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Join the second Evolutionary Rescue workshop at the Max Planck Institute, Plon, Germany from June 30 to July 3, 2024. Registration is free until March 15. More info: https://workshops.evolbio.mpg.de/event/128/. #workshop
Evolutionary Rescue - bridging the gap between theory and experiments
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...
workshops.evolbio.mpg.de
March 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Join the second Evolutionary Rescue workshop at the Max Planck Institute, Plon, Germany from June 30 to July 3, 2024. Registration is free until March 15. More info: https://workshops.evolbio.mpg.de/event/128/. #workshop
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Curious of what's in your miso soup? In the latest research article of the series #BuddingTopics , Tomoo Ogata & collegues explore the genomic structures of haploid and allodiploid Zygosaccharomyces strains isolated from miso.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Insights Into the Genome Structure of Natural Hybrid Zygosaccharomyces sp. Yeasts Isolated From Miso
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...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 25, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Curious of what's in your miso soup? In the latest research article of the series #BuddingTopics , Tomoo Ogata & collegues explore the genomic structures of haploid and allodiploid Zygosaccharomyces strains isolated from miso.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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In the latest review of the series #ecoYeast , @mrtrni.bsky.social , @lumoralesr.bsky.social & collegues describe the yeasts associated with agave fermentations and how they adapted to live in this challenging environment
Agave fermentations not only produce mezcal and tequila; they are also natural laboratories of microbial evolution. We explore how yeasts thrive in this ecosystem. Had a great time working on this with @lumoralesr.bsky.social @yeast-journal.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Thriving in Adversity: Yeasts in the Agave Fermentation Environment
Three key players interacting in the agave fermentation environment: humans, agave plants, and microbes. Human selection of agaves with specific traits, combined with fermentation practices, may have...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
In the latest review of the series #ecoYeast , @mrtrni.bsky.social , @lumoralesr.bsky.social & collegues describe the yeasts associated with agave fermentations and how they adapted to live in this challenging environment
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ISME supports students and postdocs to further develop their academic knowledge and skills in a host institution outside of their country of study. Submit your application by 31 March 2025.
🔗https://isme-microbes.org/isme-scholar-mobility-fund-call-for-applications/
#MicrobialEcology #microbes
🔗https://isme-microbes.org/isme-scholar-mobility-fund-call-for-applications/
#MicrobialEcology #microbes
February 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
ISME supports students and postdocs to further develop their academic knowledge and skills in a host institution outside of their country of study. Submit your application by 31 March 2025.
🔗https://isme-microbes.org/isme-scholar-mobility-fund-call-for-applications/
#MicrobialEcology #microbes
🔗https://isme-microbes.org/isme-scholar-mobility-fund-call-for-applications/
#MicrobialEcology #microbes