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Raffaele Nicastro
@raffaelenicastro.bsky.social
Yeast, Spice, and Everything Nice.
Associate Professor at the University of Limerick.
Opinions are my own, that's why they're bad.
Just landed in Paris to attend once again my favourite conference, ICYGMB #yeast2025 . If you're around and want to chat about anything yeasty, don't be shy! Ah, also come to check out my poster on Tuesday!
July 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM
🚨New paper alert📰
Out now on
@cp-cellreports.bsky.social: Tco89, an understudied TORC1 subunit in yeast, keeps upstream regulators and TORC1 together. Moreover, TORC1 controls Tco89 stability -> Spatial regulation through multisite phosphorylation!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
TORC1 autonomously controls its spatial partitioning via the Rag GTPase tether Tco89
The eukaryotic target of rapamycin complex 1 (TORC1) kinase is a homeostatic regulator of growth, integrating nutritional cues at the endolysosomal co…
www.sciencedirect.com
May 13, 2025 at 9:51 AM
So it begins. #teaching #academia
March 10, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Reposted by Raffaele Nicastro
YEAST2025: 32nd International Conference on #Yeast #Genetics and Molecular #Biology

Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
ICYGMB32, July 21-24, 2025

premc.org/yeast2025/
February 5, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Reposted by Raffaele Nicastro
Giving to SGD just got easier! We now accept donations by credit card with this form: give.stanford.edu. Select ‘Other Stanford Designation’ under ‘Direct your gift’ & in the ‘Other’ box, add: Saccharomyces Genome Database-Account:GHJKO, Genetics:WAZC. Thanks for your support!
January 30, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Following a mandatory Research Integrity course, I stumbled upon this definition of what's a predatory journal: "A predatory journal is any journal that prioritises profit over science and knowledge"
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a stuffed monkey is wearing a blue shirt and talking on a phone .
ALT: a stuffed monkey is wearing a blue shirt and talking on a phone .
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January 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM