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Joseph Schacherer
@schacherer.bsky.social
Genetics, genomics and yeast lover
Professor of Genetics, Strasbourg University
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📣 #EMBOEvoEco returns in 2026 to uncover the mechanistic foundations of ecological and evolutionary change!

Keynote lectures will spotlight the ecology and evolution of symbiosis.

Submit your abstract for the EMBO Workshop: https://s.embl.org/eae26-01-bl!
January 13, 2026 at 12:26 PM
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Abstract submission for #Yeast26 is now open! 🍞🍺

Browse abstract submission topics online and start preparing your abstract today.

Topics include disease models & aging, evolution & population genetics, gene regulation, genomics & systems biology, and more!

Learn more: buff.ly/qotaLne
January 16, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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2026 is the 50th anniversary of the Cellular and Molecular Fungal Biology GRC. It will be June 21-26, 2026. Consider attending this is a great meeting if you work in the fungal biology field at genetic / genomic / molecular scale. www.grc.org/cellular-and... 🍄🧬🖥️
January 13, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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Last work of the lab showing that Repeated losses of self-fertility shaped heterozygosity and polyploidy in yeast evolution | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
January 8, 2026 at 8:40 PM
First paper of the year for the HaploTeam, showing how domestication repeatedly reshapes sexual–asexual life cycle trade-offs in yeast, and revealing convergent evolution. Huge kudos to the team, brilliantly led by Jing Hou!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
January 9, 2026 at 6:10 PM
📢 Open PhD position

Phasing polyploid genomes to decipher their phenotypic & adaptive potential

📍 IGBMC - Strasbourg
⏰ Start: Spring
🔍 Profile: MSc in bioinformatics, Python/Bash, R, sequencing data experience a plus.
📩 Application: see below
January 6, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Haploteam christmas dinner 🎄 to celebrate an intense and demanding year, but one punctuated by great successes. What a fantastic team! Thanks to everyone!
December 17, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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🗞️ New preprint from the lab, led by our postdoc Ana Garoña (not on here) in collab with @andreagiometto.bsky.social: “Experimental evolution of cellular miniaturization reveals a mechanism for cell size evolution”, aka: “honey, we shrank the yeasts!” 🎥
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
December 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Don't wait to book your stay at Fungal 2026!
The reservation site for Asilomar Hotel and Conference Grounds is open until January 13, 2026, but spots are filling up fast #Fungal26
genetics-gsa.org/fungal-2026/...
December 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
🧬 Join us at #Yeast26 - Yeast Genetics Meeting!
📍 Asilomar, Pacific Grove, CA
📅 June 13–17, 2026
📝 Abstracts & registration open Jan 5 | Abstracts due March 5
🔗 genetics-gsa.org/yeast-2026/
@genetics-gsa.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
🚨 New preprint! 🚨@haploteam
We built a barcoded collection of 520 natural S. cerevisiae isolates and screened 600+ natural compounds. Six functional response clusters and 100+ GWAS associations reveal how natural variation shapes chemical sensitivity.
🔗 Read the preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202...
Population-scale chemical response revealed by a barcoded yeast collection
Natural genetic variation shapes how microbial populations adapt to environmental and chemical challenges, but scalable approaches to map genotype-phenotype relationships across diverse genetic backgr...
doi.org
December 11, 2025 at 8:34 AM
🚨 PhD opportunity in Strasbourg! 🚨
We’re looking for a motivated PhD student to join the @haploteam within the IMCBio program (PhD-2026-17).
🔗 imcbio-phdprogram.unistra.fr

Please spread the word or contact me if you’re interested!
IMCBio International PhD Program
IMCBio International PhD Program - Application form
imcbio-phdprogram.unistra.fr
November 27, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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Fun new preprint from the lab, headed up by two incredible undergraduate researchers: Using Experimental Evolution to Correct Mother-Daughter Separation Defects in Brewing Yeast. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Using Experimental Evolution to Correct Mother-Daughter Separation Defects in Brewing Yeast
The budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, is the workhorse of the brewing industry. Brewers have domesticated a vast array of different strains with traits that complement the beers they wish to br...
www.biorxiv.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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New preprint with @pyjiang.bsky.social and @kelleyharris.bsky.social! The discovery and patterns of the underlying long-standing mild-effect mutator alleles in S. cerevisiae populations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The discovery and patterns of the underlying long-standing mild-effect mutator alleles in S. cerevisiae populations
Most mutations are neutral or deleterious, and mutator alleles that increase the mutation rate of an organism are considered rare and short-lived. Here, we report a genomic signature consistent with t...
www.biorxiv.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Thrilled to share our latest review! T2T assemblies are reshaping how we study genomic diversity. Pangenomes unlock structural variants, gene presence-absence, and genotype-phenotype relationship, across humans, plants, animals, and fungi.
www.cell.com/cell-genomic...
Dynamics of genome evolution in the era of pangenome analysis
Long-read sequencing and telomere-to-telomere (T2T) assemblies have enabled the generation of pangenomes that capture genetic diversity beyond single reference genomes. This review highlights how T2T ...
www.cell.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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2026 #Yeast #Genetics Meeting is 13–17 June 2026 in Pacific Grove CA. Conference website has invited speakers, abstract submission topics, preliminary schedule, etc. Bookmark the site as additional updates will be published as they become available. #YEAST26

genetics-gsa.org/yeast-2026/
November 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Research briefings in @nature.com about our latest story on large genomic variations and trait diversity!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Yeast genomes show how large genomic variations affect trait diversity
Structural variants have a disproportionately large effect on traits such as growth and gene expression.
www.nature.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Had a great visit to @cicbiogune.bsky.social. Impressive science and a welcoming atmosphere!
October 29, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Nature research paper: From genotype to phenotype with 1,086 near telomere-to-telomere yeast genomes

go.nature.com/4nVsl9z
From genotype to phenotype with 1,086 near telomere-to-telomere yeast genomes - Nature
A newly compiled atlas of species-wide structural variants and gene-based and graph pangenomes derived from highly complete assemblies of genomes from 1,086 natural isolates enable integrative genome-scale studies of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
go.nature.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Very excited to see the final version of our kingdom-scale fungal genome defense manuscript out in @plosbiology.org !

This work has been a major project of @tbadet.bsky.social during his time in our lab.

We hope to stimulate much more exciting work on fungal TEs.

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
October 16, 2025 at 8:46 AM
✨ Latest exciting story of the group in @nature.com. Here, we go beyond SNPs and built a species-wide atlas of genetic variants in yeast. With >1,000 near T2T genomes, we show how large genomic variations affect trait diversity.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
From genotype to phenotype with 1,086 near telomere-to-telomere yeast genomes - Nature
A newly compiled atlas of species-wide structural variants and gene-based and graph pangenomes derived from highly complete assemblies of genomes from 1,086 natural isolates enable integrative genome-...
www.nature.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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The #Yeast26 website is live—start planning your conference attendance now! 🧬

Browse abstract submission topics, key dates, speaker & venue info, details on travel funding, and more: buff.ly/HFIt31b

Bookmark the page to stay updated as new information becomes available!
October 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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new preprint: Ubiquitin is a protein modification linked with degradation but known to regulate other functions. Over 100k ubiquitination sites have been discovered and here we (@julianvangerwen.bsky.social + others) try to prioritize those most critical to the cell www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The functional landscape of the human ubiquitinome
Protein ubiquitination regulates cell biology through diverse avenues, from quality control-linked protein degradation to signaling functions such as modulating protein-protein interactions and enzyme...
www.biorxiv.org
October 9, 2025 at 7:07 AM