Geraldine Butler
@yeastpi.bsky.social
Prof at University College Dublin. Genetics and microbiology, all things yeast.
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💙💛 Nine UCD projects will share in €34.5 million of funding announced to support “high-risk, high-reward” projects.
Funding under the Research Ireland Frontiers for the Future Programme, seven UCD initiatives are supported through the Projects stream, while two were funded under the Awards stream.
Funding under the Research Ireland Frontiers for the Future Programme, seven UCD initiatives are supported through the Projects stream, while two were funded under the Awards stream.
November 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
💙💛 Nine UCD projects will share in €34.5 million of funding announced to support “high-risk, high-reward” projects.
Funding under the Research Ireland Frontiers for the Future Programme, seven UCD initiatives are supported through the Projects stream, while two were funded under the Awards stream.
Funding under the Research Ireland Frontiers for the Future Programme, seven UCD initiatives are supported through the Projects stream, while two were funded under the Awards stream.
Exciting recognition for UCD undergraduate research!
The @microbiologysociety.org has featured the discovery of 2 new yeast species our students helped uncover:Cyberlindnera hibernica (“of Ireland”)& Barnettozyma discipulorum(“of students”)discovered in Glengarriff Woods🍃📄 🔗 bit.ly/3LiJonn
The @microbiologysociety.org has featured the discovery of 2 new yeast species our students helped uncover:Cyberlindnera hibernica (“of Ireland”)& Barnettozyma discipulorum(“of students”)discovered in Glengarriff Woods🍃📄 🔗 bit.ly/3LiJonn
October 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Exciting recognition for UCD undergraduate research!
The @microbiologysociety.org has featured the discovery of 2 new yeast species our students helped uncover:Cyberlindnera hibernica (“of Ireland”)& Barnettozyma discipulorum(“of students”)discovered in Glengarriff Woods🍃📄 🔗 bit.ly/3LiJonn
The @microbiologysociety.org has featured the discovery of 2 new yeast species our students helped uncover:Cyberlindnera hibernica (“of Ireland”)& Barnettozyma discipulorum(“of students”)discovered in Glengarriff Woods🍃📄 🔗 bit.ly/3LiJonn
October 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Exciting recognition for UCD undergraduate research!
The @microbiologysociety.org has featured the discovery of 2 new yeast species our students helped uncover:Cyberlindnera hibernica (“of Ireland”)& Barnettozyma discipulorum(“of students”)discovered in Glengarriff Woods🍃📄 🔗 bit.ly/3LiJonn
The @microbiologysociety.org has featured the discovery of 2 new yeast species our students helped uncover:Cyberlindnera hibernica (“of Ireland”)& Barnettozyma discipulorum(“of students”)discovered in Glengarriff Woods🍃📄 🔗 bit.ly/3LiJonn
This is great! Straight into the lab journal club folder
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/...
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 1:45 PM
This is great! Straight into the lab journal club folder
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Higher Ed in 2025 is opening your mailbox to see that your institution has sent you:
1. A Center for Teaching and Learning call to integrate AI into your classroom; and
2. An Office of Academic Integrity email encouraging you to crack down on students who use AI to cheat.
1. A Center for Teaching and Learning call to integrate AI into your classroom; and
2. An Office of Academic Integrity email encouraging you to crack down on students who use AI to cheat.
October 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Higher Ed in 2025 is opening your mailbox to see that your institution has sent you:
1. A Center for Teaching and Learning call to integrate AI into your classroom; and
2. An Office of Academic Integrity email encouraging you to crack down on students who use AI to cheat.
1. A Center for Teaching and Learning call to integrate AI into your classroom; and
2. An Office of Academic Integrity email encouraging you to crack down on students who use AI to cheat.
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Wild yeasts live in the forests all around us. Yet, little is known about the role they play in ecosystems. They can be used to develop new #beer and bread flavors, but can also serve as a unique model for studying #climatechange
@stockholm-uni.bsky.social @stelkens.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/mebnw7v5
@stockholm-uni.bsky.social @stelkens.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/mebnw7v5
Wild yeasts as a model for climate research | Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
Wild yeasts live in the forests all around us. Yet, little is known about the role they play in ecosystems. They can be used to develop new beer and bread flavors, but wild yeast can also serve as a u...
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September 19, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Wild yeasts live in the forests all around us. Yet, little is known about the role they play in ecosystems. They can be used to develop new #beer and bread flavors, but can also serve as a unique model for studying #climatechange
@stockholm-uni.bsky.social @stelkens.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/mebnw7v5
@stockholm-uni.bsky.social @stelkens.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/mebnw7v5
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We often talk about THE whole genome duplication in yeasts, but we find new evidence of additional whole genome duplications in other yeast species!
Check out this preprint led by @kylethedavid.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Check out this preprint led by @kylethedavid.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Discovery of additional ancient genome duplications in yeasts
Whole genome duplication (WGD) has had profound macroevolutionary impacts on diverse lineages, preceding adaptive radiations in vertebrates, teleost fish, and angiosperms. In contrast to the many know...
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September 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
We often talk about THE whole genome duplication in yeasts, but we find new evidence of additional whole genome duplications in other yeast species!
Check out this preprint led by @kylethedavid.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Check out this preprint led by @kylethedavid.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Our RAPPL purification of ribosomes and associated material is out. I am really proud of this study in collaboration primary with Pavlovic-Djuranovic lab, as well as Jovanovic and Hashem Labs. This method aims to replace 60 years old purification of ribosomes by sucrose cushions
rdcu.be/ezlhg
rdcu.be/ezlhg
A rapid, simple, and economical method for the isolation of ribosomes and translational machinery for structural and functional studies
Nature Communications - Here, the authors present a method to rapidly isolate actively translating ribosomes in a time- and cost-effective manner using poly-lysine. The method is compatible with a...
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August 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Our RAPPL purification of ribosomes and associated material is out. I am really proud of this study in collaboration primary with Pavlovic-Djuranovic lab, as well as Jovanovic and Hashem Labs. This method aims to replace 60 years old purification of ribosomes by sucrose cushions
rdcu.be/ezlhg
rdcu.be/ezlhg
New preprint from lab adding to recent interest in yeast centromeres. There are dramatic changes in structure, but location is conserved www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Centromeres in budding yeasts are conserved in chromosomal location but not in structure.
The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has ‘point’ centromeres, which are much smaller and simpler than centromeres of most other eukaryotes and have a defined DNA sequence. Other yeast taxa have ...
www.biorxiv.org
August 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
New preprint from lab adding to recent interest in yeast centromeres. There are dramatic changes in structure, but location is conserved www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Research Ireland, on behalf of @deptoffhed.bsky.social, have today launched Global Talent Ireland - a new initiative to attract exceptional mid-career and established researchers from across the globe to Ireland.
For more information visit:
www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob...
For more information visit:
www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob...
Global Talent Ireland - Research Ireland
Global Talent Ireland aims to attract exceptional mid-career and established researchers from across the globe to Ireland. Researchers funded through this programme are required to transfer their rese...
www.researchireland.ie
July 18, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Research Ireland, on behalf of @deptoffhed.bsky.social, have today launched Global Talent Ireland - a new initiative to attract exceptional mid-career and established researchers from across the globe to Ireland.
For more information visit:
www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob...
For more information visit:
www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob...
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NEW pub: The role of metabolism in shaping #enzyme structures over 400 million years. Now out in @nature.com
Super grateful to have played a small role in this project - congrats to lead/corr authors Oliver, Benjamin, and Markus!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#alphafold #evolution #genomics
Super grateful to have played a small role in this project - congrats to lead/corr authors Oliver, Benjamin, and Markus!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#alphafold #evolution #genomics
July 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
NEW pub: The role of metabolism in shaping #enzyme structures over 400 million years. Now out in @nature.com
Super grateful to have played a small role in this project - congrats to lead/corr authors Oliver, Benjamin, and Markus!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#alphafold #evolution #genomics
Super grateful to have played a small role in this project - congrats to lead/corr authors Oliver, Benjamin, and Markus!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#alphafold #evolution #genomics
Really enjoying this series.
July 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Really enjoying this series.
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🧪👩🔬This Sat 14 June, 12 scientists will bring their fascinating research to Dublin city centre! #SoapboxScience
Drop by South King St 1-4pm to join them in exploring topics ranging from nematodes & reptiles, to DNA & human health at this FREE event.
ucd.ie/research/new...
Drop by South King St 1-4pm to join them in exploring topics ranging from nematodes & reptiles, to DNA & human health at this FREE event.
ucd.ie/research/new...
June 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
🧪👩🔬This Sat 14 June, 12 scientists will bring their fascinating research to Dublin city centre! #SoapboxScience
Drop by South King St 1-4pm to join them in exploring topics ranging from nematodes & reptiles, to DNA & human health at this FREE event.
ucd.ie/research/new...
Drop by South King St 1-4pm to join them in exploring topics ranging from nematodes & reptiles, to DNA & human health at this FREE event.
ucd.ie/research/new...
Postdoc position in new area for lab on yeast biodiversity. See www.findapostdoc.com/search/job-d.... Please forward! @ucd-sbbs.bsky.social
PostDoc | Job Details - Postdoctoral fellow level 1 in yeast biodiversity at Conway Institute, University College Dublin
Postdoctoral fellow level 1 in yeast biodiversity at Conway Institute, University College Dublin, listed on FindAPostDoc.com - A jobs site exclusively listing postdoctoral research posts.
www.findapostdoc.com
June 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Postdoc position in new area for lab on yeast biodiversity. See www.findapostdoc.com/search/job-d.... Please forward! @ucd-sbbs.bsky.social
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🎉Huge congratulations to Simran Khatri, Stage 3 Pharmacology student,who has been named joint winner of the 2025 Mary Mulvihill Award. Her essay “In Life for Life – A Monologue from the Heart of a Young Researcher,” is a powerful reflection on the ethics of animal research in science.
bit.ly/4mtiwPR
bit.ly/4mtiwPR
May 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
🎉Huge congratulations to Simran Khatri, Stage 3 Pharmacology student,who has been named joint winner of the 2025 Mary Mulvihill Award. Her essay “In Life for Life – A Monologue from the Heart of a Young Researcher,” is a powerful reflection on the ethics of animal research in science.
bit.ly/4mtiwPR
bit.ly/4mtiwPR
Fantastic!
I am honoured and delighted to join the #CIFAR family as an Azrieli Global Scholar.
Looking forward to working with this fantastic community to tackle complex global challenges through interdisciplinary collaboration!
cifar.ca/cifarnews/20...
Looking forward to working with this fantastic community to tackle complex global challenges through interdisciplinary collaboration!
cifar.ca/cifarnews/20...
May 22, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Fantastic!
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Only one week to go until the abstract submission deadline for Candida and Candidiasis 2025! Make sure to submit your abstract by 15 May 2025 at 23:59 BST. Find out more on our website. microb.io/Candida2025A... #Candida2025
May 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Only one week to go until the abstract submission deadline for Candida and Candidiasis 2025! Make sure to submit your abstract by 15 May 2025 at 23:59 BST. Find out more on our website. microb.io/Candida2025A... #Candida2025
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Felt surreal to be live on Sky News Breakfast talking about fungal pathogens and climate change🍄🟫🗺️
Hopefully more people will learn about the wonderful (and scary) world of fungi this way
Hopefully more people will learn about the wonderful (and scary) world of fungi this way
May 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Felt surreal to be live on Sky News Breakfast talking about fungal pathogens and climate change🍄🟫🗺️
Hopefully more people will learn about the wonderful (and scary) world of fungi this way
Hopefully more people will learn about the wonderful (and scary) world of fungi this way
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The global fight for science in the face of Trump’s attacks
The global fight for science in the face of Trump’s attacks
As Trump takes aim at science and institutions, other nations double down on research and innovation
www.irishtimes.com
April 17, 2025 at 4:31 AM
The global fight for science in the face of Trump’s attacks
Help pupils from Irish schools who won a NASA competition to attend the International Space Development Conference in Florida and showcase their hard work. If you can, please click the link below to donate or share it with others. Thanks for your support!
April 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Help pupils from Irish schools who won a NASA competition to attend the International Space Development Conference in Florida and showcase their hard work. If you can, please click the link below to donate or share it with others. Thanks for your support!
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Abstract submission for the Candida and Candidiasis conference, held in Berlin 6th-9th October 2025, is open until 15th May: microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...
Candida and Candidiasis 2025
microbiologysociety.org
April 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Abstract submission for the Candida and Candidiasis conference, held in Berlin 6th-9th October 2025, is open until 15th May: microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...
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The Tariff rate is calculated the same way as the Impact Factor
April 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The Tariff rate is calculated the same way as the Impact Factor
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🔬💎 Exciting news for UCD Professors Oliver Blacque, Peter Haughton, and Eoin Casey, whose projects will receive over €5.3 million in funding from Research Ireland’s Research Infrastructure Programme. www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...
UCD research infrastructure projects receive more than €5.3m in funding
www.ucd.ie
April 2, 2025 at 10:06 AM
🔬💎 Exciting news for UCD Professors Oliver Blacque, Peter Haughton, and Eoin Casey, whose projects will receive over €5.3 million in funding from Research Ireland’s Research Infrastructure Programme. www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...
My mother had diphtheria. She survived the hospitalisation; her younger brother did not. Was common in Dublin, now eliminated.
Diphtheria:
Spread by an airborne bacterium, causes sore throat, fever, weakness and lethargy.
Can cause heart inflammation, nerve inflamation, blood poisoning.
About 5-10% people die, with young children more vulnerable.
Now eliminated from many countries.
5/15
Spread by an airborne bacterium, causes sore throat, fever, weakness and lethargy.
Can cause heart inflammation, nerve inflamation, blood poisoning.
About 5-10% people die, with young children more vulnerable.
Now eliminated from many countries.
5/15
March 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
My mother had diphtheria. She survived the hospitalisation; her younger brother did not. Was common in Dublin, now eliminated.
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Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. Happy St Patrick’s Day. m.youtube.com/watch?v=OCbu...
Danny Boy
YouTube video by Blakwulf
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March 17, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. Happy St Patrick’s Day. m.youtube.com/watch?v=OCbu...