FEMS Yeast Research Webinar on Genomic Insights into Yeast Diversity and Evolution
Channel: FEMS Microbiology
Date: 2021-02-02

This webinar explored how technological advances in genome analysis give important insights into the diversity and evolution of yeasts. The speakers discussed how studying the genomes of a wide range of strains from different ecological or geographical origins allows the detection of genomic signatures of pathogenicity, domestication and niche adaptation. They also offered new genome-level perspectives on how yeast species emerge and diversify over different evolutionary time-scales.

Originally aired on Thursday 28th January 2021, this webinar features authors of recent papers in the FEMS Yeast Research Thematic Issue on Yeast Genomes:

Chair: John Morrissey, Editor-in-Chief of FEMS Yeast Research
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Speaker 1: Daniela Delneri, University of Manchester (UK) 

Author of: Haya Alsammar, Daniela Delneri, An update on the diversity, ecology and biogeography of the Saccharomyces genus, FEMS Yeast Research, Volume 20, Issue 3, May 2020, foaa013, https://academic.oup.com/femsyr/article/20/3/foaa013/5810663
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Speaker 2: Toni Gabaldón, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (Spain) 

Author of: Toni Gabaldón, Hybridization and the origin of new yeast lineages, FEMS Yeast Research, Volume 20, Issue 5, August 2020, foaa040, https://academic.oup.com/femsyr/article/20/5/foaa040/5870662

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Read the Thematic Issue on Yeast Genomes - https://academic.oup.com/femsyr/pages/yeast-genomes
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