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It is with great pleasure that we announce that the Westerdijk Institute will have a new director per 1 July 2023: Professor Wieland Meyer! We can think of no better candidate to launch us into the future, and to spearhead global #mycology ! De KNAW More: wi.knaw.nl/news/details/1…

A long awaited reclassification of the higher ranks within the subphylum #Saccharomycotina, proposing 12 orders & seven classes to make the higher rank lineages more consistent with the high level of genomic diversity that exists. ingentaconnect.com/content/wfbi/s… 1/3

A moment to capture: with Gerard Verkleij (curator of the CBS-WI fungal collection) as ECCO session chair and Wieland Meyer (incomming director of the WI) giving a talk at the ICCC15, Braga, Portugal Westerdijk Institute

And here it is, more than 1000 Saccharomycotina (mostly type strains) genomes sequenced - what a privelage to be part of this!

Today we welcome our new director, Prof. Wieland Meyer!!

We bid farewell to Pedro as the director and welcome Wieland as the new director in various languages. Look at how diverse we are!

YEAST PREPRINT! Marie-Claire Harrison leverages machine learning to reveal who, how and why galactose metabolism evolved in yeasts Surprise! Not all yeast use the GAL genes The Lab LaBella @DOpulente Xingxing Shen Marizeth Groenewald HittingerLab RokasLab biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Jos Houbraken giving an excellent talk on heterogeneity in food spoilage fungi at the ECCO XLI meeting in Brussels. Westerdijk Institute Jos Houbraken

Great talk about my favourite micro-organism, yeasts!

This is such a special photo of the King at the liquid nitrogen facilities at the Westerdijk Institute.

A tour for the King through the Westerdijk Institute.

It was a great pleasure hosting the yearly meeting of the KNPV Fusarium Working Group again today here at the Westerdijk Institute De KNAW. WUR Plant @FungusCrous #fungi #banana #fusarium

At the meeting of the ⁦KNPV⁩ Fusarium Working Group, ⁦@FungusCrous⁩ made some nice PR for the 2024 ⁦12th International Mycological Congress (IMC12)⁩ meeting that will take place in Maastricht. imc12.org. #imc12 #fungi 🍄

Great work lead by Liang Sun and a truly collaborative effort from Kyle T. David 🍄 Carla Gonçalves @DOpulente The Lab LaBella Marizeth Groenewald Xingxing Shen RokasLab and several Twitter-less colleagues. 💪 Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC)

Our Fungal Biodiversity Course this week: 25 students, 10 nationalities, lots of happy faces and new fungi lovers! Come join us next year (or in Q4 for the Food and Indoor course🍄) #welovefungi 👉 wi.knaw.nl/news/category/… @FungusCrous Gerard Verkley

Not all budding yeast can bud! Learn more about cell morphology traits including the diversity of shape and size of the yeast subphylum, Saccharomycotina, in my recent review! Thank you to awesome co-authors Marizeth Groenewald HittingerLab RokasLab academic.oup.com/femsyr/article…

Liang Sun's paper on integrating a fungal gene with a bacterial operon in a yeast was just published in Molecular Biology and Evolution with a cover by Drew T. Doering, PhD! Collaboration with @rokaslab, Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), and others: academic.oup.com/mbe/issue/41/4 doi.org/10.1093/molbev…

We have also launched a fully revamped website to collate links to the major papers, datasets, and all the amazing scientists involved in the Y1000+ Project! y1000plus.org

This is a result of years of hard work and dedication of many people! It is a privilege to work with such a group and to be part of making this dream come true.

This is a result of years of hard work and dedication of many people! Amaizing to see it published - and I am looking forward to see future research projects build on this work.