First paper for @AlexBendel_, together with Andre Faure @ajfaure.bsky.social and Ben Lehner. We measured how all mutations in JUN’s leucine zipper perturb it’s interaction with all 54 human bZIPs. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… (1/4)

We’re looking for a postdoc with a strong background in AI, biophysics, modeling or related. Please forward to potential candidates and RT 🙏 More details below 👇

Our new lab website is up, thanks to the awesome Ricardo Almada jinichlab.ucsd.edu May the Aztec god Xochipilli guide us through our journey of machine learning enzymology (and our other science adventures).

Please SAVE THE DATE!! SMBEmeetings Regional Meeting in Puerto Varas, Chile. October 6th-8th 2025. We'll have great keynote speakers and invited guests. Stay tuned for + info, soon to come. (pisco sours upon arrival)

You know what would be far more impactful and inclusive nature? Not charging people around the world to read scientific articles on your site.

great resource put together by the EvomicsLab that further help navigate budding yeast natural variation from reference quality genomes - led by Jia-Xing Yue (岳家兴) Jing Li (李婧) and major input from @G__Fischer lab 祝贺你！

Postdoc jobs in the Gaut lab! Brandon isn't on here, so I can be frank: he is fantastic. I did my postdoc with him and he is not only an amazing scientist but one of my favorite humans. I would have happily stayed in his lab forever if that was feasible. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF08999

Looking for fun in a nice place for next summer? Then, join us at the Yeast 2025 meeting! Save the date: 21-24 July 2025 Registration and abstract submission are now open!

Agave fermentations not only produce mezcal and tequila; they are also natural laboratories of microbial evolution. Had a great time working on this with Lucia Morales, Eugenio Mancera, and Genetic Systems Mx as part of the #YeastGenomesMx onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ye…

Call for the PROBio-LatAm Fellowships on the IUBMB and FEBS web pages. The Call will be open from March 1 to May 1. febs.org/funding/fellow… iubmb.org/activities/fel…

Environmental characteristics and weather impact yeast populations and... much more in our new study sciencedirect.com/science/articl… The results of a great collaboration with Beatrice Valentini, Gianpiero Vigani Noemi Gatti, and Simone Bossi

an exquisite seminar from our #OrgulloCinvestav alumnus - now professor Tere Padilla-Benavides ; next Wednesday at Cinvestav's Center for Research on Aging (CIE): how copper regulates gene transcription 🫶🏼

The difference between doing a project and presenting it. An observation can lead to many avenues of explorations before focus turns to a specific discovery. Presenting it, in a talk / paper, follows inversely, with broad perspectives coming before & after the specific discovery.