Gavin Sherlock

Homepage - Yeast Genetics Meeting 2026 Visit our website to learn more.

📢 Reminder: March 5 is the abstract submission deadline for the Yeast Genetics Meeting. Don’t miss the chance to share your work—submit an abstract and encourage colleagues to attend!
genetics-gsa.org/yeast-2026/

I had fun writing this N&Vs on two fascinating new papers on centromere evolution in yeast. If you’re interested in how centromeres adapt yet stay functional, here’s my take. rdcu.be/e6DD0 @nature.com @gautamdey.bsky.social @gsherloc.bsky.social @helsenjana.bsky.social @maxhaase.bsky.social

You are finishing your PhD and looking to continue in science?

The Martin lab @biology-unige.bsky.social has an open postdoctoral position in cell biology to study cell-cell fusion. For more information, please consult mocel.unige.ch/research-gro....

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Job alert: open position for a Professor or Associate Professor of Computational Genomics in Health and Disease at University College London.

Based in the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment of UCL, and UGI, and funded by the UCL Health Strategy.

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... 🧪

Yeast | Microbiology Journal | Wiley Online Library Yeast is a microbiology journal for research in the rapidly moving field of yeast biology. We publish the most significant developments in unicellular fungi.

ANNOUNCEMENT: The webpage for the upcoming yeast meetings of 2026 has recently been updated. Have a look at it to find out which exciting #yeast #conferences are ahead!!! 😀

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

📣 Calling all yeast scientists!
Dive into #Yeast26 and hear from our organizers on what makes this conference so special.
📅 June 13-17, 2026
📍 Pacific Grove, CA
👉 Read the blog: buff.ly/6SBTbaY

PS. Abstracts due in 4 days on March 5!

@caitismuheil.bsky.social @schacherer.bsky.social

Give me strength

$300 Million in jet planes lost to a fuckup.

That’s 83 five year NIH R01 grants burned in minutes due to error, aka poor execution of this unnecessary war which serves only to make the world more dangerous.

Exciting announcement! My new department is launching a postdoc fellowship in quantitative biology. Fellows will be co-advised by two Bio faculty, one that is quant focused (not me) and one that is not (me???). I would love to co-sponsor a postdoc and build a collaboration so please reach out!

I don’t use X any more, but a while back I posted a thread on my good fortune to work with David, which captures how he could give people opportunities and let them run with them

x.com/gsherloc/sta...

However, more than that, he was an incredible mentor, training dozens of grad students and postdocs, many of whom went on to train another generation of scientists. His impact will continue to be felt for decades to come. I miss him, and his memory is a blessing. 2/

I was sad to learn that my postdoctoral mentor, David Botstein, died yesterday. I started with David as a postdoc in 1998, and he had a profound effect on both my life and scientific career. He was a giant in the field of genetics, making seminal contributions in both yeast and human genetics. 1/

Don’t miss four impactful lectures at #Yeast26!

💡Lee Hartwell Lecture, Karen Arndt
💡Yeast Genetics Meeting Lifetime Achievement Award, Phil Hieter
💡Ira Herskowitz Award, Soni Lacefield
💡Winge-Lindegren Address, Gavin Sherlock

Join these pioneers & present your research: buff.ly/7uheRaj

Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Computational Immunology

join our faculty at D-BSSE, ETHZ in Basel, Switzerland! New assistant prof position (tenure-track) in computational immunology, please share or apply. ethz.ch/en/the-eth-z...

Do you want to pursue your ideas in computational biology independently, running your group in @embl.org‘s uniquely collaborative environment, beside world’s most comprehensive biomolecular data resources @ebi.embl.org in Genome Campus next to @sangerinstitute.bsky.social?
Apply to join us & share 🙏

We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

That’s approximately 167 five-year R01 #NIHGrants worth of taxpayer dollars.

🔬 How do antifungal drugs work?
New cryo-EM structures reveal how a triterpenoid drug binds #Yeast β-1,3-glucan synthases Fks1 & Fks2, reorganizing lipids and stabilizing the enzyme to block fungal cell wall synthesis

🧪 #YeastResearch #SGD #StructuralBiology
www.yeastgenome.org/reference/S1...

Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)

Holy shit: it's an RFP for the NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology (PRFB). Hello old friend www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Expansion Microscopy Has Transformed How We See the Cellular World | Quanta Magazine How physically magnifying objects using a key ingredient in diapers has opened an unprecedented view of the microbial world.

Expansion microscopy may be the hi-res hero that many biologists have been craving.

📣 Grad student wanted
PhD position in avian evolution, with emphasis on phylogenetics, macroevolution, Neotropical radiations, flight and dispersal.
Based at the University of New Orleans (soon to be LSU New Orleans).
Start: September 2026.
Contact me if interested.
claramuntlab.org

Didn't the preprint come out almost a year ago? I was excited this was something new, but I don't think it it.

Discovery of additional ancient genome duplications in yeasts Whole-genome duplication (WGD) has had profound macroevolutionary impacts on diverse lineages,1,2 preceding adaptive radiations in vertebrates,3,4,5 t…

With the @rokaslab.bsky.social, three novel whole genome duplication (WGD) events were discovered in the Saccharomycotina yeast species in the Dipodascales
clade. Before now, only four WGD events were known in fungi. This work suggests WGD may be underreported.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I am looking for a PhD student to join my new Socio-Eco-Evo group, hosted in Katie Peichel's Evolutionary Ecology Division @ University of Bern. We're offering a fully funded 4-year position, studying social plasticity and behavioral adaptation among stickleback in Greenland. Please share around!

Protest sign from MN that says, “DEARLY BELOVED. WE ARE GATHERED HERE TODAY TODISMANTLE THIS THING CALLED ICE.” with a picture of Prince in the left hand lower corner.

10/10 ICE protest sign

Seen in a Seattle coffee shop ❤️❤️

State-sponsored white supremacist terror.

Homepage - Yeast Genetics Meeting 2026 Visit our website to learn more.

Honored to serve on the Yeast Genetics Meeting Program Committee of Evolution & Population Genetics. Welcome for meeting registration and abstract submission, especially on our Evolution & Population Genetics program! genetics-gsa.org/yeast-2026/
@genetics-gsa.bsky.social #Yeast26

I've started my own lab 🎉
PhD/postdoc positions available - reach out if curious about cerebellum evo-devo and autism spectrum disorders.

We’re based at Uni Tartu, Institute of Genomics (home to Estonian Biobank), and funded by @simonsfoundation.org @embo.org, and the Estonian Research Council.