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Beakers with strips of various materials

What are all these beakers of different materials waiting to be autoclaved? Stay tuned for a new yEvo module on evolving adhesion! Beta testing in 2 classrooms this spring.

Ten simple rules for running a virtual program to introduce computational biology at the high school level

From @jchowning.bsky.social & colleagues in @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Ten simple rules for running a virtual program to introduce computational biology at the high school level | #Education #Bioinformatics #PLOSCBTSR #OpenScience 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓
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You can explore our entire dataset here, and even (locally) upload your own data! Obviously we built it out for yeast, but we have instructions on porting to other organisms yevo.org/mutation-bro...

The yEvo Mutation Browser: Enhancing student understanding of experimental evolution and genomics through interactive data visualization Experimental evolution is a powerful method for studying the relationship between genotype and phenotype by observing how populations genetically adapt to controlled selective pressures. In educationa...

Announcing the yEvo Mutation Browser, a Shiny app for visualizing and exploring sequencing data from experimental evolution and genetic screens. This is the latest from our @yevolab.bsky.social high school teaching & research project and led by my grad student Leah. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Student-led experimental evolution reveals novel biofilm regulatory networks underlying adaptations to multiple niches https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.06.658356v1

Nothing like new data to lift the spirits. 44 new caspofungin-resistant @yevolab.bsky.social genomes! Can't wait to get these back in the hands of the high school students who evolved these yeast strains.

yEvo Lab This SEP unit focuses on the decline of elephant populations across Africa to integrate ecology, ethics, and biotechnology in the biology classroom.

Had a great workshop today with the Hutch SEP & a bunch of local teachers interested in using our Yeast Madness kit in their classes. This module uses strains evolved by previous yEvo high school students and teaches about mutations, fitness, & cell biology. www.fredhutch.org/en/education...

Experimental evolution of S. cerevisiae for caffeine tolerance alters multidrug resistance and TOR signaling pathways Abstract. Caffeine is a natural compound that inhibits the major cellular signaling regulator TOR, leading to widespread effects including growth inhibitio

New @yevolab.bsky.social paper in G3 led by @reneegeck.bsky.social and featuring work from the classrooms of Tim Renz and Rebecca Brewer! Experimental evolution of S. cerevisiae for caffeine tolerance alters multidrug resistance and TOR signaling pathways academic.oup.com/g3journal/ar...

Teens Thinking Like Scientists — The Downtown School: A Lakeside School Biology teacher Kelsey Kovarik on a thriving learning collaboration between The Downtown School and the University of Washington.

Learn about how yEvo helps students think like scientists and see themselves as scientists from The Downtown School teacher Kelsey Kovarik! tinyurl.com/yedzpdw7

News and Events - Foster High School News and Events - Foster High School

Really nice article about our collaboration with Foster High School!

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yEvo is at #TAGC24! @maitreya.bsky.social is presenting tomorrow in this workshop on publishing education papers that starts at 2:00, and then giving a poster 8-9 the same evening on our new bioinformatics modules.