@HittingerLab

Biodiversity | Biochemistry | Biotechnology | Functional, Ecological, and Evolutionary Genomics | Moderated by current lab members

 Madison, WI
hittinger.genetics.wisc.edu/
Joined April 2018
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🥐 John Crandall, a postdoc in the @HittingerLab, works with yeasts both in and outside of the @UWEnergy lab as a home brewer and baker. Find out what makes a yeast boring or interesting in his colorful spotlight: buff.ly/4fJSlQP #postdoc #microbiology #uwmadison
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ASBMB@ASBMB5 Nov 2024
🍺Q: What makes a yeast variety suitable for lager beer rather than ales? 🍻A: Yeast that ferments best at cool temperatures. Industrial lager brewers favor S. pastorianus. 🧬Learn about research from the @HittingerLab for more on the genetics of #beer: ow.ly/f4sq50U0Wiz.
A collage featuring a headshot of Chris Todd Hittinger, an illustration of a mug of beer, a headshot of Jacob Crandall, and in the bottom row, a scanning electron microscope image of Saccharomyces cerevisiae budding by Mogana Das Murtey and Patchamuthu Ramasamy via Wikimedia Commons.

ALT A collage featuring a headshot of Chris Todd Hittinger, an illustration of a mug of beer, a headshot of Jacob Crandall, and in the bottom row, a scanning electron microscope image of Saccharomyces cerevisiae budding by Mogana Das Murtey and Patchamuthu Ramasamy via Wikimedia Commons.

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Happy Halloween from the Wisconsin Energy Institute!
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Machine learning uncovers gene families impacting oxidative stress resistance across yeasts biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_micrbio
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Congratulations to Christopher Hittinger @HittingerLab of @uwgenetics @UWMadisonCALS who was awarded a patent in July! Share your idea with us: warf.org/disclose See the patent: warf.org/wp-content/uploads/…
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How many paths lead to evolutionary innovation? How versatile are genomic toolkits? Excited to announce my new preprint addressing these questions in collaboration with @RokasLab, @HittingerLab, and @mwpen (link at the end)
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Congratulations to the @uwgenetics @UWMadisonCALS researchers awarded patents in June: Christopher Hittinger @HittingerLab, David Peris Navarro & EmilyClare Baker! Tell us your idea: warf.org/disclose See the patent: warf.org/wp-content/uploads/…
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Exploring the influence of the number of tree searches on maximum likelihood inference in #phylogenomics. Thanks to @YuanningLi1, @HittingerLab, @RokasLab, @shenxingxing1, and other co-authors. academic.oup.com/sysbio/adva…
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Study of 1154 yeasts in 24 conditions did not find evidence for trade-offs between carbon niche breadth and growth rates and found that compared with specialists, carbon generalists grew better in most conditions science.org/doi/10.1126/scie… @HittingerLab #FungalGRC24
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Meet Harrison Moon, a Keegstra fellow with GLBRC and a @HittingerLab postdoc @UWEnergy. From his early childhood, he was fascinated by the natural world, and this fascination eventually steered him towards a career in plant pathology. Read his spotlight: buff.ly/3VXDpHP
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Yuanning Li@YuanningLi18 Jun 2024
Excited to share our new preprint at biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…. Gene gains and losses drive genome evolution. In studying 1,154 Saccharomycotina yeast genomes, we found unique patterns compared to other major eukaryotic lineages.

Unique trajectory of gene family evolution from genomic analysis of nearly all known species in an...

Gene gains and losses are a major driver of genome evolution; their precise characterization can provide insights into the origin and diversification of major lineages. Here, we examined gene family...

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RokasLab@RokasLab26 Apr 2024
This work wouldn't be possible without the Y1000+ Project team (@Lab_LaBella, @DOpulente, John Wolters, @shenxingxing1, Xiaofan Zhou, and @MarizethGroene1) and support from @NSF
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RokasLab@RokasLab26 Apr 2024
Using AI on >1K yeast genomic, metabolic & ecological data, @MarieClaireHar2 predicted yeast diets from their genomes or from the rest of their diets! With help from Emily Ubbelohde (@HittingerLab), they discovered an alternative galactose pathway pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23…
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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.
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The big Y1000+ Project manuscript is finally published in Science magazine! Years of work with @RokasLab, @DOpulente, @Lab_LaBella, Marizeth Groenewald, the late Clete Kurtzman, and many others: science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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I want to add an enormous THANK YOU to my co-author Dana @DOpulente (right) and our fearless leaders @RokasLab @HittingerLab (whose nametags we stole) We have done so much amazing work since the 2018 GRC I cannot wait to see what we do next!
HittingerLab@HittingerLab25 Apr 2024
The big Y1000+ Project manuscript is finally published in Science magazine! Years of work with @RokasLab, @DOpulente, @Lab_LaBella, Marizeth Groenewald, the late Clete Kurtzman, and many others: science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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Congratulations to the @uwgenetics @UWMadisonCALS researchers awarded patents in February: Christopher Hittinger @HittingerLab, David Peris Navarro & William Alexander! Tell us your idea: warf.org/disclose See the patent: warf.org/wp-content/uploads/…
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Open research fellowship in our lab! In the context of this project, various aspects of floral yeast metabolism will be studied, as well as their possible beneficial role in protecting bees against pathogens (bacteria and other fungi). 🐝 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/2…
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Congratulations to Robert Landick, professor of Biochemistry at UW-Madison and GLBRC co-investigator, for receiving a 2024 Hilldale Award! Read about his research and impact: news.wisc.edu/meet-the-winne…
Landick smiling in front of a lab bench

ALT Landick smiling in front of a lab bench

Landick presenting from a podium

ALT Landick presenting from a podium

Interim Chancellor Eric M. Wilcots@uwchancellor1 Apr 2024
Please join me in congratulating our impressive 2024 Hilldale Awards recipients: Anja Wanner, Robert Landick, Robert Hamers (@rjhamers), & Dietram Scheufele (@scheufele)! Thank you for your truly outstanding contributions in teaching, research, & service.
news.wisc.edu/meet-the-winne…

Meet the winners of the 2024 Hilldale Awards

Faculty members representing the arts and humanities, biological sciences, physical sciences and social sciences are selected from nominations submitted by department chairs.

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First paper of my postdoc out now in @PNASNews! 🧵 doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2316031…
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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 @MarizethGroene1 @HittingerLab @RokasLab academic.oup.com/femsyr/arti…

The cell morphological diversity of Saccharomycotina yeasts

The ∼1 200 known species of yeasts in the subphylum Saccharomycotina exhibit extensive variation in diverse cellular morphology traits, including asexual a

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