Kaitlyn Taylor

Declaration of Fermentation: Community-Embedded Wild Yeast Bioprospecting as a Model for Place-Based CURE Design

The paper presents a place-based CURE model where students isolate and deploy wild yeast, confirming its identity and partnering with local breweries to create a historical ale, with sensory validation and design principles outlined.

Genome-scale characterization of wild yeasts reveals cryptic diversity and population structure across three genera

This study uses genome-scale sequencing to reveal hidden diversity and population structure in wild yeasts, uncovering mixed cultures, a rare species, and a new population while showing that some apparent gene flow signals are artifacts.

FIDDL: depth-matched negative controls distinguish genuine interspecific introgression from competitive-mapping artifact

The paper introduces FIDDL, a tool to distinguish genuine interspecific introgression from artifacts by using depth-matched negative controls and locus-level tests.