Michael T. Eickbush

The paper investigates how pericentromeric repeat copy number affects chromosome segregation and gene expression in fission yeast by analyzing natural variation and engineered strains.

This study examines how stress and aging affect spore health in Schizosaccharomyces pombe, identifying declines in germination, asymmetry, and stress tolerance.

This paper uses saturation transposon mutagenesis to identify essential genes and drug resistance mechanisms in Cryptococcus neoformans.

This paper identifies 532 genes involved in sexual reproduction in fission yeast using transposon-insertion sequencing, including 200 previously uncharacterized genes with vertebrate orthologs.

The paper functionally characterizes 22 additional wtf genes in S. pombe, identifying eight new meiotic drivers and three new suppressors, showing high gamete-killing efficiency despite sequence divergence.