David Peris

The paper shows mitochondrial inheritance significantly affects allopolyploid fitness, highlighting its importance in synthetic yeast strain design.

The paper identifies eIF5A as an indispensable protein in eukaryotic cells, showing that its duplicated paralogous genes act as a backup system to rescue mutations in the essential copy.

The paper sequenced multiple Trichaptum specimens to analyze mating loci, finding long-term balancing selection maintains genetic diversity and generates many mating types.

The paper constructs six-species synthetic yeast hybrids and shows they are chromosomally unstable but can rapidly adapt to novel environments.

The paper analyzes the genomic diversity and global distribution of Saccharomyces eubayanus, identifying population structure and climatically suitable regions.

The paper shows that the mitochondrial genome origin determines temperature tolerance in lager-brewing yeast hybrids.

The paper shows that fructophilic yeasts in the W/S clade lost and reacquired alcoholic fermentation genes via horizontal gene transfer, adapting to high sugar environments.

iWGS is a computational pipeline that guides the design and analysis of de novo genome sequencing projects by simulating data generation, quality control, assembly, and evaluation.