Daniele Armaleo

This study identifies a gene cluster and FAS responsible for depside and depsidone biosynthesis in lichenized fungi through comparative genomics and metatranscriptomics.

The paper introduces a spliceosomal intron from a lichen fungus into yeast to study its effects on growth and desiccation tolerance, finding slower growth and increased desiccation tolerance in intron-bearing mutants.

The paper describes a CRISPR-Cas9 method to introduce targeted mutations in all 150 rDNA repeats in yeast without altering the nucleolus.