Yevgeniy Plavskin

The paper identifies epistatic QTLs in budding yeast using a modified bulk segregant analysis approach that fixes one chromosome to detect genetic interactions.

The paper shows that in yeast lacking MutSβ function, mutations in simple sequence repeats are mostly deletions and occur at different rates depending on repeat length.

The paper introduces PIE, a software tool for automatically tracking microbial colony growth in low-resolution images, enabling large-scale analysis of growth and fluorescence properties.