Clàudia Salat-Canela

The paper shows that meiotic cohesin Rec8 in fission yeast gametes creates a fitness trade-off, leading to parental bias in gene expression.

This study shows Mei2, an RNA-binding protein in fission yeast, functions in the cytosol to arrest mitotic growth and initiate zygotic development by inhibiting translation of tethered mRNAs through P-body recruitment.

The paper shows that fatty-acid synthesis defects in fission yeast lead to chromatin hyperacetylation, stress-response gene activation, and oxidative stress resistance.