Kennadi A. Shumaker

The paper presents a place-based CURE model where students isolate and deploy wild yeast, confirming its identity and partnering with local breweries to create a historical ale, with sensory validation and design principles outlined.

This study uses genome-scale sequencing to reveal hidden diversity and population structure in wild yeasts, uncovering mixed cultures, a rare species, and a new population while showing that some apparent gene flow signals are artifacts.

The paper introduces FIDDL, a tool to distinguish genuine interspecific introgression from artifacts by using depth-matched negative controls and locus-level tests.

This paper identifies synthetic genetic interactions of the hrq1{Delta}N allele in yeast, revealing distinct roles of the Hrq1 NTD in genome integrity pathways.