Sad to announce that one of the co-discoverers of the killer yeast phenotype passed away today - Canon Malory Makower. Not a scientist, but a priest. It feels odd because today my students presented work on the toxin he discovered at an @asm.org meeting. www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
🎉 Big news! We've been awarded the 2025 @aaas.org Kavli Science Journalism Gold Award for The Leap, our audio documentary that features the scientists behind some of the biggest breakthroughs of our time. sjawards.aaas.org/news/2025-aa... 1/
The latest paper from my lab! Aerolysin toxins in Saccharomyces yeasts (they "seemed" to be yeast-specific - so maybe(?) don't worry!) | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/o...
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Pore-forming toxins are potent biological weapons used across nature, from virulence
factors to immune defense proteins. This study identifies K62, a little-known antifungal
toxin produced by a wild y...
Our lastest publication on a new killer toxin produced by a yeast isolated from a fungus-growing ant garden! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
I have been listening to this song since 1998, and I JUST made it out to Walla Walla! youtu.be/CVirrNiNwl8?...
Our latest killer toxin paper just dropped! It's a heavyweight monster of 51 pages and has EVERYTHING you EVER wanted to know about Saccharomyces killer toxins and their predicted structures!
www.mdpi.com/2072-6651/18...
So proud AGAIN. My undergraduate won the poster prize at an ASM meeting for the second year running. Great job Lily Givens!!! She is looking for a PhD position…
The Rowley/Ytreberg/Patel labs at UI have led a multidisciplinary study to characterize a new yeast toxin! Published in the ASM's flagship Journal - mBio. Eight undergraduate authors contributed to the study, a great team effort! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... @uidaho.bsky.social
Postdocs - if you want to work on killer yeasts - I am HIRING.
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CLOSING SOON!
