Will Yaeger
@Why513
Microbial genetics, ecology, and evolution @LehighU
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To Save Life on Earth, Bring Back Taxonomy nytimes.com/2024/07/07/opi…
The Ohio Mushroom DNA Lab is offering free DNA barcoding for any wild collected fungus, found anywhere in the world. They need to be dried and packaged in ziplock snack sized bags, labeled with the iNaturalist observation # docs.google.com/document/d/1Kz…
🚨I will be hiring two postdoctoral scholars to start early 2025 at our new lab at UC Berkeley🚨 If you are attending MSA in Toronto next week and want to chat about either of these positions, please contact me! 🌱🍄 📄Details & application instructions: static1.squarespace.com/static/5679c5c…
Applying to STEM grad programs? Know someone who is? 🎓 Sign ups are ✨OPEN✨ for #GSMI2024!🤩 The GSMI program supports applicants from minoritized backgrounds through 1-on-1 mentorship, fee waivers, & more! Applications due 6/1 cientificolatino.com/gsmi MORE INFO in 🧵 1/
Out this morning! Where we argue the need for genus-level model systems in fungi and why Suillus should be one of them, provide a primer on the genus, and how the International Suillus Consortium is addressing grand challenges to system development. doi.org/10.1111/nph.19…
New tool from @CultivariumFRO: models to predict oxygen tolerance, temperature, salinity, and pH optima from a genome - without using pesky gene annotations. Very excited to share this resource. Quick explainer: 1/10
Predicting microbial growth conditions from amino acid composition biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv
Very excited to be attending the GSA #Fungal24 conference for the first time this week! 🍄 I will be presenting a poster on yeast hybrid genetics on Thursday (no. 476B—check it out!) Looking forward to sharing my work, learning about cool science, and meeting new friends! 🧫🧪🧬
We have a new paper out on the ecological basis of hybrid incompatibilities! We argue, via literature review, two meta-analyses, and simulations that epistatic incompatibilities might underlie much of what is known as 'extrinsic' post-zygotic isolation cshperspectives.cshlp.org/content/early/… 1/n
Had a student ask in class and I didn't know the answer: Why hasn't the mitochondrial genome deteriorated to the point of uselessness due to Muller's ratchet?
Dictionary loses to 2019 Scripps National Spelling Bee Co-Champs: #Speller5 Rishik Gandhasri #Speller93 Erin Howard #Speller132 Saketh Sundar #Speller307 Shruthika Padhy #Speller354 Sohum Sukhatankar #Speller407 Abhijay Kodali #Speller427 Christopher Serrao #Speller462 Rohan Raja
#speller432 Sebastian Yaeger spelled the word ‘osprey’ correctly #spellingbee
Congratulations to Hempfield High School, the PA State Academic Champions, and to Great Valley and West Chester Henderson for making it to the finals in today’s competition! Great job everyone! Final scores: Hempfield, 95 Great Valley, 70 West Chester Henderson, 55
Local League results: in Lancaster-Lebanon, Hempfield takes league title, in Chester County, @gvquiz, @hhs_academic, and Unionville move on to final.
Congrats to all the teams who competed at @gvquiz's tournament yesterday! Complete novice division stats are here: hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments… and Afternoon open stats here: hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments… Congrats to @hempfield's teams for sweeping both divisions!
Results from Penn Manor (UNCONFIRMED): Wilmington Charter 1st, Hempfield 2nd, @MTQuizBowl 3rd, State College Bert 4th, @gvquiz A 5th, @hhs_academic 6th, @FSSQuizBowl 7th, GV B 8th.
Congratulations to our first place team Georgetown Day School, our second place team Hempfield A, and our third place team Great Valley A
Hempfield Quiz Bowl is ranked #74 in the US according to the latest national rankings!
Our final rankings of the year, with new member Anson Berns of Montgomery Blair, can be found here: grogerranks.wordpress.com/2018/12/19/mid… Happy winter break, everyone, and best of luck for next year!
Hempfield Quiz Bowl is #139 in the latest national rankings after our first tournament of the season. @hempfield grogerranks.wordpress.com/2018/11/22/nov…
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