Pablo David Villarreal

This study examines genomic and phenotypic diversity in Yarrowia lipolytica, showing how specialization and admixture drive adaptation to different environments and industrial traits.

This study shows that thermal adaptation across yeast species involves convergent changes in conserved regulatory networks, despite divergent phenotypic outcomes.

This study shows that host-shift adaptation in S. eubayanus leads to genomic changes, particularly structural variants, linked to sugar metabolism and host-specific traits.

This study shows that S. eubayanus adapts to long-term cold starvation through transcriptional reprogramming, not genetic mutations, leading to improved cryotolerance and growth.

The paper identifies allelic variation in MAL33 as a driver of ecological adaptation in maltose metabolism among Saccharomyces eubayanus strains.

The paper identifies a new Saccharomyces species, S. chiloensis sp. nov., using integrative taxonomy methods, showing genetic and reproductive divergence from S. uvarum.

This study improves Lager yeast hybrids using wild Patagonian S. eubayanus strains, revealing genetic factors that enhance fermentation and aroma profiles.

This study identifies structural variants in a domesticated Lachancea cidri yeast strain associated with improved fermentation traits compared to wild isolates.