Rike Bahati Stelkens

The paper examines microbial community differentiation across a land-water interface, finding strong habitat-associated differences between terrestrial and aquatic samples.

This study shows that repeated heat waves induce different transcriptional responses in cold- and warm-adapted yeast species, with memory-like responses being species-specific.

The paper shows mitochondrial inheritance significantly affects allopolyploid fitness, highlighting its importance in synthetic yeast strain design.

This study investigates thermal adaptation in gene expression of Callosobruchus maculatus through experimental evolution, finding genetic compensation dominates cold adaptation while heat adaptation shows mixed modes with greater repeatability.

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

This study examines the long-term thermal adaptation of four yeast species and their hybrids over 140 generations under extreme cold and warm conditions, finding hybrids show greater fitness improvements and resilience.

This study shows that divergent ecological selection in yeast leads to reproductive isolation and genomic instability through hybrid breakdown and structural variants.

The paper reconstructs NOD-like receptor alleles in Podospora anserina using long-read sequencing, revealing structural and functional insights into incompatibility genes.

The paper investigates yeast diversity on oak trees at their northern range limit in Sweden, finding temperature and precipitation influence distribution, and older trees host more diverse communities.

The paper tests how temperature affects genomic predictions of adaptation by evolving beetles under hot and cold conditions, finding faster phenotypic evolution at hot temperatures but less genomic repeatability.

The paper analyzes commercial Saccharomyces cerevisiae baker's yeasts, revealing strain redundancy, genome plasticity, and limited colonization of human niches compared to commercial strains.

The paper shows that hybrid yeast adaptation is slowed by Haldane's sieve due to slower loss of heterozygosity and incomplete dominance of adaptive mutations.

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

This study shows that adaptation to complex environments involves trade-offs and pleiotropic effects, with mutations affecting multiple biological processes and recurrent gene targets.

The paper benchmarks long-read assembly pipelines using 116 yeast datasets, finding that combining pre-assembly short-read error correction with post-assembly polishing yields the best results.

The paper presents seven new long-read genomes of wild Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains from East Asia, revealing early divergence and structural variation in their evolutionary history.