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Shout "YEAST!"

World record breaking attempts from the Yeast Community. On a dark night. In November 2014. In the deepest countryside in South West England A party assembled to break a world record. 180 yeast related people gathered at YeastFest music festival, and set a new world record for the most people in one room to shout YEAST simultaneously! On secret locaion in a Japanese shrine. In June 2015. Another party was especially assembled to break the world record. 210 people shouted "YEA

ICYGMB 2015

"Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated." Anne Roe A handful of brave young scientists took on the Carl Singer Foundation Session at ICYGMB in Levico in North Italy this year. For many, the prospect of addressing a large scientific audience for the first time is a daunting experience. We compound this by insisting on the inclusion of comedy 'treasures': a miscellaneous action, and a miscellaneous phrase! Audience participation was encouraged b

British Yeast Group Meeting 2015

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." Benjamin Franklin 10 Brave students embraced the chance to give their first ever talk during the Carl Singer Foundation Session at BYG in Manchester. Each presenter had a 'miscellaneous action' and a 'miscellaneous phrase' to 'hide' in their presentation! A huge well done to Shaun Speldewinde and Yu Zhou (who missed the presentation and received the news in the loo!), both of whom narrowly missed out o

Scholars Crowned at FASEB Yeast Meeting!

The Carl Singer Foundation and the WCISM is proud to sponsor five outstanding young yeast biologists for the recent FASEB Yeast Chromosome Structure, Replication, and Segregation meeting in Steamboat Springs, USA. These five scholars were selected among hundreds of outstanding research abstracts, and were awarded with a rare opportunity to present their research findings on stage. Being able to openly exchange ideas and share unpublished data is what is valuable for scientif

British Yeast Group Meeting 2014

The first ever Carl Singer Foundation Session was held at the 2014 British Yeast Group Meeting in Exeter. And it was a great success! The thirteen brave participants, many of whom hadn't previously addressed an audience of this size before, were challenged to present their work for an action-packed six minute slot. And as if this wasn't hard enough, they were each given a different comedy phrase to sneak into their talk, and a dance move to incorporate! We call it... Biology

2014 World Tetrad Dissection Week

Many thanks to everybody who took part in World Tetrad Dissection Week in memory of Carl Singer! The winning photo was taken by Tamara Milosevic at the Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire, Paris. She described the photo: "We had an Open day of Bachelor program Frontiers in Life Science on March 15th and more than 10 high school students tried to dissect yeast tetrads, taught by 1st and 2nd year bachelor students who learned to dissect yeast tetrads earlier this week." Carl