Publications

"I am beyond grateful to have gotten my classes involved with yEvo research. ... It is surreal seeing what my students did in the classroom taken to this level of analysis [for publication] and I could not be prouder of my students.”

- Rebecca Brewer, high school biology teacher

Three students in a high school biology class use an iPad and stylus to count yeast colonies on a photo of a Petri dish

Publications and Preprints

  • Geck RC, Moresi NG, Anderson LM, yEvo Students, Brewer R, Renz TR, Taylor MB, Dunham MJ. 2024. Experimental evolution of S. cerevisiae for caffeine tolerance alters multidrug resistance and TOR signaling pathways. G3. Open access.
  • Taylor MB, Warwick AR, Skophammer R, Boyer JM, Geck RC, Gunkelman K, Walson M, Rowley PA, Dunham MJ. 2024. yEvo: a modular eukaryotic genetics and evolution research experience for high school students. Ecology and Evolution. 14:e10811. Open access.
  • Moresi NG, Geck RC, Skophammer R, Godin D, yEvo Students, Taylor MB, Dunham MJ. 2023. Caffeine-tolerant mutations selected through an at-home yeast experimental evolution teaching lab. microPublication Biology. Open access.
  • Taylor MB, Skophammer R, Warwick AR, Geck RC, Boyer JM, yEvo Students, Walson M, Large CRL, Hickey ASM, Rowley PA, Dunham MJ. 2022. yEvo: Experimental evolution in high school classrooms selects for novel mutations that impact clotrimazole resistance in S. cerevisiae. G3. 12(11): jkac246. Open access.

Recorded Talks

  • "A new implementation of yEvo: A university-high school collaboration to evolve caffeine tolerance in yeast," presented by Renee Geck at the Bridging Research and Education With Model Organism Research (BREWMOR) workshop 2022. Watch the video here.
  • "yEvo: A collaborative evolution research experience with high school classrooms," presented by Bryce Taylor at The Allied Genetics Conference (TAGC) 2020. Watch the video here.

Other Features

  • Blog post from Kelsey Kovarik at The Downtown School, "Teens Thinking Like Scientists," June 2024. Read the post here.
  • This Week in Microbiology Episode 282: At-home Evolution With Yeast. Listen on the ASM site or your favorite podcast app.
  • NSF Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences Blog, "Making epistasis fun," June 2021. Read the post here.
  • BEACON Center, "Team yEvo goes to National Association of Biology Teachers," March 2019. Read the post here.
  • Westridge School News, "Westridge AP Bio Research to Expand to Schools Across the U.S. with National Science Foundation Grant," May 2018. Read the post here.