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Raffaele Nicastro
@raffaelenicastro.bsky.social
Yeast, Spice, and Everything Nice.
Associate Professor at the University of Limerick.
Opinions are my own, that's why they're bad.
Perhaps the best (anonymous) review from a student, so far: "Very amicable nice man".

1) Aaaaawww.
2) I managed to trick you.
November 21, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Just landed in Paris to attend once again my favourite conference, ICYGMB #yeast2025 . If you're around and want to chat about anything yeasty, don't be shy! Ah, also come to check out my poster on Tuesday!
July 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM
🚨New paper alert📰
Out now on
@cp-cellreports.bsky.social: Tco89, an understudied TORC1 subunit in yeast, keeps upstream regulators and TORC1 together. Moreover, TORC1 controls Tco89 stability -> Spatial regulation through multisite phosphorylation!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
TORC1 autonomously controls its spatial partitioning via the Rag GTPase tether Tco89
The eukaryotic target of rapamycin complex 1 (TORC1) kinase is a homeostatic regulator of growth, integrating nutritional cues at the endolysosomal co…
www.sciencedirect.com
May 13, 2025 at 9:51 AM
So it begins. #teaching #academia
March 10, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Reposted by Raffaele Nicastro
YEAST2025: 32nd International Conference on #Yeast #Genetics and Molecular #Biology

Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
ICYGMB32, July 21-24, 2025

premc.org/yeast2025/
February 5, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Reposted by Raffaele Nicastro
Giving to SGD just got easier! We now accept donations by credit card with this form: give.stanford.edu. Select ‘Other Stanford Designation’ under ‘Direct your gift’ & in the ‘Other’ box, add: Saccharomyces Genome Database-Account:GHJKO, Genetics:WAZC. Thanks for your support!
January 30, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Following a mandatory Research Integrity course, I stumbled upon this definition of what's a predatory journal: "A predatory journal is any journal that prioritises profit over science and knowledge"
@academic-chatter.bsky.social
a stuffed monkey is wearing a blue shirt and talking on a phone .
ALT: a stuffed monkey is wearing a blue shirt and talking on a phone .
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January 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM