General Topics

General S. cerevisiae information

• Generally speaking:What are yeasts?
  • Here are some pictures of yeast

• The Art of Brewing, courtesy of Miller Brewing Company.

• Information about yeast and bread baking, from Fleischmann's and Red Star Yeast companies.

• Information about the yeast-based foods Marmite and Vegemite.

• An introduction to yeast, the most ideal eukaryotic microorganism for biological studies.

• An updated version the yeast primer Getting Started with Yeast written by Fred Sherman.

• Yeast Molecular Biology: A Short Compendium on Basic Features and Novel Aspects written by Horst Feldmann at the University of Munich

• Download a guide to S.cerevisiae nomenclature, published in Trends in Genetics.

• A tutorial from the University of Saskatchewan provides an introduction to SGD and to S. cerevisiae molecular biology and genetics.

• SGD maintains a list of websites with relevance to S. cerevisiae molecular biology and genetics and to general molecular biology.

• Search the Yeast BioSci (a.k.a. BioNet) Electronic Conference

• Usenet group on yeast molecular biology: bionet.molbio.yeast