Research group

Benchmarking, FAIRfication, Food safety, Functional annotation, Genome Assembly, Genome Sequencing, Genomic Annotation, Genomics, Mapping, Metabolic modelling, Metagenomics, Microbial communities, Microbial Communities, Molecular evolution, Non-model organisms, Omics, Population genomics, RNA Sequencing (RNA-seq), Sequence Alignment, Sequence analysis, Sequence error correction, Transcriptomics, Variant calling, Viromics

Lu, D., Methlie, I.-S., Sønstebø, J. H., Andersen, A., Peris, D., Maurice, S., Kauserud, H., & Skrede, I. (2025). Postglacial history of a widespread wood-decaying fungus in Europe suggests migration out of multiple refugia followed by admixture. https://doi.org/10.22541/au.174974758.83731521/v1

Sánchez‐Adriá, I., Prieto, J. A., Sanmartín, G., Morard, M., García‐Ríos, E., Estruch, F., & Randez‐Gil, F. (2025). Sterol‐Targeted Laboratory Evolution Allows the Isolation of Thermotolerant and Respiratory‐Competent Clones of the Industrial Yeast <scp>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</scp>. Microbial Biotechnology, 18(1). Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.70092

Moimenta, A. R., Troitiño-Jordedo, D., Henriques, D., Contreras-Ruíz, A., Minebois, R., Morard, M., Barrio, E., Querol, A., & Balsa-Canto, E. (2025). An integrated multiphase dynamic genome-scale model explains batch fermentations led by species of the Saccharomyces genus. MSystems, 10(2). https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.01615-24

Sanmartín, G., Prieto, J. A., Morard, M., Estruch, F., Blasco-García, J., & Randez-Gil, F. (2025). The Effects of Sourdough Fermentation on the Biochemical Properties, Aroma Profile and Leavening Capacity of Carob Flour. Foods, 14(10), 1677. https://doi.org/10.3390/foods14101677

Gorbe, E., Morard, M., Rausell-Moreno, A., Calatayud, Á., & Penella, C. (2025). Exploring nutritional quality and bioactive compounds in Mediterranean bean landraces. Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, 142, 107433. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfca.2025.107433

Villalba, A., Martínez-Ispizua, E., Morard, M., Crespo-Sempere, A., Albiach-Marti, M. R., Calatayud, A., & Penella, C. (2024). Optimizing sweet potato production: insights into the interplay of plant sanitation, virus influence, and cooking techniques for enhanced crop quality and food security. Frontiers in Plant Science, 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2024.1357611

Morard, M., & Alonso-del-Real, J. (2024). <i>PanRNA: v2.1.11</i> (panrna) [Computer software]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.12626837

Peris, D., Lu, D. S., Kinneberg, V. B., Methlie, I.-S., Dahl, M. S., James, T. Y., Kauserud, H., & Skrede, I. (2022). Large-scale fungal strain sequencing unravels the molecular diversity in mating loci maintained by long-term balancing selection. PLOS Genetics, 18(3), e1010097. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010097

Kinneberg, V. B., Lü, D. S., Peris, D., Ravinet, M., & Skrede, I. (2022). Introgression between highly divergent fungal sister species. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.08.26.505392

Sorribes-Dauden, R., Jordá, T., Peris, D., Martínez-Pastor, M. T., & Puig, S. (2022). Adaptation of Saccharomyces Species to High-Iron Conditions. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 23(22), 13965. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms232213965

Libkind, D., Peris, D., Cubillos, F. A., Steenwyk, J. L., Opulente, D. A., Langdon, Q. K., Rokas, A., & Hittinger, C. T. (2020). Into the wild: new yeast genomes from natural environments and new tools for their analysis. FEMS Yeast Research, 20(2). https://doi.org/10.1093/femsyr/foaa008

Langdon, Q. K., Peris, D., Eizaguirre, J. I., Opulente, D. A., Buh, K. V., Sylvester, K., Jarzyna, M., Rodríguez, M. E., Lopes, C. A., Libkind, D., & Hittinger, C. T. (2020). Postglacial migration shaped the genomic diversity and global distribution of the wild ancestor of lager-brewing hybrids. PLOS Genetics, 16(4), e1008680. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008680

Peris, D., Alexander, W. G., Fisher, K. J., Moriarty, R. V., Basuino, M. G., Ubbelohde, E. J., Wrobel, R. L., & Hittinger, C. T. (2020). Synthetic hybrids of six yeast species. Nature Communications, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15559-4

Morard, M., Benavent-Gil, Y., Ortiz-Tovar, G., Pérez-Través, L., Querol, A., Toft, C., & Barrio, E. (2020). Genome structure reveals the diversity of mating mechanisms in Saccharomyces cerevisiae x Saccharomyces kudriavzevii hybrids, and the genomic instability that promotes phenotypic diversity. Microbial Genomics, 6(3). https://doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.000333

Morard, M., Ibáñez, C., Adam, A. C., Querol, A., Barrio, E., & Toft, C. (2020). Genomic instability in an interspecific hybrid of the genus Saccharomyces: a matter of adaptability. Microbial Genomics, 6(10). https://doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.000448

Perea-Sanz, L., Peris, D., Belloch, C., & Flores, M. (2019). Debaryomyces hansenii Metabolism of Sulfur Amino Acids As Precursors of Volatile Sulfur Compounds of Interest in Meat Products. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 67(33), 9335–9343. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jafc.9b03361

Baker, E. P., Peris, D., Moriarty, R. V., Li, X. C., Fay, J. C., & Hittinger, C. T. (2019). Mitochondrial DNA and temperature tolerance in lager yeasts. Science Advances, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aav1869

Li, X. C., Peris, D., Hittinger, C. T., Sia, E. A., & Fay, J. C. (2019). Mitochondria-encoded genes contribute to evolution of heat and cold tolerance in yeast. Science Advances, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aav1848

Langdon, Q. K., Peris, D., Baker, E. P., Opulente, D. A., Nguyen, H.-V., Bond, U., Gonçalves, P., Sampaio, J. P., Libkind, D., & Hittinger, C. T. (2019). Fermentation innovation through complex hybridization of wild and domesticated yeasts. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 3(11), 1576–1586. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0998-8

Macías, L. G., Morard, M., Toft, C., & Barrio, E. (2019). Comparative Genomics Between Saccharomyces kudriavzevii and S. cerevisiae Applied to Identify Mechanisms Involved in Adaptation. Frontiers in Genetics, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2019.00187

Morard, M., Macías, L. G., Adam, A. C., Lairón-Peris, M., Pérez-Torrado, R., Toft, C., & Barrio, E. (2019). Aneuploidy and Ethanol Tolerance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Frontiers in Genetics, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2019.00082

Eizaguirre, J. I., Peris, D., Rodríguez, M. E., Lopes, C. A., De Los Ríos, P., Hittinger, C. T., & Libkind, D. (2018). Phylogeography of the wild Lager‐brewing ancestor (Saccharomyces eubayanus) in Patagonia. Environmental Microbiology, 20(10), 3732–3743. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.14375

Gonçalves, C., Wisecaver, J. H., Kominek, J., Oom, M. S., Leandro, M. J., Shen, X.-X., Opulente, D. A., Zhou, X., Peris, D., Kurtzman, C. P., Hittinger, C. T., Rokas, A., & Gonçalves, P. (2018). Evidence for loss and reacquisition of alcoholic fermentation in a fructophilic yeast lineage. ELife, 7. CLOCKSS. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.33034

Higgins, D. A., Young, M. K. M., Tremaine, M., Sardi, M., Fletcher, J. M., Agnew, M., Liu, L., Dickinson, Q., Peris, D., Wrobel, R. L., Hittinger, C. T., Gasch, A. P., Singer, S. W., Simmons, B. A., Landick, R., Thelen, M. P., & Sato, T. K. (2018). Natural Variation in the Multidrug Efflux Pump SGE1 Underlies Ionic Liquid Tolerance in Yeast. Genetics, 210(1), 219–234. https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.118.301161

Peris, D., Moriarty, R. V., Alexander, W. G., Baker, E., Sylvester, K., Sardi, M., Langdon, Q. K., Libkind, D., Wang, Q.-M., Bai, F.-Y., Leducq, J.-B., Charron, G., Landry, C. R., Sampaio, J. P., Gonçalves, P., Hyma, K. E., Fay, J. C., Sato, T. K., & Hittinger, C. T. (2017). Hybridization and adaptive evolution of diverse Saccharomyces species for cellulosic biofuel production. Biotechnology for Biofuels, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13068-017-0763-7

Peris, D., Pérez‐Torrado, R., Hittinger, C. T., Barrio, E., & Querol, A. (2017). On the origins and industrial applications of <scp>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</scp> × Saccharomyces kudriavzevii hybrids. Yeast, 35(1), 51–69. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1002/yea.3283

García-Ríos, E., Morard, M., Parts, L., Liti, G., & Guillamón, J. M. (2017). The genetic architecture of low-temperature adaptation in the wine yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. BMC Genomics, 18(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-017-3572-2

McIlwain, S. J., Peris, D., Sardi, M., Moskvin, O. V., Zhan, F., Myers, K. S., Riley, N. M., Buzzell, A., Parreiras, L. S., Ong, I. M., Landick, R., Coon, J. J., Gasch, A. P., Sato, T. K., & Hittinger, C. T. (2016). Genome Sequence and Analysis of a Stress-Tolerant, Wild-Derived Strain ofSaccharomyces cerevisiaeUsed in Biofuels Research. G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics, 6(6), 1757–1766. https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.116.029389

Peris, D., Pérez-Través, L., Belloch, C., & Querol, A. (2016). Enological characterization of Spanish Saccharomyces kudriavzevii strains, one of the closest relatives to parental strains of winemaking and brewing Saccharomyces cerevisiae × S. kudriavzevii hybrids. Food Microbiology, 53, 31–40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fm.2015.07.010

Alexander, W. G., Peris, D., Pfannenstiel, B. T., Opulente, D. A., Kuang, M., & Hittinger, C. T. (2016). Efficient engineering of marker-free synthetic allotetraploids of Saccharomyces. Fungal Genetics and Biology, 89, 10–17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fgb.2015.11.002

Peris, D., Langdon, Q. K., Moriarty, R. V., Sylvester, K., Bontrager, M., Charron, G., Leducq, J.-B., Landry, C. R., Libkind, D., & Hittinger, C. T. (2016). Complex Ancestries of Lager-Brewing Hybrids Were Shaped by Standing Variation in the Wild Yeast Saccharomyces eubayanus. PLOS Genetics, 12(7), e1006155. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1006155

Zhou, X., Peris, D., Kominek, J., Kurtzman, C. P., Hittinger, C. T., & Rokas, A. (2016). In SilicoWhole Genome Sequencer and Analyzer (iWGS): a Computational Pipeline to Guide the Design and Analysis ofde novoGenome Sequencing Studies. G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics, 6(11), 3655–3662. https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.116.034249

Baker, E., Wang, B., Bellora, N., Peris, D., Hulfachor, A. B., Koshalek, J. A., Adams, M., Libkind, D., & Hittinger, C. T. (2015). The Genome Sequence ofSaccharomyces eubayanusand the Domestication of Lager-Brewing Yeasts. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 32(11), 2818–2831. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msv168

Peris, D., Arias, A., Orlić, S., Belloch, C., Pérez-Través, L., Querol, A., & Barrio, E. (2015). Mitochondrial introgression suggests extensive ancestral hybridization events amongSaccharomycesspecies. https://doi.org/10.1101/028324

Peris, D., Sylvester, K., Libkind, D., Gonçalves, P., Sampaio, J. P., Alexander, W. G., & Hittinger, C. T. (2014). Population structure and reticulate evolution of <scp>S</scp>accharomyces eubayanus and its lager‐brewing hybrids. Molecular Ecology, 23(8), 2031–2045. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.12702

Peris, D., Lopes, C. A., Arias, A., & Barrio, E. (2012). Reconstruction of the Evolutionary History of Saccharomyces cerevisiae x S. kudriavzevii Hybrids Based on Multilocus Sequence Analysis. PLoS ONE, 7(9), e45527. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0045527

Peris, D., Lopes, C. A., Belloch, C., Querol, A., & Barrio, E. (2012). Comparative genomics among Saccharomyces cerevisiae × Saccharomyces kudriavzevii natural hybrid strains isolated from wine and beer reveals different origins. BMC Genomics, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-13-407

Peris, D., Belloch, C., Lopandić, K., Álvarez‐Pérez, J. M., Querol, A., & Barrio, E. (2012). The molecular characterization of new types of Saccharomyces cerevisiae × S. kudriavzevii hybrid yeasts unveils a high genetic diversity. Yeast, 29(2), 81–91. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1002/yea.2891

El‐Sharoud, W. M., Belloch, C., Peris, D., & Querol, A. (2009). Molecular Identification of Yeasts Associated with Traditional Egyptian Dairy Products. Journal of Food Science, 74(7). Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1750-3841.2009.01258.x

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