Chris Todd Hittinger

Career Trajectory

Research Cluster Map

Direct collaborators. Node size = influence, colour = community, dashed = past collaboration.

• Convergent evolution of aerobic fermentation through divergent mechanisms acting on the same key glycolytic genes

  2026-06-17

• Beyond Glucose: Machine Learning Identifies Genetic Determinants of Mannose Metabolism Across More Than 1,000 Yeast Species

  Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026-06-11

• Beyond Glucose: Machine Learning Identifies Genetic Determinants of Mannose Metabolism Across More Than 1,000 Yeast Species

  Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026-06-11

• Machine learning identifies novel signatures of antifungal drug resistance in Saccharomycotina yeasts

  PLoS Genetics · 2026-03-17

• Ancient co-option of LTR retrotransposons as yeast centromeres

  Nature · 2026-02-18 · 2 citations

• Discovery of additional ancient genome duplications in yeasts

  Current Biology · 2026-01-28

• The macroevolution of filamentation morphology across the <i>Saccharomycotina</i> yeast subphylum

  FEMS Yeast Research · 2026-01-01

• The Macroevolution of Filamentation Morphology Across the <i>Saccharomycotina</i> Yeast SubphylumPreprint

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025-11-27

• A Trait Syndrome Ties Cell Morphology to Glycolysis Across the Yeast SubphylumPreprint

  iScience · 2025-10-30

• Stable Hypermutators Revealed by the Genomic Landscape of Genes Involved in Genome Stability Among Yeast Species

  Molecular Biology and Evolution · 2025-10-29 · 2 citations

• Convergent evolution of aerobic fermentation through divergent mechanisms acting on key shared glycolytic genesPreprint

  The EMBO Journal · 2025-10-02 · 2 citations

• Discovery of additional ancient genome duplications in yeastsPreprint

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025-09-04 · 2 citations

• MAESTRO uncovers tandem paralog dynamics as a core driver of fungal stress adaptationPreprint

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025-09-04 · 3 citations

• Genomic factors limiting the diversity of Saccharomycotina plant pathogens

  G3 Genes Genomes Genetics · 2025-08-12

• Machine learning reveals genes impacting oxidative stress resistance across yeasts

  Nature Communications · 2025-07-01 · 6 citations

• Convergent expansions of keystone gene families drive metabolic innovation in Saccharomycotina yeasts

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2025-06-03 · 15 citations

• Unique trajectory of gene family evolution from genomic analysis of nearly all known species in an ancient yeast lineage

  Molecular Systems Biology · 2025-05-27 · 6 citations

• Integrating Intermediate Traits in Phylogenetic Genotype-to-Phenotype Studies

  Integrative and Comparative Biology · 2025-05-15 · 1 citations

• Machine learning identifies novel signatures of antifungal drug resistance in <i>Saccharomycotina</i> yeastsPreprint

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025-05-10 · 3 citations

• Celebrating the fifth edition of the International Symposium on Fungal Stress – ISFUS, a decade after its 2014 debut

  Fungal Biology · 2025-05-06 · 2 citations