Yeast

The Yeast section of Fermentation serves as a dedicated forum for high-quality original research articles, reviews, short communications, and perspectives encompassing all aspects of yeast science and biotechnology. The section aims to rapidly disseminate advances across fundamental research and industrial applications, highlighting both established and emerging directions in yeast-based innovation.

We welcome contributions on the physiology, genetics, metabolism, and evolutionary biology of yeasts, as well as on the use of yeasts as microbial cell factories for the production of enzymes, biopharmaceuticals, biofuels, alcohols, organic acids, flavors, and other high-value compounds. Special attention is given to recent breakthroughs in yeast strain development through metabolic, synthetic, and evolutionary engineering approaches.

This section also emphasizes modern analytical and experimental techniques, including omics-based characterization, yeast microfluidic platforms for single-cell analysis and high-throughput screening, and applications of nanobiotechnology. Manuscripts addressing innovations in yeast fermentation technology, process intensification, downstream processing, and strategies to combat pathogenic yeasts are strongly encouraged.

In addition, the section welcomes interdisciplinary studies at the interface of yeast biotechnology and space biology, systems biology, biosensing, and environmental sustainability.

The scope includes, but is not limited to, the following:

• Yeast metabolism, stress physiology, and gene regulation;
• Yeast systems biology and multi-omics approaches;
• Microfluidic methods for yeast cultivation and analysis;
• Yeast metabolic engineering and synthetic biology;
• Fermentation process development and scale-up;
• Yeasts in food, beverage, and nutraceutical production;
• Bioproduction of enzymes, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals using yeast;
• Adaptive evolution and strain optimization;
• Yeast-based biosensors and bioelectronic applications;
• Nanobiotechnology and single-cell techniques;
• Pathogenic yeast biology and antifungal interventions;
• Yeast–host and yeast–microbiome interactions;
• Space microbiology and gravitational biology using yeast;
• Bioprocess monitoring and automation;
• Modeling and computational design of yeast cell factories.