Professor Ed Louis
Professor of Genetics
Department: Genetics and Genome Biology, Department of
Telephone: +44 (0)116 229 7813
Email: ejl21@leicester.ac.uk
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S. Naseeb, F. Visinoni, Y. Hu, A. J. Hinks Roberts, A. Maslowska, T. Walsh, K. A. Smart, E. J. Louis, D. Delneri. 2021. Restoring fertility in yeast hybrids: breeding and quantitative genetics of beneficial traits. PNAS 118 (38): e2101242118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2101242118
David BH Barton; Danae Georghiou; Neelam Dave; Majed Alghamdi; Thomas Walsh; Edward J. Louis*; Steven Scott Foster*. 2018. PHENOS: a high-throughput and flexible tool for microorganism growth phenotyping on solid media. BMC Microbiology (2018) 18:9.
B. Dujon and E.J. Louis. 2017. Genome diversity and evolution in the budding yeasts (Saccharomycotina). Genetics 206: 717-750.
Becker, M. M. and E. J. Louis. 2014. Genomics of Subtelomeres: Technical Problems, Solutions and the Future. In, Louis, E. J. and Becker M. M., Eds. Subtelomeres. Chapter 15. pp. 259-271. Springer, Heidelberg.
Francisco A. Cubillos, Leopold Parts, Francisco Salinas, Anders Bergström, Eugenio Scovacricchi, Amin Zia, Christopher J. R. Illingworth, Ville Mustonen, Sebastian Ibstedt, Jonas Warringer, Edward J. Louis, Richard Durbin and Gianni Liti. 2013. High resolution mapping of complex traits with a four-parent advanced intercross yeast population. Genetics 195:1141-1155. http://dx.doi.org /10.1534/genetics.113.155515
Gianni Liti and Edward J Louis. 2012. Advances in Quantitative Trait Analysis in Yeast. PLoS Genetics 8(8): e1002912.
Louis, E. J. 2011. Population genomics and speciation in yeasts. Fungal Biology Reviews 25: 136-142.
Gianni Liti, David M. Carter, Alan M. Moses, Jonas Warringer, Leopold Parts, Stephen A. James, Robert P. Davey, Ian N. Roberts, Austin Burt, Vassiliki Koufopanou, Isheng J. Tsai, Casey M. Bergman, Douda Bensasson, Michael J. T. O’kelly, Alexander Van Oudenaarden, David B. H. Barton, Elizabeth Bailes, Matthew Jones, Michael A. Quail, Ian Goodhead, Sarah Sims, Frances Smith, Anders Blomberg, Richard Durbin & Edward J. Louis, 2009. Population genomics of domestic and wild yeasts. Nature 458: 337-341.
Liti, G., Barton, D.B.H. and E.J. Louis, Sequence diversity, reproductive isolation and species concepts in Saccharomyces. Genetics, 2006. 174(2):839-50.
Goffeau, A., B.G. Barrell, H. Bussey, R.W. Davis, B. Dujon, H. Feldmann, F. Galibert, J.D. Hoheisel, C. Jacq, M. Johnston, E.J. Louis, H.W. Mewes, Y. Murakami, P. Philippsen, H. Tettelin and S.G. Oliver, Life with 6000 genes. Science, 1996. 274(5287): p. 546, 563-7.
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Activities
Member Board of Directors of Earlham Enterprises Limited- (since November 2021)
Contributing Member of Microbiology Working Group of EFSA - since May 2019
Member Board of Trustee Directors of the Earlham Institute - (since June 2017)
External Examiner University of Edinburgh Genetics Degrees (2015-2019)
Trustee Director of the Frozen Ark Charity (Chair of Trustees) (2010 - 2021)
Member Chair from 2020 of Eukaryotic Division Committee Microbiology Society (2014 - 2021)
Interests
Qualifications
BSc (Biology and Mathematics) Clarkson University 1981
PhD (Genetics) University of California at Berkeley 1986