Benjamin Wolfe

@benwolfe.bsky.social

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Associate Professor Tufts University Ecology/evolution of microbes in food systems. Constant gardener.

Wheels of a Camembert-style cheese made with a white/mutant Penicillium solitum isolate. These cheeses are placed alongside plates of Penicillium solitum and the blue cheese Bayley Hazen Blue where the fungus was originally isolated.
Figure showing the types and locations of mutations/insertions in the alb1 gene of Penicillium solitum
Researchers sampling the rinds of a blue cheese in a cheese cave
Timeline showing the transition of rinds of Bayley Hazen Blue cheese going from green to white from 2014 to 2024
Wheels of a blue cheese with white rinds
Wheels of the blue cheese Bayley Hazen Blue with a green fungus on the surface