A search for that word gave no results so it appears this has not been posted before:
There will be a talk at the judges’ reception at NHC on that.
“Dr. Diego Libkind from Argentina will give the keynote presentation via Skype on the origins of lager yeast. He led a team that discovered the wild yeast parent that provided the cold-fermenting genes to modern lager yeast. He’s also a homebrewer and aspiring beer judge…”
I think there was a thread or two in the off topic section about it a few months ago.