Conference Programme
Updated: June 27, 2017
DAY 1 Sunday, August 27, 2017
14.30 – 18.00
Registration
18.00 – 18.30
Opening Ceremony
18.30 – 19.30
Opening lecture
OL Yoshinori Ohsumi (Japan), 2016 Nobel Prize laureate – “Molecular mechanism and physiological roles of autophagy“
OL Yoshinori Ohsumi (Japan), 2016 Nobel Prize laureate – “Molecular mechanism and physiological roles of autophagy“
19.30 – 21.00
Welcome Cocktail
DAY 2 Monday, August 28, 2017
08.30 – 10.15
Symposium
S1 Regulation of Gene Expression
Chair: Graham Pavitt (UK), Co-chair: Leoš Valášek (Czech Republic)
S1 Regulation of Gene Expression
Chair: Graham Pavitt (UK), Co-chair: Leoš Valášek (Czech Republic)
- 08.30: Jason Brickner (USA) – “The nuclear pore complex facilitates interchromosomal clustering and epigenetic transcriptional regulation”
- 09.00: Graham Pavitt (UK) – “New insights into translational control by eIF2B”
- 09.30: Olivier Namy (France) – “Translation fidelity: how stop codons can be read by tRNA?”
- 10.00: Michael Polymenis (USA) – “Translational control in the cell cycle” (speaker selected from abstracts)
10.15 – 11.00
Keynote lecture
KL1 Alan G. Hinnebusch (USA) - “A network of molecular interactions restricts stable preinitiation complex assembly to optimal translation start codons in vivo”
KL1 Alan G. Hinnebusch (USA) - “A network of molecular interactions restricts stable preinitiation complex assembly to optimal translation start codons in vivo”
11.00 – 11.30
Coffee break
11.30 – 13.15
Symposium
S2 RNA processing and regulation
Chair: Lidia Vasiljeva (UK), Co-chair: Štěpánka Vaňáčová (Czech Republic)
S2 RNA processing and regulation
Chair: Lidia Vasiljeva (UK), Co-chair: Štěpánka Vaňáčová (Czech Republic)
- 11.30: Lidia Vasiljeva (UK) – “Investigating role of phosphorylation of the RNA polymerase II in transcription and 3’ end formation of functional mRNA”
- 12.00: Katja Straesser (Germany) – “Formation of Nuclear mRNPs (messenger ribonucleoprotein particles)”
- 12.30: Grzegorz Kudla (UK) The EMBO Young Investigator Lecture – “Fitness landscape of yeast U3 snoRNA”
- 13.00: Raphael Loll-Krippleber (Canada) – “P-bodies regulate transcriptional rewiring during DNA replication stress” (speaker selected from abstracts)
13.15 – 14.30
Lunch
14.30 – 16.30
Poster sessions
16.30 – 17.00
Coffee break
17.00 – 19.00
Parallel workshops
- W1 Yeast population, comparative and evolutionary genomics – chair – Joseph Schacherer (France)
- W2 Modern yeast biotechnology – chair – Diethard Mattanovich (Austria)
- W3 Controlling gene expression – chair – Katja Straesser (Germany)
DAY 3 Tuesday, August 29, 2017
08.30 – 10.30
Symposium
S3 Metabolism and stress response
Chair: Johan Thevelein (Belgium), Co-chair: Libuše Váchová (Czech Republic)
S3 Metabolism and stress response
Chair: Johan Thevelein (Belgium), Co-chair: Libuše Váchová (Czech Republic)
- 08.30: Johan Thevelein (Belgium) – “Fructose-1,6-bisphosphate activation of Ras and nutrient transceptor - eIF2B/eIF2 interaction as novel mechanisms in yeast nutrient signaling”
- 09.00: Zdena Palkova (CZ) – “Metabolic differentiation: Role in ageing and long-term survival of yeast colonies”
- 09.30: Marcus Ralser (UK) – “From its origins to the modern metabolic network“
- 10.00: Jun-Yi Leu (Taiwan) – “Evolutionary Adaptation to a Foreign Hsp90 in the Budding Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae” (speaker selected from abstracts)
10.30 – 11.00
Coffee break
11.00 – 13.00
Symposium
S4 Organelle dynamics
Chair: Roger Schneiter (Switzerland), Co-chair: Jan Malínský (Czech Republic)
S4 Organelle dynamics
Chair: Roger Schneiter (Switzerland), Co-chair: Jan Malínský (Czech Republic)
- 11.00: Roger Schneiter (Switzerland) – “Lipid droplets and the ER membrane – a mysterious connection”
- 11.30: Chris Stefan (UK) – “ER-PM Contacts: Principals of PI Kinase Signaling & Membrane Organization”
- 12.00: Maria Bohnert (Israel) – “Never walk alone – contact sites between lipid droplets and other organelles”
- 12.30: Agnes Michel (Switzerland) – “Functional Mapping of Yeast Genomes by Saturated Transposition” (speaker selected from abstracts)
13.00
Tour for Accompanying persons
13.00 – 14.30
Lunch
14.30 – 16.30
Poster sessions
16.30 – 17.00
Coffee break
17.00 – 19.00
Parallel workshops
- W4 Metabolism and organelles – chair – Patricia Kane (USA)
- W5 New tools in yeast research – chair – Charles Boone (Canada)
- W6 Cell cycle, cytoskeleton and morphogenesis – chair – Kathryn Ayscough (UK)
DAY 4 Wednesday, August 30, 2017
08.30 – 10.30
Symposium
S5 Cellular strategies of protein quality control
Chair: Judith Frydman (USA), Co-chair: Ivana Malcová (Czech Republic)
S5 Cellular strategies of protein quality control
Chair: Judith Frydman (USA), Co-chair: Ivana Malcová (Czech Republic)
- 08.30: Franz-Ulrich Hartl (Germany) The EMBO Keynote Lecture – ”Yeast as a model to understand fundamental mechanisms of protein quality control“
- 09.15: Judith Frydman (USA) – ”Proteostasis function and disfunction: the delicate art of maintaining a healthy proteome“
- 09.45: Yves Barral (Switzerland) – “Protein aggregation during ageing: damage or adaptation“
- 10.15: Marjorie Petitjean (UK) – “Genetic dissection of an evolutionary conserved pathway regulating protein degradation” (speaker selected from abstracts)
10.30 – 11.00
Coffee break
11.00 – 12.45
Symposium
S6 Cell cycle and cell fate
Chair: Michael Breitenbach (Austria), Co-chair: Jiří Hašek (Czech Republic)
S6 Cell cycle and cell fate
Chair: Michael Breitenbach (Austria), Co-chair: Jiří Hašek (Czech Republic)
- 11.00: Michael Breitenbach (Austria) – “The Saccharomyces cerevisiae NADPH oxidase, YNO1, and its role in regulating the actin cytoskeleton”
- 11.30: Elmar Schiebel (Germany) – “Duplication of the budding yeast spindle pole body (SPB)”
- 12.00: Andreas S. Reichert (Germany) – “Regulation of mitophagy by (de-)ubiquitylation”
- 12.30: Laura Matellán (Spain) – “A New Factor Involved in the Establishment of the Non-random Inheritance Pattern of the Spindle Pole Bodies in Saccharomyces cerevisiae” (speaker selected from abstracts)
12.45 – 13.30
Keynote lecture
KL2 Reed B. Wickner (USA) – “Anti-Prion Systems in S. cerevisiae”
KL2 Reed B. Wickner (USA) – “Anti-Prion Systems in S. cerevisiae”
Lunchbox
Free afternoon
19.00 – 20.00
Concert of classical music
DAY 5 Thursday, August 31, 2017
08.30 – 10.30
Symposium
S7 New biotechnologies
Chair: Eckhard Boles (Germany), Co-chair: Hana Sychrová (Czech Republic)
S7 New biotechnologies
Chair: Eckhard Boles (Germany), Co-chair: Hana Sychrová (Czech Republic)
- 08.30: Jens Nielsen (Sweden) – “Systems Metabolic Engineering of Yeast”
- 09.00: Eckhard Boles (Germany) – “Engineering enzyme complexes: creating artificial and re-engineering existing enzyme complexes for biotechnological purposes”
- 09.30: Vratislav Stovicek (Denmark) – “Biorefine-2G: From Waste Biomass To Biopolymers Using Yeast Cell Factories” (speaker selected from abstracts)
- 10.00: Ursula Bond (Ireland) – “Deciphering The Roles Of Hybrid And Orphan Genes In The Hybrid Species, Saccharomyces pastorianus”
- 10.15: Darius R. Kutyna (Australia) – “Constructing a synthetic Saccharomyces cerevisiae pan-genome neo-chromosome” (speaker selected from abstracts)
10.30 – 11.00
Coffee break
11.00 – 13.00
Symposium
S8 DNA replication, mutation and repair
Chair: Lorraine Symington (USA), Co-chair: Lumír Krejčí (Czech Republic)
S8 DNA replication, mutation and repair
Chair: Lorraine Symington (USA), Co-chair: Lumír Krejčí (Czech Republic)
- 11.00: Lorraine S. Symington (UK) – “DNA End Resection and Repair Pathway Choice”
- 11.30: Dana Branzei (Italy) – “DDK-mediated regulation of the deSUMOylating enzyme Ulp2 facilitates early steps of DNA replication”
- 12.00: Sue Jinks-Robertson (USA) – “Molecular outcomes of double-strand break repair”
- 12.30: John Diffley (UK) – “Reconstituting chromosome replication”
13.00 – 14.30
Lunch
14.00 – 16.00
SGD workshop
Discovery tools at the Saccharomyces Genome Database
Discovery tools at the Saccharomyces Genome Database
14.30 – 16.30
Poster sessions
16.30 – 17.00
Coffee break
17.00 – 19.00
Parallel workshops
- W7 Proteostasis, ageing and disease models – chair – Yury Chernoff (USA)
- W8 Stress signalling and protein trafficking – chair – Bruno Andre (Belgium)
- W9 Systems biology and bioinformatics – chair – Steve Oliver (UK)
20.00 – 23.00
Conference dinner
DAY 6 Friday, September 1, 2017
08.30 – 10.00
Symposium
S9 Yeast pathogens and host interaction
Chair: James Konopka (USA), Co-chair: Martin Pospíšek (Czech Republic)
S9 Yeast pathogens and host interaction
Chair: James Konopka (USA), Co-chair: Martin Pospíšek (Czech Republic)
- 08.30: James Konopka (USA) – “MCC/Eisosome Plasma Membrane Subdomains Promote Stress Resistance and Virulence of Candida albicans”
- 09.00: Manuel Santos (Portugal) – “The statistical proteome of Candida albicans”
- 09.30: Sara Salazar (Portugal) – “Comparative Genomic and Transcriptomic Analyses Unveil Novel Features of Azole Resistance and Adaptation to the Human Host in Candida glabrata” (speaker selected from abstracts)
- 09.45: Jürgen Wendland (Belgium) – “Predator Yeasts: Genomics and Molecular Biology of Necrotrophic Killer Yeasts” (speaker selected from abstracts)
10.00 – 10.30
Coffee break
10.30 – 12.15
Symposium
S10 Yeast sociobiology, sensing and signalling
Chair: Terrance G. Cooper (USA), Co-chair: Zdena Palková (Czech Republic)
S10 Yeast sociobiology, sensing and signalling
Chair: Terrance G. Cooper (USA), Co-chair: Zdena Palková (Czech Republic)
- 10.30: Per Ljungdahl (Sweden) – “Extracellular amino acid-induced SPS-sensor signalling in the context of intracellular metabolic regulation”
- 11.00: Claudio de Virgilio (Switzerland) – “Regulation of TORC1 by amino acids: a central role for Rag GTPases within the EGO complex”
- 11.30: Marc Meneghini (Canada) – “A rudimentary apoptotic pathway protects sporulating yeast from lethal viral accumulation” (speaker selected from abstracts)
- 11.50: Vítor Costa (Portugal) – “he Hog1p kinase regulates the Aft1p transcription factor to control iron accumulation” (speaker selected from abstracts)
12.15 – 13.00
Closing Lecture
CL Terrance G. Cooper (USA) – “From Rags to Riches and Back Again – Nitrogen-Responsive Regulation in S. cerevisiae”
CL Terrance G. Cooper (USA) – “From Rags to Riches and Back Again – Nitrogen-Responsive Regulation in S. cerevisiae”
13.00 – 14.00
Closing ceremony and Best Poster Awards