Lecture View

Lecture View

Monday 26 June

Opening keynote lecture - Engineering of yeasts – From brewer's yeast to synthetic biology

Opening reception

Tuesday 27 June

Brewing innovation through yeast: from nature to industry

Offered oral - Non-conventional yeast: key to beer innovation?

Offered oral - Survival of the fittest: The fight for dominance in grape juice and the genetics underpinning yeast strain performance

Offered oral - Genetic causes of phenotypic adaptation to the second fermentation of sparkling wines in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Offered oral - Interactions with different yeast strains promote a common and specific transcriptomic response in S. cerevisiae to co-cultivation

Offered oral - Characterisation of brewing relevant properties of S. eubayanus

Refreshments, networking and poster viewing

Quantitative genetics and breeding in Saccharomyces hybrids: overcoming the sterility barrier

Offered oral - Hybrid genes confer unique phenotypes on the hybrid species Saccharomyces pastorianus

Offered oral - Mining Saccharomyces diversity and experimental evolution for cellulosic biofuel and beer applications

Offered oral - Expansion of sugar transporters in the genome of the industrial yeast Kluyveromces marxianus

Offered oral - Sequencing the National Collection of Yeast Cultures: a resource for yeast research and biotechnology

Offered oral - Structural and functional characterisation of AceTr transporter family members

Lunch, networking and poster viewing

Engineering Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeasts for robust, efficient biofuels production

Offered oral - Towards Saccharomyces cerevisiae-based fermentation of glycerol for producing chemicals with a high demand in reducing power

Offered oral - Metabolic engineering of the flavinogenic yeast Candida famata for construction of the producers of ribioflavin, flavin nucleotides and flavin antibiotics

Offered oral - Biosynthesis of very long-chain fatty alcohols and wax esters in metabolically engineered strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Offered oral - Enhancing the sweetener erythritol productivity in Yarrowia lipolytica using metabolic engineering

Offered oral - Engineering robust yeast strains for cellobiose fermentation in presence of real lignocellulosic hydrolysates

Refreshments, networking and poster viewing

Genetic tools for the yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus

Pathway swapping: a new approach to simply and efficiently remodel essential native cellular functions

Flash poster presentations

Drinks reception, networking and poster viewing

Wednesday 28 June

Offered oral - Strain and process development for fermentative production of Rebaudiosides

Offered oral - Saccharomyces cerevisiae: a factory for production of modified fatty acids and fatty alcohols

Offered oral - Factorial design to improve the astaxanthin production using Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous in a lost-cost medium

Offered oral - Engineering the synthesis of key precursors for the production monoterpenes and malonyl-CoA derived chemicals in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Offered oral - Biosynthesis of trans-cinnamic acid derivatives in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Offered oral - Ethyl acetate production by the elusive alcohol acetyltransferase from yeast

Offered oral - Strategies for metabolic engineering and optimisation of S. cerevisiae into cell factories for the production of terpenes

Refreshments, networking and poster viewing

"Proline" science and technology for industrial yeast

Offered oral - Improving the performance and osmotolerance of Saccharomyces kudriavzevii cells in fermentations via heterologous expression of transporters from other yeast species

Offered oral - Lactic acid stress imposes changes in Zygosaccharomyces parabailii transcriptome

Offered oral - Extensive genomic diversity and its effects on sulfite tolerance in the industrial yeast Brettanomyces bruxellensis

Offered oral - Thermotolerance analysis of Saccharomyces strains from different environments and strategies for their genetic improvement

Offered oral - Mezcal yeasts selection for vanillin and furfural tolerances

Lunch, networking and poster viewing

Graham Fleet Memorial Lecture

Refreshments, networking and poster viewing

The EMBO Keynote Lecture: Yeast as a useful model of human diseases that allows cheap, rapid and reliable drug screening

Cultural event: Pulses of Tradition

Thursday 29 June

Measuring dynamic changes to the yeast proteome under stress and altered growth conditions

Offered oral - Cross-talk of central carbon and lipid metabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Offered oral - Potential of metabolic modelling to identify engineering targets for an industrial yeast

Offered oral - The Saccharomyces cerevisiae poly(A) binding protein Pab1 as a target for isolating mutants with improved stress tolerance

Offered oral - Sch9 kinase and Gcn4 transcription factor control glycerol production during winemaking

Offered oral - Anhydrobiosis in yeasts: Mechanisms of cell resistance

Refreshments, networking and poster viewing

Production of globin proteins in yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Offered oral - Kluyveromyces marxianus and the milky whey

Offered oral - Nitrogen concentration and carbon source effects on fermentative capacity of Kluyveromyces marxianus

Offered oral - Aeration and non-conventional yeasts for wine production

Offered oral - Competition for nutrients between S. cerevisiae and non-Saccharomyces yeasts impacts the outcome of wine fermentation

Offered oral - The indigenous microflora of Eucalyptus gunnii, a substrate for Australian Aboriginal fermentations

Lunch, networking and poster viewing

Adaptation to high ethanol reveals complex evolutionary pathways

Offered oral - Stress resistance during wine fermentation and development of optimised wine yeasts

Offered oral - Evolutionary engineering for development of a novel Saccharomyces cerevisiae screening strain

Offered oral - Improvement of acetic acid tolerance in an industrial Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast strain using novel causative SNPs/genes

Offered oral - QTL mapping in various environmental conditions reveals complex GxE interactions shaping the phenotypic variation of quantitative traits in œnology

Offered oral - Using experimental evolution to engineer a low flocculation yeast strain

Offered oral - Exploration of Saccharomyces cerevisiae intra-species diversity for the identification of novel genetic determinants for acetic acid tolerance with the help of pooled-segregant RNA sequencing

Refreshments, networking and poster viewing

Closing keynote lecture - New bio-based supply chains for medicines

ICY business, prizes and conference close

Conference dinner