Lecture View

Lecture View

Wednesday 27 June

Registration and lunch

Opening welcome and overview

Understanding and expanding the phenotypic variation in yeast hybrids of biotechnological importance

Describing and harnessing Saccharomycetaceae yeast variation

Offered paper: Observing microbial responses in complex communities – Precision fermentation and what it can mean for the wine industry

Offered paper: Characterisation of the gut mycobiome in IBD patients

Offered paper: Five genes but the loss of five amino acids disrupt PRPP and CWI

Offered paper: Determination of the mechanisms to suppress degradation of the cytochromec oxidase structural subunit, Cox1p, by the mitochondrial protease, Oma1p

Offered paper: EF2 gene network interactions reveal diphthamide promotes growth and fitness in yeast

Coffee break, networking and poster viewing

Establishment of meiosis I chromosome segregation by coordination of key meiotic kinases

Offered paper: SUMOylation regulates the metaphase-anaphase transition by inactivating the pericentromeric signaling hub

Offered paper: Transcriptional Repression of a Master Regulator Governs Entry in Gametogenesis in Budding Yeast

Offered paper: Histone ubiquitination regulates the enzymatic activity of the histone H3K9 methyltransferase Clr4

Epigenetics and Genome plasticity in the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans

Local beer tasting and poster viewing

Conference dinner, Stamford Court

Thursday 28 June

Registration and welcome refreshments

Phenotypic heterogeneity and brewing yeast populations

Offered paper: Cytochrome P450 diversity in the NCYC collection and their use in biosynthetic gene cluster discovery

Offered paper : A synthetic biology system in Saccharomyces cerevisiae for investigating membrane organisation modulated by feedback reactions

Engineering S. cerevisiae for therapeutic protein production – An industrial perspective

Coffee break, networking and poster viewing

Lunch, networking and poster viewing

Yeast population genomics: origin and evolution of a classic model organism

Offered paper: Searching for the unknown in the pan-genome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Offered paper: Deep Evolution for Minimal Metabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

The genus Lachancea gives us another chance to understand genome evolution

Coffee break, networking and poster viewing

Use of the yeast ncRNA knockout collection for the mode of action and target identification of orphan drugs

Metabolic Memory Effects in Fission Yeast Ageing

Identification of novel factors involved in organelle transport in yeast

eIF4AIII recruitment at transcription sites is intron-independent in fission yeast

Investigating the apoptotic function of ECE-1 isoforms in a yeast-based system

MAPK signalling is regulated by lipid droplets and the mitochondrial outer membrane protein Porin in S. cerevisiae

Computing a Yeast Tree of Life

Investigation of vacuole dysfunction in the role of metabolic dysfunction in Sod1 associated Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Molecular insights into microtubule anchoring matrix

Drinks reception and poster viewing

Conference dinner and live band, Stamford Court

Friday 29 June

Morning tea and coffee

Genetic analyses of chronological lifespan in fission yeast

Offered paper: Multi-omic characterisation of an unusual pyruvate kinase 1 allele limiting glycolytic flux in wild fission yeast populations and the standard laboratory strain

Offered paper: Investigating Candida albicans Colonisation of Voice Prostheses Following Laryngectomy

Approaching a nucleotide-level fitness landscape of the fission yeast genome

Coffee break, networking and poster viewing

A comparative approach to understand cellular geometry scaling

Offered paper: Combined modification defects in tRNAGlnUUG impair prionogenesis

Offered paper: In vivo and in vitro analyses of the operation and control of oxidative protein folding in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Harnessing genetic approaches in yeast to dissect the mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration

Lunch

Optional Richard III tour