Exploiting divergent biology of two fission yeasts to understand membrane function

Snezhana Oliferenko (King's College London, UK)

Offered oral: Species-wide multi-omic analysis of natural S. cerevisiae isolates reveals buffering of aneuploidy burden at the proteome level

Julia Muenzner (Charité University Medicine, Germany)

Offered oral: m6A reader Pho92 is recruited co-transcriptionally and couples translation efficacy to mRNA decay to promote meiotic fitness in yeast

Folkert van Werven (The Francis Crick Institute, UK)

Offered oral: The Spo13/Meikin pathway confines the onset of gamete differentiation to meiosis II in yeast

Tuğçe Öz-Yoldas (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany)

Mechanism of Seipin-mediated lipid droplet formation

Pedro Carvalho (University of Oxford, UK)

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Coupling cytokinetic actomyosin ring assembly with extracellular glycan matrix assembly

Mohan Balasubramanian (University of Warwick, UK)

Offered oral: Signatures of metabolic heterogeneity in exponentially growing yeast

Benjamin Heineike (University College London, UK)

Offered oral: The NLS sequence of Prs3 is paramount for the maintenance of the cell wall integrity (CWI) pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Michael Schweizer (Heriot Watt University, UK)

Offered oral: Ageing-associated long non-coding RNA1 (aal1) slows growth and prolongs chronological lifespan by moderating translation in fission yeast

Shajahan Anver (University College London, UK)

SATurated Transposon Analysis in Yeast highlights the role of phospholipid synthesis and transport in adaptation to stress

Benoît Kornmann (University of Oxford, UK)

The essential DEAD-box ATPase Dbp2 functions in nuclear RNA surveillance

Cornelia Kilchert (Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany)

Mapping genetic interaction networks in yeast and human cells

Charles Boone (University of Toronto, Canada)

Offered oral: Investigation of growth influencing factors and cellular interactions during colony growth

Biborka Piller (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary)

Targeting a new kingdom: investigation into the mode of action of Type VI secretion system-elicited antifungal effectors

Janet Quinn (Newcastle University, UK)

Introduction from the Carl Singer Foundation

P08 | Resolving a metabolic paradox – Inorganic sulfur fixation via a new homocysteine synthase allows yeast to cooperatively compensate for methionine auxotrophy

P19 | Assessment of natural yeast strains for increased tolerance to inhibitor compounds encountered during fermentation of lignocellulosic residues to produce bioethanol

P02 | Advancing Pir-based yeast surface display by reshuffling and truncating Pir2-β-lactamase constructs

P22 | Yeast proteomic response to amino acid supplementation and media composition

P28 | Proteomic and metallomic responses of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to perturbations of environmental metal availability

P14 | Genestorian: A web application for model organism strain collections

P11 | Regulation of germination initiation by nutrient sensing pathway in fission yeast spores

P04 | Improving the production of second generation biofuel through exploiting the natural diversity of the yeast Scheffersomyces stipitis

P18 | EMC disruption affects mitochondrial function by altering sterol homeostasis

P17 | Pin4 coordinates transcriptional and post-transcriptional stress responses in yeast

P26 | Epigenetics of stress-induced genome instability in the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans

P23 | Questioning the nonsense: what mechanism(s) connect pre-mRNA splicing with nonsense mediated mRNA decay in fission yeast?

P03 | Genetic Determinants of Biofilm Formation in Fission Yeast

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