British Yeast Group 2021 programme now available
The event will begin on the first morning with a Keynote Lecture from Markus Ralser (Francis Crick Institute, UK & Charité, Germany) with his presentation ‘Large-scale proteomics reveals novel gene function and yeast protein complex dynamics’. Day one’s session will end with ‘When 1+1 is 1: using fission yeast to dissect the cell biology of sexual reproduction’ from Sophie Martin (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) and after a break for lunch the day will conclude with flash presentations and a poster session in the afternoon.
Day two will kick off in the morning with a presentation from Elizabeth Ballou (University of Exeter, UK), ‘Exogenous and endogenous modulators of morphogenesis in the human pathogen, Cryptococcus neoformans’, and will round off with ‘Species-wide transcriptional landscape through the lens of a yeast natural population’ from Joseph Schacherer (University of Strasbourg, France) in the afternoon, ahead of more flash presentations and another poster session.
The third and final day of BYG 21 will begin in the afternoon, with a talk from Tom Ellis (Imperial College London, UK) on ‘Synthetic Yeast Genomes Beyond Sc2.0 – Synthetic Clusters’ and conclude with ‘Synthetic yeast: when systems biology meets synthetic biology’ by Yizhi Cai (University of Manchester, UK).
The grand finale will see the invited speakers return for a very special panel and community discussion on the future of yeast research, chaired by none other than Nobel laureate, Sir Paul Nurse (Francis Crick Institute, UK). This session will include an open discussion for which all delegates can participate, before Paul sums up the conversation.
The theme of this year’s BYG meeting is ‘the future of yeast research’. The organising committee is, therefore, particularly keen to receive abstracts from Early Career Microbiologists working in the field. There are offered oral, poster presentation and flash presentation slots available throughout the programme.
The deadline for abstract submissions is 20 September 2021, so please do not delay submitting your abstract.
You can find out more about the event, and register to attend, via the event page.
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Image: Dr Elizabeth Bilsland
