Plenary Sessions
Each plenary session will be opened by an invited speaker followed by selected contributions of participants.
For students who will be selected for oral presentations FEMS grants (200-250 EUR/participant) are available to help with the conference costs. Eligible students will be provided with approppriate forms.
Currently the following speakers have accepted our invitation
| Prof. Dr. B. Andrews | University of Toronto | Toronto | Canada |
| Prof. Dr. C. Boone | University of Toronto | Toronto | Canada |
| Prof. Dr. A.E. Ehrenhofer-Murray | University of Duisburg-Essen | Essen | Germany |
| Prof. Dr. T. Endo | Nagoya University | Nagoya | Japan |
| Prof. Dr. W.-D. Heyer | University of California | Davis | USA |
| Prof. Dr. R. Lührmann | MPI for Biophysical Chemistry | Göttingen | Germany |
| Prof. Dr. J.T. Pronk | TU Delft | Delft | Netherlands |
| Prof. Dr. A. Reichert | Buchmann Institute, University of Frankfurt | Frankfurt | Germany |
| Prof. Dr. R. Schekman | Li Ka Shing Center, University of California | Berkeley | USA |
| Prof. Dr. D. Tollervey | University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh | UK |
| Prof. Dr. P. Walter | University of California | San Francisco | USA |
Topics of Plenary Sessions:
| Speakers: | Peter Walter (USA), website - Prof. Dr. P. Walter |
| Lessons from two yeasts: the unfolded protein response can control proteostasis |
| in the endoplasmic reticulum by opposing mechanisms |
| Speakers: |
Toshiya Endo, Nagoya (Japan), website - Prof. Dr. T. Endo
Transport, assembly, and quality control of mitochondrial proteins in yeast
Claes Andréasson (Sweden)
Compartment-specific Hsp70 nucleotide exchange factors regulate degradation
of misfolded proteins in the cytoplasm and nucleus
Yury Chernoff (USA)
Integration of chaperone networks acting in protein folding, trafficking
and prion propagation
Roland Lill (Germany)
Biogenesis of iron-sulfur proteins in eukaryotes: Mechanisms, diseases
and role in DNA maintenance
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| Speakers: |
Ann E. Ehrenhofer-Murray, Essen (Germany), website - Prof. Dr. A.E. Ehrenhofer-Murray
Molecular views of the yeast epigenome
Alina Chan (Canada)
Genome-wide profiling of yeast DNA: RNA hybrid prone sites with DRIP-chip
Gonzalo Millán-Zambrano (Spain)
The prefoldin complex regulates chromatin dynamics during transcription elongation
Michael Primig (France)
Epigenetic control of transcription start site selection during mitotic growth
and meiotic development
Kevin Verstrepen (Belgium)
Gene regulation: faster is not always better
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| Speakers |
Simon Alberti (Germany)
Stress-induced self-assembly of metabolic enzymes
Kristin Baetz (Canada)
Gds1, a novel lysine acetylation target of NuA4 that regulates the Msn2/Msn4 stress response
Florian F. Bauer (South Africa)
Modulation of oxidative stress resistance by carnitine requires Yap1p and lipid homeostasis
Michal Breker (Israel)
A novel single-cell screening platform reveals proteome plasticity during yeast stress responses
Gilles Charvin (France)
Single cell dynamics of the transition to replicative senescence
Francesc Posas (Spain)
Control of cell cycle progression by the Hog1 SAPK in response to stress
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| Speakers: |
Randy Schekman, Berkley (USA), website - Prof. Dr. R. Schekman
Biogenesis and function of the autophagosome
Bruno Andre (Belgium)
Signals and mechanisms promoting ubiquitylation and endocytosis of yeast amino acid transporters
Brigitte Gasser (Austria)
Multistep processing of the secretion leader of the CRISP family member Epx1
in Pichia pastoris and implications on protein localization
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| Speakers: |
David Tollervey, Edinburgh (UK), website - Prof. Dr. D. Tollervey
Linking pre-rRNA transcription, assembly, folding and processing
Michael Breitenbach (Austria)
Autistic yeast: Translational dynamics of redox-sensitive proteins
Orna Dahan (Israel)
Exploring the architecture of the tRNA pool through systematic deletion of tRNA genes
Sunny Sharma (Germany)
Identification of novel methyltransferases, responsible for base modification
of 25S rRNA in S. cerevisiae
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| Speakers: |
Andreas Reichert, Frankfurt (Germany), website - Prof. Dr. A. Reichert
Regulation of mitophagy and the general stress response pathway in S. cerevisiae
Roswitha Krick (Germany)
PROPPINs in autophagy
Ida J. van der Klei (Netherlands)
De novo peroxisome formation in yeast
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| Speakers: |
Jack T. Pronk, Delft (Netherlands), website - Prof. Dr. J.T. Pronk
Optimizing ethanol yields in S. cerevisiae by metabolic engineering
of redox and energy metabolism
Marc Blondel (France)
Modeling human diseases at happy hour
Xiaochun Fan (USA)
Metabolic Engineering of Y. lipolytica to Produce Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids
Aaron Hernday (USA)
Improved Genome Annotation, DNA Assembly, and Genome Editing for
Rapid Engineering of Industrial Microbes
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| Speakers: |
Wolf-Dietrich Heyer (USA), website - Prof. Dr. W.-D. Heyer
Recombinational DNA repair: robustness through reversibility
Lior David (Israel)
Induction of advantageous mutations by the environment contributed to adaptation
of yeast to an unforeseen challenge
Martin Kupiec (Israel)
Effect of nuclear architecture on the efficiency of double-strand break repair
Katrin Paeschke (Germany)
Hrq1: a new player in genome integrity and telomere maintenance
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| Speakers: |
Reinhard Lührmann, Göttingen (Germany), website - Prof. Dr. R. Lührmann
Structure and function of the spliceosome
Stella Aronov (Israel)
Pheromone-induced transport of the yeast MFA2 mRNA to the mating projection
is mediated by specific RNP granules
Cecilia Garmendia-Torres (France)
Unidirectional P-body transport during the yeast cell cycle
Heike Krebber (Germany)
Cellular functions of the SR-proteins in S. cerevisiae
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