30th INTERNATIONAL SPECIALISED SYMPOSIUM ON YEAST "Cell Surface and Organelles in Yeasts: from Basics to Applications" Stará Lesná, June 18-22, 2013

Preliminary Program

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

• 18.00-18.15 Conference Opening
• 18.15-19.00 Keynote Lecture: Andre Goffeau (Belgium) Anticancer compound 3-bromopyruvate and its transport in yeast
• 19.00-20.00 The EMBO Lecture: Thomas Langer (Germany) Mitochondrial membrane scaffolds and phospholipid trafficking
• 20.00-22.00 Welcome Reception (light food, wine tasting)

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

• Session 1: Dynamics of Membranous Organelles in Yeast (Chairs: Frank Madeo (Austria) & Lubomir Tomaska (Slovakia))
• 9.00- 9.30 Invited Lecture: Frank Madeo (Austria) From yeast cell death to anti-aging strategies
• 9.30-10.00 Invited Lecture: Chris Meisinger (Germany) Signalling pathways regulating mitochondrial protein import
• 10.00-10.30 Rachid Daoud and B. Franz Lang (Canada) Organization of metabolic supercomplexes in yeast mitochondria and in E. coli
• 10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
• 11.00-12.30 oral presentations selected from submitted abstracts
• 12.30-13.30 Lunch
• Session 2: Biotechnological Applications:
• High-value Products in Biotechnology (Chairs: Claude Gaillardin (France) & Milan Certik (Slovakia))
• 13.30-14.00 Invited Lecture: Quinn Zhu (USA) Sustainable source of omega-3 eicosapentaenoic acid by metabolic engineering of Yarrowia lipolytica
• 14.00-15.30 oral presentations selected from submitted abstracts
• 15.30-16.00 Coffee Break
• Biotechnological Applications of Membrane and Cell Wall Enzymes (Chairs: Peter Raspor (Slovenia) & Peter Biely (Slovakia))
• 16.00-16.30 Invited Lecture: Thomas Jeffries (USA) Yeast surface display for biofuels and bioconversion
• 16.30-18.00 oral presentations selected from submitted abstracts
• 18.00-19.00 Dinner
• 19.00-20.00 Round table discussion: Yeast research in Visegrad countries
• 20.00-22.00 Poster Session 1 (with beer)

Thursday, June 20, 2013

• Session 3: Membrane Lipid Homeostasis: Lipid Biosynthesis, Transport and Turnover (Chairs: Guenther Daum (Austria) & Ivan Hapala (Slovakia))
• 9.00- 9.30 Invited Lecture: Guenther Daum (Austria) t.b.a.
• 9.30-10.00 Invited Lecture: Rajendra Prasad (India) Lipids and lipidomics of azole resistant clinical isolates of Candida
• 10.00-10.30 oral presentations selected from submitted abstracts
• 10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
• 11.00-12.30 oral presentations selected from submitted abstracts
• 12.30-13.30 Lunch
• 13.30 Free Afternoon (optional tour, hiking, etc.)

Friday, June 21, 2013

• Session 4: Cell Wall Dynamics (Chairs: Vladimir Mrsa (Croatia) & Vladimir Farkas (Slovakia))
• 8.30- 9.00 Invited Lecture: Vladimir Mrsa (Croatia) Yeast cell wall proteins – regulation, incorporation, function
• 9.00- 9.30 Invited Lecture: Jean M. Francois (France) Investigation of the yeast cell wall architecture by combining molecular and biophysical methods
• 9.30- 11.00 oral presentations selected from submitted abstracts
• 11.00-11.30 Coffee Break
• Workshop: Yeast Microscopy: Mission Possible (Chair: Jan Malinsky (Czech Republic))
• 11.30-12.00 Invited Lecture: Roland Wedlich-Soldner (Germany) Integrative approach to cell cortex organization in yeast - the power of live cell microscopy
• 12.00-12.30 Invited Lecture: Sepp Kohlwein (Austria) Driving CARS - application of molecular imaging to understand lipid metabolism in yeast
• 12.30-13.00 oral presentations selected from submitted abstracts
• 13.00-14.00 Lunch
• 14.00-15.00 Poster Session 2
• Session 5: Biomedical Aspects: Antifungals, Resistance and Biofilms (Chairs: Dominique Sanglard (Switzerland) & Vladislav Raclavsky (Czech Republic))
• 15.00-15.30 Invited Lecture: Dominique Sanglard (Switzerland) t.b.a.
• 15.30-16.00 Invited Lecture: Patrick van Dijck (Belgium) Novel tools to study biofilm formation in live animals and Als3 peptides as novel antibiofilm molecules
• 16.00-16.30 oral presentations selected from submitted abstracts
• 16.30-17.00 Coffee Break
• 17.00-18.30 oral presentations selected from submitted abstracts
• 19.30 Conference Dinner

Saturday, June 22, 2013

• Session 6: Membrane Transporters (Chairs: Johan Thevelein (Belgium) & Hana Sychrova (Czech Republic))
• 9.00- 9.30 Invited Lecture: Johan Thevelein (Belgium) Signaling mechanisms and endocytosis in yeast plasma membrane nutrient transceptors controlling the PKA pathway
• 9.30-10.00 Invited Lecture: Lynne Yenush (Spain) The role of protein trafficking in ion and nutrient homeostasis
• 10.00-10.30 oral presentations selected from submitted abstracts
• 10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
• 11.00-12.30 oral presentations selected from submitted abstracts
• 12.30-13.00 Conference Closing
• 13.00 Lunch