7th PYFF

Preliminary Programme

Monday 24^th June

12:00 13:45	Registration
14:00 14:30	Opening
14:30 15:20	Keynote Lecture K. Wolfe Keynote Lecture Affiliation: University College Dublin, Ireland Title: Evolution of chromosome organization in budding yeasts.

Session I: Evolution and niche adaptation of yeasts and filamentous fungi Chair:TBA
15:20 15:50	Invited Lecture Isabelle Benoit Invited Lecture Affiliation: Concordia University, Canada Title: Metabologenomics for correlation of fungal natural products and their biosynthetic gene clusters.
15:50 16:05	To be announced Offered Lecture Affiliation: Title:.
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16:20 16:50	Coffee Break
16:50 17:20	Invited Lecture Daniela Delneri Invited Lecture Affiliation: University of Manchester, United Kingdom Title:Exploiting Diversity and Biotechnological Uses of Hybrids.
17:20 17:35	To be announced Offered Lecture Affiliation: Title:.
17:35 17:50	Poster flash talks
18:10	Welcome coktail Poster session

Tuesday 25^th June

Session II: Genetic and phenotypic heterogeneity in fungal and yeast populations Chair: TBA
09:00 09:30	Invited Lecture Florian Bauer Invited Lecture Affiliation: Stellenbosch University, South Africa Title: Interactions between yeast species in wine-related ecosystems.
09:30 09:45	To be announced Offered Lecture Affiliation: Title:.
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10:15 10:45	Coffee break

Session III: Fundamental physiology and metabolic processes in yeasts and filamentous fungi Chair: TBA
10:45 11:15	Invited Lecture Jack Pronk Invited Lecture Affiliation: TU Delft, The Netherlands Title:Oxygen requirements of yeasts.
11:15 11:45	Invited Lecture Matthias Steiger Invited Lecture Affiliation: BOKU University, Austria Title:Metabolite transport by Aspergillus niger.
11:45 12:00	To be announced Offered Lecture Affiliation: Title:.
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12:15 12:40	Poster flash talks
12:40 13:30	Lunch
13:30 15:00	Poster Session

Session IV: Mycobiome and interactions with other eukaryotes Chair: TBA
15:00 15:50	Keynote Lecture Alistair Brown Keynote Lecture Affiliation: University of Aberdeen, UK Title:Coping with stress in complex human niches.
15:50 16:05	To be announced
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16:20 16:50	Coffee break
16:50 17:20	Invited Lecture Natalia Requena Invited Lecture Affiliation: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Title:On How Symbiotic Fungi Rewire Plant Cells.
17:20 17:35	To be announced
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Wednesday 26^th June

Session V: Cellular compartmentalization: trafficking, metabolosomes and quinary structures of macromolecules Chair: TBA
09:00 09:30	Invited Lecture Mislav Oreb Invited Lecture Affiliation: Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany Title: Strategies for compartmentalization of metabolic pathways in S. cerevisiae.
09:30 09:45	To be announced
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10:15 10:45	Coffee break

Session VI: Systems biology and metabolic engineering for biotechnological processes Chair: TBA
10:45 11:15	Invited Lecture Verena Siewers Invited Lecture Affiliation: Chalmers University, Sweden Title:Production of fatty acid-derived compounds in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
11:15 11:45	Invited Lecture Nick Wierckx Invited Lecture Affiliation: Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany Title:Itaconic acid production in Ustilago.
11:45 12:00	To be announced
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12:15 12:40	Poster flash talks
12:40 13:30	Lunch
13:30 15:00	Poster Session

Session VII: PhDs in yeast and fungal science: education, communication and research Chair: Irina Borodina and John Morrissey
15:00 15:10	Introduction John Morrissey Introduction Affiliation: UCC, Cork, Ireland .
15:10 15:35	Invited Lecture Vera Meyer Invited Lecture Affiliation: TU Berlin, Germany title: .
15:35 16:00	Invited Lecture Maurizio Bettiga Invited Lecture Affiliation: Chalmers University, Sweden title:International PhD courses and Summer Schools: uniques learning and networking experiences.
16:00 16:10	To be announced
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16:30 17:00	Coffee break
17:00 17:10	To be announced
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Thursday 27^th June

Session VIII: Response and tolerance to stress in the context of industrial bioprocesses Chair: TBA
09:00 09:30	Invited Lecture Isabel Sa-Correira Invited Lecture Affiliation: University of Lisbon, Portugal Title: Physiological Genomics of the response and tolerance to biotechnologically relevant adverse conditions in yeasts.
09:30 09:45	To be announced
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10:15 10:45	Coffee break
10:45 11:15	Invited Lecture Cristina Giovanna Varese Invited Lecture Affiliation:University of Torino, Italy Title: Fungi in soil bioremediation.
11:15 11:30	To be announced
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11:45 12:00	To be announced
12:00 12:40	Poster flash talks
12:40 13:30	Lunch
13:30 15:00	Poster Session

Session IX: Natural and Synthetic Ecology: interactions and applications of mixed cultures (especially in food, beverage and biotechnology) Chair: TBA
15:00 15:50	Keynote Lecture Benjamin Wolfe Keynote Lecture Affiliation: Tufts University, USA Title: Trait evolution of fungi in cheese microbiome.
15:50 16:05	To be announced
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16:20 16:50	Coffee break
16:50 17:20	Invited Lecture Markus Ralser Invited Lecture Affiliation: University of Cambridge, UK Title: The system scale nature of the regulation of metabolism.
17:20 17:35	To be announced
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17:50 18:30	Poster awards and closing
20:00	Gala Dinner

Organised by

European Federation of Biotechnology