Detailed Program

9:00 – 10:15 am Registration & Welcome Coffee
10:15 – 10:30 am Introduction

10:30 am – 12:30 pm Plenary Session 1
             Chairs: Warren Albertin, Brenda Andrews and Anne Lopes
             10:30 – 11:00 Kevin Verstrepen
             11:00 – 11:30 Elena Kuzmin
             11:30 – 12:00 Mar Alba
             12:00 – 12:15 selected speakers TBD
             12:15 – 12:30 selected speakers TBD

12:30 – 01:30 pm Lunch

01:30 – 03:00 pm Poster Session 1

03:00 – 03:30 pm Coffee Break

03:30 – 05:00 pm Parallel Workshops
             Selected speakers TBD
             Workshop 1: Yeast fermentation, biotechnology & applications
             Chair: Warren Albertin
             Workshop 2: Genetic interactions, genotype to phenotype map
             Chair: Brenda Andrews
             Workshop 3: Evolutionary genomics, experimental & molecular evolution
             Chair: Anne Lopes

05:15 – 06:15 pm Keynote Nobel lecture
             Chair: Damien Coudreuse 
             Paul Nurse

06:15 – 08:00 pm Welcome Cocktail 

09:00 – 11:00 am Plenary Session 2
             Chairs: Benoit Palancade, Teresa Teixeira and Gianni Liti
             09:00 – 09:30 Evelina Tutucci 
             09:30 – 10:00 Michael Chang
             10:00 – 10:30 Markus Ralser
             10:30 – 10:45 Selected Speakers TBD
             10:45 – 11:00 Selected Speakers TBD

11:00 – 11:30 am Coffee Break

11:30 am – 01:00 pm Parallel Workshops
             Selected Speakers TBD
             Workshop 4: Gene expression, coding and non-coding RNA metabolism & protein translation
             Chair: Benoit Palancade
             Workshop 5: Telomere, aging, quiescence & cell death
             Chair: Teresa Teixeira
             Workshop 6: Environmental & population genomics, hybridization & speciation
             Chair: Gianni Liti

01:00 – 02:00 pm Lunch

02:00 pm – 03:30 pm Poster session 2  

03:30 – 05:00 pm Plenary Session 3
             Chairs: Claudio de Virgilo, Terrance Cooper, Yves Barral and Daniela Delneri
             03:15 – 03:45 Robbie Loewith
             03:45 – 04:15 Elçin Ünal
             04:15 – 04:45 Romain Koszul

05:00 – 05:30 pm Coffee Break

05:30 – 07:00 pm Parallel Workshops
             Selected Speakers TBD
             Workshop 7: Cell signaling, signal transduction & cell communication
             Chairs: Claudio de Virgilo & Terrance Cooper
             Workshop 8: Life cycle, mating strategies, sexual & asexual reproduction
             Chair: Yves Barral
             Workshop 9: Chromosome structure, cohesion, condensation & spatial organization
             Chair: Daniela Delneri

09:00 – 11:00 am Plenary Session 4
             Chairs: Gregory Batt, Angela Taddei, Delphine Sicard and Andriy Sibirny
             09:00 – 09:30 The EMBO Keynote Lecture: Balázs Papp

             09:30 – 10:00 Gautam Dey
             10:00 – 10:30 Antonis Rokas
             10:30 – 10:45 Selected Speakers TBD
             10:45 – 11:00 Selected Speakers TBD

11:00 – 11:30 am Coffee Break

11:30 am – 01:00 pm Parallel Workshops
             Selected Speakers TBD
             Workshop 10: Innovative approaches, systems & synthetic Biology
             Chair: Gregory Batt
             Workshop 11: Nuclear dynamics, chromatin & epigenetics
             Chair: Angela Taddei
             Workshop 12: Non-conventional yeasts, dynamics & evolution of metabolism
             Chairs: Delphine Sicard & Andriy Sibirny)

01:00 – 02:00 pm Lunch

02:00 pm – 03:30 pm Poster session 3  

03:30 – 05:30 pm Plenary Session 5
             Chairs: Bertrand Llorente, Sophie Martin and Cécile Fairhead
             03:30 – 04:00 Valérie Borde
             04:00 – 04:30 William Ratcliff
             04:30 – 05:00 Ana Selmecki
             05:00 – 05:15 Selected Speakers TBD
             05:15 – 05:30 Selected Speakers TBD

07:00 – 11:00 pm Gala Diner

09:00 – 10:30 am Parallel Workshops
             Selected speakers TBD
             Workshop 13: DNA recombination & repair
             Chair: Bertrand Llorente
             Workshop 14: Cell dynamics, cell trafficking, organelles, cell growth & cell cycle
             Chair: Sophie Martin
             Workshop 15: Pathogen yeasts, antifungal resistance, emergence of pathogens
             Chair: Cécile Fairhead

10:30 – 11:00 am Coffee Break

11:00 am – 01:00 pm Plenary Session 6
             Chairs: Martin Kupiec, Jean-Baptiste Boulé and Sarah Lambert
             11:30 – 12:00 Helle Ulrich
             12:00 – 12:30 Kiran Patil
             12:30 – 01:00 Maria Pia
             01:00 – 01:15 Selected Speakers TBD
             01:15 – 01:30 Selected Speakers TBD

01:00 – 02:30 pm Lunch

02:30 – 04:00 pm Parallel Workshops
             Selected Speakers TBD
             Workshop 16: Post-translational regulation, protein misfolding, aggregation & degradation
             Chair: Martin Kupiec
             Workshop 17: Yeasts in the wild, microbiome, ecology & communities
             Chair: Jean-Baptiste Boulé
             Workshop 18: Genome instability, mobile elements & DNA replication
             Chair: Sarah Lambert

04:00 – 05:00 pm Free time and walk to Rue de la Sorbonne

05:00 – 06:00 pm Closing session
             Chair: Duccio Cavalieri
             Bernard Dujon and Daniel Hartl

06:00 – 06:30 pm Closing ceremony