Keynote Speaker

Paul Nurse

Paul Nurse

Crick Institute, England

Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Francis Crick Institute
Nobel laureate for the discovery of key regulators of the cell cycle

The Nurse lab investigates how the successive events of the cell cycle are coordinated and regulated, and how cells monitor and control their size. They use fission yeast as a model organism. (https://www.crick.ac.uk/research/labs/paul-nurse)

Invited Speakers

Mar	Alba

Mar Alba

IMIM - Barcelona, Spain

The group of Mar Albà works on unraveling the evolutionary processes that give rise to new proteins, with a special emphasis on proteins evolved from previously non-coding genomic regions or de novo.

http://evolutionarygenomics.imim.es/group/

Valérie Borde

Valérie Borde

Institut Curie - Paris, France

Our lab studies the molecular mechanisms of DNA double-strand breaks repair by homologous recombination, with a special focus on meiosis, using the budding yeast S. cerevisiae as a model system.

https://institut-curie.org/team/borde

Michael Chang

Michael Chang

European Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing (ERIBA), Netherlands

Our lab is focused on understanding how cells deal with DNA sequences that are particularly challenging to replicate or repair.

https://eriba.umcg.nl/groups/telomeres-and-genome-integrity/

Gautam Dey

Gautam Dey

EMBL, Germany

Evolution and diversity of mitosis, using comparative cell biology, genomics, and experimental evolution in multiple microbial eukaryotes.

https://www.embl.org/groups/dey/

Romain Koszul

Romain Koszul

Institut Pasteur, France

The Koszul lab explores general principles and species-specific regulation of genome organization and how they relate to chromosome metabolisms, by combining genetics, genomics, synthetic biology and computer science.

https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/spatial-regulation-of-genomes/

Elena Kuzmin

Elena Kuzmin

Concordia University, Canada

The Kuzmin lab uses complex genetic interactions to understand duplicated gene evolution and genetic network conservation.

https://kuzmin-lab.github.io/

Robbie Loewith

Robbie Loewith

University of Geneva, Switzerland

My lab employs genetic and chemical and structural biology approaches in the model S. cerevisiae to reveal how the Target Of Rapamycin (TOR) signalling network regulates growth in eukaryote cells, and recently how it contributes to pathogenicity of the filamentous rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae.

https://mocel.unige.ch/research-groups/robbie-loewith/overview

Balázs Papp

Balázs Papp

Biological Research Centre & HCEMM, Szeged, Hungary

The Papp lab is interested in evolutionary systems biology in yeast and beyond. They study how molecular networks and genomes evolve by combining computational and high-throughput experimental approaches.

http://group.szbk.u-szeged.hu/sysbiol/papp-balazs-lab-index.html

Kiran Patil

Kiran Patil

University of Cambridge, England

Patil lab combines computational and experimental approaches to discover and modulate metabolic interactions in microbial communities.

https://www.mrc-tox.cam.ac.uk/staff/kiran-patil

Maria Pia Longhese

Maria Pia Longhese

Milano Bicocca University, Italy

Maria Pia Longhese studies the mechanisms governing the cellular response to DNA damage and telomere homeostasis, using S. cerevisiae as a model organism. Her research focuses on understanding how cells sense, process and repair DNA lesions.

Markus Ralser

Markus Ralser

Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin; U Oxford, Germany

William Ratcliff

William Ratcliff

Georgia Tech, USA

Our lab uses a combination of synthetic biology, directed evolution, and mathematical modeling to understand how multicellular organisms evolve from single-celled ancestors, using yeast as a model.

https://ratclifflab.biosci.gatech.edu/

Antonis Rokas

Antonis Rokas

Wanderbilt University, USA

Research in the Rokas laboratory (http://www.rokaslab.org/) focuses on the study of the DNA record to gain insight into the patterns and processes of evolution using a combination of computational and experimental approaches.

https://as.vanderbilt.edu/rokaslab/

Anna Selmecki

Anna Selmecki

University of Minnesota, USA

Anna Selmecki studies the dynamics and consequences of aneuploidy and polyploidy in fungi.

https://med.umn.edu/bio/anna-selmecki

Evelina Tutucci

Evelina Tutucci

University Amsterdam, Netherlands

Helle Ulrich

Helle Ulrich

Mainz, Germany

Our lab studies the regulatory mechanisms that contribute to ensuring the complete and accurate duplication of a cell’s genetic information in every cell cycle, especially in the face of DNA damage. We are particularly interested in how posttranslational protein modifiers of the ubiquitin family, such as ubiquitin and SUMO, control genome maintenance pathways, and how they employ their versatile signalling capacity to regulate other cellular processes.

https//www.imb.de/research/ulrich/research

Elçin Ünal

Elçin Ünal

University of Berkeley, USA

My lab is interested in understanding the principles and regulations governing gametogenesis/meiosis. Leveraging Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a primary model system, we study gametogenesis in two different frameworks: first, in the context of gene regulation, and second, in the context of aging, with the aim of understanding how gamete formation promotes cellular rejuvenation and eliminates age-associated damage.

http://www.unal-and-brar-labs.org/

Kevin Verstrepen

Kevin Verstrepen

VIB-KU leuven, Netherlands

Kevin Verstrepen’s team uses Saccharomyces cerevisiae to study the molecular principles underlying adaptation to varying environments. The lab exploits its expertise in evolution, ecology and molecular biology to generate superior industrial yeasts for the production of food, beverages, biofuels, pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals.

https://verstrepenlab.sites.vib.be/en