27° INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON YEAST GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Levico Terme (Trento, Italy) 7-12 September 2015
Co-organized by the Italian and the Ukrainian Scientific Communities
International Scientific Committee
Finance & Policy Committee
Duccio Cavalieri, Fondazione Edmund Mach/University of
Firenze, Italy (chair)
Topics of Plenary Sessions:
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DNA replication and cell cycle
Gene expression: from epigenetic
regulation to mRNA stability
Growth control and metabolism
Mutagenesis: DNA damage and repair
Autophagy, cell death and ageing
Yeast and industrial biotechnology
Yeast as a model for human diseases
and drug testing
Interplay and dynamics of organelles
Special Symposium:
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Towards a molecular yeast whole-cell
model
Yeast Evolutionary Ecological Genomics
Confirmed speakers:
A. Aguilera (Spain), N. Barkai (Israel), E. Boles
(Germany), G. Brown (Canada), T. Carr (UK), A.
Chacinska (Poland), M. Escobar-Henriques
(Germany), M. Heinemann (The Netherland), A.
Henney (Germany), T. Kunkel (USA), S. Lindquist
(USA), M. Lisby (Denmark), F. Madeo (Austria), J.
Nielsen (Sweden), T. F. Outeiro (Portugal), M.
Penttilä (Finland), G. Pereira (Germany), M.
Resnick (USA), L. Symington (USA), G.
Stephanopoulos (USA), F. Stutz (Switzerland), H.
Tagaki (Japan), J. Thevelein (Belgium), R. van
Driel (The Netherland), I. J. van der Klei (The
Netherland)
Andriy Sibirny, University of Lviv, Ukraine (chair)
Konstyantyn Dmytruk, Institute of Cell Biology, Ukraine
Mykhailo V. Gonchar, Institute of Cell Biology, Ukraine
Oleh Stasyk, Institute of Cell Biology, Ukraine
National Scientific Committee
Duccio Cavalieri, Fondazione Edmund Mach
Lilia Alberghina, University of Milano-Bicocca
Maria Barile, University of Bari
Carlo V. Bruschi, ICGEB, Trieste
Giorgio Dieci, University of Parma
Claudia Donnini, University of Parma
Ileana Ferrero, University of Parma
Laura Frontali, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
Sergio Giannattasio, CNR, Bari
Alberto Inga, University of Trento
Maria Pia Longhese, University of Milano-Bicocca
Giovanna Lucchini, University of Milano-Bicocca
Cristina Mazzoni, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
Mario Mirisola, University of Palermo
Marco Muzi-Falconi, University of Milano
Rodolfo Negri, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
Paolo Plevani, University of Milano
Danilo Porro, University of Milano-Bicocca
Teresa Rinaldi, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
Marco Vanoni, University of Milano-Bicocca
Organizing Committee
Duccio Cavalieri, Chair
Carlo V. Bruschi, Secretary & Treasurer
Ileana Ferrero, Secretary & Treasurer
Rodolfo Negri, Sponsors
Local Organizing Committee
D. Cavalieri, C. Castellani, A. Csikasz-Nagy, S.
Giacomozzi, A. Gretter, A. Inga, Lisa Rizzetto, I.
Stefanini