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Monday, September 1st 2025

 
 
Registration
 
 
OPENING CEREMONY
Chair: Adrianna Skoneczna & Zbigniew Lazar
 
 
'Stability and instability in the repair of broken chromosomes'
James Haber   
 
 
'Insights from the diversity of antifungal drug tolerance responses'
Judith Berman
 
 
Get together
 
     
 

Tuesday, September 2nd 2025

 
 
'Novel regulatory features of the SUMO and ubiquitin pathways'
Mark Hochstrasser  
 
 
DECIPHERING OF MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF EUKARYOTIC CELLS WITH YEAST I
Chair: Martin Kupiec & Joanna Kufel


'Non-canonical translation events in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae'
Joanna Kufel

TBA

Presentations selected from the abstracts
 
 
Coffee break
 
 
DECIPHERING OF MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF EUKARYOTIC CELLS WITH YEAST II
Chair: Joanna Kufel & Martin Kupiec


'How are mutations created?'
Martin Kupiec    

'Selective autophagic degradation of cytosolic proteins in Komagataella phaffii does not go through general macroautophagy pathway'
Andriy Sibirny  
 
TBA

Presentations selected from the abstracts
 
 
Lunch
 
 
'A genome-wide screen for genes with buffering capacity'
Kevin Verstrepen
 
 
YEAST SCREENS
Chair: Brenda Andrews & Adrianna Skoneczna


'Yeast as an 'omni-tool' for functional genomics and systems biology'
Brenda Andrews    

'Extreme positive epistasis for fitness in monosomic yeast strains'
Hanna Tutaj    

Presentations selected from the abstracts
 
 
Coffee break
 
 
'Rewiring of genetic networks in yeast and other organisms'
Elena Kuzmin    

TBA

''Small Volume – Big Problem': Culturing Yarrowia lipolytica in high-throughput micro-formats'
Ewelina Celińska

Presentations selected from the abstracts
 
 
Poster session 1
 
     
 

Wednesday, September 3rd 2025

 
 
'Making yeast more powerful: from the beginning to the future'
Xin-Qing Zhao 
 
 
METABOLISM AND METABOLOMICS I
Chair: Diethard Mattanovich & Hiroshi Takagi


'Metabolic pathway design for efficient conversion of single carbon substrates into building block chemicals'
Diethard Mattanovich   

TBA

Presentations selected from the abstracts
 
 
Coffee break
 
 
METABOLISM AND METABOLOMICS II
Chair: Ewelina Celińska & Diethard Mattanovich


'A novel proline metabolism found in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and its application to biotechnology'
Hiroshi Takagi    

'Hexokinase: the mysterious guardian of cellular energy'
Zbigniew Lazar    

TBA

Presentations selected from the abstracts
 
 
Lunch
 
 
Event
 
 
Coffee break
 
 
'Yeast as omni-tool to study host microbiome interactions'
Duccio Cavalieri  
 
 
HUMANIZED YEAST IN HEALTH RESEARCH
Chair: Ľubomír Tomáška & Teresa Żołądek


'Studies in yeast revealed a molecular mechanism of neurodegenerative diseases linked to MT-ATP6 mutations'
Róża Kucharczyk    

'Expanding the yeast mitochondrial proteome by means of post-translational modifications'
Ľubomír Tomáška     

Presentations selected from the abstracts
 
 
Poster session 2
 
     
 

Thursday, September 4th 2025

 
 
'Saccharomyces variation across the world'
Gianni Liti  
 
 
YEAST IN POPULATION AND EVOLUTION MODELS
Chair: Cécile Neuvéglise & Matthias Sipiczki


'Evolution of mitochondrial genomes in interspecies Saccharomyces hybrids'
Matthias Sipiczki

TBA

Presentations selected from the abstracts
 
 
Coffee break
 
 
THE YOUNG RESEARCHERS REPORTS
Chair: Vivien Measday & Maciej Wnuk


Presentations selected from the abstracts
 
 
Lunch
 
 
FERMENTATION, FOOD AND BEVERAGES
Chair: Francisco Carrau & Zbigniew Lazar


'The shikimate pathway in Hanseniaspora vineae: a natural eukaryotic model to increase flavor bioactive compounds biosynthesis from the aromatic amino acids.'
Francisco Carrau

'Control of blue and green moulds on apples by antagonistic yeasts, and their effect on quality parameters during ambient and cold room storages'
Hüseyin Erten  

Presentations selected from the abstracts
 
 
Coffee break
 
 
Presentations selected from the abstracts
 
 
Conference Dinner
 
     
 

Friday, September 5th 2025

 
 
YEASTS AS MOLECULAR FACTORIES
Chair: Paola Branduardi & Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro


'Yeast biodiversity and metabolic engineering for creating novel value chains in industrial biotechnology'
Paola Branduari    

'Sustainable food manufacturing using microbial metabolic engineering'
Rodrigo Ledesma Amaro    

Presentations selected from the abstracts
 
 
Coffee break
 
 
Closing ceremony
 
 
'Analysis and Engineering of Yeast Metabolism'
Jens Nielsen
 
 
Awards ceremony
 
 
Closing remarks