Wednesday, July 1
11:00 am – Welcome and registration
1:30 pm - Opening of the meeting
1:45 pm - Opening Keynote
Cécile Fairhead - Génétique Quantitative & Évolution (GQE), Paris Saclay University
2:15 pm - Session: Genome Expression, Function and Regulatory Networks
Invited Speaker: Anne Lopes (Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France) Emergence of microproteins and de novo genes from non-coding DNA
Selected Oral Presentations
2:45 pm Pantothenic acid deficiency and cysteine or methionine as sole nitrogen sources drive transcriptional and metabolic remodelling in Saccharomyces cerevisiae alcoholic fermentation - James Duncan (UMR SPO, INRAE, Montpellier, France)
3:00 pm Phenotype-genotype relationships for organic acid production in Saccharomyces cerevisiae under oenological conditions - Coline Nazet (UMR SPO, INRAE, Montpellier, France)
3:15 pm Exploring genome innovation in Saccharomyces: Detection of multiple novel antisense and intergenic transcripts and their translational potential - Chris Papadopoulos (Hospital Del Mar Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain)
3:30 pm New tools for high-throughput quantification of mRNA levels in S. cerevisiae mutants grown in diverse environments - Fabien Duveau (LBMC, ENS, Lyon, France)
3:45 pm - Coffee Break
4:30 pm - Poster Session (even numbers)
5:15 pm – Session: Yeast Life Cycle and Development
Invited Speaker: Jing Hou (Department of Genetics, Genomics and Microbiology, UMR 7156 CNRS & University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France) Domestication drives repeated evolution of sexual–asexual life cycle trade-offs in yeast
Selected Oral Presentations
5:45 pm SUMO-targeted ubiquitin ligases protect the spindle from protein aggregation - Dimitris Liakopoulos (CRBM, Montpellier, France)
6:00 pm The individual plasticity of cellular quiescence - Pauline Foliard (Institut de Biochimie et Génétique Cellulaires, Bordeaux, France)
6:15 pm Decoding Life Cycle Complexity from Budding Yeast Genomes - Gilles Fischer (Sorbonne Université, Paris, France)
6:30 pm - Special guest
Rob Dunn (North Carolina State University, USA) Ant mouths, yeast guts, chimpanzee stomachs: On the origins of yeasts and the future of food
7:00 pm - Dinner
Thursday, July 2
9:00 am - Session: Population Genomics and Evolution
Invited Speaker: Toni Gabaldón (Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) and Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC), Barcelona, Spain) The mysterious origins of emerging yeast pathogens
Selected Oral Presentations
9:30 am Nitrate assimilation reflects distinct evolutionary trajectories and contrasting selective pressures across genetic clusters in Brettanomyces bruxellensis - Audrey Vigna (University of Bordeaux, France)
9:45 am Genome remodeling and admixture underlie the global expansion of Saccharomyces eubayanus - Francisco A. Cubillos (Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago, Chile)
10:00 am Evolutionary diversification of invertase paralogs couples carbon metabolism and sexual reproduction in fission yeasts - Ambre Noly (CRBM, CNRS, France)
10:15 am Hybridization Shapes Yeast Evolution in Agave Fermentations - Lucía Morales (LIIGH, International Laboratory for Human Genoms Research, Querètaro, Mexico)
10:30 am - Coffee Break
11:15 am - Session: Yeast and Diseases
Invited Speaker: Karine Dementhon (Laboratoire de Microbiologie Fondamentale et Pathogénicité (MFP), UMR 5234, CNRS & Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France) A Gut-on-a-Chip Model of Intestinal Candida Infection
Selected Oral Presentations
11:45 am Comprehensive insights into fungal sulfur metabolism and its role in fitness and pathogenicity in Candida albicans - Adnane Sellam (Université de Montréal, Montreal Heart Institute, Montréal, Canada)
12:00 am The unresolved role of Sdt1 in yeast nucleotide and NAD salvage metabolism - Alexandre Clerc (Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, Lyon, France)
12:15 am ATP-driven dynamics and itraconazole binding of the fungal drug efflux ABC pump C. glabrata Cdr1 - Vincent Chaptal (MMSB, CNRS, Lyon, France)
12:30 am Functional Portrait of the Candida auris Kinome - Sadri ZNAIDI (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Department of Biology, CSF-4343 Core Sciences Facility, St. John's, Canada)
12:45 pm - Lunch Break
2:15 pm - Session: Sensing and Signaling
Invited Speaker: Gwenaël Rabut (Institut de Génétique et Développement de Rennes (IGDR), CNRS & University of Rennes, Rennes, France) Metabolic Control of SCF Ubiquitin Ligase Assembly and Activity
Selected Oral Presentations
2:45 pm Live-Cell Analysis of Filamentous Growth Induction - Serge Pelet (Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, Biophore, Lausanne, Switzerland)
3:00 pm Dynamics single cell analysis of stress response gene expression - Sarah Maakouk (Université de Lausanne, Renens, Switzerland)
3:15 pm Condensation of Whi3 prion-like protein can drive memory of deceptive courtship in Saccharomyces cerevisiae - Ruairi McGettigan (Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier, Montpellier, France)
3:30 pm Ecology of clonal yeast populations under acetic acid stress - Valentin Rapon (MNHN, Paris, France)
3:45 pm - Coffee Break
4:30 pm - Poster Session (odd numbers)
5:15 pm - Session: Yeast Ecology, Microbial Interactions and Emerging Yeast Species
Invited Speaker: Patricia Luis (UMR CNRS 5557 Ecologie Microbienne, Lyon, France) The Underestimated Role of Yeasts in Tiger Mosquito Development and Behavior
Selected Oral Presentations
5:45 pm Characterizing the interactions between Maudiozyma humilis and lactic acid bacteria in sourdough - Laura-Jeanne Rousselle (UMR SPO, Montpellier, France)
6:00 pm Deciphering the role of the four PUL genes in pulcherriminic acid biosynthesis and biocontrol activity in the yeast Metschnikowia pulcherrima - Tayan Garcia-Casillas (Agroscope, Nyon, Switzerland)
6:15 pm Fungal Community Structure in Hybrid Grapevines: Effects of Region, Vintage, and Practices - Gabriela Pinto Miguel (UMR SPO, Montpellier, France)
6:30 pm Thermal filtering unlocks a cryptic reservoir of thermotolerant Candida in sub-Antarctic soils - Pablo Villarreal (Universidad Mayor, Santiago, Chile)
Evening – Gala Dinner
Friday, July 3
9:00 am - Session: Tools, New Technologies and Applications
Invited Speaker: Grégory Batt (Department of Computational Biology, Institut Pasteur, INRIA, Paris) Synthetic biology approaches for improving bioproduction in yeast
Selected Oral Presentations
9:30 am Exploring yeasts communities of blue-veined cheeses with multiomics approaches to better understand the origins of excessive bitterness - Elisa Michel-Maynier (UMR Fromage, INRAE, Aurillac, France)
9:45 am Yarrowia lipolytica: A Platform for Colorant Bioproduction and Synthetic Microbial Communities - Tristan Rossignol (Micalis, INRAE, Jouy-en-Josas, France)
10:00 am Yeast Odyssey: A web resource to explore Fungi habitats - Thomas Biscop (UMR SPO, INRAE, Montpellier, France)
10:15 am Accounting for the local protein environment improves protein partner detection - Hugo Schweke (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
10:30 am - Coffee Break
11:15 am - Session: Genome Dynamics
Invited Speaker: Axel Delamarre
Selected Oral Presentations
11:45 am The Rad51 Paralog Complex Rad55-Rad57 Is Essential for Rad51 Filament Formation - Eric Coïc (CEA, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France)
12:00 am Role of SMC complexes in regulating homology search during DNA break repair - Aurèle Piazza (ENS, CNRS, France)
12:15 am The mutational signature of double strand break repair is CST- and sequence context-dependent - Zhou XU (UMR 7238 CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France)
12:30 am The genomic landscape of the opportunistic yeast Diutina catenulata is shaped by an invasive DNA transposon family - Frédéric Bigey (UMR SPO, INRAE, Montpellier, France)
12:45 pm - Closing Keynote
Benoît Arcangioli (UMR 3525 Genetics of Genomes, CNRS & Institut Pasteur, Paris, France) Genetics of quiescence
1:15 pm - End of the Meeting
Lunch-to-go provided at the end
