Experimental Approaches to Evolution and Ecology using Yeast

Chair: Michael Knop, Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie in Heidelberg (ZMBH), Germany

Dan Hartl, Harvard University, USA  

Angelika Amon, MIT, USA  

Lars Steinmetz, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany  

Chair: Kevin Verstrepen, University of Leuven, Belgium

Jef Boeke, John Hopkins University, USA

Michael Hood, Amherst College, USA

Florian Bauer, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa 

Guillaume Beslon, CNRS, France

Primrose Boynton, MPI of Evolutionary Biology, Germany

Jure Piskur, Lund University, Sweden

Graham Bell, McGill University, Canada

Helix A (poster numbers 25 – 75)

Chair: Bernard Dujon, Institut Pasteur, CNRS and University P & M Curie, France

Maitreya Dunham, University of Washington, USA  

Melanie Mueller & Andrew Murray, Harvard University, USA

Yitzhak Pilpel, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Joseph Schacherer, University of Strasbourg, France

Eric Alani, Cornell University, USA

Session 3:

Jianzhi Zhang, University of Michigan, USA 

Kevin Verstrepen, University of Leuven, Belgium  

David Pellman, Harvard University, USA 

Judy Berman, University of Minnesota, USA 

Bernard Dujon, Institut Pasteur, CNRS and University P & M Curie, France

Chair: Justin Fay, University of Washington, USA  

Katarzyna Tomala, Jagiellonian University, Poland

Snezhana Oliferenko, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL), Singapore

Stephen Oliver, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom 

Chairs: Peter Philippsen & Marko Kaksonen

Mating-type switching in Kluyveromyces lactis

Mitochondrial-Nuclear Epistasis Contributes to Phenotypic Variation in Wild Yeasts

Behavioural networks reveal evolution of complexity in wild yeast

A surprising level of asymmetry in yeast single-cell division rates explains variation in population-level growth rates

Evolutionary cell biology of clathrin-mediated endocytosis

Evolution of budding yeast cells to multinucleated fungal hyphae growing in an ecological niche low in glucose and rich in neutral fat

Chair: Justin Fay

Lineage tracking in yeast using random molecular barcodes

Mapping quantitative trait loci across the species-wide genetic diversity of S. cerevisiae

Sequencing reveals the dynamics of adaptation in asexual populations

Predicting loci of functional evolution within ancestral genes

Reversion of a genetic code alteration generates genetic and phenotypic diversity in Candida albicans

Evolving a circadian oscillator in budding yeast

Rare genetic variants underlie common morphologies and growth traits in a wild yeast population

Chair: Jef Boeke, John Hopkins University, USA

Teun Boekhout, CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, The Netherlands 

Virginia Cornish, Columbia University, USA 

Justin Fay, University of Washington, USA 

Aimee Dudley, Institute for Systems Biology, USA  

Csaba Pal, Biological Research Center, Hungary

Himanshu Sinha, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India

Gael Yvert, École Normale Supérieur de Lyon, France  

Helix B (poster numbers 76 - 116)

Chair: Stephen Oliver, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Vassiliki Koufopanou, Imperial College London, United Kingdom  

Michael Knop, Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie in Heidelberg (ZMBH), Germany  

Jun-Yi Leu, Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan 

Phil Hieter, University of British Columbia, Canada