british yeast group 2022: from genomes to cells

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what's included in your registration fee?

• admission to all scientific sessions
• refreshments and lunch (please note lunch is not provided on the last day, as the meeting finishes at lunchtime).
• drinks’ reception and conference bbq on the thames
• certificate of participation (upon request)

early-bird discounted rates closed on friday 29 july, 23:59 bst.

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cancellations 

we are aware of ongoing uncertainty around event attendance as the pandemic continues. in order to give delegates the most confidence and flexibility, we will refund all registration fees in full if you cancel your booking, for whatever reason, at any time in the lead up to the event. if you wish to cancel your booking and request a refund before the event, please email [email protected].

abstract submissions for the british yeast group 2022 meeting are now closed.

british yeast group 2022 abstract book

british yeast group 2022 poster abstract book

notifications for offered oral and poster presentations were sent on 17 june. please check your email if you are awaiting a decision, or contact [email protected] if you have not received your decision. 

poster prize

microbiology is pleased to provide the ‘best science prize’ to a scientific poster at the british yeast group meeting. the winner, selected by members of the organising committee will win a cash prize and be featured on the microbe post. all posters displayed at byg 2022 are automatically entered for the prize.

flash poster prize

the carl singer foundation are pleased to provide two prizes, to be awarded to the 'best flash poster presenters'. the winners, selected by the carl singer foundation, will receive a cash prize and certificate. all flash presenters at byg 2022 are automatically entered for the prize.

society conference grants are available to support those wishing to attend this meeting. applications for this scheme are now closed.

we are aware of ongoing uncertainty around event attendance as the pandemic continues. to find out more about our grant refund policies, please visit our grant rules page.

members who are ineligible for the society conference grant should apply to the travel grant scheme for support. applications for events taking place between 1 july–30 september 2022 will open at the end of april and close on 1 june 2022.

please contact [email protected] for any questions.

the second evening of the british yeast group meeting will include an opportunity to socialise and network at the conference dinner, details of which are below. 

conference bbq and dance on the thames

8 september | 19:30 – 23:00 | golden jubilee boat, temple pier, victoria embankment
included in the cost of your delegate registration.

join us aboard the golden jubilee boat as we sail along the thames to see the best sites london has to offer. 

embarking at temple pier, delegates will enjoy a bbq dinner with spectacular views. the golden jubilee’s resident dj will keep the evening going with the on-board bar serving a range of non-alcoholic and alcoholic drinks.

this meeting will take place at the university college london campus in london.

venue address

darwin building
gower street
london
wc1e 6bt

please note: access is through malet place entrance.

accessibility

the conference takes place on the basement level of the darwin building, which is accessible via stairs or a lift. the darwin building should be accessed through malet place, which is a level path: guide to accessible routes into malet place. a hearing loop is available in the main lecture theatre.

the conference bbq will be hosted on a thames river boat which does not have step-free access. there is a wide step from the dock onto the boat, and stairs on the boat itself up to the top deck. there are no accessible bathroom facilities on the vessel.

please contact [email protected] if you have any concerns or accessibility questions for the conference.

accommodation

please note that accommodation is not included in the registration fees for this meeting; however, we are pleased to recommend using ucl to secure your accommodation, details of which are below.

ucl accommodation

during the summer months each year, ucl accommodation opens its doors to the public, offering great value accommodation in a perfect location, right in the middle of the west end. from en-suite bedrooms in newly refurbished buildings to single rooms with shared facilities, we have rooms to suit every budget, providing excellent service and facilities, including 24-hour reception and free wi-fi. ucl’s accommodation is ideally located close and within walking distance to many landmarks, shops, malls, restaurants including oxford street, leicester and trafalgar square and many theatres.

please contact [email protected] to enquire about exhibition and sponsorship opportunities.

british yeast group 2022 invitation to exhibit

below you will find more information about our invited speakers, who will present their work and research at british yeast group 2022: from genomes to cells.

• benoît arcangioli (institut pasteur, france)
• benoît kornmann (university of oxford, uk)
• birgitte regenberg (university of copenhagen, denmark)
• charlie boone (university of toronto, canada)
• cornelia kilchert (justus liebig university giessen, germany)
• frank uhlmann (the francis crick institute, uk)
• genevieve thon (university of copenhagen, denmark)
• janet quinn (newcastle university, uk)
• johanne murray (university of sussex, uk)
• jon houseley (the babraham institute, uk)
• julia promisel copper (university of colorado, usa)
• mohan balasubramanian (university of warwick, uk)
• pedro carvalho (university of oxford, uk)
• snezhana oliferenko (kings college london, uk)
• valerie borde (institut curie, france)

benoît arcangioli

benoît arcangioli is a professor at the pasteur institute in paris, france. he initially works on transcription regulation in the laboratory of moshe yaniv and later learned fission yeast genetics with amar klar. the focus of his lab is on mating-type switching processes that couple a chromosomal imprinting with dna replication and homologous recombination and more recently on deciphering how the genetic material is maintained in the absence of cell division. he organises, since 2000, the course of molecular genetics and epigenetics (2 months/year). he was co-president of the genetic/epigenetic committee of the national research agency and he is implicated at different level in pasteur institute organisation.  

benoît kornmann

benoît kornmann is associate professor at the department of biochemistry, university of oxford, uk and fellow of st hugh’s college. benoît studies membrane contact sites, how intracellular organisation impinges on organelle function and how lipid molecules are distributed among the many membranes of a eukaryotic cell. benoît kornmann is an expert in yeast genetics, membrane biology, organelle dynamics and signalling. he holds a phd from the university of geneva, switzerland, and previously held the positions of assistant professor at the eth zurich, switzerland, professor of the swiss national science foundation and fellow of the swiss national science foundation.

birgitte regenberg

birgitte regenberg is an associate professor at department of biology at university of copenhagen (ucph), denmark. dr regenberg conducted her phd studies in genetics at the carlsberg laboratory and got her phd from ucph. after her phd, she worked as assistant professor at the technical university of denmark at the center for process biotechnology where she built the transcriptomic facility (2000-2004). she continued her research in systems biology as an fnu-funded (independent research fund denmark natural sciences funding) researcher at the goethe-university in frankfurt am main, germany (2004-2007). birgitte regenberg returned to ucph in a tenure-track position with a skou fellowship in 2007 and started her own laboratory. she has since had several stays at the lewis-sigler institute for integrative genomics at princeton university, usa and at department of genetics at stanford school of medicine, stanford university, usa as visiting professor.

birgitte regenberg’s research has focused on yeast biofilm, genetics and genome evolution. her group has recently pioneered studying extrachromosomal circular dna with the groundbreaking discovery that all parts of eukaryotic genomes form extrachromosomal circular dna, answering a long-standing question about what happens to deleted dna. she has shown how extrachromosomal circular dna contributes substantially to expressed genetic variation with consequences for chromosome evolution and new aspects of cancer. her group’s conceptual and technological expertise has given her a leading role in this upcoming field, which has been generously acknowledged by large grants and led to large interdisciplinary collaborations. she has co-authored over 60 research articles and most of her recent articles are in the leading journals in the field.

charlie boone

dr boone is currently a banting & best distinguished scholar in the faculty of medicine at the university of toronto, canada. dr boone received his phd in biology from mcgill university, usa in 1989 and completed postdoctoral studies at the institute of molecular biology, university of oregon, usa. he held faculty positions at simon fraser university, canada and queen’s university, canada before his recruitment to the university of toronto in 2000. dr boone is internationally recognised for his invention of innovative methods for large-scale mapping of genetic and chemical-genetics networks in the yeast model system. in particular, dr boone’s group generated a global synthetic genetic interaction map for yeast cells, testing most of the possible 18 million pairs of genes for genetic interactions. he has also pioneered methods for using genetic interactions to discover cellular targets of bioactive molecules. the riken institute, japan has recognised dr boone’s contributions in the field of chemical genomics through his appointment as a team leader in chemical genetics in the centre for sustainable resource science. dr boone received the genetics society of america (gsa) edward novitski prize for creativity in genetics; ira herskowitz award for yeast genetics and molecular biology; and an honorary doctorate from the university of gothenburg, sweden. 

cornelia kilchert

cornelia kilchert is interested in post-transcriptional gene regulation and nuclear rna surveillance mechanisms. she studied biochemistry in tübingen, germany, and completed her phd at the biozentrum in basel, switzerland, working on rna localisation in saccharomyces cerevisiae with anne spang. cornelia joined the lab of lidia vasiljeva in the department of biochemistry at university of oxford, uk for her postdoc, where she became interested in substrate targeting to exosome complex and learned to love the “other yeast”, schizosaccharomyces pombe. returning to germany, she started her own lab at the justus-liebig-university in giessen in 2018, thanks to funding from the emmy noether programme of the german research foundation (dfg).

frank uhlmann

frank uhlmann was born and grew up in germany. he studied biochemistry and physiological chemistry at the university of tübingen before joining jerry hurwitz's laboratory at memorial sloan-kettering cancer center, usa for his phd studies. frank then moved to the institute of molecular pathology in vienna, austria to work as a postdoc with kim nasmyth. in 2000, he established a research laboratory at what was then the imperial cancer research fund in london, uk. he has remained there ever since, while the institute became part of cancer research uk (the london research institute) and now the francis crick institute uk. his work on chromosome segregation was recognised with the embo gold medal in 2006.

genevieve thon

genevieve thon is an associate professor at the university of copenhagen, denmark. her interests are in heterochromatin and epigenetics. she studied at the école normale supérieurein, france, and at the fred hutchinson cancer research center, usa with harvey eisen. she became a fission yeast enthusiast following a discussion with amar klar, whose lab she joined in the early 1990s to investigate the intriguing properties of the mating-type region. following three exciting years at national cancer institute, usa, she moved to the university of copenhagen as a human frontier science programme fellow and later faculty. recent work has been on the kinetics of heterochromatin formation, determined at the single cell level to understand the modes of propagation of heterochromatic histone modifications along chromosomes and the intricate links between heterochromatin and replication.

janet quinn

jan quinn currently holds the position of professor of eukaryotic microbiology within the biosciences institute at newcastle university, uk. jan is also the current president of the british mycological society.

jan obtained a bsc in biochemistry from the university of wales followed by a phd from newcastle university – more years ago that she cares to remember! it was only following her phd that jan started working with fungi, with a postdoctoral fellowship at the umass medical school, usa to study chromatin remodelling in the model yeast saccharomyces cerevisiae. after a second postdoc studying stress-signalling mechanisms in the fission yeast schizosaccharomyces pombe, jan was fortunate enough to be awarded an mrc career development fellowship where she started to develop what is now her lab’s primary research focus – stress-sensing and signalling mechanisms in human fungal pathogens.

she is fascinated by the diverse mechanisms employed by a range of pathogenic candida species survive innate immune defences and other hostile environments within the host. this research spans diverse areas including mapk signalling, redox biology, and nutrient acquisition strategies. more recently, jan has become interested in how fungi survive stresses found in polymicrobial environments. in particular, her lab are studying how candida species survive antifungal effectors elicited by the type vi secretion system, found in many gram-negative bacteria. finally, her lab are also pursuing avenues to exploit their knowledge of fungal stress-sensing and signalling mechanisms to identify small molecules that inhibit processes vital for the virulence of medically important pathogens.

johanne murray

johanne murray is a reader in genome stability and, currently, subject chair for the genome damage and stability centre at the university of sussex, uk. she was awarded her phd in medical genetics in 1988 from the welsh national college of medicine, uk and then moved to the university of sussex, working on dna damage responses in fission yeast, first as a postdoc and then, from 1994, as an independent research fellow. her work focuses on the mechanisms of replication restart, the coordination of replication and recombination and consequences of mis-regulation for genome instability and cancer, with a particular focus on the recombination regulator, the smc5/6 complex.

jon houseley

jon developed an interest in rna biology during his phd research on the pathogenic effects of rna in the inherited disease myotonic dystrophy. however, during his time in glasgow, uk, first in the barry lab and then in the monckton and o’dell groups, he was surrounded by work on unstable dna and programmed recombination. his post-doctoral research in the tollervey lab in edinburgh, uk started in the biochemistry of rna degradation, but moved steadily back towards genome alteration with studies on the roles of non-coding rna in controlling the stability of repetitive dna.

in 2009 jon started a wellcome trust-funded research group at the babraham institute, uk studying non-coding rna biology and copy number variation. in addition to his research role, jon became the head of knowledge exchange and commercialisation in 2021, overseeing all aspects of how the institute works to ensure impact from its research and translation into economic and social benefit.

julia promisel cooper

julia promisel cooper is professor and chair of the department of biochemistry and molecular genetics at the university of colorado medical school, usa. her lab studies the spectrum and mechanisms of telomere function. recent highlights include the discovery of a mode by which telomerase-negative cells can use nontelomeric ribosomal dna to protect chromosome ends, and the expansion of the telomeric repertoire with findings that telomeres control meiotic spindle formation and centromere assembly. after phd work on branched dna structures with paul hagerman at the university of colorado and postdoctoral work on nucleosome positioning with robert simpson at the national institues of health, usa, julia joined thomas cech’s laboratory at the university of colorado, where she began her telomere research. she then spent a year in paul nurse’s laboratory at the imperial cancer research fund in london, uk before setting up her lab, first at the university of colorado medical school, then cancer research uk in london, then the national cancer institute in bethesda, usa and now at the university of colorado medical school. honors include a pew scholarship and election to the european molecular biology organization, based in germany, and american academy of microbiology.

mohan balasubramanian

mohan balasubramanian is interested in understanding molecular mechanisms driving cytokinesis, the process by which a cell physically divides into two. his laboratory combines the methods of yeast genetics, high-resolution imaging, and biochemistry to answer key questions pertaining to cytokinesis. mohan balasubramanian is a pro dean research for warwick medical school, uk, a senior investigator of the wellcome trust and a wolfson merit award holder.
 

pedro carvalho

pedro carvalho grew up in portugal, where he studied biochemistry at the university of coimbra.  in 2000, he joined david pellman’s laboratory at the dana farber cancer institute (boston, usa) as an exchange phd student. pedro then moved to harvard medical school, still in boston, to work as a postdoc with tom rapoport.

in 2010, he established his laboratory at the center for genomic regulation in barcelona. in 2016, pedro moved to the sir william dunn school of pathology at the university of oxford, where he was appointed the ep abraham professor of cell biology. his laboratory investigates mechanisms underlying the homeostasis of the endoplasmic reticulum. in particular, the lab focuses on how multiple er functions, such as protein and lipid biogenesis, are regulated by ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis through a process called er-associated degradation (or erad).

snezhana oliferenko

snezhana (snezhka) oliferenko studied biochemistry and virology at the lomonosov moscow state university, russia before joining lukas huber's group at the research institute of molecular pathology in vienna, austria for her doctoral studies in 1996. after earning her phd degree in 2000, snezhka moved to singapore to work as a postdoc with mohan balasubramanian. two years later, she established her group at the temasek life sciences laboratory (tll) in singapore. in 2013, snezhka moved her lab to king's college london, uk. today, she is a group leader at the francis crick institute, uk and professor of evolutionary cell biology at king's college london. she uses related fission yeast species as a discovery tool to understand how cells organise and remodel their interior during growth and division.

valerie borde

valerie borde's lab studies meiotic recombination, the essential process that produces gametes with a balanced chromosome content. their model organism is the budding yeast saccharomyces cerevisiae, that allows fine molecular and genetic studies and shares many conserved features with meiotic recombination in mammals.

valerie's lab is interested in the factors that control when and where meiotic recombination occurs, and what are the factors that ensure the characteristic repair of programmed dsb that initiate meiotic recombination into crossovers, necessary for the success of meiosis. they use a combination of molecular, genomic and proteomic approaches, and have recently begun to extend their findings to the mouse model.