We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Yeast and Life Sciences which will be held in Suzhou, China, located approximately 60 miles west of Shanghai. The conference will begin at 7:00pm on the evening of Monday June 21, and will conclude after lunch on Thursday June 24, 2021.
The conference will include six oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in Yeast. While domestic participants within China will attend the meeting in-person, Overseas participants who cannot attend the meeting physically will be able to join the meeting LIVE via Zoom. Many talks will be selected from the openly submitted abstracts on the basis of scientific merit and relevance. Social events throughout the conference provide ample opportunity for informal interactions.
Major Topics:
1. Cell Growth Controls
2. Organelles
3. Cellular Metabolism
4. Chromosome
5. DNA Replication, Recombination and Repair
Keynote Speakers:
Nancy Kleckner, Harvard University
Abstract title: Seeing chromosomes in budding yeast (and other organisms)
Bruce Stillman, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Abstract title: Mechanism, regulation and evolution of DNA replication origin specification in eukaryotic cells
Invited Speakers:
Andres Aguilera, Universidad de Sevilla-CSIC
Abstract title: Cell cycle-specific mechanisms for harmful R-loop prevention in yeast
Brenda Andrews, University of Toronto
Abstract title: From phenotypes to pathways: global analysis of cellular networks using systematic yeast genetics and single cell image analysis
Dana Branzei, IFOM, FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology
Abstract title: Mus81-Mms4 endonuclease is turned over by Esc2-STUbL-Cullin8 in mitosis to maintain genome integrity
Jürg Bähler, University College London
Abstract title: A pyruvate kinase variant of fission yeast affects energy metabolism, cell regulation, growth and stress resistance
Orna Cohen-Fix, NIH, NIDDK
Abstract title: Nuclear size regulation in budding yeast
Li-lin Du, National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing
Abstract title: Selective autophagy in fission yeast
Marco Foiani, IFOM The FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology
Abstract title: DNA damage response and repair efficiency rely on metabolic tuning of amino acid uptake, AMPK and Torc1 networks, and PP2A activity.
Shiv Grewal, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
Abstract title: Methylated histones transmit epigenetic memory: lessons from fission yeast
Xiangwei He, Zhejiang University
Abstract title: Rapid & reversable mutations generate subclonal genetic diversity
Alan Hinnebusch, NIH
Abstract title: “Downstream activation sequences” and feedback loops of chromatin remodeling complexes regulate binding and transcriptional stimulation by Gcn4
Takehiko Kobayashi, University of Tokyo
Abstract title: DNA replication initiation affects stability of ribosomal RNA gene repeat and lifespan
Daochun Kong, Peking University
Abstract title: Initiation of Chromosomal DNA Replication in Eukaryotes
Qing Li, Peking University
Abstract title: Dissecting the replisome-histone chaperones guided nucleosome assembly network
Mart Loog, University of Tartu
Abstract title: Temporal control of cell cycle via multi-site phosphorylation in S.cerevisiae
Huiqiang Lou, China Agricultural University
Abstract title: Metabolic remodeling maintains a reducing environment for rapid activation of the DNA replication checkpoint
Sophie Martin, University of Lausanne
Abstract title: Cell patterning by secretion-induced membrane flows, and other membrane events
Richard Maraia, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health
Abstract title: tRNA synthesis by RNA polymerase III: Considering attributes involved in Pol III nuclear and cytoplasmic transcription functions
Hisao Masai, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science
Abstract title: Roles of G4 binding and multimization of Rif1 in S phase regulation in fission yeast cells
Sahand Jamal Rahi, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Abstract title: Single-cell analysis reveals quantitative patterns of DNA damage checkpoint adaptation
Frederick Roth, University of Toronto and Mount Sinai Hospital
Abstract title: Using yeast for large-scale testing of functional human sequence variation
Maya Schuldiner, Weizmann Institute of Science
Abstract title: Systematic analysis of contact site proteomes reveals novel players in cellular homeostasis
Lars Steinmetz, EMBL
Abstract title: Learning from synthetic genomic applications in yeast
Tomoyuki Tanaka, University of Dundee
Abstract title: Aurora B–INCENP localization at centromeres/inner kinetochores is essential for chromosome bi-orientation in budding yeast
Yuichi Taniguchi, Kyoto University
Abstract title: Nucleosome-level 3D organization of the yeast genome
Genevieve Thon, University of Copenhagen
Abstract title: Roles of replication factors in heterochromatin formation, in fission yeast
Michael Tyers, University of Montréal
Abstract title: TBA
Frank Uhlmann, The Francis Crick Institute
Abstract title: From DNA to Chromosomes – the Structure and Function of SMC Complexes
Elçin Unal, University of California at Berkeley
Abstract title: TBA
Dan Zhang, Temasek Life Science Laboratory
Abstract title: ER-PM contacts: formation, function and regulation
Liangran Zhang, Shandong University
Abstract title: Pds5 regulates chromosome axis length and recombination frequency in meiosis
Xiaolan Zhao, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Abstract title: Yeast leads the way: insights into the functions and structures of the Smc5/6 complex
Jin-Qiu Zhou, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, CAS
Abstract title: Construction and characterization of single-chromosome fission yeast strains reveal the configuration robustness of a functional genome
We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials. The abstracts must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers. Status (fellow's talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers.
Fellowship:
We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. A certain number of presentations by graduate students and postdocs in this conference will be selected as fellowship (USD $100-$500) awards. For more details, please visit Stipends
We look forward to seeing you at Suzhou in June, 2021.
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