ZYMI 2007-MEETING OF THE ITALIAN YEAST GROUP
Aula Galileo - Università degli Studi di Firenze
Via Romana 17- I-50125 Firenze
Programme

07/06/2007, Thursday

12.30–14.00

Registration (free)

14.00–14.15

Opening remarks (C.V. Bruschi, ICGEB Trieste; P. Filetici, CNR Roma)

14.15–14.30

Carlo.V. Bruschi

 

ZYMI, The Italian Research Network on Yeasts as Model System

14.30–15.00

Laura Frontali, Università di Roma “La Sapienza

 

Giorgio Mastromei, Università di Firenze

 

Mario Polsinelli

 

 

Session I:

Alia and Biotechnology Chair: Ileana Ferrero, UNIPR, Parma

 

 

15.00–15.30

Danilo Porro, UNIMIB, Milano

 

Metabolic engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

15.30–16.00

Enrico Berardi, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona

 

Methylotrophic yeasts forty years later: between biology and technology

16.00–16.30

Cristina Mazzoni, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”

 

Kluyveromyces lactis in basic research and biotechnological applications

 

 

16.30–17.00

Break

 

 

17.00–18.00

Student Session I: 4 presentations (in English)

18.00–18.30

Claudio Falcone, Università di Roma

 

Round table Yeast Biotechnology .

 

 

18.30

End of Session


08/06/2007, Friday

Session II: Mitosis and Cell architectureChair: Giovanna Lucchini, UNIMIB Milano

09.00–09.30

Peter DeWulf, European Institute of Oncology, Milano

 

Architectural and functional organization of the budding

 

yeast kinetochore.

09.30–10.00

Rodolfo Negri, Università di Roma "La Sapienza"

 

Role of the protein YAF9 in

 

chromatin organization and in transcriptional response to alkali

10.00–10.30

Elena Chiroli, UNIMIB Milano

 

The protein phosphatase PP2A(Cdc55) controls sister chromatid </I<< td>

 

separation in response to morphogenetic defects in budding yeast.

 

 

10.30–11.00

Break

 

 

11.00-12.00

Student Session II: 4 presentations (in English)

 

 

 

 

12.00–13.30

Lunch

Session III: Cell organelles and Ageing – Chair: Patrizia Filetici, CNR Roma

13.30-14.00

Michael Breitenbach, University of Salzburg, Austria

 

Role of mitochondrial proteins in yeast aging and apoptosis

14.00-14.30

Teresa Rinaldi, Università di Roma "La Sapienza"

 

The role of the proteasome in mitochondrial biogenesis in S. Cerevisiae

14.30-15.00

Antonella Ragnini-Wilson, Università di Roma TorVergata

 

Molecular motors and vesicle trafficking in budding yeast.

 

 

15.00–15.30

Break

 

 

15.30–16.30

Student Session III: 4 presentazioni (in Italiano)

16.30–17.30

Presentation from Companies

17.30–18.30

Meeting del Gruppo Italiano dei Lieviti

 

(Italian Yeast Group, ITYG)

 

 

18.30

End of Session

ZYMI 2007-MEETING OF THE ITALIAN YEAST GROUP

Aula Galileo
Università degli Studi di Firenze
Via Romana 17
I-50125 Firenze

PROGRAMME

08/06/2007, Friday

Session II: Mitosis and Cell architectureChair: Giovanna Lucchini, UNIMIB Milano

09.00–09.30

Peter DeWulf, European Institute of Oncology, Milano

 

Architectural and functional organization of the budding

 

yeast kinetochore.

09.30–10.00

Rodolfo Negri, Università di Roma "La Sapienza"

 

Role of the protein YAF9 in

 

chromatin organization and in transcriptional response to alkali

10.00–10.30

Elena Chiroli, UNIMIB Milano

 

The protein phosphatase PP2A(Cdc55) controls sister chromatid </I<< td>

 

separation in response to morphogenetic defects in budding yeast.

 

 

10.30–11.00

Break

 

 

11.00-12.00

Student Session II: 4 presentations (in English)

 

 

 

 

12.00–13.30

Lunch



Session III: Cell organelles and Ageing – Chair: Patrizia Filetici, CNR Roma

13.30-14.00

Michael Breitenbach, University of Salzburg, Austria

 

Role of mitochondrial proteins in yeast aging and apoptosis

14.00-14.30

Teresa Rinaldi, Università di Roma "La Sapienza"

 

The role of the proteasome in mitochondrial biogenesis in S. Cerevisiae

14.30-15.00

Antonella Ragnini-Wilson, Università di Roma TorVergata

 

Molecular motors and vesicle trafficking in budding yeast.

 

 

15.00–15.30

Break

 

 

15.30–16.30

Student Session III: 4 presentazioni (in Italiano)

16.30–17.30

Presentation from Companies

17.30–18.30

Meeting del Gruppo Italiano dei Lieviti

 

(Italian Yeast Group, ITYG)

 

 

18.30

End of Session

09/06/2007, Saturday

Session IV: Genome dynamicsChair: Carlo V. Bruschi, ICGEB Trieste

09.00–09.30

Marco Foiani, IFOM, Milano

 

Mechanisms controlling the integrity of replicating chromosomes

09.30–10.00

Ian Hickson, Oxford University, Oxford, UK

 

Repair of damaged replication forks in S.cerevisiae

10.00–10.30

Valentina Tosato - Beatrice Rossi, ICGEB, Trieste

 

A bridged talk about bridging chromosomes: from the molecular event

 

to chromatin analysis

10.30–11.00

Michela Clerici, UNIMIB Milano

 

Double strand break processing and checkpoint response

 

 

11.00-11.30

Break

 

 

11.30–12.00

Marco Muzi-Falconi, UNIMI, Milano

 

Physical and functional interplay between DNA repair and checkpoint

 

mechanisms in the response to DNA damage

12.00–12.30

Duccio Cavalieri, Università di Firenze

 

Functional genomics approaches to the study of yeast molecular ecology

12.30–13.30

Student Session IV: 4 presentations (in English)

13.30

 

 

 

END of Meeting