New perspectives from South-Y-East, not all about death

A report of the 12th lnternational Meeting on Yeast Apoptosis in Bari, Italy, May 14th-18th, 2017

Authors:

Nicoletta Guaragnella1,#, Mariarita Stirpe2,#, William Burhans3, Manuela Côrte-Real4, Campbell Gourlay5, Paula Ludovico6,7, Frank Madeo8,9, Dina Petranovic10, Joris Winderickx11, Cristina Mazzoni2 and Sergio Giannattasio1

doi: 10.15698/mic2018.02.616
Volume 5, pp. 112 to 115, published 16/01/2018.

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Affiliations:

1 Institute of Biomembranes, Bioenergetics and Molecular Biotechnologies, CNR, Bari, Italy.

2 Pasteur Institute-Cenci Bolognetti Foundation, Department of Biology and Biotechnologies “C. Darwin”, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.

3 Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA.

4 Centre of Molecular and Environmental Biology (CBMA), Department of Biology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.

5 Kent Fungal Group, School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.

6 Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Health Sciences, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.

7 ICVS/3B’s – PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal.

8 Institute of Molecular Biosciences, University of Graz, Graz, Austria.

9 BioTechMed Graz, Graz, Austria.

10 Systems and Synthetic Biology, Department for Biology and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.

11 Functional Biology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

# Co-first authors.

Keywords: 

yeast, cell death, aging, autophagy, mitochondria, stress response, system biology, drug discovery, disease model, bioprocess engineering

Corresponding Author(s):

Sergio Giannattasio, Institute of Biomembranes, Bioenergetics and Molecular Biotechnologies, CNR, Bari, Italy; s.giannattasio@ibiom.cnr.it Cristina Mazzoni, Pasteur Institute-Cenci Bolognetti Foundation, Department of Biology and Biotechnologies “C. Darwin”, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy; cristina.mazzoni@uniroma1.it

Conflict of interest statement:

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Please cite this article as:

Nicoletta Guaragnella, Mariarita Stirpe, William Burhans, Manuela Côrte-Real, Campbell Gourlay, Paula Ludovico, Frank Madeo, Dina Petranovic, Joris Winderickx, Cristina Mazzoni and Sergio Giannattasio (2018). New perspectives from South-Y-East, not all about death. A report of the 12th lnternational Meeting on Yeast Apoptosis in Bari, Italy, May 14th-18th, 2017. Microbial Cell 5(2): 112-115. doi: 10.15698/mic2018.02.616

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Abstract:

In this article Guaragnella et al. report on the 12th International Meeting on Yeast Apoptosis (IMYA12), which was held in Bari, Italy from May 14th to 18th, 2017, where more than 100 participants, among which senior and young scientists from Europe, USA, North Africa and Japan, had an intense and open exchange of achievements and ideas in the field of yeast regulated cell death (RCD).