Annual congress on Clinical Microbiology and Yeast Congress July 24-25, 2020 Vancouver | Canada

Cooper investigated avian oil droplets as an undergraduate, obtained an M.S. in Chemistry studying carboxylase enzyme mechanisms at Wayne State and a Ph.D. at Purdue first discovering that ?-oxidation occurs in peroxisomes rather than mitochondria. With Magasanik at MIT he investigated the mechanism of carbon catabolite repression in E. coli. While there he and Patricia Whitney discovered yeast urea amidolyase to be a multifunctional protein consisting of urea carboxylase and allophanate hydrolase. Moving to the University of Pittsburgh, he and his students elucidated the reactions of the allantoin degradative pathway, proposed nitrogen catabolite repression (NCR) as controlling nitrogen-responsive gene expression and he authored “The Tools of Biochemistry”. Cooper learned the intricacies of yeast genetics from Sye Fogel and cloning from John Carbon. His group identified, mapped, cloned and sequenced the allantoin pathway structural and four GATA-transcriptional regulatory genes. As Harriet S. Van Vleet Professor at the University of Tennessee, he founded and directed the Molecular Resource Center and was chair of Microbiology and Immunology for 15 years. His students identified the promoter structures of the NCR-sensitive genes, binding sites for their four regulatory transcription factors and now the regulatory pathways controlling Gln3 localization and intra-nuclear regulation. He served 17 years on and chaired NIH and ACS study sections, chaired the AAMC Council of Academic Societies, served on the AAMC Executive Committee, multiple editorial boards and as treasurer and American representative to the International Conference of Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology. He is currently a member of the UT Board of Trustees.

Yeast,Microbiology, Immunology, and Biochemistry

Dr.Jürgen Wendland, PhD He is currently Editor-in-Chief, Microbiological Research Beverage Science and Food Safety, Institute of Microbiology and Biochemistry, Geisenheim University, Von-Lade-Str. 1, 65366, Geisenheim, Germany Study of Biology at the Justus-Liebig University (1987-1993), Giessen, Germany. PhD in Genetics, in 1996 Philipps University Marburg, Germany Postdoc at the Biozentrum (1996-1999), University of Basel, Switzerland with Peter Philippsen. He is Group leader at the Friedrich-Schiller University and the Hans-Knöll Institute (2000-2006), Jena, Germany Professor of Yeast Biology and Fermentation at The Carlsberg Laboratory (2006-2016), Copenhagen, Denmark Professor of Microbiology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (2016-2019), Brussels, Belgium Since 2019 Professor and Director of the Institute of Microbiology and Biochemistry, Hochschule Geisenheim University, Geisenheim, Germany.

Research focuses on Wine Microbiology and Wine Aroma Analytics. Molecular Yeast Breeding and Yeast Genomics. Wine/Beer and Non-conventional Yeasts Synthetic biology and Genetic Engineering.

Monique Bolotin-Fukuhara completed her Ph.D. in 1977 at University Paris-Sud-Orsay and worked as an assistant-professor in Genetics at the University of Paris up to 1984. She then entered the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique as Director of Research. During this period she went twice to the United States (in Chicago -Prs Esposito- and Madison- Pr M. Nomura) for training or sabbatical. From 2006 to 2010, she was Director of the Institute of Genetics and Microbiology at Orsay. She has served on different scientific committees such as the Science Academy of Finland or Scientific board of Institut de la Recherche Agronomique. She was editor of Yeast for many years and is now editor of FEMS Yeast Research while reviewing for many Journals. She has published about one hundred publications in international journals. She is now an Emeritus Research Director of CNRS.

yeasts mitochondrial genetics - Use yeast for mitochondrial diseases, in particular, to search for correcting genes

Bernard Dujon is emeritus professor of Genetics at Sorbonne University and at Institut Pasteur where, in 1987, he has created the research unit « Molecular Genetics of Yeast » that he directed until 2015. His main scientific interests focus on the organization, propagation and evolution of eukaryotic genomes, using primarily yeasts as models. Back in the 7O’s, at CNRS, he described the first rules of mitochondrial inheritance using Saccharomyces cerevisiae mutants. After a post-doctoral training at Harvard University, this subsequently lead him to the discovery of intron-homing, an entirely new phenomenon of gene drive based on the existence of intron encoded homing endonucleases that have served as first tools for eukaryotic genome editing in the 90’s. After the sequencing of S. cerevisiae was completed in 1996 (to which it largely contributed), Bernard Dujon’s team focused his activity on the evolution and stability of yeast genomes, combining comparative sequence analyses with dedicated experiments on S. cerevisiae as well as on the pathogenic yeast Candida glabrata. The many surprises observed in the evolution of many yeast genomes formed the bases for experiments in which major mechanisms were revealed from artificial genetic constructs. Bernard Dujon is a member of Institut de France (Académie des Sciences), Academia Europaea, EMBO and National Academy of Inventors.

Molecular Genetics of Yeast

She is Ph.D, Deputy Head of Unit Department of Membrane Transport, Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic,Full time student or graduate in science, preferably microbiology, biochemistry molecular biology. components of the cation.

microbiology, biochemistry molecular biology,homeostasis regulatory network (K+and H+) in yeast cells

The full professor Margarida Casal took office as president of the School of Sciences of the University of Minho (ECUM). The investiture ceremony was attended by the rector António M.Cunha and was held in the ECUM amphitheater on the Gualtar campus in Braga. For the triennium 2016/2019, Margarida Casal will have as vice presidents Professors Nuno Peres, José Brilha and António Maurício Fonseca. Margarida Casal graduated in Biology at the University of Lisbon and has a doctorate in Sciences at UMinho, where she has been a professor since 1986. She is a director of the Center for Molecular and Environmental Biology at UMinho, vice-president of the Portuguese Society of Genetics and coordinator of the Doctoral Program in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). Over the past few years, he co-founded the NanoDelivery spin-off, took over the direction of the Department of Biology, was responsible for creating master's degrees in Applied Biochemistry and Biophysics and Bionanossistemas, attended 20 postgraduate courses and developed scientific internships , such as INRA (National Institute for Agronomic Research, France), the Institute for Molecular Biology of Plants (CNRS) and the Biomedical Research Institute of Madrid (Spain). She is a co-author of 9 patents, 8 book chapters and 102 publications in leading journals.

Biology, Microbiology, Microbial Molecular Genetics, Yeast Classic and Molecular Genetics. Molecular Biotechnology. Structural Biology. Synthetic Protein Biotechnology