22nd SMYTE (Small Meeting on Yeast Transport and Energetics

22nd SMYTE (Small Meeting on Yeast Transport and Energetics

22nd SMYTE (Small Meeting on Yeast Transport and Energetics)
Azores, Portugal, 2 - 4 September 2004
Programme
Thursday, 2nd September
8:00
Registration
9:30
Opening
Nico van Uden Lecture
Piper, Peter (University of Sheffield, UK)
Weak organic acid resistance in yeasts
10:30
Coffee break
Drug Resistance
Chair: André Goffeau
11:00
Prasad, Rajendra (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India)
Efflux pumps in antifungal resistance
11:20
Sigler, Karel (Institute of Microbiology, Prague, Czech Republic)
Growth phase dependence of membrane potential and activity of PDR
pumps in S. cerevisiae
11:40
Vargas, Rita (Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal)
The yeast QDR1, QDR2 and QDR3 (ORF YBR043c) genes and
the encoded plasma membrane multidrug transporters: role in
quinidine resistance and differential expression patterns
12:00
Ludwig, Jost (University of Bonn, Germany)
A system to identify transcriptional regulators of Candida MDR elements
12:20
Schwanewilm, Petra (University of Bonn, Germany)
A yeast-based system to identify negative regulators of multiple drug
resistance transcription networks
12:40
General discussion
13:00
Lunch
Ion Homeostasis and Energetics
Chair: Karel Sigler
14:30
Prista, Catarina (Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Debaryomyces hansenii, a salt-loving yeast
14:50
Peña, Antonio (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico)
Changes of the internal pH of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Factors involved
and metabolic effects
15:10
García-Salcedo, Raúl (University of Cordoba, Spain)
DhGZF3, a gene involved in tolerance to high pH in Debaryomyces
hansenii
15:30
Brandão, Rogélio (Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Brazil)
Calcium metabolism and sugar-induced activation of plasma membrane
ATPase in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
15:50
Coffee break
16:20
Mattoon, James (University of Colorado, USA)
transport in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Participation of
GAP1, BAP2 and AGP1
L-Phenylalanine
16:40
Paiva, Sandra (University of Minho, Braga, Portugal)
Ady2p is essential for the acetate permease activity in the yeast
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
17:00
Kucejova, Blanka (Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia)
Identification of genes involved in mitochondrial ion homeostasis
17:20
Kolarov, Jordan (Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia)
Triplicated mitochondrial ADP/ATP carriers in aerobic Yarrowia lypolitica
are regulated differentially in the absence of oxygen
17:40
General discussion
18:30
Reception Cocktail
Friday, 3rd September
Cation transport
Chair: Antonio Peña
9:00
Ramos, José (University of Cordoba, Spain)
The Ppz phosphatases regulate K+ transport through TRK dependent and
independent pathways
9:20
Kinclova-Zimmermannova, Olga (Institute of Physiology, Prague, Czech
Republic)
Functional study of the Na+, K+/H+ antiporter in the pathogenic yeast
Candida albicans
9:40
Maresova, Lydie (Institute of Physiology, Prague, Czech Republic)
Characterization of the putative K+/H+ antiporter Kha1
10:00
Sychrova, Hana (Institute of Physiology, Prague, Czech Republic)
Random mutagenesis of Zygosaccharomyces rouxii Na+/H+ antiporter
Sod2-22p revealed amino acid residues important for the substrate
specificity range
10:20
Flegelova, Hana (Institute of Physiology, Prague, Czech Republic)
Characterization of mammalian NHE antiporters upon their expression in
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
10:40
Coffee break
11:10
Weghuber, Julian (University of Vienna, Austria)
Mrsp2p – functional and molecular characterization of a mitochondrial
Mg2+ channel
11:30
Graschopf, Anton (University of Vienna, Austria)
Magnesium homeostasis in yeast: the N-terminal domain of Alr1p is
essential for its Mg2+-specific degradation
11:50
Schwarzer, Sarah (University of Bonn, Germany)
Cellular localisation of heteromeric mammalian K+-channels expressed in
yeast
12:10
Hasenbrink, Guido (University of Bonn, Germany)
Pharmacological analysis of the inwardly rectifying Kir2.1 K+ channel from
mouse in the model system Saccharomyces cerevisiae
12:30
General discussion
13:00
Lunch
Sugar Transport
Chair: Hana Sychrova
14:20
Sousa, Maria João (University of Minho, Braga, Portugal)
Molecular and biochemical characterization of sugar transport in
Torulaspora delbruecki
14:40
Leandro, Maria José (New University of Lisbon, Caparica, Portugal)
Identification and characterisation of xylose/glucose transporters from
Candida intermedia
15:00
Araújo, Pedro (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
Alpha-methyl-glucoside transport in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
15:20
Ramos, Augusto (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
Glucose uptake in Trichoderma reesei: functional characterization of the
Trhxt1 and Trhxt2 genes
15:40
General discussion
16:00
Coffee break
Membrane transporters and regulatory processes
Chair: Milan Höfer
16:30
Palkova, Zdena (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)
EMBO-YIP Lecture
Roles of yeast plasma membrane transporters in long-term yeast colony
development
16:50
Ricicová, Markéta (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)
Expression of ATO-GFP fusion genes in S. cerevisiae colonies
17:10
Soveral, Graça (New University of Lisbon, Caparica, Portugal)
Water fluxes and plasma membrane elasticity in Saccharomyces
cerevisiae
17:30
Opekarova, Miroslava (Institute of Microbiology, Prague, Czech Republic)
Regulation of trafficking of yeast plasma membrane transporters by the
lipid environment
17:50
Goffeau, André (Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve,
Belgium)
Identification and classification of the yeast transporters
18:10
General discussion
Closure
20:00
Dinner (Solar da Graça, Ponta Delgada)
Saturday, 4th September
9:00-18:00
Excursion
Ponta Delgada, Ribeira Grande, Furnas (lunch), Vila Franca do Campo,
Lagoa, Ponta Delgada
19:30
Dinner (Cervejaria-Marisqueira Gaivota, Ponta Delgada)