9th International Meeting on Yeast Apoptosis
Rome, Italy
September 16^th-20^th, 2012
Protein synsthesis, mitochondrial biogenesis, mitochondrial retrograde response, the proteasome and autophagy, are among major intracellular processes that have been first and in more details characterized in yeast. Recent achievements in Saccharomyces cerevisiae cell biology have revealed the molecular pathways of programmed cell death in this unicellular eukaryote, increasing the knowledge of cellular processes regulating life and death in probably the most well characterized model organism at the molecular level. The 9th International Meeting on Yeast Apoptosis will bring together investigators from around the world to present and discuss researches employing yeasts as model organisms to study regulated cell death and its role in stress responses, aging and development.
These sessions will cover a variety of topics, including:

•     Fungal Cell Death pathways
•     Mitochondrial function and physiology
•     Caspase-dependent and independent apoptosis
•     Autophagy/Mitophagy
•     Protein aggregation and toxicity
•     Cellular Ageing
•     Antifungal activity and drug discovery
•     Evolution of apoptosis
•     The metabolism of cell death

Opportunities will be available for oral and poster presentations.
The 9th IMYA  will be partially overlapped to the 20th EUROCONFERENCE ON APOPTOSIS (European Cell Death Organization meeting) that will be held in Rome from September 14^th to 17^th,  2012.  IMYA and ECDO will share the sessions through the morning of September 17^th. 

9th IMYA Organizing Committee
Cristina Mazzoni, Department of Biology and Biotechnology “C. Darwin”, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
Sergio Giannattasio, Institute of Biomembranes and Bioenergetics, National Research Council of Italy, Bari, Italy

9th IMYA Scientific Committee
Joris Winderickx                      Frank Madeo
Sergio Giannattasio                 Claudio Falcone
Cristina Mazzoni                      Campbell Gourlay
Paula Ludovico                        Bill Burhans

Confirmed speakers

Valter Longo Los Angeles, CA, USA
Guido Kroemer  Villejuif, France
Frank Madeo Graz, Austria
Kodi S. Ravichandran (USA)
Laurence Zitvogel (France)
Joris Winderickx Leuven, Belgium
Jared Rutter Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Paula Ludovico Braga, Portugal
Manuela Corte-Real Braga, Portugal
Bill Burhans Buffalo, NY, USA
Zdena Palkova Prague, Czech Republic
Campbell W. Gourlay Canterbury England
Marie Hardwick Baltimore, MD, USA
Dina Petranovic Gothenburg, Sweden
Fedor Severin Moscow, Russia
Zhengchang Liu, New Orleans, LA, USA
Keshav K. Singh, Birmingham, Al, USA

and others....

Contact: IMYA2012@uniroma1.it