Chairs: G. Liti (France), S. Dequin (France)

08:30-09:00 Keynote Lecture: JOSÉ PAULO SAMPAIO (Universidade Nova de Lisboa – Portugal) A Population Genomics View of Saccharomyces Natural History and Domestication

Selected Lectures:

09:00-09:15 J. L. LEGRAS (France) New insights into the adaptation of yeast to anthropic environment using comparative genomics

09:15-09:30 F. Y. BAI (China) The origin and domestication of lager beer yeast

09:30-09:45 A. NICOLAS (France) Reversion of meiotic progression allows extensive recombination of Saccharomyces cerevisiae hybrid diploids

09:45-10:00 A. GOOVAERTS (Belgium) Polygenic analysis of ethanol tolerance and maximal ethanol accumulation capacity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

10:00-10:15 P. DARAN-LAPUJADE (The Netherlands) Pathway swapping: a new approach to simply and efficiently remodel essential native cellular functions

10:15-10:30 F. A. CUBILLOS (Chile) Natural variation in non-coding regions underlying phenotypic diversity in budding yeast