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FEMS Yeast Research Webinar on Yeast Lipids

3 June, 2021 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
The webinar presents established and earlier career speakers who will cover diverse aspects of yeast lipid metabolism. It will address the exciting field of the role of phospholipids in organelle function and communication. Then we switch focus to applications of lipids that can be produced in yeast cells. Metabolic engineering has created the opportunities develop yeast cell factories to produce specialty lipids for diverse food, cosmetics, biofuels and biotechnology. The combination of state-of-the-art presentations from world leaders, exciting research presentations from up-and-coming researchers, and a discussion forum will deliver an engrossing session.
Chair
John Morrissey, Editor-in-Chief of FEMS Yeast Research
Keynote Speakers
Prof Maya Schuldiner, Weizmann Institute of Sciences
Talk: Regulatory mechanisms underpinning direct mitochondria-nucleus contacts in the yeast cell
Dr Rodrigo Ledesma Amara, Imperial College London
Talk: Sustainable production of lipid and lipid-derived molecules in Yarrowia lipolytica
Research Updates
Paulína Káňovičová, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia
The role of phosphatidylglycerol in the manifestation of Barth syndrome
Karolis Petkevicius, The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark
Biotechnological production of the European corn borer sex pheromone in the yeast