Abstract Submission Topics

Disease Models and Aging

• Aging, cell death
• Cancer
• Host-microbe interactions
• Infection and Immunity
• Mendelian diseases
• Neurodegenerative diseases
• Pathogenic yeasts

Evolution and Population Genetics

• Adaptation and Natural Selection
• Comparative genomics 
• Ecological genetics
• Experimental evolution
• Hybridization and Speciation
• Population History
• Response to climate change
• Speciation
• Yeast communities

Gene Regulation

• Chromatin structure
• Epigenetics
• Gene regulatory networks
• Non-coding RNAs (piRNA, siRNA, lncRNA, etc.)
• Regulation of gene expression (transcriptional and post-transcriptional)
• RNA splicing

Genomics and Systems Biology

• Computational biology
• Gene and protein networks
• Gene regulatory networks
• Genome structure and organization
• Heterochromatin
• Microbiome
• Transposable elements

Genome Integrity

• Chromosome segregation and centromeres
• Chromosome structure, cohesion, condensin
• DNA repair and recombination
• DNA replication
• Genome Instability
• Meiotic Recombination
• Mutational processes
• Nuclear organization
• Telomeres

Intra and Inter Cellular Dynamics

• Autophagy
• Cell communication
• Cell cycle, cell division, cytokinesis
• Cell signaling
• Cytoskeleton and spindle pole bodies
• Metabolism
• Organelles
• Protein Quality Control and protein degradation
• Protein trafficking
• Signaling (intracellular and intercellular)
• Stress response

Life Cycle *New Topic in 2026*

• Quiescence
• Mating strategies
• Sexual and asexual reproduction
• Cell polarity
• Cell Cycle
• Cell Growth

New Technology and Resources

• Gene/genome editing
• Chemical biology
• Emerging model organisms
• Sequencing technologies
• Single-cell genomics and proteomics
• Optogenetics
• Phenotyping technologies                 

Synthetic Biology and Industrial Yeasts *New Topic in 2026*

• Cell Factories
• Fermentation
• Metabolic pathway engineering
• Protein and metabolite production
• Synthetic Genomics

Yeast as a Teaching Tool