General Information

I am pleased to inform that, according to the decision of the International Commission on Yeasts, adopted at 11th International Congress on Yeasts (Rio-de-Janeiro, Brazil, August 2004), the 12th International Congress on Yeasts will be held in 2008 in Kyiv (Kiev), the capital of Ukraine. The Congress venue will be the Kyiv Aviation University (1, Cosmonaut Komarov Avenue, Kyiv, 03058 Ukraine). The Congress will be held on August 11-15, 2008, just after finishing the IUMS 2008, Istanbul, Turkey, i.e. after 12th International Congress of Bacteriology and Applied Microbiology and 12th International Congress of Mycology. In such a way, people attending IUMS in Istanbul could participate also in our Congress in Kyiv, which is especially convenient for people outside of Europe. Total number of participants will be limited to 500. The regular registration fee will be EUR 400 and the student registration fee will be EUR 250. The fee will include admission to scientific sessions and exhibition, the bag with abstract and program, get-together party, 3 lunches, 6 coffee breaks, Kyiv city tour and the opening concert. The Congress Dinner will be held in one of nice Kyiv restaurants at evening of August 13 (60 EUR per person). Organizers plan to collect sponsor money which will be used in part to promote participation of the students from developing countries.

The preliminary scientific program of the Congress is already available. The list of the oral and poster sessions is as follows:
1. Yeast Molecular Systematics
2. Yeast Ecology
3. Food and Beverage Yeasts
4. Medically Important Yeasts
5. New Tools in Yeast Research
6. Systems Biology
7. Genomics and Proteomics
8. Transcriptional and Translational Regulation
9. Cell Cycle
10. Sensing and Signaling
11. Membrane Structure and Functions
12. Traffic and Secretion
13. Stress Response
14. Organelles and Autophagy
15. Yeast Apoptosis
16. Yeast as Model of Human Diseases and Drug Testing
17. Production of Heterologous Proteins
18. Metabolic Engineering
19. Yeasts for Fuel Ethanol Production and other Biorefineries
20. Yeast Biochemical Engineering
21. Yeast Biochemistry and Physiology

The list of confirmed speakers includes Nobel laureate Aaron Ciechanover and other top-level yeast researchers (altogether, near 100 scientists already confirmed their participation as Invited Speakers). Total number of Plenary Lectures and Session Lectures will be near 140. Besides, Congress will include poster sessions and workshops.

All correspondence and inquiries should be sent to Head of the Organizing Committee, Prof. Andriy A. Sibirny, Institute of Cell Biology, NAS of Ukraine, Drahomanov Street, 14/16, Lviv 79005 Ukraine, or to Head of the Secretariat, Dr. Andriy Y. Voronovsky (the same address); Phone: 380 032 2612163, FAX: 380 032 2612148. The most convenient is to send inquiries to the special e-mail address: icy2008@cellbiol.lviv.ua

Andriy A. Sibirny
Head of the Organizing Committee of 12th ICY 2008