Bay Area Yeast Meeting

Spring 2014 Bay Area Yeast Meeting Information

The Spring Bay Area Yeast Meeting is hosted by the Saccharomyces Genome Database group at Stanford University and UC Berkeley.

• Venue: M106, Alway Building, Stanford Medical Center (intersection of Roth and Campus Dr)
• Location: Stanford University, CA
• Date: April 19th, 2014

Registration

• Registraion is free.
• To help us get a head count for food and to prepare the meeting agenda, please enter your information using this Registration Form

Program

9:00 - 10:00 Coffee and Registration (Courtyard outside M106)
10:00 - 12:00 Research Talks M106

FRET-based assay for monitoring septin filament assembly
Jeremy Thorner, UC Berkeley

TBA
Tim Stearns, Stanford University

Number of Cln3 molecules determines budding probability in yeast
Kurt Schmoller , J.M. Skotheim Lab, Stanford University

Re-replication of a centromere induces whole-chromosomal instability and aneuploidy
Stacey Hallon, Joachim J. Li Lab, UCSF

Heterozygote advantage in adapting diploids
Diamantis Sellis, Dmitri Petrov Lab, Stanford University

TBA
Richter Chandra - Galo Research

12:00 - 1:45 Lunch and Posters (Courtyard outside M106)
1:50 - 3:45 Research Talks M106

Investigating the functional defects of human p53 mutations in a yeast model system: an introductory molecular biology laboratory course for undergraduates
Daria Hekmat-Scafe, Martha Cyert and Tim Stearns Lab, Stanford University

Chomatin Remodeling as a Molecular Basis of Expression Noise
Christopher Brown, Hinrich Boeger Lab, UC Santa Cruz

The landscape of complex transcriptome in yeast
Wu Wei, Lars Steinmetz Lab, Stanford University

Insights into yeast gene regulation though high-throughput and precision RNA boundary mapping
Aino Järvelin, Lars Steinmetz Lab, EMBL

Transient expression of intrinsically disordered proteins heritably transforms the phenotypic landscape of S. cerevisiae
Daniel Jarosz, Stanford University

Accounting for biases in riboprofiling data indicates a major role for proline in stalling translation
Carlo Artieri, Hunter B. Fraser Lab, Stanford University

The role of nucleoporins specifically Nup2 during meiosis in budding yeast
Daniel Chu, Sean Burgess Lab, UC Davis

3:50 - 4:50 Key Note Speaker M106
4:50 - 5:30 Wine reception (Courtyard outside M106)

Key Note Speaker

Randy Schekman, UC Berkeley (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2013)

Maps & Parking

Parking is free during the weekend on Stanford campus.

Parking structure closest to M106 is at the intersection of Roth and Campus drive. Stanford University maps

Campus Shuttle (Marguerite)

Free campus shuttle from downtown Palo Alto is available. The Palo Alto Train Station is the closest stop to Stanford University. A variety of maps for the Marguerite Shuttle are available.

Realtime Shuttle Bus Service. The Stanford Marguerite Shuttle is free.

Sponsors

• Amyris Biotechnologies
• E&J Gallo Winery
• School of Medicine, Stanford University

Need help?

• If you have any questions please contact us at sgd-helpdesk