Natura Lectures Natura o.z. aims at identification of rising stars in biomedical sciences and supporting their oral presentations at international scientific meetings. Since 2007, in close collaboration with the Yeast Commission of the Czechoslovak Society for Microbiology, we organized the series of invited ‘Natura lectures’ presented at the Annual Conference on Yeasts organized in Smolenice (Slovakia).

Natura Lectures

Natura o.z. aims at identification of rising stars in biomedical sciences and supporting their oral presentations at international scientific meetings. Since 2007, in close collaboration with the Yeast Commission of the Czechoslovak Society for Microbiology, we organized the series of invited ‘Natura lectures’ presented at the Annual Conference on Yeasts organized in Smolenice (Slovakia).

2014:

NATURA Lecture #15

Kenji Maeda (Germany) - Interactome map uncovers phosphatidylserine transport by oxysterol-binding proteins (41 Annual Conference on Yeasts Smolenice, May 22, 2014)

2012:

NATURA Lecture #14

Denise Haslinger (Austria) - Proteomic approach identifies putative pathomechanisms in autism (40 Annual Conference on Yeasts Smolenice, May 10, 2012)

2011:

NATURA Lecture #13

Dominika Fričová (Slovakia) - Linear mitochondrial genomes in yeast: A paradigm for evolution of linear chromosomes and their telomeric structures (39 Annual Conference on Yeasts Smolenice, May 5, 2011)

NATURA Lecture #12

Toni Gabaldón (Spain) - From sequences to biological insights: tracing genomic changes underlying evolutionary adaptations in yeasts (39 Annual Conference on Yeasts Smolenice, May 5, 2011)

2010:

NATURA Lecture #11

Tomáš Vinař (Slovakia) - Bioinformatics research at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics, and Informatics (38 Annual Conference on Yeasts Smolenice, May 14, 2010)

NATURA Lecture #10

Attila Gacser (Hungary) - Host response to Candida parapsilosis infection (38 Annual Conference on Yeasts Smolenice, May 13, 2010)

NATURA Lecture #9

Victor J. Cid (Spain) - Humanized yeast as a tool for cancer research: focus on phosphoinositide-dependent signaling (38 Annual Conference on Yeasts Smolenice, May 12, 2010)

2009:

NATURA Lecture #8

Lumír Krejčí (Czech Republic) - DNA repair mechanisms in yeast (37 Annual Conference on Yeasts Smolenice, May 14, 2009)

NATURA Lecture #7

Silvia Poláková (Slovakia) - The role of genome architecture in Candida glabrata: virulence and lifestyle (37 Annual Conference on Yeasts Smolenice, May 14, 2009)

NATURA Lecture #6

Derek J. Sullivan (Ireland) - Candida dubliniensis: A budding yeast pathogen (37 Annual Conference on Yeasts Smolenice, May 14, 2009)

2008:

NATURA Lecture #5

Miroslav Chovanec (Slovakia) - Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model system to study DNA repair phenomena (36 Annual Conference on Yeasts Smolenice, May 15, 2008)

NATURA Lecture #4

Anna Kolecká (Slovakia) - Adhesion models as a tool for interaction study between host and Candida spp. (36 Annual Conference on Yeasts Smolenice, May 15, 2008)

2007:

NATURA Lecture #3

Ingrid Kiššová (Slovakia) - Mitophagy: Selective autophagic degradation of mitochondria (35 Annual Conference on Yeasts Smolenice, May 16, 2007)

NATURA Lecture #2

Leoš Valášek (Czech Republic) - Association of eukaryotic translation initiation factor 3 (eIF3) with the 40S ribosome post the termination step on short uORF is a critical determinant of its ability to reinitiate (35 Annual Conference on Yeasts Smolenice, May 16, 2007)

NATURA Lecture #1

Balász Papp (Hungary) - Robustenss revisited: The condition dependency of genetic interactions (35 Annual Conference on Yeasts Smolenice, May 16, 2007)