Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology 2000
University of Washington, Seattle
August 2000


YGM 2000 Program Schedule


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Platform Sessions

Cell Growth and Division
Communing with the Environment
Protein Sorting
Protein Recycling and Turnover
Chromatin
The Yeast Germline
Organelle Dynamics
Central Dogma
Genome Evolution
DNA on the Move
Transcriptional Regulation
Signal Transduction
Metabolic Regulation
Chromosomes: End to End
Cellular Morphogenesis
Signal Transduction Encore
Expression Profiling

Poster Sessions

Organelle Biogenesis
Protein localization and Turnover
Cytoskeleton and Structural Components
Signal Transduction
Cell Division Cycle
Mating
Sporulation and Meiosis
Growth Control
Replication
Telomeres & Centromeres
Chromosome Behavior
Transcription
RNA Processing
Translation
Chromatin Remodeling
Mutagenesis and Repair
Recombination
Retro-transposition
Genome Organization
Evolution
Global Analysis of Gene Expression
Environmental Sensing
Metabolic Regulation
Ion and Small Molecule Transport

Platform Session: Cell Growth and Division

#001 - Victor Cid, Mark Shulewitz, Jeremy Thorner
Swe1 regulator, Hsl7, relocalizes from the spindle pole body to the bud neck during the S. cerevisiae cell cycle.

#002 - Jacob C. Harrison, Elaine S.G. Bardes, Daniel J. Lew
A role for the Pkc1p/Mpk1p pathway in the morphogenesis checkpoint.

#003 - Warren Heideman, David Markwardt, Laura Newcomb
Loss of upstream CLN3 and BCK2 regulatory sequences produces cells that cannot regulate G1.

#004 - Vivian MacKay, Bernard Mai, Laurie Waters, Julia Sidorova, Linda Breeden
ECB-mediated transcription of SWI4 and CLN3 is critical for G1 progression and size control in budding yeast.

#005 - Xiaolan Zhao, Rodney Rothstein
The Mec1/Rad53 kinase cascade regulates dNTP synthesis through Sml1.

#006 - Janos Demeter, Sang Eun Lee, James E. Haber, Tim Stearns
The DNA-damage Checkpoint Signal in Budding Yeast is Not Diffusible.


Platform Session: Communing with the Environment

#007 - Hisao Moriya, Mariko Katoh, Akira Omori, Akira Sakai
Involvement of YAK1 kinase with glucose-sensing pathway in yeast: Identification of YAK1 kinase as a Pop2p kinase in response to glucose signal.

#008 - Teresa Lamb, Wenjie Xu, Aaron Mitchell
Alkaline growth adaptation and dependence on the transcription factor, RIM101.

#009 - Seiko Ishida, Ira Herskowitz
Copper transporter Ctr1p mediates uptake of anticancer drug cisplatin.

#010 - Cheol-Won Yun, Tracy Ferea, Orly Ardon, Patrick O. Brown, David Botstein, Robert E. Moore, Jerry Kaplan, Caroline C. Philpott
Siderophore-mediated iron uptake in Saccharomyces cerevisiae .

#011 - Nobuo Ogawa, Joseph DeRisi, Patrick O. Brown
A set of PHO-regulated genes identified by DNA microarrays are involved in metabolism of inorganic polyphosphate, which functions as a P i reservoir and a metal chelator.

#012 - Stephen R Cronin, Randolph Hampton
Calcium, the ER, and a P-type ATPase named Cod1p.


Platform Session: Protein Sorting

#013 - Sarah Broadley, Christina Demlow, Thomas Fox
Mss2p is a peripheral mitochondrial inner membrane protein required for export of a Cox2p-Arg8p fusion protein and stability of Cox2p.

#014 - a Jones, Nava Segev
The role of a Ypt-Arf GTPase cascade in protein transport..

#015 - Stephen B. Helliwell, Sascha Losko, Chris A. Kaiser
Components of a ubiquitin ligase complex regulate the transport of Gap1p from the Golgi to the vacuole.

#016 - Katherine Bowers, Boaz P. Levi, Falguny I. Patel, Tom H. Stevens
A prevacuolar sodium/proton exchanger, Nhx1p, is required for vacuolar protein sorting in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#017 - Manfred J. Schmitt, Katrin Eisfeld, Frank Riffer
Endocytotic uptake and retrograde transport of a virus toxin in yeast.

#018 - David Katzmann, Markus Babst, Eden Estepa-Sabal, Scott Emr
Protein sorting in the endosomal system: 350 kDa complex required for endocytic and biosynthetic sorting.


Platform Session: Protein Recycling and Turnover

#019 - Yoshiaki Kamada, Tomoko Funakoshi, Takahiro Shintani, Yoshinori Ohsumi
Tor mediates induction of autophagy via a protein kinase complex.

#020 - Dieter H. Wolf, Matthias Rose, Karl-Dieter Entian, Michael Thumm, Thomas Schuele
Ubc8p functions in catabolite degradation of fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase in yeast.

#021 - Sascha Losko, Frank Kopp, Andreas Kranz, Ralf Kölling
Ubiquitination is required for uptake of the ABC-transporter Ste6 into the yeast vacuole.

#022 - Linyi Chen, Nick Davis
Recycling of the a-Factor Receptor.

#023 - Ariella Meimoun, Daniel Kornitzer
Phosphorylation of the transcription factor Gcn4 by Pho85 promotes its recognition by the SCF CDC4 ubiquitin-ligase complex.

#024 - Ludmila Kaplun, Yelena Ivantsiv, Daniel Kornitzer, Dina Raveh
Functions of the DNA damage response pathway target Ho endonuclease of yeast for degradation via the ubiquitin-26s proteasome system.


Platform Session: Chromatin

#025 - Guido Cuperus, Reza Shafaatian, David Shore
Locus-specific SIR2 silencing mutants.

#026 - Jeffrey S. Smith, Carrie Baker Brachmann, Ivana Celic, Margaret A. Kenna, Shabazz Muhammad, Jose Avalos, Cynthia Wolberger, Jef D. Boeke
A phylogenetically conserved NAD + -dependent protein deacetylase activity in the Sir2 protein family.

#027 - Astrid Clarke, Sandra Jacobson, Eva Samal, Darryl Austen, Lorraine Pillus
MYST family acetyltransferases function in both transcriptional silencing and activation.

#028 - Robbie Loewith, Maria Meijer, Dallan Young
Yng2, a yeast homolog of the human candidate tumor suppressor Ing1, is a key component of the NuA4 histone acetyltransferase complex.

#029 - Marissa Vignali, David Steger, Kristen Neely, Jerry Workman
Distinct patterns of chromatin acetylation by the SAGA and NuA4 HAT complexes upon recruitment to promoters.

#030 - Popi Syntichaki, Irene Topalidou, George Thireos
Functional co-ordination between Swi/Snf and SAGA in chromatin remodeling.


Platform Session: The Yeast Germline

#031 - Noga Guttmann-Raviv, Yona Kassir
Ime2, a meiosis-specific kinase in budding yeast, is required for destabilization of its transcriptional activator, Ime1.

#032 - Brian Washburn, Roy Williams, Michael Primig, Ronald Davis, Rochelle Esposito
Genetic and whole-genome analysis of transcriptional regulation by UME6.

#033 - Michael Knop, Alexandra Moreno-Borchart, Katrin Strasser
Role of the spindle pole body of yeast during meiosis.

#034 - Anne Lindgren, David Bungard, Michael Pierce, Jianxin Xie, Andrew Vershon, Edward Winter
The pachytene checkpoint in Saccharomyces cerevisiae requires the Sum1 transcriptional repressor.

#035 - Eric White, Carrie Cowan, W. Zacheus Cande, David B. Kaback
In vivo analysis of synaptonemal complex formation during yeast meiosis.

#036 - Seema Agarwal, G. Shirleen Roeder
Zip3 links meiotic recombination with proteins involved in synaptonemal complex formation.


Platform Session: Organelle Dynamics

#037 - Irena Ivanovska, Mark D. Rose
Fine structure analysis of the yeast centrin, Cdc31p, identifies residues specific for cell morphology and SPB duplication.

#038 - Peter E. Thorsness, Theodor Hanekamp, Indrani Rebbapragada, Karen H. White, Dustin L. Updike, Peter A. Jordan, Kelly A. Schalk
Multiple mechanisms for the escape of DNA from mitochondria to the nucleus.

#039 - Alyson E. Aiken Hobbs, J. Micheal McCaffery, Robert E. Jensen
Mmm1p plays a role in mitochondrial shape and mtDNA stability.

#040 - Robin L. Wright, Mark L. Parrish, Lynnelle L. Larson
Deletion of CUE1 or UBC7 causes cold sensitivity in cells with elevated levels of HMG-CoA reductase.

#041 - Sepp D. Kohlwein, Sandra Eder, J.Y. Choi, Charles E. Martin, Ken Gable, Dagmar Bacikova, Teresa Dunn
The TSC13/YDL015c Gene Product is Required for Fatty Acid Elongation and is Localized to a Novel Structure at the Vacuolar/Nuclear Interface.

#042 - Natalie Catlett, Kuniko Ishikawa, Jason Duex, Lois Weisman
Identifiacation of a putative vacuole-binding region in the Myo2p tail domain.


Platform Session: Central Dogma

#043 - Sergei Kuchin, Isabelle Treich, Marian Carlson
A regulatory shortcut between the Snf1 protein kinase and RNA polymerase II holoenzyme.

#044 - Stephanie E. Porter, Joan L. Betz, Kara V. Goyette, Delores French-Cornay, Meiping Chang, Judith A. Jaehning
The Paf1p/RNA Polymerase II complex is important for expression of cell cycle regulated genes.

#045 - Patrick J. Costa, Karen M. Arndt
Evidence that the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Rtf1 protein regulates transcription elongation.

#046 - Michael Culbertson, Doris Ursic, James Hendrick
Autoregulation of ribosomal protein synthesis.

#047 - Bogdan Polevoda, Joakim Norbeck, Randy J. Arnold, Hikaru Takakura, Hisashi Hirano, Anders Blomberg, James P. Reilly, Fred Sherman
Identification and specificities of N -terminal acetyltransferases from Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#048 - Josep Vilardell, Shaoqing J. Yu, Jonathan R. Warner
Conserved RNA-binding for two billion years.


Platform Session: Genome Evolution

#049 - Bernard Dujon, Alain Malpertuy, Bertrand Llorente, Gaelle Blandin, Fredj Tekaia, Jean Luc Souciet, Jean Weissenbach
Systematic comparative genomics within the hemiascomycete phylum reveals mechanisms of eukaryotic genome evolution.

#050 - Maria Kowalczuk, Pawel Mackiewicz, Agnieszka Gierlik, Dorota Szczepanik, Aleksandra Nowicka, Miroslaw R. Dudek, Stanislaw Cebrat
Thousands of noncoding ORFs in the yeast genome.

#051 - Timothy Hughes, Christopher Roberts, Hongyue Dai, Stephen Friend, Matthew Marton
Widespread aneuploidy revealed by DNA microarray expression profiling.

#052 - Lars Steinmetz, Daniel Richards, John McCusker, Kevin White, Jamie Spiegelman, Peter Oefner, Ronald Davis
Genome-wide mapping of alleles underlying the multigenic high-temperature-growth phenotype of a pathogenic isolate of yeast.

#053 - Daniel Shoemaker, Chris Armour, Phillip Garrett-Engele, Pek Yee Lum, John Phillips, Guy Cavet, Sergey Stepanants, Stephen Friend
Combining whole-genome fitness testing and expression profiling to identify the targets of FDA approved drugs.

#054 - Shing-Fen Kao, Gang Peng, David R Stanford, Nancy C. Martin, Anita K. Hopper
The yeast Trm1p ADEPT specifying inner nuclear membrane location.


Platform Session: DNA on the Move

#055 - Benoit Arcangioli, Raynald de Lahondes, Aaron Bensimon, Atanas Kaykov
Molecular basis of asymmetric mating-type switching in fission yeast.

#056 - Grzegorz Ira, James E. Haber
A Cis-Acting Secquence that Regulates Crossing-Over in Mitotic Cells.

#057 - Thorsten Allers, Michael Lichten
Physical and genetical analysis of heteroduplex DNA and intermediate structures formed during meiotic recombination in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#058 - Abram Gabriel, Xin Yu
Genetic regulation of DNA repair pathways leading to chromosomal rearrangements.

#059 - Vladimir Bashkirov, Elena Bashkirova, Edwin Haghnazari, Alan Chan, Wolf-Dietrich Heyer
Rad55 protein phosphorylation links DNA damage checkpoints and recombinational DNA repair.

#060 - David J. Garfinkel, Sharon P. Moore, Bum-Soo Lee, Alison J. Rattray, Brenda K. Shafer, Ching-Yun Wang, Liu Bi, Adam M. Bailis
Ty1 2000: integrase and host defense.


Platform Session: Transcriptional Regulation

#061 - David J. Timson, Helen C. Ross, Steven Hankin, Adam Platt, Richard J. Reece
The biochemical dissection of the yeast GAL genetic switch.

#062 - Gang Peng, James E. Hopper
Evidence for Gal3p cytoplasmic location and Gal80p dual cytoplasmic/nuclear location implicates new mechanisms for controlling Gal4p activity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#063 - Warren Voth, Karen Freedman, David Stillman
Regulation of Ace2 transcription factor activity by phosphorylation.

#064 - Elton Young, Kristen van Riper
Chromosomal repression of the DNA binding activity of the transcription factor Adr1.

#065 - Steven Sanders, Claire Leurent, Làszlò Tora, Patrick Schultz, Tony Weil
Structural and functional analysis of the general transcription factor TFIID from Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#066 - Susan Kraemer, Ryan Ranallo, Ryan Ogg, Laurie Stargell
TFIIA interacts with TFIID via association with TBP and a TBP-Associated Factor.


Platform Session: Signal Transduction

#067 - Estela Jacinto, Michael Hall
The phosphatases SIT4 and PP2A have distinct and overlapping functions in the TOR signaling pathway.

#068 - Timothy Hallstrom, Scott Moye-Rowley
Multiple signals from dysfunctional mitochondria activate the pleiotropic drug resistance pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae .

#069 - Wei-Hua Wu, Michael Hampsey
The MAP kinase pheromone response cascade of Saccharomyces cerevisiae targets the RNA polymerase II core transcriptional machinery via TFIIB.

#070 - Mercedes Dosil, Kimberly Schandel, Ekta Gupta, Duane Jenness, James Konopka
The C terminus of the alpha-factor receptor is required for the formation of preactivation complexes with G proteins.

#071 - Izabel M. Halatek, Alexis T. Ellicott, Hye-Jin N. Kim, David E. Stone
Gpa1 and Msg5 downregulate the mating response by inhibiting nuclear localization of Fus3.

#072 - Angie Gelli, Mike Tyers
Rst1 and Rst2 are required for the maintenance of the a/alpha diploid state.


Platform Session: Metabolic Regulation

#073 - Su-Ju Lin, Pierre-Antoine Defossez, Leonard Guarente
Caloric restriction acts through the cAMP/PKA pathway to extend yeast lifespan.

#074 - Charles B. Epstein, Varshal K. Dave, Walker Hale, Janet Thornton, H.R. Skip Garner, Ronald A. Butow
Transcriptional profiling analysis of perturbed mitochondrial physiology.

#075 - Mark T. McCammon, Charles B. Epstein, Brett A. Kaufman, Walker Hale, Timothy L. Macatee, Janet L. Thorton, Ronald A. Butow
Global analysis of the TCA cycle.

#076 - Neal Mathias, Cheryl Dixon, Dechelle Smothers, Lukosz Kozubowski
The abundance of Met30p limits SCFMet30p complex activity and is regulated by methionine availability.

#077 - Äshild Vik, Christopher T. Beh, Jasper Rine
Regulation of ergosterol synthesis, distribution and homeostasis.

#078 - Corinne A. Michels, Yingzi Yue, Saima Cheema, Hua Jiang, Igor Medintz, Zhen Hu, Xin Wang, Sumei Liu
Maltose permease is the target of multiple glucose regulatory processes and is a key mediator of MAL gene induction.


Platform Session: Chromosomes: End to End

#079 - Rita Cha, Nancy Kleckner
An essential function of MEC1/ESR1 in promoting and coordinating DNA replication and chromosome morphogenesis.

#080 - Sue Biggins, Needhi Bhalla, Amy Chang, Andrew Murray
A novel class of kinetochore mutants.

#081 - Vincent Guacci, Theresa Hartman, Kristen Stead, Douglas Koshland
The PDS5 gene encodes an essential chromosomal protein required for both sister chromatid cohesion and condensation during mitosis.

#082 - Kenneth Robzyk, Mary Ann Osley
Histone ubiquitination in yeast.

#083 - Paul D. Kaufman, Judith A. Sharp, Alexa A. Franco
Yeast Hir proteins and Asf1p contribute similarly to cell cycle progression and gene regulation in conjunction with Chromatin Assembly Factor-I.

#084 - Alo Ray, Kurt Runge
Analysis of in vivo telomere sequences reveals specific pattern of telomere synthesis.


Platform Session: Cellular Morphogenesis

#085 - Paul J. Cullen, George F. Sprague, Jr.
A single cell invasive growth assay: role of fermentable sugars and Snf1 in haploid invasive growth.

#086 - Antonin Morillon, Mathias Springer, Pascale Lesage
Activation of the Kss1 invasive/filamentous growth pathway induces Ty1 transcription and retrotransposition in diploid cells.

#087 - Chris J. Nelson, Karen Lund, Susan Goto, Wesley Hung, Ivan Sadowski
SRB10/CDK8 Phosphorylation of STE12 Inhibits Yeast Filamentous Growth.

#088 - Xuewen Pan, Joseph Heitman
Sok2 regulates yeast pseudohyphal differentiation by controling cell-cell adhesion and cell elongation.

#089 - Hay-Oak Park, Pil Jung Kang, Anthony Sanson, Bongyong Lee
A guanine-nucleotide exchange factor links the spatial signals to the establishment of cell polarity.

#090 - Peter C. Hollenhorst, Ulrika Muller, Gregory E. Pietz, Catherine A. Fox
Overlapping and distinct functions for the evolutionarily conserved forkhead genes, FKH1 and FKH2, in regulating cell-cycle progression and differentiation in S. cerevisiae.


Platform Session: Signal Transduction Encore

#091 - Kathleen Cox, Rajendra Rai, Makenzie Distler, Jon Daugherty, Jonathan Coffman, Terrance Cooper
S. cerevisiae GATA sequences function as TATA elements during nitrogen catabolite repression because Gln3p is excluded from the nucleus.

#092 - Monica C. V. Donaton, Inge Holsbeeks, Ole Lagatie, Marion Crauwels, Joris Winderickx, Johan M. Thevelein
The GAP1 general amino acid permease acts as an amino acid sensor for activation of protein kinase A targets in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#093 - Linda Hyman, Anna Chachulska, Tanya Jackson, Edward Kwon, Sumana Ghosh, Saba Ulusoy
Elongin C: in search of a function in yeast and in VHL disease.

#094 - Sheng Yao, Rajesh Udupa, Stuart Murray, Aaron Neiman, Gregory Prelich
BUR1 and BUR2 encode a divergent CDK-cyclin complex that phosphorylates the Rpb1 carboxy-terminal domain .

#095 - David Engelberg, Micky Bell, Irit Marbach, Ruth Licht, Ariel Stanhill
The yeast Ras2 protein activates Gcn4 via the Hog1 pathway.

#096 - Richard Kurtz, Mark Lefers, Brendan Borin, Kim Kafadar, Rick Gaber
Hog1-dependent osmotic repression of the glucose transporter gene HXT6 in S. cerevisiae.


Platform Session: Expression Profiling

#097 - Joseph Gera, Jeffery Coller, Donald Burke, Marvin Wickens, Stanley Fields
A genome-wide screen for proteins that affect mRNA function and regulation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#098 - Audrey P. Gasch, Camilla M. Kao, Mingxia Huang, Orna Carmel-Harel, Gisella Storz, Stephen J. Elledge, David Botstein, Patrick O. Brown
A common genomic expression program in the response of S. cerevisiae to diverse environmental stresses.

#099 - Margaret Werner-Washburne, Edwina Fuge, Vickie Peck, George Davidson
EXIT from stationary phase in yeast: gene expression analysis.

#100 - Cecilia Lopez, Henry Baker
Understanding the growth phenotype of the yeast gcr1 mutant in terms of global genomic expression patterns.

#101 - Johannes H. Hegemann, E. Bogengruber + M. Breitenbach, S. Eder + S. Kohlwein, P. Kötter, H. Launhardt + T. Munder, J. Van der Schueren + G. Volckaert, B. Winsor, U. Güldener
Functional analysis of novel essential genes by regulated gene expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#102 - Bryce Nelson, Chris Roberts, Matt Marton, David Slade, Charlie Boone
DNA microarrays demonstrate overlap in gene expression regulated by PKC and HOG pathways.


Poster Session: Organelle Biogenesis

#103 - Caroline J Barelle, Richard Mathias, Claude Gaillardin, Neil A R Gow, Alistair J P Brown
Disruption of vacuolar inheritance in Candida albicans - effect on hyphal development and growth.

#104 - Ruth Birner, Maria Bürgermeister, Roger Schneiter, Günther Daum
Requirement of phosphatidylethanolamine for respiration.

#105 - Tapan K. Biswas, Godfrey S. Getz
Unusual import pathway of yeast mitochondrial transcription factor Mtf1p.

#106 - Sylvia Blad, Johan C. Kapteyn, Herman Van Den Ende, Frans M. Klis, Frans Hochstenbach
Glycoproteins are linked to the cell wall of Schizosaccharomyces pombe in a novel way.

#107 - Jean Bower, Malcolm White, Stephan Zweifel
Recombination junction-resolving enzymes and their role in mitochondrial DNA maintenance.

#109 - Maria Bürgermeister, Ruth Birner, Günther Daum
Phosphatidylethanolamine of mitochondria: synthesis in situ or import?.

#110 - George E. Chisholm, Lynne M. Giere, Carole I. Weaver, Chin Y. Loh, Bryant E. Fong, Meghan E. Bowser, Nathan C. Hitzeman, Ronald A. Hitzeman
In vivo conversion of circles to linears: automatic eukaryotic artificial chromosomes .

#111 - Stefan Fritz, Doron Rapaport, Elisabeth Klanner, Walter Neupert, Benedikt Westermann
Location of the mitochondrial fusion factor Fzo1 in membrane contact sites.

#112 - Gert J. Haan, Klaas N. Faber, Anita M. Kram, Richard J.S. Baerends, Ida J. van der Klei, Marten Veenhuis
Determination of the membrane topology of the Hansenula polymorpha PEX3 gene-product.

#113 - Peter Polcic, Ingrid Kissova, Ludmila Sabova, Petra Kempna, Nadezda Kolarova, Jordan Kolarov
The role of mitochondria in Bax-induced growth inhibition and death of yeast cells.

#114 - Tatyana Kalebina, Daniela Laurinavichiute, Elena Karpova, Vitaly Nasonov, Nikolai Bovin, Igor Kulaev
On the role of Saccharomyces cerevisiae cell wall glucantransferase Bgl2p in the formation of the cell wall molecular assembly.

#115 - Huijuan Li, Nicolas Pagé, Howard Bussey
Kre6p, involved in beta-1,6-glucan synthesis, has functional interactions with cortical patch assembly components.

#116 - Diane Gambill, Patricia Lopez
Mitochondrial biogenesis: A new funstion for SLA1.

#117 - Lorraine Marnell, Carol Dieckmann
Analysis of the function of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae peroxisomal protein, Pex2p, using site-directed mutagenesis.

#118 - Glen Palmer, Annette Cashmore
Isolation of Candida albicans genes involved in vacuole biogenesis.

#119 - Kent L. Redman, Michelle Y. King
Functional replacement of conserved cysteines in Nop2p, a proposed rRNA -methyltransferase.

#120 - Srimonti Sarkar, Paul Eder, Gideon Dreyfuss, Anita K. Hopper
Putative human homologue of Los1p has deleterious effect on S. cerevisiae.

#121 - Udo Schmidt, Karola Lehmann, Ulf Stahl
A novel mitochondrial DEAD box protein supports reversion of splicing deficient group II intron mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#122 - Feliza Anne Sibayan, Carol Dieckmann
Deletion analysis of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Cbp1p.

#123 - Vilius Stribinskis, Steve Ellis, Nancy Martin
RPM2 has a second function in respiratory growth apart from its role as a component of mitochondrial RNase P.

#124 - Fusheng Tang, Jonathan Nau, Lois Weisman
Vac17p mediates vacuole inheritance through an interaction with Vac8p, a vacuolar membrane protein.

#125 - Steven Theriault, Mingyi Li, Deborah Court
The carboxyl-terminal extension of Saccharomyces mitochondrial DNA polymerase is required for maintenance of respiratory function at 37 o C.

#126 - Veronique Trezeguet, Carine De Marcos Lousa, Claudine David, Guy J.-M. Lauquin
The human mitochondrial ADP/ATP carrier encoding genes : expression and function in the yeast S. cerevisiae.

#127 - Edwin Vink, Hans de Nobel, Herman van den Ende, Frans M. Klis
A novel method for quantifying beta-1,3-glucan synthase activity.

#127A - Ilse Geyskens, Jan C.T. Bergsma, Shantha H.M.C. Kumara, Johan M. Thevelein, Stefaan Wera
Domain structure and subcellular localisation of the Sch9 protein kinase.


Poster Session: Protein localization and Turnover

#128A - Hilary Kemp, Becky Drees, Stan Fields, George F. Sprague, Jr.
Proteins that interact with Far3p are required for pheromone-mediated G1 arrest.

#128 - Cassandra S. Arendt, Mark Hochstrasser
Roles of beta subunit propeptides in 20S proteasome maturation.

#129 - Annalisa Ballarina, Gerard Griffioen, Helmut Ruis
The localization of budding yeast Bcy1, the regulatory subunit of protein kinase A, is regulated by phosphorylation of its N-terminal targeting domain.

#130 - Yelena V. Budovskaya, Paul K. Herman
Characterization of the interaction between the Vps15p protein kinase and the Vps34p phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase.

#131 - Elena Ceccarelli, Carl Mann
A mutant Cdc28p uncouples G1 cyclin phosphorylation and degradation.

#132 - Yury O. Chernoff, Renee D. Wegrzyn, Kim D. Allen, Peggy A. Bailleul-Winslett, Kavita Bapat, Eugene Lewitin, Gary P. Newnam, Amy D. Zink
Regulation of prion formation and maintenance by cellular stress-response systems.

#133 - Eleanor Click, Tim Stearns, David Botstein
Genetic analysis of ADP-ribosylation factor in yeast.

#134 - Lorena M. Eguez, Yan Zhang, Uyen Bui, Stephen Garrett
The yeast COS1 gene product may be part of a class E protein complex required for protein transport out of the prevacuolar compartment.

#135 - Eric Epping, W. Scott Moye-Rowley
Intracellular trafficking of the ABC transporter Yor1p.

#136 - Ying Feng, Nicholas Davis
The Akr1p is required in endocytosis for surface localization of the lipid-modified casein kinases.

#137 - C. Fredrik Gilstring, Per. O Ljungdahl
A novel method for determining the structure of polytopic membrane proteins.

#138 - Gerard Griffioen, Paola Branduardi, Annalisa Ballarini, Paola Anghileri, Joakim Norbeck, David Baroni, Helmut Ruis
Nucleocytoplasmic distribution of budding yeast protein kinase A regulatory subunit Bcy1p is regulated by phoshorylation of its targeting domain and by interaction with Zds1.

#139 - Dale W. Hailey, Trisha N. Davis, Eric G. D. Muller
CFP and YFP as reporters in S. cerevisiae.

#140 - Pak-Phi Poon, Rick Singer, Gerry Johnston
ArfGAP function in endocytosis.

#141 - Beata Gajewska, Joanna Kaminska, Alicja Jesionowska, Nancy C. Martin, Anita K. Hopper, Teresa Zoladek
Individual WW domains of Rsp5p differently affect fluid phase endocytosis and internalization of uracil permease.

#142 - Don J. Katcoff, Yael Friedmann-Gozlan
SAP1p, an AAA-ATPase, moves rapidly as a discrete particle in yeast.

#143 - Andre T.J. Klein, Phil Barnett, Gina Bottger, Daphne Konings, Henk F. Tabak, Ben Distel
MAPPING of the peroxisomal targeting signal type 1-binding site on the protein import receptor Pex5p.

#144 - Youngseok Kweon, Anca Rothe, Elizabeth Conibear, Tom H. Stevens
The Ykt6p is involved in multiple membrane traffic pathways to the vacuole in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#145 - Dave Lambertson, Kiran Madura
Examining the role of Rad23-prtoeasome interaction during DNA repair.

#146 - Guillaume Lesage, Annik Prat, Julie Lacombe, Melanie Cousineau, David Thomas, Nabil G. Seidah, Guy Boileau
The Kex2p proregion acts as an intramolecular chaperone whose function requires hydrophobic residues and a C-terminal basic residue.

#147 - Shyr-Jiann Li, Mark Hochstrasser
Structure and function of an S. cerevisiae desumoylating enzyme.

#148 - Matthew Lord, Atsushi Fujita, John Chant
Polarization of the haploid-specific factor, Axl1p, during cell division and mating.

#149 - Mallory S. Lutz, Marlene C. Steffen, Steven R. Ellis, Nancy C. Martin
RPM2 contains a single ORF yet encodes two proteins, located in two different compartments and serving two different functions.

#150 - Marie-Lise Maddelein, Reed Wickner
Prion Domain Analysis of ure2p: The N-terminal Residus Involved in [URE3] Prion Formation.

#151 - Gordon McGurk, Rohan Baker
Modulation of multi-drug resistance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by a deubiquitinating enzyme.

#152 - Hiromitsu Moriyama, Reed Wickner
Chromosomal genes necessary for propagation of the [URE3] prion.

#153 - Eva Murén, Mattias Öyen, Gunilla Barmark, Hans Ronne
Identification of yeast strains that are sensitive to brefeldin A, ceramide or monensin.

#154 - Tatiana G. Ortolan, Prasad Tongaonkar, David Lambertson, Li Chen, Cherylene Schauber, Kiran Madura
The DNA repair protein Rad23 is a novel regulator of protein stability.

#155 - Ellinor Oxelmark, Antonio Marchini, Ilaria Malanchi, Francesca Magherini, Laurence Jaquet, Jean-Claude Jauniaux, Massimo Tommasino
Mmf1p, a novel yeast mitochondrial protein conserved throughout evolution and involved in maintenance of the mitochondrial genome.

#156 - Laura K. Palmer, Ralph L. Keil
Nutrient availability and anesthetic response in yeast.

#157 - Ren-Wang Peng, Anna De Antoni, Dieter Gallwitz
Evidence for overlapping and distinct functions in protein transport of coat protein Sec24p family members.

#158 - Trey K. Sato, Peter Rehling, Michael R. Peterson, Scott D. Emr
The Class C VPS protein complex regulates vacuolar SNARE pairing and is required for vesicle docking/fusion.

#159 - Ralph Pries, Gerhard H. Braus
Localization of the transcriptional activator of amino acid biosynthesis Gcn4p in S. cerevisiae.

#160 - Robert Swanson, Mark Hochstrasser
Substrate recognition in the ubiquitin dependent proteolysis of the alpha2 repressor.

#161 - Chandra L Theesfeld, Daniel J Lew
Regulation of Swe1p localization and turnover in the morphogenesis checkpoint.

#162 - Yoshiko Tone, Nobuyuki Tanahashi, Keiji Tanaka, Masahiro Fujimuro, Hideyoshi Yokosawa, Akio Toh-e
Characterization of Nob1p, a factor associated with the 26S proteasome.

#163 - Michelle M. Tabb, Prasad Tongaonkar, Loan Vu, Masayasu Nomura
A role for yeast nuclear localization signal receptor, Srp1/Importin-alpha, in protein degradation.

#164 - Iris Velten, Martin Ligr, Wolfgang Hilt
The proteasomal substrates Hel48 and Hel70 are degraded via an APC-mediated pathway and implicated in control of exit from mitosis.

#165 - Guangli Wang, J. Michael McCaffery, Beverly Wendland, Rosine Haguenauer-Tsapis, Jon Huibregtse
The Rsp5p ubiquitin-protein ligase functions at multiple sites in the endocytic pathway.

#166 - James Whyte, Sean Munro
A vacuolar sorting role for a yeast homologue of the mammalian mannose-6-phosphate receptors.

#167 - Barry P. Young, Colin J. Stirling
The Role of Sec63p in ER Targeting and Translocation.


Poster Session: Cytoskeleton and Structural Components

#168 - Annick M. Breton, Axelle Balguerie, Marc Bonneu, Michel Aigle
The rvs161 and rvs167 mutants are impaired in the targetting of secretory vesicles.

#169 - Kirk Anders, David Botstein
A Dominant-lethal Alpha-tubulin Mutation that Blocks Microtubule Dynamics.

#170 - Wonja Choi, Hyunsook Park, Chihwa Kim, Meehyun Park, Jeeun Woo, Insook Kim, Sunguk Kim
The Function of Chitin Synthase 4 in the Biogenesis of Cell Wall in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#171 - Matthew J. Copeland, William S. Korinek, Amitabha Chaudhuri, Adele Marston, John Chant
Kar9 acts through Bim1 to orient microtubules toward the bud cortex and produce spindle alignment.

#172 - Thomas A. Fiedler, Johannes H. Hegemann
The novel gene CGP1 influences the microtubule as well as the actin cytoskeleton and shows synthetic lethality with the centromere and promoter factor CPF1.

#173 - Susan Francis, Thu Nguyen, Joy Bagley, Trisha Davis
Mutations that disrupt the spindle pole are exacerbated by mutations in microtubule-associated proteins.

#174 - Helena Friesen, Kelly Murphy, Karen Colwill, Brenda Andrews
Characterization of Rvs167-interacting proteins.

#175 - Cheryl Gale, Maryam Gerami-Nejad, Mark McClellan, Mark Longtine, Judith Berman
Candida albicans INT1 interacts with septins in Saccharomyces cerevisae : implications for a role at the mother-bud neck.

#176 - Xiang-Dong Gao, Erfei Bi
Mutational analysis showed that one conserved arginine residue is important for the function of both Msb3p and Msb4p.

#177 - Amy Gladfelter, John Moskow, Daniel Lew
Characterization of effector loop mutants of budding yeast CDC42.

#178 - Lauri Grulich, David Amberg
Domain Analysis of Aip1p.

#179 - Jessie Hanrahan, Michael Snyder
Delineation of the functional domains of Hsl1.

#180 - Katerina Malinska, Jan Palecek, Ivana Janatova, Sepp D. Kohlwein, Jiri Hasek
Rpg1p-Sla2p interaction: implications for localized protein synthesis in S.cerevisiae.

#181 - Kenneth R. Henry, Jisuk Chang, Kimberly Payne, Clarence Chan, Sandra Lemmon
Scd5p is involved in actin cytoskeleton organization and endocytosis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#182 - Tetsuro Horie, Katsumi Isono
Identification and Characterization of Genes Involved in the Cell Wall Function and Biogenesis in S. cerevisiae.

#183 - Anne-Sophie Melms, Cathrin Asleson, Hans-Peter Saluz, Cornelia Kurischko, Judith Berman
Candida albicans SLA2 is required for hyphal growth.

#184 - Heather B. McDonald, Astrid H. Helfant, Erin M. Mahony, Shaun K. Khosla
Systematic mutagenesis of PCS1 , a gene encoding a proteosome cap subunit required for spindle pole body duplication.

#185 - Brenda McEvoy, Susanne Clancy, Lorraine King, Geraldine Butler
Regulation of chitinase expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae - a possible role for SSD1.

#186 - Rita K. Miller, Soo-Chen Cheng, Mark D. Rose
Bim1p/Yeb1p mediates the Kar9p-dependent cortical attachment of cytoplasmic microtubules.

#187 - Jennifer L. Morrell, Todd Zankel, David W. Ow, Kathleen L. Gould
Characterization of S. pombe Wsp1p, a WASP family homolog required for actin cytoskeletal integrity.

#188 - John Moskow, Joan Adamo, Amy Gladfelter, Patrick Brennwald, Danny Lew
Characterization of a Cdc42 mutant defective in polarized secretion.

#189 - Florian Schaerer, Peter Philippsen
Functional analysis of the spindle pole body component Cnm67p.

#190 - Katja Schwartz, David Botstein
Systematic clustered charged-to-alanine mutagenesis of the conserved microtubule-binding protein Bim1p.

#191 - Yi-Jun Sheu, Yves Barral, Michael Snyder
The relationship between polarized growth and bipolar bud site selection in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#193 - Amy H.Y. Tong, Marie Evangelista, Charlie Boone
Amy1p, an SH3-domain protein, associates with the Myo3/5p-Bee1p-Vrp1p actin assembly.


Poster Session: Signal Transduction

#196 - Alexander E. Beeser, Terrance G. Cooper
The dual specific protein phosphatase YVH1 regulates sporulation, growth and glycogen accumulation independently of catalytic activity in S. cerevisiae via the cAMP-dependent protein kinase cascade.

#197 - Leila Boustany, Martha Cyert
Crz1p nuclear export requires Msn5p.

#198 - Liesbet Cauwenberg, Joris Winderickx, Johan Thevelein
The involvement of the Gpa2 protein in glucose-induced activation of cAMP synthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#199 - Hak J. Chang, Susan A. Henry
Identification of Signal Transduction Pathways Involved in Regulation of Phospholipid Biosynthesis and Turnover in Yeast.

#200 - Ana R Colina, Allison Errett, Angelina Sanchez, Edwina Fuge, Margaret Werner-Washburne
Yeast signaling pathways involved in stationary-phase survival.

#201 - José L. Crespo, Michael N. Hall
Control of TOR signaling in response to nutrients.

#202 - Eulàlia de Nadal, Francesc Posas
Yeast responses to osmotic stress.

#203 - Kenneth M. Dombek, Elton T. Young
The PP1-binding protein Reg1 interacts with the yeast 14-3-3 homologue Bmh1 and the Pab1-binding protein Pbp1.

#204 - Angel Dominguez, Encarnacion Ferminan, Flor-Maria Perez-Campo, Juan Cabello, M. Carmen Lopez
Signal tranduction in Yarrowia lipolytica.

#205 - Evelyne Dubois, Fabienne Vierendeels, Francine Messenguy
Multiple phenotypes associated with deletion of two inositol polyphosphate kinases, ArgRIII/Ipk2 and Kcs1.

#206 - Jan S. Fassler, Wei Tao, Addison D. Ault, Cheryl Malone, Robert J. Deschenes
Regulation of kinase activity in Sln1, a yeast two-component osmosensor.

#207 - Marie A. Fujino, Peter J. Roach
The role of the cyclin Pcl10 in substrate recognition by Pho85.

#208 - Eugene Futai, Hiroyuki Sorimachi, Koichi Suzuki, Tatsuya Maeda
A novel signaling pathway for salt stress response: dual activation mechanism of Rim101p.

#209 - April Goehring, George Sprague
Characterization of the potential roles of NCS3 in budding and invasive growth in S. cerevisiae .

#210 - Alan L. Goldstein, M. Cristina Cruz, Maria E. Cardenas, John H. McCusker, Joseph Heitman
The mode of action of the antifungal drug rapamycin in the pathogenic yeast Candida albicans.

#211 - Robin Green, Howard Bussey
Identification and characterisation of proteins that physically interact with the cytoplasmic tail of Mid2p.

#212 - Diane O. Inglis, Alexander D. Johnson
Ash1 regulates filamentous growth and virulence of the pathogenic yeast Candida albicans.

#213 - Garreau Hervé, Boy-Marcotte Emmanuelle, Lallet Sylvie, Hasan Rukhsana, Renault Georges, Jacquet Michel
Changes of phosphorylation patterns of Msn2p and Msn4p in response to heat shock and diauxic transition and their reversal by cAMP.

#214 - Megan Keniry, George Sprague
Dissecting Ste20 and Cla4 functional specificity.

#215 - Sue A. Krause, Joseph V. Gray
The Pkc1-MAP kinase pathway is required for entry into stationary phase.

#216 - Sheila Landry, Robert Welton, Charles Hoffman
Characterization of the fission yeast heterotrimeric G protein of the glucose/cAMP pathway.

#217 - Tony Lee, Roymarie Ballester
Wsc2, a putative stress receptor, interacts with Bem4 to maintain cell wall integrity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae .

#218 - Zhengchang Liu, Takayuki Sekito, Ronald Butow
Negative regulators of RTG gene function.

#219 - Seth Maleri, Beverly Errede
Mapping the surface of Ste7 that binds to Ste5 using a reverse two-hybrid approach.

#220 - Patrice Malone, Jennifer Fuentes, Kaustuv Datta, Janine Maddock
Characterization of Obg-like proteins in S. cerevisiae.

#221 - Tamar Michaeli, Xiaoyan Zhu, Nadine Demolis, Michel Jacquet
MSI1 is a bi-functional protein that suppresses hyperactive RAS via the cAMP dependent protein kinase and independently of chromatin assembly factor-1.

#222 - Kevin Morano, Dennis Thiele
Characterization of Hsp90 chaperone complex regulation by the Sch9 protein kinase.

#223 - Ursula Oberholzer, Malcolm Whiteway, Ekkerhard Leberer, David Y. Thomas
Role of Myosin I in hyphal formation of C. albicans.

#224 - Massoud Ramezani Rad, Frauke Bühring, Gregor Jansen, Claudia Hopp, Cornelis P. Hollenberg
Mutation in the SAM domain of STE50 influence differentially the MAP kinase pathways for mating response, filamentous growth and osmotolerance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#225 - Tim Rayner, Marina Dergun, Jeremy Thorner
Regulation of a key glycolytic enzyme by the Mck1 and cAMP-dependent protein kinases.

#226 - Wolfgang Reiter, Elizabeth L. Brown, Christoph Schüller, Helmut Ruis
DNA binding of the transcription factor Msn2p may be regulated by a PKA site in the Cys2His2 zinc finger.

#227 - Tamara J. Richman, Douglas I. Johnson
The S. cerevisiae Cdc42p GTPase is involved in preventing the recurrence of bud emergence during the cell cycle.

#228 - Sahar Z.S. Sabetnia, Joseph V. Grey
Coregulation of the Pkc1 and calcineurin pathways.

#229 - Alma L. Saviñon-Tejeda, Roberto Coria
The pheromone response pathway of K. lactis involves more than a single way of regulation.

#230 - Martin Schmidt, Rhonda McCartney
Beta subunits of the Snf1 kinase complex are required for kinase function and substrate definition.

#231 - Takayuki Sekito, Janet L. Thornton, Ronald A. Butow
The activity of bHLH/Zip transcription factor Rtg3p is cooperatively regulated by its localization and phosphorylation.

#232 - Marco Siderius, Pim Mager
Sensing and signaling of osmostress in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#233 - Gregory R. Smith, George F. Sprague, Jr.
Characterization of GTPase Activating Proteins for Cdc42p.

#234 - Mark S. Stewart, Joseph V. Gray
A novel putative regulator of the Pkc1 pathway.

#235 - Leslie E. Stolz, Shuling Guo, John D. York
An essential family of inositol polyphosphate 5-phosphatases in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#236 - Joy Sturtevant
Role of the 14-3-3 protein in Candida albicans .

#237 - Sophia C. Ushinsky, Malcolm Whiteway, Doreen Harcus, David Y. Thomas, Ekkehard Leberer
Role of CaCdc42p in polarized morphogenesis in Candida albicans..

#238 - Dewald van Dyk, Florian F. Bauer, Isak S. Pretorius
Analysis of the interaction between transcription regulators required for invasive growth, pseudohyphal differentiation and starch metabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#239 - Susana Vidan, Mike Snyder
Rom2 protein levels and phosphorylation are dependent on the MAP kinase, Slt2.

#240 - Olivier Vincent, Rob Townley, Marian Carlson
Distinct subcellular localizations of the Gal83 and Sip2 components of the Snf1 protein kinase complex.

#241 - Thomas Wartmann, Jana Erdmann, Gotthard Kunze
Morphology-related effects on gene expression and protein accumulation of the yeast Arxula adeninivorans.

#242 - Summer Wei, Roberta S. Hare, Scott S. Walker
Cloning and characterization of a STE12 homolog in Aspergillus fumigatus.

#243 - Stefaan Wera, Jan C.T. Bergsma, Ilse Geyskens, Shantha HMC Kumara, Ils Somers, Johan M. Thevelein
Characterization of the protein kinase Sch9 and its role in nutrient-induced signal transduction.

#244 - Kim Williams, Martha Cyert
Skn7, a response-regulator, acts with the calcineurin phosphatase to stabilize Crz1 transcription factor.

#245 - Hubert Wolfger, Chantal Schwartz, Karl Kuchler
PDR15 is a stress response gene induced by adverse conditions in an Msn2p/Msn4p-dependent manner in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#246 - Cunle Wu, David Thomas, Malcolm Whiteway
Ste50p regulates MAP kinase kinase kinase Ste11p signaling in Saccharomyces cerevisiae through both interaction-dependent and -independent manner.

#247 - Xiaolin Wu, Kelly Tatchell
Mutations in yeast protein phosphatase type 1 that affect targeting subunit binding.

#248 - Wenjie Xu, Aaron Mitchell
Rim20p Interacts with the Transcription Factor Rim101p and Promotes Its Proteolytic Activation.

#249 - Satoshi Yoshida, Yasuhiro Anraku
Characterizations of staurosporine-sensitive mutants of S. cerevisiae: defective vacuolar functions prevent staurosporine import to the organelle, leading to sensitivity to the drug.

#250 - Steven Zheng, Paula Bertram, Jae Choi, John Carvalho, Walden Ai, Ting-Fung Chan
Regulation of Gln3p by the target of rapamycin protein .


Poster Session: Cell Division Cycle

#251 - Francesca Saracino, Giacomo Buscemi, Debora Masnada, Maria Luisa Agostoni Carbone
Arrest of cell-cycle progression in G1 caused by actin perturbation in S. cerevisiae: a novel checkpoint control?.

#252 - Julie A. Anderson, Melissa Delario
Cloning and characterization of a spindle checkpoint gene from C. elegans.

#253 - Brad Blaser, Pil Jung Kang, Daniel Azen, Ju Young Kim, Hay-Oak Park
Identification of a potential target of Cdc28/Cln required for bud emergence.

#254 - Andrew Bloecher, Guglielmo Venturi, Kelly Tatchell
The bub2p-dependent spindle checkpoint delays mitotic exit/cytokinesis in response to misoriented anaphase spindles.

#255 - Stéphanie Buvelot, Xavier Le Goff, Frédéric Guerry, Susanne Schmidt, Viesturs Simanis
The role of the par1 gene in regulating the septation signalling network in fission yeast.

#256 - Orna Dahan, Sigal Ben-Yehuda, Martin Kupiec
Cell-Cycle control through pre-mRNA splicing.

#257 - Gina Devasahayam, Vishnu Chaturvedi, Steven D. Hanes
Ess1/Pin1, an essential prolyl-isomerase in C. albicans .

#258 - Ian Fingerman, David Norris
SFP1 and PTC3 and Their Role in DNA Damage Response.

#259 - Christine Horak, Vishwanath Iyer, Patrick Brown, Michael Snyder
Phenotypic characterization of the gene targets of the transcription factor SBF.

#260 - Stefan Irniger, Matthias Bäumer, Gerhard H. Braus
RAS2-mediated Regulation of APC/C- Function and Mitotic Exit in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#261 - Ana A. Kitazono, David A. Garza, Stephen J. Kron
Chromosome instability and mitotic checkpoint defects in budding yeast cyclin-dependent kinase mutants.

#262 - Jonathan N. Fitz Gerald, Jacqueline M. Benjamin, Stephen J. Kron
G1 DNA damage checkpoint arrest in yeast: Dependence on checkpoint signaling, DNA repair and cyclin-dependent kinase.

#263 - Stefan Lanker, Catherine Berset, Mark Liu
Degradation of the G1 cyclin Cln2 via the SCF-ubiquitin proteolysis pathway.

#264 - Sukgil Song, Kyung Lee
Inhibition of cytokinesis by a dominant-negative C-terminal domain of Cdc5 requires an intact polo-box.

#265 - Domenico Libri
LM-1, a new yeast gene potentially involved in cell cycle.

#266 - Malcolm Meyn, Sandra Holloway
The yeast S phase cyclins are required for G2/M arrest following DNA damage.

#267 - Masaki Mizunuma, Dai Hirata, Rie Miyaoka, Tomoko Ohnishi, Tokichi Miyakawa
The GSK-3 family kinase Mck1 and calcineurin coordinately regulate Hsl1 degradation in response to Ca2+ and triggers the Swe1-mediated G2 cell-cycle delay in budding yeast.

#268 - Laura Newcomb, Warren Heideman, Duane Hall
AZF1 encodes a positive regulator of CLN3 transcription.

#269 - Li Ni, Michael P. Snyder
Screening deletion collections of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae for bipolar bud site seletion defects.

#270 - Johannes W.G. Paalman, Johannes Boonstra, Arie J. Verkleij, C. Theo Verrips
Regulation of cell-cycle progression through the G1-phase of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#271 - Michael Polymenis
Fitness contributions of the CLN G1 cyclins.

#272 - Liana J. Thompson, Aida Avdic, Zuzana Tothova, Wendy E. Raymond
Regulation of mitotic exit by SFP1.

#273 - Susana Rodriguez-Navarro, J. Carlos Igual, Jose E. Perez-Ortin
SRC1, a new cell cycle-regulated yeast gene.

#274 - Marisa Segal, Kerry Bloom, Steven I. Reed
Dual localization of Bud6 directs the program of astral microtubule-cortex interactions specifying spindle polarity in budding yeast.

#275 - Yuki Katoh, Toshihiko Ashikari, Hiroshi Yoshikawa, Katsuhiko Shirahige
Characterization of orc1 ts mutants.

#276 - Julia Sidorova, Linda Breeden
Rad53 is essential for cell survival upon deregulation of the G1/S transcriptional machinery in S. cerevisiae.

#277 - Courtney Thomas, Melissa Blacketer, Nicholas Edgington, Alan Myers
Assembly interdependence among components of the bud neck control ring.


Poster Session: Mating

#278 - Eli E. Bar, Alexis T. Ellicott, David E. Stone
The pheromone responsive G-beta-gamma protein recruits Rho1 to the tip of mating projections and thus links the mating and cell integrity MAP kinase cascades.

#279 - Amy Roth, Bryce Nelson, Charlie Boone, Nick Davis
ASG7 Controls the Geometry of Zygotic Fusion.

#280 - Edward M. Draper III, Eli E. Bar, Alexis T. Ellicott, David E. Stone
ORF Yer124c is a novel regulatory element of the S. cerevisiae pheromone pathway.

#281 - Naz Erdeniz, Mark Rose
A structure/function analysis of Kar5p,an essential factor for nuclear membrane fusion.

#282 - Mingliang Zhang, Kai Wang, Scott Erdman
Genetic studies of the mechanisms responsible for hyperagglutination and hyperpolarization of fig2 cells during mating.

#283 - Xiuping He, Wenhui Huai, Cuijuan Tie, Yufang Liu, Borun Zhang
The Breeding of High Ergosterol-Producing Yeast Strains.

#284 - Hye-Jin N. Kim, David E. Stone
Gpa1-mediated adaptation to pheromone is partially dependent on the protein phosphatases, Msg5 and Ptp3.

#285 - Jennifer Lin, Mercedes Dosil, James Konopka
Genetic analysis of alpha-factor pheromone receptor activation.

#286 - Dina Matheos, Anthony Bishop, Kevan Shokat, Mark Rose
The role of the MAP kinase Fus3p in cell fusion.

#287 - Eric Muller, Emily Locke, Kyle Cunningham
Connecting calcium signaling and mating in bakers yeast.

#288 - Young-Un Park, Min-Han Ka, Jinmi Kim
Interactions of an oxysterol-binding protein with DEAD-box RNA helicases and their roles in nuclear fusion and pseudohyphal growth.

#289 - William Parrish, Peter Dube, James Konopka
Mutations at the cytoplasmic ends of transmembrane helices in the alpha-factor receptor identify an important domain for G-protein activation.

#290 - Peter M. Pryciak, Kendra Harris
MAP kinase pathway specificity and insulation: creating pathway-dedicated signaling molecules using protein fusions.

#291 - Ryan Raisner, Christina Hull, Alexander Johnson
Exploring the ability of the 'asexual' yeast Candida albicans to mate.

#292 - David Rivers, George F. Sprague, Jr.
Identification of Negative Regulators in the Pheromone Response Pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#293 - Kelly Schweitzer, Mark Goebl
SCF complexes coordinate protein concentration and transcriptional control during a mating response in yeast.


Poster Session: Sporulation and Meiosis

#294 - Georgia Anyatonwu, Ediberto Garcia, Ajay Pramanik, Carol Wood Moore
Partial characterization of the blm1-1 mutation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#295 - Luther Davis, Gerald R. Smith
Meiotic recombination and chromsome segregation in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

#296 - David B. Elliott, Jessica L. Laessig, Amy M. Wockenfus, Scott R. Borkenhagen, Anne M. Galbraith
Suppression of the cdc7 meiotic defect in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#297 - Erica Hong, Shirleen Roeder
A non-null allele of SIR4 disrupts the meiotic checkpoint.

#298 - Robert Malone, Laura Salem, Kai Jiao, Lindsay Carpp
Signalling between the initiation of meiotic recombination and the first meiotic division.

#299 - Eniko Molnar, Jason Tanny, Jacqueline Segall
Investigation of the role of Rim101 in repression of DIT1 gene expression.

#300 - Julia Pak, Jacqueline Segall
Regulation of the expression and activity of Ndt80, a key activator of middle sporulation-specific gene expression in S. cerevisiae .

#301 - Partha K. Sarkar, Matthew A. Florczyk, Kathleen A. McDonough, Dilip K. Nag
SSP2, a gene necessary for the spore wall formation in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#302 - Galit Shenhar, Yona Kassir
A positive regulator of mitosis, Sok2, functions as negative regulator of meiosis.

#303 - Marion Shonn, Robert McCarroll, Andrew Murray
Segregating homologous chromosomes.

#304 - Ghadeer Shubassi, Jacqueline Segall
Delimitation of the DNA-binding and activation regions of Ndt80, an activator of middle sporulation-specific gene expression in S. cerevisiae.

#305 - Kuei-Shu Tung, G. Shirleen Roeder
The pachytene checkpoint prevents accumulation and phosphorylation of the meiosis-specific transcription factor Ndt80.

#306 - Tzu-Chen Wu, Michael Lichten
A yeast centromere represses meiotic double strand break formation.


Poster Session: Growth Control

#307 - Jin, David Amberg
Fat1p is a functional homologue of the cell polarity regulator Aip3p/Bud6p.

#308 - Catherine Bachewich, Malcolm Whiteway, David Thomas
The presence and potential roles of a polo-like kinase, CaCDC5, and its interacting factors in regulating growth and pathogenesis of Candida albicans.

#309 - Beverly A. Baptiste, Ralph L. Keil
Lights out and still a WAKe: anesthetic resistant yeast.

#310 - Eric Bensen, Judith Berman
Regulation of morphogenesis in Candida albicans by the fork head family member Fkh2p.

#311 - Munir Murad, Ping Leng, Jill Wishart, Melissa Straffon, Alistair Brown
The STRE Binding Protein Nrg1 represses yeast-hypha morphogenesis in C. albicans.

#312 - Ya-wen Chang, Susie C. Howard, Paul K. Herman
The rye mutants identify a role for Ssn/Srb proteins of the RNA pol II holoenzyme during stationary phase entry.

#313 - Martin Clement, Barbes-Morin Guillaume, Lavallee Francois, deRepentigny Louis, Belhumeur Pierre
Bud5p as a potential cytoplasmic guanine exchange factor for Gsp1p.

#314 - Robert S. Coyne, Heather B. McDonald, Keith Edgemon, Lawrence C. Brody
Characterization of human BRCA1 alleles by a yeast growth inhibition assay.

#315 - Stephen J. Deminoff, Venkataramanan Subramanian, George M. Santangelo
Gcr1p and Gcr2p homodimers are required for ribosomal protein and glycolytic gene expression, respectively, in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#316 - Ivo Pedruzzi, Niels Bürckert, Pascal Egger, Claudio De Virgilio
tion of human BRCA1 alleles by a yeast growth inhibition assay.

#315 - Stephen J. Deminoff, Venkataramanan Subramanian, George M. Santangelo
Gcr1p and Gcr2p homodimers are required for ribosomal protein and glycolytic gene expression, respectively, in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#317 - J-Michel Flaman, Yoshito Kinoshita, Richard S. Morrison, Thierry Frebourg, Phil Hieter
The yeast homologue of Pescadillo, a protein overexpressed in malignant astrocytes, is a cell cycle regulating protein.

#318 - Andrew Grzanowski, Richard Needleman, William Brusilow
Phenylbutyrate resistance in yeast.

#319 - Csilla Csank, Ken Haynes
A filamentous growth form for Candida glabrata : Torulopsis no more.

#320 - Susie C. Howard, Ya-wen Chang, Yelena V. Budovskaya, Paul K. Herman
A role for Ras protein signaling in the control of RNA polymerase II transcription.

#321 - Jaehee Kim, Kang-Hoon Lee, Jinmi Kim
KEM1-mediated regulatory mechanisms for invasive growth.

#322 - Sangkyu Kim, Henrik Fyrst, Julie Saba
Cell growth inhibition by phosphorylated sphingoid long chain bases in the budding yeast.

#323 - Tim Köhler, Gerhard H. Braus, Hans-Ulrich Mösch
Regulation of pseudohyphal development by the essential Rho-type GTPase Cdc42p in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#324 - Gregory Michaud, Michael Snyder
Determining function for intracellular domain of Axl2p.

#325 - Lisa Pacella, Fred Winston
Spt3: a transcription factor with opposite effects on filamentous growth in S. cerevisiae and C. albicans.

#326 - Waldemar J. Racki, Anne-Marie Bécam, Christopher J. Herbert
Cbk1p, a protein related to the human myotonic dystrophy kinase, is essential for normal morphogenesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae .

#327 - Arivudainambi Ramalingam, Stephen Garrett
The essential zinc-finger nuclear protein, Zpr1p, is a potential substrate of the growth-regulating protein kinase, Yak1p.

#328 - Mark Ramsdale
Cell death and sphingolipid signalling pathways in Candida albicans.

#329 - Dagmar M. Truckses, Deepak Voora, Lee Bardwell, Jeremy Thorner
Functional characterization of the RA-domain of the Ste50 adaptor protein in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#330 - Wei Wei, Ira Herskowitz
A Signal Transduction Pathway Linking Septins to Tyrosine Phosphorylation of the Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Cdc28.


Poster Session: Replication

#331 - Madeleine DeBeer, Gregory Pietz, Catherine Fox
ORC/DNA interactions in modulating the Origin Recognition Complex's functions in DNA replication and silencing.

#332 - Laura L. Mays Hoopes, Martin E. Budd, Judith L. Campbell
DNA2p Helicase Is Required for Normal Yeast Life Span.

#333 - Christi Magrath, Lauri Frazier, James Foley
The role of transcription levels in establishing the relationship between autonomous replication sites and transcription terminators.

#334 - Lisa Homesley, Ming Lei, Yasuo Kawasaki, Sara Sawyer, Tim Christensen, Bik K. Tye
Mcm10 and the MCM2-7 complex interact to initiate DNA synthesis and to release replication factors from origins.

#335 - Kikuo Shimizu, Maki Tawaramoto, Shin-ichiro Hiraga, Akio Sugino
The fourth essential DNA polymerase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#336 - Marina Tarutina, Ilya Tolstorukov
Reorganization, integration and replication of DNA during transformation of the methylotrophic yeast Pichia methanolica with circular and linear DNAs containing selective genes.


Poster Session: Telomeres & Centromeres

#337 - Kathleen Buckley, Vicki Lundblad
Analysis of Est1 and Cdc13: Co-mediators of telomerase access.

#338 - Alistair Chambers, Karen Spink
The fission yeast telomere binding protein Taz1p interacts with Pmt3p, a SUMO-1 like modifier.

#339 - Nathalie Grandin, Christelle Damon, Michel Charbonneau
Cdc13 cooperates with the yeast Ku70 protein, Hdf1, and Stn1 to regulate telomerase activity.

#340 - Sonja E. Johnson, Erin E. Carlson, Shinichiro Enomoto, Angela C. Williams, Mark R. McClellan, Judith Berman, Jeffrey N. Dahlseid
UPF genes that promote nonsense-mediated mRNA decay affect centromere and telomere function through control of wild-type mRNA accumulation.

#341 - Alain T. Dandjinou, Raymund J. Wellinger
Telomere maintenance in S. cerevisiae : telomerase and Rad52p are not the only players.

#342 - Oleg Denisenko, Maria Shnyreva, Karol Bomsztyk
Saccharomyces cerevisiae HEK genes regulate length of an individual telomere and silencing of the neighboring marker gene.

#343 - Melanie Dobson, Kristina Blomqvist, Arpita Sengupta, Joyce Chew
Functional domains of yeast plasmid-encoded Rep proteins.

#344 - Michelle DuBois, Daniel Gottschling
How are chromosome ends capped?.

#345 - Michelle Fisher, Michelle Mueller, Jeffrey Stavenhagen
Investigation of the relationship between telomere length and direct repeat recombination in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#346 - Kelly Gardner, Catherine Fox
The Sir1 protein and Sir1p/ORC interactions in transcriptional silencing at HMR.

#347 - Simona Grossi, Pascal Damay, David Shore
Role of cis and trans elements in telomere formation and length regulation.

#348 - Dingwu Jia, Renata Polotnianka, Leslie Sisco, Arthur J. Lustig
Genetic interactions between CDC13 and yku70.

#349 - Ken J. Kalafus, Vicki Lundblad
Investigating the role of the Mre11/Rad50/Xrs2 complex in S. cerevisiae telomere maintenance.

#350 - Denise Krawitz, Tamar Kama, Paul Kaufman
Clustered Mutations of the Cac1p Subunit of Chromatin Assembly Factor-1 Cause HIR1- Dependent Silencing Phenotypes.

#351 - Michel Larrivée, Raymund J. Wellinger
A potential role for Sgs1p at telomeric DNA.

#352 - Catherine Le Bel, Raymund J. Wellinger
Structure analyses of yeast chromosomal 3' single-stranded extensions.

#353 - Chris Noriega, Jeff Stavenhagen
Transposon mutagenesis on Saccharomyces cerevisiae to detect genes in Telomere Recombination.

#354 - Julie Parenteau, Raymund Wellinger
Importance of Rad27 nuclease in telomere homeostasis.

#355 - Anne Stellwagen, Zara Haimberger, Miriam Singer, Monika Tzoneva, Suzanne Peterson, Dan Gottschling
How does telomerase gain access to the telomere.

#356 - Johan Wahlin, Marita Cohn
Spatial Flexibility of RAP1 Binding.

#357 - Holly R. Wyatt, G. Ray Green, Arthur J. Lustig
Amino- and Carboxyl-Terminal Mutants of Histone H2A Suppress Telomere Position Effect in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.


Poster Session: Chromosome Behavior

#358 - Bhalla Needhi, Sue Biggins, Andrew Murray
The Role of LOC7 in Sister Chromatid Separation.

#359 - Penelope Chua, Laura Rusche, Jasper Rine
The Role of ORC, Acetyltransferases, and Deacetylases in Heterochromatin Formation.

#360 - Andrew Emili, David Schieltz, John Yates, Lee Hartwell
DNA Damage Checkpoint Protein Rad53 Regulates Chromatin Assembly Factor Asf1.

#361 - Troy A.A. Harkness, Terra G. Arnason, Mike C. Schultz
Cloning and characterization of RMC3/RSP5: a possible role for ubiquitin-dependent protein degradation in regulating chromatin assembly.

#362 - Jing-mei Hsu, Brehon C. Laurent
RSC functions to maintain genome integrity.

#363 - Alexander Kagansky, Alexander Strunnikov
Directed Mutagenesis of a Condensin Subunit in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#364 - Ilia I. Ouspenski, Jeffrey B. Bachant, Olga A. Cabello, B. R. Brinkley
Condensin function in yeast: is it just condensation?.


Poster Session: Transcription

#365 - Roopa Andhare, Thomas S. Cunningham, Terrance G. Cooper
Nitrogen catabolite repression-sensitive gene expression depends on the relative levels of Gat1p and Ure2p production in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#366 - Jimmy Sjöstrand, Andreas Kegel, Stefan Äström
On the architecture of a silencer in Kluyveromyces lactis .

#367 - Martin Bard, Matthew Kennedy
Positive and negative regulation of squalene synthase , an ergosterol biosynthetic gene, in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#368 - Joan L. Betz, Kara V. Goyette, Meiping Chang, Judith A. Jaehning
Genetic analysis of the role of the Paf1p/RNA polymerase II complex in the Pkc1p signaling pathway.

#369 - Leena Bhoite, David Stillman
Role of Swi5 In Recruiting The Holoenzyme To The HO Promoter.

#370 - Ann Cassidy-Stone, Alexander Johnson
Mechanism of Tup1-mediated repression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#371 - Bo-Shiun Chen, Zu-Wen Sun, Michael Hampsey
Sigma54-mediated activation in yeast: mechanistic similarities between bacterial sigma54-dependent and eukaryotic RNA polymerase II promoters.

#372 - Junji Chen, Yajun Cui, Yueh-Chin Chiang, Clyde L. Denis
Functional analysis of the role of CCR4-NOT complex in transcriptional elongation.

#373 - Sean T. Coleman, Sherry Rovinsky, Belinda Baxa, Scott Moye-Rowley
Oxidant-specific gene regulation by Yap1p.

#374 - Shazia Ahmed, Matt Haymowicz, Heather Brogan-Myers, Parmeet Jodhka, Heather Conrad-Webb
Activation of rRNA Synthesis by RNA Polymerase II.

#375 - Susana Correa García, Mariana Bermúdez Moretti, Alcira Batlle
The constitutive expression of UGA4 gene in Saccharomyces cerevisiae depends on two positive-acting proteins, Uga3p and Uga35p.

#376 - Daobin Ding, Miriam L Greenberg
Regulation of phospholipid synthesis by lithium and valproate.

#377 - Michael F. Dion, Yoon Choi, Jennifer L. Pinkham
Identification of three complementation groups required for SOD2 transcriptional repression.

#378 - Ute Donalies, Ulf Stahl
Sulfite formation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#379 - Ulla H. Dormer, Niall F. McLaren, Derek J. Jamieson
Identification of a regulatory element involved in cadmium induction of the GSH1 gene in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#380 - Mohamed EL ALAMI, André FELLER, André PIERARD, Evelyne DUBOIS
A deletion of 20 internal residues converts Lys14p to a constitutive transcriptional activator of LYS genes.

#381 - Charles E. Ducker, Robert T. Simpson
The role of the Tup1p complex in STE6 repression.

#382 - Duane Eisaman, Anita Hopper
Double stranded RNA interference in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#383 - Silviu L. Faitar, Seth A. Brodie, Alfred S. Ponticelli
Promoter-specific shifts in transcription initiation conferred by yeast TFIIB mutations are determined by sequences immediately adjacent to the normal initiation sites.

#384 - J. Antonio Gabaldón, Francisco Estruch
Suppressors of MSN5 - a gene involved in transport through the Nuclear Pore Complex in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#385 - Marco Gagiano, Florian Bauer, Isak Pretorius
Functional analysis of Mss11p: a transcriptional regulator controlling pseudohyphal differentiation and starch metabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#386 - Marc R. Gartenberg, Yao-Cheng Li, Tzu-Hao Cheng
Establishment and maitenance of yeast heterochromatin.

#387 - Emily Gray, Chip Hannum, Leena Bhoite, David Stillman, Ronda Rolfes
Structure-function analysis of Bas2p.

#388 - Wail M. Hassan, George M. Santangelo
Sub-nuclear localization of Rap1p and Gcr1p in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#389 - Guillaume Hautbergue, Valérie Goguel
The cyclin-dependent kinase Ctk1 requires its association with two unstable subunits for its CTD kinase activity.

#390 - David Hess, Fred Winston
Genetic Analysis of Spt10, a putative acetyltransferase in S. cerevisiae.

#391 - Helmut Jungwirth, Franz Wendler, Barbara Platzer, Helmut Bergler, Gregor Högenauer
Diazaborine resistance in yeast involves the efflux pumps Ycf1p and Flr1p and is enhanced by a gain of function allele of gene YAP1 .

#392 - Scott G. Holmes, Laurie Papacs
REP3-mediated silencing in S. cerevisiae.

#393 - Barbara C. Hoopes, Matthew J. DiVisconte, Jessica Mazzeo, Asia Pantaleo, Judy Mesicek
Functional analysis of the unusual 3' and 5' UTRs of the TFIIB and TBP genes.

#394 - Saloheimo, Nina Aro, Marja Ilmén, Merja Penttilä
A yeast-based cloning method for transcription factors with activation properties.

#395 - Atul Joshi, Daniel Kosman
Intermolecular interaction involving the Mac1 transcription factor in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#396 - Min-Hao Kuo, C. David Allis
Dynamic changes of histone acetyltransferases in response to transcriptional induction.

#397 - Thomas Hon, Hee Chul Lee, Li Zhang
The Involvement Of Hsp90 And Hsp70-Ydj1 In Heme Regulation Of Heme Activator Protein-1 In Saccharomyces Cerevisiae .

#398 - Sheng Li, Susan M. Dean, Zhijian Li, Robert J. Deschenes, Jan S. Fassler
Skn7p, a two-component transcription factor in the SLN1 osmotic stress pathway.

#399 - Knut Madden, Luis Foncerrada, Tom Chappell, James Cregg
Transcriptional regulation of the FLD1 promoter in Pichia pastoris.

#400 - Yasmine Mamnun, Rudy Pandjaitan, Yannick Mahé, Agnés Delahodde, Karl Kuchler
Pdr1p and Pdr3p are nuclear phosphoproteins mediating transcriptional control of the target genes through the formation of homo- and heterodimers in vivo.

#401 - Äsa Månsson, Lennart Adler
Identification and characterization of genes involved in the regulation of the GPD2 gene in Saccharomyces cerevisiae .

#402 - Jonathan Mathias, Hualin Zhong, Yisheng Jin, Andrew Vershon
Altering the DNA-binding specificity of the yeast matalpha2 homeodomain protein.

#403 - Niall F. McLaren, Ulla H. Dormer, Derek J. Jamieson
Characterisation of a gene involved in the regulation of the GSH1 gene in response to heavy metals.

#404 - Janet Mead, Thomas B. Acton, Andrew Steiner, Michael K. Gill, Andrew K. Vershon
Alanine scanning of Mcm1: mutations that affect transcriptional regulation with its cofactors.

#405 - Robyn Moir, Karen Puglia, Ian Willis
Interactions between a tetratricopeptide repeat-containing transcription factor TFIIIC131, and its ligand TFIIIB70.

#406 - Cherie L. Mueller, Judith A. Jaehning
Identification of proteins associated with the yeast Paf1p/RNA polymerase II complex using mass spectrometry.

#407 - Yukio Mukai, Sharon Y. Roth
Characterization of transcriptional corepressors Tup11p and Tup12p in fission yeast.

#408 - Lois E. Murray, Rhea C. MacDonald
Transcriptional regulation of the SUP70 gene in S. cerevisiae..

#409 - Krishnamurthy Natarajan, Belinda M. Jackson, Alan G. Hinnebusch, Matthew J. Marton
Expression profiling revealed novel transcriptional targets for Gcn4p in yeast.

#410 - Bradly P. Nicholson, John H. McCusker
Phase variation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#411 - Satoru Ohgiya, Takehiko Sahara, Tsunahiro Kii, Youhei Sugano, Takako Goda, Naoki Morita, Tamotsu Hoshino, Kozo Ishizaki
Cold-induced transcripts in yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae .

#412 - Donald L. Pappas, Jr., Michael Hampsey
Functional interaction between Ssu72 and the Rpb2 subunit of RNA polymerase II in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#413 - Volkmar Passoth, Bärbel Hahn-Hägerdal
GFP assisted transcription analysis of the ADH -genes in the yeast Pichia stipitis reveals a novel hypoxia dependent regulation mechanism in yeasts.

#414 - Katia Pauwels, Pierre Hilven, Agnes Abadjieva, Marjolaine Crabeel
Studies on the TATA-less promoter of the yeast ARG11 gene reveal a GC-rich core promoter element required for basal transcription.

#415 - Mercè Pamblanco, Ana Poveda, Susana Rodríguez-Navarro, José E. Pérez-Ortín, Vicente Tordera
The bromodomain factor 1 protein interacts with histone H4.

#416 - Michael Pierce, Jianxin Xie, Sherwin P. Montano, Millie M. Georgiadis, Andrew K. Vershon
Point mutational analysis of the MSE reveals overlapping DNA-binding specificity for Ndt80 and Sum1.

#417 - Timothy S. Pardee, Alfred S. Ponticelli
Functional and size differences between yeast and human RNA polymerase II elongation complexes.

#418 - Mackenzie Distler, Thomas Cunningham, Rajendra Rai, Terrance Cooper
Functional and cytological relationships of the GATA-transcription factors in S. cerevisiae.

#419 - Luciana B. Rodrigues, Ygor M. P. Pessoa, Mônica B. Rodriguez, J. Miguel Ortega
Intrinsic activation and repression domains of TEAD proteins are functional and modulated by their neighbor domains in yeast cell.

#420 - Gudrun Rehg, Gerald R Fink, Steffen Rupp
Molecular and phenotypic characterization of the FLO11 promoter.

#421 - Parag Sadhale, Nimisha Sharma, Beena Pillai, Vinaya Sampath, Vijender Singh
A core subunit of yeast RNA polymerase II, Rpb4 is involved in activated transcription.

#422 - Ivan Sadowski, John Rohde, Martin Hirst, Chris Nelson, Susan Goto, Jennifer Trinh
Characterization of the Galactose Induction Throttle.

#423 - Christian Wagner, Juergen Wittmann, Hans-Joachim Schueller
Recruitment of the pleiotropic transcriptional repressor Sin3 by Opi1, a pathway-specific negative regulator of phospholipid biosynthetic genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#424 - J. Vaughn Spencer, Karen M. Arndt
Analysis of TBP binding polarity using genetic and biochemical approaches.

#425 - Janet F. Staab, Paula Sundstrom
Regulation of expression of the HWP1 adhesin gene of Candida albicans.

#426 - Jennifer Stewart, Laurie Stargell
The stability of the TBP-TFIIA-DNA complex is dependent on the sequence of the TATA element.

#427 - José J.M. Ter Linde, H. Yde Steensma
Transcriptional regulation of oxygen responsive genes.

#428 - Gyanendra Tripathi, Carolyn Wiltshire, Alistair Brown
Isolation and characterisation of the Candida albicans GCN4 gene.

#429 - Hiroshi Uemura, Takashi Sato, M. Cecilia Lopez, Shigemi Sugioka, Yoshifumi Jigami, Henry V. Baker
The E-box DNA binding protein Sgc1p suppresses the gcr2 mutation, which is involved in the transcriptional activation of glycolytic genes in yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#430 - Valmik K. Vyas, Sergei V. Kuchin, Marian B. Carlson
Transcriptional repressors Nrg1 and Nrg2 interact with the Snf1 protein kinase of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#431 - Jung-Hoon Sohn, Jonathan R. Warner
Feedback stimulation of ribosome synthesis.

#432 - Yun Li, Robyn Moir, Indra Sethy-Coraci, Jonathan Warner, Ian Willis
Repression of ribosome and tRNA synthesis in secretion-defective cells is signaled by a novel branch of the cell integrity pathway.

#433 - Nataly Kacherovsky, Elton Young
An in vitro transcription assay for the transcription factor Adr1.

#434 - Xiaoting Zhang, Zhifeng Cui, Tokichi Miyakawa, W. Scott Moye-Rowley
Regulation and function of the zinc cluster transcription factor Yrr1p.


Poster Session: RNA Processing

#435 - Yi Wei Jiang
Posttranscriptional Gene Silencing of Ty1 Retrotransposons in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#436 - Stephanie Ruby, Marygrace Castro
Pre-mRNA splicing, ribosome biogenesis and exocytosis.

#437 - Rebecca Seipelt, Brian Rymond
Sequence and structure contributions to U1 snRNA processing.

#438 - Katja Straesser, Ed Hurt
Yra1p and its role in mRNA export in yeast.

#439 - Séan Wilson, Alistair JP Brown
Transcript turnover during growth and starvation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.


Poster Session: Translation

#440 - Weidong Chen, Rolf Sternglanz
An Essential Yeast Gene Involved In Ribosome Assembly.

#441 - Jinsheng Dong, Hongfang Qiu, Minerva Garcia-Barrio, Alan Hinnebusch
Uncharged tRNA activates GCN2 by dissociating the protein kinase moiety from a bipartite tRNA-binding domain.

#442 - Lynn Horton, Diane Barth-Baus, Phil James, Elizabeth Craig, Jack Hensold
The Yeast Hsp70 Homolog SSA interacts with Pab1 and Sis1 on translating ribosomes and effects efficient translation.

#443 - Ivana Janatova, Zdenek Koubek, Radka Rakova, Jiri Hasek
Neither chromosomal nor cDNA copy of the Schizosaccharomyces pombe homologous gene complement mutations in RPG1, the essential gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#444 - Francine Messenguy, Fabienne Vierendeels, André Piérard, Pascal Delbecq
Role of RNA surveillance proteins Upf1/CpaR, Upf2 and Upf3 in the translational regulation of yeast CPA1 gene.

#445 - Steven Parham, Brian Cox, Mick Tuite
Cis and Trans-acting factors affecting prion propergation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#446 - Catarina Resende, Steve Parham, Julio Duarte, Brian Cox, Mick Tuite
The structure and function of the Candida albicans homologue of eRF3 .

#447 - Mythili Shastry, Jennifer Nielsen, Theresa Ku, Ming Jo Hsu, Paul Liberator, Jennifer Anderson, Dennis Schmatz, Michael Justice
Fungal specificity of the sordarins is determined by an eight amino acid region of eEF2.

#448 - Ruchira Sood, DeAnne S. Olsen, Douglas R. Cavener, Ronald C. Wek
Expression of a mammalian homologue of Gcn2 protein kinase in yeast regulates translation by phosphorylation of eIF-2.


Poster Session: Chromatin Remodeling

#449 - Melinda Angus-Hill, Bradley Cairns
Possible role for the Rsc3 component of RSC in targeting and cell cycle control.

#450 - Nancy Azizian, Brehon C. Laurent
Sth1p interacts with histone tails.

#451 - Melissa Bose, Kelly Gardner, Catherine Fox
Mechanisms governing a Sir1p/ORC interaction in yeast.

#452 - Francesco Cioci, Licia Bordi, Francesca Di Felice, Giorgio Camilloni
In vivo DNA-protein interactions occurring at the rDNA of Saccharomyces cerevisae.

#453 - Micaela Caserta, Loredana Verdone, Barbara Chiappini, Barbara Xella, Ernesto Di Mauro
Chromatin structure and regulation of the S. cerevisiae ADH2 gene derepression.

#454 - Andrea A. Duina, Fred Winston
Isolation and characterization of histone H3 mutants that confer Snf/Swi-related phenotypes.

#455 - Sandy N. Garcia, John L. Stebbins, Cheryl Reifsnyder, Lorraine Pillus
Genetic and biochemical dissection of the Sir2p silencing deacetylase. Sandy N. Garcia, John L. Stebbins, Cheryl Reifsnyder, and Lorraine Pillus. Department of Biology, University of California-San Diego. La Jolla, CA 92093-0347.

#456 - Fuqiang Geng, Yixue Cao, Brehon C. Laurent
Snf5p is required for Snf-Swi promoter recruitment and subsequent chromatin remodeling.

#457 - Masahiko Harata, Shigeki Mizuno, Yukako Oma
Multiple actin-related proteins of Saccharomyces cerevisiae are localized in the nucleus and present in high molecular mass protein complexes.

#458 - José Moreira, Steen Holmberg
Chromatin-mediated gene regulation by the yeast HMG proteins NHP6A and NHP6B.

#459 - LeAnn Howe, Sam John, Stefan Tafrov, Rolf Sternglanz, Jerry Workman
The essential function of the yeast CP/FACT complex may require recruitment of HATS.

#460 - Ann L. Kirchmaier, Jasper Rine
Characterizing the S-phase requirement for the establishment of silencing in S. cerevisae..

#461 - Rebecca L. Parr, Michael P. Kladde
Target gene detection by chimeric DNA methyltransferases.

#462 - Bogdan Kurchii
The non-coiled model of DNA packing in eukaryotes.

#463 - M. Matecic, A. Woike, K. McCullough, S. Holmes
In vivo characterization of new SIR2 alleles.

#464 - Ronald McCord, Michael Pierce, Jianxin Xie, Carolyn Mickle, Andrew Vershon
The role of HST1 in MSE-mediated regulation of mid-sporulation specific genes.

#465 - Daniel O. Richardson, Jacques Côté, Paul Tempst, Bradley R. Cairns
Revealing the biological roles of two human leukemogenic proteins, ENL and AF9, through study of a yeast homologe, Yaf9.

#466 - Nilanjan Roy, Kurt W. Runge
A genetic screen to identify pathways involved in silencing and aging in yeast S. Cerevisiae.

#467 - Laura Rusche, Jasper Rine
An alternative type of silent chromatin at S. cerevisiae HM loci.

#468 - Jeffrey S. Thompson, Audrey McGough, Michael Grunstein
Single amino acid substitutions in the essential core domain of histone H3 cause disruption of telomeric silencing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#469 - Oliver Valerius, Sven Krappmannn, Cornelia Brendel, Gerhard H. Braus
Nucleosome structure of the yeast HIS7 promoter.

#470 - Masashi Yukawa, Eiko Tsuchiya
Nps1/Sth1p, a component of RSC complex, is required for the maximal expression of early-meiotic genes.


Poster Session: Mutagenesis and Repair

#471 - Nurjana Bachman, Matt Biery, Nancy Craig, Jef Boeke
In vitro mutagenesis of Saccharomyces cerevisiae genomic DNA by Tn7.

#472 - Leslie Barbour, Yu Zhu, Wei Xiao
An improved protocol for synthetic lethal screen in yeast.

#473 - Miriam Bucheli, Kevin Sweder
Transcription-coupled repair defect in a rad26 mutant is dependent on carbon source.

#474 - Dau-Yin Chang, A-Lien Lu
Expression of human MYH cDNA in a MYH knock-out strain of Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

#475 - Kevin Doherty, Donna Evans-Fabres, Ajay Pramanik, Marjan Ghazvini, Avanella James, Carol Wood Moore
Functional and structural analyses of Blm3p, a protein involved in resistance to oxidative damage in Saccharomyces cerevisiae .

#476 - Paola Fiorano, Weiguo Ye, Robert J.D. Reid, Mary-Ann Bjornsti
Cellular responses to DNA topoisomerase I-induced DNA damage.

#477 - Chuan Hua He, Augustine M. K. Choi
The budding yeast RNA-binding protein Npl3 is required for protection against oxidants and stress.

#478 - Lars Jansen, Hans den Dulk, Montsy Brouns, Tineke de Ruijter, Riekje Brandsma, Jaap Brouwer
Modulation of Rad26 requirement in transcription coupled repair.

#479 - Peter J. McHugh, John A. Hartley
The origin and processing of DNA double-strand breaks arising during DNA interstrand crosslink repair in S. cerevisiae.

#480 - Brenda K. Minesinger, Sue Jinks-Robertson
The impact of mismatch repair proteins upon frameshift intermediates in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#481 - Beth A. Montelone, Joyce G. Slusser, Karen Moberg
Characterization of two alleles of the MMS21 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#482 - Kerrington L. Ramsey, Arindam Dasgupta, David T. Auble
Molecular analysis of RAD16, a RING-H2-containing protein and SNF2/SWI2-related ATPase.

#483 - Alison Rattray, Carolyn McGill, Brenda Shafer, Jeffrey Strathern
Double-strand break repair fidelity: a role for SAE2.

#484 - Alessandra Lopes Starling, J. Miguel Ortega, Mônica Bucciarelli Rodriguez
Use of CAN1 + as reporter gene for reverse two-hybrid system increased mutation frequency.

#485 - Michael Schweizer, Kenneth J Larkin, Lilian M Schweizer
Development of a yeast-based assay system for monitoring microsatellite instability.

#486 - Joyce Geneine Slusser, Stephanie Rae Russell, Beth A. Montelone
Characterization of MMS21 and MMS13 DNA repair genes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#487 - Clifford Weil, Ashley Reed, Reinhard Kunze
Genome-wide transposition by maize Ac/Ds elements in yeast.

#488 - Elissa Karathanasis, Shakuntala Fathepure, Thomas E. Wilson
Factors affecting the outcome of competition between homologous and nonhomologous DNA double-strand break repair.

#489 - Michael H. Woo, John R. Vance, William C. Colley, Mary-Ann Bjornsti
Substitutions of conserved active site residues define distinct mechanisms of DNA topoisomerase I-induced lethality.


Poster Session: Recombination

#490 - Yael Aylon, Rivka Steinlauf, Martin Kupiec
Role of replication proteins in double-strand-break repair and checkpoint control.

#491 - Anya Bakhrat, Melissa Jurica, Barry Stoddard, Dina Raveh
Homology modeling and mutational analysis of yeast Ho endonuclease.

#492 - Shay Ben-Aroya, Batia Liefshitz, Martin Kupiec
Isolation of a novel gene involved in recombination.

#493 - Craig B. Bennett, Joyce R. Snipe, Michael A. Resnick
Toleration of a persistent double-strand break in a dispensable yeast chromosome requires SIR -mediated silencing of mating-type gene expression.

#494 - David Butler, David Gillespie
Formation of Large Palindromic DNA in Yeast.

#495 - Maria E. Camargo, Ana Clara G. Schenberg, Tania M. D. Zucchi, Elisabete J. Vicente
A sensitive yeast system for detection of mitotic recombination .

#496 - Allison P. Davis, Lorraine S. Symington
Genetic and Biochemical Characterization of Rad59.

#497 - Douglas J. DeMarini, Caretha L. Creasy, Joyce Yue Mao, Ganesh M. Sathe, George P. Livi
Oligonucleotide-mediated, PCR-independent cloning by homologous recombination in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#498 - Gary S. Fortin, Rachel A. Fleishman, Lorraine S. Symington
Identification of a new class of RAD51 alleles that bypass the requirement for RAD57 in DNA repair.

#499 - Stuart Haring, Alex Jones, George Halley, Steve Bullard, Margaret Thomson, Robert Malone.
Analysis of DNA sequences important for high levels of meiotic recombination at the HIS2 gene.

#500 - Xiuping He, Wemhui Huai, Wenjie Guo, Cuijuan Tie, Borun Zhang
Construction of brewer's yeast strain carrying alpha-acetolactate decarboxylase gene and flocculation gene.

#501 - Mina Hiraoka, Masaaki Mori, Keiko Umezu, Hisaji Maki
Spontaneous loss of heterozygosity in diploid S. cerevisiae cells : Structural analyses of endpoints of rearranged regions of aberrant chromosomes.

#502 - Teresa M. Holzen, John M. Logsdon, Jr., Douglas K. Bishop
Separation of function analysis of DMC1.

#503 - Eurie L. Hong, Akira Shinohara, Douglas K. Bishop
Homologous pairing and strand annealing promoted by Dmc1, a meiosis specific RecA homologue.

#504 - Jianhua Jia, Alan E Wheals
Endopolygalacturonase genes from Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Kluyveromyces marxianus.

#505 - Eliyahu Kraus, James Haber
Regulation of Gene Targeting and Non-homologous Insertion.

#506 - Martin Kupiec, Batia Liefshitz, Gili Bitan, Geula Ben-Israel, Ori Inbar
How do you heal a broken chromosome?.

#507 - Francisco Malagon, Andres Aguilera
Genetic analysis of the effects of transcription and chromatin structure on RAD51 -dependent and -independent mitotic recombination.

#508 - Stéphane Marcand, Carl Mann
Protein-DNA interactions at double-strand breaks in yeast.

#509 - Dilip Nag, Craig Jankowski, Farooq Nasar
Meiotic instability of CAG repeat tracts in yeast.

#510 - Ileana G.S. Rubio, Renata H. El Hireche, Elisabete Vicente
Parameters affecting the integration of a r-DNA linear vector in the co-transformation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.ilearubi@usp.br.

#511 - Joshua Shallom, Daejin Ko, James Keeven, John Golin
PDR5-independent multiple-drug resistance in yeast.

#512 - Marina E. Smirnova, Hannah Klein
Role of the HMI1 gene in maintenance of mitochondrial DNA in S.cerevisiae.

#513 - Gerald R. Smith, Joseph A. Farah, Randall W. Schreckhise, Jennifer A. Young
Meiotic recombination remote from prominent DNA breaks in S. pombe.

#514 - Rachelle M. Spell, Stacey Jeffries, Zareen Gauhar, Jennifer A. Freedman, Sue Jinks-Robertson
Genes involved in the regulation of homeologous recombination.

#515 - Jeffrey Virgin, Jeffrey Bailey, Farnaz Hasteh, James Neville, Amy Cole, Gerard Tromp
Crossing over is rarely associated with mitotic intragenic recombination in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

#516 - Kunihiro Ohta, Ning Kon, Ken-Ichi Mizuno, Takehiko Shibata, Wayne Wahls
A CREB/ATF transcription factor of sexual differentiation mediates chromatin remodeling at a meiotic recombination hotspot.

#517 - Kei-ichi Watanabe, Keiko Umezu, Katsuhiko Shirahige, Hiroshi Yoshikawa, Hisaji Maki
Spontaneous loss of heterozygosity in diploid S. cerevisiae cells : Involvements of ORC functions in chromosome maintenance.

#518 - Bridget D. Williams, Arthur J. Lustig
Associations between the yKu heterodimer and Novel Telomere Rearrangement.

#519 - Jumpei Yoshida, Hisaji Maki, Keiko Umezu
Spontaneous loss of heterozygosity in diploid S. cerevisiae cells : Chromosome aberration induced in rad50, rad51, and rad52 mutants.


Poster Session: Retro-transposition

#520 - Michael Aye, Suzanne Sandmeyer
Truncation of TFIIIC95 reduces Ty3 retrotransposition in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#521 - Eric C. Bolton, Jef D. Boeke
Ty elements and tRNA genes: a genomic point of view.

#522 - Aleksandra Comino, Radovan Komel
Retro-transposition and DNA replication.

#523 - Michael Fasullo, Brenda Boggs, Peter Giallanza
The DNA damage-associated stimulation of Ty1 transposition correlates with the appearance of chromosomal rearrangements in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

#524 - Anna A. Friedl, Markus Kiechle, Palaniyandi Manivasakam, Friederike Eckardt-Schupp, Robert H. Schiestl
Integration of non-Ty DNA by Ty integrase in yku70 mutant Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells.

#525 - Antonin Morillon, Mathias Springer, Pascale Lesage
Transcriptional analysis of the S. cerevisiae Ty1 elements in their native location.

#526 - Jeffrey N. Strathern, Deanna Gotte, Brenda Shafer, Dwight Nissley
The fidelity of retrotransposition.


Poster Session: Genome Organization

#527 - A. Chu, A. Astromoff, H. Liang, D. Shoemaker, E. Winzeler, G. Yen, Z. Herman, K. Davis, K. Anderson, B. Andre, R. Bangham, R. Benito, J. Boeke, H. Bussey, C. Connelly, F. Cousins, M. Curtiss, M. dela Rosa, D. Denk, S. Devine, F. Dietrich, S. Dow, M. El Bakkoury, F. Foury, S. Friend, D. Garfinkel, E. Gentalen, G. Giaever, D. Gotte, J. Hegemann, T. Jones, S. Kelly, D. LaBonte, M. Laub, S. Lemire, H. Liao, N. Liebundguth, D. Lockhart, A. Lucau-Danila, M. Lussier, P. Menard, F. Messenguy, M. Mittmann, N. M'Rabet, L. Ni, C. Pai, C. Rebischung, J. Revuelta, L. Riles, C. Roberts, P. Ross-Macdonald, B. Scherens, M. Snyder, S. Sookhair-Mahadep, R. Storms, J. Strathern, G. Valle, S. Véronneau, M. Voet, G. Volckaert, T. Ward, R. Wysocki, Y. Yang, K. Yu, S. Yu, K. Zimmerman, P. Philippsen, R. Davis, M. Johnston
The complete collection of S. cerevisiae gene disruptions: a resource for discovery of gene function.

#528 - Paul Cliften, LaDeana Hillier, Warren Gish, Mark Johnston
Identifying hidden features of the yeast genome by comparative DNA sequence analysis.

#529 - Kathleen Cox, Chetan Deshpande, Terrance Cooper
Genome-wide transcriptional analysis of nitrogen catabolite repression, a regulatory pathway controlling GATA-factor mediated gene expression.

#530 - K. Dolinski, C.A. Ball, G. Binkley, S.S. Dwight, M.A. Harris, L. Issel-Tarver, H. Jin, M. Kaloper, A. Kasarskis, J.C. Matese, G. Sherlock, S. Weng, D. Botstein, J.M. Cherry
Centralizing access to biological information at SGD.

#531 - Cecile Fairhead, Miria Ricchetti, Bernard Dujon
The frequency of non-homologous end-joining decreases towards the telomere in subtelomeric regions of yeast chromosomes.

#532 - Heike Göhler, Stephanie Wälter, Renate Hasenbank, Hans Lehrach, Erich E. Wanker
Analysis of huntingtin protein-protein interactions using the yeast two-hybrid system.

#533 - Midori A. Harris, Catherine A. Ball, Kara Dolinski, Selina S. Dwight, Laurie Issel-Tarver, Andrew Kasarskis, John C. Matese, Michael Ashburner, Suzanna Lewis, Judith A. Blake, Joel Richardson, Martin Ringwald, David Botstein, J. Michael Cherry
New biological features at SGD: Gene Ontology and Gene Summary Paragraphs.

#534 - Jodi E. Hirschman, Burkhard R. Braun, Maria C. Costanzo, Matthew E. Crawford, Michael E. Cusick, Peter E. Hodges, Jennifer D. Hogan, Kelley Lennon Hopkins, Jodi E. Lew-Smith, Philip Olsen, Kevin J. Roberg-Perez, Marek S. Skrzypek, James I. Garrels
The BioKnowledge TM Library: an Integrated Collection of Databases for the Proteomes of Fungal and Model Organisms.

#535 - Martin Münsterkötter, Susanne Stocker, H.-Werner Mewes
The The MIPS yeast genome database.

#536 - Marek S Skrzypek, Maria C. Costanzo, Matthew E. Crawford, Jodi E. Hirschman, Peter E. Hodges, James I. Garrels
Using YPDTM to generate a global overview of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae proteome and S. cerevisiae research.

#537 - Warren Voth, Aileen Olsen, David Stillman
Gene identification by programmed chromosome loss in any genetic background.

#538 - Raymond Wightman, Peter A. Meacock
Analysis of a gene family of the Saccharomyces sensu stricto: redundancy and organisation.


Poster Session: Evolution

#539 - G. Blandin, J. de Montigny, S. Potier, O. Ozier-Kalogeropoulos, S. Casaregola, A. Lepingle, F. Tekaia, P. Wincker and F. Artiguenave
Comparative genomics of Hemiascomycetes: -3- Yeast species distantly related to S. cerevisiae .

#540 - Claude Gaillardin, Pascal