Non-conventional Yeasts: from Basic Research to Application

1. Utilization of -glucosidic disaccharides by Ogataea (Hansenula) polymorpha: genes, proteins and regulation.- 2. Biotechnological application of non-conventional yeasts for xylose valorization.- 3. Application of non-Saccharomyces yeast in wine production.- 4. Citric acid production by Yarrowia lipolytica.- 5. Effective technologies to isolate yeast oxido-reductases of analytical importance.- 6. Glutathione metabolism in yeasts and construction of the advanced producers of this tripeptide.- 7. Nitrogen assimilation pathways in budding yeasts.- 8. Microtubules in non-conventional yeast.- 9. Systematics, diversity and ecology of the genus Yarrowia and the methanol-assimilating yeasts.- 10. Anhydrobiosis in the non-conventional yeasts.- 11. Non-conventional yeasts for producing alternative beers.- 12. Yeasts for bioconversion of crude glycerol to high-value chemicals.- 13. Frontier in antifungal treatments against major human fungal opportunistic pathogen Candida species and other medically important yeasts.- 14. Glucose sensing and regulation in yeasts.- 15. L-Cysteine metabolism found in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Ogataea parapolymorpha.- 16. Strategies at bioreactor-scale for the production of recombinant proteins in Yarrowia lipolytica.

Prof. Dr. Andriy A. SibirnyInstitute of Cell BiologyNAS of UkraineDrahomanov Street 14/16Lviv 79005 Ukraine