Yeasts in Biotechnology and Human Health: Physiological Genomic Approaches

Industrial Applications and Model Systems

(1)   SÁ-CORREIA  - Physiological genomics of multistress resistance in the yeast cell model and factory: focus on MDR/MXR transporters

(2)   GUILLAMÓN - Mechanisms of yeast adaptation to wine fermentations

(3)    ZHAO - Development of robust yeast strains for lignocellulosic bio-refineries based on genome-wide studies

(4)   SÁ-CORREIA - Physiological genomics of the highly weak-acid-tolerant food spoilage yeasts of Zygosaccharomyces bailii sensu lato

(5)   JOUHTEN - Yeast genome-scale metabolic models for simulating genotype-phenotype relations 

Human Health and Disease

(6) Prasad - Emerging mechanisms of drug resistance in Candida albicans

(7) Teixeira - Genome-wide response to drugs and stress in the pathogenic yeast Candida glabrata

 (8) Prasad - Lipidomics approaches: applied to the study of pathogenesis in Candida species

 (9) LUDOVICO - Yeast at the forefront of research on ageing and age-related diseases