# CSH Asia: Yeast and Life Sciences

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## Yeast and Life Sciences

Suzhou, China

June 2-6, 2025

Abstract deadline: March 28, 2025

**Organized by:**

**Brenda Andrews** , University of Toronto  
**Marco Foiani** , The FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology  
**Daochun Kong** , Peking University  
**Hisao Masai** , Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science  
**Frank Uhlmann** , The Francis Crick Institute

The **Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Yeast and Life Sciences** will be held in Suzhou, China, located approximately 60 miles west of Shanghai. The conference will begin at **7:00pm on the evening of Monday June 2, and will conclude after lunch on Friday June 6, 2025.**

The conference will include eight oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in yeast. Many talks will be selected from the openly submitted abstracts on the basis of scientific merit and relevance. Posters will be up for viewing and discussion throughout the conference. Social events throughout the conference provide ample opportunity for informal interactions.

**Major Topics:**

**1. The Fundamental Structures and Processes of Cells**  
**2. Chromosomes, DNA Metabolism, and Genomic Stability**  
**3. Metabolic Pathways and the Principles of Synthetic Biology**  
**4. Mechanisms Underlying Healthy Aging**  
**5. Systems Biology**  
**6. Interactions Between Yeast and Their Ecological Environments**

**Keynote Speakers:**

**TBA**

**Invited Speakers:**

**Brenda Andrews** , University of Toronto  
**Charlie Boone** , University of Toronto  
**Dana Branzei** , IFOM ETS - The AIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology  
**Patrick Yizhi Cai** , The University of Manchester  
**Julie Cooper** , University of Colorado  
**Junbiao Dai** , Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, CAAS  
**Marco Foiani** , The FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology  
**Chris Hittinger** , University of Wisconsin-Madison  
**Daochun Kong** , Peking University  
**Hisao Masai** , Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science  
**Yasuto Murayama** , National Institute of Genetics  
**Snezhana Oliferenko** , King’s College London and the Francis Crick Institute  
**Jie Ren** , Beijing Institute of Genomics, CAS  
**Reiko Sugiura** , Kindai University  
**Frank Uhlmann** , The Francis Crick Institute  
**Elçin Ünal** , University of California, Berkeley  
**Aleksandar Vještica** , University of Lausanne

And more…

Abstracts should contain new and unpublished materials. The abstracts must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers. Status (fellow’s talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on the web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers.

**Fellowship:**  
A certain number of presentations by graduate students and postdocs in this conference will be selected as fellowship (USD $100-$500) awards. For more details, please visit [Stipends](https://www.csh-asia.org/?about/51)