Program

Timetable (tentative)

 

Day 1. November 8 (Sun), 2026

13:00-18:00
Registration
16:00-16:15

Opening remark

Organizer
16:15-17:00

Special lecture

Young Eun Choi (CEO, C Makgeolli)
17:00-19:00
Reception
 

Day 2. November 9 (Mon), 2026

09:00-09:40

PL1

Chair: Hyun Ah Kang (Chung-Ang University, Korea)
Speaker: Cheol-Sang Hwang (Korea University, Korea)
09:40-10:00
Coffee Break
10:00-12:00

Session 1
Yeasts as a
model system

Chair: TBA
Chair: Moonil Son (Pusan National University, Korea)
10:00-10:30 Speaker: Keynote: Shanshan Li (Hubei University, China)
10:30-10:50 Speaker: Hideki Tanizawa (Hokkaido University, Japan)
10:50-11:10 Speaker: Kyoung Dong Kim (Chung-Ang University, Korea)
11:10-12:00 Oral Presentations from Abstract Submissions
12:00-13:30
Lunch
13:30-14:10

PL2 

Chair: Diethard Mattanovich (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria)
Speaker: John Morrissey (University College Cork, Ireland)
14:10-14:30
Coffee Break
14:30-16:00
Poster Session
16:00-18:00

Session 2
Yeasts
in the environment
and evolution 

Chair: TBA
Chair: Kyung-Tae Lee
(Jeonbuk National University, Korea)
16:00-16:30 Speaker: Keynote: Irene Stefanini (University of Turin, Italy)
16:30-16:50 Speaker: Hong-Yeoul Ryu (Kyungpook National University, Korea)
16:50-17:10 Speaker: Soo Chan Lee (Texas Tech University, USA)
17:10-18:00 Oral Presentations from Abstract Submissions
 

Day 3. November 10 (Tue), 2026

09:00-09:40

PL3

Chair: Ji-Sook Hahn (Seoul National University, Korea)
Speaker: Irina Borodina (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
09:40-10:00
Coffee Break
10:00-12:00

Session 3
Synthetic and systems
biology of yeasts

Chair: TBA
Chair: Sang Woo Seo
(Seoul National University, Korea)
10:00-10:30 Speaker: Keynote: Matthew Wook Chang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
10:30-10:50 Speaker: Tomohisa Hasunuma (Kobe University, Japan)
10:50-11:10 Speaker: Jin Hou (Shandong University, China)
11:10-11:30 Speaker: Dae Hee Lee (KRIBB, Korea)
11:30-12:00 Oral Presentations from Abstract Submissions
12:00-13:30
Lunch
13:30-15:30

Session 4
Yeasts in the chemical
and pharmaceutical
industry 

Chair: Charles A. Abbas (ibiocat Inc. USA)
Chair: Xinqing Zhao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
13:30-14:00 Speaker: Keynote: Rodrigo Ledesma Amaro (Imperial College, UK)
14:00-14:20 Speaker: Xiaozhou Luo (Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, China)
14:20-14:40 Speaker: Juyoung Lee (KAIST, Korea)
14:40-15:00 Speaker: Dae-Kyun Ro (University of Calgary, Canada)
15:00-15:30 Oral Presentations from Abstract Submissions
15:30-16:00
Coffee Break
16:00-18:00

Session 5
Engineering of
non-conventional
yeasts 

Chair: TBA
Chair: Sun-Mi Lee
(Korea University, Korea)
16:00-16:30 Speaker: Keynote: Andriy Sibirny (NAS of Ukraine, Ukraine)
16:30-16:50 Speaker: Yongjin J. Zhou (CAS, China)
16:50-17:10 Speaker: Nam Kyu Kang (Kyung Hee University, Korea)
17:10-18:00 Oral Presentations from Abstract Submissions
18:00-19:00
Poster Session
18:30-
ICY Meeting
 

Day 4. November 11 (Wed), 2026

09:00-09:40

PL4

Chair: Hiroshi Takagi (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
Speaker: Yong-Su Jin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
09:40-10:00
Coffee Break
10:00-12:00

Session 6
Yeasts in
food and beverages

Chair: Nitnipa Soontorngun (King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand)
Chair: Aaron Heejin Lee (Daesang Co., Korea)
10:00-10:20 Speaker: Ildar Nisamedtinov (Lallemand, USA)
10:20-10:40 Speaker: Victor Gabriel Guadalupe Medina (Lesaffre, France)
10:40-11:00 Speaker: Phong Quoc Truong (HUST, Vietnam)
11:00-11:20 Speaker: Seung Oh Seo (Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Korea)
11:20-12:00 Oral Presentations from Abstract Submissions
12:00-13:30
Lunch
13:30-15:30

Session 7
Yeasts for
human health

Chair: Rosane Freitas Schwan (Universidade Federal de Lavras, Brazil)
Chair: Soo Rin Kim (Kyungpook National University, Korea)
13:30-14:00 Speaker: Keynote: Pengfei Xia (Shandong University, China)
14:00-14:20 Speaker: Young-Kyoung Park (INRAE, France)
14:20-14:40 Speaker: Jungyeon Kim (Seoul National University, Korea)
14:40-15:30 Oral Presentations from Abstract Submissions
15:30-18:00
Networking
18:00-20:00
Banquet
 

Day 5. November 12 (Thu), 2026

09:00-09:40

PL5

Chair: Yong Sun Bahn (Yonsei University, Korea)
Speaker: Leah Cowen (University of Toronto, Canada)
09:40-10:00
Coffee Break
10:00-12:00

Session 8
Yeasts as
human pathogens

Chair: TBA
Chair: Dong-Hoon Yang
(Yonsei University, Korea)
10:00-10:30 Speaker: Keynote: James Andrew Alspaugh (Duke University, USA)
10:30-10:50 Speaker: Clement Tsui (National Centre for Infectious Diseases, Singapore)
10:50-11:10 Speaker: Yong Sun Bahn (Yonsei University, Korea)
11:10-12:00 Oral Presentations from Abstract Submissions
12:00-12:30
Closing Ceremony
12:00-12:10
Awards ceremony 
12:10-12:20
Announcement and presentation of next meetings 
12:20-12:30

Closing remarks 

Organizer

 

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