New perspectives from South-Y-East, not all about death. A report of the 12th lnternational Meeting on Yeast Apoptosis in Bari, Italy, May 14th-18th, 2017

Nicoletta Guaragnella, Mariarita Stirpe, William Burhans, Manuela Côrte-Real, Campbell Gourlay, Paula Ludovico, Frank Madeo, Dina Petranovic, Joris Winderickx, Cristina Mazzoni* and Sergio Giannattasio* 1 Institute of Biomembranes, Bioenergetics and Molecular Biotechnologies, CNR, Bari, Italy. 2 Pasteur Institute-Cenci Bolognetti Foundation, Department of Biology and Biotechnologies “C. Darwin”, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy. 3 Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA. 4 Centre of Molecular and Environmental Biology (CBMA), Department of Biology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal. 5 Kent Fungal Group, School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. 6 Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Health Sciences, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal. 7 ICVS/3B’s – PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal. 8 Institute of Molecular Biosciences, University of Graz, Graz, Austria. 9 BioTechMed Graz, Graz, Austria. 10 Systems and Synthetic Biology, Department for Biology and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. 11 Functional Biology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. # Co-first authors. * Corresponding Authors: Sergio Giannattasio, Institute of Biomembranes, Bioenergetics and Molecular Biotechnologies, CNR, Bari, Italy; E-mail: [email protected]; Cristina Mazzoni, Pasteur Institute-Cenci Bolognetti Foundation, Department of Biology and Biotechnologies “C. Darwin”, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy; E-mail: [email protected]