Next meeting:

Thursday, April 21st

“Understanding fungal infections:
From Yaps to Cap and beyond”

Charu Jain
Prusty Rao lab, WPI

"Fission Yeast Comparative Genomics"

Nick Rhind
Rhind lab, UMass Medical School

Dinner at 6:00 p.m.

Talks start at 7:00 p.m.

At The Broad Institute
7 Cambridge Center, Kendall Square, Cambridge

Directions and maps to The Broad Institute at 7 Cambridge Center here.

Download flyer HERE ! Please spread the word and distribute in your department.

Also, it's never too early to contact us about giving a talk for the 2009-2010 season. E-mail Anna or Dawn (e-mail addresses at bottom of this page below).

BAYM is a monthly meeting of yeast researchers in the Boston area.  Each meeting consists of a casual dinner (pizza, drinks, dessert) followed by two 30 minute research seminars. The speakers- principal investigators, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students- represent university labs from throughout the greater-Boston metropolitan region.  The seminars cover a variety of fields including transcription and regulatory networks, DNA replication and recombination, signal transduction, biofilm formation, hyphal invasive growth, silencing, fungal pathogenesis, ecology, and proteomics. Approximately 20 to 60 scientists attend each meeting.

Photos of BAYM

BAYM was founded in the 1970s at the Haber Lab in Brandeis University, after which it was hosted for about the past decade at the Whitehead Institute, and for the last year has been held at the Broad Institute. As in past years, BAYM serves as a forum for sharing basic scientific research topics related to yeast (and for enjoying a free meal and beverage with your research peers).  One of the goals for this season is to expand the research topics so they include not only Saccharomyces cerevisiae, but other yeast species (and special guest non-yeast fungi) as well. Our aim is to bring together all fungal scientists in the greater Boston area, facilitating a broader, more multi-disciplinary, research community.

BAYM mailing list for event announcements

To sign up for our mailing list email Dawn or Anna or please join the Boston Area Fungal Forum at our Nature Networks site and follow these steps:.

1) Go to our Nature Networks Group page:
http://network.nature.com/boston/group/baff

2) Log in (on the left), or register if you have not already.

3) On the left of the page, under "Forum Tools", click on "Receive email updates".

4) To receive BAYM announcements, please make sure "New forum topics" is checked. If you wish, you can leave more options checked. We announce meetings on "Forums".

You may also sign up to be notified about the other features our Nature Networks site has to offer, such as Forums and New Members. Our hope is that the Boston Fungal Forum will serve as a useful interactive extension of the Boston Area Yeast Meetings.

BAYM NEEDS SPEAKERS AND VOLUNTEERS!
If you have a ~30-minute story to share, please contact us! Please click on "Schedule" for available dates.
We look forward to hearing from you!

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We are looking for speakers and sponsors. Please contact us if you are interested in supporting BAYM.


Dawn Thompson: dawnt (at) broadinstitute.org

Anna Selmecki: Anna_Selmecki (at) dfci.harvard.edu

Thanks for visiting. See you at the meeting!

	Dawn Thompson, PhD
	Broad Institute 7 Cambridge Center Cambridge MA 02142

	Anna Selmecki, PhD
	Dana Farber Cancer Institute 44 Binney Street Boston, MA 02115