The 35th International Specialised Symposium on Yeasts

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, I would like to thank you for your attendance of the 35th International Specialised Symposium on Yeasts. This is the first time the ISSY meeting is held in Turkey. The symposium is jointly organized by The International Commission on Yeasts (ICY) and the Department of Food Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Çukurova University.

Yeasts are important industrial microorganisms that have been used in numerous traditional as well as many new biotechnological applications. The theme of the 35th symposium is “Yeast Cornucopia: Yeast for health and wellbeing”. The aim of the 35th ISSY is to provide an overview of the latest developments on yeast fermented foods and beverages, the production of ingredients and additives produced by yeasts, recent developments in yeast genetics and genomics as it relates to the yeast cultures used and taxonomic yeast characterization with emphasis on ecology and biodiversity, probiotic yeasts and the role of yeasts in improving health and wellbeing. Our hope by covering these topics is to expand new horizons and to broaden scientific knowledge in several of these areas.

The ISSY 35th symposium had 1 plenary lecture, 8 keynote lectures and 54 oral talks and 78 poster presentations. The symposium has gathered around 200 distinguished senior, young and industrial scientists from over 44 countries that will present their latest research results while exploring the nearby beauties of Antalya as time permits. 

I would like to express my personal gratitude for ICY and ISSY35 Organizing Committee for all of their hard work and to the Scientific Committee members for their great efforts in evaluating many of the abstracts.

I am especially grateful to Turkish and International sponsors for their generous financial support. I also would like to thank to all participants, session chairs, speakers and Leon Congress who helped to turn the congress into a reality.

Thank you for attending ISSY35 Antalya, Turkey. 

Prof. Dr. Huseyin ERTEN  

Chair of the Organizing Committe of ISSY 35
Department of Food Engineering
Faculty of Agriculture
University of Cukurova, Turkey