ISSN 0513-5222 Official Publication of the International Commission on Yeasts of the International Union of Microbiological Societies (IUMS) DECEMBER 2014 Volume LXIII, Number II Marc-André Lachance, Editor University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B7 <
[email protected] > http://www.uwo.ca/biology/YeastNewsletter/Index.html Associate Editors Peter Biely Patrizia Romano Kyria Boundy-Mills Institute of Chemistry Dipartimento di Biologia, Herman J. Phaff Culture Slovak Academy of Sciences Difesa e Biotecnologie Collection Dúbravská cesta 9, 842 3 Agro-Forestali Department of Food Science 8 Bratislava, Slovakia Università della Basilicata, and Technology Via Nazario Sauro, 85, 85100 University of California Davis Potenza, Italy Davis California 95616-5224 WI Golubev, Puschino, Russia . 26 H Prillinger, Großmeiseldorf, Austria . 34 GI Naumov and E.S. Naumova, S Casaregola, Thiverval-Grignon, France . 35 Moscow, Russia ..................... 26 B Gibson, VTT, finland .................. 36 AK Adya, Dundee, Scotland . 27 A Yurkov, Braunschweig, Germany . 41 NA Khan, New York, New York . 28 MA Lachance, London, Ontario, Canada . 44 E Breierová, Bratislava, Slovakia . 28 International Commission on Yeasts . 45 D Kregiel, Lodz, Poland ................. 29 Recent meeting......................... 46 C Hittinger, Madison, Wisconsin, USA . 31 Forthcoming Meetings ................... 47 H Lee, Guelph, Ontario, Canada . 33 Fifty Years Ago ........................ 48 S Nasr, Tehran, Iran ..................... 34 I wish our readers a happy and scientifically prosperous New Year! M.A. Lachance, Editor I Russian Collection of Microorganisms (VKM), Institute for Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, Pushchino, 142290, Russia. Communicated by WI Golubev <
[email protected] > http://www.vkm.ru . Recent publications. 1 Golubev WI, Pfeiffer I 2014 A Study of Schizoblastosporion starkeyi-henricii isolates from northern and southern hemispheres of the Earth.