ISSN 0513-5222 Official Publication of the International Commission on Yeasts of the International Union of Microbiological Societies (IUMS) DECEMBER 2015 Volume LXIV, 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 . 34 M Schmidt, Des Moines, Iowa, USA . 47 GI Naumov and ES Naumova, C Schoch & B Robbertse, Bethesda, Moscow, Russia ..................... 34 Maryland, USA ...................... 48 NA Khan, New York, New York . 35 D Peris, Valencia, spain ................. 49 CT Hittinger, Madison, Wisconsin, USA . 36 JP Sampaio, Caparica, Portugal . 49 B Gibson, VTT, Finland ................. 37 A Yurkov, Braunschweig, Germany . 52 G Miloshev, Sofia, Bulgaria . 39 MA Lachance, London, Ontario, Canada . 55 AT Bakalinsky, Corvallis, Oregon, USA . 40 Anniversary: A Kocková-Kratochvílová . 57 E Breierova, Bratislava, Slovakia . 41 A mournful note: GH Fleet . 58 A Caridi, Reggio Calabria, Italy . 42 Obituary: CI Chernov .................... 60 CA Rosa, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil 43 Forthcoming Meetings ................... 61 ML Lopes, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brasil . 46 Brief News Item ........................ 62 WM Ingledew, Parksville, BC, Canada . 46 Fifty Years Ago ........................ 62 Editorials Dr. Graham H. Fleet (1946-2015) The yeast research community is in shock with the news of the sudden death of Dr.