Marita Cohn is Associate Professor in Genetics at Lund University, Department of Biology, Molecular Biosciences. Her research focuses on the molecular mechanisms involved in the maintenance of telomeres. After receiving a PhD degree at Lund University, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Elizabeth Blackburn, University of California, USA, where she isolated and characterized the enzymatic activity of yeast telomerase. When starting her research position at Lund University, she established the budding yeast Naumovozyma castellii as a model system for molecular genetics research, developing molecular biology methods and tools for genetic manipulation. The research involved biochemical studies of the binding properties of telomere-associated proteins and their roles in the protection of telomeres, and characterization of the substrate recognition of telomerase. Currently she is studying the molecular and genetic mechanisms of Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres (ALT), which is a recombination-based pathway for telomere maintenance.

Vincent Robert is the CEO and founder of BioAware, a software company established in 2000 that develops BioloMICS, a platform used to manage, identify, analyze, and publish biological data.
He curated the yeast collection at the CBS in the Netherlands (now the Westerdijk Institute) for ten years (1999-2009). He subsequently served as Head of the Bioinformatics Group at the same institute from 2009 to 2023.
Since 2023, Vincent Robert and his team of developers have been working on new generations of BioloMICS, as well as on the development of advanced workflow systems and data analytics platforms.
In 2004, he founded MycoBank, and a few years later TheYeasts.org. He also leads database development for the Microbial Resource Research Infrastructure (MIRRI) and StrainsBook, and is responsible for the development of the database and website for the MALDIBank EU project.
Since 2002, he has been teaching mycology at the Institut Pasteur (Paris, France), and he is also a visiting Professor of Bioinformatics at the University of Perugia, Italy.

Lóránt Székvölgyi is a molecular biologist whose research dissects how chromatin-linked processes shape genome function and contribute to human disease. He developed strong expertise in Saccharomyces cerevisiae as an experimental system, using powerful yeast genetics to interrogate gene function with precision. He translates mechanistic insights from yeast into more complex cellular contexts, including human cell models. His work integrates classical genetics with advanced cell biophysics and quantitative cellular readouts to connect molecular mechanisms to phenotype. He couples these experiments with genomics and multiomics strategies to map chromatin states, transcriptional outputs, and genome organization at scale.