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Yeast cell surfaces

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This issue of FEMS Yeast Research includes papers presented during the XXIVth International Specialized Symposium on Yeasts (ISSY24) held under the auspices of the International Commission on Yeasts, in Oropesa del Mar, Castellon (Spain), from 28 September to 2 October 2005. Although the title of the Symposium was ‘The Cell Surface: A genomic and proteomic approach’, the meeting was broader in scope and covered advances in other areas, such as those related to morphogenesis, responses to stress, signalling and physiology, including both pathogenic and nonpathogenic yeasts and mycelial fungi as model systems for basic studies and industrially oriented applied research. The Symposium was dedicated to the Mexican scientist, Prof Jose Ruiz-Herrera, in his 70th year, and honouring his outstanding career and work on the biogenesis of the fungal cell wall. This issue starts with two items by Salomon Bartnicki-Garcia, for many years a personal friend and coworker of Jose Ruiz-Herrera at the University of California in Riverside. The first is a short biographical note on Prof. Jose Ruiz-Herrera, and the second an account on how ‘chitosomes’ were discovered. These are particulate structures …