Yeast between life and death: a summary of the Ninth International Meeting on Yeast Apoptosis in Rome, Italy, 17-20 September 2012.

Remembering the ancient latin saying omnes viae Romam ducunt, the yeast cell death community came to the eternal city to attend the 9th International Meeting on Yeast Apoptosis (IMYA), from 17-20 September 2012. More than one hundred investigators from around the world presented and discussed their researches on programmed cell death (PCD) and its role in stress responses, aging and development employing yeast as model organism.