Time

Program category

Speaker name and topic of talk

9.30-12.30

Check-in and registration

1.00-2.30

Lunch

2.40- 3.00

Welcome-opening of the meeting

George Diallinas, Meritxell Riquelme

3.00-3.40

Honorary lecture

Introduced by

G. Diallinas

Claudio Scazzocchio

From fungi to microbial holozoa, a personal itinerary

Session 1: Fungal Metabolism, Homeostasis & Development

Chair: Reinhard Fischer, Xiaorong Li

3.40-4.00

Invited lecture 1

Gerhard Braus

George-August-University Goettingen, Germany

Coordination of fungal development and secondary metabolism

4.00-4.20

Invited lecture 2

Joseph Strauss

University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Austria

Are epigenetic processes involved in regulating fungal metabolism and pathogenesis?

4.20-4.40

Selected lecture 1

4.40-5.10

Coffee break

5.10-5.30

Invited lecture 3

Zsuzsanna Hamari

University of Szeged, Hungary

Fungal nicotinate degradation pathway

5.30-5.50

Selected lecture 2

5.50-6.10

Selected lecture 3

6.10-6.30

Selected lecture 4

6.30-9.00

Poster Session 1 with drinks

9.00-10.30

Reception dinner

10.30-11.30

Open-air concert

Time

Program category

Speaker name and topic of talk

7.30-9.00

Breakfast

Session 2: Fungal mechanisms

Chair:  Meritxell Riquelme, Gerhard Braus, Joseph Strauss

9.00-9.40

EMBO lecture

Introduced by

M. Riquelme

Anne Spang

Biozentrum University of Basel, Switzerland

Arf1, a jack of all trades in organelle homeostasis and cell signaling

9.40-10.00

Invited lecture 4

George Diallinas

National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

The unconventional Golgi-bypass trafficking of plasma membrane transporters

10.00-10.20

Invited lecture 5

Hailing Jin

University of California Riverside, USA

Cross kingdom RNA communication

10.20-10.40

Invited lecture 6

Martine Bassilana

Université Côte d'Azur, Nice, France

Lipid- and signal-mediated polarized growth in fungi

10.40-11.10

Coffee break

11.10-11.30

Invited lecture 7

Meritxell Riquelme

Scientific Research Center and Higher Education of Ensenada (CICESE), Baja California, Mexico

ER organization and polarized growth

11.30-11.50

Selected lecture 5

11.50-12.10

Selected lecture 6

12.10-12.30

Selected lecture 7

12.30-12.50

Selected lecture 8

1.00-2.30

Lunch

2.30-4.00

Poster Session 2 with coffee

4.00-4.20

Invited lecture 8

Amy Gladfelter

Duke University, Durham, USA

Biomolecular condensates in fungi

4.20-4.40

Invited lecture 9

Lillian Fritz-Laylin

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

Chytrid fungi and the development of fungal morphogenesis

4.40-5.10

Coffee break

5.10-5.30

Selected lecture 9

5.30-5.50

Selected lecture 10

5.50-6.10

Selected lecture 11

6.10-8.30

Outdoors free time for discussions and networking

8.30-12.30

Dinner and tour in the city of Chania in small groups (partly organized)

Time

Program category

Speaker name and topic of talk

7.30-9.00

Breakfast

Session 3: Fungal crosstalk with hosts & predatory interactions

Chair: Per Ljungdahl

9.00-9.30

Plenary lecture 1

Nick Talbot

The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, UK

Investigating the biology of effector-mediated invasive growth by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

9.30-9.50

Invited lecture 10

Reinhard Fischer

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Small-secreted proteins as fungal virulence factors in the predatory interaction of Arthrobotrys flagrans with Caenorhabditis elegans.

9.50-10.10

Invited lecture 11

Charissa de Bekker

Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Mechanisms involved in fungal hijacking of insect host behavior

10.10-10.30

Invited lecture 12

Yen-Ping Hsueh

Max Planck Institute for Biology, Tübingen, Germany

Predator-prey interactions of nematode-trapping fungi

10.30-11.00

Coffee break

11.00-11.20

Invited lecture 13

Miriam Oses-Ruiz

Public University of Navarre, Pamplona, Spain

Appressorium-mediated plant infection by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

11.20-11.40

Invited lecture 14

Antonio Di Pietro

University of Córdoba, Spain

Pathogenic lifestyle in root colonizing fungi

11.40-12.00

Selected lecture 12

12.00-12.20

Selected lecture 13

12.20-12.40

Selected lecture 14

1.10-2.30

Lunch

Session 4: Fungal societal interactions-Microbiomes

Chair: Antonio Di Pietro

2.30-2.50

Invited lecture 15

Axel Brakhage

Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology (Leibniz-HKI), Jena, Germany

Shaping of bacterial-fungal interactions by natural products

2.50-3.10

Invited lecture 16

Vassilis Kokkoris

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Cell and network dynamics in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

3.10-3.30

Invited lecture 17

Luisa Lanfranco

Università di Torino, Italy

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal genomes and virome

3.30-3.50

Invited lecture 18

Alexandra Dallaire

Royal Botanical Kew Gardens, UK

Genome evolutions studies in AM fungi and beyond

3.50-4.10

Invited lecture 19

Natalia Requena

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany

Fungal signals to establish arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis

4.10-4.30

Selected lecture 15

4.30-4.50

Selected lecture 16

5.00-8.30

Excursion for afternoon swimming

9.00-11.00

Free Dinner (non-organized)

Time

Program category

Speaker name and topic of talk

7.30-9.00

Breakfast

Session 5: Fungal virulence and evolution

Chair: Natalia Requena, Claudio Scazzocchio

9.00-9.20

Invited lecture 20

Mike Bromley

University of Manchester, UK

Antifungal resistance: A one health problem

9.20-9.40

Invited lecture 21

Georgios Chamilos

Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Updates on Aspergillosis and Mucormycosis

9.40-10.00

Invited lecture 22

Xiaorong Lin

University of Georgia, USA

Discovery of the molecular bases for cryptococcal tolerance to host CO₂

10.00-10.20

Invited lecture 23

Bing Zhai

Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Human microbiome and fungal infections

10.20-10.50

Coffee break

10.50-11.20

Plenary lecture 2

Joe Heitman

Duke University, Durham, USA

Evolution of sexual reproduction: a view from the Fungal Kingdom

11.20-11.40

Invited lecture 24

Aaron Vogan

University of Uppsala, Sweden

Gene acquisition by giant transposons primes eukaryotes for rapid evolution via horizontal gene transfer

11.40-12.00

Selected lecture 17

12.00-12.20

Invited lecture 25

Per Ljungdahl

Stockholm University, Sweden

Factors facilitating Candida albicans pathogenicity

12.20-12.40

Selected lecture 18

12.40-1.00

Selected lecture 19

1.10-2.40

Lunch

2.40-4.00

Free time for discussions and networking with coffee

Session 6: New tools – selected lectures from young participants – final questions and conclusions

Chair: Xenia Georgiou, Georgia Sagia

4.00-4.20

Invited lecture 26

Milda Pucetaite

Lund University, Sweden

Tracing hyphal scale metabolic dynamics in soil fungi via Raman microspectroscopy

4.20-4.40

Selected lecture 20

4.40-5.00

Selected lecture 21

5.00-5.20

Selected lecture 22

5.20-5.40

Selected lecture 23

5.40-6.00

Selected lecture 24

6.00-7.00

Selected questions of young participants to speakers

7.00-7.30

Concluding remarks

Organizers and all participants

8.00 -12.45

Gala Dinner in Cretan Village

7.30-9.00

Breakfast

9.00-12.30

Check-out