Detailed Program
Time |
Program category |
Speaker name and topic of talk |
10.00-12.30 |
Check-in and registration |
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13.00-14.30 |
Lunch |
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14.40- 15.00 |
Welcome-opening of the meeting |
George Diallinas, Meritxell Riquelme |
15.00-15.40 |
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 |
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15.40-16.00 |
Invited lecture 1 |
Gerhard Braus George-August-University Goettingen, Germany Coordination of fungal development and secondary metabolism |
16.00-16.20 |
Invited lecture 2 |
Joseph Strauss University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Austria The fungal network – communication and memory within a fungal colony |
16.20-16.40 |
Selected lecture 1 |
Ronald de Vries Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, The Netherlands Diversity and regulation of carbon metabolism in filamentous fungi |
16.40-17.10 |
Coffee break |
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17.10-17.30 |
Invited lecture 3 |
Zsuzsanna Hamari University of Szeged, Hungary Fungal nicotinate degradation pathway |
17.30-17.50 |
Selected lecture 2 |
Manuel Sánchez López-Berges Universidad de Córdoba, Spain Accessory gene cluster confers high copper tolerance in the cross-kingdom pathogen Fusarium oxysporum |
17.50-18.10 |
Selected lecture 3 |
George Tzelepis Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden Elucidating the role of N-deglycosylation activity in filamentous fungal homeostasis |
18.10-18.30 |
Selected lecture 4 |
Emmanouil Bastakis Georg August University Göttingen, Germany Molecular circuit between Aspergillus nidulans transcription factors MsnA and VelB to coordinate fungal stress and developmental responses |
18.30-20.30 |
Poster Session 1 (1-28) with drinks |
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21.00-22.30 |
Reception dinner |
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22.30-23.30 |
Open-air concert |
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Time |
Program category |
Speaker name and topic of talk |
8.00-9.00 |
Breakfast |
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Session 2: Fungal mechanisms Chair: Meritxell Riquelme, Gerhard Braus, Joseph Strauss |
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9.00-9.40 |
EMBO keynote 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 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 |
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11.10-11.30 |
Invited lecture 7 |
Meritxell Riquelme Scientific Research Center and Higher Education of Ensenada (CICESE), Baja California, Mexico Uncovering the Hyphal Tip: New Insights into Fungal Cell Polarity and Secretion |
11.30-11.50 |
Selected lecture 5 |
Michael Feldbrügge Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany Endosomal mRNA transport and cell wall remodeling |
11.50-12.10 |
Selected lecture 6 |
Edward Wallace The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom RNA-Binding protein SsdA shows dynamic localisation and transport during hyphal growth in Aspergillus nidulans |
12.10-12.30 |
Selected lecture 7 |
Jesus Aguirre Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico Regulation of mitochondrial and actin dynamics regulation by reactive oxygen species |
12.30-12.50 |
Selected lecture 8 |
Florian Altegoer Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany A novel peptide-GPCR system senses plant entry to drive fungal infection |
13.00-14.30 |
Lunch |
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14.30-16.00 |
Poster Session 2 (29-59) with coffee |
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16.00-16.20 |
Invited lecture 8 |
Lillian Fritz-Laylin University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA Chytrid fungi and the development of fungal morphogenesis |
16.20-16.40 |
Selected lecture 9 |
Elizabeth Bayne University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Mechanisms of RNA interference in Cryptococcus |
16.40-17.10 |
Coffee break |
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17.10-17.30 |
Selected lecture 10 |
Robert Arkowitz CNRS - INSERM - Université Côte d'Azur, France Tolerance to the antifungal drug fluconazole is mediated by tuning cytoplasmic fluidity |
17.30-17.50 |
Selected lecture 11 |
Juan Manuel Martínez Andrade Scientific Research Center and Higher Education of Ensenada (CICESE), Baja California, Mexico The small GTPase SEY-1 regulates the morphology and function of the apical endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondria in Neurospora crassa |
17.50-18.10 |
Selected lecture 12 |
Xenia Georgiou University of Athens, Greece VapA/Scs2 sustains polarized growth in Aspergillus nidulans by maintaining AP-2-mediated apical endocytosis |
18.10-20.30 |
Outdoors free time for discussions and networking |
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20.30-24.30 |
Dinner and tour in the city of Chania in small groups (partly organized) |
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Time |
Program category |
Speaker name and topic of talk |
8.00-9.00 |
Breakfast |
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Session 3: Fungal crosstalk with hosts & predatory interactions Chair: Per Ljungdahl |
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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 9 |
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 10 |
Charissa de Bekker Utrecht University, The Netherlands Mechanisms involved in fungal hijacking of insect host behavior |
10.10-10.30 |
Invited lecture 11 |
Yen-Ping Hsueh Max Planck Institute for Biology, Tübingen, Germany Predator-prey interactions of nematode-trapping fungi |
10.30-11.00 |
Coffee break |
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11.00-11.20 |
Invited lecture 12 |
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 13 |
Antonio Di Pietro University of Córdoba, Spain Pathogenic lifestyle in root colonizing fungi |
11.40-12.00 |
Selected lecture 13 |
Luis Vicente Lopez-Llorca University of Alicante, Spain Chitosan, biocontrol fungi and plants: stress can be good to you |
12.00-12.20 |
Selected lecture 14 |
Rosa R. Mouriño-Pérez Scientific Research Center and Higher Education of Ensenada (CICESE), Baja California, Mexico Cytoskeletal dynamics underlying intracellular organization in the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium brunneum |
12.20-12.40 |
Selected lecture 15 |
Singh Ranu Indian institute of science education and research Bhopal, India An uncharacterized domain within the N-terminal tail of histone H3 regulates the transcription of FLO1 via Cyc8 |
13.00-14.30 |
Lunch |
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Session 4: Fungal societal interactions-Microbiomes Chair: Antonio Di Pietro |
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14.30-14.50 |
Invited lecture 14 |
Axel Brakhage Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology (Leibniz-HKI), Jena, Germany Shaping of bacterial-fungal interactions by natural products |
14.50-15.10 |
Invited lecture 15 |
Vassilis Kokkoris Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands Cell and network dynamics in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi |
15.10-15.30 |
Invited lecture 16 |
Luisa Lanfranco Università di Torino, Italy Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal genomes and virome |
15.30-15.50 |
Invited lecture 17 |
Alexandra Dallaire Royal Botanical Kew Gardens, UK Genome evolutions studies in AM fungi and beyond |
15.50-16.10 |
Invited lecture 18 |
Natalia Requena Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany Fungal signals to establish arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis |
16.10-16.30 |
Selected lecture 16 |
Abel-Santos Ernesto University of Nevada, Las Vegas, United States Nutrient requirements for cell differentiation progression in Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis |
16.30-16.50 |
Selected lecture 17 |
Emma Alessandri ETH Zurich, Switzerland The Unfolded Protein Response is involved in antibacterial defense in fungi |
17.00-19.30 |
Excursion for afternoon swimming |
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20.00 |
Free night |
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Time |
Program category |
Speaker name and topic of talk |
8.00-9.00 |
Breakfast |
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Session 5: Fungal virulence and evolution Chair: Natalia Requena, Claudio Scazzocchio |
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9.00-9.20 |
Invited lecture 19 |
Mike Bromley University of Manchester, UK Antifungal resistance: A one health problem |
9.20-9.40 |
Invited lecture 20 |
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 21 |
Xiaorong Lin University of Georgia, USA Discovery of the molecular bases for cryptococcal tolerance to host CO2 |
10.00-10.20 |
Invited lecture 22 |
Bing Zhai Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Human microbiome and fungal infections |
10.20-10.50 |
Coffee break |
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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 23 |
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 18 |
Sizwe Ndlovu North-West University, South Africa Combining OSMAC and untargeted metabolomics approaches reveal compounds exhibiting potential anti-HIV-1 activities from an endophytic fungus, Penicillium rubens |
12.00-12.20 |
Invited lecture 24 |
Per Ljungdahl Stockholm University, Sweden Factors facilitating Candida albicans pathogenicity |
12.20-12.40 |
Selected lecture 19 |
Slavica Janevska Leibniz-HKI, Germany Elucidation of genetic diversity and pathogenicity mechanisms of the opportunistic human pathogen Fusarium oxysporum |
13.00-14.30 |
Lunch |
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14.30-16.00 |
Free time for discussions and networking with coffee |
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Session 6: New tools final questions and conclusions Chair: Xenia Georgiou, Georgia Sagia |
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16.00-16.20 |
Invited lecture 25 |
Milda Pucetaite Lund University, Sweden Tracing hyphal scale metabolic dynamics in soil fungi via Raman microspectroscopy |
16.20-16.40 |
Selected lecture 20 |
Darren Thomson University of Exeter, United Kingdom The Mycology Bioimaging Initiative |
16.40-17.00 |
Selected Lecture 21 |
Antoine Loquet CNRS-CBMN, France New solid-state NMR approaches to decipher the molecular organization of intact fungal and yeast cell wall at atomic resolution |
17.00-17.20 |
Selected Lecture 22 |
Tanja Pajić University of Belgrade, Serbia Cell dynamics investigation of the Mucoromycetes fungus, Phycomyces blakesleeanus, via nonlinear laser scanning microscopy |
17.20-17.40 |
Selected Lecture 23 |
Chen Xiaoyi Utrecht University, The Netherlands Quantitative single-molecule FISH reveals subcellular localization of flb family mRNA in the filamentous fungus Aspergillus niger |
17.40-18.00 |
Selected Lecture 24 |
Clara Valero The University of Manchester, United Kingdom Exploring the link between azole resistance and fitness in Aspergillus fumigatus by using quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping |
18.00-19.00 |
Selected questions of young participants to speakers |
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19.00-19.30 |
Concluding remarks |
Organizers and all participants |
20.00 -24.45 |
Gala Dinner in Cretan Village |
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8.00-9.00 |
Breakfast |
9.00-12.30 |
Check-out |
2 Honorary/EMBO lectures, 2 Plenary, 25 Invited, 24 selected = 53 talks
57 posters expected