Time

Programme category (e.g. talk, break, keynote lecture etc.)

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 1

Presented by

G. Diallinas

Claudio Scazzocchio

From fungi to microbial holozoa, a personal itinerary

Session 1: Fungal Metabolism, Homeostasis & Development

Chair: Reinhard Fischer, Xiaorong Lin

3.40-4.10

Invited lecture 1

Gerhard Braus

Coordination of fungal development and secondary metabolism

4.10-4.40

Invited lecture 2

Joseph Strauss

Are epigenetic processes involved in regulating fungal metabolism and pathogenesis?

4.40-5.00

Selected lecture 1

5.00-5.20

Coffee break

5.20-5.50

Invited lecture 3

Zsuzsanna Hamari

Fungal nicotinate degradation pathway

5.50-6.10

Selected lecture 2

6.10-6.30

Selected lecture 3

6.30-8.00

Poster Session 1 with drinks

8.30-10.30

Reception dinner

10.30-11.30

Open-air concert

Time

Programme category (e.g. talk, break, keynote lecture etc.)

Speaker name and topic of talk

7.30-9.00

Breakfast

Session 2: Fungal mechanisms and cell biology

Chair:  Meritxell Riquelme, Gerhard Braus, Joseph Strauss

9.00-9.40

Honorary lecture 2

Presented by

M. Riquelme

Anne Spang

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

9.40-10.10

Invited lecture 4

George Diallinas

The unconventional Golgi-bypaas trafficking of plasma membrane transporters

10.10-10.40

Invited lecture 5

Hailing Jin

Cross Kingdom RNA Communication

10.40-11.10

Invited lecture 6

Martine Bassilana

Lipid- and Signal-mediated polarized growth in fungi

11.10-11.30

Coffee break

11.30-12.00

Invited lecture 7

Meritxell Riquelme

ER organization and polarized growth

12.00-12.20

Selected lecture 4

12.20-12.40

Selected lecture 5

12.40-1.00

Selected lecture 6

1.00-2.30

Lunch

2.30-4.00

Poster Session 2 with coffee

4.00-4.30

Invited lecture 8

Amy Gladfelter

Biomolecular condensates in fungi

4.30-5.00

Invited lecture 9

Lillian Fritz-Laylin

Chytrid fungi and the development of fungal morphogenesis

5.00-5.20

Coffee break

5.20-5.40

Selected lecture 7

5.40-6.00

Selected lecture 8

6.00-6.20

Selected lecture 9

6.30-8.30

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

Programme category (e.g. talk, break, keynote lecture etc.)

Speaker name and topic of talk

7.30-9.00

Breakfast

Session 3: Fungal crosstalk with hosts & predatory interactions

Chair: Yen-Ping Hsueh,

9.00-9.40

Plenary lecture 1

Nick Talbot

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

9.40-10.10

Invited lecture 10

Reinhard Fischer

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

10.10-10.40

Invited lecture 11

Charissa de Bekker

Mechanisms involved in fungal hijacking of insect host behaviour

10.40-11.10

Invited lecture 12

Yen-Ping Hsueh

Predator-prey interactions of nematode-trapping fungi

11.10-11.30

Coffee break

11.30-12.00

Invited lecture 13

Miriam Oses-Ruiz

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

12.00-12.30

Invited lecture 14

Antonio Di Pietro

Pathogenic lifestyle in root colonizing fungi

12.30-12.50

Selected lecture 10

12.50-1.10

Selected lecture 11

1.10-2.30

Lunch

Session 4: Fungal societal interactions-Microbiomes

Chair: Antonio Di Pietro

2.30-3.00

Invited lecture 15

Axel Braghage

Shaping of bacterial-fungal interactions by natural products

3.00-3.30

Invited lecture 16

Vassilis Kokkoris

Cell and network dynamics in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi

3.30-4.00

Invited lecture 17

Luisa Lanfranco

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal genomes and virome

4.00-4.30

Invited lecture 18

Alexandra Dallaire

Genome evolutions studies in AM fungi and beyond

4.30-5.00

Invited lecture 19

Natalia Requena

Fungal signals to establish arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis

5.00-5.20

Selected lecture 12

5.30-8.30

Excursion for afternoon swimming

9.00-11,00

Free Dinner (non-organized)

Time

Programme category (e.g. talk, break, keynote lecture etc.)

Speaker name and topic of talk

7.30-9.00

Breakfast

Session 5: Fungal virulence and evolution

Chair: Natalia Requena, Claudio Scazzocchio

9.00-9.30

Invited lecture 20

Mike Bromley

Antifungal resistance: A One Health problem.

9.30-10.00

Invited lecture 21

George Chamilos

Updates on Aspergillosis and Mucormycosis

10.00-10.30

Invited lecture 22

Xiaorong Lin

Discovery of the molecular bases for cryptococcal tolerance to host CO₂

10.30-11.00

Invited lecture 23

Bing Zhai

Human microbiome and fungal infections

11.00-11.20

Coffee break

11.20-12.00

Plenary lecture 2

Joe Heitman

Evolution of sexual reproduction: a view from the Fungal Kingdom

12.00-11.30

Invited lecture 24

Aaron Vogan

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

12.30-12.50

Selected lecture 13

12.50-1.10

Invited lecture 25

Per Ljungdahl

Factors facilitating Candida albicans pathogenicity

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- questions and conclusions

Chair: Sotiris Amillis, Georgia Sagia

4.00-4.30

Invited lecture 26

Milda Pucetaite

Tracing hyphal scale metabolic dynamics in soil fungi via Raman microspectroscopy

4.30-4.50

Selected lecture 14

4.50-5.10

Selected Lecture 15

5.10-5.30

Selected Lecture 16

5.30-5.50

Selected Lecture 17

5.50-6.10

Selected Lecture 18

6.10-7.00

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