Sunday, March 5
opening Session
Chair: Miguel A. Peñalva (Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Científicas, Spain), Karl Kuchler (Medical University of Vienna, Campus Vienna
Biocenter, Austria)
Location: Congress Innsbruck
Time: 20:15 - 21:00
| TIME | SPEAKER | TITLE | INSTITUTION |
| 20:15-21:00 |
Frank Madeo |
From regulated cell death in yeast to anti-aging and anti-fungal treatments | Karl-Franzens Universität Graz, Austria |
Monday, March 6
plenary session 1 - fungal interactions
supported by ORTNER
Chairs: Hubertus Haas (Medizinische Universität Innsbruck, Austria), Gerhard Braus (Center for Molecular Biosciences, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany)
Location: Congress Innsbruck
Time: 09:00 - 12:45
| TIME | SPEAKER | TITLE | INSTITUTION |
| 09.00-09.05 | Gregor Weihs | WELCOMING REMARKS | Vice Rector for Research, Universität Innsbruck, Austria |
| 09:05-09:45 | Alga Zuccaro | KEY NOTE 1: Root cap cell corpse clearance limits microbial colonization | University of Cologne, Institute for Plant Sciences, Germany |
| 09:45-10:15 | Teresa Pawlowska | PS1.1 Regulated cell death in innate immunity of fungi | School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, USA |
| 10:15-10:45 | Armin Djamei | PS1.2 Lessons to learn from a gall-inducing fungus | Excellence University of Bonn, Germany |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Coffee break | ||
| 11:15-11:45 | Chengshu Wang | PS1.3 Fight on surfaces prior to the onset of fungal pathogenesis in insects | Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
| 11:45-12:15 | Karl Kuchler | PS1.4 A master bZIP transcriptional regulator in the C. auris fungal pathogen links metabolism, tissue tropism, morphogenesis and antifungal resistance | Medical University of Vienna, Campus Vienna Biocenter, Vienna, Austria |
| 12:15-12:45 | Christine Beemelmanns | PS1.5 Genomic and metabolic adaptation mechanisms of symbiotic fungi from insects | Helmholtz-Institut für Pharmazeutische Forschung Saarland (HIPS), Germany |
Tuesday, March 7
Plenary session 2 - Genomics, Evolution & Biodiversity
supported by BISY
Chairs: Irina Druzhinina (Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, United Kingdom), Scott Baker (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute, USA)
Location: Congress Innsbruck
Time: 09:00 - 12:45
| TIME | SPEAKER | TITLE | INSTITUTION |
| 09:00-09:45 | Eva Stukenbrock | Key Note 2: Fungal interactions and co-adaptation in the plant phyllosphere | Christian-Albrechts University Kiel, Germany |
| 09:45- 10:15 | Matthew Fisher | PS2.1 The global emergence of antifungal resistance: the calm before the storm? | Imperial College School of Public Health, United Kingdom |
| 10:15-10:45 | Ronald de Vries | PS2.2 Genomic and post-genomic diversity in fungal plant biomass utilization | Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, The Netherlands |
| 10:45-11:15 | Coffee break | ||
| 11:15-11:45 | Fabienne Malagnac | PS2.3 Repeat Induced Point mutations, variations on a theme | Université Paris Saclay, France |
| 11:45-12:15 | Toni Gabaldon | PS2.4 Crossroads in drug resistance and host adaptation in Candida opportunistic pathogens | Barcelona Supercomputing Centre and Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Spain |
| 12:15-12:45 | Nina Gunde-Cimerman | PS2.5 Fungi in Glacial and Hypersaline Environments - what can we learn from their genomes? | Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia |
Wednesday, March 8
Plenary session 3 - Metabolism & Development
supported by Fungal Biology and Biotechnology (Springer Nature)
Chairs: Joseph Strauss (BOKU-University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria), David Canovas (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain)
Location: Congress Innsbruck
Time: 09:00 - 12:45
| TIME | SPEAKER | TITLE | INSTITUTION |
| 09:00-09:45 | George Diallinas | KEY NOTE 3: EMBO Lecture Dissecting the mechanism of function of a fungal transporter: a long persistent trip from genetics to structure |
Department of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece |
| 09:45- 10:15 | Özgür Bayram | PS3.1 Chromatin-controlled regulation of fungal development and mycotoxin biosynthesis | Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland |
| 10:15-10:45 | Vera Meyer | PS3.2 Fungal metabolism that contributes to a new socio-economic development? Anything goes! | Technische Universität Berlin, Germany |
| 10:45-11:15 | Coffee break | ||
| 11:15-11:45 | Joseph Heitman | PS3.3 RNAi-dependent epimutations evoke transient antifungal drug resistance | Duke University, USA |
| 11:45-12:15 | Meritxell Riquelme | PS3.4 Cellular sorting of chitin synthases in Neurospora crassa | Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Ensenada, Mexico |
| 12:15-12:45 | Chris Koon Ho Wong | PS3.5 Conidial transcription before dormancy matters | University of Macau, China |
