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supported by novozymes
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Chairs: Fabio Gsaller, Richard Todd
Location: SoWi University of Innsbruck, Aula
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Saturday, March 4 |
Registration and poster hang up, Poster and Welcome Reception (sponsored by Novozymes, A/S.) Chairs: Fabio Gsaller and Richard Todd |
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| 17:00 - 18:30 | Odd-numbered poster presenters | ||
| 18:30 - 20:00 | Even-numbered poster presenters | ||
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Sunday, March 5 |
Welcome, introductions and announcements |
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| 09:15 | Session I Chairs: Richard Todd and David Canovas |
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| Nada Kraševec | Aegerolysins – What Do We Already Know About Them? | National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia | |
| Eveline Snelders | The successful spread of azole-resistant Aspergillus fumigatus; sex, drugs and flying spores | Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands | |
| Isabelle Benoit Gelber | A metabologenomic approach for secondary metabolite production | Concordia University, Canada | |
| Amelia Barber | The genomics of virulence and drug resistance in Aspergillus fumigatus | Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany | |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Coffee Break | ||
| Session II Chairs: Gerhard Braus |
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| Margherita Bertuzzi | Antifungal potency of the airway epithelium in health and disease | University of Manchester, UK | |
| Fabio Gsaller | Advances in genetic engineering to boost research applications in Aspergillus | Medizinische Universität Innsbruck, Austria | |
| Flashtalks Chairs: Michelle Momany and Mike Bromley |
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| Eduardo Pelegri-Martinez | Insights into the Aspergillus fumigatus Afu4g10610 gene overexpressed during in vivo and in vitro infections | University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain | |
| Marcel Rüllke | Engineering of a reporter tool to quantify carbon catabolite repression in filamentous fungi in real-time | Technical University of Munich, Germany | |
| Olaf Kniemeyer | Analysis of the Aspergillus fumigatus proteomic response to amphotericin B (AmB) reveals involvement of a putative flippase in resistance | Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology (HKI), Germany | |
| Johanna Rhodes | Global spatial and temporal analysis of Aspergillus fumigatus reveals insights into evolution of drug resistance | Radboudumc, The Netherlands | |
| Harry Chown | Pangenomic analysis of Aspergillus fumigatus reveals putative heterokaryon incompatibility loci | University of Manchester, UK | |
| Thomas Orasch | NADPH oxidase-dependent antifungal activity of extracellular vesicles of macrophages against Aspergillus fumigatus | Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology (HKI), Germany | |
| Dujuan Liu | Transcriptome analysis of Penicillium subrubescens xlnR and araR mutants | Westerdijk Fungal Diversity Institute, The Netherlands | |
| Ben Auxier | Nonself recognition modules in Aspergillus fumigatus are shared across Aspergilli | Wageningen University, The Netherlands | |
| Harrison Thorn | The Aspergillus fumigatus Septation Initiation Network regulator, MobA, is essential for septation, survival under echinocandin stress, and virulence | University of Tennessee Health Science Center, USA | |
| 12:25 - 12:45 |
Eve Basenko, FungiDB update |
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| 12:45 - 14:00 | Lunch Break | ||
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Session III - Talks from Abstracts |
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| Valeria Ellena | Generation and evaluation of Aspergillus-specific DNA aptamers to improve diagnosis of aspergillosis | Austrian Center of Industrial Biotechnology (ACIB) Gmbh/TU Wien, Austria | |
| Stephan Starke | The antimicrobial peptide AnAFP acts as mediator of autophagy in A. niger | Technische Universität Berlin, Germany | |
| Shunya Susukida | Oxygen mass transfer effects on recombinant protein production by the hyphal dispersed Aspergillus oryzae mutant in the lab-scale fermentation | Tohoku University, Japan | |
| Weng In Chong | Screening A. nidulans mutants for the ability to germinate in water | University Of Macau, Macau SAR, China | |
| Susanne Fritsche | A novel holotomographic live cell imaging method to study cellular processes in fungi | Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (ACIB), Austria | |
| Uxue Perez-Cuesta | A gene involved in the development of Aspergillus fumigatus could be the missing fungal granulin | University of the Basque Country, Spain | |
| Timothy Cairns | Harnessing coexpression network data and synthetic biology to metabolically engineer Aspergillus niger | Technische Universität Berlin, Germany | |
| 15:45 - 16:15 | Coffee Break | ||
| 16:15 |
Pontecorvo Lecture |
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| István Pócsi |
Omics-based Aspergillus stress biology |
University of Debrecen, Hungary | |
| 17:00 | Election results, Novozymes student poster prizes, other discussion items | ||
| 17:30 | Dismiss | ||
