Sunday, March 23

12.00-18.00    Registration

18.00-20.00    Welcome address (Lecture Hall Velázquez)

                     Opening Lecture

                     Chair: Miguel A. Peñalva

                     KL1 GAMMA-Tubulin: A multitasking cell organizer

                     Berl Oakley

20.00-22.00    Welcome reception

Monday, March 24

09.00-12.00    The Yanofsky plenary session (Lecture Hall Velázquez)

                     Chairs: Arthur Ram and Marc-Henri Lebrun

09.00-09.30    PS1.1 Gene silencing, heterochromatin formation and DNA methylation
                     in Neurospora

Eric Selker

09.30-10.00    PS1.2 Early endosome motility spatially organizes polysome distribution

                     Gero Steinberg

10.00-10.30    PS1.3 HookA is a novel dynein-early endosome linker critical for endosome
                     movement in vivo

Xin Xiang

10.30-11.00    Break

11.00-11.30    PS1.4 Photobiology in model and clinical fungi

                     Jennifer Loros

11.30-12.00    PS1.5 Light and time in Aspergillus nidulans

                     Reinhard Fischer

12.30-14.00    Lunch

14.00-16.00    Poster session 1 (Manolo “Caracol” Hall)

16.00-19.00    Concurrent sessions 1-3

                     Unconventional gene regulation (Lecture Hall Velázquez)

                     Chairs: Rosa Ruiz-Vázquez and Joseph Strauss

16.00-16.20    CS1.1 Histone de-methylases regulate primary and secondary metabolism
                             in Aspergillus nidulans

                     Joseph Strauss

16.20-16.40    CS1.2 Regulatory networks and regulators of chromatin structure governing global
                            responses to changes in light and time

                     Jay Dunlap

16.40-17.00    CS1.3 Heterochromatin controls gH2A localization and genome stability in Neurospora crassa

                     Zacharias Lewis

17.00-17.20    CS1.4 The functional characterization of the Neurospora crassa HAC-1 transcription factor
                            reveals a crucial role for the unfolded protein response in plant cell wall deconstruction

                     Luis Larrondo

17.20-17.40    Break

17.40-18.00    CS1.5 Regulation of endogenous functions by small RNAs in the pathogenic fungus
                            Mucor circinelloides

                     Rosa Ruiz-Vázquez

18.00-18.20    CS1.6 Mechanisms of small non-coding RNA pathways in Neurospora

                     Yi Liu

18.20-18.40    CS1.7 RNAi-dependent epimutations evoke antifungal drug resistance in the
                             zygomycete fungal pathogen Mucor

                     Silvia Calo Varela

18.40-19.00    CS1.8 Spliceosomal twin introns in fungal nuclear transcripts: structure and evolution

                     Michel Flipphi

                     Fungal development (Lecture Hall Aleixandre)

                     Chairs: Minou Nowrousian and Eduardo Espeso

16.00-16.20    CS2.1 Comparative genomics and transcriptomics to analyze fruiting body   
                      development

                     Minou Nowrousian

16.20-16.40    CS2.2 Tracking the evolution of perithecium morphology through transcriptomics

                     Frances Trail

16.40-17.00    CS2.3 Sexual development and female fertility in Trichoderma reesei

                     Monika Schmoll

17.00-17.20    CS2.4 A retinoic-acid biosynthetic enzyme involved in morphology and sexual
                             development in Fusarium verticillioides

                     Violeta Díaz Sanchez

17.20-17.40    Break

17.40-18.00    CS2.5 Deciphering the role of the Flb-apical complex in asexual development of       
                             Aspergillus

                     Eduardo Espeso

18.00-18.20    CS2.6 Regulation of morphogenesis during development in the filamentous  
                     fungus Aspergillus nidulans

                     Steven Harris

18.20-18.40    CS2.7 Investigating the role of the exocyst complex in appressorium-mediated
                             tissue invasion by rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

                     Yogesh Gupta

18.40-19.00    CS2.8 Light-responsive transcription factors (LTFs) regulate differentiation and
                             virulence in the gray mold fungus Botrytis cinerea

                     Julia Schumacher

                     Social fungal biology (Lecture Hall Turina)

                     Chairs: Natalia Requena and Barry Scott

16.00-16.20    CS3.1 Defining the line between mutualism and parasitism

                     Natalia Requena

16.20-16.40    CS3.2 Dld1, a novel fungal histidine-rich effector-protein that binds to metal ions
                             to perturb plant immunity

                     Alga Zuccaro

16.40-17.00    CS3.3 The effector protein Missp7 of the mutualistic ectomycorrhizal fungus
                     Laccaria bicolor interacts with Populus Jaz proteins

                     Claire Veneault-Fourrey

17.00-17.20    CS3.4 Trojan horse strategy and fair trade among symbioses: how one fungal species
                             can
invade thousands of plant species

                     Mathilde Malbreil

17.20-17.40    Break

17.40-18.00    CS3.5 Cell fusion is required to maintain an Epichloë festucae symbiotic hyphal
                             network in Lolium perenne

                     Barry Scott

18.00-18.20    CS3.6 Genomic analyses of Mortierella elongata and associated bacterial
                             endosymbiont
 (Candidatus glomeribacter sp.)

                     Jessie Uehling

18.20-18.40    CS3.7 Verticillium transcription activator of adhesion Vta2 suppresses microsclerotia
                             formation and is required for systemic infection of plant roots

                     Susanna A. Braus-Stromeyer

18.40-19.00    CS3.8 Phylogenomics of Hypocreales and the evolution of secondary metabolism

                     Joseph W Spatafora

19.00-20.00    Special lecture (Lecture Hall Velázquez)

                     Chair: Reyes González-Roncero

                     KL2 Chromatin structure as a mediator of transcription- and R-loop-associated genome
                            instability

Andrés Aguilera

 

Tuesday, March 25

 

09.00-12.30    The Clutterbuck plenary session (Lecture Hall Velázquez)

                     Chairs: David Archer and Gillian Turgeon

09-00-09.30    PS2.1 The initiation of asexual development in Aspergillus nidulans

                     Unai Ugalde

09.30-10.00    PS2.2 Aspergillus nidulans septins in multicellular development

                     Michelle Momany

10.00-10.30    PS2.3 Morphological and metabolic adaptation to environmental conditions by
                     Penicillium marneffei and its role in the host

                     Alex Andrianopoulous

10.30-11.00    Break

11.00-11.30    PS2.4 Evolution of sexual reproduction: a view from the fungal kingdom

                     Joseph Heitman (dedicated to the memory of Prof. Lorna Casselton)

11.30-12.00    PS2.5 Fruiting-body development in Sordaria macrospora-A matter of recycling

                     Stefanie Pöggeler

12.30-14.00    Lunch

14.00-17.00    Concurrent sessions 4-6

                     Infecting the host (Lecture Hall Velázquez)

                     Chairs: Regine Kahmann and Antonio Di Pietro

14.00-14.20    CS4.1 A secreted Ustilago maydis effector promotes virulence by targeting anthocyanin
                     biosynthesis in maize

                     Shigeyuki Tanaka

14.20-14.40    CS4.2 Effector specialization in a lineage of the Irish potato famine pathogen

                     Sophien Kamoun

14.40-15.00    CS4.3 Hotspots of recombination shape the evolution of virulence in the wheat
                     pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici

                     Daniel Croll

15.00-15.20    CS4.4 Characterization of a circadian clock in Botrytis cinerea and its role in
                            pathogenesis using Arabidopsis thaliana as a plant model

                     Montserrat Hevia

15.20-15.40    Break

17.40-16.00    CS4.5 Chemotropic sensing in the fungal pathogen Fusarium oxysporum

                     David Turrà

16.00-16.20    CS4.6 Modulation of pathogenicity by pH regulation in the host

                     Dov Prusky

16.20-16.40    CS4.7 Investigating the role of tyrosine catabolism and pyomelanin production during
                             in vivo growth in the human pathogen Penicillium marneffei

                     Kylie Boyce

16.40-17.00    CS4.8 Pathogenicity chromosomes in host-specific toxin-producing Alternaria species

                     Motoichiro Kodama

                     Sensing the environment (Lecture Hall Aleixandre)

                     Chairs: Alfredo Herrera-Estrella and Michael Brunner

14.00-14.20    CS5.1 An injury response mechanism conserved across kingdoms

                     Alfredo Herrera-Estrella

14.20-14.40    CS5.2 Interplay between self and nonself recognition mechanisms regulate chemotropic
                            interactions and cell fusion in Neurospora crassa

                     N. Louise Glass

14.40-15.00    CS5.3 Class III peroxidases secreted by tomato roots trigger hyphal chemotropism in
                             Fusarium oxysporum

                     Mennat El Ghalid

15.00-15.20    CS5.4 Composition of the MAK-2 MAP kinase cascade in Neurospora crassa

                     Stephan Seiler

15.20-15.40    Break

15.40-16.00    CS5.5 Cooperation of the GATA type transcription factors WCC and SUB1 in light-induced
                             transcription

                     Michael Brunner

16.00-16.20    CS5.6 Light sensing in Phycomyces blakesleeanus

                     Alex Idnurm

16.20-16.40    CS5.7 The novel sensor-globin Fungoglobin is involved in low oxygen adaptation of
                             Aspergillus fumigatus

                     Falk Hillmann

16.40-17.00    CS5.8 Genome-wide transcriptional response to ambient pH changes in Fusarium
                             graminearum: A large metabolic reorganization controlled by Pac1

                     Christian Barreau

                     Putting fungi to work (Lecture Hall Turina)

                     Chairs: José Arnau and Peter Punt

14.00-14.20    CS6.1 Systems biology approaches for organic acid production in filamentous fungi

                     Peter Punt

14.20-14.40    CS6.2 Genetic characterization of itaconic acid biosynthesis in Ustilago maydis

                     Sandra Przybilla

14.40-15.00    CS6.3 Cellulase and hemicellulase regulation and production in Trichoderma reesei

                     Bernard Seiboth

15.00-15.20    CS6.4 The responses of Aspergillus niger to different lignocellulosic substrate

                     Paul Daly

15.20-15.40    Break

15.40-16.00    CS6.5 The first ribosomal peptide synthase pathway in filamentous fungi

                     Myco Umemura

16.00-16.20    CS6.6 Comparative genome-scale reconstruction of gapless metabolic networks

                     Mikko Arvas

16.20-16.40    CS6.7 Yarrowia lipolytica as a host for carotenoid production

                     John Royer

16.40-17.00    CS6.8 Streptomyces: the beauty of a filamentous industrial bacterium

                     Gilles van Wezel

17.00-20.30    Sightseeing tour

 

Wednesday, March 26

09.00-12.30    The Scazzocchio plenary session (Lecture Hall Velázquez)

                     Chairs: Paul Tudzynski and Merja Penttilä

09.00-09.30    PS3.1 Sensory perception in the mammalian host: Guiding invasive growth and
                            rational therapeutic design

                     Elaine Bignell. The BMS lecture.

09.30-10.00    PS3.2 Transposable elements reshaping genomes and favoring the evolutionary
                             and adaptive potential of fungal phytopathogens

                     Thierry Rouxel

10.00-10.30    PS3.3 Septin-mediated plant tissue invasion by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

                     Nick Talbot. The EMBO Lecture.

10.30-11.00    Break

11.00-11.30    PS3.4 Genomic analysis in the search for oxidoreductases of industrial interest

                     Ángel Martínez

11.30-12.00    PS3.5 The evolution of fungal chemodiversity

                     Antonis Rokas. The FGB Lecture.

12.00-12.15    PS3.6 Fungal genomics resources of the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute

                     Igor Grigoriev

12.30-14.00    Lunch

14.00-16.00    Poster session 2 (Manolo “Caracol” Hall)

16.00-19.00    Concurrent sessions 7-9

                     Inside the fungal cell (Lecture Hall Velázquez)

                     Chairs: Meritxell Riquelme and Steve Osmani

16.00-16.20    CS7.1 The ordered accumulation of vesicles at the spitzenkörper is regulated by
                     the action of distinct RAB GTPases and the exocyst in Neurospora crassa

                     Meritxell Riquelme

16.20-16.40    CS7.2 Phosphatidylinositol phosphate gradients during fungal filamentous growth

                     Robert Arkowitz

16.40-17.00    CS7.3 Dual targeting of peroxisomal proteins

                     Michael Bölker

17.00-17.20    CS7.4 Inside an A. gossypii hypha: combining high-resolution electron tomography,
                      video microscopy and proteomics

                     Peter Philippsen

17.20-17.40    Break

17.40-18.00    CS7.5 Mitotic regulation within a multicellular fungus

                     Steve Osmani

18.00-18.20    CS7.6 Autophagy controls nuclear dynamics during vegetative hyphal growth and
                             fusion of Fusarium oxysporum

                     Carmen Ruiz Roldán

18.20-18.40    CS7.7 Interplay of phosphatases and kinases: STRIPAK and MAP kinases regulate
                             cell differentiation in Sordaria macrospora

                     Ines Teichert

18.40-19.00    CS7.8 Cisternal maturation within the Aspergillus nidulans golgi visualized in vivo

                     Areti Pantazopoulou

                     Fungal genomes: now what? (Lecture Hall Aleixandre)

                     Sponsored by Pacific Biosciences

                     Chairs: Hanna Johannesson and Toni Gabaldón

16.00-16.20    CS8.1 Adaptive introgression slows down molecular degeneration of the mating- type
                     chromosome in Neurospora tetrasperma

                     Hanna Johannesson

16.20-16.40    CS8.2 Data-driven comparative functional genomics in yeast

                     Maitreya J. Dunham

16.40-17.00    CS8.3 Insights into the evolution of the mycorrhizal symbiosis

                     Francis Martin

17.00-17.20    CS8.4 The genomic architecture of ectomycorrhizal symbiosis in the genus Amanita

                     Jaqueline Hess

17.20-17.40    Break

17.40-18.00    CS8.5 Got a genome? Get a phylome!: Fungi through the evolutionary lens

                     Toni Gabaldón

18.00-18.20    CS8.6 Early origins of the fungal cell wall and multicellularity in fungi

                     Jason E Stajich

18.20-18.40    CS8.7 Combining population genomics, RNA-seq and miniature transposable element
                            (MITE) presence to identify the AVR2 gene of the melon pathogenic fungus
                             Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. melonis

                     Sarah M. Schmidt

18.40-19.00    CS8.8 Insights on the evolution of mycoparasitism from the genome of Clonostachys rosea

                     Magnus Karlsson

                     DNA/RNA/protein interplay (Lecture Hall Turina)

                     Chairs: Ane Sesma and Michael Feldbrügge

16.00-16.20    CS9.1 Multiple layers of regulation of fungal cleavage factor I proteins

                     Ane Sesma

16.20-16.40    CS9.2 The FgPRP4 kinase is important for RNA processing, growth, and pathogenesis
                            in Fusarium graminearum

                     Jin-Rong Xu

16.40-17.00    CS9.3 Epigenetic control of effector gene expression in the plant pathogenic fungus
                     Leptosphaeria maculans

                     Isabelle Fudal

17.00-17.20    CS9.4 Regulatory crosslinks of the unfolded protein response control fungal development
                     and pathogenicity

                     Kai Heimel

17.20-17.40    Break

17.40-18.00    CS9.5 mRNA transport meets membrane trafficking

                     Michael Feldbrügge

18.00-18.20    CS9.6 The coordination of mRNA degradation and translational repression

                     Mark Caddick

18.20-18.40  CS9.7 The spf27-homologue num1 connects splicing and cytoplasmic trafficking processes
                             in Ustilago maydis

                     Jörg Kämper

18.40-19.00    CS9.8 Laser microdissection and transcriptomics of infection cushion development of
                     Fusarium graminearum

                     Schäfer Willi

19.00-19.30    Poster awards

19.30-20.30    Closing lecture (Lecture Hall Velázquez)

                     Chair: Santiago Torres-Martínez

                     KL3 Life and sex in the lab and in the field

                     Enrique Cerdá-Olmedo

21.00             Conference banquet