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Fungal Symposium 2019

2-4 September 2019
MPI for Evolutionary Biology
Europe/Berlin timezone

Contribution List

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1. Opening
Lizel Potgieter, Primrose Boynton
02/09/2019, 14:30
2. Rated R: Reproduction in rust fungi
Alistair McTaggart
02/09/2019, 14:40
3. Analyzing the effects of killer virus infection on host fitness in a wild population of Saccharomyces paradoxus
Rahul Unni
02/09/2019, 15:30
4. An overview on Monilinia pathogens the causal agent of brown rot disease of peach considering the pathogen populations from Turkey
Hilal Özkilinç
02/09/2019, 15:50
5. Natural yeast populations are stable through environmental changes
Primrose Boynton
02/09/2019, 16:10
23. Auxin biosynthesis of the ascomycete Neurospora crassa in the context of plant-fungus interaction
Krisztina Kollath-Leiss
02/09/2019, 16:30

Auxin biosynthesis of the ascomycete Neurospora crassa in the context of plant-fungus interaction Production of the plant phytohormone auxin has been reported in several phytopathogenic fungi (Jameson, 2000; Tsavkelova et al., 2012). In those cases, auxin is considered a regulator of the plant-fungus interaction. Surprisingly, several non- phytopathogenic fungi are also able to produce auxin...
22. Comparative analyses of compatible and incompatible host-pathogen interactions provide insight into host specialization of closely related pathogens
Janine Haueisen
02/09/2019, 16:30

Emerging pathogens need to adapt swiftly to exploit new hosts for growth and reproduction. Host shifts can be facilitated by adaptive changes in gene expression landscapes. In order to identify transcriptional patterns related to divergent host specialization in specialized fungal plant pathogens, we compared the development and expression profiles of the wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici...
24. Investigating the auxin biosynthesis pathway of Neurospora crassa using the CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing system
Tjorven Krause
02/09/2019, 16:30

In contrast to the situation in plants, the role auxin, especially indole-3 acetic acid (IAA), plays in fungi remains mostly unclear. The evolutionary context, under which the auxin synthesis pathway in non-plant associated fungi was retained, is thus not completely resolved, though evidence indicates a role in intercellular and interspecies communication, with a putative impact on the ecology...
21. Mt-GENOME WIDE G-QUADRUPLEX PREDICTION OF FOUR DIFFERENT PHYTOPATHOGENIC FUNGI
Muhammed Raşit Durak
02/09/2019, 16:30

Mt-GENOME WIDE G-QUADRUPLEX PREDICTION OF FOUR DIFFERENT PHYTOPATHOGENIC FUNGI Kubra ARSLAN, Muhammed Rasit DURAK, Hilal OZKILINC Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Art and Sciences, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Canakkale: Corresponding Author: hilalozkilinc@comu.edu.tr Four stranded non-canonical structures called G-quadruplexes have been correlated with various...
25. Recent host tracking of the fungal pathogen Cercospora beticola during domestication of sugar beet, Beta vulgaris
Lizel Potgieter
02/09/2019, 16:30

Lizel Potgieter 1,2, Alice Feurtey1,2, Ronnie de Jonge3, Mark Varrelmann4, Mark McMullan5, Melvin Bolton6, Eva H. Stukenbrock 1,2 1. Environmental Genomics, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany 2. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany 3. Plant-Microbe Interactions, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands 4. Institut für Zuckerrübenforschung an der Universität Göttingen,...
12. Disentangling metabolic- and defense-control of cell death in plant root-fungal interactions
Alga Zuccaro
03/09/2019, 08:45
13. Mating Type Assays of Monilinia Pathogens in Turkey
Ece Silan
03/09/2019, 09:35
14. Unravelling the genetic mechanisms of unisexual reproduction in Huntiella moniliformis
Brenda Wingfield
03/09/2019, 09:55
7. Diversity of smut fungi – from taxonomy to evolution
Dominik Begerow
03/09/2019, 14:00
8. Population genomics of the maize pathogen Ustilago maydis
Julien Dutheil
03/09/2019, 14:50
9. Connecting genomic signatures, nutritional strategies and function in mushroom forming fungi
Dimitrios Floudas
03/09/2019, 15:10
10. Histone modifications affect the mutation rate in a plant pathogenic fungus
Michael Habig
03/09/2019, 16:20
11. Panama disease strikes global banana production, again
Gert Kema
03/09/2019, 16:40

Banana is a major staple food, a primary fruit crop in many domestic markets and a commodity supplying global retail stores. However, global inputs in research and development are minimal and the number of banana improvement programs is negligible compared to other crops. To complicate matters, many issues in banana production are complex and require multidisciplinary approaches....
16. Control of bidirectional nutrient transfer in the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis
Marcel Bucher
04/09/2019, 09:00
17. Tracking the associations of tree-pathogenic fungi and Scolytinae beetles across the United Kingdom
Angelina Ceballos-Escalera
04/09/2019, 09:50
18. Fatal attraction: Investigating housefly attraction towards conspecifics killed by the insect pathogenic fungus, Entomophthora muscae
Andreas Hansen
04/09/2019, 10:10

The insect-pathogenic fungus, Entomophthora muscae, is a host-specific pathogen that infects and kills houseflies
(Musca domestica). Curiously, E. muscae induces behavioral changes in infected individuals before host
death. The flies are manipulated to seek an elevated position, spread their wings in an up-right position and
protrude their abdomen. Within hours, fungal sporulation begins. The...
20. Closing
Lizel Potgieter, Primrose Boynton
04/09/2019, 10:30
27. Evolutionary and molecular basis of speciation in fungal plant pathogens: insights from Zymoseptoria pathosystems
Wagner C. Fagundes

Host-driven mutations are considered the strongest driver of pathogen evolution since successful infection,
colonization and completion of life cycle are crucial for plant pathogens. Host range is determined by a variety
of extrinsic and intrinsic factors like environment and host defense mechanisms that impact the incidence
and outcome of host infections. To facilitate host specialization,...
19. Panama disease strikes global banana production, again
Gert Kema

Banana is a major staple food, a primary fruit crop in many domestic markets and a commodity supplying global retail stores. However, global inputs in research and development are minimal and the number of banana improvement programs is negligible compared to other crops. To complicate matters, many issues in banana production are complex and require multidisciplinary approaches....
6. Poster Session 1
15. Posters
28. Regulation of Transposable elements in the wheat fungal pathogen ZYMOSEPTORIA TRITICI
Cécile Lorrain

In fungal genomes, transposable elements (TEs) are thought to be key drivers of variability among populations
in response to environmental stress. TEs proliferation could be either deleterious or beneficial depending
on their insertion sites, or neutral if they insert in non-coding nor regulatory regions. The recent PacBio
re-sequencing of several isolates of wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria...
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