Name: Fungal Symposium 2019
Start: 2019-09-02T11:00:00+02:00
End: 2019-09-04T14:00:00+02:00
Location: MPI for Evolutionary Biology

Fungal Symposium 2019

from Monday 2 September 2019 (11:00) to Wednesday 4 September 2019 (14:00)

Monday 2 September 2019

14:00 Check-In and poster set up
Check-In and poster set up
14:00 - 14:30
Room: Lecture Hall
14:30 Opening - Lizel Potgieter Primrose Boynton
Opening
- Lizel Potgieter
- Primrose Boynton
14:30 - 14:40
Room: Lecture Hall
14:40 Fungi in changing environments
Fungi in changing environments
14:40 - 16:30
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

14:40 Rated R: Reproduction in rust fungi - Alistair McTaggart

15:30 Analyzing the effects of killer virus infection on host fitness in a wild population of Saccharomyces paradoxus - Rahul Unni

15:50 An overview on Monilinia pathogens the causal agent of brown rot disease of peach considering the pathogen populations from Turkey - Hilal Özkilinç

16:10 Natural yeast populations are stable through environmental changes - Primrose Boynton
16:30 Poster session 1
Poster session 1
16:30 - 18:00
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

16:30 Mt-GENOME WIDE G-QUADRUPLEX PREDICTION OF FOUR DIFFERENT PHYTOPATHOGENIC FUNGI - Muhammed Raşit Durak

16:35 Comparative analyses of compatible and incompatible host-pathogen interactions provide insight into host specialization of closely related pathogens - Janine Haueisen

16:40 Auxin biosynthesis of the ascomycete Neurospora crassa in the context of plant-fungus interaction - Krisztina Kollath-Leiss

16:45 Investigating the auxin biosynthesis pathway of Neurospora crassa using the CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing system - Tjorven Krause

16:50 Recent host tracking of the fungal pathogen Cercospora beticola during domestication of sugar beet, Beta vulgaris - Lizel Potgieter
18:00 Dinner
Dinner
18:00 - 20:00
Room: Lecture Hall
Tuesday 3 September 2019
08:45 Fungal life cycles and development
Fungal life cycles and development
08:45 - 10:45
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

08:45 Disentangling metabolic- and defense-control of cell death in plant root-fungal interactions - Alga Zuccaro

09:35 Mating Type Assays of Monilinia Pathogens in Turkey - Ece Silan

09:55 Unravelling the genetic mechanisms of unisexual reproduction in Huntiella moniliformis - Brenda Wingfield
10:45 Poster Session 2
Poster Session 2
10:45 - 12:30
Room: Lecture Hall

12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Lecture Hall
14:00 Genomics, genetics, and the secrets of Fungal evolution
Genomics, genetics, and the secrets of Fungal evolution
14:00 - 17:30
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

14:00 Diversity of smut fungi – from taxonomy to evolution - Dominik Begerow

14:50 Population genomics of the maize pathogen Ustilago maydis - Julien Dutheil

15:10 Connecting genomic signatures, nutritional strategies and function in mushroom forming fungi - Dimitrios Floudas

16:20 Histone modifications affect the mutation rate in a plant pathogenic fungus - Michael Habig

16:40 Panama disease strikes global banana production, again - Gert Kema
17:30 Walk around the lake Schöhsee
Walk around the lake Schöhsee
17:30 - 19:00
Room: Lecture Hall

19:00 Dinner
Dinner
19:00 - 20:30
Room: Lecture Hall
Wednesday 4 September 2019
09:00 Fungi and their diverse hosts
Fungi and their diverse hosts
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

09:00 Control of bidirectional nutrient transfer in the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis - Marcel Bucher

09:50 Tracking the associations of tree-pathogenic fungi and Scolytinae beetles across the United Kingdom - Angelina Ceballos-Escalera

10:10 Fatal attraction: Investigating housefly attraction towards conspecifics killed by the insect pathogenic fungus, Entomophthora muscae - Andreas Hansen
10:30 Closing - Lizel Potgieter Primrose Boynton
Closing
- Lizel Potgieter
- Primrose Boynton
10:30 - 10:50
Room: Lecture Hall

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