Fungal Ecology & Evolution

Europe/Berlin
Lecture Hall (MPI for Evolutionary Biology)

Lecture Hall

MPI for Evolutionary Biology

August-Thienemann-Str. 2 24306 Plön
Eva Stukenbrock (MPI for Evolutionary Biology) , Primrose Boynton (MPI for Evolutionary Biology)
Description

Fungal taxonomic and ecological diversities make the fungal kingdom an ideal group in which to study both ecological interactions and evolutionary processes, and researchers study a wide variety of evolutionary model systems in the fungal kingdom. With the 2018 Fungal Evolution Symposium, we aim to cover this breadth of diversity and expose the community inside and outside of Plön to research bringing fungal evolution and ecology together. We intend to include presentations on relationships between fungal populations and geographic space, the evolution of biotic interactions between fungal symbionts and hosts, the evolution of fungal genomes in response to environmental changes, interactions between biotic and abiotic selection pressures on fungal populations and a variety of other topics in fungal ecology and evolution. Participants will benefit from formal talks and informal conversations with international fungal evolution researchers.

Confirmed speakers are:

  • Anne Pringle (University of Wisconsin-Madison),
  • Henrik de Fine Licht (University of Copenhagen),
  • Lynne Boddy (Cardiff School of Biosciences),
  • Karen Alim (MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen),
  • Matthias Rillig (FU Berlin)
  • Pierre Gladieux (INRA, Montpellier)
  • Linda Kohn (University of Toronto)

For more information about the speakers please go to http://www.evolbio.mpg.de/3186317/speakers

 

Participants
  • Alice Feurtey
  • Amine Hassani
  • Anne Pringle
  • Carlos Aguilar-Trigueros
  • Chaitanya Gokhale
  • Christoph Jakob Eschenbrenner
  • Corinn Small
  • Diana Andrade
  • Eva Stukenbrock
  • Ezgi Özkurt
  • Gustavo Barroso
  • Heike Seybold
  • Henrik H. de Fine Licht
  • Janine Haueisen
  • Joana P. Bernardes
  • Julian Koch
  • Julien Roy
  • Karen Alim
  • Khawla Abualia
  • Krisztina Kolláth-Leiß
  • Lizel Potgieter
  • Lynne Boddy
  • Mareike Möller
  • Martina Iapichino
  • Maryam Chaib De Mares
  • Matthias Rillig
  • Michael Habig
  • Mira Wilkens
  • Pierre Gladieux
  • Pradeep Phule
  • Primrose Boynton
  • Qin Yang
  • Ricardo Arraiano Castilho
  • Stefanie Vink
  • Ying-Chu LO
    • 09:00 09:10
      Welcome Lecture Hall

      Lecture Hall

      MPI for Evolutionary Biology

      August-Thienemann-Str. 2 24306 Plön
    • 09:10 12:00
      Session 1: Making Sense of Fungal Diversity/ Part 1 Lecture Hall

      Lecture Hall

      MPI for Evolutionary Biology

      August-Thienemann-Str. 2 24306 Plön
      • 09:10
        Fungus wars 50m
        Speaker: Lynne Boddy
      • 10:00
        Applying Allometric Theory to Fungi 20m
        Speaker: Carlos Aguilar-Trigueros
      • 10:20
        Coffe Break 30m
      • 10:50
        A hierarchy of ecological filters acts at a hierarchy of phylogenetic scales in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi 20m
        Speaker: Julien Roy
      • 11:10
        Soil fungal traits and soil aggregation 50m
        Speaker: Matthias Rillig
    • 12:00 13:30
      Lunch Break 1h 30m Cafeteria

      Cafeteria

    • 13:30 14:20
      Session 1: Making sense of fungal diversity/ Part 2 Lecture Hall

      Lecture Hall

      MPI for Evolutionary Biology

      August-Thienemann-Str. 2 24306 Plön
      • 13:30
        Host specificity of fungal communities in marine sponges 20m
        Speaker: Maryam Chaib de Mares
      • 13:50
        Discussion: Making sense of fungal diversity 30m
    • 14:20 14:50
      Coffee Break 30m Lecture Hall

      Lecture Hall

      MPI for Evolutionary Biology

      August-Thienemann-Str. 2 24306 Plön
    • 14:50 18:00
      Session 2: Genomic insights into pathogenic fungi Lecture Hall

      Lecture Hall

      MPI for Evolutionary Biology

      August-Thienemann-Str. 2 24306 Plön
      • 14:50
        Evolutionary ecology of zombie-flies 50m
        Speaker: Henrik Hjarvard de Fine Licht
      • 15:40
        Fine-scale recombination map from a handful of unphased genomes 20m
        Speaker: Gustavo Barroso
      • 16:00
        Coffee Break 30m
      • 16:30
        Emergence and spread of the multihost pathogen Pyricularia oryzae 50m
        Speaker: Pierre Gladieux
      • 17:20
        Discussion: genomic insights into pathogenic fungi 30m
    • 18:00 19:00
      Dinner 1h Cafeteria

      Cafeteria

    • 09:30 12:00
      Session 3: Mycology with model organisms Lecture Hall

      Lecture Hall

      MPI for Evolutionary Biology

      August-Thienemann-Str. 2 24306 Plön
      • 09:30
        Auxin biosynthesis in the non-phytopathogenic ascomycete Neurospora crassa 20m
        Speaker: Krisztina Kolláth-Leiß
      • 09:50
        Lifestyle specialization of closely related fungal grass pathogens 20m
        Speaker: Janine Haueisen
      • 10:10
        Coffee Break 30m
      • 10:40
        Selection on natural Saccharomyces paradoxus diversity in a seasonally changing environment 50m
        Speaker: Primrose Boynton
      • 11:30
        Discussion: Mycology with model organisms 30m
    • 12:00 13:30
      Lunch Break 1h 30m Cafeteria (MPI)

      Cafeteria

      MPI

    • 13:30 16:00
      Session 4: Selection and Domestication Lecture Hall

      Lecture Hall

      MPI for Evolutionary Biology

      August-Thienemann-Str. 2 24306 Plön
      • 13:30
        Heterosis between and within yeast species 50m
        Speaker: Joana Bernardes
      • 14:20
        Adaptation of Penicillium fungi to dry cured meat 20m
        Speaker: Ying-Chu Lo
      • 14:40
        Coffee Break 30m
      • 15:10
        Domestication-driven Metaorganism Evolution of Wheat 20m
        Speaker: Ezgi Özkurt
      • 15:30
        Discussion: selection and domestication 30m
    • 17:30 21:30
      Prinzenhaus and Dinner 4h Plön downtown

      Plön downtown

    • 09:00 12:20
      Session 5: Growth and life cycles Lecture Hall

      Lecture Hall

      MPI for Evolutionary Biology

      August-Thienemann-Str. 2 24306 Plön
      • 09:00
        Negligible Senescence in a Graveyard: The demography of Xanthoparmelia Lichens 50m
        Speaker: Anne Pringle
      • 09:50
        A statistical study of the correlation between Basiomycota gills geometry and spore shape 20m
        Speaker: Martina Iapichino
      • 10:10
        Function or Drive – Why are the Accessory Chromosomes of Zymoseptoria tritici maintained? 20m
        Speaker: Michael Habig
      • 10:30
        Coffe Break 30m
      • 11:00
        Long-ranged communication in slime moulds 50m
        Speaker: Karen Alim
      • 11:50
        Discussion: growth and life cycles 30m