Fungal Ecology & Evolution

14 Mar 2018, 09:00 → 16 Mar 2018, 17:00 Europe/Berlin

Lecture Hall (MPI for Evolutionary Biology)

Eva Stukenbrock (MPI for Evolutionary Biology), Primrose Boynton (MPI for Evolutionary Biology)

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

 

Fungal_Workshop_Poster_new.pdf

Map_of_Ploen.pdf

Wednesday 14 March

Welcome

Session 1: Making Sense of Fungal Diversity/ Part 1

Aguilar-Trigueros_Abstract.pdf

Boddy_Fungus wars_abstract.pdf

Chaib_abstract.pdf

Rillig_abstract.pdf

RoyJulien_abstract.pdf

1 Fungus wars

Speaker: Lynne Boddy

2 Applying Allometric Theory to Fungi

Speaker: Carlos Aguilar-Trigueros

10:20 Coffe Break

3 A hierarchy of ecological filters acts at a hierarchy of phylogenetic scales in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

Speaker: Julien Roy

4 Soil fungal traits and soil aggregation

Speaker: Matthias Rillig

12:00 Lunch Break

Session 1: Making sense of fungal diversity/ Part 2

Aguilar-Trigueros_Abstract.pdf

Boddy_Fungus wars_abstract.pdf

Chaib_abstract.pdf

Rillig_abstract.pdf

RoyJulien_abstract.pdf

5 Host specificity of fungal communities in marine sponges

Speaker: Maryam Chaib de Mares

6 Discussion: Making sense of fungal diversity

14:20 Coffee Break

Session 2: Genomic insights into pathogenic fungi

Barroso_abstract.pdf

FineLicht_abstract.pdf

Gladieux_abstract.pdf

7 Evolutionary ecology of zombie-flies

Speaker: Henrik Hjarvard de Fine Licht

8 Fine-scale recombination map from a handful of unphased genomes

Speaker: Gustavo Barroso

16:00 Coffee Break

9 Emergence and spread of the multihost pathogen Pyricularia oryzae

Speaker: Pierre Gladieux

10 Discussion: genomic insights into pathogenic fungi

18:00 Dinner

Thursday 15 March

Session 3: Mycology with model organisms

Boynton_abstract.pdf

Haueisen_Abstract.pdf

Kohn_Abstract.pdf

Kollath_abstract.pdf

11 Auxin biosynthesis in the non-phytopathogenic ascomycete Neurospora crassa

Speaker: Krisztina Kolláth-Leiß

12 Lifestyle specialization of closely related fungal grass pathogens

Speaker: Janine Haueisen

10:10 Coffee Break

13 Selection on natural Saccharomyces paradoxus diversity in a seasonally changing environment

Speaker: Primrose Boynton

14 Discussion: Mycology with model organisms

12:00 Lunch Break

Session 4: Selection and Domestication

Bernardes_Abstract.pdf

Henk_abstract.pdf

Lo_Abstract.pdf

Ozkurt_abstract.pdf

15 Heterosis between and within yeast species

Speaker: Joana Bernardes

16 Adaptation of Penicillium fungi to dry cured meat

Speaker: Ying-Chu Lo

14:40 Coffee Break

17 Domestication-driven Metaorganism Evolution of Wheat

Speaker: Ezgi Özkurt

18 Discussion: selection and domestication

17:30 Prinzenhaus and Dinner

Friday 16 March

Session 5: Growth and life cycles

Alim_Abstract.pdf

Habig_Abstract.pdf

Iapichino_abstract.pdf

Pringle_Abstract.pdf

19 Negligible Senescence in a Graveyard: The demography of Xanthoparmelia Lichens

Speaker: Anne Pringle

20 A statistical study of the correlation between Basiomycota gills geometry and spore shape

Speaker: Martina Iapichino

21 Function or Drive – Why are the Accessory Chromosomes of Zymoseptoria tritici maintained?

Speaker: Michael Habig

10:30 Coffe Break

22 Long-ranged communication in slime moulds

Speaker: Karen Alim

23 Discussion: growth and life cycles