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On Friday 29th of November the autumn meeting of the section Mycology will be held at the Westerdijk Institute in Utrecht starting at 10.00. Coffee and cake will be there in advance when you register from 9.30 on. The program starts to take shape.

NB! The parking place of the Westerdijk/Hubrecht complex has restricted capacity. There is a large parking garage on short walking distance of the Westerdijk Institute. Parking. Parking for one day is 6 Euro’s

Lunch will be free! Registration helps us to estimate how many lunches we need to order. Please register by sending an email to: j.dijksterhuis [at] wi.knaw.nl

 

The meeting is entitled: “Fungal communication”

09.30 - 10.00   Arrival, coffee and registration at reception desk.

10.00 - 10.10   Jan Dijksterhuis (Westerdijk Institute, Utrecht): Introduction

10.10 - 10.50   Aaron Vogan (Uppsala University, Sweden): Horizontal gene transfer of giant transposons drives adaptation across fungi.

10.50 - 11.40   Uta Paszkowski (Cambridge University, UK): Molecular genetics of plant-fungal communication in arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis.

MICROPAUSE

11.50 - 12.20 Ákos Kovács (Leiden University): Understanding cross-kingdom interaction via adaptive evolution.

12.20 - 12.50 Viviane Cordovez (NIOO, Wageningen): Functional potential of plant-associated yeasts in controlling the mycotoxigenic pathogen Fusarium graminearum.

12.50 - 13.05 Victoria Terry (VU, Amsterdam): Title to be announced

13.05 - 14.00  Lunch

14.00 - 14.15 Erik Beijen (UU): Regulation of Fungal Immunity: Insights from the mushroom-forming fungus Schizophyllum commune.

14.15 - 14.30 Khyati Bhatt (Westerdijk Institute, Utrecht): Biofungal agents as a sustainable solution for Striga eradication.

14.30 - 14.45 Jisca van Dam (University of Leiden): A CRISPR/Cas9-based multicopy integration system for increased glucoamylase production in Aspergillus niger.

14.45 – 15.00 Dian Zheng (WUR, Wageningen): Engineering meiotic drive in Botrytis cinerea.

15.00 – 15.15 To be announced

15.15 - 15.40   Coffee

15.40 - 15.55  To be announced

15.55 - 16.10  Charissa de Bekker (UU): A possible PhD/postdoc day in the future?

16.10 - 16.55   Panel Discussion The wood-wide web; Facts and Fantasies with Susanne Gloërson (Fungi is future), Tineke van der Pouw (artist, scientist), Justine Karst (scientist), Magda Czyc (science communicator).

16.55 - 17.45   Borrel

 

Regards,

the section mycology team (Arthur, Charissa, Duur, George, Jan, Vasilis)