Sunday, March 5
opening lecture
Chair: Miguel Penalva (Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, CSIC, Madrid, Spain), Karl Kuchler (Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Department of Medical Biochemistry, Medical University Vienna, Austria)
Location: Congress Innsbruck
Time: 20:00 - 21:00
| Opening Lecture | Frank Madeo | Institute of Molecular Biosciences, University of Graz, Austria |
Monday, March 6
plenary session 1 - fungal interactions
supported by ORTNER
Chairs: Hubertus Haas (Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria), Gerhard Braus (Center for Molecular Biosciences, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany)
Location: Congress Innsbruck
Time: 09:00 - 12:45
| Key Note 1 | Alga Zuccaro | University of Cologne, Institute for Plant Sciences, Germany |
| PS1.1 | Teresa Pawlowska | School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, USA |
| PS1.2 | Armin Djamei | Department of Plant Pathology, Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation (INRES), University of Bonn, Germany |
| PS1.3 | Chengshu Wang | CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences/ Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
| PS1.4 | Karl Kuchler | Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Department of Medical Biochemistry, Medical University Vienna, Austria |
| PS1.5 | Christine Beemelmanns | Medizinische Fakultät der Universität des Saarlandes Helmholtz-Institut für Pharmazeutische Forschung Saarland (HIPS), Germany |
Tuesday, March 7
Plenary session 2 - Genomics, Evolution & Biodiversity
supported by BISY
Chairs: Irina Druzhinina (Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, London, UK), Scott Baker (DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute and Functional and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
Location: Congress Innsbruck
Time: 09:00 - 12:45
| Key Note 2 | Eva Stukenbrock | Christian-Albrechts University Kiel, Environmental Genomics Group, Germany |
| PS2.1 | Matthew Fisher | MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Imperial College School of Public Health, London, UK |
| PS2.2 | Ronald de Vries | Fungal Physiology, Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute & Fungal Molecular Physiology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands |
| PS2.3 | Fabienne Malagnac | Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell, Université Paris Saclay, France |
| PS2.4 | Toni Gabaldon | Barcelona Supercomputing Centre and Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Spain |
| PS2.5 | Nina Gunde-Cimerman | Department of Biology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia |
Wednesday, March 8
Plenary session 3 - Metabolism & Development
supported by Fungal Biology and Biotechnology (Springer Nature)
Chairs: Joseph Strauss (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Austria), David Canovas (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain)
Location: Congress Innsbruck
Time: 09:00 - 12:45
| The EMBO Keynote Lecture | George Diallinas | Department of Biology National and Kapodistrian University of Athens , Greece; Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation for Research and Technology, Heraklion, Greece |
| PS3.1 | Özgür Bayram | Chromatin-controlled regulation of fungal development and mycotoxin biosynthesis |
| PS3.2 | Vera Meyer | Institute of Biotechnology, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany |
| PS3.3 | Joseph Heitman | Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University, USA |
| PS3.4 | Meritxell Riquelme | Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada CICESE, Ensenada, Mexico |
| PS3.5 | Chris Koon Ho Wong | Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, China |
