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Announcements
Future Events
17 Sep 2019 – 19 Sep 2019
Fungal Interactions Research
Aberdeen Exhibition & Conference Centre
BMS Annual Scientific Meeting 2019
Fungal Interactions
Aberdeen, 17-19 September 2019
The Event Complex Aberdeen (TECA)
East Burn Road, Stoneywood, ABERDEEN, AB21 9FX
The BMS Annual Scientific Meeting for 2019
Theme: Fungal Interactions
Date: 17th - 19th September 2019
Location: The Event Complex Aberdeen (TECA)
Address: East Burn Road, Stoneywood, ABERDEEN, AB21 9FXThe British Mycological Society, with the help of the Microbiology Society, would like to welcome you to the BMS Annual Scientific meeting, to be held in the new Aberdeen Exhibition Conference Centre situated conveniently nearby Aberdeen Airport on 17th -19th September 2019.
The central theme of the meeting will be Fungal Interactions.
These interactions include with plants, algae, fungi, humans, other animals, and the wider environment.
The meeting will have six main sessions presenting the latest state of the art research concerning;
1. Oomycetes 2. Chytridiomycetes
3. Zygomycetes 4. Ascomycetes
5. Basidiomycetes 6. Microsporidia
The meeting will also serve to celebrate the illustrious career of Pete Sudbery, with honorary talks from Neil Gow, Judith Berman, as well as Pete himself.
Registration includes conference attendance, abstract booklet, light refreshments throughout, lunch on the 18th and 19th, onsite dinner on the 17th, and a special conference dinner on the 18th at the wonderful Pittodrie House (https://www.macdonaldhotels.co.uk/our-hotels/scotland/aberdeen/macdonald-pittodrie-house), including a ceilidh.
We look forward seeing you in Aberdeen.
Duncan Wilson and Pieter van West
British Mycological Society, Main Scientific Meeting
The Event Complex Aberdeen (TECA)
BMS AGM 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Programme
Conference Starts 2:00pm
Tuesday 17th
Honorary and Prize Lectures - 2.00-4.30pm
Peter Sudbery (2.00-2.30pm)
Polarised growth of Candida albicans hyphae
Judy Berman, Tel Aviv University (2.30-3.00pm)
Working to clear the FoG: antifungal tolerance is a subpopulation effect
Gero Steinberg (FBR John Webster Award) (3.20-3.50pm)
A cell biology approach helps fight fungal pathogens
Elaine Bignell, University of Manchester (3.00-3.20pm)
From systems biology to damage limitation in Aspergillus-mediated lung disease
Duncan Wilson, University of Aberdeen (Berkeley Award 2017) (3.50-4.10pm)
Counteracting nutritional immunity: how do human fungal pathogens acquire essential trace metals during infection
Liz Ballou, University of Birmingham (Berkeley 2018) (4.10-4.30pm)
Cryptococcus titan cell induction and morphogenesis
Coffee
Oomycetes - 5.00-6.20pm
Paul Birch, James Hutton Institute, Dundee (5.00-5.20pm)
A plant pathogen targets light perception in the host to suppress immunity.
Franziska Trusch, University of Aberdeen (5.20-5.40pm)
Deciphering the cleavage of RxLR effectors from P. infestans
Yacine Badis, Scottish Marine Institute, Oban (5.40-6.00pm)
Novel clades of early diverging oomycetes for a new insight in the origins of biotrophy and virulence
Offered abstracts
Kypher Shreves, University of Aberdeen (6.00-6.10pm)
Phylogenetic analysis of Saprolegnia isolates from Scottish fish farms.
Laura Hackl, Austrian Institute of Technology (6.10-6.20pm)
Trichoderma mycoparasitism depends on species-specific adaptation to host-induced cell polarity stress
Onsite dinner
Wednesday 18th
Ascomycetes I - 9.00-10.20am
Jan Quinn, University of Newcastle (9.00-9.20am)
Phosphate homeostasis and virulence in Candida albicans (and how we can exploit this)
Neil Gow, University of Exeter (9.20-9.50am)
Using the immune system to understand the structure of fungal pathogens
Alex Brand, University of Aberdeen (9.50-10.10am)
The Rsr1 polarity GTPase regulates cell ploidy in Candida albicans via Cdc42-mediated mechanisms
Delma S. Childers, University of Aberdeen (10.10-10.20am)
Fungal Transformers: Tracking a Moving Target
Coffee
Ascomycetes II - 10.50-12pm
Bernie Hube, Hans Knoell Institute, Jena, Germany (10.50-11.10am)
Virulence or avirulence? The dual functions of a Candida albicans toxin
Klara Junker (11.10-11.30am)
Prospecting Saccharomycopsis schoenii - a mycoparasitic yeast
Marina Fomina, Zabolotny Institute, Ukraine (11.30-11.50am)
Biogeochemical consequences of biodeterioration of medieval frescoes by a restricted community of xerophilic fungi
Offered abstracts
Dora Corzo-Leon, University of Aberdeen (11.50-12.00pm)
Fusarium solani host-pathogen interactions using an ex-vivo skin infection model
Gustavo Bravo Ruiz, University of Aberdeen (12.00-12.10pm)
Filamentation of Candida auris is triggered by genotoxic stress through the S-Phase checkpoint
Lunch
Microsporidia - 1.10-2.10pm
Bryony Williams, University of Exeter (1.10-1.30pm)
Microsporidia - Highly adapted pathogens and ultimate opportunists
T. Martin Embley, University of Newcastle (1.30-1.50pm)
Ancestral reconstruction and evolution of Microsporidia nucleotide transporters
Sergey Melnikov, Yale (1.50-2.10pm)
Big lessons from small genomes: error-prone protein synthesis in Microsporidia
Zoopagomycotina - 2.10- 3.20pm
Leonie Luginbuehl, University of Cambridge (2.10-2.30pm)
Reprogramming roots for fungal symbiosis
Fabien Cottier, University of Birmingham (2.30-2.50pm)
Investigating the impact of Pseudomonas aeruginosa on Rhizopus microsporus pathogenicity
Ronelle Roth (2.50-3.10pm)
Arbuscular cell invasion coincides with extracellular vesicles and membrane tubules
Coffee 3.10-3.50
Chytrids - 3.50-5.30 pm
Mat Fisher, Imperial College London (3.50-4.10pm)
Once is a misfortune, twice is carelessness…’: Lessons to be learnt from pandemic fungal infections of amphibians
Rhys Farrer, University of Aberdeen (4.10-4.30pm)
Genome analysis to describe new chytrid genomes and discover new species
Ramsay Agha, IGB Berlin (4.30-5.10pm)
TBC
Eszter Denes (5.10-5.20pm)
Investigating the antifungal activity of thermophilic Actinobacteria from compost
Evelina Basenko, University of Liverpool (5.20-5.30pm)
FungiDB: integrating genomic data for pathogens and model organisms and providing advanced search capabilities and large-scale data analysis
Conference dinner in the historic Pittodrie House Hotel and ceilidh
NOTE: There will be 2 buses to take people from the conference centre to Pittodrie House Hotel and back again.
Thursday 19th - 9-10.20am
Basidiomycetes I
Lars Hedin, Princeton, USA (9.00-9.20am)
Prospects of a general biophysical theory of plant-fungal symbiotic relationships and their impacts on evolution of the land biosphere
Carolina Coelho, University of Exeter (9.20-9.40am)
Cryptococcus neoformans interactions with mammalian hosts
Mark Fricker, University of Oxford (9.40-10.00am)
Networks, flows and fungivores
Offered abstracts
Nathan Smith, University of Cambridge (10.00-10.10am)
Co-occurrence of Woodland Fungi from Historical Records
Harry J. Harvey, University of Nottingham (10.10-10.20am)
The Impact of Soil Structure on Fungal Response to Environmental Change
Coffee
Basidiomycetes II - 11am-12.25pm
Jason C. Slot, Ohio State University (11.00-11.20am)
Psilocybin clusters and the structure of homobasidiomycete genomes
Armin Djamei, Gregor Mendel Institute, Austria (11.20-11.40am)
The Pleiades: a cluster of effector genes inhibit host defenses
Offered abstracts
Gareth Jones, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia (11.40-11.50am)
Marine fungi of Saudi Arabia -
Jacob Hargreaves, University of Aberdeen (11.50-12.00pm)
Invasive Herbivory Indicated in Lasting Modification of Soil Fungal Communities on South Georgia
Angel Medina Vaya, Cranfield Soil and Agrifood Institute (12.00-12.10pm)
Biocontrol of aflatoxins in maize: impacts of climate change on control strategies
Jack A Whittaker (12.10-12.20pm)
Environmental Distribution of the Quorn Fungus Fusarium venenatum and Evidence for a Heterothallic Lifestyle
Update on next year’s Cranfield meeting
Angel Medina Vaya (12.20-12.25pm)
end
1pm onwards - Lunch and departure.
Futher Information is added as and when available.
17 Sep 2019
12:30 – 13:30
12:30 – 13:30
BMS AGM 2019 Society
The Event Complex Aberdeen (TECA)
Annual General Meeting of the British Mycological Society 2019
The BMS AGM on September 17th from 12:30pm to 1:30pm held prior to the start of the 2019 BMS Main Scientific Meeting in Aberdeen at the new Event Complex Aberdeen (TECA) https://www.teca.co.uk/visiting/
5 Oct 2019 – 6 Oct 2019
UK Fungus Day 2019 Education
Across the United Kingdom
UK Fungus Day is the outreach arm of the British Mycological Society, promoting fungi and fungal science throughout the year and at all levels.
UK Fungus Day is the outreach arm of the British Mycological Society, promoting fungi and fungal science throughout the year and at all levels. Our celebratory weekend for UKFD19 is approaching (6th October 2019) and we would love to hear about the many events and activities that you've got planned to celebrate fungi and fungal science. We can promote these events on our Facebook, Twitter and Website pages…so if you want to drop us some brief details with a promotional picture/banner we can add this event to our event listing areas.
As in previous years, we will be supporting the Royal Society of Biology’s Biology Week activities and our intense weekend of fungal events will kick start Biology Week; however, if you are planning a fungus event at some other time, we are still keen to hear about it and will publicise your event on our website and social media platforms.
We are planning to offer a wide range of materials & resources to support your events, such as oyster spawn kits supplied by Ann Miller; UKFD t-shirts and magnifying rulers, as well as templates and ideas for children’s activities and BMS leaflets and other resources. Be sure to let us know your requirements.
We would like to encourage some of the smaller events that supported us in the past and any potentially new event organisers who would be willing to give up time to run events if certain costs were met (hiring of a hall, supply of materials for children’s activities etc.), to apply for a small outreach grant of up to £150 to specifically help to fund a UKFD event. We envisage offering 10 supporting grants of this nature. There is also a small budget to enable you to meet small expenses claims and these will be considered on an individual case basis.
This year, we are focused and committed to making UK Fungus Day the largest celebration of fungi and fungal science ever! We want to increase our UKFD connections, and support as many events as possible across the country, to continue to raise awareness of the importance of fungi and fungal biology, as well as to highlight how exciting and interesting the fungal kingdom is.
UK Fungus Day continues to build momentum but we cannot do it without your help! The success of UK Fungus Day is dependent on our fantastic event organisers, hosting incredible events nationwide, and we can't wait to hear from you!
What we need to know:
· Name of the event
· Date & Time
· 1 image or poster to accompany the post/A flyer enabling us to publicise your event.
· Location (with POSTCODE and LATITUDE & LOGITUDE coordinates if possible)
· Target audience
· Any online links you wish us to add (to websites or social media platforms)
· Price of admission if applicable
· Brief description of event (Max 100 words)
Many thanks for supporting UK Fungus Day and for helping us to raise awareness of fungi and fungal science.
Yours faithfully,
Dr Eleanor Landy
Chair of the British Mycological Society Fungal Education and Outreach Committee
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