The second Meeting of the BMS Fungal Biology Research committee for 2019 to be held at Aberdeen University on the afternoon of the 16th of September.

 

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 9FX

The 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 18^th and 19^th, onsite dinner on the 17^th, and a special conference dinner on the 18^th at the wonderful Pittodrie House (https://www.macdonaldhotels.co.uk/our-hotels/scotland/aberdeen/macdonald-pittodrie-house), including a ceilidh.  

to register for the meeting click on the link below for details.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/british-mycological-society-annual-scientific-meeting-2019-tickets-59334020653

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 17^th

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                                    

TBC                                       

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 18^th

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

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)

TBC

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 19^{th  -} 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)

TBC

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.