Monday, 12 June 2023

Location: Sapienza University of Rome
Piazzale Aldo Moro 5 – 00185 Roma
Dept. of Chemistry “Stanislao Cannizzaro”
Aula La Ginestra CU014 View Map

PROGRAM

	SESSION 1 – TP1: GENETICS, GENOMICS AND SYSTEM BIOLOGY Chairs: Igor Grigoriev & Carla Steyn
10:00 – 14:00	Registration/Welcome Reception
14:00 – 14:45	Conference Opening Luigi Faino and Massimo Reverberi Lectio Magistralis Antonio Di Pietro · University of Córdoba, Spain Transposons drive environmental adaptation in a clonally evolving fungal pathogen
14:45 – 15:15	Keynote Speaker Igor Grigoriev · Joint Genome Institute, Berkeley, USA 100+ Fusarium genomes and omics datasets
15:15 – 15:30	Stefania Vitale · National Research Council, Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection, Napoli, Italy A novel desensitization mechanism regulates α-Ste2 signalling in Fusarium oxysporum
15:30 – 15:45	Minely Cerón-Bustamante · University of Perugia, Dept. of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences, Perugia, Italy Transcriptomic analysis of the Fusarium graminearum photoresponse to different light wavelenghts
15:45 – 16:00	Anna K. Atanasoff-Kardjalieff · University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria The histone variant H2A.Z: Insights in its role in gene regulation in the phytopathogen F. fujikuroi
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 – 16:45	John Clarkson · University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences, Warwick, UK Identification, pathogenomics and resistance to Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. lactucae in lettuce
16:45 – 17:00	Anthony Glenn · Agricultural Research Service, US National Poultry Research Center, Toxicology and Mycotoxin Research Unit, Athens, USA Fungal nitric oxide reductase is a key target for reduction of agricultural nitrous oxide emissions
17:00 – 17:15	Carla Steyn · University of Johannesburg, Botany and Plant Biotechnology, Johannesburg, South Africa Fusarium diversity from soils of the Golden Gate Highland National Park, South Africa
	SESSION 2 – TP2: EXPOSURE AND TOXICOLOGY & TP6: GENETICS OF HOSTS – PLANT RESISTANCE Chairs: John Leslie & Marion Garofalo
17:15 – 17:45	Keynote Speaker John F. Leslie · Kansas State University, Dept of Plant Pathology, KS, USA Pre-harvest mycotoxin contamination of maize in Malawi
17:45 – 18:00	Marion Garofalo · INRAE, ToxAlim, Reserarch Centre in Food Toxicology, University of Toulouse, France A novel toxic effect of foodborne trichothecenes: the exacerbation of genotoxicity
18:00 – 18:15	Limbikani Matumba · Lilongwe University of Agriculture & Natural Resources, Dept. of Agriculture & Food Systems, Malawi Explaining the inaction regarding the management of fumonisin contamination in sub-Saharan Africa
18:15 – 18:30	Alessandra Lanubile · Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Dept. of Sustainable Crop Production, Piacenza, Italy Characterization of the maize lipoxygenase genes in relation to mycotoxigenic fungal resistance
18:30 – 18:45	Juho Hautsalo · Natural Resources Institute Finland, Finland Monitoring Fusarium head blight development from oat spikelets

10:00 – 14:00	Registration/Welcome Reception
14:00 – 14:45	Conference Opening Luigi Faino and Massimo Reverberi Lectio Magistralis Antonio Di Pietro · University of Córdoba, Spain Transposons drive environmental adaptation in a clonally evolving fungal pathogen
	SESSION 1 – TP1: GENETICS, GENOMICS AND SYSTEM BIOLOGY Chairs: Igor Grigoriev & Carla Steyn
14:45 – 15:15	Keynote Speaker Igor Grigoriev · Joint Genome Institute, Berkeley, USA 100+ Fusarium genomes and omics datasets
15:15 – 15:30	Stefania Vitale · National Research Council, Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection, Napoli, Italy A novel desensitization mechanism regulates α-Ste2 signalling in Fusarium oxysporum
15:30 – 15:45	Minely Cerón-Bustamante · University of Perugia, Dept. of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences, Perugia, Italy Transcriptomic analysis of the Fusarium graminearum photoresponse to different light wavelenghts
15:45 – 16:00	Anna K. Atanasoff-Kardjalieff · University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria The histone variant H2A.Z: Insights in its role in gene regulation in the phytopathogen F. fujikuroi
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 – 16:45	John Clarkson · University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences, Warwick, UK Identification, pathogenomics and resistance to Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. lactucae in lettuce
16:45 – 17:00	Anthony Glenn · Agricultural Research Service, US National Poultry Research Center, Toxicology and Mycotoxin Research Unit, Athens, USA Fungal nitric oxide reductase is a key target for reduction of agricultural nitrous oxide emissions
17:00 – 17:15	Carla Steyn · University of Johannesburg, Botany and Plant Biotechnology, Johannesburg, South Africa Fusarium diversity from soils of the Golden Gate Highland National Park, South Africa
	SESSION 2 – TP2: EXPOSURE AND TOXICOLOGY & TP6: GENETICS OF HOSTS – PLANT RESISTANCE Chairs: John Leslie & Marion Garofalo
17:15 – 17:45	Keynote Speaker John F. Leslie · Kansas State University, Dept of Plant Pathology, KS, USA Pre-harvest mycotoxin contamination of maize in Malawi
17:45 – 18:00	Marion Garofalo · INRAE, ToxAlim, Reserarch Centre in Food Toxicology, University of Toulouse, France A novel toxic effect of foodborne trichothecenes: the exacerbation of genotoxicity
18:00 – 18:15	Limbikani Matumba · Lilongwe University of Agriculture & Natural Resources, Dept. of Agriculture & Food Systems, Malawi Explaining the inaction regarding the management of fumonisin contamination in sub-Saharan Africa
18:15 – 18:30	Alessandra Lanubile · Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Dept. of Sustainable Crop Production, Piacenza, Italy Characterization of the maize lipoxygenase genes in relation to mycotoxigenic fungal resistance
18:30 – 18:45	Juho Hautsalo · Natural Resources Institute Finland, Finland Monitoring Fusarium head blight development from oat spikelets