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 |