Scientific Programme

Opening Keynote Lecture

8 September

Valencia

15:00 - 15:45

Moderate

Amparo Querol

IATA-CSIC, Spain

Dissecting the yeast phenotypic landscape in the pangenomic era

15:00 - 15:45

Joseph Schacherer

University of Strasbourg, France

Session 1: Unlocking the secrets of fungal physiology and metabolism

8 September

Valencia

16:00 - 18:00

Moderate

Paloma Manzanares

IATA-CSIC, Spain

Ronald de Vries

LIST, Luxembourg

Diversity and regulation of fungal sugar metabolism

16:00 - 16:30

Ronald de Vries

Utrecht University, The Netherlands

TBA

16:30 - 17:00

Pascale Daran-Lapujade

TU Delf, The Netherlands

Short talks selected from submitted abstracts

17:00 - 18:00

Opening reception

8 September

Valencia

18:30 - 20:00

Session 2: Adapting to survive: Inside the evolutionary strategies of fungi

9 September

Valencia

9:00 - 11:00

Moderate

Eladio Barrio

Universitat de València, Spain

John Morrissey

University College Cork, Ireland

Adaptation of Kluyveromyces yeasts to anthropogenic environments

9:00 - 9:30

John Morrissey

University College Cork, Ireland

TBA

9:30 - 10:00

Arthur Ram

Leiden University, The Netherlands

Short talks selected from submitted abstracts

10:00 - 11:00

Coffee break and poster viewing

9 September

Valencia

11:00 - 11:30

Session 3: Pathogenic strategies and resistance mechanisms in fungi

9 September

Valencia

11:30 - 13:30

Moderate

Sergi Puig

IATA-CSIC, Spain

Patrick van Dijck

KU Leuven, Belgium

Molecular mechanisms underlying echinocandin resistance and tolerance in the human fungal pathogen Candida auris

11:30 - 12:00

Patrick van Dijck

KU Leuven, Belgium

Aspergillus fumigatus Antifungal Resistance: origin and evolution

12:00 - 12:30

Emilia Mellado

National Center for Microbiology and Carlos III Health Institute, Spain

Short talks selected from submitted abstracts

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch and poster viewing

9 September

Valencia

13:30 - 15:00

Session 4: Advances in synthetic biology and innovative technologies for yeasts and filamentous fungi

9 September

Valencia

15:00 - 17:00

Moderate

José M. Guillamón

IATA-CSIC, Spain

Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro

Imperial College London, UK

Engineering yeast and synthetic yeast communities for sustainable food manufacturing

15:00 - 15:30

Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro

Imperial College London, UK

High-throughput yeast and fungal genetic-engineering platforms for product discovery and strain optimization

15:30 - 16:00

Uffe Mortensen

Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Short talks selected from submitted abstracts

16:00 - 17:00

Poster session 1

9 September

Valencia

17:00 - 18:30

Session 5: Exploring fermentation as a driver of innovation in food and beverages

10 September

Valencia

9:00 - 11:00

Moderate

Elia Tomás-Pejó

IMDEA, Spain

Carole Camarasa

Université de Montpellier-INRAE, France

Addressing current winemaking challenges with non-Saccharomyces yeasts

9:00 - 9:30

Carole Camarasa

Université de Montpellier-INRAE, France

Learnings from pro-cycling to develop superior yeasts and innovative fermentation products

9:30 - 10:00

Kevin Verstrepen

KU Leuven, Belgium

Short talks selected from submitted abstracts

10:00 - 11:00

Coffee break

10 September

Valencia

11:00 - 11:30

Session 6: Engineering yeasts and filamentous fungi as cell factories

10 September

Valencia

11:30 - 13:30

Moderate

Pau Ferrer

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Paola Branduardi

University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

Yeasts versus plastic: navigating opportunities and challenges of PET-derived monomers upcycling

11:30 - 12:00

Paola Branduardi

University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

Citric Acid Production with Aspergillus niger - Molecular Insights into an Old Process

12:00 - 12:30

Matthias Steiger

TU Wien, Austria

Short talks selected from submitted abstracts

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch

10 September

Valencia

13:30 - 15:00

Session 7: Fungal contributions to the advancement of the bioeconomy

10 September

Valencia

15:00 - 17:00

Moderate

José F. Marcos

IATA-CSIC, Spain

Vera Meyer

Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

TBA

15:00 - 15:30

Vera Meyer

Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

Synthetic biology tools for yeast metabolic engineering

15:30 - 16:00

Verena Siewers

Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Short talks selected from submitted abstracts

16:00 - 17:00

Poster session 2

10 September

Valencia

17:00 - 18:30

Conference Gala Dinner

10 September

Valencia

20:00 - 22:00

Session 8: Harnessing artificial intelligence and data science in fungal biotechnology

11 September

Valencia

9:00 - 11:00

Moderate

Ignacio Belda

Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain

Eva Balsa-Canto

Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas-CSIC, Spain

Predictive Fermentation Dynamics: From Data to Digital Shadows

9:00 - 9:30

Eva Balsa-Canto

Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas-CSIC, Spain

Predicting natural variation in the yeast phenotypic landscape with machine learning

9:30 - 10:00

Gianni Liti

CNRS, INSERM, IRCAN, France

Short talks selected from submitted abstracts

10:00 - 11:00

Coffee break

11 September

Valencia

11:00 - 11:30

Closing Keynote Lecture

11 September

Valencia

11:30 - 12:15

Moderate

Diethard Mattanovich

BOKU University, Austria

Transposons and accessory regions drive adaptation in a clonal evolving fungal pathogen

11:30 - 12:15

Antonio Di Pietro

University of Cordoba, Spain

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