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Symposia

The scientific programme will be divided into five themes that will be given more-or-less equal weighting although many of the Symposia will be inter-thematic. All the themes will contain applied topics.

IMC 9 Symposia

Theme: Cell Biology, Biochemistry & Physiology
Chair: Prof Gero Steinberg

• 200th Anniversary of the hypha
• The Fungal nucleus
• Signalling and development
• Endocytosis and exocytosis
• Cytoskeleton and motors
• Hyphal networks: mechanisms, ecology and modeling
• Rhythmic fungal biology
• Programmed cell death and autophagy
• The dynamic fungal cell

Theme: Environment, Ecology and Interactions
Chair: Prof Lynne Boddy

• Biocontrol with fungi
• Ecology of invasive and threatened species
• Exploitation of fungi: biofuels and beyond
• Fungal interactions with microbes
• Fungal recycling matters: from enzymes to communities
• Fungi and global change 1: nitrogen enrichment and land use
• Fungi and global change 2: climate change responses
• Living on the edge: fungi at extremes
• Secret world of endophytes

Theme: Evolution, Biodiversity and Systematics
Chair: Prof Pedro Crous

• Ascomycete systematics
• Basidiomycete biodiversity, ecology and mechanisms of host
• Cryptic species and speciation
• Fungal barcoding
• Fungal Tree of life: linking genomics to physiology and morphology
• Origin and co-evolution of lichen and mycorrhizal fungi with plants
• Revealing true fungal diversity – metagenomics
• Rusts: taxonomy, host specificity and geographical distribution
• Tropical mycology

Theme: Genomics, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Chair: Dr Paul Dyer

• Beyond sequence – applied genomics and industrial mycology
• Comparative evolutionary genomics of the Fungal Tree of Life
• Evolutionary genetics of sex in fungi
• Fungal epigenetics
• Fungal RNA-regulatory processes
• Genomics of fungal-plant symbioses
• Population biology: from single cell to community
• Secondary metabolism
• Systems biology: functional genomics to molecular networks and systems

Theme: Pathogenesis and Disease Control
Chair: Prof Alistair Brown

• Cell biology of infection 
• Emerging fungal diseases and potential pandemics
• Environmental sensing and responses
• Evolutionary adaptation of fungal pathogens to their human host
• Fungal effectors and host manipulation
• Future strategies for the control of fungal diseases
• Stress responses, fungal development and pathogenicity
• The emergence of resistance to antifungal drugs
• Fungal-Plant interface in mycorrhizal and lichen associations

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