
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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