July 05 Thursday
15.00 – 20.00 Arrival and registration at the Biological building of the University of Szeged (Szeged, Közép fasor 52.)
20.30 – 23.00 Soccer, beer and welcome in the „Blues Kert” (dinner is on your own cost)
6th CESC on Mycology
3rd Rising Stars in Mycology Workshop
July 06 Friday
8.00 – 9.00 Breakfast at the Hotel Forras
8.00 – 9.00 Registration at the Biological Building of the University of Szeged
9.00 – 9.10 Opening ceremony Head of the Institute and the Dean of the Faculty
9.10 – 10.00 Opening keynote lecture Bruce Klein: Lung epithelial cell regulation of innateimmunity to inhaled fungi
10.00 – 11.00 Lecture Joachim Morschauser: Mutations, genome rearrangements, and sexual recombination in the evolution of Candida albicans populations
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee
11.30 – 12.30 Lecture Ilse Jacobsen: Interactions between Candida albicans and intestinal bacteria: Foes or brothers in arms?
12.30 – 13.45 Lunch
14.00 – 18.00 Workshop Lectures
14.00 – 14.30 Andrew Young Koh: Human microbiome: concepts of microbiome profiling techniques, bacterial and fungal microbiome approaches
14.30 – 15.30 Ilse Jacobsen: Paper writing, reviewing: the basics
15.30 – 16.00 Break
16.00 – 18.00 Chairs: Ilse Jacobsen – Oscar Zaragoza – Leonardo Nimrichter How to write and review a paper (practice)
18.00 – 22.00 Dinner and welcome get together in “Blues Kert”
July 07 Saturday
8.00 – 9.00 Breakfast at the Hotel Forras
9.00 – 10.00 Lecture Toni Gabaldon: Genomes shed light on the secret life of Candida glabrata: not so asexual, not so commensal
10.00 – 11.00 Lecture Jozef Nosek: Comparative genome analysis of the yeasts from the Magnusiomycete/Saprochaete clade: An insight into the biology of yeast giants
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee
11.30 – 12.30 Lecture Leonardo Nimrichter: Fungal extracellular vesicles: from virulence bags to multifunctional compartments.
12.30 – 13.30 Lecture Olga Heidingsfeld: How to isolate Candida albicans vacuoles and analyze their contents.
13.45 – 15.00 Lunch
15.00 – 18.20 Workshop Lectures
15.00 – 15.40 Leonardo Nimrichter Working with extracelular vesicles released by fungi
15.40 – 16.20 Toni Gabaldon: Do it in silico: next generation sequencing and bioinformatics for research in Candida pathogens
16.20 – 16.50 Break
16.50 – 18.20 Ilse Jacobsen-Oscar Zaragoza-AndrewYoung Koh: Scientific job interview: dos and don’ts
18.20 – 21.00 Dinner in “Blues Kert”
July 08 Sunday
8.00 – 9.00 Breakfast at the Hotel Forras
9.00 – 10.00 Lecture Vladislav Raclavsky: Candida albicans and cancer – a brand new story
10.00 – 11.00 Lecture Leszek Pryszcz Evolutionary innovations as a result of inter-species genome hybridisation.
11.00 – 11.20 Coffee
11.20 – 12.20 Lecture Oscar Zaragoza: Cryptococcal pathogenesis: non conventional morphogenesis and development of new therapeutic approaches
12.20 – 13.20 Lunch
Free Afternoon
14.00 – 20.00 Excursion to “Bugac Puszta” – with Dinner
July 09 Monday
8.00 – 9.00 Breakfast at the Hotel Forras
9.00 – 10.00 Lecture Julian Naglik: Candidalysin is critical for immune activation during fungal infection
10.00 – 11.00 Lecture Andrew Young Koh: From commensal to pathogen: Candida albicans gastrointestinal colonization and dissemination in the mammalian host.
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee
11.30 – 12.30 Lecture: Marcio Rodrigues Membrane organization, lipid synthesis and pathogenesis in Cryptococcus.
12.45 – 13.45 Lunch
14.00 – 16.30 COOL talks: Oscar Zaragoza, Julian Naglik, Marcio Rodrigues
14.00 – 15.00 Oscar Zaragoza: Scientific fraud I.
15.00 – 15.15 Break
15.15 – 16.15 Oscar Zaragoza Scientific fraud II
16.15 – 16.30 Break
16.30 – 18.30 Poster section Chairs: Ilse Jacobsen – Julian Naglik – Joachim Morschhauser
18.30 – 19.45 Dinner
July 10 Tuesday
8.00 – 9.00 Breakfast at the Hotel Forras
9.00 – 10.00 Lecture Bernhard Hube: Virulence or avirulence? Dual function factors of Candida albicans
10.00 – 11.00 Lecture Christophe d’Enfert: Candida albicans genome diversity: mechanisms and consequences
11.00 – 11.15 Coffee
11.15 – 12.15 Lecture Anamelia Bocca Melanized fungi strategy to intervene on host innate immunity
12.15 – 13.15 Lecture Jessica Quintin Fungal β-glucan and innate immunity
13.15 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 15.15 Student Talks (5) Chairs: Andrew Young Koh – Bernhard Hube Selected based on the submitted abstract
14.00 – 14.15 Sofía Síscar-Lewis
14.15 – 14.30 Caroline B Costa-Orland
14.30 – 14.45 Daniela D Antunes
14.45 – 15.00 Flavia C. G.Reis
15.00 – 15.15 Marija S Smiljkovic
15.15 – 15.45 Break
15.45 – 17.00 Student Talks (5) Chairs: Olga Heidingsfeld – Julian Naglik Selected based on the abstractse submitted abstract
15.45 – 16.00 Osama Elshafee
16.00 – 16.15 Alma K. T. Castrellon
16.15 – 16.30 Haroldo Cesar De Oliveira
16.30 – 16.45 Romana Vrzonova
16.45 – 17.00 Marina Kostic
17.00 – 17.10 Closing Remarks Attila Gácser
19.00 Farewell party and reception in Hotel Forras Surprise show: „Mycologiests got talent”
July 11 Wednesday
Departure