MaFNaP_2017 Preliminary Program

Preliminary Program, PDF version

Monday, June 26
19.00-21.00  Welcome reception and Registration, Wissenschaftszentrum Kiel
Tuesday, June 27
9.00-9.35Welcome addresses
Prof. Dr. Martin Visbeck, Speaker of Excellence Cluster Future Ocean (GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany)
Wolfgang-Dieter Glanz, Representative of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Employment, Transport and Technology
Prof. Dr. Deniz Tasdemir, Host (RU Marine Natural Products Chemistry/GEOMAR-Biotech, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany)
Session 1Biodiversity and Cultivability of Marine Fungi
Chair: Prof. Dr. Deniz Tasdemir
9.35-10.20Plenary Lecture (PL1) Prof. Dr. Russell Kerr - Investigations into the control of fungal natural products
10.20-10.35Short Lecture (SL1) Benjamin Libor - Isolation studies on marine derived fungi using the diffusion chamber device
10.35-11.10Coffee break
11.10-11.25Short Lecture (SL2) Prof. Dr. Lan Liu - Inducing secondary metabolite production by mangrove endophytic fungi through fungal-bacterial co-culture
11.25-11.40Short Lecture (SL3) Elena Bovio - Biodiversity and chemodiversity of the fungal community associated with the Atlantic sponge Grantia compressa
11.40-11.55Short Lecture (SL4) Prof. Dr. Chang-Yun Wang - Marine bioactive natural products from coral-derived fungi collected from the South China Sea
11.55-12.10Flash Presentations (3 x 5 min)
FP1 Bicheng Fan - Applying OSMAC approach to marine fungi for discovery of new anticancer lead compounds
FP2 Arnaud Cousseau - Marine Fusarium equiseti as a potential source of antitumoral natural compounds
FP3 Pinelopi Vlachou - Exploitation of marine microorganisms for the isolation of novel natural products with anti-aging bioactivity
12.10-13.30Lunch break
Session 2Chemodiversity of Marine Fungi
Chair: Prof. Dr. Russell Kerr
13.30-14.15Plenary Lecture (PL2) Prof. Dr. Anake Kijjoa - Secondary metabolites from some marine-derived Neosartorya, Aspergillus, Talaromyces and Eurotium, collected from Thai waters
14.15-14.30Short Lecture (SL5) Ernest Oppong-Danquah - Increasing the chemical space of marine fungi by co-cultivation for discovery of anti-phytopathogenic agents
14.30-14.45Short Lecture (SL6) Prof. Dr. Robert Capon - Deciphering co-cultivation chemical communication as a strategy for accessing valuable new chemistry
14.45-15.00Short Lecture (SL7) Fortunato Palma-Esposito - Exploitation of new bioactive compounds produced by Beauveria bassiana to fight MDR bacteria
15.00-15.30Coffee break
Session 3
Physiology of Marine Fungi
Chair: Prof. Dr. Frank Kempken
15.30-16.15Plenary Lecture (PL3) Prof. Dr. Nina Gunde-Cimerman - Fungi in the salterns – from halotolerance to halophily
16.15-16.30Flash Presentations (3 x 5 min)
FP4 Jidapa Noinart - Anti-obesity activity of anthraquinones and other constituents of the marine-derived fungus Talaromyces stipitatus KUFA 0207
FP5 Fayrouz El-Maddah - Biosynthetic studies of novel polyketides from the marine sponge-derived fungus Stachylidium sp. 293K04
FP6 Estelle Sfecci - Biodiversity and chemodiversity of the cultivable fungal community associated to the Mediterranean marine sponge Phorbas tenacior (Porifera, Demospongiae)
16.30-18.30Poster Session
Wednesday, 28 June
Session 4Fungal analytics and metabolomics
Chair: Prof. Dr. Rob Capon
9.00-9.45Plenary Lecture (PL4) Prof. Dr. Catherine Roullier - Halogenation in marine-derived fungi: Development of a metabolomic tool to investigate chlorinated and/or brominated compounds
9.45-10.00Short Lecture (SL8) Dr. Delphine Parrot - Molecular networking combined with in-silico MS/MS database: A workflow for in-depth investigation of the marine fungal metabolome
10.00-10.15Short Lecture (SL9) Prof. Dr. Olivier Grovel - Metabolomics reveal the dynamics of fungal metabolomes and biosynthetic pathways in marine-sourced Penicillium sp.
10.15-10.45Short Lecture (SL10) Thomas Knoefel - Application of DESI-MS Imaging in the study of plants and microorganisms
10.45-11.15Coffee break
Session 5Marine Fungal Genetics and Genomics
Chair: Dr. Marlis Reich
11.15-12.00Plenary Lecture (PL5) Prof. Dr. Frank Kempken - Genome and transcriptome analysis of marine fungi from Baltic, Mediterranean and North Sea
12.00-12.15Short Lecture (SL11) Prof. Dr. Zhu-Hua Luo - Fungal diversity in deep seafloor of the Pacific Ocean
12.15-12.30Short Lecture (SL12) Dr. Teppo Rämä - Diversity and bioactivity of Arctic marine fungi
12.30-13.45Lunch break
Session 6Fungal Interactions, Epigenetics and Ecology I
Chair: Prof. Dr. Anake Kijjoa
13.45-14.30Plenary Lecture (PL6) Dr. Marlis Reich - What marine fungal ecologists can tell…
14.30-14.45Short Lecture (SL13) Anne Tourneroche - Molecular interactions between endophytic fungi and bacteria from brown-algae in the context of quorum sensing
14.45-15.00Short Lecture (SL14) Dr. Giorgio Gnavi - Modulation of fungal mechanism by mycoviruses: The case study of virus infected marine Penicillium janczewskii and a derived semi-cured isolate
15.00-15.15Short Lecture (SL15) Prof. Dr. Samuel Bertrand - Fungal and microalgal interaction in a marine environment
15.15-15.45Coffee break
Session 7Fungal Interactions, Epigenetics and Ecology II
Chair: Prof. Dr. Nina Gunde-Cimerman
15.45-16.30Plenary Lecture (PL7) Prof. Dr. Eva Stukenbrock - The role of histone-methyltransferases KMT1 and KMT6 in gene regulation and chromosome stability in the wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici
16.30-18.00Round table / Consortium discussion (moderated by Russell Kerr and Deniz Tasdemir)
19.30-22.00Conference dinnerat Kieler Schloss,
Address: Dänische Straße 44, 24103 Kiel
Thursday, 29 June
Session 8Marine Fungal Biotechnology and Biodiscovery
Chair: Prof. Dr. Antje Labes
8.45-9.30Plenary Lecture (PL8) Prof. Dr. Vera Meyer - Exploiting the full potential of systems biology and synthetic biology to understand and rewire the cell factory Aspergillus niger
9.30-9.45Short Lecture (SL16) Prof. Dr. Giovanna Cristina Varese - Self-assembling proteins from marine fungi
9.45-10.30Plenary Lecture (PL9) Prof. Dr. Johannes F. Imhoff - Marine fungi, a prolific source of new compounds and the object of an EU funded international consortium
10.30-11.00Coffee break
11.00-11.15Short Lecture (SL17) Dr. Adelia Razeto - The first small-molecule anti-cancer agent modulating the function of VDAC1: Steps towards the understanding the mode of action of a marine fungi product
11.15-11.30Awards ceremony
11.30-12.00Closing remarks, Future perspectives
12.00-18.00Lunch-to-go and Social program

 

 

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