Workshop Black Yeasts
Wednesday 4 July – Thursday 5 July 2018
Price: 75 EUR
Location: RAI, meetingroom D201
Dear Friends,
Chromoblastomycosis will be the subject of a workshop on at Cuba in December 2017. Since there are so many developments in other melanized fungi, we thought it would be appropriate to organize a workshop with a broader theme, covering all other clinical and environmental black fungi. The ISHAM Working Group Black Yeasts has a slot for a post-congress workshop in The Netherlands, 4 and 5 July 2018, directly following the ISHAM Congress in Amsterdam. Since the workshop will be ISHAM-sponsored, we request researchers on environmental fungi to give their work a medical accent if possible. Below please find the preliminary program. If you have any data to present, or if you have any other suggestions, please let us know. Practical data about workshop venue and facilities will be available within 1-2 months. Abstracts are expected early 2018; you will be notified.
With kind regards,
Sybren de Hoog s.hoog@westerdijkinstitute.nl,
Katja Sterflinger: ksterf@edv2.boku.ac.at
13:00
Registration, upload of talks
Session I
Chair: Vania Vicente
13:30
Summary of Cuba workshop results and conclusions
Tere-Illnait,Havana, Cuba & Flavio Queiroz Telles, Curitiba, Brazil
13:45
Cutaneous phaeohyphomycosis caused by Exophiala
Peilin Sun, Linkou Taoyuan, Taiwan
15:00
Environmental exposition of black yeasts
Shuwen Deng, Suzhou, China
15:15
Subcutaneous phaeohyphomycosis (nodular and cystic)
Alexandro Bonifaz, Mexico City, Mexico
15:30
Analysis of clinically relevant Exophiala species in France (2004-2018)
Dea Garcia-Hermoso, Paris, France
15:45
Antifungal activity of some substituted phenothiazines and related compounds against black yeast and other fungi
Roxana Vitale, Buenos Aires, Argentina
16:00
Break
Session II
Chair: Roxana Vitale
16:30
Comparison of the Rolling Circle Amplification and Ligase-Dependent Reaction methods for the identification of opportunistic Exophiala species
Engin Kaplan, Adana, Turkey
16:45
Galleria mellonella as an infection model for Exophiala dermatitidis
Aylin Döğen, Adana, Turkey
17:00
Phylogenomics of Herpotrichiellaceae and basal lineages
Leandro Moreno, Utrecht, The Netherlands
17:15
Kinase markers for phylogenetic reconstruction
Rachel Caligiorne, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
17:30
Metal-based drugs action on Fonsecaea pedrosoi growth and on multiple fungal virulence attributes
L.F. Kneipp, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
17:45
Description of a new family of ant-associated fungi in Chaetothyriales
Meizhu Wang, Guiyang, China
18:00
Genetics for geomycology - black fungi and material sciences
N. Knabe, Berlin, Germany
18:15
Development of molecular toolbox for genetic manipulation of Fonsecaea pedrosoi
Larissa Fernandes Matos, Brazil
Session III
Chair: Ruo-yu Li
09:00
Indoor wet cells harbored melanized fungi probably serve as opportunists on humans and other vertebrate in Guangdong, China
Jiufeng Sun, Guangzhou, China
09:15
Assimilatory metabolism of alkylbenzenes by black yeasts, facts and unresolved questions
Francesc Prenafeta-Boldu, Spain
09:30
Fungal patches in ant-plant associations: initiation and metabolic activities
Veronika Mayer, Vienna, Austria
09:45
Antifungal agents susceptibility: profile of a tropical black yeast strain
D. Heidrich, Porto Alegre, Brazil
10:00
Black and white - Black yeasts in the Arctic
L. Perini, Ljubljana, Slovenia
10:15
Prediction of the itraconazole minimal inhibitory concentrations (MICs) of chromoblastomycosis agents using Fourier Transform-Infrared Spectroscopy and chemometrics
D. Heidrich, Porto Alegre, Brazil
10:30
Break
Session IV
Chair: Katja Sterflinger
11:00
A multi-locus phylogeny for delimiting new rock inhabiting fungal genera and species from the Gran Sasso d’Italia
Laura Selbmann, Viterbo, Italy
11:15
Recent updates, based on study cases, of isolation of black meristematic fungi from stone monuments
Filomena de Leo, Messina, Italy
11:30
High-throughput RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) analysis of macrophages infected with Fonsecaea monophora
Junming Zhang, Guangzhou, China
11:45
Time-kill kinetics of antifungals active against the thermophilic black yeast Exophiala dermatitidis
Macit Ilkit, Adana, Turkey
12:00
DNA extraction methods on black yeast model organism Knufia petricola A95
O. Voigt, Berlin, Germany
12:15
Clues of sexual reproduction in the opportunistic black yeast Exophiala dermatitidis
Banu Metin, Adana, Turkey
12:30
Lunch
Session V
Chair: Jiufeng Sun
13:30
Black yeast genomics
Nina Gunde-Cimerman, Ljubljana, Slovenia
13:45
Onychomycosis caused by Arthrinium arundinis in leprosy patient, and plaque lesion type chromoblastomycosis caused by Fonsecaea monophora: Case reports
D. Heidrich, Porto Alegre, Brazil
14:00
TBA.
14:15
Galleria infection model
Yubisha Dabas, India
14:30
Virulence characteristics of Exophiala dermatitidis: an overview
Hazal Kandemir Boral, Turkey
14:45
The major chromoblastomycosis etiologic agent Fonsecaea pedrosoi activates the NLRP3 inflammasome
Anamélia Lorenzetti Bocca, Brasilia, Brazil
15:00
Break
Session VI
Chair: Laura Selbmann
15:30
Transcriptomic studies of Exophiala dermatitidis - wild type and CRISPR-Cas9 generated white mutant - during ex-vivo skin model infections
Caroline Poyntner, Vienna, Austria
15:45
CARD9 deficiency and genetic susceptibility of black yeasts infection
Ruoyu Li, Beijing, China
16:00
Metagenomics
Marcus Teixeira, Brasilia, Brazil
16:15
Antifungal profiles against clinical and environment black yeasts and relatives
Javad Najafzadeh, Masshad, Iran
16:30
Dissecting the melanin unit in Cryptococcus neoformans
Radames Cordero,Atlanta, USA
16:45
Phylogenetic and phylogenomic analyses of the two rock inhabiting fungi Lichenothelia and Saxomyces (Dothideomycetes, Ascomycota)
Lucia Muggia, Graz, Austria
17:00
Lahun Pyramid: More surprising treasures are revealed. Fungal diversity analysis using amplicon-based metagenomic approach
Samah Soliman, Cairo, Egypt
17:15
Evaluation of pathogenicity in Fonsecaea agents of human chromoblastomycosis
Vania A. Vicente, Curitiba, Brazil
17:30
Automation of multiomics data analysis: genomic and transcriptomic study of the toluene degrading black yeast Cladophialophora immunda
Hakim Tafer, Vienna, Austria
17:45
Comparative genomic study of the Antarctic isolate Hortaea thailandica with H. werneckii and H. acidophila
C. Coleine, Riverside, USA
18:00
Just deserts: isolating and comparing meristematic black fungi from desert soils to test simple reconstitution models of biological soil crusts
T. Kurbessoian, Riverside, USA