Workshop Malassezia
Wednesday 4 July – Friday 6 July 2018
Congress Venue
Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute
Uppsalalaan 8
3584 CT, Utrecht
The Netherlands
route discription
Organizers
Teun Boekhout & Thomas Dawson
ISHAM working group Malassezia, epidemiology and pathobiology & Malassezia Research Consortium
Wednesday
04
Jul
Theme Ecology, diversity and microbiome
14:00
Keynote: Biodiversity and ecology of Malassezia species
Javier Cabañes, Spain
14:30
Malassezia in the environment
Teun Boekhout, the Netherlands
14:45
Identification of Malassezia species in seborrheic dermatitis and fungal microbiota in androgenetic alopecia
Yuping Ran, China
15:00
Socio-demographic characteristics and spectrum of Malassezia species in seborrhoeic dermatitis in urban and rural population of India
Shivaprakash Rudramurthy, India
15:15
Tea
15:30
Keynote: The Human Skin Mycobiome in Health and Disease
Thomas Dawson, Singapore & Teun Boekhout, the Netherlands
16:00
Malassezia in the human gut: friend or foe or artefact?
Mathias Richard, France
16:15
Hybridization in the Malassezia furfur complex
B. Theelen, the Netherlands
16:30
Comprehensive Analysis of the microbiome of keratotic plugs, and interactions between Malassezia and Propionibacterium (Cutibacterium) acnes
T. Sugita, Japan
16:45
Next-generation sequencing provides new insights regarding Malassezia in canine allergic dermatitis where population-level differences are associated with disease
Courtney Meason-Smith, USA
17:00
Closing
Thursday
05
Jul
Theme Clinical, Therapy and Diagnostics
09:30
World Association for Veterinary Dermatology Clinical Consensus Guidelines for Malassezia dermatitis in dogs and cats
Ross Bond, United Kingdom
09:50
Mycosyph, the greatest imitator
M. Laurence, Canada
10:05
Malassezia-related infections: A call for specific guidelines for diagnosis and patient management
Teun Boekhout, the Netherlands
10:20
What do dermatologists use and what is needed to initiate therapy and assess efficacy in Malassezia related skin diseases?
Ditte Saunte, Denmark
10:40
Coffee
11:00
A rapid molecular assay for direct quantification of Malassezia pachydermatis in otic swabs
G. Castella, Spain
11:15
Molecular identification and speciation of Malassezia and its susceptibility pattern
P. Romald, India
11:30
Understanding the mechanism of action of the anti-dandruff agent zinc pyrithione against Malassezia restricta
M. Park, South Korea
11:45
Epidemiological cutoff values for four clinical antifungal drugs against Malassezia furfur. Preliminary estimated data
F.R. Rojas, Argentina
12:00
In vivo effectiveness of a saturated boric acid solution on Malassezia pachydermatis canine external otitis
M. García-Jiménez, Costa Rica
12:15
A Taqman-based qPCR assay for the detection of Malassezia spp. from clinical material
A. Stavrou, the Netherlands
12:30
Lunch and posters
14:00
Keynote: Malassezia sympodialis - host/microbe interactions
Annika Scheynius, Sweden
14:30
Characterization of some virulence factors in Malassezia spp
Letizia Angiolella, Italy
14:45
Lipidomic analyses of Malassezia reveals the presence of branched fatty acid esters of hydroxy fatty acids (FAHFAs)
A. Celis, Colombia
15:00
Characterization of Acyl-CoA Synthetase Faa1p Involved in Fatty Acid Utilization of Malassezia spp
T. Tenagy, Japan
15:15
Tea
15:30
Keynote: The multi-purpose biological functions of Malassezia metabolites on the skin include and potent antifungal activity
Georgios Gaitanis, Greece
16:00
New developments for therapeutic treatment of skin infections caused by Malassezia spp
Hans de Cock, the Netherlands
16:15
Type 17 immunity controls Malassezia skin infection
Florian Sparber, Switzerland
16:30
Keynote: Genomics of Malassezia and the genetics toolbox
J. Heitman, USA
17:00
Closing
Friday
06
Jul
Theme Mol. Biology, Genetics and Genomics
09:30
Strategies to study and model skin disease
K. Boonekamp
09:45
Sex in Malassezia
Q.-M. Wang, China
10:00
Horizontal gene transfer in the skin fungus Malassezia: NO resistance is mediated by a bacterial flavohemoglobin
G. Ianiri, USA
10:15
The genomic tandem quadruplication is associated with ketoconazole resistance of Malassezia pachydermatis
W.H. Jung, South Korea
10:30
Coffee
General discussion/Roundtable
11:00
General discussion/Roundtable
Chair: Georgios Gaitanis, Greece & Teun Boekhout, the Netherlands
12:30
Closing
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