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Workshop Onygenales

Thursday 28 – Friday 29 June 2018

Price: 75 EUR
Location: RAI Congress Center
The workshop will take place in two different meeting rooms:
Thursday 28 June 2018:            Meeting room Emerald room
Friday 29 June 2018:                 Meeting room D201

Dear Friends,

The ISHAM Working Group Dermatophytes has a slot for a pre-congress workshop in The Netherlands, 28 and 29 June 2018, just prior to the ISHAM Congress in Amsterdam. Since there are so many developments in the systemic relatives of Onygenales, we thought this would be a good opportunity to expand this to the entire order, thus covering the dermatophytes as well as the ‘classical’ systemic fungi – which are not very classical anymore. The workshop will cover important topics about epidemiology, diagnostics, taxonomy, systematics, population genetics, comparative phylogenomics, functional genomics and proteomics of those relevant fungal pathogens. We hope you like this idea. Below please find a tentative program. If you have any data to present, or if you have any other suggestions, please let us know.

The workshop will be held in the RAI Congress Center in Amsterdam, that is the same venue where the ISHAM Congress will start on 30 June. No individual support will be possible, but local facilities including lunches and dinners will be provided free of charge. Registration is compulsory; see the website. For speakers the registration fee of the workshop will be waived. Congress participation and fee is separate from workshop participation.

Abstracts are expected early 2018; you will be notified. A special issue of the journal Mycopathologia can be composed on the basis of a selection of papers in the workshop.

With kind regards,
Sybren de Hoog s.hoog@westerdijkinstitute.nl, Marcus Teixeira marcus.teixeira@gmail.com, Tom Chiller tnc3@cdc.go

Thursday 28 Jun

08:00

Registration

09:00

Welcome greetings

Sybren de Hoog, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Session 1

Chair: Tom Chiller

09:15

Epidemiology of Histoplasma

Tom Chiller, Atlanta, USA

09:30

Epidemiology and ecology of Emergomyces africanus

Ilan Schwartz & Nelesh Govender, Johannesburg, South Africa

09:45

Onygenales from desert(ish) soils

John Taylor, Berkeley, USA

10:00

The southern endemic zone of paracoccidioidomycosis. Current state in Argentina and Paraguay

Gustavo Giusiano, Corrientes, Argentina

10:15

Paracoccidioides brasiliensis and related species: infection in armadillos, ecology and phylogeny

Eduardo Bagagli, São Paulo, Brazil

10:30

Coffee Break

Session 2

Chair: Vit Hubka

11:00

Ecology and geographic distribution of Coccidioides

Ana Litvintseva, Atlanta, USA

11:15

New and emerging zoophilic dermatophytes in Europe

Vit Hubka, Prague, Czechia

11:30

New endemic mycoses in North America: infections caused by Blastomyces helicus and Emergomyces canadensis

Lynne Sigler & Ilan Schwartz, Canada

11:45

Molecular detection of Coccidioides posadasii in endemic areas of Coccidioidomycosis in Venezuela: need for awareness of cap caused by Coccidioides

Bridget Barker, Flagstaff, USA

12:00

Dermatophytes isolated from podiatry nail dust in four regions of Eastern Australia

Steven Hainsworth, Wagga, Australia

12:15

Histoplasmosis in Africa: An emerging or a neglected disease?

Rita Oladele, Manchester, UK

12:30

Lunch

Session 3

Chair: Rita Oladele

13:30

Molecular phylogeny of the order Onygenales

Karolina Dukik, Utrecht, Netherlands

13:45

Updating the taxonomy of dermatophytes of the BCCM/IHEM collection according to the new standard: a taxonomic approach

Ann Packeu, Brussels, Belgium

14:00

Molecular diagnostics of dermatophytes

Yvonne Gräser, Berlin, Germany

14:15

Novel Ajellomycetaceae

Yanping Jiang, Guiyang, China

14:30

Detection of Onygenales in wild animals

Patrizia Danesi, Venice, Italy

14:45

Species boundaries in T. tonsurans complex

Hazal Kandemir Boral, Adana, Turkey

15:00

Coffee Break

Session 4

Chair: Michel Monod

15:30

Novel Onygenales from India

Rahul Sharma, Pune, India

15:45

Species boundaries and clinical significance of geophilic Arthroderma species

Vit Hubka, Prague, Czechia

16:00

Molecular parameters of dermatophyte sexuality

Banu Metin, Adana, Turkey

16:15

Ultra-High Resolution Mass Spectrometry of closely related dermatophytes with different clinical predilections

Karolina Dukik, Utrecht, The Netherlands

16:30

Proteogenomic re-annotation of Coccidioides posadasii reveals novel biomarkers

Doug Lake, Phoenix, USA

Friday 29 Jun

Session 5

Chair: John Taylor

09:00

The known diversity of internal transcribed spacer region genotypes of Trichophyton spp.

I.M. Pchelin, St. Petersburg, Russia

09:15

Place of Trichophyton soudanense in the Trichophyton rubrum complex: a clinical isolates analysis

M. Gits-Muselli, France

09:30

Genetic background of histoplasmosis in Amazonian Guiana shield

Mathieu Nacher, Cayenne, French Guiana

09:45

CSF Histoplasma infections in Argentina due new Histoplasma genotypes

Cristina Canteros, Buenos Aires, Argentina

10:00

Multiple Histoplasma infections due new deadly genotypes in Northern Brazil

Rosely Zancope, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

10:15

Histoplasma in Africa

Clara Valero Fernández, Majahonda, Spain

10:30

Coffee Break

Session 6

Chair: Eduardo Bagagli

11:00

Coccidioides in Mexico

Raquel Salazar, Ensenada, Mexico

11:15

Emerging Onygenales species in Southern USA wildlife

Marcus Teixeira, Flagstaff, USA

11:30

Coccidioidomycosis in Northeastern Brazil

Rossana Cordeiro, Fortaleza, Brazil

11:45

Comparative genomics and evolution of virulence in dimorphic human pathogenic fungi

Jose Muñoz, Boston, USA

12:00

Integrated genome–phenome framework for fungal outbreak investigation

Vishnu Chaturvedi, San Francisco, USA

12:15

Lunch

Session 7

Chair: Ann Packeu

13:30

Majocchi’s granuloma: current perspectives

Murat Durdu, Adana, Turkey

13:45

Antifungal drug resistance of Trichophyton clinical isolates

Michel Monod, Lausanne, Switzerland

14:00

Urease Activity Among the Onygenales

Alf Botha, South Africa

14:15

Multifunctional activities of fungal extracellular vesicles

Leonardo Nimrichter, Stony Brook, USA

14:30

Cryptic populations of Histoplasma in bats in Mexico

Daniel Estrada Bárcenas, Mexico DC, Mexico

14:45

Recent advances in genetic tools of dermatophytes

T. Yamada, Tokyo, Japan

15:00

Coffee Break

Session 8

Chair: Marcus Teixeira

15:30

Proteolytic activity-associated genes in dermatophytes

Aylin Döğen, Adana, Turkey

15:45

Macrophage activation by IFN-γ triggers restriction of phagosomal copper from intracellular pathogens

Qian Shen, Ohio, USA

16:00

Changing epidemiology of dermatophytoses in Slovenia

Maja Subelj, Ljubljana, Slovenia

16:15

Implementation of a multiplex real-time PCR assay in the diagnostic algorithm of dermatophytoses in Liège (Belgium)

A. Wakpo, Cotonu, Benin

16:30

Closing remarks the ISHAM Working Group; next meeting

Marcus Teixeira, Tom Chiller, Vit Hubka, Sybren de Hoog.