CBS Spring Symposium, One Fungus : Which Gene(s) (1F = ?G) 2013

The two important and successful CBS Spring Symposia, One Fungus = One Name (2011) and One Fungus = Which Name (2012) had great impacts on the mycological community. The CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre is now planning the 2013 Spring Symposium, One Fungus = Which Gene(s), which will occur on 10-11 April 2013. The main topic of the symposium will be to extend the concept of DNA barcoding to define how best to classify and identify fungi. Although a general consensus on the ITS barcode region has now been reached, it is important to clarify what additional gene(s) need to be targeted for specific fungal groups. Furthermore, best practices for obtaining and designating ex-type or ex-epitype isolates for whole genome analysis need to be addressed. The impact of fungal genome projects on fungal taxonomy and their utility for discovering new barcoding genes will be a focus, and the possible application of phylogenomic information to inform functional genomic annotation will also be discussed.

Contributed papers are welcome, and they will be selected for either oral or poster presentations.

Date: Wednesday April 10 - Thursday April 11 (2013)

Venue: Trippenhuis, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam

Registration: € 250,-- (includes coffee/tea, lunches and cocktail party) ?

Poster presentations are welcome

Programme Wednesday April 10, 2013

09.30- 10.00 Registration and coffee
10.00-10.10 Opening

Session 1: New genes and taxonomic concepts

• 10.10-10.30 Vincent Robert: Strategies for finding novel genes
• 10.30-10.50 Benjamin Stielow: Development of novel genes
• 10.50-11.20 Andre Levesque & Chris Lewis: Development of additional DNA barcodes for Fungi based on conserved Pfam families and domains
• 11.20-11.50 Francois Lutzoni: Many fungi = less characters: The phylogenetic challenges of capturing a hyperdiverse fungal biodiversity
• 11.50-12.20 Marcus Teixeira: New genes and new concepts in Paracoccidioides.
• 12.30-13.30 lunch + posters + CBS exhibition

Session 2: medical mycology

• 13.30-13.55 Anderson Rodrigues: emerging virulence in Sporothrix.
• 13.55-14.20 Wieland Meyer, Carolina Firacative, Benjamin Stielow, Lea Vaas, Vincent Robert: Where are we with the ID of heterogeneous Candida species? 

• 14.20-14.55 Joseph Heitman: Fungal mating types and sexual reproduction
• 15.00-15.30 coffee break
  
  

Session 3 One Fungus which Name and protected lists: Where do we stand?

• 15.30-15.50 David Hawksworth : What our Lists of Protected and Suppressed names can achieve
• 15.50-16.10 Keith Seifert & Andrew M. Miller  - Update on Subcommissions, Working Groups, and Protected Lists
• 16.10-16.30 Joost Stalpers: The types of genera and other MycoBank-assisted lists
• 16.30-16.50 Discussion
• 17.00-18.00: Cocktail party; Book launches -
• 19.00 Speakers dinner (Dinner vouchers available for € 40,--)

Programme Thursday April 11, 2013

• 09:00-09:30 Johanna Westerdijk & Josef von Arx Awards
  

Session 4 Taxonomy and genomics

• 09.30-10.00 Ulrich Kuck: Genomics and secondary metabolites
• 10.00-10.30 Joey Spatafora: F1000 gains momentum
• 10.30-11.00 Ronald de Vries: Taxonomy versus ecology: what do we learn from genomes
• 11.00-11.20 Coffee Break
• 11.20-11.40: Teun Boekhout, Xin-Zhan Liu, Bart Theelen, Qi-Ming Wang, Marizeth Groenewald, Benjamin Stielow and Feng-Yyan Bai and on behalf of the Committee on Yeast Systematics and Nomenclature (CYSN, ICY, IUMS): : Towards a new taxonomy of yeasts
• 11.40-12.00: Scott Baker: Post-genomic tools for fungal phenotypes
• 12.00-12.20: Christina Cuomo: Microsporidian genomic analysis: strategies for obligate intracellular growth
• 12.30-13.30 lunch + posters + CBS exhibition

Session 5 Dilemmas and decisions for single name nomenclature

• 13.30-13.50 Eleonora Egidi: Nomenclatural dilemmas of high diversity of non-descript fungi – life on the rocks.
• 13.50- 14.20 David Geiser & K L. O’Donnell: The generic boundary for Fusarium, and future prospects for phylogenetics"
• 14.20- 14.40 Rob Samson: Single name nomenclature in the Trichocomaceae
• 14.40- 15.00 Z. Wilhelm de Beer, Keith A. Seifert, M.J. Wingfield: Pragmatism in the application of single name nomenclature to the ophiostomatoid fungi.
• 15.00-15.30 coffee break

15.30-17.00 Meeting of the ISHAM Working Group Nomenclature of Medical Fungi: A showcase of nomenclatural stability after 1F=1N.

Conveners: Sybren de Hoog, Gerhard Haase, Thomas Walsh, Michaela Lackner, Vishnu Chaturvedi (secretary), Wieland Meyer
Speakers:

• John Taylor: the need to change the system at the specific and generic levels and above.
  
• Thomas Walsh: the needs of the routine lab.
  
• Sybren de Hoog: proposal of the working group.
  
• Forum discussion Candida: Heide-Marie Daniel / title to be announced
  
• Forum discussion Cryptococcus: June Kwon-Chung / Teun Boekhout.
  
• General discussion on approved / protected list. Proposals may be submitted at de.hoog@cbs.knaw.nl.
  
• 17.00 Closing

Poster presentations:

• Fungi Isolated From ‘Hurma’ Olives Grown in Karaburun Peninsula by Ayşe Handan Baysal and Gozde Seval Karslı

• DNA-based taxonomy of Glomeromycota: (how) should we name the fungi known by DNA only? by Maarja Öpik

• Screening of antifungal, antibacterial and Cytotoxic Effects of Two Cladonia Species by Birkan Açıkgöza, İskender Karaltıb, Melike Ersozc, Zeynep M. Coskunc, Gülşah Çobanoğlua, Cenk Sesala

• Variability of  Indoor and Outdoor Airborne Fungi of The Hospitals in İstanbul During One Year  by İskender Karaltı, Günay Tülay Çolakoğlu

• Comparıson of tradıtıonal methods with taqman pcr of four dıfferent Candıda spp. Isolated from varıous clınıcal samples. by İskender Karaltı, Günay Tülay Çolakoğlu, Yeşim Gürol, Gülden Çelik

• A prelımınary study on DNA barcodıng of foodborne mıcrofungı by Rasime Demırel

• Determınatıon of mıcrofungı from van lake ın turkey by Rasime Demırel, Nilgun Kavak, Mehmet Burcin Mutlu

• Mıcrofungal bıodıversıty of the old books by Duygu Kadaifçiler
  Effects of some herbıcıdes on colonıal  growth of Aspergillus alliaceusby Burhan Sen, Suzan Okten

• Determination of Indoor Microfungal Biodiversity of Potential Infectious Risk in Hospital Newborn Units in Five Provinces of Turkey: Preliminary Results by Aysegul Yoltas, Rasime Demırel, Burhan Sen, Duygu Kadaıfcıler, Ozlem Abacı Gunyar, Soner Ozdıl, Derya Berıkten, Erhan Sakartepe, Suzan Okten, Halide Aydogdu, Evrim Taskın, Alev Halıkı Uztan, Ahmet Asan,, Merih Kıvanc, Neriman Yılmaz, Robert A. Samson

Friday April 12, 2013

Meetings of the IMA Executive Committee, and several ICTF and IUMS commissions and working groups will be held at the CBS in Utrecht, which will be concluded with a fungal barbecue. More information will follow.