Day 1

9.20-9.30: Welcome Address

Session 1 Fungi in Biotechnology
Chair: Catherine Collins

9.30-10.00: Darragh Gaffney – Monaghan Biosciences
Monaghan Mushrooms & Fungal Biotech: Using R&D to create a circular bioeconomy business

10.00-10.30: Ulrich Kück – Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Molecular genetics of the fungal beta lactam producers Acremonium chrysogenum and Penicillium chrysogenum

10.30-10.45: Betim Karahoda – Maynooth University
H3K4 Demethylase KdmB Bridges Cohesin Acetylation to Histone Deacetylase-ring finger Complex for the Fungal Light Responses and Secondary Metabolism

10:45-11:00: Martin O’Donoghue – Teagasc, Ashtown
The genetic regulation of mushroom production and its relevance to fungal plant decomposition and carbon sequestration

11.00-11.30: Tea/Coffee

11.30-12.00: Ozgur Bayram – Maynooth University
Building up scaffolds: control of signal influx into development and secondary metabolism

12.00-12.15: Eoin O’Connor – Maynooth Univ & Teagasc
Visualisation of MVX RNA in the mycelium of Agaricus bisporus by fluorescence in situ hybridisation

12.15-12.30: Keith Dunne – Sligo IT & Teagasc
Genetic regulation of compost and plant matter degradation mechanisms in Agaricus bisporus

12.30-13.30: Lunch

Session 2 Managing Antifungals for the future
Chair: TBC

13.30-13.45: Gilead Fellowship Talk: Alida Talento
St James’s Hospital Antifungal stewardship in critical care: implementing a diagnostics driven approach in the management of invasive candidiasis

13.45-14.00: Gilead Fellowship Talk: Adilia Warris
University of Aberdeen Paediatric Antifungal Stewardship: optimising antifungal prescription in children (PASOAP)

14:00-14:30: Stephen Kildea – Teagasc
Is fungicide resistance an inevitable consequence of crop protection?

14.30-14.45: Hilda Dooley – Teagasc Oak Park
Can applications of foliar micronutrients help to manage septoria tritici blotch, causal agent Zymoseptoria tritici?

14.45-15.00: Alida Talento – St James’s Hospital
Multi-triazole-resistant Aspergillus fumigatus: Experience from an Irish tertiary referral centre

15.00-15.30: Tea/Coffee

Session 3 Fungal Infection Case Studies Session (Irish Soc. Of Clinical Microbiology)
Chair: Alida Talento

15.30-16.00: Silke Schelenz – Imperial College London
Candida auris, an infection control challenge

16.00-16.15: Margaret Creedon – St. Vincent’s Univ. Hospital
Antifungal Prophylaxis in Orthotopic Liver Transplantation: A Re-Audit.

16.15-16.30: Judi Lynch – St James’s Hospital
Galactomannan in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid for diagnosis of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis

16.30-16.45: Aia Mohamed – St James’s Hospital
A 6 year retrospective review of Candida bloodstream infections at St. James’s Hospital: Are we following the guidelines?

Session 4 Posters

16.45-18.00: Poster Session

19.30: Conference Dinner at the Glenroyal Hotel