IFS Annual Meeting 2024
We are pleased to announce that the 2024 IFS annual conference will be held on Wednesday and Thursday June 19th/20th 2024, in the School of Biological Sciences at Queen’s University Belfast.
This day and a half event will include 6 invited talks from fungal experts within UK and Ireland, selected short talks from abstract submissions, a poster session and a conference dinner to be held in the Ulster Museum right next to campus on Wednesday evening, for a fully inclusive fee of €120.
See below for more details, or follow the links.
Abstract submission portal is open!
A limited amount of on-site accomodation is available for conference attendees only, and can be booked here.
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IFS 2023
The Irish Fungal Society held its annual meeting in Dublin City University on June 22nd, 2023.
We had a range of Irish and International speakers discussing topics on medical, agricultural, and industrial fungi.
For details of the prize-winning oral and poster presentations, click here.
For photographs of the invited speakers, click here.
For photographs of some of the poster presentations, click here.
The Irish Fungal Society annual meeting was supported by Gilead who provided funding. Their supported speaker was Dr Anne-Marie Dolan. Gilead has had no input into the content of the materials used at this meeting.
Pfizer were a sponsor of the meeting and were represented by Michael Murphy and Siobhan O’Donnell Byrne
Invited Speakers:
- Dr. Selinda Orr (QUB): “C-type lectin-like receptors and anti-fungal immunity”.
- Prof. Gary Moran (TCD): “The alpha, beta, gamma of TLO gene function in the fungal pathogen Candida albicans”.
- Dr. Rebecca Owens (Maynooth): “Characterising antifungal activity: methods to identify novel antimicrobials and their targets”.
- Dr. Matthias Brock (Nottingham): “Monitoring of fungal disease progression and therapy efficacy by in vivo bioluminescence imaging”
- Prof. Elaine Bignell (Exeter): “Anti-virulence strategies for tackling aspergilloses: lessons from genome-scale studies”
- Prof. John Morrisey (UCC): “Engineering the food yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus for production of aromatics”