Irish Fungal Society Annual Conference 2018
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
Day 2
Session 5 Epidemiology & Genomics of Fungal Pathogens
Chair: Tom Rogers
9.30-10.00: David Denning – University of Manchester
Global Epidemiology of fungal disease
10.00-10.15: Jessica Fletcher – Trinity College Dublin
Evidence that TLO family expansion enhances fitness in Candida species
10.15-10.30: Charley McCarthy – Maynooth University
Analysis of the fungal pangenome
10.30-10.45: Elise Iracane – UCD
Role of Hac1 in the unfolded protein response in Candida species
10.45-11.00: Jamie McGowan – Maynooth University
Genomics Analysis of the Oomycetes using the Oomycete Gene Order Browser (OGOB)
11.00-11.30: Tea/Coffee
Session 6 Fungal Pathogenesis
Chair: Gary Moran
11.30-12.00: Bernhard Hube – Hans Knoell Institute, Jena
Virulence or avirulence? Dual function genes of Candida albicans
12.00-12.15: Anatte Margalit – Maynooth University
Characterizing the Response of A549 Cells to Aspergillus fumigatus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa:
A Proteomic Approach
12.15-12:45: Cian Duggan – Imperial College London
Co-option of the host endomembrane system by the potato late blight pathogen
12:45-13:00: Gerard Sheehan – Maynooth University
Galleria mellonella larvae to study the development of invasive and disseminated aspergillosis in vivo
13.00-13.30: Irish Fungal Society AGM with Packed Lunch