Asperfest 17
Satellite WorkshopsSunday the 16th February 2020
Location: Sapienza University of Rome 
Building: CU022 – Side: Botanica – Floor: Ground – Room: Giacomini
Registration and poster hang up, Poster and Welcome Reception sponsored by Novozymes Inc.
| 17:00 - 18:30 | Odd-numbered posters |
| 18:30 - 20:00 | Even-numbered posters |
Judging for Novozymes Student Poster Prize, coordinated by Ling Lu, Nanjing Normal University, Poster session Chair
Poster take down
Monday the 17th February 2020
Location: Sapienza University of Rome
Building: CU022 – Side: Genetica – Floor: Ground – Room: Montalenti
Session I
Chair: Richard Todd, Kansas State University – Norio Takeshita, University of Tsukuba
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Welcome, introductions and announcements |
| 09:15 - 10:45 | 1. Oier Etxebeste - University of the Basque Country Transcriptional networks controlling asexual development in Aspergillus nidulans: An evolutionary perspective 2. Hubertus Haas - Innsbruck Medical University Iron sensing in Aspergillus fumigatus 3. Neta Shlezinger - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Fungal-host interactions: A duel to the (cell) death 4. Levente Karaffa - University of Debrecen Aspergillus terreus itaconic acid fermentation: the physiology behind key technological parameters |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Coffee Break |
Session II
Chair: Richard Todd, Kansas State University.
| 11:15 - 11:30 | N. Louise Glass - UC Berkeley Developing a high-throughput functional genomics platform for Aspergillus flavus |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Fabio Gsaller - Innsbruck Medical University Genetic engineering of fungi exploiting pyrimidine salvage pathway-based self-encoded selectable markers |
Flash talks
Chair: Nancy Keller, University of Wisconsin – Michelle Momany, University of Georgia
| 11:45 -12:15 Speed pitches (3 min) to posters | 1. Ignacio Bravo-Plaza - Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas Identification of the guanine nucleotide exchange factor for SAR1 in the filamentous fungal model Aspergillus nidulans 2. Eszter Bokor - University of Szeged The nicotinic acid pathway of Aspergillus nidulans includes a reversible conversion to 6-hydroxynicotinic acid 3. Shoki Fujita - Tohoku University CreD ubiquitination required for endocytic degradation of the maltose transporter MalP in Aspergillus oryzae 4. Sandra Garrigues - Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute Combinatorial control of transcription factors involved in sugar beet pulp utilization in the industrially relevant fungus Aspergillus niger 5. Mamun Md. Abdulla Al - The University of Tokyo Identification of novel proteins for fungal cell-to-cell communication by localization screening from multicellularity-specific uncharacterized genes 6. Hajer Alshraim Alshammri - The University of Manchester A rapid CRISPR-mediated Tet-Off system reveals the phosphoinositide kinases Stt4 and Mss4 are essential for viability of Aspergillus fumigatus 7. Amelia Barber - University of Wuerzburg Comparative genomics of Aspergillus fumigatus and the influence of agriculture on ecology and azole resistance 8. Matthew Blango - Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology Aspergillus fumigatus elicits host-derived extracellular vesicles upon infection 9. Peter Punt - Dutch DNA Biotech & Leiden University Rewiring metabolic pathways for organic acid production in the filamentous fungus Aspergillus niger |
| 12:15 - 12:45 | David Roos - FungiDB update Community directions discussion; Elections |
| 12:45 - 14:00 | Lunch |
Session III. Talks from Abstracts
Chair: David Canovas, University of Seville – Nir Osherov, Tel Aviv University
| 14:00 -14:15 | Sjoerd Seekles - Leiden University The effect of cultivation temperature on the heat resistance of Aspergillus niger conidia |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | Irene Picazo - Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas Effects of ambient alkaline pH on gene expression: a key regulatory role for the cation-homeostasis transcription factor SltA |
| 14:30 - 14: 45 | Danielle Weaver - University of Manchester Uncovering long non-coding RNA associated with drug response in Aspergillus fumigatus |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Gayan Abeysinghe - University of Tsukuba Exploring the variety of interactions between Fungi and Bacteria |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Sayoko Oiki - University of Tsukuba Cellular response to farnesol and the role of nitric oxide production in Aspergillus fumigatus |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | Paul Schäpe - TU-Berlin Harnessing transcriptomic data to predict the function of proteins in the microbial cell factory Aspergillus niger |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Anezia Kourkoulou - National and Kapodistrian University of Athens UapA-membrane lipid interactions are crucial for ER-exit, dimerization, function and expression of mammalian transporters in A. nidulans |
| 15:45 - 16:15 | Coffee break |
Pontecorvo Lecture (sponsored by Zymergen)
Chair: Norio Takeshita, University of Tsukuba – Benjamin Knox, Zymergen, Inc.
| 16:15 -17:00 | Katsuya Gomi - Tohuku University How the koji mold Aspergillus oryzae produces amylolytic enzymes? |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Election results; Novozymes student poster prizes; other discussion items |
| 17:30 | Dismiss |