KEYNOTE & PLENARY LECTURES

Keynote Speakers

• Prof. Wieland Meyer
• Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute (The Netherlands)
• Open access data as fundamental source for mycological discovery

• Dr. Irina S Druzhinina
• Royal Botanic Gardens Kew (UK)
• Ecological genomics of Trichoderma fitness sheds light on the origin of environmental opportunism in fungi

• Prof. Joseph Heitman
• Duke Univ. (USA)
• RNAi-dependent epimutations evoke transient antifungal drug resistance

Plenary Speakers

• Prof. Geoffrey M Gadd
• Univ. of Dundee (UK)
• Fungal biomineralization

• Prof. Daohong Jiang
• Huazhong Agricultural Univ. (China)
• A mycovirus converts a necrotrophic fungal pathogen to mutualistic endophyte of its host

• Prof. Akiyoshi Yamada
• Shinshu Univ. (Japan)
• Cultivation studies of edible ectomycorrhizal mushrooms: successful establishment of ectomycorrhizal associations in vitro and efficient production of fruiting bodies

• Dr. Dhanushka N Wanasinghe
• Kunming Institute of Botany (China)
• The hidden fungi in the forest canopy

• Prof. Aaron P Mitchell
• Univ. of Georgia (USA)
• Circuit diversification in Candida albicans biofilm control – how all roads lead to Rome

• Prof. John W Taylor
• UC Berkeley (USA)
• Ecology of a fungal endozoan and systemic human pathogen, Coccidioides

• Prof. Yongsun Bahn
• Yonsei Univ. (Korea)
• Exploring fungal blood-brain barrier crossing factors

• Prof. Jens C Frisvad
• Technical Univ. of Denmark (Denmark)
• Similarities and differences in the diverse extrolite profiles of Aspergillus, Penicillium and Talaromyces

• Prof. Mark S Calabon
• UP Visayas (Philippines)
• Aquatic fungal research: recent updates and future perspectives