PROGRAMME

The programme will consist of six sessions.
Each session will consist of invited lectures, offered presentations and posters.
There will be no parallel sessions.


PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
Preliminary programme (pdf)


TIMETABLE
Timetable (pdf)


SOCIAL PROGRAMME
Tuesday 1 June 2010 17.30 hrs: Opening reception in World Trade Center's Townhall Room at 23th floor
Thursday 3 June 2010 18.00 hrs: Symposium dinner during evening boat tour through Rotterdam harbour area


CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS

Session 1. From genome sequence to physiology

Jens Nielsen - Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden
'What do genome sequences bring to fungal systems biology?'

Francis Martin - INRA/University of Nancy, France
'Symbiont inventions – Genomes of the basidiomycete Laccaria bicolor and the ascomycete Tuber melanosporum reveal evolutionary insights into ectomycorrhizal symbiosis'

Session 2. Differentation and evolutionary adaptation

Reinhard Fischer - University of Karlsruhe, Germany
'Cytoskeleton and polarized growth'

Kevin Verstrepen - Catholic University of Leuven & VIB Lab for Systems Biology, Louvain, Belgium
'Mechanisms underlying swift evolution and adaptation in yeast'

Session 3. Ultrastructure and compartmentation

Jean-Paul Latgé - Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
'Cell wall remodelling in yeast and filamentous fungi'

Ida van der Klei - Groningen University, The Netherlands
'Engineering yeast for the production of antibiotics'

Session 4. Signalling and regulation

Mark Johnston - University of Colorado-Denver, USA
'A reticulated regulatory network governing glucose acquisition'

David Archer - University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
'Regulation of the unfolded protein response in fungi'

Session 5. Metabolic engineering and synthetic biology

John McBride - Mascoma Corporation, Lebanon NH, USA
'Engineering Saccharomyces cerevisiae for cellulose degradation'

Marcus Hans - DSM, Delft, The Netherlands
'Metabolic engineering of Penicillium chrysogenum: b-lactams and beyond'

Session 6. Stress responses and robustness

Isabel Sá-Correia - Institute for Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal
'Role and regulation of yeast plasma membrane exporters in chemical stress defence'

Karl Kuchler - Medical University of Vienna, Austria
'Fungal pathogens meet mammalian hosts–reciprocal attack & defense and the winner takes it all'