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Day 1

Conference Introduction and Keynote Session I
Moderator: Steve Harris

13:40    Mary Berbee, Early fungi and the dawn of life on land 
34:23    Vasilis Kokkoris, Nuclear dynamics in the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Rhizophagus irregularis. 
56:28    Nicole Revie, Exploring broad-spectrum and combination antifungal strategies to combat human fungal pathogens 
Session A

Environmental Sensing and Signaling 
Moderator: Patricia Larkin-Thomas


00:57   Anna Carolina Borges Pereira da Costa, The Candida albicans MAPKKK Ste11 has both regulatory and enzymatic
              functions in opaque cells under pheromone stimulation. 

15:11   Rosa Eskandari  Role of the TOR (Target of Rapamycin) Pathway in circadian rhythmicity of Neurospora crassa.
31:07   Pooja Sridhar  Mechanisms underlying the chemotropism of Fusarium graminearum on the wheat head.
45:35  Brianna Ball Global phosphorylation analysis of the Protein Kinase A-regulated phosphoproteome of C. neoformans.
50:56  Yunjin (Rachel) Lee  Functional genomic analysis of protein kinases in the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans.

Applications and Resource Development I
Moderator: Tara Rintoul

1:16:48  Nicole Smith, Screening novel marine fungal strains for the production of polyunsaturated fatty acids, specifically       
                eicosapentaenoic acid and arachidonic Acid.
 
1:30:33  Sarah Mediouni, The impacts of gold mining on mycorrhiza in Northern Canada.
1:44:38  Keith Seifert , The international dimension of Canadian mycology.
1:59:24  Maximillian Soltysiak, Trans-Kingdom Conjugation Enables Simple and Robust DNA Delivery to Fungi.
2:06:02  Nykole Crevits, Saccharomyces, at your cerevisiae: Does brewing equipment get kidney stones, and how can we make
                this the yeast of our problems?


Yeast as a Model
Moderator: Aashiq Kachroo 

2:31:13  Andrey Petropavlovskiy, Yeast cytosolic J-chaperones perform distinct functions in cellular protein quality control. 
2:45:55  Courtney Harris, Is the main function of the Bowen-Conradi Syndrome protein Emg1 to displace snR35? 
3:02:10  James Cluff, Casein kinase 2 catalytic subunits a1/a2 of the small subunit processome’s (SSU) UTP-C sub complex regulate growth likely through ribosome biosynthesis. 
Session B

Drug and Stress Resistance
Moderator: Elizabeth Brauer

4:03      Kali Iyer, Understanding Candida auris: Exploiting chemical matter to uncover cell biology and characterize resistance
              mechanisms in this emerging fungal pathogen. 

19:59   Matthew Berg, Tra1 is required for antifungal drug resistance in yeast. 
35:10   Ola Salama, A comparative study of boric acid and fluconazole drug responses in C. albicans planktonic and biofilm
              cells. 

51:34   Emily Puumala, Identification of novel bioactives to combat the emerging fungal pathogen Candida auris. 
56:27   Christopher Lee, Role of phosphatidylcholine on Cryptococcal capsule formation.

Fungal Virulence
Moderator: Jennifer Geddes-McAlister


1:20:20   Jennifer Geddes-McAlister, Combatting fungal infections through the discovery and elucidation of novel anti-virulence
                  strategies. 

1:35:08   Michael Hallett, Candida albicans exhibits a cytoprotective response to anti-fungal drugs that facilitates the evolution
                 of drug resistance.

1:52:55   Gunjan Gupta, Integrating high-throughput screening of antifungal microbial interactions and system biology-based
                 approaches to study complex gene-microbe interactions. 

1:59:03   Jessie MacAlpine, Dissecting the mechanisms governing inter-kingdom interactions between Candida albicans and
                 
Lactobacillus species. 

Insights in Metabolism
Moderator: Linda Harris

2:35:48   Sean McCotter, Characterization of the roles of the monothiol glutaredoxin, Grx4, in the cell biology and virulence of
                 Ustilago maydis. 

2:50:02   Barret Foster, Enhanced stress tolerance in Norwegian kveik results in increased fermentation efficiencies at extreme
                  temperatures. 

3:18:55   Caitlyn Horsch, How arbuscular mycorrhizal life history traits influence soil carbon cycling. 
3:25:20   Abdullahi Jamiu, Anti-biofilm activity of unsaturated fatty acids with fluconazole.
3:35:00   W.G. Duleeka I. Gunawardana, Environmental factors and polyketide synthase gene expression in an usnic acid
                  producing lichen-fungus. 


​Day 2

Keynote Session II 
Moderator: Emile Gluck-Thaler

5:15    Aaron Vogan, The Enterprise: A massive transposon carrying Spok meiotic drive genes. 
29:13  Kristina Shostak, Characterization of TRI6, a global regulator of secondary metabolism. 
53:38  Cameron Semper , Genome mining Aspergillus niger for discovery of antimicrobial compounds. 
Session A

​Species Interactions

Moderator: Alexandra Dallaire

1:07    Ghazaleh Nourparvar, Analysis of incompatibility in het-6 locus in Neurospora crassa. 
12:19  Alexandra Dallaire, Small non-coding RNAs and the development of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal fungi. 
30:05  Nicola Case, Global Analysis of circuitry governing Candida albicans morphogenesis within host immune cells. 
46:30  Kendra Sampson, Investigating the effects of arbuscular mycorrhizae on Crocanthemum canadense (L.) Britt. (Cistaceae)
             propagated in tissue culture. 

52:03  Jenna Dale, Effects of an Epichloë endophyte on foliar fungal communities in tall fescue grass (Schedonorus
             arundinaceus
). 

Applications and Resource Development II
Moderator: Alfredo Justo

1:15:15   Alfredo Justo, The mycoflora of New Brunswick: First steps on a long road ahead. 
1:30:42   Michelle Thompson, The first report of a culturable microbiome from pollinated style tissue. 
1:44:40   Veronique Chartier-FitzGerald, Biological control potential of ectomycorrhizal fungi against F. circinatum on Pinus
                 patula
seedlings.

1:59:50   Jordan Hofstra, Addressing Barriers of Ontario Cider Production. 
2:06:45   Evelina Basenko, FungiDB: integrating genomic data for pathogens and model organisms and providing advanced
                 search capabilities and large-scale data analysis. 


Genes to Proteins
Moderator: Nicolas Corradi

2:29:55   Jordan Willis, VID28 and VID30 Regulate Glucose Repression and Derepression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. 
2:46:22   Manjari Shrivastava, Modulation of the complex regulatory network for methionine biosynthesis in fungi. 
3:00:22   Philippe Després, Systematic perturbation of yeast essential genes using base editing. 
3:16:23   Tanya Sharma, Transcriptomic profiling suggests a role for an ABA biosynthetic gene in Fusarium graminearum during
                  its early infection of Wheat. 

3:21:15   Ana Priscilla Montenegro Alonso, UhAVR1, an avirulence effector of Ustilago hordei, suppresses a conserved target(s)                   of plant immunity during the initial stages of fungal infection. 

Session B

Fungal Diversity
Moderator: Allison Walker

00:53  Emile Gluck-Thaler, Differences in genome content underlie standing genetic variation in an asexual eukaryote. 
17:20  Miao Liu, Sympatric divergence of ergot fungi populations in Canada and Midwestern USA.
32:33  Caryn Leigh Cooper, Survey of culturable fungal endosymbionts in Nova Scotia intertidal and subtidal macroalgae. 
42:18  Cole Vail, Vertical distribution of some crustose littoral zone lichens in the Bay of Fundy. 
47:40  Domenica De Luca, Four genomic clades of Candida auris identified in Canada, 2012-2019. 
51:58  Jacob Steenwyk, Pathogenic allodiploid hybrids of Aspergillus Fungi. 
56:18  Jonathan Mack, Microfungi diversity from the bark of Acer saccharum. 

Stress Response
Moderator: Aleeza Gerstein

1:16:07  Johannes Westman, Regulation of phagosomal size and integrity during fungal infection. 
1:32:30  Linda Horianopoulos, J domain co-chaperones contribute to host adaptation in Cryptococcus neoformans
                
pathogenesis. 
1:46:35  Saif Hossain, The proteasome governs fungal morphogenesis via functional connections with Hsp90 and cAMP-PKA
                signaling. 

2:02:57  Kamaldeep Chhoker, Effect of melanin loss on Exophiala dermatitidis morphology and its ability to adapt to different
                stresses. 

2:07:37  Viola Halder, Using a CRISPR-Cas9-based gene drive to target stress response genes in Candida albicans. 

New Approaches
Moderator: Yan Wang

2:32:07   Sean Formby, A haplotype-aware de novo assembly approach for the pathogenic dikaryotic fungus, Puccinia triticina. 
2:49:03   Ivan Liachko, Chromosome-scale genome assembly, dikaryon phasing, and centromere mapping using Hi-C.
3:03:35   Van Bettauer, A deep learning approach to detect fungi in different morphologies from microscopy-based image
                 analysis. 

3:07:36  Sierra Rosiana, The role of fungal adhesins in mediating morphogenesis and virulence in Candida albicans. 
3:12:26  Minuka Hewapathirana, Identification of novel NHEJ DNA repair genes using machine learning algorithms. 
3:16:29  Jehoshua Sharma, Expanding the genetic toolbox for Candida albicans: the development of novel CRISPR interference
                and CRISPR base editing technologies. 


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