Description
From 2007 to 2022, mycologists of the Greater Zürich Area have met once a year in a one-day symposium termed 'Zürich Mycology Symposium'. The goal of the symposium was the scientific exchange and the networking among this community and the location and the organizers of the symposium alternated between the participating institutions i.e. ETH Zürich, University of Zürich, Agroscope Reckenholz, Agroscope Wädenswil and WSL Birmensdorf. Upon the strong interest and engagement of mycologists from institutions outside of the area, i.e. the University of Neuchatel, the symposium was renamed to 'Swiss Mycology Symposium' in 2022 and is now open to all interested Swiss mycologists. Beginning 2023, the symposium will take place at the participating institutions (including University of Neuchatel - other locations are considered and suggestions are welcome) in years with a 2-day annual meeting of the Swiss Society of Microbiology (SSM) or as a satellite symposium (on the first day) in years with a 3-day annual meeting of the SSM. In this way, we hope to foster the scientific exchange and the networking between Swiss mycologists with special emphasis on the promotion of the scientific carreers of young colleagues in order to keep the research on these fascinating organisms alive in Switzerland.
Date
Friday 16. June 2023
Location
University of Zürich, Irchel Campus (Vetsuisse Faculty), TFA00.44 [easy to reach by tram no. 7 or no. 9 to ‘Tierspital’, with a direct connection from SBB Hauptbahnhof]
Local Organizers
> Salomé Leibundgut-Landmann
Program
The program comprises talks selected from abstracts
(max. 1 talk per group/PI, preferentially by PhD students and postdocs), posters during the 2-hour lunch break
and a key note lecture by Dr. Colin Averill (ETH Zürich) on his amazing work on active soil microbiome restoration
to accelerate forest carbon capture as a climate solution.
Schedule:
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 09:00-09:30 | Arrival & Registration |
| 09:30 | Welcome address |
| 09:35 - 09:55 | Danaé Bregnard (Uni Neuchâtel): Assessment of fungal diversity in deep geothermal fluids: accessing DNA from all cell types |
| 09:55 - 10:15 | Johanna Mayerhofer (Agroscope Reckenholz): Biogeography of soil fungi and their correlations to plants |
| 10:15 - 10:35 | Claude Müller (ETH Zürich): Diversity of the subsoil fungi under organic and conventional farming |
| 10:35 - 11:10 | Coffee break |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Derek Troiano (BFH-HAFL): Artificial microbial consortia for the conversion of lignocellulosic biomass into fuels and chemicals |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Natacha Bodenhausen (FiBL Frick): Successful prediction of crop yield increases after inoculation with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi |
| 11:50 - 12:40 | Keynote by Colin Averill (ETH Zürich): Restoring the forest fungal microbiome |
| 12:40 - 15:00 | Lunch & Poster viewing |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Guido Puccetti (University Neuchâtel): The complex genetic landscape of fungicide resistance evolution in Zymoseptoria tritici |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Chen Chen (ETH Zürich): Gene-for-gene relationship: Detection of effector-gene virulence in the fungal pathogen of sugar beet, Cercospora beticola |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Julia Lagler (University of Zürich): The role of the fungal virulence factor Ece1 in homeostatic immunity towards Candida albicans |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Gabriel Giger (ETH Zürich): Expanding the Host Range for a Fungal Endosymbiont Through Implantation by FluidFM |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Maxime Staedler (University of Fribourg): Bacterial volatiles and their impact on Botrytis cinerea spore production |
| 16:45 | Closure note & farewell |
Registration
Costs for registration (for coffee and lunch) will be CHF 10.- for MSc and PhD students and CHF 15.- for senior researchers/PIs, to be paid on site by twint (or cash).
Please register and submit your abstract via tab ‘Registration’ before 19. May 2023.