Conference Agenda

2:00pm - 2:15pm

Fighting mycotoxin contaminations by studying the compositional and metabolomic dynamics of a Meta-Fusarium exposed to abiotic and biotic stress

Valentin Fiévet, Laetitia Pinson-Gadais, Stéphane Bernillon, Louis Carles, Florence Richard-Forget

INRAE (UR1264 Mycsa), France

2:15pm - 2:30pm

Chemically diversified metabolite profiles in Penicillium roqueforti populations associated with ecological niche specialisation and domestication

Ewen Crequer¹, Emmanuel Coton¹, Gwennina Cueff¹, Johan V Christiansen³, Jens C Frisvad³, Ricardo Rodriguez De La Vega², Tatiana Giraud², Jean-Luc Jany¹, Monika Coton¹

¹Univ. Brest INRAE, Laboratoire Universitaire de Biodiversité et Ecologie Microbienne, F-29280 Plouzané, France; ²Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Laboratoire Ecologie Systématique et Evolution, UMR 8079, France; ³Department of Biotechnology and Biomedecine, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

2:30pm - 2:45pm

Expansion of the multi-locus gene alignment approach to improve identification of the fungal species Alternaria alternata

Adetoye Adeyemo, Markus Schmidt-Heydt

Max Rubner-Institute, Germany

2:45pm - 3:00pm

Genetic variability of the pathogenic Fusarium proliferatum from different hosts leads to significant differences in fumonisin production

Alessandra Villani¹, Antonia Susca¹, Stefania Somma¹, Mario Masiello¹, Marthe De Boevre², Sarah De Saeger², Hye-Seon Kim³, Stephen Harding³, Robert H. Proctor³, Antonio Moretti¹

¹Institute of Sciences of Food Production, Italy; ²Center of Excellence in Mycotoxicology and Public Health, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; ³USDA-ARS, NCAUR, Mycotoxin Prevention and Applied Microbiology Research Unit, Peoria, IL, USA

3:00pm - 3:15pm

Volatile organic compounds: effective biomarkers and biocontrol tools against mycotoxins?

Laurie Josselin¹, Alessandra Villani², Salvatore Cervellieri², Thomas Netti², Daria Carella², Caroline De Clerck³, Robert H. Proctor⁴, Antonia Susca², Vincenzo Lippolis², Marie-Laure Fauconnier¹, Antonio Moretti²

¹Laboratory of Chemistry of Natural Molecules, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liège, Gembloux, Belgium; ²Institute of Sciences of Food Production, National Research Council, Bari, Italy; ³AgricultureIsLife, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liège, Gembloux, Belgium; ⁴Mycotoxin Prevention and Applied Microbiology Unit, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, Peoria, IL, USA

3:15pm - 3:30pm

Interactions among strains of black aspergilli and ochratoxin A reduction

Júlia Marquès, M. Rosa Bragulat, F. Javier Cabañes, Gemma Castellá

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain