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Spring Symposium One Health Mycology

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Spring Symposium One Health Mycology
Venue: Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute – Auditorium
Uppsalalaan 8, 3584 CT Utrecht, Netherlands
Price: € 200.-

Preliminary program

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Monday 13 April 2026

08.00-09.00Registration
09.00-09.10Welcome and Opening
Wieland Meyer
09.10-09.50Plenary 1: Animal/Human Health
Chair: Wieland MeyerSpeaker: Isabella Gremiao (Brazil)
Title: “The emergence of Sporotrichosis – the link between Environment, and Animal and Human Infections”
09.50-11.20Veterinary Health
Chair: Patrizia Danesi (Italy)
(1 x 20 min and 4 x15 min Talks)

  1. Mark Krockenberger (Australia)
    Title: “Cryptococcosis in Koalas”
  2. Patrizia Danesi (Italy)
    Title: “Candidazyma auris (Candida auris) in animals a potential reservoir for human infection”
  3. Andrea Peano (Italy)
    Title: “Dermatological relevant fungi in animals’
  4. Marloes van Dijk (Netherlands)
    Title: “Azole Resistance in Veterinary Clinical Aspergillus fumigatus Isolates in the Netherlands”
  5. TBA
11.20-11.40Coffee Break
11.40-13.10Human Health
Chair: Ferry Hagen (Netherlands)
(1 x 20 min and 4 x15 min talks)

  1. Elisabeth Castaneda (Colombia)
    Title: “Cryptococcosis and its etiological agents – from the environment to the human infection – the Latin American View”
  2. Daniela Kolarczyková (Czech Republic)
    Title: “Arthroderma across ecosystems: reservoirs, species boundaries and antifungal susceptibility in a OneHealth context”
  3. Wendy van der Sande (Netherlands)
    Title: “Unravelling eumycetoma grain formation using the invertebrate Galleria mellonella”
  4. Ferry Hagen (Netherlands)
    Title: “Novel and emerging fungal pathogens in the clinic”
  5. Michaela Lackner (Austria)
    Title: “Global antifungal resistance can only be tackled by OneHealth solutions”
13.10-14.00Lunch Break
14.00-14.40Plenary 2: Soil Health
Chair: Camille Delavaux (Netherlands)Liesje Mommer (Netherlands)
Title: “Living Soils Under Pressure: Learning from Nature to Restore Ecosystem Services and Build Food System Resilience”
14.40-16.00Soil Health
Chair: Camille Delavaux (Netherlands)
(1 x 20 min and 4 x15 min talks)

  1. Camille Delavaux (Netherlands)
    Title: “The role of mycorrhizal fungi in plant diversity”
  2. Thom Kuyper (Netherlands)
    Title: “The essential role of fungal health for forest health.”
  3. Gianluigi Cardinali (Italy)
    Titel: “Soil yeasts as mitigators of salinity effects on plants, risks and perspectives”
  4. Hazal Kandemir (Netherlands)
    Title: “Interconnected risks, integrated research: Soil and One Health”
  5. Nicola Case (Netherlands) – 15 min
    Title: “Cell & Network Dynamics in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi” 
16.00-16.20Coffee Break
16.20-17.00Plenary 3: Plant Health
Chair: Pedro Crous (Netherlands)Bernard Slippers (South Africa)
Title: “Silent Threats: How latent pathogens reshape forest health in a changing climate”
17.00-18.15Plant Health
Chair: Ewald Groenewald (Netherlands)
(5 x15 min talks)

  1. Einar Martinez de la Parte (Netherlands)
    Title: “Microbes and biocontrol of parasitic weeds”
  2. Neriman Yilmaz (South Africa)
    Titel: “Facial eczema in cattle”
  3. David Hernández-Hernández
    Title: “Fungal endophytes in avocado nursery plants and plant health risks”
  4. Marco Thines (Germany)
    Title: “Past, present, and future plant pathogen pandemics and their significance for human health”
  5. Like Fokkens
    Title: “Evolutionary mechanisms underlying resistance in Fusarium”
18.15-20.00Reception
Hubrecht/Westerdijk – Cafeteria

Tuesday 14 April 2026

09.00-09.40Plenary 3: Human Health
Chair: Sybren de Hoog (Netherlands)Aristea Velegraki/Michael Arabatzis (Greece)
Title: “The changing landscape of fungal diseases and antifungal resistance through the lens of climate variability and change.”
09.40-11.00Drivers and development of antifungal resistance
Chair: Paul Verweij (Netherlands)
(1 x 20 min and 4 x15 min talks)

  1. Paul Verweij (Netherlands)
    Title: “Antifungal usage and resistance in the clinics”
  2. Balász Brankovics (Netherlands)
    Title: “Population genomics of environmental azole resistance in Aspergillus fumigatus”
  3. Ya Bin Zhou (Netherlands)
    Title: “Roles of cyp51 genes in mediating azole resistance in Aspergillus flavus”
  4. Beatrice Strinati (Italy)
    Title: “Distribution of biofilm formation and resistance among clinical and environmental isolates of the genus Candida”
  5. Maarten Punt (Netherlands)
    Title: “Acquired azole resistance in black Aspergilli” 
11.00-11.30Coffee Break
11.30-13.00Fungal solutions for One Health
Chair: Jérôme Collemare (Netherlands)
(1 x 20 min and 4 x15 min talks)

  1. Marc Stadler (Germany)
    Title: “Pathogenic Neomycota and their secondary metabolites”
  2. Tom Harrijvan (Westerdijk Institute, Netherland)
    Title: “Fungi as a source of novel antimicrobials against pan-resistant bacterial pathogens”
  3. Bart Thomma (Germany)
    Title: “Fungal pathogens coopt ancient antimicrobials for host manipulation”
  4. Khyati Bhatt (Westerdijk Institute, Netherlands)
    Title: “Discovery of novel fungal compounds against a new target to control the rice blast fungus Pyricularia oryzae”
  5. Linda Gouka (Netherlands)
    Titel: “Catching cereal killers; functional diversity of phyllosphere yeasts.”
13.00-14.00Lunch
14.00-14.30Westerdijk Awards
Wieland Meyer (Netherlands)
14.30-16.30Fungi in Indoor and Food Environments: Health and Food Safety
Perspectives – Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Rob Samson
Chair: Jos Houbraken (Netherland)
(1 x 20 min, 5 x 15 min talks)

  1. Ronald de Vries (Luxembourg)
    Title: “Inter- and intra-species diversity of Aspergillus”
  2. Beom Hong (South Korea)
    Title: “Overview of Aspergillus taxonomy in Korea”
  3. Alex Grum (Netherlands)
    Title: “Exploring natamycin resistance in fungi” 
  4. Birgitte Andersen (Denmark)
    Title: “Detection of source of Aspergillus flavus infection at Copenhagen University Hospital”
  5. Jens Frisvard (Denmark)
    Title: TBA
  6. Christian Wurzbacher (Germany)
    Title: “Wastewater based surveillance of fungi and mycotoxins” 
  7. Rob Samson (Netherlands)
    Title: “Looking back at a career in mycology”
16.30-17.00Closing
Wieland Meyer (Netherlands)
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