Présentation
French-Brazilian Symposium on Fungal Pathogens
Department of Mycology
Institut Pasteur, Paris
July 1st and 2nd, 2019
Jean-Paul Aubert meeting room
The department of Mycology welcomes three Brazilian PIs for some days in the framework of a CAPES-COFECUB collaborative program. We use this opportunity to organize a symposium on Fungal Pathogens and invite additional European and French outstanding speakers
Organizers:
Guilhem JANBON (janbon@pasteur.fr)
Jessica QUINTIN (jessica.quintin@pasteur.fr)
Christophe d’ENFERT (denfert@pasteur.fr)
Program:
Monday 1st July
8:30-8:50 – Light breakfast
8:50– Introduction (Guilhem JANBON)
9:00 – Marcio RODRIGUES (Instituto Carlos Chagas): “Novel approaches for the study of fungal extracellular vesicles”
9:45 – Leonardo NIMRICHTER (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro): “Fungal extracellular vesicles: good or bad messengers?””
10:30 – Coffee Break
11:00 – Lysangela ALVES (Instituto Carlos Chagas): “Transcriptomics and EV-RNA content analysis of Candida auris in antifungal response”
11:45 – Kildare Miranda (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) : “High resolution imaging of the surface of Cryptococcus neoformans reveals a polyphosphate-dependent mechanism for capsule organization”
12:30-14:00 – Lunch (provided)
14:00 – Vishu AIMANIANDA BOPAIAH (Institut Pasteur): “Humoral immunity against Aspergillus fumigatus”
14:45 – Robin MAY (University of Birmingham): “Cryptococcus: master immune manipulator or unwitting victim?”
15:30 – Coffee Break
16:00 – Jessica QUINTIN (Institut Pasteur): “Fungal β-glucan and the regulation of innate immune responses”
16:45 – Anne PUEL (Institut Imagine): “Inborn errors of immunity in human and susceptibility to Candida infections”
Tuesday 2nd July
8:30-9:00– Light breakfast
9:00 – Mathias LAVIE-RICHARD (MICALIS INRA AgroParisTech): “The Mycobiota in health and disease”
9:45 – Mélanie LEGRAND (Institut Pasteur): “In vitro analysis of LOH in Candida albicans to better understand the WHY and the HOW of LOH in vivo””
10:30 – Coffee Break
11:00 – Cécile FAIRHEAD (Université Paris-Sud): “Population genomics of Candida glabrata”
11:45 – Edward WALLACE (University of Edinburgh): “Start codon context controls translation initiation in the fungal kingdom”
12:30-14:00 – Lunch (provided)
14:00 – Ducan WILSON (University of Aberdeen): “Dining in the host: how do human fungal pathogens acquire essential trace metals during infection?””
14:45 – Frédéric DEVAUX (Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine): “Functional genomics of iron homeostasis in Candida glabrata”
15:30 – Sophie BACHELLIER-BASSI (Institut Pasteur): “The Candida albicans ORFeome: investigating gene function in a fungal pathogen of humans”
Registration is free but required.
Please register before the end of June 26 at
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/french-brazilian-symposium-on-fungal-pathogens-tickets-62890504191
See you in July!