XI International Fungal Biology Conference Karlsruhe, Germany 29th September – 3rd October 2013 KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KIT – University of the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg and National Research Center of the Helmholtz Association www.kit.edu SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM MONDAY, 30.09.2013 SUNDAY, 29.09.2013 08:30 – 10:30 Poster session talks: Pathogenic fungi 16:00 – 16:15 Welcome Addresses PLENARY SESSION: PLANT FUNGAL 16:15 – 17:00 OPENING LECTURE Raymond J. St. Leger, INTERACTIONS College Park, MD, USA Chairs: Regine Kahmann “How to use a fungus to combat Marburg, Germany malaria” Nick Talbot Exeter, UK PLENARY SESSION: HOST-PATHOGEN 11:00 – 11:30 Martijn Rep INTERACTIONS Amsterdam, The Netherlands Chairs: A. Brakhage “Speculations on the evolution Jena, Germany of host-specific pathogenicity in the Fusarium oxysporum species 17:30 – 18:00 Clarissa Nobile complex” San Francisco, USA “A sticky situation: unraveling how 11:30 – 12:00 Richard O’Connell Candida albicans forms biofilms“ Cologne, Germany “Insights into Colletotrichum 18:00 – 18:30 Robin May hemibiotrophy from genome and Birmingham, UK transcriptome sequencing” „Hijacking of the immune system by a fatal fungal pathogen“ 12:00 – 12:30 Ane Sesma Madrid, Spain 18:30 – 19:00 Markus Künzler “Post-transcriptional regulation of Zürich, Switzerland Magnaporthe oryzae pathogenicity „Fungi as hosts of ‚pathogens‘: genes” Defense mechanisms of multicel- lular fungi against fungivorous nematodes“ PLENARY SESSION: CELL BIOLOGY AND TROPIC GROWTH 19:00 Welcome Reception Chairs: Mertixell Riquelme Ensenada, Mexico 14:00 – 14:30 Alexandra Brand Aberdeen, UK “Understanding directional growth in fungal hyphae” 14:30 – 15:00 Andre Fleissner Braunschweig, Germany “Cell-cell communication and fusion in Neurospora crassa” 15:00 – 15:30 Andrea Genre Torino, Italy “Fungal recognition and accom- modation in arbuscular mycorrhizal plants” 17:30 – 19:30 Poster session: Plant fungal interactions XI International Fungal Biology Conference 2013 Content page Welcome address 1 Karlsruhe 2 University of Karlsruhe 3 Research Center Karlsruhe 4 KIT – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology 5 Max Rubner Institute 6 Molecular Mycology in Karlsruhe 7 City Map 9 Public Transportation Map 10 Campus Map 11 Sponsors 12 Scientific Program 13 Abstracts 20 Talks 21 Pathogenic Fungi and Fungal Intractions 81 Cell Biology 147 Gene Regulation 175 Biotechnology and Secondary Metabolism 215 Biodiversity 262 Participants 269 Notes 282 Welcome address Reinhard Fischer Natalia Requena Jörg Kämper It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the XI International Fungal Biology meeting at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). More than 200 abstracts from all fields of mycology have been submitted and promise a very interesting and fruitful meeting. Twenty-seven speakers were invited for the plenary sessions and 25 scientists were chosen from the submitted abstracts as further speakers. The work of 182 participants will be presented as posters. The Fungal Biology Conference series was started in 1965 in Bristol, UK and was held since then in irregular intervals in Provo (Utah, USA 1973), Gwatt (Switzerland 1980), Stirling (Scotland 1987), Helen (Georgia, USA 1991), Konstanz (Germany 1996), Groningen (The Netherlands 1999), Guanajuato (Mexico 2002), Nancy (France 2006), Ensenada (Mexico 2009), and now in Karlsruhe (2013). The aim of this Conference series is to especially focus on exciting new fields at the frontiers of fungal biology. These fields are often developed by young scientists, who were therefore especially be chosen as speakers in the poster session talks. One of the international policy committee agreements for this meeting series is that all participants shuld be able to attend every talk. In consequence, there will be no concurrent sessions. This will allow broad discussions of all subjects, but of course will reduce the number of oral presentations chosen from submitted abstracts. We therefore appologize if some of the submitted abstracts could not be selected for oral presentations! However, poster sessions are always very lively at these meetings and reach a similar audience as oral presentations in other meetings. The International Fungal Biology Conference will this year be combined with the biannual German Molecular Mycology meeting. 1 Karlsruhe Karlsruhe is a city in South-West Germany in the Rhine valley near the French- German border. Karlsruhe is one of the last major city foundations that have been designed on the drawing board. According to the legend, Charles III William, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, dreamt after a hunting trip in the woods close to the present-days city about founding a new city, which he named Karlsruhe, which translates as “Charles’ repose”. The city was founded on June 17, 1715. Three years later the residence was moved from the close-by city Durlach, and Karlsruhe became the new capital of Baden-Durlach. Built in 1822, the "Ständehaus" was the first parliament building in a German State. In the aftermath of the democratic revolution of 1848, a republican government was elected here. In 1860, the first ever international professional convention, the Karlsruhe Congress, was held in the city. Founding of the city is closely linked to the construction of the palace. The city was planned with the tower of the palace (Schloss) at the center and 32 streets radiating out from it like spokes on a wheel, or ribs on a folding fan, so that a nickname for Karlsruhe in German is the "fan city" (Fächerstadt). The magnificent garden of the castle was founded in 1731, and originally planned in French Baroque style. Already in the 18th century it was rebuild in the style of English landscape gardening, and in 1967 the garden was further development in the same style. You can find numerous rare plant species in the garden, but also pieces of art, monuments and fountains from various eras from Baroque to Modern. At the western edge of the garden is the Botanical Garden of Karlsruhe. Between the Botanical Garden and the main court of the castle resides the “Bundesverfassungsgericht”, the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. 2 University of Karlsruhe (TH), Research Center and KIT Karlsruhe University (TH) The predecessor of the University of Karlsruhe, the “Polytechnicum” was founded in 1825 by Ludwig I, Grand Duke of Baden, from Tullas "Karlsruhe School of Engineering," Weinbrenner's “Architecture School” and other institutions. In 1885, the name was changed to “Technische Hochschule” (Technical University), and since 1899 it was possible to receive the doctoral degree. The Karlsruhe University was the first university in Germany to admit women to a degree program (1904). A number of Nobel laureates studied in Karlsruhe or worked here for some time. Among them is Karl Ferdinand Braun (inventor of the Cathode ray tube, Braun tube), Fritz Haber (synthesis of ammonia, Haber-Bosch process), Georg Karl von Hevesy (father of nuclear medicine by using radioactive tracers to study the metabolism in plants and animals), or Hermann Staudinger (discovery of ketene molecules that allowed the development of polymers). William Barton Rogers, the founding director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), summed up his personal vision of the Polytechnic School of Karlsruhe in 1864 as follows: "The Polytechnic Institute at Carlsruhe, which is regarded as the model school of Germany and perhaps of Europe, is nearer what it is intended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology shall be than any other foreign institution." In 2006, the University of Karlsruhe was selected along with the Ludwig- Maximilians-University Munich and the Technical University of Munich in the framework of the Excellence Initiative as one of the first three “Elite Universities” in Germany. View of the University of Karlsruhe (Campus South) 3 Research Center Karlsruhe Similar to the establishment of the Polytechnical School in Karlsruhe, the founders of “Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe (KfK)” (Nuclear Research Center) entered new territory. In 1962, on a remote site in Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, north of Karlsruhe, the first research reactor (FR 2) that was constructed and build exclusively in Germany, started to operate. Since the early nineties, the focus shifted to environmental, energy and - especially physical - basic research. Accordingly, the institution was renamed in 1995 to Karlsruhe Research Center for Technology and Environment. Other areas that became increasingly important over the last decades include “Health” (Biomedical Research, Medical Technology) or “Key technologies” (Microelectromechanical Systems, Nanotechnology, Scientific Computing) The connection to the University of Karlsruhe reaches back to the founding days of the Research Center: the working group “Reactor Construction” around Karl Wirtz, from Werner Heisenberg's Max Planck Institute for Physics in Göttingen, moved to Karlsruhe; K. Wirtz himself was founding director of the Institute for Neutron Physics and Reactor Technology and at the same time professor at the University of Karlsruhe. View of the Research Center Karlsruhe (Campus North) 4 The merge: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (http://www.kit.edu/kit/english/index.php) Unique in German Research, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) was founded by a merger of the Research Center Karlsruhe and the Universität Karlsruhe on October 01, 2009. KIT bundles the missions of both precursory institutions: A university of the state of Baden-Württemberg with teaching and