Below you can find the program for the IAFC2024.
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October 15th, 2024
| UTC Time | Event | Room |
|---|---|---|
| 12:00 (= 12 p.m.) | Conference opening with Dr Joan Edwards | TALK 1 (BBB) |
| 13:00 (= 1 p.m.) 1 hour | 50 years of anaerobic fungi Keynote talk Prof Gareth W. Griffith (Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom) | TALK 1 (BBB) |
| 14:30 (= 2.30 p.m.) 1 hour | An -omics catalog for the Neocallimastigomycota Keynote talk Prof Noha Youssef (Oklahoma State University, U.S.A) | TALK 2 (Zoom) |
| 16:00 (= 4.00 p.m.) 1 hour | Invited talks Neocallimastix frontalis metabolises starch via multiple amylases Louisa Edge (Scotland’s Rural College, United Kingdom) Structure, biochemical, and phylogenetic analysis of rumen bacterial and fungal CE15 glucuronoyl esterases Robert Gruninger (Agriculture and Agri-Food, Canada) | TALK 2 (Zoom) |
October 16th, 2024
| UTC Time | Event | Room |
|---|---|---|
| 05:00 (= 5 a.m.) 1 hour | Syntrophies and Antagonisms of Neocallimastigomycota Round Table Discussion with Prof Yanfen Cheng (Nanjing Agricultural University, China) | TALK 1 (BBB) |
| 06:30 (= 6.30 a.m.) 1 hour | Transitioning Your Career: Academia to Industry Round Table Discussion with Dr Joan Edwards (Anaerobic Fungi Network) | TALK 1 (BBB) |
| 08:00 (= 8 a.m.) 30 min | Invited talks NitMetFun Project – Enhancing feed conversion, improving nitrogen utilization efficiency and reducing methane emissions through the study and quantification of anaerobic fungi and their interaction with their dairy cattle hosts Magdalena Calusinska (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg) | TALK 1 (BBB) |
| 12.30 (= 12.30 p.m.) 1 hour | Poster session Assessment of rumen fungal diversity and composition from beef cows under four different grazing patterns Sang Weon Na (University of Alberta, Canada) Isolation and maintenance of anaerobic gut fungi: a discussion on strategies and challenges Sophia Strobl (Universitaet Innsbruck, Austria) From straw to oil – Establishment of a biobased upcycling process of hemi- and lignocellulosic biomass Kevin Schulz (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, KIT, Germany) | GatherTown Poster area |
| 14:00 (= 2 p.m.) 1 hour | Molecular approaches to manipulate anaerobic fungi Keynote talk Prof Kevin Solomon (University of Delaware, U.S.A.) | TALK 2 (Zoom) |
| 15:30 (= 3.30 p.m.) 1 hour | Coffee & Lab Talk Swing by and ask our experts any question about the specifics of isolation and maintenance of AGF cultures in the lab Chairs: Julia Vinzelj and Sophia Strobl | Buffet/Coffee area in GatherTown |
| 17.00 (= 5 p.m.) 1 hour | Invited talks Evaluating the impact of redox potential on growth capacity of anaerobic gut fungi Emma England (Oklahoma State University, U.S.A.) Probing the AGF community in the herptile gut microbiome Emma Cook (Oklahoma State University, U.S.A.) | TALK 2 (Zoom) |
October 17th, 2024
| UTC Time | Event | Room |
|---|---|---|
| 05:30 (= 5.30 a.m.) 1 hour | Reconstruction complex gut microbiomes in the “-ome” era Keynote talk Prof Phil Pope (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) | TALK 1 (BBB) |
| 07:00 (= 7 a.m.) 1 hour | The metabolism of Neocallimastigomycota Round Table Discussion with Prof Jana Seifert (University Hohenheim, Germany) | TALK 1 (BBB) |
| 08:30 ( = 8.30 a.m.) 1 hour | Invited talks Establishing links between AGF in the rumen microbiome and phenotypes of rumen-fistulated Jersey cows Susanna Moñino Ramos (Scotland’s Rural College, United Kingdom) Dynamics of anaerobic fungi colonization in the gastrointestinal tract of dairy heifers Hannah Huuki / Ilma Tapio (Natural Resources Institute Finland) | TALK 1 (BBB) |
| 13:00 (= 1 p.m.) 1 hour | Detection of Neocallimastigomycota in environmental samples Round Table Discussion with Prof Mostafa Elshahed (Oklahoma State University, U.S.A) | TALK 1 (BBB) |
| 15:00 (= 3:00 p.m.) 1 hour | Invited talks Anaerobic gut fungal communities in ostriches Kathryn Nash (Oklahoma State University, U.S.A.) Anaeromyces corallium, sp. nov., a new anaerobic gut fungus from the feces of cattle Carrie Pratt (University of North Dakota, U.S.A.) | TALK 2 (Zoom) |
| 16:00 (= 4 p.m.) | Conference closing with Dr Joan Edwards | TALK 2 (Zoom) |