Category: Conferences

The abstract submission deadline for the IAFC2024 has been extended to June 30th, 2024! The IAFC2024 is the only anaerobic fungi specific congress world-wide. Attendance is free for AFN members, and it is happening online so everybody can join without the hassle of travelling! Check our page for more information. We are looking forward to … Continue reading Deadline Extended: Submit Your IAFC2024 Abstracts by June 30th

Want to present your research at the only anaerobic fungi specific conference worldwide? Submit your abstract to IAFC2024 now :)! Submission Deadline: May 31st! Visit the page to learn more.

Join us online for the IAFC2024 (October 15th to 17th) and present your research there! Registration and abstract submission are now open. Participation at the congress is free of charge for AFN members, and AFN membership is free as well.

New year, new event! This year, the second IAFC will take place online from Oct 15th-17th. Participation is open to all AFN members (registration is open from Feb 1st). Not a member? AFN membership is free of charge! Go to https://anaerobicfungi.org/iafc-2024/ for more information

Join us to hear young voices! Shruthi Meenakshisundaram and Yuqi Li will share valuable insights on the bioaugmentation of anaerobic fungi and their enzyme mechanisms in our engaging 8th webinar series. Don't miss out!

Meet Yuqi Li, winner of the best poster award at the IAFC2022. His poster was titled “Mining of novel GH48 cellulases derived from anaerobic fungi Pecoramyces sp. F1 by bidirectional induction”. Congratulations, Yuqi! More information on IAFC2022 can be found on the AFN homepage.

We are happy to announce three great keynote talks for the IAFC 2022! Jongsoo Chang, Igor Grigoriev, and Mike Theodorou will enlighten us on anaerobic fungi genomics, proteomics, and general aspects of research on these peculiar organisms. 

Registration and abstract submission are open now! Abstract submission will close on 30th of June 2022, and registration will close on 31st of August 2022. Click here for more information.

Since the start of this year AFN has been holding webinars every 2-3 months. These webinars are only open to AFN members, so if you are not already a member please just get in touch. AFN membership is free!

Anaerobic fungi featured at both the rumen microbial genomics (RMG) workshop and the INRA-Rowett meeting last week in Clermont-Ferrand, France. At the RMG workshop, the importance of studying anaerobic fungi when characterising rumen microbiomes was highlighted - particularly due to their close association/interactions with methanogens. At the INRA-Rowett meeting a talk by Bob Forster (pictured … Continue reading RMG workshop & INRA-Rowett, Clermont-Ferrand, France