Below you can find the tentative program for the IAFC2024. It includes the fixed time slots for keynote speakers and round table discussions. Time slots for invited talks will be added in the following weeks.
Time & Date are given in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Use this converter to convert UTC time to your timezone.
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October 15th, 2024
| UTC Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 13:00 (= 1 p.m.) | 50 years of anaerobic fungi Keynote talk Prof Gareth W. Griffith (Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom) |
| 14:30 (= 2.30 p.m.) | An -omics catalog for the Neocallimastigomycota Keynote talk Prof Noha Youssef (Oklahoma State University, U.S.A) |
October 16th, 2024
| UTC Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 05:00 (= 5 a.m.) | Syntrophies and Antagonisms of Neocallimastigomycota Round Table Discussion with Prof Yanfen Cheng (Nanjing Agricultural University, China) |
| 14:00 (= 2 p.m.) | Molecular approaches to manipulate anaerobic fungi Keynote talk Prof Kevin Solomon (University of Delaware, U.S.A.) |
October 17th, 2024
| UTC Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 05:30 (= 5.30 a.m.) | Reconstruction complex gut microbiomes in the “-ome” era Keynote talk Prof Phil Pope (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) |
| 07:00 (= 7 a.m.) | The metabolism of Neocallimastigomycota Round Table Discussion with Prof Jana Seifert (University Hohenheim, Germany) |
| 13:00 (= 1 p.m.) | Detection of Neocallimastigomycota in environmental samples Round Table Discussion with Prof Mostafa Elshahed (Oklahoma State University, U.S.A) |