Pre-Congress Course ISHAM2025
Workshop: Black Yeast interactions: agents and host responses
Date: Tuesday, 20th May
Time: 13:30 – 17:30 hrs.
Location: Bourbon Cataratas Convention Center, Iguaçu Falls-Brazil
Maximum number of participants: 100
13:30 Opening: key questions in black yeast research
Sybren de Hoog / Vania Vicente (Netherlands / Brazil)
13:45 Known and undescribed black yeasts in the environment
Francesc Prenafeta-Boldu (Spain)
14:00 What did we learn from phaeohyphomycosis?
Ruoyu Li (China)
14:15 Genomic and physiological traits in Chaetothyriales
Bruno Lustosa (Brazil)
14:30 Mating in Exophiala phaeomuriformis
Banu Metin (Türkiye)
14:45 Cladophialophora bantiana human case
Birgit Willinger (Austria)
15:00 Virulence in Fonsecaea
Anamelia Bocca (Brazil)
15:15 The role of CARD9 in orchestrating macrophage plasticity for dematiaceous fungal clearance
Xiaowen Wang (China)
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 Comparative omics analysis of black yeasts reveals adaptive strategies
Yinggai Song (China)
16:15 Metagenomic screening of black fungi
Maria Eduarda Grisolia (Brazil)
16:30 Galleria mellonella in vitro model for chromoblastomycosis shows large differences invirulence between isolates
Shuwen Deng (China)
16:45 TBA
Mohammad Hedaithy / Mona Ghazanfari (Iran)
17:00 Efficacy and safety of low dose amphotericin B intralesional injection combined with oral terbinafine in the treatment of chromoblastomycosis in Wistar rat
Jing Zhang (China)
17:15 Molecular evolution of fungal kinase enzymes in black yeasts
Rachel Basques Caligiorne (Brazil)