YISHAM Program
During the ISHAM Congress several YISHAM activities will take place. Please find below an overview.
During the ISHAM Congress several YISHAM activities will take place. Please find below an overview.
YISHAM Program Part 1
13:30 – 14:30 Y-ISHAM introduction (Aleksandra Barac)
13:40 – 13:50 Y-ECMM introduction (Sarah Delliere)
13:50 – 14:20 Medical mycology case reports journal – the opportunity for collaboration with Y-ISHAM network
14:20 – 14:30 Building of an international network (Jon Salmanton-García)
14:30 – 14:50 How to come up with a PhD idea? (Speaker t.b.d.)
14:50 – 15:10 Dos and Dont’s in writing the manuscript (Speaker t.b.d.)
15:10 – 15:30 Quiz (Aleksandra Barac)
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break 15:30 – 16:00
YISHAM program Part 2
16:00 – 17:50 Round tables (5 round tables, each with one senior mycology expert and around 10-15
junior around each table, seniors: ISHAM council members. Junior will be able to change the table after 1h.
17:50 – 18:00 Closing remarks
Oral presentations – selected abstracts Y2.1
08.00 – 09.00 am Y2 YISHAM Oral presentations
08:00 Y2.1 Mucormycosis in co-infection with bacteria: a tale from the bedside to the bench
Dora Edith Corzo Leon, United Kingdom
08:10 Y2.2 Molecular insights of rising amphotericin B resistance in Candida auris clinical isolates from India
Kusum Jain, India
08:20 Y2.3 Characterization of QDR3 Knockout in Candida auris: Insights into Antifungal Resistance, Stress
Response, and Pathogenesis-related Processes
Isadora Munhoz da Rocha, Brazil
08:30 Y2.4 Development of a CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing and regulation system for Candida auris
Casey Van Baalen, South-Africa
08:40 Y2.5 Context is King: Unravelling the Clinical Significance of Hormographiella in Odisha’s First Human Cases
Vinaykumar Hallur, India
YISHAM Party
The YISHAM party will take place on Thursday 22 May – 19:00 hrs. Entrance is free of charge for YISHAM members. Non YISHAM members pay EUR 95. Upon registration, you can reserve your spot for this evening.
Topic of the session “Per aspergillus ad astra” (junior session)
Chairs: Sarah Delliere, David Denning
08:00 – 08:15 Burden of aspergillosis (David Denning)
08:15 – 08:30 Pathogenicity and virulence of Aspergillus fumigatus (Sara Gago)
08:30 – 08:45 Rethinking aspergillosis in the era of microbiota and mycobiota (Aleksandra Barac)
08:45 – 09:00 Aspergillus-specific IgG antibodies for diagnosing chronic pulmonary aspergillosis compared to the reference standard (Speaker t.b.d.)
08:00 – 09:00 am Y4 YISHAM selected abstracts
08:00 Y4.1 Co-ordinated regulation of drug transporters facilitates antifungal resistance in
Candida lusitaniae
Dhanabala Subhiksha Rajesh Khanna, USA
08:10 Y4.2 Enhancement of virulence traits in Candida albicans isolates obtained from non-
neutropenic patients with persistent candidemia despite antifungal treatment
Felipe Ribeiro, Brazil
08:20 Y4.3 What does not kill you, makes you stronger: the role of soil in fungal adaptation
and pathogenesis
Hazal Kandemir, The Netherlands
08:30 Y4.4 Challenges in the early diagnosis and treatment of Paracoccidioidomycosis in HIV patients
Paula Peçanha-Pietrobom, Brazil
08:40 Y4.5 The Genomic Structure of clinical Cryptococcus species in Iranian Isolates
Sadegh Khodav, Iran