YISHAM Program

During the ISHAM Congress several YISHAM activities will take place. Please find below an overview.

13:30 - 18:00 Tuesday 20th May 2025

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

08:00 - 09:00 Thursday 22nd May

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

Thursday 22nd May

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.

08:00 - 09:00 Friday 23rd May

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 Saturday 24th May

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