EFS17 Program

Program

This 2025 Edition of EFS is entitled: Fusarium in a world of interactions.

Fusarium species live in interactions with other microorganisms, plants and animals and are reacting to global changes. We are planning to hold a major event to highlight the role and impact of these interactions to address the new challenges of the One-Health concept, and to serve as a forum to facilitate interactions within the scientific community

You can now download the Book of Abstracts including the Program and the list of participants  here = EFS17-Book of Abstracts

Information on presentations : Talks introducing each session = 20 min + 10 min Questions  - Regular talks = 15 min + 5 min Questions. Poster dimensions = A0 (84.1 x 118.9 cm) - Portrait

 

PROGRAM        Auditorium Agora 

Tuesday 21

Welcoming

13h00-14h00

Introduction by the local scientific committee and   Opening Lecture: Bart Thomma, - How fungal pathogens manipulate host microbiota to establish infection.

14h00-15h00

 

Session 1: Fusarium genetics & physiology

Chairs: - Dr Kim Hammond-Kosack, Rothamsted Research, England             - Dr Nadia Ponts, INRAE MycSA, France

15h00-18h00

 

Matias Pasquali - How does Fusarium musae adapt to human and banana hosts?

15h00-15h30

Terance Mobarak -Deciphering trophic shifts in Fusarium verticillioides: A mycotoxin story 

15h30-15h50

Chris Blackman - The pan-genomic effectome of the Fusarium sambucinum species complex reveals novel virulence factors

15h50-16h10

                                        Coffee Break (Badiane Room)

 

Marie Foulongne-Oriol - Quantitative genetics approach to decipher life history traits in Fusarium graminearum

16h40-17h00

Tapani Yli-Mattila - Phylogenetic analysis of a 139.9-kb 52-gene dataset to reassess diversity within avenaceum clade of Fusarium tricinctum species complex

17h00-17h20

Adeline Picot - Intra- and interspecific diversity of Fusarium spp. responsible for Fusarium Head Blight based on metabarcoding and population genetics

17h20-17h40

John F. Leslie - Nit Mutants in Fusarium

17h40-18h00

  

POSTER SESSION & Social Mixer (Cloister Gallery)

18h00-19h30

Wednesday 22

Session 1: Fusarium genetics & physiology (continue)

Chairs: - Dr Marie Foulongne-Oriol, INRAE MycSA  - P r John F. Leslie, Kansas State University, USA  

09h00-12h20

Jade Smith - Epigenetic control of effector proteins secreted by Fusarium graminearum

09h00-09h30

Jens Laurids Sørensen - Identification of the phenalenone biosynthetic pathway for perithecial pigmentation in the Fusarium solani species complex

09h30-09h50

Luca Degradi - Chromosome-level genome assembly and functional annotation of Fusarium musae from a human isolate: insights into host-specific infection mechanisms

09h50-10h10

Aurélie Touya - Intraspecific variation in Fusarium avenaceum response to Hydrogen Peroxide-induced oxidative stress

10h10-10h30

                                        Refreshment Break (Badiane Room)

 

Kim Hammond-Kosack - Exploration of Fusarium interactions using the Pathogen-Host Interactions database (PHI-base) 

11h00-11h20

Paulo Cezar Vieira - Metabolic profiling and chemodiversity of Fusarium species isolated from edible fruits using LC-MS/MS and molecular networking

11h20-11h40

Armelle Marais-Colombel - The virome of Fusarium graminearum

11h40-12h00

Christof Rampitsch - Identifying hubs in the wheat immune system as it reacts to Fusarium graminearum effector protein challenge using TurboID

12h00-12h20

                                                    Lunch (Badiane Room)

 

Session 2:  Fusarium, interactions with hosts and microbiota

Chairs: -Dr David Overy, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Canada

             - Dr Louis Carles, INRAE MycSA, France

13h40-17h40

 

Elizabeth K. Brauer -Plant sensing of fungal secondary metabolites – immunogenicity versus toxicity

13h40-14h10

Gerhard Adam - NX-producing Fusarium may have a selective advantage as the NX-3 toxin can escape two plant detoxification mechanisms

14h10-14h30

Lidija Bitz - Early gene response of moderately resistant oat (Avena sativa L. cv. Akseli) to Fusarium culmorum artificially inoculated in controlled condition

14h30-14h50

Giovanni Beccari - Deciphering the “priming” effect of enniatin B, deoxynivalenol and their combination on different wheat tissues toward Fusarium infection

14h50-15h10

Elsie Ayamoh Enow - Host-specific response of two Asparagus cultivars to Fusarium proliferatum strains

15h10-15h30

                                        Refreshment Break (Badiane Room)

 

Luca Sella - Endo-xylanases in Fusarium graminearum: Unraveling the complex interplay between virulence and genetic background

16h00-16h20

Trang Tran Minh - Endolevanase: a host-specific hidden weapon of Fusarium graminearum provoking Fusarium Head Blight in wheat

16h20-16h40

Clara Sanchez-Rodriguez - Pectin acetylesterases are key virulence factors in Fusarium oxysporum root colonization and disease progression

16h40-17h00

POSTER SESSION (Cloister Gallery)

17h00-19h00

 

Thursday 23

Session 2:  Fusarium, interactions with hosts and microbiota (continue)

Chairs: - Dr Anne Van Diepeningen, WUR, Netherlands  -   Dr Jean-Michel Savoie, INRAE MycSA, France

09h00-12h20

Marine Navarro - Fungal microRNAs: key players in interaction 

09h00-09h30

David Overy - Recruiting the host to reshape the microbiome: Immune priming by Fusarium avenaceum during asymptomatic colonizatio

09h30-09h50

Louis Carles - Co-occurence between Fusarium and bacteria in wheat grains – towards a better understanding of microbial interactions

09h50-10h10

Eleonora Cappelletti - Biological durum wheat seed priming for Fusarium root and crown rot management through the application of Bacillus and LAB strains

10h10-10h30

                                        Refreshment Break (Badiane Room)

 

Sophia Hein - Multiomics of Fusarium Head Blight disease in spring barley

11h00-11h20

Juho Hautsalo - Investigating oat resistance against F. langsethiae in Finland

11h20-11h40

James Tucker - Evaluation of two-row barley germplasms reveals accessions resistant to Fusarium head blight with low levels of deoxynivalenol

11h40-12h00

Sylwia Salamon - Cross-kingdom RNA interference in the wheat–Fusarium culmorum interaction: evidence from small RNA and degradome analysis

12h00-12h20

                                                    Lunch (Badiane Room)

 

Session 2:  Fusarium, interactions with hosts and microbiota (continue)

Chairs: - Dr Florence Richard-Forget, INRAE MycSA, France     - Dr Jens Laurids Sørensen, Aalborg University, Denmark

14h10-15h30

 

Thomas Svoboda - Cell cycle controls pathogenic processes and mycotoxin production in Fusarium graminearum

14h10-14h30

Gerlinde Wiesenberger - Culmorin inhibits detoxification of the mycotoxin deoxynivalenol by plant UDP-glucosyltransferases

14h30-14h50

Valentin Fiévet - Comparative analysis of the metabolomic profiles of seven Fusarium strains causing head blight, cultivated alone or together as a synthetic community called Meta-Fusarium

14h50-15h10

 

Wanxin Chen - Mutation of sucrose: fructan 6-fructosyltransferase (6-sft) in hexaploid wheat reduces susceptibility to fungal disease

15h10-15h30

 

                                        Refreshment Break (Badiane Room)

 

 

Session 3: Fusarium, interactions with the changing environment

Chairs: - Dr Ingerd Skow Hofgaard, NIBIO, Norway  -  Dr Adeline Picot, Brest University, France

16h15-17h45

 

Emmanuel Wicker - Reconstructing the worldwide emergence of the Tropical Race 4 (TR4) of the banana pathogen Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense using population genomics

16h15-16h45

 

Leonardo Lascala - Discovering of emerging pathogens belonging to Fusarium spp. in Italian wheat kernels

16h45-17h05

Shimosh Kurera - Fusarium identification, emerging pathogens and host wheat resistance in Canada

17h05-17h35

Sean Walkowiak - 30 Years of Fusarium damaged kernel incidence, severity, and pathogen diversity in Canada

17h35-17h45

20h00-00h00: Gala dinner    Boarding for the dinner cruise at:

24 Quai des Chartrons, Bordeaux – face to Ibaïa Café / 44.84 87 58 N | -0.57 00 15 W. Back to the pier at 22h30. Appointment recommended 15 minutes before the departure of the boat.

 

Friday 24

Session 3: Fusarium, interactions with the changing environment (continue)

Chairs: - Dr Marie-Anne Garcia, INRAE EcoSys, France  - Dr Matias Pasquali, University of Milan, Italy 

09h00-13h00

Ludovic Bonhomme - Wheat responses to FHB under pre-anthesis drought: How extensively is the molecular dialogue reshaped?

09h00-09h30

Felix Hoheneder - Drought stress modulates Fusarium Head Blight severity in barley

09h30-09h50

Safa Oufensou - Distribution and prevalence of Fusarium crown rot pathogens of Durum wheat in Southern Italy

09h50-10h10

Ingerd Skow Hofgaard - Mathematical models to predict the risk of DON-contamination in Norwegian spring oats based on weather data

10h10-10h30

Elise Forgues - Impact of agroforestry systems on fungal populations in wheat crops

10h30-10h50

                                        Refreshment Break (Badiane Room)

 

Linda Felici - Chitosan-cellulose nanocrystals based formulation for Fusarium Head Blight protection: from lab to open field evaluation

11h20-11h40

Simon Edwards - Global assessment of HT2 and T2 occurrence

11h40-12h00

Ida Ćurtović - Clinical and environmental sources of Fusarium fujikuroi species complex: Antifungal susceptibility and proteomic insights

12h00-12h20

Matthew G. Bakker - Investigating resistance to azole fungicides in Fusarium graminearum

12h20-12h40

Conclusion

12h40-13h00

 


 

Posters 

The posters (A0, Portrait) will be exposed from Tuesday to Friday in the Cloister Gallery

     

Poster sessions on Tuesday 21 – 18h05-19h30, and on Wednesday 22 – 17h00-19h00.

The posters can also be viewed during the breaks and lunches

 

Session 1: Fusarium genetics & physiology  

 

P1.1

Portable e-nose: an innovative tool for Fusarium globosum identification

Virgilio Balmas

P1.2

Emerging members of the Fusarium tricinctum species complex associated with buxus sempervirens decline in Northern Italy

Eleonora Cappelletti

P1.3

Phenotypic and genetic characterization of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. pisi infecting Pisum sativum in Europe

Fredrik Dölfors

P1.4

In the genomes we trust: unveiling the genomic landscape within the Nectriaceae family

Veronica Ghionna 

P1.5

Investigating the pathogenicity, population structure and morphology of Fusarium oxysporum strains infecting pea (Pisum sativum L.)

Tomas Hoogendam

P1.6

Characterization of Fusarium graminearum and Fusarium boothii originated from wheat and maize in Serbia

Ana Obradovic

P1.7

Prevalence and contribution of Fusarium juglandicola, a newly-described species, to walnut dieback

Adeline Picot

P1.8

Fusarium graminearum populations in Europe and globally

Tapani Yli-Mattila

P1.9

Investigating conserved D effector activity in Verticillium dahliae and Fusarium oxysporum

Ilaria Zannini

P1.10

Portable Real-Time PCR for Field-Based Monitoring of Mycotoxin-Producing Fungi in Cereals

Monika Szymańska-Czerwińska

P1.11

Development of a tool for Fusarium species identification isolated from cereal based on DNA barcoding

Mylène Ruh

P1.12

Association between chromatin accessibility and gene expression: machine learning approach. A whole–genome study on Fusarium graminearum

Mathilde Bruguet

 

P1.13

Critical opinion on the molecular approaches for the mycotoxigenic Fusarium species identification in wheat

Carol  Verheecke-Vaessen

 
  

 

 

Session 2: Fusarium, interactions with hosts and microbiota

 

 

P2.1

Interaction between wheat-associated bacteria and enniatin B: growth inhibition and biodegradation

Fojan Agahi

P2.2

First report of crown and foot rot on durum wheat caused by Fusarium algeriense in Europe

Daria Carella

P2.3

Fusarium oxysporum: evaluation of intraspecific molecular biodiversity among the different formae speciales

Daria Carella

P2.4

Associations between germination capacity and fungal infestation of wheat seeds

Birgitte Henriksen

P2.5

The Journey of Neocosmospora species – from Pipes to Patients

Maja Šegvić Klarić

P2.6

Targeting Fusarium Head Blight with synthetic peptaibol analogs: Efficacy and mode of action

Arianna Panichi

P2.7

Mycotoxins accumulated in Asparagus officinalis L. plants infected with Fusarium oxysporum

Łukasz Stępień

P2.8

Genotype-dependent Fusarium mycotoxin accumulation and its impact on early and late Asparagus infection stages

Łukasz Stępień

P2.9

Dissection of Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) resistance in spring wheat genotypes

Shayan Syed

P2.11

Effects of enniatin B as emerging mycotoxin and its association with deoxynivalenol on wheat microbiota

Matias Pasquali

P2.12

Streptomyces coelicoflavus BM40: A promising biocontrol agent against chickpea Fusarium wilt

Matias Pasquali

P2.13

Which Fusarium species cause crown rot on banana fruit in the Hawaiian Islands?

Matias Pasquali

P2.14

Antifungal and anti-mycotoxin capacity of extracts and compounds from selected strains of Lentinula edodes against Fusarium verticillioides

Jean-Michel Savoie

P2.15

Exploring new potential biological control agents (BCAs) for the management of Fusarium head blight in durum wheat: in vivo screening of bacterial strains

Giovanni Beccari  

 

 

 

Session 3: Fusarium interactions with the changing environment    

 

P3.1

The EvolTox project wrap-up: how global change is reshaping fusarium and mycotoxin risks in wheat

Marie Foulongne-Oriol

P3.2

Effects of seed treatment, sowing time, and cultivar on Microdochium nivale infection and in winter wheat

Aurimas Sabeckis

P3.3

Geographic distribution of trichothecene chemotypes of the Fusarium graminearum species complex from maize kernels in Serbia

Milica Lucev

P3.4

Impact of cob orientation and husk coverage on field-level mycotoxin accumulation in maize

John F. Leslie

P3.5

Incidence of Fumonisin B1 in small grains in Serbia

Slavica Stankovic

P3.6

Surveillance of emerging fusariotoxins in the food chain in France: presentation of FUSÉ, a working group of the SCA Platform

Margot Bärenstrauch 

P3.7

Diversity of Fusarium species and their mycotoxins in major cereals

Manuela Zadravec

P3.8

Non-host colonization by Fusarium oxysporum: common weeds as potential disease reservoirs

Alarik A.D. van Diepeningen

P3.9

Ambrosia (2024-2027): Bridging Knowledge, Communication, and Action for Food Safety in a Changing Climate

Carol Verheecke-Vaessen

P3.10

Non-destructive detection of deoxynivalenol and zearalenone in individual oat grains using spectroscopy

Carol Verheecke-Vaessen

 

 

 

Modification date: 14 October 2025 | Publication date: 19 August 2020 | By: EFS17-Commity