Scientific Programme

FINAL PROGRAMME AT A GLANCE

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Final Detailed Programme available HERE.

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME (May 2017)

Plenary sessions

1. Establishing and maintaining mycorrhizas: the molecular interplay

   chair: Paola Bonfante
   keynote lecture: Maria Harrison
   confirmed speakers: Caroline Gutjahr, Jonathan Plett, Uwe Nehls, Pierre-Emmanuel Courty, Alga Zuccaro, Jean-Michel Ané, Silvia Perotto

2. Diversity and biogeography of mycorrhizal symbioses

   chair: Dirk Redecker
   keynote lecture: Leho Tedersoo
   confirmed speakers: Colin Averill, Gijsbert Werner, Ian Dickie, Katie Field, Mari Moora, Celeste Linde, Mark Brundrett

3. Belowground diversity and ecosystem functioning

   chair: Nancy C. Johnson
   keynote lecture: Marcel van der Heijden
   confirmed speakers: Karina Clemmensen, Dave Johnson, Nikhil Joshi, Melissa McCormick, Carla Cruz Paredes, Jonathan Bennett, Stephanie Watts-Williams

4. Genomics for understanding mycorrhizal evolution and ecology

   chair: Ian R. Sanders
   keynote lecture: Francis Martin
   confirmed speakers: Nicolas Corradi, Christophe Roux, Laszlo Nagy, Martina Peter, Elena Martino, Tania Wyss Lozano Hoyos, Marco Giovannetti

5. Perspectives

   chair: Lynette Abbott
   confirmed speakers: Roger Koide, Catherine A. Gehring, Ian R. Sanders

Concurrent sessions

1. Mycorrhizas in agro- and agroforestry ecosystems (3 hours)

   conveners: Erik Verbruggen, Amadou Ba

2. Mycorrhizal microbiomes (3 hours)

   conveners: Christina Kaiser, Mika Tarkka

3. Acquisition, assimilation and transport of nutrients and carbon in mycorrhizal symbioses
   (3 hours)

   conveners: Joske Ruytinx, Katsuharu Saito

4. Modelling of mycorrhizas (1.5 hours)

   conveners: Andrea Schnepf, Edward R. Brzostek

5. Mycorrhizas in plant and fungal invasions (1.5 hours)

   conveners: Ian Dickie

6. Population genetics/genomics/DNA polymorphism (1.5 hours)

   conveners: Nicolas Corradi, Martina Peter

7. Mycorrhizal carbon fluxes and carbon sequestration (1.5 hours)

   conveners: Iver Jakobsen, Martin Lukac

8. Emerging technologies to make new discoveries in mycorrhizal physiology and ecology
   (1.5 hours)

   conveners: Franziska Krajinski, Barbara Drigo

9. Advances in biological conservation through a better understanding of mycorrhizal ecology
   (1.5 hours)

   conveners: Marc-André Selosse, Zhu L. Yang

10. Soil and climate feedbacks in mycorrhizal biogeography and ecology (3 hours)

    conveners: Baodong Chen, José-Ignacio Querejeta

11. Integrating mycorrhizas into plant community ecology (3 hours)

    conveners: Jim Bever, Jeff Powell

12. Molecular programming of mycorrhizal symbioses (3 hours)

    conveners: Annegret Kohler, Pierre-Emmanuel Courty

Workshops

1. In-situ mycorrhizal function – how do we get relevant data from a messy world?

   organized by: Ylva Lekberg and Thorunn Helgason

2. Common mycorrhizal networks – how common and how important they are?

   organized by: Jonathan R. Leake

3. Species concept of Glomeromycota

   organized by: Tom Bruns and Maarja Öpik

4. Mycorrhiza for human welfare – past, present and future

   organized by: Manuela Giovannetti and Joyce Jefwa

5. Specificity in mycorrhizal symbioses: an evolvable trait?

   organized by: Martin Bidartondo and Marcel Bucher