Handbook Part 2 - International Mycological Association

1600-1630 IS2 - 0691
Foliar endophytes versus leaf litter saprobes: annual cycle of an ascomycete community associated with oak
leaves
Gerard J. M. Verkley (The Netherlands)
1630-1700 IS3 - 0813
Endophytes: Lifestyle and Phylogenetic Diversity
Rajesh Jeewon (China)
1700-1715 PS1 – 0411
Endophytic fungi in non-mycorrhizal oak roots
Erhard Halmschlager (Austria)
1715-1730 PS2 - 0639
Metabolic and taxonomic approaches to investigating the effects of plant function on communities of root and
nodule-associated fungi
Samuel Skinner (Canada)
1530-1730 Meeting Room 3-5
Symposium 56: Phylogeography
Chairs: Gregory Mueller (USA) / H. Thorsten Lumbsch (USA)
The study of processes controlling geographic distributions of lineages using molecular tools is a relatively new and
emerging field in mycology. While it was previously generally believed that fungi have wide distribution patterns and
have largely unstructured populations, recent studies have shown that this not the case. Phylogeographical
approaches offer a powerful tool to understand the current distributions of fungi and their historical development. In
this symposium phylogeographical studies on a wide variety of fungal organisms, including smuts, higher
basidiomycetes, and ascomycetes, including lichen-forming fungi, will be discussed. The symposium includes
examples of parasitic, symbiotic and saprophytic systems. Various molecular markers, such as microsatellites or DNA
sequence data of variable gene regions are employed in the different studies.
1530-1600 IS1 - 0370
Phylogeography of Serpula lacrymans reveals global migration events and multiple transitions to an indoor
lifestyle
Havard Kauserud (Norway)
1600-1630 IS2 - 0921
Biogeography of the Hysterangiales
Kentaro Hosaka (USA)
1630-1700 IS3 - 0613
Hitchhiking through the botanic realm: Ustilaginales in time and space
Dominik Bergerow (Germany)
1700-1715 PS1 - 0304
A phylogenetic and phylogeographic approach to delimit Antarctic and bipolar species of the genus Usnea,
Neuropogon
Nora Wirtz (Germany)
1715-1730 PS2 - 0437
Migration in space and time for 14 worldwide populations of Mycosphaerella graminicola
Soren Banke (Switzerland)
1530-1730 Hall D
Symposium 43: Biocontrol
Chairs: Augusto Schrank (Brasil) / Naresh Magan (UK)
This Symposium will focus on same of the main areas of the biocontrol using filamentous fungi and yeasts. The use of
living organisms to control pests and diseases has attracted increasing interest as a reliable alternative to chemical
control. In particular, the use of fungi in a commercial scale has proven to be effective and economically feasible in
different countries. Filamentous fungi and yeasts have been proposed as biological control agents (BCAs) for a variety
of organisms as insects, ticks, phytopathogenic fungi, mycotoxin producers, nematodes. The main difficulty to the
large-scale use of fungi as BCAs is the longer time required for effective pest control in comparison to that of
chemicals. Much of the current research efforts is applied to improve the knowledge on the host infection
mechanisms and to develop optimized formulations. In addition, many groups are involved in discovery of new
isolates, a pivotal step towards a more general and efficient application of the biocontrol.
1530-1550 IS1 - 0822
Production and formulation of antagonists for improved competitiveness and biocontrol”
Naresh Magan (UK)
1550-1610 IS2 - 0842
Screening of biocontrol agents of fungal leaf diseases
Jürgen Köhl (The Netherlands)
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