International Commission on Food Mycology
International Commision on Food Mycology
Workshop 2010 -“Fungi in food and beverages: new research on spoilage, mycotoxins and prevention”
Freising, Germany,
7 – 9 June, 2010
Programme
Sunday, 6 June 2010
Arrival and Registration
18.00 Get together at “Klause” bar
Monday, 7 June 2010
08.00 – 09.00 Registration, continued
09.00 Rudi F. Vogel, Ludwig Niessen, Ailsa Hocking: Welcome
Session 1: Fungi and the Environment (Chairperson Monika Olsen)
09.30 Rolf Geisen: The production of ochratoxin A/B and citrinin increases competitiveness of Penicillium under certain environmental influences
09.55 Markus Schmidt-Heydt: Influence of various light wavelengths on growth and ochratoxin A biosynthesis of P. verrucosum in wheat
10.20 Naresh Magan: Modelling the relationship between environmental factors, transcriptional genes and deoxynivalenol mycotoxin production by strains of two Fusarium species
10.45 Maria Theresa González-Jaén: Differential response to environmental factors of the Fusarium species associated to cereals (F. verticillioides, F. proliferatum and F. graminearum) and effects on their distribution pattern and toxin risk
11.10 Naresh Magan: The influence of water activity and temperature on the germination, growth and sporulation of Stachybotrys chartarum isolates
11.35 Monica Olsen: National emergency planning for moulds and mycotoxins in response to climate change
12.15 – 13.15 Lunch break at Kardinal Döpfner Haus
13.30 – 15.00 Guided Visit to Freising Cathedral
Session 2: Xerophilic and Heat Resistant Fungi (Chairperson Rob Samson)
15.10 Olga Vinnere-Pettersson: The extreme xerophile Xeromyces bisporus: our current state of knowledge
15.35 Su-lin L. Leong: Xeromyces bisporus: growth and competition at low water activities
16.00 Richard van Leeuwen: The ever changing spore: surprises of early germination
16.25 Ailsa Hocking: Heat resistance of Byssochlamys ascospores: a study of ascospore age and ultrastructure
17.00 – 18.30 Poster session with coffee break
19.00 Dinner at Kardinal Döpfner Haus
Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Session 2, continued
08.30 Timon Wyatt: Compatible solutes in the fungal cell
08.55 Jan Dijksterhuis: Applied situations and the fungal collection: panels of
test strains
09.20 Daniela Buchner: ICARUS, a protein related to the extreme stress-resistant ascospores of the fungus Talaromyces macrosporus
09.45 Jos Houbraken: Taxonomic review of food relevant Paecilomyces variotii and related species
Session 3: Mycotoxins and Mycotoxigenic Fungi (Naresh Magan)
10.15 Eva Graf: Influence of osmotic stress on the alternariol biosynthesis in Alternaria alternata
10.40 Beatriz T. Iamanaka: Fungi and toxins in cocoa
11.05 Marta H. Taniwaki: Fungi and toxins in Brazil Nuts
11.30 Ailsa Hocking: Penicillium and Aspergillus spp. in Australian Coffee
11.55 Angel Medina-Vaya: Ecological comparisons of growth and T-2 and HT-2 toxin production by Fusarium langsethiae strains from Northern Europe on an oat-based medium
12.15 - 13.15 Lunch break at Kardinal Döpfner Haus
Session 3: Mycotoxins, continued
13.15 Dojin Ryu: Chemical and toxicological fate of fumonisin B1 during extrusion processing
13.40 Ulf Thrane: Fumonisins
14.05 Jens Frisvad: to be announced
Session 4: Diagnostic Tools for the Detection and Identification of Food Borne Fungi and Mycotoxins (Chairperson Ludwig Niessen)
14.40 John Pitt: PenGuide: the fourth edition of “Laboratory Guide to Common Penicillium Species”
15.05 F. Javier Cabañes: Comparison of selective culture media for the detection of Fusarium infection in conventional and transgenic maize kernels
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break
16.00 Gemma Castella: Detection and quantification of ochratoxin A-producing strains of the Aspergillus niger aggregate by real-time PCR
16.25 Andrea Mückl: NANODETECT – development of biosensors for the quantification of contaminants in milk: development of a detection unit for aflatoxin
17.00 – 18.30 ICFM Committee meeting (Chairperson Ailsa Hocking)
Dinner at Bavarian „Biergarten“
Wednesday, 9 June 2010
Session 4, continued
09.00 Mareike Wenning: Infrared spectroscopy - a simple and rapid tool for species identification and strain typing of yeasts
09.25 Ludwig Niessen: Loop-mediated amplification as a novel concept in fungal diagnosis
Session 5: Fungi as Contaminants in the Beverage Industry (Chairperson Emilia Rico)
09.50 Emilia Rico: Spoilage of heat-processed beverages: an overview
10.15 Michael Dahmen: Problems with potentially heat resistant moulds during validation of an aseptic filling machine
10.40 Georg Lutterschmid: The class II hydrophobin FcHyd5p from Fusarium culmorum as gushing inducer and impact of hop compounds on its gushing potential
11.05 – 11.25 Coffee break
11.25 – 12.15 Final discussions, next meeting, farewell (chairperson to be announced)
12.15 Lunch at Kardinal Döpfner Haus, Checkout
Posters
Julia Batzler: Stress regulation of ochratoxin biosynthesis in Penicillium
Luciana M. Esper: Ochratoxin A and fumonisin production by Aspergillus section Nigri in food from different origins
Elisabeth Fredlund: Quantification of Fusarium and other dominating species
in Swedish wheat and correlation to mycotoxins
Eva Maria Mateo: Growth of Aspergillus carbonarius and production of ochratoxin A in various culture media
Eva Maria Mateo: Comparison of efficacy of the fungicides fenpropimorph, prochloraz and tebuconazole on growth of Fusarium langsethiae strains on an oat-based medium
Eva Maria Mateo: Efficacy of mancozeb, copper oxychloride and sulfur on the production of ochratoxin A by Aspergillus ochraceus and Aspergillus carbonarius in barley-based medium
Asa Svanström: The fungicidal effects of alternative preservatives derived from lactic acid bacteria
