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Saturday 13 May, Afternoon

Registration

15:30 - 18:30

Welcome/Introduction

Richard Bennett, Brown University, USA and Michael Lorenz, University of Texas McGovern Medical School, USA

18:30 - 18:45

Speech

Jose Lopez-Ribot, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA and Priya Uppuluri, The Lundquist Institute at Harbor UCLA, USA

18:45 - 18:55

Keynote Session

Please note the timings are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

Organisers

Chair(s): Richard Bennett (Brown University, USA) and Michael Lorenz (University of Texas McGovern Medical School, USA)
Keynote Speaker: Commensal colonization by Candida albicans: effects on the gut and beyond

Carol Kumamoto, Tufts University, USA, Ballroom West-Centre

18:55 - 19:40
Keynote Speaker: The Complexity of Candida albicans Filamentation

Damian Krysan, University of Iowa, USA, Ballroom West-Centre

19:40 - 20:25

Drinks Reception

Foyer Ballroom

20:30 - 22:00

Sunday 14 May, Morning

Registration

07:30 - 08:30

Plenary I: Drug Discovery and Resistance

In Ballroom West-Centre.
Please note the timings are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

Organisers

Chair(s): Leah Cowen (University of Toronto, Canada) and Iuliana Ene (Institut Pasteur, France)
Echinocandin mediated cell wall remodelling induces tolerance mechanisms which promote persistent, drug recalcitrant infections

Louise Walker, University of Aberdeen, UK

08:30 - 08:45
In-host echinocandin tolerance and evolution of resistance in Candida glabrata

Erika Shor, Hackensack Meridian Health Center for Discovery & Innovation, USA

08:45 - 09:00
Multiple genes of Candida albicans influencing echinocandin susceptibility in caspofungin-adapted mutants

Elena Rustchenko, University of Rochester Medical Center, USA

09:00 - 09:15
High-throughput Chemical Screen Identifies Fatty Acid Biosynthesis Inhibition as a Broad-Spectrum Antifungal Strategy

Leah Cowen, University of Toronto, Canada

09:15 - 09:30
Targeting Coenzyme A biosynthesis for antifungal development

Jessica Regan, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, USA

09:30 - 09:45
High Throughput Screening of Repurposing Libraries in Search for Drugs with Novel Inhibitory Activity against Candida Biofilms

Jose Lopez-Ribot, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

09:45 - 10:00

Refreshments

Foyer Ballroom

10:00 - 10:30

Plenary II: Variation and Genome Dynamics

In Ballroom West-Centre.
Please note the timings are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

Organisers

Chair(s): Geraldine Butler (University College Dublin, Ireland) and Christina Cuomo (Broad Institute, USA)
Genotype and phenotype diversity in Candida parapsilosis

Geraldine Butler, University College Dublin, Ireland

10:30 - 10:45
Reassessing the Macroevolutionary Origins of Pathogenicity in Candida auris and Relatives Through Phylogenomic Analysis

Kyle Schutz, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

10:45 - 11:00
ER stress induces high frequency CNV events and potentiates tolerance to azoles in Candida auris

Feng Yang, School of Medicine, Tongji University, China

11:00 - 11:15
The RNA interference pathway silences subtelomeric genes in Candida albicans

Alessia Buscaino,University of Kent, United Kingdom

11:15 - 11:30
Evolutionary acquired insertion sequences control adaptation and virulence in Candida albicans

Priya Uppuluri, The Lundquist Institute at Harbor UCLA, USA

11:30 - 11:45
Antifungal drug concentration impacts the spectrum of adaptive mutations in Candida species

Anna Selmecki, University of Minnesota Medical School, USA

11:45 - 12:00

Career Development Session

Reeta Rao (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA) and Iuliana Ene (Institut Pasteur, France), Ballroom West-Centre

12:00 - 13:30

Lunch (lunch boxes)

Foyer Ballroom

12:00 - 13:30

Sunday 14 May, Afternoon

Parallel Session A1: Candida Signaling/Gene Regulation

In Ballroom West-Centre.
Please note the timings are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

Organisers

Chair(s): Malcolm Whiteway (Concordia University, Canada) and Adnane Sellam (University of Montreal- Montreal Heart Institute, Canada)
Fluorescent microscopy to identify the location of Ppp1 a novel protein in Candida albicans

Nmerichukwu Iwuchukwu, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

13:30 - 13:45
Cytochrome c regulates hyphal growth by interfering with cAMP-PKA signaling in Candida albicans

Guisheng Zeng, ID Labs, A*STAR, Singapore

13:45 - 14:00
Candidalysin uses an unexpected mechanism to form membrane pores

Francisco Barrera, University of Tennessee, USA

14:00 - 14:15
Dynamics of cell wall β-1,6-glucans in Candida albicans

Clara Bekirian, Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, France

14:15 - 14:30
Candida albicans Sap6 induces NLRP3-mediated oral epithelial inflammation

Rohitashw Kumar, University at Buffalo, USA

14:30 - 14:45
Modulation of fungal hypoxic growth by TOR pathway and the chromatin remodeler Ino80

Manjari Shrivastava, University de Montreal and Montreal heart insitiute, Canada

14:45 - 15:00

Parallel Session A2: Metabolism

In Salon 6&7.
Please note the timings are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

Organisers

Chair(s): Duncan Wilson (University of Aberdeen, UK) and Harshini Weerasinghe (Monash University, Australia)
Eat to compete: Understanding immunometabolic interactions during Candida auris infection

Harshini Weerasinghe, Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Centre to Impact AMR, Monash University, Australia

13:30 - 13:45
A commonly used prebiotic impacts Candida albicans phenotypes central to gut commensalism and pathogenesis

Émer Hickey, Medical Research Council Centre for Medical Mycology, University of Exeter, UK

13:45 - 14:00
The Candida glabrata Parent Strain Trap

Gabriela Ribeiro, University of Aberdeen, UK

14:00 - 14:15
The Hxk1 protein of Candida albicans influences expression of both metabolic and virulence related genes

Stefanie Wijnants, KU Leuven, Belgium

14:15 - 14:30
Trans-cellular tunnels induced by Candida albicans facilitate invasion through successive epithelial cells without host damage

Allon Weiner, Sorbonne University, France

14:30 - 14:45
Zinc treatment prevents vulvovaginal candidiasis immunopathology by blocking Candida albicans Pra1

Elena Roselletti, Medical Research Council Centre for Medical Mycology, University of Exeter, UK

14:45 - 15:00

Refreshments

Foyer Ballroom

15:00 - 15:30

Elevator Session A

In Ballroom West-Centre Please note the timings are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

Organisers

Chair(s): Ilse Jacobsen (Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Germany)
Elevator Session A

15:30 - 16:30

Poster Sessions A

In Salon Drummond, Foyer Drummond and Ballroom East Please note the timings are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

Organisers

Poster Sessions A

16:30 - 17:45

Monday 15 May, Morning

Registration

07:30 - 08:30

Plenary III: Host-Candida Interactions

In Ballroom West-Centre.
Please note the timings are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

Organisers

Chair(s): Iliyan Iliev (Cornell University, USA) and Michail Lionakis (NIH, USA)
Ab-AIRE-ant response: Autoimmunity, IFN, STAT1, and mucosal candidiasis

Michail Lionakis, NIH, USA

08:30 - 08:45
Candida-induced granulocytic myeloid-derived suppressor cells are protective against polymicrobial sepsis

Shannon Esher Righi, Tulane University School of Medicine, USA

08:45 - 09:00
Candida albicans extracellular vesicles trigger type I IFN signaling via cGAS and STING

Hannah Harding, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA

09:00 - 09:15
Gut fungal microbiota in neuroimmunity and inflammation

Iliyan Iliev (Cornell University, USA)

09:15 - 09:30
Deep tissue infection by an invasive human fungal pathogen requires lipid-based suppression of the IL-17 response

Suzanne Noble, UCSF, USA

09:30 - 09:45
The role of EGFR in Candida albicans infection

Léa Lortal, King's College London, United Kingdom

09:45 - 10:00

Refreshments

Foyer Ballroom

10:00 - 10:30

Plenary IV: Candida Biology and Host Interacitons

In Ballroom West-Centre.
Please note the timings are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

Organisers

Chair(s): Haoping Liu (University of California, Irvine, USA) and Joachim Morschhäuser (University of Würzburg, Germany)
In Candida albicans, Opaque Cell-Type Memory through Thousands of Cell Divisions Requires the Continuous Presence of WOR1

Chien-Der Lee, UC San Francisco, USA

10:30 - 10:45
A role for IME4 and m6A in regulating the C. albicans parasexual cycle

Allison M. Porman Swain, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, USA

10:45 - 11:00
The Candida albicans transcription factor RFX1 regulates oral mucosa infection

Diana Rodriguez, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA

11:00 - 11:15
Regulation of inflammatory cell death by Als3 of Candida albicans hyphae

Haoping Liu, University of California, Irvine, USA

11:15 - 11:30
Characterizing Candida albicans hyphal regulation in the context of host macrophages

Hannah Wilson, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, USA

11:30 - 11:45
The conserved Ypk1 protein kinase signaling pathway is rewired and not essential for viability in Candida albicans

Bernardo Ramírez-Zavala, Institute for Molecular Infection Biology, University of Würzburg, Germany

11:45 - 12:00

Lunch

Foyer Ballroom

12:00 - 13:00

Monday 15 May, Afternoon

Clinical Session 1

In Ballroom West-Centre Please note the timings are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

Organisers

Clinical Session 1

13:00 - 13:30

Parallel Session B1: Microbial Communities

In Ballroom West-Centre.
Please note the timings are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

Organisers

Chair(s): Rebecca Hall (University of Kent, UK) and Priya Uppuluri (University of California Los Angeles, USA)
Pseudomonas aeruginosa increases the susceptibility of Candida albicans to amphotericin B in dual species biofilms

Rebecca Hall, Division of Natural Sciences, School of Biosciences, University of Kent, UK

13:30 - 13:45
Inter-Kingdom metabolism underlies exacerbated bacterial toxin production during Candida albicans-Staphylococcus aureus co-infection

Brian Peters, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, USA

13:45 - 14:00
Extracellular vesicle cargo provide cooperative and competitive roles in mixed Candida spp. biofilm interactions

David Andes, University of Wisconsin, USA

14:00 - 14:15
Characterizing the role of Candida species during gastrointestinal infection by Clostridioides difficile

Jesus Romo, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

14:15 - 14:30
Population-level evolution in mixed-species yeast cultures caused by changes in growth conditions

Brooke Esquivel, University of Missouri - Kansas City, USA

14:30 - 14:45
Candida albicans and Enterococcus faecalis form a complex nutritional network during in vitro coinfection altering host cell damage

Mario Kapitan, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology-Hans Knöll Institute (HKI), University Hospital Jena and Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany

14:45 - 15:00

Parallel Session B2: Cell Biology

In Salon 6&7 Please note the timings are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

Organisers

Chair(s): Alexandra Brand (University of Exeter, UK) and James Konopka (Stony Brook University, USA)
Proper morphogenesis is needed for Candida albicans stress resistance and virulence

James Konopka, Stony Brook Univesrity, USA

13:30 - 13:45
Bacteria-mediated killing of Candida albicans: the role of the fungal cell wall in resisting bacterial attack

Laure Nicolas Annick Ries, University of Exeter, UK

13:45 - 14:00
Filament branching in Candida albicans

Robert Arkowitz, University Côte d'Azur, CNRS, Inserm, France

14:00 - 14:15
Unraveling how Candida albicans forms sexual biofilms

Austin Perry, University of California, USA

14:15 - 14:30
Candida albicans interactions with the host autophagy machinery during infection of epithelial cells

Pierre Lapaquette, Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Agrosup Dijon, France

14:30 - 14:45
The phospholipid flippase, Neo1, is required for the reorganisation of plasma membrane lipids required for invasive hyphal growth in Candida albicans

Emma Agnew, University of Exeter, UK

14:45 - 15:00

Refreshments

Foyer Ballroom

15:00 - 15:30

Elevator Session B

In Ballroom West-Centre.
Please note the timings are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

Organisers

Chair(s): Ted White (University of Missouri - Kansas City, USA)
Elevator Session B

15:30 - 16:30

Poster Sessions B

In Salon Drummond, Foyer Drummond and Ballroom East Please note the timings are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

Organisers

Poster Sessions B

16:30 - 18:00

Tuesday 16 May, Morning

Registration

07:30 - 08:30

Plenary V: Variation and Genome Dynamics

In Ballroom West-Centre.
Please note the timings are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

Organisers

Chair(s): Aaron Mitchell (University of Georgia, USA) and Tobias Hohl (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA)
Natural variation in the Candida albicans biofilm regulatory network

Aaron Mitchell, University of Georgia, USA

08:30 - 08:45
A Gain-of-function Mutation in Zinc Cluster Transcription Factor Rob1 Drives Candida albicans Adaptive Growth in the Cystic Fibrosis Lung Environment

Mayssa Gnaien, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia

08:45 - 09:00
Convergent evolution of the mitochondrial iron transporter Mrs4 in chronic fungal Cystic Fibrosis infections

Daniel Murante, Dartmouth College, USA

09:00 - 09:15
Parasexual recombination in Candida albicans exceeds meiotic frequencies in ascomycetes

Matthew Anderson, The Ohio State University, USA

09:15 - 09:30
Echinocandin heteroresistance causes prophylaxis failure and facilitates breakthrough Candida parapsilosis infection

Bing Zhai, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China and Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA

09:30 - 09:45
Stress-induced rapid genome instability events enable multiple adaptive strategies to survive antifungal stress

Hung-Ji Tsai, Institute of Microbiology and Infection, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, UK

09:45 - 10:00

Refreshments

Foyer Ballroom

10:00 - 10:30

Plenary VI: Drug Discovery and Resistance

In Ballroom West-Centre.
Please note the timings are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

Organisers

Chair(s): Judith Berman and Rebecca Shapiro
Antifungal Drug Tolerance in Candida albicans at the species-wide scale

Austin Mottola, Shmunis School for Biomedical and Cancer Research, Tel Aviv University, Israel

10:30 - 10:45
Transient aneuploidy mediates azole heteroresistance in C. albicans

Eli I. Maciel, Institut Pasteur, France

10:45 - 11:00
Inducible tolerance and persistence in Candida glabrata through calcineurin signaling

Abigail Harrington, Johns Hopkins University, USA

11:00 - 11:15
Differential Dependence of PDR1 Variants on Coactivator Complexes in Response to Azole

Thomas Conway, University of Iowa, USA

11:15 - 11:30
Identification of Amphotericin B Resistance Determinants in Candida auris

Neeraj Chauhan, Center for Discovery and Innovation, USA

11:30 - 11:45
A master bZIP transcriptional regulator in C. auris links metabolism, tissue tropism, morphogenesis and antifungal multidrug resistance

Karl Kuchler, Medical University of Vienna, Max Perutz Labs Vienna, Austria

11:45 - 12:00

Lunch

Foyer Ballroom

12:00 - 13:00

Tuesday 16 May, Afternoon

Clinical Session 2

In Ballroom West-Centre Please note the timings are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

Organisers

Clinical Session 2

Michail Lionakis (NIH, USA). Moderators: Jeniel Nett (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA), Tobias Hohl (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA)

13:00 - 13:30

Plenary VII: Cutting-edge approaches

In Ballroom West-Centre.
Please note the timings are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

Organisers

Chair(s): Matthew Anderson (The Ohio State University, USA) and David Kadosh (University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, USA)
CRISPR-based functional genomic tools and application to understanding antifungal resistance and the mechanism of action of novel antifungals

Lauren Wensing (University of Guelph, Canada)

13:30 - 13:45
Candida glabrata, new tools to study stress, pathogenesis and drug resistance

Jane Usher, University of Exeter, UK

13:45 - 14:00
An intestine-on-chip to dissect Candida albicans infections and evaluate therapeutic approaches

Raquel Alonso-Roman, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans-Knoell-Institute, Germany

14:00 - 14:15
Rapid, efficient auxin-inducible protein degradation in Candida albicans

Kedric L. Milholland, Purdue University, USA

14:15 - 14:30
A novel rRNA hybridization-based approach to rapid, accurate Candida identification directly from blood culture

Poppy Sephton-Clark, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA

14:30 - 14:45
A quick and cheap PCR tool to identify Candida species on gDNA directly extracted from positive blood cultures

Hassan Badrane, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, USA

14:45 - 15:00

Refreshments

Foyer Ballroom

15:00 - 15:30

Elevator Session C

In Ballroom West-Centre Please note the timings are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

Organisers

Chair(s): Teresa O'Meara (University of Michigan, USA)
Elevator Session C

15:30 - 16:30

Poster Sessions C

In Salon Drummond, Foyer Drummond and Ballroom East Please note the timings are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

Organisers

Poster Sessions C

16:30 - 18:00

Drinks Reception

Foyer Ballroom

18:00 - 18:30

Conference Dinner

Ballroom West-Centre

18:30 - 20:45

Wednesday 17 May, Morning

Registration

07:30 - 08:30

Plenary VIII: Candida Biology and Host Interactions

In Ballroom West-Centre.
Please note the timings are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

Organisers

Chair(s): Bernhard Hube (Leibniz Institute, Germany) and Rebecca Drummond (University of Birmingham, UK)
It takes more than one to escort the peptide toxin candidalysin in Candida albicans

Bernhard Hube, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knoell Institute (HKI) and Institute of Microbiology, Friedrich Schiller University, Germany

08:30 - 08:45
Vancomycin impairs macrophage antifungal immunity

Rebecca Drummond, University of Birmingham, UK

08:45 - 09:00
Identification of genetic circuitry regulating Candida auris adhesion

Juliet Anku, University of Ghana, Ghana and University of Michigan Medical School, USA

09:00 - 09:15
Candida auris mannosylation pathways MNN1 and MNN11 contribute to neutrophil evasion via mechanisms independent of β-glucan masking

Mark V. Horton, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

09:15 - 09:30
Intestinal Candida Dynamics during Bone Marrow Transplantation

Tobias Hohl, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA

09:30 - 09:45
Translational Control of Candida albicans Morphology and Stress Responses by eIF4E-binding Proteins and the eIF4F Complex

David Kadosh, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, USA

09:45 - 10:00

Refreshments

Foyer Ballroom

10:00 - 10:30

Plenary IX: Host-Candida Interactions

In Ballroom West-Centre.
Please note the timings are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

Registration

Welcome/Introduction

Speech

Organisers

Chair(s): Richard Bennett (Brown University, USA) and Michael Lorenz (University of Texas McGovern Medical School, USA)

Keynote Speaker: Commensal colonization by Candida albicans: effects on the gut and beyond

Keynote Speaker: The Complexity of Candida albicans Filamentation

Drinks Reception

Registration

Organisers

Chair(s): Leah Cowen (University of Toronto, Canada) and Iuliana Ene (Institut Pasteur, France)

Echinocandin mediated cell wall remodelling induces tolerance mechanisms which promote persistent, drug recalcitrant infections

In-host echinocandin tolerance and evolution of resistance in Candida glabrata

Multiple genes of Candida albicans influencing echinocandin susceptibility in caspofungin-adapted mutants

High-throughput Chemical Screen Identifies Fatty Acid Biosynthesis Inhibition as a Broad-Spectrum Antifungal Strategy

Targeting Coenzyme A biosynthesis for antifungal development

High Throughput Screening of Repurposing Libraries in Search for Drugs with Novel Inhibitory Activity against Candida Biofilms

Refreshments

Organisers

Chair(s): Geraldine Butler (University College Dublin, Ireland) and Christina Cuomo (Broad Institute, USA)

Genotype and phenotype diversity in Candida parapsilosis

Reassessing the Macroevolutionary Origins of Pathogenicity in Candida auris and Relatives Through Phylogenomic Analysis

ER stress induces high frequency CNV events and potentiates tolerance to azoles in Candida auris

The RNA interference pathway silences subtelomeric genes in Candida albicans

Evolutionary acquired insertion sequences control adaptation and virulence in Candida albicans

Antifungal drug concentration impacts the spectrum of adaptive mutations in Candida species

Career Development Session

Lunch (lunch boxes)

Organisers

Chair(s): Malcolm Whiteway (Concordia University, Canada) and Adnane Sellam (University of Montreal- Montreal Heart Institute, Canada)

Fluorescent microscopy to identify the location of Ppp1 a novel protein in Candida albicans

Cytochrome c regulates hyphal growth by interfering with cAMP-PKA signaling in Candida albicans

Candidalysin uses an unexpected mechanism to form membrane pores

Dynamics of cell wall β-1,6-glucans in Candida albicans

Candida albicans Sap6 induces NLRP3-mediated oral epithelial inflammation

Modulation of fungal hypoxic growth by TOR pathway and the chromatin remodeler Ino80

Organisers

Chair(s): Duncan Wilson (University of Aberdeen, UK) and Harshini Weerasinghe (Monash University, Australia)

Eat to compete: Understanding immunometabolic interactions during Candida auris infection

A commonly used prebiotic impacts Candida albicans phenotypes central to gut commensalism and pathogenesis

The Candida glabrata Parent Strain Trap

The Hxk1 protein of Candida albicans influences expression of both metabolic and virulence related genes

Trans-cellular tunnels induced by Candida albicans facilitate invasion through successive epithelial cells without host damage

Zinc treatment prevents vulvovaginal candidiasis immunopathology by blocking Candida albicans Pra1

Refreshments

Organisers

Chair(s): Ilse Jacobsen (Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Germany)

Elevator Session A

Organisers

Poster Sessions A

Registration

Organisers

Chair(s): Iliyan Iliev (Cornell University, USA) and Michail Lionakis (NIH, USA)

Ab-AIRE-ant response: Autoimmunity, IFN, STAT1, and mucosal candidiasis

Candida-induced granulocytic myeloid-derived suppressor cells are protective against polymicrobial sepsis

Candida albicans extracellular vesicles trigger type I IFN signaling via cGAS and STING

Gut fungal microbiota in neuroimmunity and inflammation

Deep tissue infection by an invasive human fungal pathogen requires lipid-based suppression of the IL-17 response

The role of EGFR in Candida albicans infection

Refreshments

Organisers

Chair(s): Haoping Liu (University of California, Irvine, USA) and Joachim Morschhäuser (University of Würzburg, Germany)

In Candida albicans, Opaque Cell-Type Memory through Thousands of Cell Divisions Requires the Continuous Presence of WOR1

A role for IME4 and m6A in regulating the C. albicans parasexual cycle

The Candida albicans transcription factor RFX1 regulates oral mucosa infection

Regulation of inflammatory cell death by Als3 of Candida albicans hyphae

Characterizing Candida albicans hyphal regulation in the context of host macrophages

The conserved Ypk1 protein kinase signaling pathway is rewired and not essential for viability in Candida albicans

Lunch

Organisers

Clinical Session 1

Organisers

Chair(s): Rebecca Hall (University of Kent, UK) and Priya Uppuluri (University of California Los Angeles, USA)

Pseudomonas aeruginosa increases the susceptibility of Candida albicans to amphotericin B in dual species biofilms

Inter-Kingdom metabolism underlies exacerbated bacterial toxin production during Candida albicans-Staphylococcus aureus co-infection

Extracellular vesicle cargo provide cooperative and competitive roles in mixed Candida spp. biofilm interactions

Characterizing the role of Candida species during gastrointestinal infection by Clostridioides difficile

Population-level evolution in mixed-species yeast cultures caused by changes in growth conditions

Candida albicans and Enterococcus faecalis form a complex nutritional network during in vitro coinfection altering host cell damage

Organisers