SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

keynote speakers

Satinder Kaur Brar

Prof. Satinder Kaur Brar is the James and Joanne Love Chair in Environmental Engineering and Director of One WATER Institute at York University. Her research is in the two converging fields of value-addition of wastes and decontamination. Many national and international awards have been bestowed on her that prove her research mettle. Recent ones being, in 2019, Eddy Principles/Processes Wastewater Medal from Water Environment Federation; 2017 Grand Prize in University Research for Excellence in Environmental Engineering and Science by the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists. She was recently inducted into the European Academy of Sciences in 2021 and has been a member of the College of New Scholars, Scientist and Artists of the Royal Society of Canada, since 2014. At York, she has spearheaded two important initiatives on One WATER and cluster on emerging contaminants and their interactions in water, and has been honored with the President’s Research Excellence Award. She has published more than 400 articles, edited 11 books and at least 52 invited talks to her credit.

Dietmar Schlosser

Dietmar Schlosser is heading the Working Group Environmental Mycology of the Department of Applied Microbial Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig, Germany. His main research interests include the physiology, biochemistry and enzymology of fungi of diverse habitats and lifestyles with respect to biotransformation and degradation of xenobiotic (synthetic polymers – plastics – and their additives, micro-pollutants, and “classical” mass pollutants) and natural organic compounds, and the exploitation of fungi in environmental biotechnology. He has participated in >10 projects in the field of fungal biotechnology, and co-authored >60 publications in indexed journals and 15 chapters in books/book series with peer review.

Félix-Antoine Bérubé Simard

Félix-Antoine Bérubé-Simard is director of the mycotechnology R&D department, as well as co-director of innovation and technology transfer, at Biopterre. His main research interest consists in an approach combining fungal bioprospecting in hostile environments and functional genomics, to develop different mycotechnological solutions to problems in different industrial sectors (agro-environmental, food, pharmaceuticals, etc.). His team carries out around 30 projects a year, nearly a third of which involve mycoremediation.

schedule

Monday, May 5th - 2025

Preworshop Course
"Fungi and their enzymatic systems : from fundamental to applications"
8:00 – 9:00Accreditation
9:00 – 9:45Fungi: morphology, reproduction, nutrition, habitat, and phylogenetic classification
9:45 – 10:30The enzymatic system in fungi: extracellular, intracellular and advanced oxidation systems
10:30 – 11:00COFFEE BREAK
11:00 – 11:30Extremophilic fungi in mycoremediation
11:30 – 12:00Agriculturally and industrially important fungi
12:00 – 13:30LUNCH BREAK
13:30 – 14:30Fungal enzyme production and immobilization
14:30 – 15:00Enzymatic bioreactor design
15:00 – 16:00Application of fungal enzymes for bioremediation, and food additives/biofuels production
16:00 – 16:30Mycomaterials

Tuesday, May 6th - 2025

Opening Session
8:00 – 9:00 Accreditation
9:00 – 9:30 Opening Ceremony
9:30 – 10:30 Opening Key Lecture
10:30 – 11:00 COFFEE BREAK & POSTER SESSION 1
Session 1
11.00-11.30Keynote Lecture (Invited speaker)
11.30-11.45Selected talk (Abstract submission)
11.30-11.45Selected talk (Abstract submission)
11.30-11.45Selected talk (Abstract submission)
11.45-12.00Selected talk (Abstract submission)
12.00-12.30My thesis in 3-minute presentations
12.30-13.30LUNCH BREAK
Session 2
13.30- 14.00 Keynote Lecture (Invited speaker)
14.00 – 14.15 Selected talk (Abstract submission)
14.15-14.30 Selected talk (Abstract submission)
14.30- 15.00 Flash session poster
15.00-15.30 COFFEE BREAK & POSTER SESSION 2
Session 3
15.30-16.00Keynote Lecture (Invited speaker)
16.00- 16.15Selected talk (Abstract submission)
16.15- 16.30Selected talk (Abstract submission)
16.30- 17.00Flash session poster
17.00-18.00NETWORKING GROUPS & POSTER SESSION 3
18.00-20.00CONFERENCE DINNER

Wednesday, May 7th - 2025

Session 4
9.00-9.30Keynote Lecture
9.30-9.45Selected talk
9.45-10.00Selected talk
10.00-10.30Flash session poster
10.30– 11.00COFFEE BREAK & POSTER SESSION 4
Session 5
11.00-11.30Keynote Lecture (Invited speaker)
11.30-11.45Selected talk (Abstract submission)
11.45-12.00Selected talk (Abstract submission)
12.00-12.30My thesis in 3-minute presentations
12.30-13.30LUNCH BREAK
Session 6
13.30- 14.00 Keynote Lecture (Invited speaker)
14.00 – 14.15 Selected talk (Abstract submission)
14.15-14.30 Selected talk (Abstract submission)
14.30- 15.00 Flash session poster
15.00-15.30 COFFEE BREAK & POSTER SESSION 5
Closing Session
15.30-16.30 Closure conference (Invited speaker)
16.30 – 16.45 Best poster awards
16.45-17.00 Closure Speech (Organizing Committee)