Fungal Infections 2017
Day 2 November 17, 2017
Sessions
Session Introduction
Title:
A comparative study on the growth of
Aspergillus species
on formulated culture
media from food crop wastes and sabouraud dextrose agar
Janet Uchechukwu Itelima,
University of Jos, Nigeria
Title:
Genome shuffling of mangrove endophytic
Aspergillus luchuensis
MERV10 for
improving the cholesterol-lowering agent lovastatin under solid state fermentation
Hind AlZahrani,
KAU University, Saudi Arabia
Young Researchers Forum
Title:
Heme promotes transcriptional and demethylase activities of Gis1, a member of
the histonendemethylase JMJD2/KDM4 family
Tianyuan Wang,
The University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Title:
The hnRNP-like yeast termination factor Nab3 can employ heterologous low
complexity domains in place of its essential low complexity domain
Travis Loya,
Emory University, USA
Title:
Characterizing protein interactions promoting heme regulation of the JMJC
domaincontaining protein Gis1 in yeast
Purna Chaitanya Konduri,
The University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Title:
Bioremediation potential of fungi isolated from uranium mine in Brazil
Ednei Coelho,
University of São Paulo, Brazil
Session Chair
Li Zhang
The University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Session Co-chair
Kyle Bittinger
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, USA
Medical and Clinical Mycology | Fungal Infectious Diseases | Current Trends,
Innovations and Future Prospects in Mycology | Fungal Biotechnology and
Pharmaceutical Mycology