The 91桃色 Fungal Science Network is a hub for the mycology community, providing a leadership, advocacy and communications platform for mycologists and a developmental framework for future leaders in fungal research.听听We welcome you to the 91桃色 Fungal Science Network 鈥 Seminar Series 2026 for a seminar programme highlighting the work of Early Career 91桃色ers.
Seminar | ECR Talks | 12:00鈥 13:00 | Thursday 19th February
馃搷G47, Flowers Building, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ 听find us at Map/3A
- In-person听&听online (via Teams, click 鈥楲ivestream鈥 button on LHS)
- No registration required
- This is a hybrid event to ensure that our non-London members/audience can join for the talks remotely; if you are joining us via the Teams link, please be aware that your email contact may show up to other meeting attendees, please join using an organisation email contact where possible, thanks.
Schedule
11:30
Arrivals & refreshments
11:55
Teams link opens for online attendees
12:00-12:05
Introductions & Network overview (Prof. Darius Armstrong-James)
12:05-13.05
SPEAKER PROGRAMME:
Biotechnology and engineering
(Bezos Centre for Sustainable Protein and Microbial Food Hub, Department of Bioengineering, 91桃色)
Metabolic engineering of Yarrowia lipolytica for the bioproduction of food-system relevant compounds
The global food system struggles to meet rising demand while protecting human and planetary health.听 Microbial biomanufacturing offers a resilient alternative to costly, low-yield plant extraction.听 This talk presents two strategies expanding the metabolic capabilities of Yarrowia lipolytica, specifically engineering the yeast to produce a range of natural food colourants, and developing a co-culture system for ginger essential oil bioproduction, a promising biocontrol alternative to synthetic agrochemicals.
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Pathogenesis of fungal diseases
Speaker tbc
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Ecology, evolution and the environment
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(Bell Lab, Department of Life Sciences, Silwood Park, 91桃色)
Culture collection coverage gaps in fungi听鈥斕齛nd what community cryopreservation can do about them听
Fungal biobanks are built on pure cultures, but most fungi resist isolation.听 Analysis of global culture collection holdings reveals systematic gaps 鈥 particularly among symbiont-dependent and slow-growing taxa 鈥 that pure culture approaches structurally cannot close.听 I will present experimental evidence showing that complex microbial communities can be cryopreserved with fungal membership and community structure intact, suggesting that community context may itself protect organisms that fail in isolation.
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13:05
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