9.00 – 9.45 a.m.
KEYNOTE INVITED
Daniel Stanton
Lichen ecophysiology in a changing world: insights from ecosystem ecology
9.45 – 10.30 a.m.
Oral – ID 247 (invited)
9.45
Holger Thüs
Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History
Slippery when wet! – Challenges in species diversity assessments of freshwater lichens
Oral – ID 329
10.00
Annina Kantelinen
Finnish Museum of Natural History
Hidden histories — relationships between drivers and diversification in lichen genus Micarea
Oral – ID 38
10.15
Elise Lebreton
University of Liège
The leaf substrate as a laboratory for the evolutionary radiation of Gomphillaceae (Ascomycota, Graphidales)
10.30 – 11.00 a.m. / coffee break
11.00 – 12.30 a.m.
Flash talk – ID 283
Heda Ghlimová
11.00
National Museum, Mycological Department, Cirkusová 1740, 19300, Prague, Czech Republic
Do serpentinites influence species composition of rock-inhabiting lichen photobionts?
Flash talk – ID 122
Anna Bérešová
11.05
Plant Science and Biodiversity Centre, Slovak Academy of Sciences
Tolerators or endemics? Role of symbiosis in adaptation to ultramafic bedrock properties
Flash talk – ID 15
Eduardo Gutierrez
11.10
Arizona State University
Results from a lichen diversity inventory from the south coast of Sonora and the Baja California Peninsula.
Oral (invited) – ID 231
Erik Möller
11.15
University of Oslo
Lichens on heavy metal rock and soil in Norway: observations and insights from extensive sampling and DNA barcoding
Oral – ID 320
Hanna Tuovila
11.30
Finnish Museum of Natural History LUOMUS
Spotlight on substrate specificity in Mycocaliciales reveals hidden species diversity
Oral – ID 165
Miguel Blázquez
11.45
Real Jardín Botánico (CSIC)
Extreme morphological convergence masks high species diversity in marine Collemopsidium (Xanthopyreniaceae, Collemopsidiales): towards an integrative taxonomic framework
Flash talk – ID 22
Danielle Ward
12.00
University of California, Berkeley
Identifying 199 foliicolous lichen species in Brunei: one of the highest known country-level richness records
Flash talk – ID 139
Misaki Kuramitsu
12.05
Kwansei Gakuin University
Microscale elemental localization within Stereocaulon octomerellum from serpentine environments revealed using EPMA mapping
Flash talk – ID 201
Aaron Niekamp
12.10
University of Hamburg
Life on the rocks: how substrate effects the saxicolous lichens of the Little Karoo (South Africa)
11.00 – 12.30 a.m.
Oral – ID 57
11.00
Mariana Estorninho Ramos
Ce3c / FCUL
Modeling ecological succession and time of surface exposure in extreme environments: the role of micro-environmental drivers in shaping cryptogamic communities
Oral – ID 192
11.15
Patrick Jung
University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern
Fog, symbiosis, and survival: the ecological architecture of the lichen dominated grit crust from the Atacama Desert
Oral – ID 210
11.30
Inga Jüriado
Estonian University of Life Sciences
The occurrence of lichen secondary metabolites varies with functional traits and environmental conditions in Estonia
Oral – ID 63
11.45
Jacob Watts
University of Colorado Boulder, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Trait syndromes reveal emergent groups of North American lichens
Flash talk – ID 285
12.00
Ana Aramburu Cuberta
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Islands of biodiversity: characterization of lichen flora in Antarctic nunataks
Flash talk – ID 237
12.05
Damien Ertz
Meise Botanic Garden
How many lichen species can be found on a single large, old tropical tree in South America?
Flash talk – ID 209
12.10
Esteve Llop
University of Barcelona
Unrevealing lichen diversity in Mediterranean protected areas: new insights for conservation management
Flash talk – ID 330
12.15
Gábor Matus
University of Debrecen
Abiotic and biotic effects on the organisation of a terrestrial lichen community in a Central European sandy grassland
Flash talk – ID 72
12.20
Evgeniya Muchnik
Institute of Forest Science of Russian Academy of Science
To study the lichen biota of the Dzhanybek Research Station (Russia and Republic of Kazakhstan)
12.30 – 2.00 p.m. / lunch break
2.00 – 3.30 p.m.
Oral – ID 334 (invited)
2.00
Natalia Mossmann Koch
University of Minnesota
Ecological tools to monitor environmental changes: the importance of exploring new physiologically rooted functional traits
Flash talk – ID 321
2.20
Antonio Manuel Montoya Ruiz
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Intraspecific variability of functional traits in five species of Mediterranean epiphytic lichens
Flash talk – ID 265
2.25
Giulia Canali
Università di Genova
NIR hyperspectral imaging combined with chemometrics for mapping water patterns during dehydration of nonvascular epiphytic communities
Flash talk – ID 104
2.30
Federico Romellini
University of Torino, Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences (DISAFA), Largo Braccini 2, 10095 Grugliasco, Italy; University of Helsinki, Department of Forest Sciences, Fabianinkatu 33, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
The role of tree bark in modulating the physiological activity of corticicolous foliose lichens
Flash talk – ID 244
2.35
Stephen Sharrett
Eastern Washington University
A comprehensive conservation assessment for the old-growth specklebelly lichen, Pseudocyphellaria rainierensis
Flash talk – ID 290
2.40
Jason Munshi-South
Drexel University
Population genomics of the common greenshield lichen (Flavoparmelia caperata) reveals unexpected ploidy, breeding system variation and demographic signatures of urbanization
Oral – ID 325
2.45
André Arsenault
Canadian Forest Service
A review of the distribution ecology of the “critically endangered” boreal felt lichen
Flash talk – ID 141
3.00
Jiří Malíček
Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany
Do pollarding, veteranisation and coppicing help or harm epiphytic lichens?
Flash talk – ID 180
3.05
Gothamie Weerakoon
The Natural History Museum – UK
Assessing ecological stress on epiphytic lichens of tropical forests from anthropogenic atmospheric ammonia
Flash talk – ID 230
3.10
Liis Marmor-Ohtla
Tallinn Botanic Garden
Lichen inventories in Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia, reveal high lichen diversity in urban and suburban green areas
Oral – ID 276
3.15
Luca Di Nuzzo
University of Bologna
BioConLobaria: using translocations to support the conservation of the endangered lichen Lobaria pulmonaria
2.00 – 3.30 p.m.
Oral – ID 117
2.00
Edgar Wong
Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre
Coevolution, independent evolution, and genotype-environment associations of three thallus cohabitants within Umbilicaria pustulata, revealed by range-wide landscape metagenomics
Flash talk – ID 342
2.15
Ioana Ardelean
WSL Birmensdorf
Global genomic structure and deep lineage divergence in the flagship lichen Lobaria pulmonaria
Oral – ID 142
2.20
Valentina Peona
Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University
The genomic basis for the ecological adaptation and the lichenization of Trebouxia algae
Oral – ID 32
2.35
Niko Darci-Maher
University of California, Berkeley (USA)
Exploring the evolutionary maintenance of the lichen symbiosis through comparative microscopy and metatranscriptomics across the diurnal cycle
Oral – ID 172
2.50
Abigail Meyer
University of Minnesota
Symbiosis affects the molecular evolution of lichen-forming algae in lineage-specific ways