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DAY 5 – Friday 31 July 2026

9.00 – 9.45 a.m.
KEYNOTE INVITED
Gulnera Tagirdzhanova
Proteins secreted by the mycobiont of Xanthoria parietina and their role in the lichen symbiosis
9.45 – 10.30 a.m.

Oral – ID 96
9.45
Paul Diederich
Musée national d’histoire naturelle, Luxembourg
Unravelling Muellerella: phylogeny, morphology, and hidden diversity in a lichenicolous genus

Oral – ID 74
10.00
Wolfgang von Brackel
Private researcher
Lichenicolous fungi in Italy: a journey through time and the country

Oral – ID 328
10.15
Ave Suija
University of Tartu
Disentangling Abrothallus

10.30 – 11.00 a.m. / coffee break
11.00 – 12.30 a.m.

Oral – ID 129
11.00
Valerii Darmostuk
W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences
All roads lead to lichens: new phylogenetic insights into the evolution of lichenicolous Hypocreales

Oral – ID 208
11.15
Sonia Merinero
Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
The cost of company: the long-term impact of Tremella hypogymniae on lichen performance

Oral – ID 150
11.30
Sudeshna Chakraborty
Uppsala University
Deconstructing intra-thallic fungal diversity with long-read metabarcoding

Oral – ID 134
11.45
Claudio Gennaro Ametrano
University of Graz
Comparative genomics of lichen-associated yeasts (Tremellales, Basidiomycota)

Flash talk – ID 190
12.00
Sandra Freire Rallo
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Revisiting generic boundaries in lichenicolous Tremella

Flash talk – ID 336
12.05
Marion Millot
University of Limoges
Exploring microbial diversity and interactions inside the aquatic lichen Dermatocarpon luridum

Flash talk – ID 47
12.10
Kendra Driscoll
New Brunswick Museum
Lichenicolous fungi in Atlantic Canada: highlights from twenty years of study

12.30 – 2.00 a.m. / lunch break
2.00 – 3.30 p.m.
CLOSING CEREMONY

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10TH SYMPOSIUM of
International Association for Lichenology
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