8.00 – 9.00 a.m.
Registration
9.00 – 9.45 a.m.
KEYNOTE INVITED
Pavel Skaloud
Two worlds, one symbiosis: Ecological and evolutionary parallels in lichens and corals
9.45 – 10.30 p.m.
Oral (invited) – ID 88
9.45
Enrico Boccato
University of Trieste
Effects of environmental conditions on flagellate cell production in two Trebouxia species
Flash talk – ID 132
10.00
Salvador Chiva
Universitat de València
Trebouxia diversity expands the niche of the lichen Xanthoria parietina
Flash talk – ID 225
10.05
Kamila Dědková
Charles University, Faculty of Science, Department of Botany, Benátská 2, 128 00 Prague, Czech Republic
Photobiont plurality in selected sorediate Cladonia species
Oral – ID 207
10.10
Veronika Vesela
Charles University
Is there anybody out there? Contrasting environmental availability of photobionts in lichens with different reproductive modes
10.30 – 11.00 a.m. / coffee break
11.00 – 12.30 a.m.
Oral – ID 65
11.00
Patricia Moya
University of Valencia
The Trebouxia revolution continues: new species, updated OTUs, and a shared platform for the community
Oral – ID 175
11.15
Jeremy Howland
City University of New York
Beyond barcodes: metagenomic Insights into photobiont diversity in Flavoparmelia caperata (Parmeliaceae)
Oral – ID 327
11.30
Sergio Pérez-Ortega
Real Jardín Botánico – CSIC Anthropogenic perturbations reshapes myco-photobiont interaction networks in epiphytic lichen communities
Oral – ID 360
11.45
Ivana Černajová
Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czechia
How well do we know lichen photobiont diversity?
Oral – ID 365
12.00
Kristiina Mark
Estonian University of Life Sciences
Population-level differences in photosynthesis and desiccation tolerance of Ramalina farinacea across geographic and climatic gradients in Europe
11.00 – 12.30 a.m.
Oral – ID 99
11.00
Mieko Kono
SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies)
A novel method enabling genome-wide studies of historical lichen specimens
Oral – ID 380
11.15
Ester Gaya
Jodrell Laboratory Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, UK
The Fungarium Sequencing Project: a multi-institutional pipeline for the whole genome sequencing of historical fungi and lichen collections
Oral – ID 309
11.30
Ann M. Evankow
Drexel University
Spatial phylogenetics of Psora: Integrating evolutionary relationships across species with occurrence records to evaluate biodiversity
Oral – ID 260
11.43
Juri Nascimbene
University of Bologna
Historical lichen collections at BOLO: a time capsule for mapping species dynamics under global change
Flash talk – ID 218
11.55
Silvana Munzi
CE3C – Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes & CHANGE – Global Change and Sustainability Institute, Universidade de Lisboa
Rediscovering afro-tropical lichen diversity: a taxonomic and contextual revision of historical collections from Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Angola housed in the PO Herbarium
Flash talk – ID 297
12.00
Rosa Emilia Pérez-Pérez
Faculty of Biological Sciences, Benemérita
Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
Garbage in ‒ garbage out: are we even able to, or interested in, cleaning up the biodiversity data mess?
Flash talk – ID 77
12.05
Cecile Gueidan
Australian National Herbarium
Computer vision species identification of lichens and bryophytes from biocrusts in Australian drylands
12.30 – 2.00 p.m. / lunch break
2.00 – 3.30 p.m.
Oral – ID 148 (invited)
2.00
Carlos Pardo De la Hoz
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Mycobiont-photobiont spatial pairing mechanisms in lichens: how does it all work?
Oral – ID 44
2.15
Beatrice Bylén
Uppsala University
The environmental influence on algal photobiont community composition in cosmopolitan lichen Thamnolia vermicularis
Oral – ID 125
2.30
Diego Garfias Gallegos
Duke University, Department of Biology, Durham, NC, USA
Central metabolism and development are rewired in lichenized cyanobacteria
Oral – ID 318
2.45
Andrew Simon
University of Alberta
Boreal lichen photobiont networks: structure, stability, and vulnerability
Oral – ID 346
3.00
Ayelén Gazquez Caruso
Universitat de València
Biofilm architecture and life-cycle flexibility as foundations of lichen symbiosis
Flash talk – ID 167
3.15
Lucie Vančurová
Charles University, Faculty of Science, Department of Botany
The illusion of ubiquity: cryptic Stereocaulon species and their symbiont choice
Flash talk – ID 56
3.20
Veronika Kantnerová
Charles University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Botany
The diverse world within: factors influencing the photobiont diversity in common lichens
Flash talk – ID 69
3.25
Gaia Bartolomeo
University of Trieste
Photobionts in extreme environments: insights from polar and alpine conditions
2.00 – 3.30 p.m.
Oral – ID 343
2.00
Martin Grube
University of Graz
Lichens in motion
Flash talk – ID 87
2.15
Jan Vondrák
IBOT, Czech Academy of Sciences
EUROLICH: Integrative Platform for European Lichenology
Oral – ID 110
2.20
Takato Moriyama
Kyoto University
New algae-symbiotic fungus in the family Domatiomycetaceae (Chaetothyriales)
Oral – ID 114
2.35
Knut Asbjørn Solhaug
Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, P. O. Box 5003, NO-1432 As, Norway
Far-red light in shaded forests contributes significantly to photosynthesis in Lobaria pulmonaria
Flash talk – ID 149
2.50
Edyta Mazur
W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences
When one genus becomes many: molecular insights into taxonomic reorganisation of Lecanora sensu lato
Oral – ID 223
2.55
Diane Haughland
University of Alberta
Disentangling the Dog Pelts: Peltigera species delimitation based on expanded taxon sampling and new data
Flash talk – ID 232
3.10
Flavio Polito
University of Salerno
Phytochemical study of Lethariella intricata (Moris) Krog
Flash talk – ID 241
3.15
Martin Kukwa
Department of Plant Taxonomy and Nature Conservation, Faculty of Biology, University of Gdańsk, Wita Stwosza 59, PL-80-308 Gdańsk, Poland
Proposal for a reclassification of taxa in the Parmelia omphalodes complex
3.30 – 4.00 p.m.
POSTER SESSION (group 1)
4.00 – 4.30 p.m. / coffe break
4.30 – 5.30 p.m.
Oral – ID 67
4.30
Domenica Naranjo Orrico
University of Jyväskylä
Dispersal limitation plays a key role in the distribution of lichen communities
Oral – ID 102
4.45
Congmiao Xie
Estonia University of Life Sciences
Evolutionary conservation of reproductive strategies in the lichen genus Cetrelia (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota): insights into symbiont interactions and macroclimatic influences
Oral – ID 243
5.00
Carly Russell
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Icelandic migratory birds as dispersal vectors for lichens via ectozoochory
Oral – ID 252
5.15
Niko Johansson
Finnish Museum of Natural History
Birds as lichen dispersal vectors – from historical observations to environmental DNA and beyond
4.30 – 5.45 p.m.
Oral (invited) – ID 259
4.30
Robert Lücking
Botanischer Garten Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin
Lichen diversity in Brazil is structured along major biomes, latitudinal and longitudinal geography, and habitats
Oral (invited) – ID 348
4.45
Adriano Spielmann
Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul
Integrative taxonomy of Parmotrema (Parmeliaceae) in Brazil: uncovering diversity in a hotspot of the genus
Oral – ID 369
5.00
Pamela Rodriguez-Flakus
W. Szafer Institute of Botany, PAS
Lichen functions in microbial succession following glacier retreat in the Andes
Oral – ID 188
5.15
Marcela Caceres
Universidade Federal de Sergipe
Biome trumps phenotype: diversification of the Malmidea piperis-complex (Malmideaceae) in the Americas
Flash talk – ID 354
5.30
Bibiana Moncada
Botanischer Garten Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin
The genus Usnea (Parmeliaceae) in Colombia
Flash talk – ID 280
5.35
Silvia Ongaro
University of Turin
Vertical distribution of lichens on Handroanthus trees in tropical dry forests (Arenillas Ecological Reserve, Ecuador)
Flash talk – ID 153
5.40
Zahira Rebollo Delgado
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Species diversity and phylogenetic relationships of the genus Punctelia Krog (Parmeliaceae)
5.30 – 6.30 p.m.
Oral – ID 298
5.30
Matthew Nelsen
Field Museum
Why are lichens so rare in the amber fossil record?
Oral – ID 368
5.45
Francibelk Roa Garcia
UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION (UDEC), Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Oceanográficas (FCNO), Chile
How do the functional traits of Usnea sp. vary along a latitudinal gradient in central and southern Chile?
Oral – ID 340
6.00
Maria Cullen
PlanetLife Research
Do lichens matter in your country?
Flash talk – ID 378
6.15
Sara Burton
University of San Francisco, Department of Biology & Environmental Management, Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, California, 94118, United States
An annotated checklist of lichens reported from San Francisco County and its outlying islands (1863 to 2025)
Flash talk – ID 251
6.20
John Sorensen
University of Manitoba
Functional expression of the oxidative enzyme involved in the biosynthesis of usnic acid