8.00 – 9.00 a.m.
Registration
9.00 – 9.45 a.m.
KEYNOTE INVITED
Theo Llewellyn
The evolution of anthraquinones as adaptive traits in lichens
9.45 – 10.30 a.m.
Oral – ID 7
9.45
Bernardo Rocha
cE3c – Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes & CHANGE – Global Change and Sustainability Institute, FCUL, Campo Grande, 1749-016, Lisboa, Portugal
An integrated perspective on lichens as biomonitoring tools in cities
Oral – ID 37
10.00
Lisa Grifoni
Università di Siena, INGV
Magnetic and chemical air biomonitoring for the preservation of cultural Heritage in Tuscany, Italy
Flash talk – ID 107
10.15
Mohammad Sohrabi
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew | Kew
Assessment of spatial trends in the deposition of airborne potentially toxic elements in Tehran metropolis: combining lichen biomonitoring data with land-use regression modelling
Flash talk – ID 240
10.20
Mauro Tretiach
University of Trieste
Isidia density increases mercury accumulation in Pseudevernia furfuracea due to the high content of photobiont cells
Flash talk – ID 270
10.25
Mariana Cardenas-Henao
University of Minnesota
To burn or not to burn: diverging responses of lichens and mosses to prescribed burning in a post-agricultural grassland
9.45 – 10.30 a.m.
Oral – ID 331
9.45
Veera Tuovinen Nogerius
Uppsala University
A structurally chimeric lichen formed by two distantly related filamentous fungi
Flash talk – ID 355
10.00
David Diaz Escandon
University of Alberta
Patterns of carbohydrate-active enzyme richness in lichen fungal symbionts
Oral – ID 97
10.05
Seung-Yoon Oh
Changwon National University
Comparative genomics of foliicolous Strigulaceae species reveals lichen-specific genomic features in Dothideomycetes
Flash talk – ID 312
10.20
Toby Spribille
University of Alberta
Exploring cell surface receptors in lichen fungal symbionts
10.30 – 11.00 a.m. / coffee break
11.00 – 12.30 a.m.
Oral – ID 121
11.00
Tim Claerhout
Hortus botanicus Leiden
Biodiversity patterns in urban lichens and bryophytes: possible applications for ecological monitoring of the urban heat island effect
Oral – ID 146
11.15
Harold Timans
Dutch Bryological and Lichenological Society
Urban lichen communities: from deserts to contemporary and future hotspots
Oral – ID 103
11.30
Laurens Sparrius
Dutch Bryological and Lichenological Society (BLWG), Utrecht, The Netherlands
Investment in growth versus defense along an urban-rural transect of the lichen Evernia prunastri
Oral – ID 61
11.45
Dylan Stephens
Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh
Comparing eDNA with traditional survey methods for lichen biodiversity and conservation monitoring
Flash talk – ID 332
12.00
Katalin Veres
HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Alkotmány u. 2-4., 2163 Vácrátót, Hungary
Restoration interventions in temperate oak forests benefit epiphyte communities – the effect of gap openings and deadwood enrichment on lichens
Flash talk – ID 40
12.05
Iyesha Wanigasinghe
Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta
Lichen identification in a snap: evaluating mobile app accuracy for species identification in plot-based lichen surveys
Flash talk – ID 326
12.10
André Arsenault
Canadian Forest Service
Caught in the act: Investigating lichen grazing in the field using transplant experiments and timelapse cameras
11.00 – 12.30 a.m.
Oral – ID 105 (invited)
11.00
Camille Puginier
The Sainsbury Laboratory
Genomic, transcriptomic and molecular study of lichenization in the model lichen Xanthoria parietina
Oral – ID 9 (invited)
11.20
Victoria Keller
Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre
Hidden cohabitants: metagenomic insights into global occurrence patterns of black fungi associated with lichens
Oral – ID 278
11.40
Ilse Kranner
University of Innsbruck
Chemical cues released by future symbionts shape lichen symbiosis prior to contact
Oral – ID 145
11.55
João Paulo Souza
Estonian University of Life Sciences, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, 51006-Tartu, Estonia
Global diversity patterns of eukaryotic microbiota in macrolichens
Oral – ID 10
12.10
Philip Bell-Doyon
Université Laval
Microbiota and metabolome in calicioid lichens and fungi
Flash talk – ID 345
12.25
Cesar Daniel Bordenave
ICBIBE, Universitat de València
A cytometric framework for photobiont isolation across diverse lichen morphotypes
12.30 – 2.00 p.m. / lunch break
2.00 – 3.30 p.m.
Oral – ID 113 (invited)
2.00
Bettina Weber
University of Graz
The long-term effects of global change on lichens in biological soil crusts
Flash talk – ID 281
2.20
Pilar Hurtado
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Lichens in transition: the role of biocrusts in buffering resilience across wet–dry cycles
Oral – ID 176
2.25
Jiri Subrt
University of Edinburgh
Lichen bleaching as a response to long-term experimental warming in the High Arctic
Flash talk – ID 154
2.40
Laima Liulevicius
Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Walking with lichens: boreal lakeside trails as undocumented Peltigera abundance hotspots
Oral – ID 20
2.45
Jesse Miller
The Evergreen State College
Recreational trails reduce lichen and bryophyte diversity and the occurrence of rare species
Oral – ID 236
3.00
Luana Francesconi
University of Bologna
Are protected area networks representative of lichen diversity?
Oral – ID 161
3.15
Fernando Fernandez Mendoza
TU Graz
Monitoring lichen diversity across a 34-year airborne eDNA chronosequence: from compositional analysis to population genomics
2.00 – 3.30 p.m.
Oral – ID 204 (invited)
2.00
Patricia Sanmartín
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Setting and slope angle in the stone sound sculptures of Pinuccio Sciola (1942–2016, Sardinia, Italy) controlling drivers and patterns of bioreceptivity to lichen colonization result of extrinsic fact
Oral – ID 301 (invited)
2.15
Joana Marques
BIOPOLIS/CIBIO-InBIO
ROCKinBIO research group: delivering ecological approaches to cultural heritage conservation
Oral – ID 246
2.30
Frank Bungartz
Arizona State University
Structure-from-Motion Photogrammetry for Modeling Lichen Morphology and Growth in 3D
Flash talk – ID 344
2.45
Mariagrazia Morando
University of Torino
Specific patterns of lichen regrowth after cleaning tests on differently oriented walls of the House of the Ancient Hunt in Pompeii (Italy)
Oral – ID 202
2.50
Sofia Ceseri
Università degli Studi di Trieste
Life within stone: lithobionts–matrix interactions in Italian carbonate heritage materials
Flash talk – ID 292
3.05
Marta Cicardi
Università di Torino
Effectiveness of biocidal applications on photobionts and mycobionts of lichens of the archaeological sites of Saepinum and Pietrabbondante (Molise, Italy)
Oral – ID 203
3.10
Mohammad Sohrabi
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew | Kew
Advances and Challenges in Lichenological Investigations of Iranian UNESCO World Heritage Sites
3.30 – 4.00 p.m.
POSTER SESSION (group 2)
4.00 – 4.30 p.m. / coffee break
4.30 – 5.30 p.m.
Oral – ID 267 (invited)
4.30
Philipp Resl
University of Graz
Investigating phenotypic differences in the Cladonia bellidiflora group within the context of a phylogenomic analysis of Cladoniaceae
Flash talk – ID 282
4.45
Eliska Konecna
Charles University
Applying RADseq to untangle phylogenomics and photobiont associations in the Cladonia coccifera group
Flash talk – ID 138
4.50
Raquel Pino-Bodas
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Development of multiplex next-generation sequencing for the genus Cladonia
Oral – ID 42
4.55
Bri Baumbach
UC Berkeley
Untangling coastal Cladonia: systematics and photobiont diversity in the Elfin Forest
Oral – ID 268
5.10
Gabriele Gheza
University of Bologna
Conservation of Cladonia in Italy between field exploration and habitat management
Flash talk – ID 311
5.25
Věra Vtípilová
Charles University, Department of Botany, Benátská 2, 12801 Prague, Czech Republic
Cladonia rubrotincta sp. nov. as a kindergarten and feeding ground for oribatid mites
4.30 – 5.30 p.m.
Oral – ID 24
4.30
Anna Götz
University of Salzburg, Dept. Environment and Biodiversity
Future range shifts and diversity patterns of Antarctic lecideoid lichens under climate change scenarios
Oral – ID 95
4.45
Gintaras Kantvilas
Tasmanian Herbarium, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
Tasmania’s alpine lichens – remarkable rare relicts at risk
Oral – ID 189
5.00
Suman Prakash Pradhan
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Empirical evidence on the influence of atmospheric ammonia and microclimatic conditions on lichen community structure in Himalayan forests
Flash talk – ID 26
5.15
Aswathi Anilkumar
Mahatma Gandhi University
Integrative taxonomic and ecological assessment of lichen in a montane shola forest: insights from Mathikettan Shola National Park, southern Western Ghats, India
Flash talk – ID 33
5.20
Rajesh Bajpai
North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong Meghalaya, India
Tracing pollution and climate change in the Indian Himalayan region through lichen diversity and distribution
Flash talk – ID 81
5.25
Xinyu Wang
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Lichen responses to environmental changes in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau