POWDERY MILDEW SUMMER SCHOOL 2016

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

Monday, 1st August 2016

16.00 - 17.00 Registration

17.00 - 19.30 Introductions of the participants*, an introduction to the Eger wine region and welcome reception

Tuesday, 2nd August 2016

THE FUNGUS - A CLASSICAL AND A PHYLOGENETIC APPROACH

9.00 - 12.30 Lectures - topics to be covered:

      * Powdery mildew fungi: an introduction
      * Phylogeny and systematics of powdery mildews: an overview

Coffee break

      * Morphological aspects of powdery mildew anamorphs and teleomorphs

12.30 - 13.30 Lunch

13.30 - 15.00 Paper discussion seminar no. 1

15.00 - 17.30 Guided tour in the historical building of Eszterházy Károly University of
Applied Sciences, including the Magic Tower museum, and in the historical centre of Eger

Wednesday, 3rd August 2016

THE FUNGUS - A CLASSICAL AND A PHYLOGENETIC APPROACH (continued)

9.00 - 11.30 Lectures - topics to be covered:

      * Host range and host specificity of powdery mildew fungi
      * Biogeography of powdery mildew fungi

Coffee break

11.45 - 12.30 Practical training** - topics to be covered:

      * Online tools to investigate plant gene expression to powdery mildew infection

12.30 - 13.30 Lunch

13.30 - 18.00 Practical training** (continued) - topics to be covered:

      * How to film germinating powdery mildew conidia?
      * light microscopy of the morphology of powdery mildew conidia, conidiophores, hyphal
      appressoria, haustoria, chasmothecia, and asci and ascospores
      * conidial germination tests on different substrates
      * ascospore viability tests using fluorescence microscopy
      * rehydration of powdery mildew herbarium specimens for morphological studies
      * DNA extraction from low quantities of fresh and herbarium powdery mildew materials
      * PCR amplification methods for a number of loci in powdery mildews
      * quantification of the powdery mildew infection levels using classical and qPCR
      methods

Thursday, 4th August 2016

THE INFECTION - AN ECOLOGICAL AND A MOLECULAR APPROACH

9.00 - 11.30 Lectures - topics to be covered:

      * Cell biology of the plant - powdery mildew interactions
      * Biochemical and molecular responses of plant cells to powdery mildew attack

Coffee break

      * Powdery mildews as invasive plant pathogens
      * Powdery mildew infections in wild plant pathosystems

12.30 - 13.30 Lunch

THE CONTROL - A CHEMICAL APPROACH

13.30 - 16.00 Lectures - topics to be covered:

      * New and old fungicides to control powdery mildews of different crops
      * DNA markers of fungicide resistance in powdery mildews

Coffee break

16.30 - 18.00 Paper discussion seminar no. 2

Friday, 5th August 2016

THE FUNGUS - A GENETIC AND A GENOMIC APPROACH

9.00 - 11.30 Lectures - topics to be covered:

      * Genetic tools in the study of powdery mildews with special regard to sequencing methods
      * Powdery mildew genomes

Coffee break

11.45 - 12.30 Paper discussion seminar no. 3

12.30 - 13.30 Lunch

NATURAL ENEMIES – A MULTI-TROPHIC APPROACH

13.30 - 15.00 Lectures - topics to be covered:

      * Mycoparasites of powdery mildews
      * Powdery mildews as components of multi-trophic relationships

Coffee break

15.15 – 17.00 Paper discussion seminar no. 4

18.30 -            Social dinner and quiz in the vineyard
                       Close of the summer school

* Participants are requested to introduce themselves using maximum two .ppt slides to show where they come from, what is the topic of their MSc or PhD or postdoc research work, and any additional information they would like to share with other participants during the introductions.

** Hands-on training activities will be performed in groups of 3 to 5 participants