PROGRAM

	Opening and Arrival
10:15 – 11:15	Arrival and Registration
11:15 – 11:30	Michael Feldbrügge & Julia Frunzke Opening Remarks
	Microbial Networking - Session 1
11:30 – 11:45	Vivien Joisten-Rosenthal A chromosome-scale super-pangenome of the lichen genus Peltigera reveals genome architecture and expanded interaction repertoires shared across pathogenic and mutualistic fungi
11:50 – 12:20	Amy Gladfelter The computing power of syncytial fungi
12:25 – 12:55	Ákos Kovács Deciphering the Role of Specialized Metabolites in Rhizosphere Microbial Interactions
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch
	Microbial Networking - Session 2
14:00 – 14:30	Thijs J. G. Ettema Asgard archaea: missing piece of the eukaryogenesis puzzle
14:35 – 15:05	Axel Brakhage Shaping of the structure and composition of microbiomes by natural products
15:05 – 15:45	Coffee Break / Check-in
15:45 – 16:00	Hanna Rövenich Algal-fungal symbioses and their molecular foundations
	Scientific Networking
16:00 - 16:05	Announcement: Neanderthal Museum
16:30	Bus shuttle to Neanderthal Museum

7:00	Breakfast
	Microbial Networking - Session 1
09:00 - 09:30	Christian Kost Raiding or trading: disentangling metabolic interaction networks of bacteria
09:35 – 10:05	James Locke Dynamic control and robust timing in cyanobacteria
10:05 – 10:45	Coffee break
10:45 - 11:15	Natalia Requena The secret life of nematode-trapping fungi
11:20 - 11:50	Caroline Gutjahr Form and function of arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis
11:55 – 12:10	Sarahi Garcia Microbial interactions across levels of biological organization
12:10 – 13:45	Lunch
	Microbial Networking - Session 4
13:45 – 14:15	Flora Vincent Symbiosis in marine unicellular eukaryotes
14:20 – 14:50	Uwe Sauer Metabolic cross-feeding networks in gut and ocean communities
14:55 - 15:10	Anna Matuszyńska Metabolic games and race for carbon in a heterotroph consortium
15:10 - 16:00	BioBreak
16:00 - 16:30	Ursula Fleig Spatial compartmentalization of a PPIP5K enzyme rewires inositol pyrophosphate signaling during temperature adaptation
16:35 – 16:50	Thomas Clavel Microbial networking through the lens of high-throughput cultivation
16:55 – 17:10	Athanasios Papadopoulos Sensors for monitoring microbial metabolism and its regulation:structural and imaging approaches
17:15 - 17:45	Isabel Monte Evolution of molecular plant-microbe interactions between the fungus Trichoderma and streptophytes
17:45 – 19:00	Dinner
19:15 – 22:00	Poster-Session

7:00	Breakfast / Check-out
	Microbial Networking - Session 5
09:00 - 09:30	Eugen Pfeifer Diet and antibiotics shape phage-bacteria interactions in the human gut
09:35 – 10:05	Daniel C. Ducat SynBiosis: Engineering mutualistic cyanobacteria-heterotroph interactions from the bottom-up
10:05 – 10:45	Coffee break
10:45 - 11:00	Maren Nattermann Leveraging orthogonality in synthetic metabolism
11:05 – 11:20	Aileen Krüger Context-dependent siderophore exploitability shapes microbial community structure
11:25 - 11:40	Florian Altegoer How fungi interpret their surroundings: GPCR-mediated communication in pathogenesis and symbiosis
11:45 – 12:00	Lasse van Wijlick Coupling of mitochondrial energy metabolism with microtubule-dependent mRNA logistics
12:05 – 12:20	Pascal Künzel A hidden fungal inhibitor countered by a conserved tolerance mechanism in a fungal–bacterial itaconate arms race
12:25 – 12:40	Lennart Witting In vitro evolution of a synthetic organelle inside a picolitre habitat
12:45 – 13:00	Michael Feldbrügge & Julia Frunzke Closing remarks
13:00 - 14:30	Lunch
	Departure