MycoTalks
The MRC CMM would like to invite you to join us at the Monthly MycoTalks, where experts in Medical Mycology and related fields will be presenting their latest research.
if you would like to be first to hear about future MycoTalks, as well as selected other news from the MRC Centre for Medical Mycology.
Recent talks
Recordings of all of our MycoClinics webinars, as well as MycoTalks and the Medical Mycology Trainee Seminar Series, are available to view on our .
Current programme of invited speakers:
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Talk number |
Meeting date |
Chair |
Deputy chair |
Speakers |
Title |
| SEASON 6 | |||||
| S6 E1 | 25 September 2025 | Christina Cuomo | Oliver Kurzai | Angie Gelli | |
| Tuo Wang | |||||
| S6 E2 | 23 October 2025 | Gordon Brown | Geraldine Butler | Bernd Schnabl | |
| Michal Olszewski | |||||
| S6 E3 | 20 November 2025 | Iliyan Iliev | Jay Kolls | Eric Dang | |
| Minh-Hong Nguyen | |||||
| S6 E4 | 29 January 2026 | Neil Gow | Sarah Gaffen | Jules Ene | |
| Bernhard Hube | |||||
| S6 E5 | 26 February 2026 | Joe Heitman | Jay Kolls | George Deepe | |
| Tamara Doering | |||||
| S6 E6 | 2 April 2026 | Gordon Brown | Alex Brand | Ruoyu Li | |
| Marty Burke | |||||
| S6 E7 | 30 April 2026 | Iliyan Iliev | Christina Cuomo | Paul Magwene | Genome restructuring and lineage diversification during chronic cryptococcal infections |
| Janet Quinn | Cross-Kingdom Warfare – Investigation into the Mode-of-Action of the Type VI Secretion System Antifungal Effector Tfe2 | ||||
| S6 E8 | 21 May 2026 | Geraldine Butler | Neil Gow | Ana-Maria Lennon-Duménil | |
| Bing Zhai | |||||
| S6 E9 | 25 June 2026 | Oliver Kurzai | Sarah Gaffen | David Underhill | |
| Chiung-Yu Hung | |||||
| S6 E10 | 23 July 2026 | Alex Brand | Joe Heitman | María Bravo Núñez | |
| Micha Fridman | |||||
Archive
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Talk number |
Meeting date |
Chair |
Deputy chair |
Speakers |
Title |
| SEASON 5 | |||||
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S5 E1 |
26 September 2024 | Neil Gow | Oliver Kurzai | Julia Koehler | |
| James Kronstad | |||||
| S5 E2 | 31 October 2024 | Alex Brand | Joseph Heitman | Gordon Brown | |
| John Taylor | |||||
| S5 E3 | 12 December 2024 | Christina Cuomo | Judith Berman | Robert A Cramer | |
| David Moyes | |||||
| S5 E4 | 30 January 2025 | Jay Kolls | Iliyan Iliev | Teresa O’Meara | |
| Chad Rappleye | |||||
| S5 E5 | 27 February 2025 | Gordon Brown | Sarah Gaffen | Aleeza Gerstein | |
| Stuart Levitz | |||||
| S5 E6 | 27 March 2025 | Geraldine Butler | Joseph Heitman | Rebecca Shapiro | |
| Guilhem Janbon | |||||
| S5 E7 | 24 April 2025 | Iliyan Iliev | Alex Brand | Runhui Liu | |
| Ana Alastruey | |||||
| S5 E8 | 22 May 2025 | Christina Cuomo | Jay Kolls | Linqi Wang | |
| Heather Conti | |||||
| S5 E9 | 26 June 2025 | Neil Gow | Christina Cuomo |
Andrew Alspaugh |
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| Erica Washington | |||||
| S5 E10 | 24 July 2025 | Oliver Kurzai | Geraldine Butler | James Konopka | |
| Jane Usher | |||||
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Talk number |
Meeting date |
Chair |
Deputy chair |
Speakers |
Title |
| SEASON 4 | |||||
| S4 E1 | 28 September 2023 | Gordon Brown | Geraldine Butler | Jatin Vyas | |
| Carol Munro | |||||
| S4 E2 | 26 October 2023 | Neil Gow | Joseph Heitman | Jennifer Lodge | |
| Amelia Barber | |||||
| S4 E3 | 30 November 2023 | Alex Brand | Neil Gow | Sandy Johnson | |
| Mat Fisher | |||||
| S4 E4 | 25 January 2024 | Oliver Kurzai | Iliyan Iliev | June Round | |
| Damian J Krysan | |||||
| S4 E5 | 29 February 2024 | Judy Berman | Christina Cuomo | Alessia Buscaino | |
| Sing Sing Way | |||||
| S4 E6 | 28 March 2024 | Iliyan Iliev | Sarah Gaffen | Blake Billmyre | |
| Antonis Rokas | |||||
| S4 E7 | 25 April 2024 | Sarah Gaffen | Alex Brand | Toni Gabaldon | |
| Neta Shlezinger | |||||
| S4 E8 | 30 May 2024 | Geraldine Butler | Jay Kolls | Oliver Kurzai | |
| Pushpa Pandiyan | |||||
| S4 E9 | 27 June 2024 | Christina Cuomo | Gordon Brown | Yong-Sun Bahn | Genome-wide functional analysis of WD40 proteins in the fungal meningitis pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans |
| Wendy van de Sande | MycetOS: Open Source drug discovery to identify novel drugs for mycetoma | ||||
| S4 E10 | 25 July 2024 | Joseph Heitman | Oliver Kurzai | Christina Hull | |
| Thuy Le | |||||
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Chair |
Deputy chair |
Speakers |
Title |
| SEASON 3 | |||||
| S3 E1 | 25 August 2022 | Neil Gow | Jay Kolls | Petra Bacher | |
| Clarissa Nobile | |||||
| S3 E2 | 29 September 2022 | Geraldine Butler | Neil Gow | David Corry | |
| Soo Chan Lee | |||||
| S3 E3 | 27 October 2022 | Jay Kolls | Gordon Brown | Partha Biswas | M |
| Mari Shinohara | |||||
| S3 E4 | 17 November 2022 | Alex Brand | Geraldine Butler | David Andes | |
| Nancy Keller | |||||
| S3 E5 | 15 December 2022 | Judith Berman | Alex Brand | Carol Kumamoto | |
| Richard Bennett | |||||
| S3 E6 | 26 January 2023 | Iliyan D Iliev | Oliver Kurtzai | Andy Koh | |
| Michael Bromley | |||||
| S3 E7 | 23 February 2023 | Gordon Brown | Iliyan D Iliev | Deborah Hogan | |
| Chad Steele | |||||
| S3 E8 | 23 March 2023 | Jay Kolls | Judith Berman | Julie Segre | |
| John Perfect | |||||
| S3 E9 | 27 April 2023 | Oliver Kurzai | Gordon Brown | Yen-Ping Hsueh | |
| June Kwon-Chung | |||||
| S3 E10 | 25 May 2023 | Judith Berman | Geraldine Butler | Georgios Chamilos | |
| Anuradha Chowdhary | |||||
| S3 E11 | 29 June 2023 | Joseph Heitman | Gordon Brown | Agostinho Carvalho | |
| Duncan Wilson | |||||
| S3 E12 | 27 July 2023 | Joseph Heitman | Oliver Kurzai | Darius Armstrong-James | |
| Aaron Mitchell | |||||
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Talk number |
Meeting date |
Chair |
Deputy chair |
Speakers |
Title |
| SEASON 2 | |||||
| S2 E1 | 26 August 2021 | Neil Gow | Jay Kolls | Bridget Barker | |
| Frank van Der Veerdonk | |||||
| S2 E2 | 30 September 2021 | Geraldine Butler | Sarah Gaffen | Peter Cook | |
| Kirsten Nielsen | |||||
| S2 E3 | 28 October 2021 | Jay Kolls | Geraldine Butler | Betty Wu-Hsieh | |
| Salome Leibundgut-Landmann | |||||
| S2 E4 | 18 November 2021 | Alex Brand | Judith Berman | David Denning | Why are there still so many deaths from fungal disease? |
| Anita Sil | |||||
| S2 E5 | 16 December 2021 | Judith Berman | Alex Brand | Axel Brakhage | |
| Ashraf Ibrahim | |||||
| S2 E6 | 27 January 2022 | Iliyan Iliev | Gordon Brown | Ilse Jacobsen | |
| Alistair Brown | |||||
| S2 E7 | 24 February 2022 | Joe Heitman | Iliyan Iliev | Michael Lorenz | Candida-innate immune interactions: surprising lessons from comparative transcriptomics |
| Claire Hoving | |||||
| S2 E8 | 31 March 2022 | Sarah Gaffen | Judith Berman | Dan Kaplan | |
| Hiten Madhani | |||||
| S2 E9 | 28 April 2022 | Oliver Kurzai | Sarah Gaffen | Kyla Ost | |
| Gustavo Goldman | |||||
| S2 E10 | 26 May 2022 | Judith Berman | Neil Gow | Anne Puel | |
| Michelle Momany | |||||
| S2 E11 | 30 June 2022 | Gordon Brown | Sarah Gaffen | Mairi Noverr | |
| Xin Lin | |||||
| S2 E12 | 28 July 2022 | Alex Brand | Oliver Kurzai | Jay Kolls | |
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Christina Cuomo |
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Talk number |
Meeting date |
Chair |
Deputy chair |
Speakers |
Title |
| SEASON 1 | |||||
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S1 E1 |
30 July 2020 |
Sarah Gaffen |
Jay Kolls |
Arturo Casadevall |
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Rebecca Drummond |
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S1 E2 |
27 Aug 2020 |
Gordon Brown |
Sarah Gaffen |
Liz Ballou |
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Bruce Klein |
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S1 E3 |
24 Sept 2020 |
Neil Gow |
Jay Kolls |
Bernhard Hube |
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Geraldine Butler |
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S1 E4 |
29 Oct 2020 |
Oliver Kurzai |
Jay Kolls |
Sarah Gaffen |
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Alex Brand |
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S1 E5 |
19 Nov 2020 |
Gordon Brown |
Oliver Kurzai |
Joe Heitman |
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Tobias Hohl |
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S1 E6 |
17 Dec 2020 |
Joseph Heitman |
Gordon Brown |
Judith Berman |
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| Michail Lionakis | |||||
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S1 E7 |
28 Jan 2021 |
Sarah Gaffen | Alex Brand | Suzanne Noble | |
| Amariliz Rivera | |||||
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S1 E8 |
25 Feb 2021 |
Alex Brand | Judith Berman | Nelesh Govender | |
| Anna Selmecki | |||||
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S1 E9 |
25 Mar 2021 |
Iliyan Iiiev | Joe Heitman | Scott Filler | |
| Tihana Bicanic | |||||
| S1 E10 | 29 April 2021 | Geraldine Butler | Neil Gow | Leah Cowen | |
| Iliyan Iliev | |||||
| S1 E11 | 27 May 2021 | Judith Berman | Gordon Brown | Neil Gow | |
| Floyd Wormley | |||||
| S1 E12 | 24 June 2021 | Sarah Gaffen | Iliyan Iiiev | Julian Naglik | |
| Elaine Bignell | |||||
| S1 E13 | 29 July 2021 | Jay Kolls | Oliver Kurzai | Duncan Wilson | |
| Jules Ene | |||||
Organising Committee:
Gordon Brown, Alex Brand and Neil Gow (MRC CMM, UK), Judith Berman (Tel Aviv University, Israel), Geraldine Butler (University College Dublin, Ireland), Christina Cuomo (Broad Institute, USA), Sarah L Gaffen (University of Pittsburgh, USA), Joseph Heitman (Duke University School of Medicine, USA), Iliyan D Iliev (Weill Cornell Medical College, USA), Jay Kolls (Tulane University, USA), Oliver Kurzai (University of Wuerzburg, Germany).