Candida and Candidiasis is a biennial meeting focused on studying all aspects of Candida biology. Candida is important because it causes disease ranging from superficial candidiasis to life-threatening systemic infection. In May 2023, hundreds of Candida biologists gathered in Montreal, Canada to present and discuss new findings in the field including genomics, epidemiology, infection, host response, drug resistance and therapeutics. Some hot-topics of the meeting included Candida auris, transcription factors involved in drug response and use of CRISPR technology throughout the field.
Candida and Candidiasis provided opportunity for many members of the MRC Centre for Medical Mycology to present their work including Emma Agnew and Laure Reis speaking in a Cell Biology session, Émer Hickey and Elena Rosseletti speaking in the Metabolism session and Jane Usher speaking in the Cutting Edge Approaches plenary session. During poster sessions, there were nine presentations ranging from Candida glabrata population genetics to fungal-bacterial biofilms.
The MRC CMM was able to support six attendees with travel grants, and the Ken Haynes Travel Bursary supported 12 attendances. Recipient of a Ken Haynes Travel Bursary, Seána Duggan, shared “the Ken Haynes Travel Bursary is a great support to early career researchers in networking with potential collaborators future colleagues”.
Exeter team in Montreal
This meeting was hosted by the Microbiology Society, the publishing arm of which currently invites manuscript submissions into a Candida Collection across all journals of the portfolio.
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