47th Mycotoxin Workshop 2026
1–3 June 2026 | Berlin, Germany
Registration open from December 8, 2025
Conference Agenda
Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).
Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 8th Apr 2026, 12:34:57am CEST
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Agenda Overview |
| Date: Sunday, 31/May/2026 | |
| 6:30pm | Get together: Get together @Nikolaiviertel Location: Nikolaiviertel |
| Date: Monday, 01/June/2026 | |
| 8:00am - 9:00am |
Registration I: Registration Location: Forum |
| 9:00am - 9:15am |
Welcome: Welcome session Location: Conference Hall |
| 9:15am - 10:15am |
Session 1: ANALYTICS Location: Conference Hall A rapid in-solution colorimetric aptamer-based assay for the detection of fumonisins in maize 9:30am - 9:45am Development and validation of a UHPLC-HRMS method for epimer-specific quantification of ergot alkaloids for analysis of Canadian wheat 9:45am - 10:00am Tracing the metabolic fate of ochratoxin A in maize using stable isotope-assisted LC-HRMS 10:00am - 10:15am CCS trendlines in non-targeted analysis: application to Fusarium proliferatum secondary metabolism |
| 10:15am - 10:30am |
Poster pitches I: POSTER PITCH SESSION I Location: Conference Hall Sharper Eyes on Ergot: Advancing Detection in Wheat A multidisciplinary framework for risk assessment of mycotoxins in moldy foods supporting consumer safety and food waste reduction Moldy foods: how to predict mycotoxin production and migration in foods? Quantifying interaction dynamics among mycotoxigenic fungi Mycotoxin Monitoring in the Context of Climate Change Long-Term Monitoring of Mycotoxin Occurrence in Czech Malting Barley under Climate Variability Occurrence of T-2, HT-2 and Their Glucosides in Apple-Based Beverages Isolation and structure elucidation of biologically active secondary metabolites from Stachybotrys spp. Atranone – an overlooked secondary metabolite? |
| 10:30am - 11:30am |
Posters and Coffee I: Poster exhibition (uneven) / Coffee break Location: Forum / poster exhibition rooms D145/146 |
| 11:30am - 12:45pm |
Session 2: OCCURRENCE AND MANAGEMENT Location: Conference Hall Mycotoxins in Ethiopian Food Systems: Current Burden and Emerging Biotechnology as a Solution 11:45am - 12:00pm Mycotoxins and plant toxins in plant-based drinks – Survey of the German market 2024-2025 12:00pm - 12:15pm Fungal and Mycotoxins Contamination of Selected Aromatic Plants 12:15pm - 12:30pm A mechanistic perspective on epidemics and mycotoxin contamination in the Alternaria-tomato pathosystem 12:30pm - 12:45pm Seasonal mycotoxin exposure and risks in Swiss children based on urinary biomonitoring |
| 12:45pm - 2:15pm |
Lunchbreak I: Lunchbreak (and directly before: group photo) Location: Canteen |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
Session 3: BIOLOGY-ECOLOGY-GENETICS I Location: Conference Hall Skin microbiota of processing tomato fruits in relation to Alternaria black spot and mycotoxin contamination 2:30pm - 2:45pm Growth Modelling of T-2 and HT-2 Toxin-Producing Fusarium spp. in Oat-Based Medium 2:45pm - 3:00pm Differential responses of Fusarium avenaceum strains to oxidative stress: impacts on growth and mycotoxin yield. 3:00pm - 3:15pm Mycotoxin threats in a changing climate: effects of interacting abiotic factors on fungal growth and OTA/CIT production in rice 3:15pm - 3:30pm New PKS and metabolites putatively involved in ochratoxin A accumulation by Penicillium nordicum in NaCl-rich environments 3:30pm - 3:45pm Induction of Aflatoxin Production by Invertebrate Predation and Mechanical Injury in Aspergillus flavus |
| 3:45pm - 4:45pm |
Posters and Coffee II: Poster exhibition (even) / Coffee break Location: Forum / poster exhibition rooms D145/146 |
| 4:30pm - 6:00pm |
Visits: Visits of selected facilities of the BfR (upon reservation) Location: Meeting in groups inside the Forum/outside the conference building |
| 6:00pm | Welcome drinks: Welcome drinks and networking Location: Forum |
| 7:00pm | Dinner: Barbecue @BfR garden Location: Canteen |
| Date: Tuesday, 02/June/2026 | |
| 8:00am - 9:00am |
Registration II: Registration Location: Forum |
| 9:00am - 10:15am |
Session 4: BIOLOGY-ECOLOGY-GENETICS II Location: Conference Hall Genetic characterization and geographical variation in mycotoxin profiles of Fusarium culmorum from wheat in South of Italy 9:15am - 9:30am Detection of Secondary Metabolite Biosynthetic Genes Across the Fusarium oxysporum Species Complex 9:30am - 9:45am Shuffling of the patulin biosynthetic gene cluster in Penicillium roqueforti 9:45am - 10:00am Targeting RNA polymerase I transcription in Aspergillus flavus by the small molecule BMH-21 shuts down aflatoxin production 10:00am - 10:15am Population genomics and aflatoxin production of Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus oryzae from China |
| 10:15am - 10:30am |
Poster pitches II: POSTER PITCH SESSION II Location: Conference Hall Anti-fungal potential of coffe husk (Coffea arabiga L.) extracts against two mycotoxigenic fungi To bind or to degrade? Fate of deoxynivalenol and ochratoxin A during soy fermentation Species-level Fusarium resolution in cereals: a TEF1 metataxonomic approach When mycotoxins taste bitter (and beyond): AI-driven discovery of bitter receptors-fungal indolizidine alkaloids interaction Hybrid in vitro/in silico approach to elucidate the effect of mycoestrogens on barrier integrity via tight junction protein claudin-4 Hepatic metabolism of naturally occurring ergot alkaloids: Insights from human and porcine liver microsomes Comparative Intestinal Permeability and Molecular Responses to Major Aquafeed Mycotoxins in RTgutGC Cells From Alternaria extract to alterperylenol: Discovery of an immunosuppressive mycotoxin targeting NF-κB Sulfation as a detoxifying mechanism for the estrogenicity of the mycotoxin alternariol |
| 10:30am - 11:30am |
Posters and Coffee III: Poster exhibition (even) / Coffee break Location: Forum / poster exhibition rooms D145/146 |
| 11:30am - 12:45pm |
Session 5: DATA SCIENCE, OMICS and AI Location: Conference Hall Going with the wind… and other weather variables to predict mycotoxin risk 11:45am - 12:00pm An Integrated AI-Based Text-Mining Pipeline for Automated Extraction of Mycotoxin Occurrence and Analytical Data from Scientific Literature 12:00pm - 12:15pm A novel approach for predicting aflatoxin B1 production using regression models and whole-cell biosensors in moldy maize and peanut kernels 12:15pm - 12:30pm Untargeted HRMS screening for chemical hazard detection in maize: a QC-Based Workflow with Linear and Non-Linear Data Characterisation 12:30pm - 12:45pm NAMs for Food Safety: In Silico Modelling of Bacterial Membranes to Explore Mycotoxin Bioavailability in the Intestinal Compartment |
| 12:45pm - 2:15pm |
Lunchbreak II: Lunchbreak Location: Canteen |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
Session 6: TOXICOLOGY I Location: Conference Hall Novel insights into the toxicological profile of Alternaria infectoria mycotoxins 2:30pm - 2:45pm Evaluating the Genotoxic Potential of Emerging Mycotoxins Using Stepwise Approach 2:45pm - 3:00pm Early oxidative and mitochondrial stress responses to tenuazonic acid in human esophageal cells 3:00pm - 3:15pm In vitro digestion of lipophilic mycotoxins enniatins and beauvercin 3:15pm - 3:30pm Enniatins and Their Mixture Induce Cytotoxicity in Rainbow Trout (SOB-15) Hepatocytes Through Early Disruption of Heme Biosynthesis 3:30pm - 3:45pm Heme biosynthesis under mycotoxin pressure in Atlantic salmon: a multi-target investigation |
| 3:45pm - 4:45pm |
Posters and Coffee IV: Poster exhibition (uneven) / Coffee break Location: Forum / poster exhibition rooms D145/146 |
| 4:15pm - 5:15pm |
GMF members meeting: General Meeting of the Society for Mycotoxin Research – Guests Welcome Location: Conference Hall |
| 5:30pm | Bus departure: Sightseeing bus tour to Conference Dinner venue Location: Meeting in front of the conference building |
| 7:30pm - 11:30pm |
Conference dinner: Conference dinner @Pirates Berlin Location: Pirates Berlin |
| Date: Wednesday, 03/June/2026 | |
| 8:00am - 9:00am |
Registration III: Registration Location: Forum |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Session 7: TOXICOLOGY II Location: Conference Hall How the mycotoxin deoxynivalenol exacerbates the genotoxicity of heme iron 9:15am - 9:30am Deoxynivalenol disrupts the blood-testis barrier in prepubertal and adult mice: a possible cytokine-mediated effect 9:30am - 9:45am Shaping the immunomodulation in colon: how high glucose conditions modulate the immunomodulatory properties of mycotoxins 9:45am - 10:00am Unraveling the toxicokinetics of T-2 and HT-2 toxin in humans and developing a physiologically-based kinetic model 10:00am - 10:15am Beyond aflatoxin B1: Mutagenicity assessment and evaluation of topoisomerase-poisoning potential of selected aflatoxin B1 precursors 10:15am - 10:30am Acute Toxic Effects of Stachybotrys chartarum Bioaerosols |
| 10:30am - 11:15am |
Posters and Coffee V: Poster exhibition / Coffee break Location: Forum / poster exhibition rooms D145/146 |
| 11:15am - 12:30pm |
Session 8: REMEDIATION-MITIGATION Location: Conference Hall Hydrothermal treatment with sodium metabisulfite of deoxynivalenol contaminated maize as effective tool of inactivation 11:30am - 11:45am Characterization of a detoxified deoxynivalenol metabolite supporting microbial mitigation strategies in food safety 11:45am - 12:00pm Impact of UV-C treatment on Alternaria spp. growth and Alternaria mycotoxins in vitro and in tomato 12:00pm - 12:15pm From the Plate to the Plant: Discovering the biocontrol potential of Hanseniaspora uvarum against Aspergillus flavus 12:15pm - 12:30pm Transcriptomic profiling of aflatoxin B1 exposed and medicinal herb supplemented pig liver |
| 12:30pm - 1:00pm |
Closing Session: Closing Session with poster awards Location: Conference Hall |
