8:00 - 9:00 Registration

 9:00 - 9:30 Opening ceremony

 9:30 – 11:00 Plenary session chaired by Martin Lukac.

 9:30 – 10:10 Gabriele Berg, TU Graz, Austria (invited speaker)

"Linking microbial belowground diversity and plant health".

10:10 – 10:30 Mauro Lanfranchi, University of Cumbria, Ambleside, U.K.

“The effects of forest management on the carbon quality of soil”.

10:30 – 10:50 Carmen Gómez-Lama Cabanás, IAS-CSIC, Córdoba, Spain.

“Indigenous olive rhizosphere Bacillales members as effective biocontrol agents against Verticillium dahliae”.

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee-break

11:30 – 13:30 Plenary session chaired by Martin Lukac.

11:30 – 12:00 Aurelio Ciancio, CNR, Bari, Italy

“Valorizing complexity of soil food webs and related microbiome-based services for sustainable crop production”

12:00 – 12:30 Jorge Curiel, BC3-Basque Centre for Climate Change, Spain

“Alterations of C allocation patterns associated with climate-change induced vegetation die-off: Effects over soil pools, soil biodiversity and functions, and controls of soil respiration”

12:30 – 12:50 Rodica Pena, University of Goettingen, Germany

“Temporal turnover of ectomycorrhizal fungal communities in response to new habitats created by tree harvesting”.

12:50 – 13:10 Douglas Godbold, Universität für Bodenkultur (BOKU), Vienna, Austria

“Winter activity of ectomycorrhizas of Pinus sylvestris and Pinus sibirica in Mongolia”.

13:10 – 13:30 Carla Cruz-Paredes, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

“Bacterial and fungal community responses over a steep wood-ash gradient in a spruce plantation”.

13:30 – 15:30 Lunch

15:30 – 17:00 Plenary session chaired by Mark Bakker.

15:30 – 16:00 Maite Cervera, Centro de Investigación Forestal, INIA, Madrid, Spain

“Dissection of Pinus pinaster response to water deficit: Integration of complementary strategies to improve drought response”.

16:00 – 16:20 Vicent de Leijster, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

“The impact of soil and vegetation management on nutrient cycling and understory vegetation diversity in European almond orchards”.

16:20 – 16:40 María Eugenia Ramos-Font, EEZ - CSIC, Granada, Spain

            “Grazed fuelbreaks in Andalusia as a tool for wildfire prevention: a new name for an old practice”.

16:40 – 17:00 Luis Merino-Martín, Université de Montpellier, France

“Soil microbial diversity in open and closed forest patches along a soil temperature gradient: the importance of root properties for bacterial community coalescence in the rhizosphere”.

17:00 – 17:30 Coffee-break

17:30 – 19:00 Plenary session chaired by Annamaria Bevivino.

17:30 – 18:00 László Kredics, University Szeged, Hungary

“Devastating forest pathogens from the genus Armillaria: from genomics to biocontrol”.

18:00 – 18:20 Lur Moragues-Saitua, NEIKER-Tecnalia, Derio, Spain

“Wood ash and biochar addition to forests do not shift soil microbial functional diversity in the short term”.

18:20 – 18:40 Diogo Neves Proença, University of Coimbra, Portugal

“Link between genomic identification and biochemical characterization of novel siderophores produced by endophytic bacteria”.

18:40 – 19:00 Lars Vesterdal, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

“Tree species effects on stocks and vertical distribution of soil carbon: Links to mycorrhizal association, microbial characteristics and soil fauna”.

20:00 – 22:30 Welcome reception at Quinta Alegre Palace

  9:00 – 11:00 Working groups meetings

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee-break

11:30 – 13:30 Plenary session chaired by Mari Moora.

11:30 – 12:00 Jaco Vangronsveld, Hasselt University, Belgium (invited speaker)

“The impacts of soil contamination on tree rhizosphere bacterial communities in a forest on an old military site”.

12:00 – 12:20 Elena Vanguelova, Forest Research, Alice Holt Lodge, Surrey, UK

“Links between soil biochemistry and biodiversity with Oak health status”.

12:20 – 12:40 Gaby Deckmyn, University of Antwerp, Belgium

“KEYLINK: a new soil model including soil structure and soil fauna as key drivers”.

12:40 – 13:00 Omar Flores, MNCN-CSIC, Madrid, Spain

“KEYLINK model: a short introduction to its use and usefulness”.

13:00 – 13:30 Rut Aspizua, Agencia de Medio Ambiente y Agua, Granada, Spain

“LIFE ADAPTAMED - Protection of key ecosystem services by adaptive management of Climate Change endangered Mediterranean socioecosystems”.

13:30 – 15:30 Lunch

15:30 – 17:00 Plenary session chaired by Elena Vanguelova.

15:30 – 16:00 Johannes Rousk, Lund University, Sweden

“Adapted temperature relationships of microbial communities in warming soils enhance carbon-use efficiencies”.

16:00 – 16:20 Antonio J. Fernández-González, EEZ-CSIC, Granada, Spain

“Linking belowground bacterial communities to healthy olive trees”.

16:20 – 16:40 Alessandra Lagomarsino, CREA, Firenze, Italy

“Microbial communities and activities of forest floor fractions in degraded pine forests after thinning treatments”.

16:40 – 17:00 Maria K. Sakka, University of Thessaly, Greece

“Quantifying the power of awareness of belowground biota: perceptions differ among European countries”.

17:00 – 17:20 Daniel García-Angulo, MNCN-CSIC, Madrid, Spain

“Drought-induced dieback altered soil biogeochemical cycles and soil microbial functioning along Quercus ilex historical land use and climatic gradient”.

17:20 – 19:30 Coffee-break and Posters session

20:00 Bus to Conference dinner at La Chumbera

23:00 Return to the Hotel by bus

9:30 – 11:30 Plenary session chaired by Katarzyna Hrynkiewicz.

 9:30 –  9:50 Frank Ashwood, Forest Research, Alice Holt Lodge, Surrey, UK

“Developing a systematic protocol for deadwood earthworm surveys: a trial using an unmanaged oak woodland chronosequence”.

 9:50 – 10:10 Masudur Rahman, University of Liège, Belgium

“Effect of drought legacy and tree species admixing on bacterial growth and soil respiration upon drying-rewetting in a young tree plantation”.

10:10 – 10:30 Laura M. Suz, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK

“Plant-fungal interactions in Alpine ecosystems”.

10:30 – 10:50 Taina Pennanen, LUKE, Helsinki, Finland

“Ectomycorrhizal fungi increase the vitality of Norway spruce seedlings under the pressure of Heterobasidion root rot in vitro but may increase susceptibility to foliar necrotrophs”.

10:50 – 11:10 Jelena Lazarević, University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro

“Fungal biodiversity associated with fire-disturbed Pinus heldreichii forest soils in Montenegro”.

11:10 – 11:30 Rasmus Kjøller, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

“Wood ash in forestry and effects on ECM fungal activity and community structure”.

11:30 – 12:00 Coffee-break

12:00 – 13:30 MC meeting and closing section chair by Martin Lukac.

12:00 – 13:00 Final BioLink MC meeting

13:00 – 13:30 Closing session by Martin Lukac.

13:30 – 15:30 Lunch and departure