TWENTY FIFTH FUNGAL GENETICS CONFERENCE Print version
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Tuesday
March 17:
Registration, Social Reception
Wednesday March 18
8:30-12:00
Plenary Session I
gENOME EVOLUTION AND DYNAMICS (Chair: Christina Cuomo, Broad Institute)
AD HOC sessions
12:15- 2:00 The Phycomyces genome: manual annotation and analysis. Organizer: Luis Corrochano
12:15- 2:00 Colletotrichum Workshop. Organizers: Michael Thon, Serenella Sukno
3:00-6:00 pm CONCURRENT SESSIONS I
| Interactions between fungal pathogens and their human hosts: |
Ted White and Judith Rhodes |
| Population genetics and ecology: | Lynne Boddy and Kwangwon Lee |
| Secondary metabolism: | Barbara Howlett and Jurgen Wendland |
| Applied genomics and industrial mycology: | Ken Bruno and Peter Punt |
| Architecture and tip growth: | Meritxell Riquelme and Rosa R. Mourińo-Pérez |
| Circadian rhythms and photobiology: | Sue Crosthwaite and Christian Heintzen |
| Basidiomycete biology and genomics: | Sarah Watkinson and Dan Cullen |
7:30-10:30 POSTERS I
Thursday March 19
8:30-12:00
Plenary Session II
GenE REGUlation and Metabolism (Chair: Joan W. Bennett, Rutgers Univ.)
AD HOC sessions
12.15 -2.30 Workshop: JGI Genome Portal and Community
Annotation Tools Organizer: Igor Grigoriev
3:00-6:00 pm CONCURRENT SESSIONS II
| RNA functions, Epigenetics and Chromosome Biology: | Hitoshi Nakayashiki and Yi Liu |
| Associations with plants: | Martijn Rep and Erika Kothe |
| Natural products and small molecules: | Vera Meyer and Ben Horwitz |
| Evolutionary genetics and genomics: | Jason Stajich and Linda Kohn |
| Dimorphic transitions and morphogenesis: | Alex Andrianopoulos and Takashi Kamada |
| Biofuels and biomass disassembly: | Jonathan Walton and Scott Baker |
7:30-10:30 POSTERS II
Friday March 20
8:30-12:00
Plenary Session III
SIGNALING, Development and SEX (Chair: Ursula Kues, GA Univ Göttingen, Germany)
AD HOC sessions
12:00 Neurospora Business Lunch.
Organizer: Yi Liu
12:15-2:00 Cryphonectria parasitica genome sequence and
annotation. Organizer: Donald L. Nuss
1:00-2:30
Neurospora Functional Genomics Project. Organizer:
Jay Dunlap
12:15- 3:00 Magnaporthe workshop. Organizers: Thomas Mitchell and Nicole Donofrio
12:15 - 2:30 Dermatophyte genome sequencing Workshop. Organizer: Ted White
3:00-6:00 pm CONCURRENT SESSIONS III
| Fungal and oomycete effectors: | Paul Birch and Thierry Rouxel |
| Phylogenomics: | Joey Spatafora and David Geiser |
| ROS in development and pathogenesis: | Paul Tudzynski and Wilhelm Hansberg |
| Cytoskeleton and Motors: | Mike Plamann and Gero Steinberg |
| Education and public outreach: | Pat Pukkila and Pietro Spanu |
| Sex and development: | Yin-Won Lee and Frances Trail |
| Analysis and regulation of carbon metabolism: | Bernhard Seiboth and Ronald P. De Vries |
7:30-10:30 POSTERS III
Saturday March 21
8:30-12:00
Plenary Session IV
PATHOGENIC AND SYMBIOTIC INTERACTIONS (Chair: Jim Kronstad, UBC Canada)
AD HOC sessions
12:15-1:45 Zygomycetes and the microsporidia Workshop.
Organizer: Joe Heitman
2:00-5:00 pm CONCURRENT SESSIONS IV
| Zygomycetes and chytrids: | Mat Fisher and Santiago Torres |
| Cool tools for fungal biology: | Gary Foster and Steve Osmani |
| Nitrogen regulation networks: | Bettina Tudzynski and Meryl Davis |
| Metabolomics and Proteomics: | Peter Solomon and Kim Hammond Kosack |
| Associations with microbes and insects: | Alfredo Herrera-Estrella and Pieter van West |
| Dothideomycete comparative genomics: | Steve Goodwin and Gert HJ Kema |
| Speciation and evolution: | Tatiana Giraud and Jan Schirawski |
5:30 pm - 6:15 pm Invited Lecture
Claudio Scazzocchio, Univ Paris XI, Orsay, France
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Banquet
8:30 pm - 12:00 am Closing party, Merrill Hall
8:30 pm - 12:00 am Quiet alternative, Surf and Sand Living room
Sunday March 22
8:30 am – 12:00 pm
AD HOC Concurrent Sessions/Workshops
9:00- 12:00
Fusarium
Workshop Organizer: Bob Procter
(Others to be scheduled)
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