TWENTY SIXTH FUNGAL GENETICS CONFERENCE
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
Tuesday, March 15
3:00 pm – 10:00 pm Registration Administration Building
6:00 Dinner Crocker Hall
7:30 pm – 10:30 pm Social Reception (Mixer) Merrill Hall
Wednesday, March 16
7:30 am - 1:00 pm Registration Administration
7:30 am - 8:30 am Breakfast Crocker Hall
8:30 am – 12:00 pm Plenary Session I Merrill Hall and Chapel
Genome Evolution Chair: Ralph Dean
Jeff Townsend Comparative transcriptomics and development of perithecia
David Hibbett Deep Rot: Phylogenetic and comparative genomics perspectives on the evolution of the wood
decay apparatus in Agaricomycotina
Antonis Rokas The birth, evolution and death of metabolic pathways in fungi
Geraldine Butler Evolution of hypoxic regulation in Candida species
Martijn Rep Genome dynamics in the Fusarium oxysporum species complex
12:00- 1:00 pm Lunch Crocker Hall
Box lunches will be available on a first come, first served basis for meeting attendees on the deck outside of the Administration Building.
Following lunch, the mornings speakers will be available on the benches outside the administration building to meet with students. Please allow time for students to meet the speakers. In the event of rain, please go inside the administration building.
12:15 pm – 1:30 pm, Ad hoc workshops (Please do not take box lunches from ad hoc sessions unless you are attending the session)
Neurospora Lunch/Policy Committee Chapel
Magnaporthe Comparative Genomics (until 1:45 pm) Fred Farr Forum
3:00 pm – 6:00 pm Concurrent Sessions I
Comparative and Functional Genomics Jason Stajich and Dawn-Anne Thompson Merrill Hall
Photobiology Alex Idnurm and Luis Corrochano Chapel
Fungal Effectors Mark Glijzen and Bart Thomma Heather
Symbiosis Alga Zuccaro and Sebastien Duplessis Fred Farr Forum
Evolution of Sex in Fungi Paul Dyer and Robert Debuchy Kiln
Evolution of Centromeres Kaustuv Sanyal and Judy Berman Nautilus
6:00 Dinner, Crocker Hall
7:30 pm – 10:30 pm Poster Session I Fred Farr Forum Garage
Poster Number Topics
113 - 223 Gene Regulation
322 - 388 Biochemistry and Metabolism
607 - 653 Other Topics
Authors of ODD numbered posters should be at their poster from 7:30- 8:30 and authors of EVEN numbered posters should be at their posters from 8:30 - 9:30.
Thursday, March 17
7:30 am - 1:00 pm Registration Administration
7:30 am - 8:30 am Breakfast Crocker Hall
8:30 am – 12:00 pm Plenary Session II Merrill Hall and Chapel
Symbioses Chair: Francis Martin
Regine Kahmann Effectors and the establishment of biotrophy in smut fungi
Natalia Requena Root sweet home: signaling in the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis
Duur Aanen Artificial selection of Termitomyces fungi by termites
Christian Hertweck Endofungal bacteria as producers of mycotoxins
Elizabeth Arnold Evolutionary origins of endophytic fungi
12:00- 1:00 pm Lunch Crocker Hall
Box lunches will be available on a first come, first served basis for meeting attendees on the deck outside of the Administration Building.
Following lunch, the mornings speakers will be available on the benches outside the administration building to meet with students. Please allow time for students to meet the speakers. In the event of rain, please go inside the administration building.
12:15 pm – 2:00 pm, Ad hoc workshops (Please do not take box lunches from ad hoc sessions unless you are attending the session)
Career Luncheon Seascape Dining Room
Trainees are welcome to seek advice from career scientists at the Career Luncheon. Career mentor tables will be located in the Seascape Dining Room of Crocker Hall, and will arranged by mentoring topic. Table-hopping is encouraged.
JGI Fungal Genomics Program: tools and applications Merrill Hall
3:00 pm – 6:00 pm Concurrent Sessions II
Fungus-Host Signaling Barbara Howlett and Gunther Döhlemann Merrill
Interactions between Fungi and Prokaryotes Teresa Pawlowska and Paola Bonfante Kiln
Emergent Fungal Diseases John Taylor and Matthew Fisher Chapel
Regulation of Septation During Growth Oded Yarden and Stephan Seiler Heather
and Development
Secretion, Endocytosis and Membrane Brian Shaw and Miguel Peñalva Fred Farr Forum
Trafficking
ChIP-chip/ChIP-seq: protein Tom Michell and Michael Freitag Nautilus
interactions with DNA
Education and Public Outreach Pat Pukkila and Mimi Zolan Scripps
6:00 Dinner Crocker Hall
7:30 pm – 10:30 pm Poster Session II Fred Farr Forum Garage
Poster Number Topics
1 - 112 Comparative and Functional Genomics
224- 321 Cell Biology
654 - 670 Other Topics
Authors of ODD numbered posters should be at their poster from 7:30- 8:30 and authors of EVEN numbered posters should be at their posters from 8:30 - 9:30.
Friday, March 18
7:30 am - 1:00 pm Registration Administration
7:30 am - 8:30 am Breakfast Crocker Hall
8:30 am – 12:00 pm Plenary Session III Merrill Hall and Chapel
Growth and Reproduction Chair: Steve Harris
Jeff Rollins The developmental determinacy and reprogramming of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum apothecia
Amy Gladfelter Nuclear anarchy and cortical order in Ashbya gossypii
Jose Perez-Martin Connections between cell cycle, morphogenesis and pathogenicity in fungi:
the case of Ustilago maydis
Stephan Seiler Dissecting COT1 NDR kinase regulation and signaling in Neurospora crassa
Hanna Johannesson Longstanding evolutionary puzzles: Fungi as holders of the missing pieces
12:00- 1:00 pm Lunch Crocker Hall
Box lunches will be available on a first come, first served basis for meeting attendees on the deck outside of the Administration Building.
Following lunch, the mornings speakers will be available on the benches outside the administration building to meet with students. Please allow time for students to meet the speakers. In the event of rain, please go inside the administration building.
Ad hoc workshops (Please do not take box lunches from ad hoc sessions unless you are attending the session)
12:15 pm – 1:45 pm
Colletotrichum Workshop Scripps
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
Fungal Genome Tools Chapel
3:00 pm – 6:00 pm Concurrent Sessions III
Cell Cycle, Development, and Morphology Nick Talbot and Meritxell Riquelme Fred Farr Forum
Host Selective Toxins B. Gillian Turgeon and Tim Friesen Nautilus
Fungicides and Antifungals Leah Cowen and Sabine Fillinger Chapel
Biobased products, Biofuels, and Bioenergy Jonathan Walton and Peter Punt Merrill
High Throughput Methods Marco Berg-van-den and Aric Wiest Heather
for Filamentous Fungi
Population Genomics Jim Anderson and Eva Stuckenbrock Kiln
Dimorphic Transitions in Fungi Julia Kohler and Anne Dranganis Scripps
6:00 Dinner Crocker Hall
7:30 pm – 10:30 pm Poster Session III Fred Farr Forum Garage
Poster Number Topics
389 - 445 Population and Evolutionary Genetics
446 - 601 Pathogenic and Symbiotic Interactions
602 - 606 Education
671 - 678 Other Topics
Authors of ODD numbered posters should be at their poster from 7:30- 8:30 and authors of EVEN numbered posters should be at their posters from 8:30 - 9:30.
Saturday, March 19
7:30 am - 1:00 pm Registration Administration
7:30 am - 8:30 am Breakfast Crocker Hall
8:30 am – 12:00 pm Plenary Session IV Merrill Hall and Chapel
Regulatory Networks Chair: Nancy Keller
Brenda Andrews Mapping cellular pathways using yeast functional genomics
Dawn Anne Thompson It's About Time: Evolutionary rewiring of regulatory networks
Brett Tyler How fungal and oomycete proteins enter plant and animal cells
Jay Dunlap Genetic and genomic approaches to light and clock regulation of development
John Linz Regulation of the compartmentalization of secondary metabolite biosynthesis
12:00- 1:00 pm Lunch Crocker Hall
Following lunch, the mornings speakers will be available on the benches outside the administration building to meet with students. Please allow time for students to meet the speakers. In the event of rain, please go inside the administration building.
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Concurrent Sessions IV
Genome Defense Mechanisms, Epigenetics Rodolfo Aramayo and Yi Liu Merrill Hall
and RNAi
Systems and Synthetic Biology Han de Winde and Merja Pentilla Fred Farr Forum
Fungi that Infect Humans Aaron Mitchell and Jennifer Lodge Chapel
Proteomics and Metabolomics Peter Solomon and Kim Hammond-Kosack Kiln
Stress Signalling Amir Sharon and Jesus Aguirre Nautilus
Hyphal Tip Growth Neal Gow and Jurgen Wendland Heather
5:30 - 6:15 pm Perkins/ Metzenberg Lecture: Prof. Salomon Bartnicki-Garcia Merrill Hall
6:30 Banquet Crocker Hall
8:30 pm - 12:30 am Closing party featuring "The Amplified DNA Band" Merrill Hall
8:30 pm - 12:30 am Quiet alternative Surf and Sand Living room
Sunday, March 20
7:30 am - 8:30 am Breakfast Crocker Hall
12:00 pm Check-out
Ad Hoc Workshops
Wednesday
Neurospora Lunch/Policy Committee
12:15 pm – 1:30 pm
Chapel
Magnaporthe Comparative Genomics
12:15 pm – 1:45 pm
Fred Farr Forum
Thursday
JGI Genome Portal and Community Annotation Tools Workshop
12:15 pm – 1:30 pm
Merrill Hall
GSA Career Luncheon
Seascape Dining Room
Friday
Colletotrichum Workshop
12:30 pm – 1:45 pm
Scripps
Fungal Genome Tools
12:15 pm – 1:30 pm
Chapel