The Aspergillus Comparative Genomics Committee is pleased to announce the 8th International Aspergillus meeting

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The Eight International Aspergillus Meeting

ASPERFEST 8

March 14-15, 2011

Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, California

Merrill Hall

March 14 (Monday)

7:00 -10:00pm            Posters and Welcome Reception               Sponsored by Novozymes

March 15 (Tuesday)

9:00     Welcome, introductions and announcements                  Michelle Momany/Gary Payne

9:15-10:15 Session I                                                                                                 Michelle Momany

9:15     Signaling the end: mRNA 3' tagging, degradation and translation

Mark Caddick, Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, UK

9:35     Impact of glucose metabolism during pathogenesis of Aspergillus fumigatus 

Matthias Brock, Microbial Biochemistry and Physiology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Germany

9:55     Genomic diversification and evolution of Aspergillus oryzae industrial strains

Kazuhiro Iwashita, National Research Institute of Brewing, Hiroshima, Japan

10:15 -10:35  Coffee Break

10:35-11:55 Session II: Genomics Projects                                   Jennifer Wortman/Scott Baker

10:35   Aspergillus Knock Out Project Update

Stephen Osmani, Ohio State University, USA

10:50   Comparative Analysis of Aspergilli

Ronald  de Vries, CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, The Netherlands

11:05   AspGD update      

Gavin Sherlock, Stanford University and Jennifer Wortman, Broad Institute, USA

11:20   New Resources for Functional Analysis of Omics Data for the Genus Aspergillus

Benjamin Nitsche, Leiden University, The Netherlands

11:35   Pan Fungal Informatics Resources

Jason Stajich, University of California, Riverside, USA

11:50   2012 Community Sequencing Project at JGI

Kevin McCluskey, Fungal Genetics Stock Center

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-1:15        Community directions discussion; Elections                               Michelle Momany

1:15 - 2:45 Session III: Talks from abstracts                                 Gerhard Braus/Masa Machida

1:30  Asymmetric RNA localization in Aspergillus fumigatus

Mara Couto-Rodríguez, University of Georgia, USA

1:45  Genome mining of secondary metabolite genes in Aspergillus species

Clay Wang, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

2:00  Why are Aspergilli so different in their expression of secondary metabolites from section to section?

Jens Christian Frisvad, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

2:15 Nitric oxide (NO) is a morphogenetic signal in fungi

David Cánovas Universidad de Sevilla, Spain

2:30  Gold nanoparticles in Aspergillus nidulans hyphae: can we study real-time physiology?

Susan Kaminskyj , University of Saskatchewan, Canada

2:45 Secrelection: A Novel Fungal Expression System For Selection Of Secreted Enzymes

Robbert Damveld DSM Biotechnology Center, The Netherlands

2:45 Coffee Break

3:00-3:45 Pontecorvo Lecture:                                            Sponsored by AlerGenetica

Contribution of Aspergillus research to green, white and red biotechnology: past, present and future?

            Cees van den Hondel, University of Leiden, The Netherlands

3:45 - 4:00 Announcements: election results; poster prizes; any other discussion items