Fungal Genetics Conference History
The Fungal Genetics Conference started as the Neurospora Information Conference and the first meeting was held in La Jolla, California March 2-4, 1961. Frederick de Serres was the chairman and D. M. Bonner, D. D. Perkins, R. W. Barratt and N. H. Horowitz made up the conference committee. The proceedings were published by the US National Academy of Sciences as their National Research Council publication number 950 (Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 62-60014). In subsequent years, meeting proceedings were published in the Fungal Genetics Newsletter. Beginning in 1997, the proceedings of the meetings were published as an online supplement to the FGN, and after 2008, the Fungal Genetics Reports.
Neurospora Information Conference
| Year | Location | Scientific organizers |
| 1961 | La Jolla, CA | F.J. de Serres, D. M. Bonner, D. D. Perkins, R. W. Barratt, N. H. Horowitz |
| 1964 | Rice University, Houston, TX | F. J. de Serres, M. C. Case, J. A. DeMoss, R. H. Davis, V.W. Woodward |
| 1966 | Oak Ridge, TN | B. M. Eberhart, T. H. Pittenger, D. R. Stadler, D. O. Woodward, R. H. Davis |
| 1968 | Asilomar, CA | D. O. Woodward, M. Fling, D. Newmeyer, J. A. DeMoss, D. R. Stadler |
| 1970 | Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL | A. G. DeBusk |
| 1972 | University of Texas, Austin, TX | R. P. Wagner |
| 1974 | Asilomar, CA | D. D. Perkins, S. Brody, N. Horowitz, D. Stadler, D. O. Woodward |
| 1976 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC | F. J. de Serres, E. Barry, W. Bates, B. Eberhart, J. Wilson, S. Gross |
| 1978 | Louisana State University, Baton Rouge, LA | H. D. Braymer, R. Metzenberg, D. Perkins, M. Sargent, C. Slayman, D. Stadler |
| 1980 | Asilomar, CA | J. Feldman, R. Davis |
| 1982 | University of Georgia, Athens, GA | M. Case, H. B. Howe, B. Bowman, D. Edwards, R. Garrett |
| 1984 | Asilomar, CA | B. Bowman, R. Bowman |
| 1986 | Columbia South Carolina | N. C. Mishra |
At the "14th Fungal Biology Conference" in 1987, the Fungal Genetics Policy Committee decided to change the name of the meeting to the "Fungal Genetics Conference" to align the name with the "Fungal Genetics Stock Center" and the "Fungal Genetics Newsletter." They also decided to meet at Asilomar in spring of odd numbered years. This was to serve as counterpoint to the Gordon Conference on Fungal Metabolism which was held on the East coast of the US on even numbered years.
Fungal Genetics Conference at Asilomar
| Year | Invited Speaker | Organizers | |
| 1987 | R. Weiss | ||
| 1989 | Karl Esser | R. Garrett | |
| 1991 | David Perkins | L. Casselton | J. Dunlap |
| 1993 | Cardy Raper | G. Faugeron | B. Tyler |
| 1995 | Robert Metzenberg | G. May | P. de Wit |
| 1997 | Lorna Casselton | L. Glass | M. Hynes |
| 1999 | Rowland Davis | R. Metzenberg | R. Kahmann |
| 2001 | N. Ron Morris | R. Davis | M-J. Daboussi |
| 2003 | Hans VanEtten | N. R. Morris | A. Osbourn |
| 2005 | Joan Bennett | B.G. Turgeon | C von den Hondel |
| 2007 | June Kwon Chung | B. Howlett | J. Heitman |
| 2009 | Claudio Scazzocchio | J. Dunlap | F. Govers |
| 2011 | Salomon Bartnicki-Garcia | L. Kohn | S. Osmani |
| 2013 | Regine Kahmann | K. Borkovich | F. Martin |
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