Fusarium at Asilomar 2011

Asilomar Conference Center – Kiln Meeting Room

March 15, 2011

9:00 - 09:15 AM. Welcoming remarks and Fusigroup organizational details.

Corby Kistler, USDA ARS Cereal Disease Laboratory, USA

9:15 -11:00 AM. New Fusarium Genomes

Moderator: Cees Waalwijk. Plant Research International, Wageningen, Netherlands.

Donald Gardiner, CSIRO, Australia. Fusarium pseudograminearum.

Kim Hammond-Kosack, Rothamsted Research, UK, Fusarium culmorum.

Erik Lysøe, Bioforsk, Norway. Fusarium langsethiae.

Sarah Maria Schmidt, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Fusarium oxysporum.

Philipp Wiemann, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Germany. Fusarium fujikuroi.

Brenda Wingfield, University of Pretoria, South Africa. Fusarium circinatum.

David Geiser, Penn State University, USA ”A community supported Fusarium genome sequencing effort at JGI.”

11:00 – 11:45 PM. Tutorial on Next-Gen Sequencing. 

Li-Jun Ma, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. Use of Next-Gen sequence data for mapping polymorphisms to existing genomes and expression analysis by RNA-seq. 

11:45AM  - 12:00 PM.  Fusigroup business.  Frances Trail. Michigan State University USA. Nomination of new members.  Information on strain and mutant availability.

12:00 -1:00 PM. Lunch and Social.  “Pasta-rama” at Woodlands.

1:00 – 2:30 PM. Research Updates.

Moderator: Corby Kistler, USDA ARS Cereal Disease Laboratory, USA

Jin-Rong Xu, Purdue University, USA. “Functional characterization of the Fusarium graminearum kinome.”

Wilfried Jonkers, University of Minnesota, USA. “Comparative transcriptomics of F. graminearum and F. oxysporum.”

Carmen Ruiz Roldan, University of Cordoba, Spain. "Nuclear dynamics during hyphal development and fusion of Fusarium oxysporum."

Jeff Coleman, University of Arizona, USA. “Characterization of the gene encoding pisatin demethylase (FoPDA1) in Fusarium oxysporum.”

Cees Waalwijk, Plant Research International, Wageningen, Netherlands. “Comparative transcriptomics between races of the banana pathogen F. oxysporum f.sp. cubense.

2:30 – 2:45 PM Coffee Break

2:45 – 3:15 PM.  Short Presentations from Non-scheduled Speakers.

3:15 - 4:00 PM. Opportunities for Research Funding and International Cooperation.

Moderator: Li-Jun Ma, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA.

Ann Lichens-Park. USDA NIFA, USA “Funding opportunities for Fusarium research within USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture."

David Geiser, Penn State University, USA ”A community supported Fusarium genome sequencing effort at JGI.”

Matias Pasquali, CRP Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourg. “A mutant database for Fusarium.”

Also: “International support of web and database resources.”

4:00PM  - 4:30 PM.  Fusigroup business. Frances Trail. Michigan State University USA Election of new members.