Concurrent Sessions II

Concurrent Sessions II

Fungal-Plant Interactions, Chapel

B. Valent & S. Kang

3:00- 3:05 Introductory Remarks

3:05 - 3:25 Lute-Harm Zwiers, Wageningen, University, The Netherland

Fungal ABC transporters involved in pathogenesis and biotic interactions.

3:25 - 3:45 Ane Sesma, John Innes Center, Norwich, UK

Novel developmental processes associated with infection of roots by the rice blast fungus

3:45 - 4:05 Uta U. Fuchs, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

Identification and characterisation of five hydrophobin genes in Fusarium verticillioides

4:05 - 4:25 Jim Kronstad, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

The corn pathogen Ustilago maydis responds to triglycerides by switching from budding to filamentous growth

4:25 - 4:40 Coffee Break

4:40 - 5:00 Yoshitaka Takano, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

APH1, a gene encoding a putative methyltransferase, is involved in appressorial penetration into the host plant by Colletotrichum lagenarium

5:00 - 5:20 Andrew C. Diener, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Genetic characterization of Fusarium wilt of Arabidopsis

5:20 - 5:40 Yong-Hwan Lee, Seoul National University, Suwon, Korea

Isolation of both gain-of-virulence and loss-of virulence mutants of Magnaporthe grisea using Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated insertional mutagenesis

5:40 - 6:00 Bas Brandwagt, Wageningen University, The Netherland

Effects on virulence of the tomato pathogen Cladosporium fulvum by RNAi-mediated silencing of avirulence genes

Fungal Population Genetics, Fred FARR FORUM

Rytas Vilgalys, Tom Bruns, Organizers

Stephen B. Goodwin, Morris Levy, Jessica R. Cavaletto and Yang Tian. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Multi-gene phylogenies reveal taxonomic confusion in the genus Magnaporthe.

Linda Kohn and Brett Couch, Dept. of Botany, Univ. of Toronto

Domesticated rice as a reservoir for host jumps in Magnaporthe oryzae; evidence and the Bayesian test

Anne Pringle and John W. Taylor. Plant and Microbial Biology, UC Berkeley

Exploring the fitness of filamentous fungi using a lichen, Xanthoparmelia cumberlandia, and Neurospora crassa as model systems.

Stephen A. Rehner and Ellen P. Buckley. USDA/ARS, Insect Biocontrol Laboratory, Beltsville, MD.

Phylogenetic, biogeographic and population genetic approaches to the analysis of cryptic speciation in the entomopathogen .

Jan Stenlid, Mårten Gustafsson, and Nils Högberg Department of Forest Mycology and Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.

Genetic consequences of habitat fragmentation in rare wood decay fungi.

Kerry O'Donnell, Nancy S. Weber, Steve Rehner and Gary Mills, USDA/ARS/NCAUR, Peoria, IL,Oregon State University, Beltsville, MD, and Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

Phylogeny and Biogeography of Morchella.

Greg S. Saenz, Dave J. Jacobson, W. H. Dvorachek, and Don O. Natvig. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, and Stanford University

Sympatric biological and phylogenetic species among pseudohomothallic isolates identified as Neurospora tetrasperma.

Photobiology and clocks, Kiln

Jennifer Loros, Martha Merrow

3:00-3:30 Winslow Briggs, Carnegie Institute of Washington

Phototropins: great photoreceptors for introduction to photobiology

3:30-3:45 Carsten Schwerdtfeger, University of Konstanz/Dartmouth Medical School

VIVID is a flavoprotein and serves as a fungal blue light photoreceptor for photoadaptation

3:45-4:00 Jay Dunlap, Dartmouth Medical School

Photoreceptors in Neurospora

4:00-4:15 Qiyang He, University of Texas/Dallas

White Collar-1, a DNA Binding Transcription Factor and a Light Sensor

4:15-4:30 Martha Merrow, University of Munich

The Neurospora circadian system describes two light input pathways in Neurospora

4:30-4:45 coffee break

4:45-5:00 Takashi Kamada, Okayama University

The dst1 gene responsible for a photomorphogenetic mutation in Coprinus cinereus encodes a protein with high similarity to WC-1

5:00-5:15 Kyung Suk Seo, Texas A&M University

Identification and characterization of Neurospora crassa mutant strains that are rhythmic in continuous light

5:15-5:30 Michael Brunner, Biochemie Zentrum Heidelberg

The PEST-2 element in FREQUENCY is required for expression of the Neurospora crassa photo receptor WHITE COLLAR-1

5:30-5:45 S. Casa-Flores, CINESTAV University of Irapuato

Dissecting the blue light response in Trichoderma atroviride

5:45-6:00 Luis M. Corrochano, University of Seville

The gene for the heat-shock protein HSP100 is induced by blue light and heat-shock in Phycomyces

Medical Mycology, Merrill

David Denning and Joseph Heitman

David Denning, University of Manchester

Patterns of disease caused by Aspergillus fumigatus and approachs to pathogenesis

25 minutes

Joseph Heitman, Duke University

Cryptococcus neoformans as a model fungal pathogen

25 minutes

Alex Andrianopoulos, University of Melbourne

Regulating morphogenesis in the human fungal pathogen Penicillium marneffei

25 minutes

Break

20 minutes

Five short talks from posters (12 minutes plus 5 minutes for questions)

Burghard Liebmann, University of Hannover

cAMP signal transduction regulates virulence of the human pathogenic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus

Sven Krappmann, Georg-August University

The Cross-Pathway control of the opportunistic pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus cloning and characterization

of its transcriptional activator CPCA

Barb Steen, University of British Columbia

Exploring the pathogenesis of Cryptococcus neoformans using serial analysis of gene expression

Mikhail Martchenko, Biotechnology Research Institute

The new subfamily of CuZn superoxide dismutase is involved in branching and hyphal growth in Candida albicans

Mike Bromley, Target Discovery, F2G Ltd, Manchester, UK

Development of expression systems for use in Aspergillus fumigatus

Teaching fungal biology and genetics, Nautilus

Steve James and Pat Pukkila

3:00-3:05 Steve James and Pat Pukkila

Introductory remarks

3:05-3:25 Patrick C. Hickey, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

Biology of living fungi: website and CD-ROM teaching resources

3:25-3:45 Chandra Theesfeld, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

Gene ontology tools at the Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD)

3:45-4:05 Steve James, Gettsyburg College, Gettysburg, PA

Using fungal genomes to teach bioinformatics to undergraduates

4:05-4:25Pat Pukkila, University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

Integrating graduate and undergraduate education

4:25-4:40 Coffee break

4:40-5:15 Roundtable discussion among attendees:

"Emerging issues in classroom/laboratory instruction and research"

5:15-5:30Steve Denison, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL

Using Aspergillus nidulans to teach concepts of genetics

5:30-5:45Diana Bartelt, St. Johns University, Jamaica, NY

A project-based laboratory using expression cloning from Aspergillus cDNA libraries

5:45-6:00Sarah Lea Mcguire, Millsaps College, Jackson, MS

Mentoring undergraduate research at a small college