Concurrent sessions III

Mating and sexual development, Chapel

Robert Debuchy, Cardy Raper

3.00 - 3.20 Keith Klein, Minnesota State University, Minnesota

Sex and recombination in an imperfect world: evidence of both in Fusarium oxysporum .

3.20 - 3. 40 Shun-Wen Lu, Cornell University, New York

Altering sexual reproductive mode by interspecific exchange of MAT loci.

3.40 - 4.00 Hyojeong Kim, University of California, Riverside

Functional analysis of pre-1, a pheromone receptor gene of Neurospora crassa .

4.00 - 4.20 Joseph Heitman, Duke University, North Carolina

Architecture of an unusual mating type locus linked to virulence and differentiation of Cryptococcus neoformans.

4.20 - 4.40 Coffee break

4.40 - 5.00 Kazuo Shishido, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Two DNA-binding transcription factors involved in fruiting-body formation in the basidiomycetes Lentinula edodes and their target genes.

5.00 -5.20 Meritxell Riquelme, University of Oxford, Great-Britain

Molecular analysis of the multiallelic B mating locus that encodes pheromone and receptors in Coprinus cinereus.

5.20 - 5.40 Erika Kothe, Friedrich Schiller University, Germany

Pheromone discrimination in Schizophyllum commune and evolutionnary aspects.

5.40 - 6.00 Thomas J. Fowler, University of Vermont, Vermont

Might the B-alpha and B-beta mating-type gene products of Schizophyllum commune really cross-talk ?

Evolution of gene clusters, FRED FARR FORUM

Heather Wilkinson, Jon Walton

3:00 to 3:05 Introductory remarks

3:05 to 3:25 Jonathan Walton, Michigan State University, USA

The TOX2 cluster of Cochliobolus carbonum and the ‘selfish cluster’ hypothesis

3:25 to 3:45 Barry Scott, Massey University, New Zealand

Evolution of gene clusters for indole-diterpene biosynthesis in plant associated fungi

3:45 to 4:05 Daniel Panaccione, West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA

Genetic modification of the ergot alkaloid profile of a grass endophyte

4:05 to 4:25 Heather Wilkinson, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

Evolution of a secondary metabolite gene cluster implicated in loline alkaloid biosynthesis of grass-endophytes (Epichloe and Neotyphodium spp.).

4:25 to 4:45 Break

4:45 to 5:05 Heidi Bohnert, Bayer CropScience, Lyon, France

Secondary metabolism and avirulence in Magnaporthe grisea: is ACE1 part of an avirulence gene cluster?

5:05 to 5:25 Esteban D. Temporini, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

The pea pathogenicity (PEP) gene cluster of Nectria haematococca: a case of horizontal gene transfer in fungi?

5:25 to 5:45 Scott Kroken, Diversa Corporation, San Diego, USA

Comparative analyses of PKS and NRPS gene clusters in plant pathogenic and saprobic ascomycetes

Regulation of Primary Metabolism, Kiln

Daniel J Ebbole and Michael J. Hynes

3:00-3:15 M .Penttila, Biotechnology, VTT. Espoo, Finland

ACEI is a repressor of cellulase and xylanase genes in Trichoderma reesei

3:15-3:30 Margaret E. Katz, Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia

Carbon catabolite repression, carbon starvation and induction in the regulation of extracellular protease production in Aspergillus nidulans.

3:30-3.45 Rolf Prade, Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics Oklahoma State University, Stillwater OK

Gene Complements Induced by Forced Shift from Glucose to Alternate Carbon Sources in Aspergillus nidulans.

3:45-3:55 Matthias Brock, Department of Microbiology , University Hannover, 30167 Hannover, Germany

FacB independent activation of Aspergillus nidulans isocitrate lyase (AcuD) is mediated by propionate.

3:55-4:10 Charles E. Martin, Rutgers University, Division of Life Sciences,Nelson Laboratories, Piscataway, NJ.

Regulation of Neurospora fatty acid desaturase expression.

4:10 - 4:30 COFFEE BREAK

4:30 - 4:40 Masashi Kato, Department of Biological Mechanisms and Functions,Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.

A quantity control mechanism regulating levels of the HapE subunit of the Hap complex in Aspergillus nidulans: HapC adjusts the number of HapE.

4:40-4:55 Bettina Tudzynski. Westfallische-Wilhelms-Universitat, Schlossgarten 3, 48149 Munster, Germany

New aspects concerning nitrogen regulation of gibberellin biosynthesis in Gibberella fujikuroi.

4:55-5:10 Gloria E. Turner,. Department of Chemistry, UCLA, California

Characterization and Cloning of arg-13 mutants from N. crassa.

5:10-5:20 Ta-Wei D. Liu, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

Isolation and characterization of a new gene, pco-1, which encodes a regulatory protein that controls purine degradation in Neurospora crassa.

5:20-5:35 Michael Freitag, University of Oregon, Eugene.

Putative chromosome remodeling factors in Neurospora crassa: creation of ISWI-type ATPase mutants by RIP.

5:35-5:45 Fernandez-Martin R, IGM Universite Paris-sud Bat. 409. 91405 Orsay France

The nicotinic acid utilisation cluster of Aspergillus nidulans

5:45- 6: 00 Steven H. Denison. Eckerd College, Natural Sciences, St. Petersburg, FL, USA

The Aspergillus nidulans ambient pH signal transduction pathway protein PalI. is a plasma membrane protein that is transported to vacuoles in response to alkaline pH.

Fungal Genomics, Merrill

Jim Kronstad and Mary Anne Nelson

3:00 - 3:15 Li-Jun Ma, Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research, Cambridge, MA

The Fungal Genome Initiative

3:15 - 3:30 Eurie L. Hong, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA

Prediction of Questionable Open Reading Frames

3:30 - 3:45 Gert Kema, Plant Research International B.V., Wageningen, The Netherlands

Gene hunting in Mycosphaerella graminicola

3:45 - 4:00 C. Alexander Valencia, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Proteomic analysis of the Neurospora crassa cell wall

4:00 - 4:15 Markku Saloheimo, VTT Biotechnology, Finland

Proteomics studies in Trichoderma reesei

Break/Discussion 4:15 - 4:45

4:45 - 5:00 Todd Allen, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, College Park, MD

Microarray profiling of Hypovirus-infected Chestnut Blight Fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica.

5:00 - 5:15 Noel van Peij, DSM Food Specialties, Delft, The Netherlands

Functional genomics of Aspergillus niger strains

5:15- 5:30 Minou Nowrousian, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

Heterologous microarray hybridization identifies genes regulated differentially during sexual development of Sordaria macrospora

5:30 - 5:45 Tomas Johansson, Lund University, Sweden

The Paxillus involutus / Betula pendula symbiosis: Gene expression in ectomycorrhizal root tissue

5:45 - 6:00 Jeffrey Townsend, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

Population genetic variation in genome-wide gene expression in wine yeast

Evolutionary Genomics, Nautilus

Jim Anderson

Hanna Johannesson and Jan Stenlid. Department of Forest Mycology and Pathology, Uppsala, Sweden.

Nuclear reassortment between vegetative mycelia of the basidiomycete Heterobasidion annosum in nature.

Yajuan Liu, Matt Hodson and Benjamin Hall Biology Department, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

Heterozygosity in Chytrids

Teresa E. Pawlowska and John W. Taylor. University of California, Plant & Microbial Biology

Organization of genetic variation and relaxed concerted evolution in individuals of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.

Kurt A. Zeller, M.A Wohler, L.V. Gunn, S. Bullock, B.A. Summerell and J.F. Leslie1. Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, and Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, Australia.

Interfertility and Marker Segregation in Hybrid Crosses of Gibberella fujikuroi and Gibberella intermedia

Jim Anderson, Dept. of Botany, Univ. Toronto.

Evolutionary drag races for antifungal drug resistance: diploidy versus haploidy

Jeremy Dettman and John Taylor. Plant and Microbial Biology, UC Berkeley

Microsatellite evolution in Neurospora