24th Fungal Genetics Conference Scientific Program

Tuesday, March 20   

    3:00 pm – 10:00 pm Registration Administration Building

    3:00 pm – 5:30 pm Sclerotinia/Botrytis Annotation ad hoc workshop Triton

    6:00 Dinner, Crocker Hall

    7:30 pm – 9:30 pm The Perkins and Stadler Memorial Celebration Chapel

    7:30 pm – 10:30 pm Social Reception (Mixer) Merrill Hall

Wednesday, March 21  

    7:30 am - 1:00 pm Registration, Administration

    7:30 am - 8:30 am Breakfast, Crocker Hall

    8:30 am – 12:00 pm Plenary Session I Merrill Hall  

Genome Structures and Dynamics Chair, David Catcheside

    Ken Wolfe The Kluyveromyces polysporus genome: gene losses, convergence of genome contents,

    and the origin of yeast species.

    Bettina Tudzynski Evolution of gene clusters in fungi: lessons from isoprenoid gene clusters

    Michael Freitag Genome defense by repeat-induced point mutation: an evolutionary dead end?

    Laura Rusche Evolution of silencing mechanisms in Hemiascomycetes

    Bill Holloman DNA Repair and Recombination in Ustilago maydis

12:00- 1:00 pm Lunch, Crocker Hall

Following lunch, the mornings speakers will be available on the benches outside the administration building to meet with students.

 Please allow time for students to meet the speakers. In the event of rain, please go inside the administration building.

12:15 pm – 2:00 pm, Ad hoc workshops

    Fusarium graminearum Heather

    The Phycomyces genome: manual annotation and analysis Triton

3:00 pm – 6:00 pm Concurrent Sessions I  

    Associations between fungi and humans Aaron Mitchell and Maurizio del Poeta Merrill Hall

    Signal transduction and cell surface receptors Kathy Borkovich and Tom Fowler Fred Farr Forum

    Population Genetics Matthew Fisher and Mary Berbee Chapel

    Regulation of primary and secondary metabolism Joan Kelly and Ullrich Kuck Kiln

    Industrial mycology in the post-genomics era Joan Bennett and Merja Penttila Nautilus

    Dimorphic transitions Anne Dranginis and Alex Andrianopoulos Heather

    Teaching fungal biology and genetics Pat Pukkila and Amy Reese Triton

6:00 Dinner, Crocker Hall

7:30 pm – 10:30 pm Poster Session I

Cell Biology

Population and Evolutionary Biology

Animal and Plant Pathogens; Fungal-Host interactions

Authors of ODD numbered posters should be at their poster from 7:30- 8:30 and authors of EVEN numbered posters should be at their posters from 8:30 - 9:30.    

Thursday, March 22    

7:30 am - 1:00 pm Registration, Administration

7:30 am - 8:30 am Breakfast, Crocker Hall

8:30 am – 12:00 pm Plenary Session II, Merrill Hall  

Host-pathogen and symbiotic interactions Chair, Marc Orbach

    Jim Beynon The Remarkably Diverse Effector Proteins of Hyaloperonospora parasitica

    Barry Scott Molecular insights into mutualism in a fungal-plant interaction

    Jin-Rong Xu Magnaporthe grisea infection of rice and parallel studies in wheat scab

    Joyce Longcore Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, the Chytrid Pathogen of Amphibians

    Jenny Lodge Molecular dissection of the cell wall of Cryptococcus

12:00- 1:00 pm Lunch, Crocker Hall

12:00- 1:00 pm Neurospora Business Lunch, Crocker Hall

Following lunch, the mornings speakers will be available on the benches outside the administration building to meet with students. Please allow time for students to meet the speakers. In the event of rain, please go inside the administration building.

12:15 pm – 2:00 pm, Ad hoc workshops

    Nectria haematococca Sequence Nautilus

    Dothideomycete Genome Sequence Heather

    Planning Session on functional characterization of orphan genes and hypothetical proteins Kiln

3:00 pm – 6:00 pm Concurrent Sessions II  

    Fungal-plant interactions Scott Gold and Jan van Kan Merrill Hall

    Mating and sexual development JP Xu and Takashi Kamada Nautilus

    Biological applications of genomic sequence data microarrays and expression analysis – Al Brown and Anita Sil Chapel

    Circadian rhythms and photobiology Sue Crosthwaite and Reinhard Fischer Fred Farr Forum

    Biofilms, quorum sensing and thigmotropism Christophe d’Enfert and Neil Gow Kiln

    Zygomycete and chytrid genomics, biotechnology and evolutionary biology  Scott Baker and Tim James Heather

6:00 Dinner, Crocker Hall

7:30 pm – 10:30 pm Poster Session II

Poster Topics  

Genomics and Proteomics

Biochemistry and secondary metabolism

Developmental Biology

Model systems

Authors of ODD numbered posters should be at their poster from 7:30- 8:30 and authors of EVEN numbered posters should be at their posters from 8:30 - 9:30.

Friday, March 23

7:30 am - 1:00 pm Registration, Administration

7:30 am - 8:30 am Breakfast, Crocker Hall

8:30 am – 12:00 pm Plenary Session III, Merrill Hall    

Development and metabolism Chair, Axel Brakhage

    Michael Hynes Transcriptional controls of carbon source utilization in Aspergillus nidulans

    Jae Hyuk Yu Growth and developmental control in A. nidulans and A. fumigatus

    Marty Dickman The necrotrophic fungus, Sclerotinia sclerotiorum subverts host pathways by inducing apoptosis for disease development.

    Luis Corrochano An intelligent primitive eukaryote: environmental sensing in Phycomyces

    Deborah Hogan Quorum sensing in bacterial-fungal interactions

12:00- 1:00 pm Lunch, Crocker Hall

Following lunch, the mornings speakers will be available on the benches outside the administration building to meet with students. Please allow time for students to meet the speakers. In the event of rain, please go inside the administration building.

12:15 pm – 2:00 pm, Ad hoc workshops

    Making gene ontology annotations for fungal genomes Nautilus

    Heterobasidion genome sequence Kiln

3:00 pm – 6:00 pm Concurrent Sessions III  

    Epigenetics and genome dynamics (& transposons) Emmanuelle Fabre and Ed Louis Fred Farr Forum

    Whole genome comparative analysis Jim Kronstad and Cecile Fairhead Merrill Hall

    Proteome and post-genomic approaches to protein secretion  Dan Cullen and Debbie Fox Kiln

    Small molecules and signaling Gillian Turgeon and Hubertus Haas Chapel

    Apoptosis and vegetative incompatibility Louise Glass and Marty Dickman Nautilus

    Advances in oomycete research Francine Govers and Brett Tyler Heather

6:00 Dinner, Crocker Hall

7:30 pm – 10:30 pm Poster Session III

Poster Topics  

Industrial Biology and Biotechnology

Gene Regulation

Animal and Plant Pathogens; Fungal-Host interactions

Others

Authors of ODD numbered posters should be at their poster from 7:30- 8:30 and authors of EVEN numbered posters should be at their posters from 8:30 - 9:30.    

Saturday, March 24    

7:30 am - 1:00 pm Registration, Administration

7:30 am - 8:30 am Breakfast, Crocker Hall

8:30 am – 12:00 pm Plenary Session IV, Merrill Hall    

Sex, time and evolution Chair, Linda Kohn

    Leah Cowen Protein Folding, Environmental Contingency, and Evolution: Hsp90’s Role in Fungal Drug Resistance

    John Taylor Comparative genomics of Coccidioides species

    Deborah Bell-Pederson Unwinding the Neurospora circadian clock

    Christina Hull Sex: how Cryptococcus neoformans controls itself

    Arturo Casadevall Origin and maintenance of virulence in human pathogenic fungi

12:00- 1:00 pm Lunch, Crocker Hall

Following lunch, the mornings speakers will be available on the benches outside the administration building to meet with students. Please allow time for students to meet the speakers. In the event of rain, please go inside the administration building.

3:00 pm – 6:00 pm Concurrent Sessions IV  

    Cool tools for fungal biology: gene disruption and imaging Matt Sachs and Nick Read Chapel

    Evolutionary genetics and genomics Jim Anderson and Dee Carter Merrill Hall

    Symbiotic and parasitic (viruses, nematodes, other fungi and insects) interactions Teresa Pawlowska and Don Nuss Nautilus

    RNA functions Michael Feldbrugge and Marcus Kuenzler Kiln

    Cell morphogenesis and development Amy Gladfelter and Michelle Momany Fred Farr Forum

    Basidiomycete biology Regine Kahmann and Lorna Casselton Heather

6:00 Banquet, Crocker Hall

8:00 pm – 9:00 pm Invited Lecture June Kwon Chung, US NIH

9:00 pm - 12:30 am Closing party, Merrill Hall

9:00 pm - 12:30 am Quiet alternative, Surf and Sand Living room

7:30 am - 8:30 am Breakfast, Crocker Hall

8:30 am  Ad hoc Workshops

    Comparative genomics of the fusaria and organization of a Fusarium working group Kiln

    Colletotrichum Workshop Sanderling

12:00 pm Check-out