Scientific Program
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Neurospora 2008
Scientific Program |
Thursday 27 March
| 3:00-6:00 p.m. | Registration, Administration |
| 6:00 p.m. | Dinner, Crocker |
| 7:00-8:00 p.m. | Metzenberg Memorial. Rowland Davis, Louise Glass, Patrick Shiu Fred Farr Forum |
| 8:00-10:00 p.m. | Mixer Fred Farr Forum |
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| 7:30-8:30 a.m. | Breakfast, Crocker | |
| 8:30-12:05 | Session I: Gene Silencing, Sex,
Repair and Recombination. Chair: David Catcheside |
Chapel |
| 8:30 | Welcome and announcements | |
| 8:35 | Patrick Shiu Beadle and Tatum Award Lecture |
Genetic dissection of Meiotic Silencing by Unpaired DNA |
| 9:15 | Mary Anne Nelson | Sexual development in Neurospora crassa: Elusive recessive mutations |
| 9:40 | Louise Glass | Getting connected: Formation and function of the hyphal network |
| 10:05 | Coffee break |
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| 10:20 | Eric Selker | Recent advances understanding the control of DNA methylation |
| 10:45 | Michael Freitag | Centromeres in filamentous fungi |
| 11:05 | Fred Bowring | Region specific regulation of recombination |
| 11:25 | Rodolfo Aramayo | Meiotic silencing in Neurospora |
| 11:45 | Hirokazu Inoue | DNA repair and cell death |
| 12:05-2:00 |
Lunch, Crocker | Business meeting, presentation of Perkins and Dodge Awards |
| 2:30-3:10 |
Jay Dunlap Metzenberg Award Lecture |
Changing Times |
| 3:10-5:50 p.m. | Session II: Clocks and Light Chair: Yi Liu |
Chapel |
| 3:15 | Deb Bell Pedersen | Circadian output pathways in Neurospora |
| 3:35 | Michael Brunner | Functional characterization of the White Collar Complex |
| 3:55 | Jennifer Loros | Mechanism of the Neurospora circadian system |
| 4:15 | Coffee break | |
| 4:30 | Luis Corrochano | Neurospora mutants altered in their regulation of transcription by light |
| 4:50 | Kwangwon Lee | Does circadian clock matter for Neurospora crassa in nature? |
| 5:10 | Benedetto Grimaldi | White Collar Complex: acetylation and evolution |
| 5:30 | Patricia Lakin-Thomas | The effects of prd mutations on the FRQ-less oscillator (FLO) |
| 6:00-7:00 | Dinner, Crocker | |
| 7:00-10:00 | Poster session Fred Farr Forum | Presenters should be in front of their posters: odd numbers 7-8pm, even numbers 8-9 pm |
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| 7:30-8:30 | Breakfast, Crocker | |
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Session III: Cell Growth, Morphogenesis and Populations |
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| 8:30 | John Taylor | Neurospora as a model for evolutionary biology |
| 8:55 | Barry Bowman | Where is calcium sequestered within cells, and how does it get there |
| 9:20 | Michael Plamann | Cytoplasmic dynein |
| 9:45 | Stephan Seiler | Regulation of polar tip extension by COT1 and Rho-type GTPases |
| 10:10 | Coffee break |
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| 10:25 | Frank Nargang | Mitochondrial biogenesis |
| 10:50 | Nick Read | Conidial sex tubes and phytochrome signalling |
| 11:15 | Alberto Rivetta | Genetic and functional characterization of three K+ transport systems in Neurospora |
| 11:40 | Stephen Free | Identification and partial characterization of Neurospora anastomosis mutants |
| 12:05-2:30 | Lunch, Crocker |
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| 2:30-5:55 | Session IV Gene Regulation and Cell Signaling Chair: Oded Yarden |
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| 2:30 | Carol Jones | Investigation of functional domains of RRG-1, a response regulator that regulates the OS-2 MAPK cascade |
| 2:55 | Matt Sachs | Post-transcriptional control of gene expression in Neurospora |
| 3:20 | Heng-Chi Lee | Regulation of the RNAi pathway in Neurospora |
| 3:45 | Alejandro Fernández Estrada | The ylo-1 gene encodes an aldehyde dehydrogenase responsible for the last oxidative reaction in the Neurospora carotenoid pathway |
| 4:10 | Coffee break |
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| 4:25 | Robert P. Smith | Trans-species activity of the Neurospora crassa ribonucleotide reductase incompatibility domain in Saccharomyces cerevisiae |
| 4:50 | Jack Kennell | Plasmid-induced senescence in Neurospora crassa triggers mitochondrial-nuclear communication |
| 5:15 | Andrew Keeping | Characterization of the Neurospora VS ribozyme in vivo |
| 5:35 | Fabio Squina | New features over the expression of Neurospora crassa genes in response to extracellular phosphate levels and pH |
| 6:00-7:30 | Banquet, Crocker Chair, Oded Yarden |
Presentation of the Beadle and Tatum Award |
| Banquet Speech: Dorsey Stuart | Neurospora in the Corporate World; An overnight success story | |
| 7:30-10:30 | Poster session Fred Farr Forum |
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| 7:30-8:30 | Breakfast, Crocker | |
| 8:30-11:50 | Session V: Genomics and Methodology
Chair: Jay Dunlap |
Chapel |
| 8:30-10:10 | Neurospora Functional Genomic projects | |
| 8:30 | Jay Dunlap | Overview |
| 8:40 | Kathy Borkovich and Gloria Turner | Knockouts |
| 9:10 | James Galagan | Fungal Genomics |
| 9:30 | Louise Glass and Jeff Townsend | Microarray Analyses |
| 9:50 | Jennifer Loros, Meray Basturkmen | cDNA libraries and SNPs |
| 10:10 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:25 | Matt Sachs, Heather Hood | Annotation |
| 10:45 | Van Gooch | Neurospora Lights Up! |
| 11:05 | Ernestina Castro-Longoria | Expression of the red fluorescent protein mCherry During the circadian rhythm of Neurospora crassa |
| 11:25 | Christina Chung | Development of Neurospora host strains with reduced codon bias for elevated protein expression |
| 12:00 | Lunch and Checkout |
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