8:00-10:00 p.m.

Mixer, Merrill Hall

7:30-8:30 a.m

Breakfast, Crocker

8:30-12:05

Session I: Cell Signaling and Development

Chair: Meritxell Riquelme

8:30

Neurospora Policy Committee

Welcome and announcements

8:40

Andre Fleissner

Directed growth in Neurospora

9:05

Oded Yarden

Two Neurospora crassa NDR kinases (DBF2 and COT1) perform distinct

functions in regulating hyphal morphology

9:30

Stephan Seiler

Regulation of Ndr kinase activity and function by interacting proteins and

pathways

9:55

Michael Freitag

Maintenance of Neurospora centromeres

10:15

          Coffee break

10:40

Sara Wright

Characterization of the ric-8 gene in Neurospora crassa

11:05

Barry Bowman

Where is calcium sequestered in hyphae, and how does it get there?

12:05-2:00

Lunch, Crocker

Business meeting, presentation of Awards

3:00-5:30 p.m.

Session II: Cell Biology and Morphogenesis
Chair: Stephan Seiler

3:00

Rosa Mourino

Microtubule plus end proteins in Neurospora crassa

3:25

Michael Watters

Growth rate dependent branching among mutants from the Neurospora knockout library

3:50

Meritxell Riquelme

The apical secretory apparatus of Neurospora crassa

4:15

         Coffee break

4:40

Nick Read

Cell biology of colony initiation in Neurospora crassa

5:05

Rick Collins

Towards experimental determination of the Neurospora mitochondrial proteome

6:00-7:00

Dinner, Crocker

7:00-10:00

Poster session I

Presenters should be in front of their posters: odd numbers 7-8pm,

even numbers 8-9 pm

7:30-8:30

Breakfast, Crocker

8:30-12:05

Session III:Gene Regulation
Chair: David Catcheside

8:35

Shinji Honda

The DMM complex prevents spreading of DNA methylation from transposons to nearby genes in Neurospora crassa

9:00

David Rehard

Ascus dominance in Neurospora

9:25

Rodolfo Aramayo

Meiotic Silencing, Not Maple Syrup Urine Disease (MSUD)

9:50

Zhihong Xue

Diverse small RNA biogenesis pathways in Neurospora

10:15

         Coffee break

10:40

Frederick Bowring

Efficient detection of rare recombination events

11:05

Dan Ebbole

Conidiation in Neurospora and evolution of asexual sporulation in filamentous fungi

11:30

Abby Leeder

PP-1 (Ste12) dependent transcription during germling fusion in Neurospora crassa

12:05-2:30

Lunch, Crocker

3:00 -6:00

Session IV: Light and Circadian Clock
Chair: Yi Liu

3:00

Jay Dunlap

Genetic and Molecular Dissection of the Neurospora Clock: Genetics and Epigenetics

3:25

Luis Larrondo

Defining the basis for a high-throughput bioluminescence clock-screening in Neurospora

3:50

Michael Brunner

Molecular mechanism of light-adaptation of Neurospora

4:15

         Coffee break  

4:40

Renato DePaula

Insights into circadian oscillator complexity

5:05

Luis Corrochano

A role for the Neurospora RCO-1/RCM-1 complex in the regulation by light of gene transcription

5:30

Suzanne Hunt

The role of VIVID in light and temperature responses of the Neurospora circadian system

6:00-7:30

Banquet, Crocker

Banquet Speech:

Dr. Richard L. Weiss

7:30-10:30

Poster session II

7:30-8:30

Breakfast

8:30-12:00

Session V:Evolution and Genomics
Chair: Michael Freitag 

8:35

Chris Ellison

Unexpected population structure in Neurospora crassa from the Caribbean Basin

9:00

Charles Hall

The development of genetics and genomics for analysis of quantitative traits in the model filamentous fungus, Neurospora crassa

9:25

Jason Stajich

Evolutionary genomics of Neurospora and other Sordariales

9:50

Jianping Sun

Biofuels: Systems analysis of plant cell wall degradation by the model filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa

10:15

          Coffee Break

10:40

Kathy Borkovich

Overview of Program Project grant on Systems Biology of Fungi

Kathy Borkovich

Project 1

James Galagan

Project 2

Michael Freitag

Project 3

12:00

Lunch and Checkout