Neurospora 2012
Scientific Program
Thursday, March 8
16.00
18.00
Registration, Administration
18.00
Dinner, Crocker
19.00 22.00
Mixer (Fred Farr Forum)
Friday,
March 9
Morning
Cell Biology and Morphogenesis
Fred Farr Forum
(Chair: Meritxell Riquelme)
7.30 8.30
Breakfast, Crocker
8.30 8.40
Welcome and announcements (NPC)
8.40 9.00
Michael Plamann Dynein heavy
chain mutations cause multiple mislocalization phenotypes
9.00 9.20
Steve Free Neurospora cell
wall synthesis and
functions
9.20 9.40
Leonora Martνnez-Nϊρez
Distribution of cell wall building and remodeling enzymes in living hyphae of
Neurospora crassa
9.40 10.00
Rosa Mourino-Perez Timeline
of proteins involved in septum formation in Neurospora crassa
10.00 10.30
Coffee break
10.30 11.10
Greg Jedd
Bioinformatics identifies
septal pore associated proteins in
Neurospora crassa
11.10 11.30
Lynn Epstein The
Neurospora crassa mutant NcdeltaEgt-1 identifies an ergothioneine
biosynthetic gene and demonstrates that ergothioneine enhances conidial survival
and protects
against peroxide toxicity during conidial germination.
11.30 11.50
Frank Nargang
Components and Function of the Neurospora TOB complex
12.00 14.00
Lunch, Crocker
Business Meeting and Presentation of Awards
Afternoon Gene
Regulation
Fred Farr Forum
(Chair: Jason Stajich)
14.30 14.50
Luis Corrochano Interactions
between light and development in the regulation of
Neurospora gene expression
14.50 15.10
Fernanda Freitas
Functional and structural
characterization of N. crassa proteins identified in
DNA-protein complexes.
15.10 15.30
Michael Rountree
The control and function of Histone H3 Lysine 27 trimethylation
15.30 15.50
Michael Freitag
Centromere foundation
proteins of Neurospora
15.50 16.20
Coffee break
16.20 16.40
Kyle Pomraning
A dynamin-like protein affects both RIP and premeiotic recombination
16.40 17.00
Eugene Gladyshev Biochemical
properties of NcRVT protein encoded by a reverse
transcriptase-like gene from
Neurospora crassa
17.00 17.20
David Kowbel Antisense
transcription in the fungus Neurospora
crassa
17.20 17.40
Yi Liu
Small RNA biogenesis
pathways in Neurospora
Evening
18.00
Dinner, Crocker
19.00 22.00
Poster session (Kiln)
Saturday, March 10
Morning
Signaling and Development
(Chair: Andrι Fleiίner)
7.30 8.30
Breakfast, Crocker
8.30 8.50
Stefanie Pφggeler
A homolog of the mammalian STRIPAK complex controls sexual
development in Sordaria macrospora
8.50 9.10
Andrι Fleiίner
Structural features of sterols influence cell signaling and fusion
9.10 9.30
Javier
Palma-Guerrero
lfd-1:
a novel gene required for membrane merge during cell fusion in
Neurospora
crassa
9.30 9.50
Maria Cιlia Bertolini
Extracellular pH and glycogen metabolism regulation in
Neurospora
crassa. New insights into the
pH signaling pathway
9.50 10.20
Coffee break
10.20 10.40
Oded Yarden
Phosphorylation of COT1 at S189 is required for early polar growth and is
involved
in regulation of micro/macro-conidiation in association with MOB2A/B
10.40 11.00
Jacqueline Servin
Global analysis of serine-threonine protein kinase genes
11.00 11.20
Barry Bowmann Calcium ATPases
in the ER and Golgi are required for normal morphological
development in Neurospora crassa.
11.20 11.40
Nick Read
Calcium signaling in
Neurospora crassa
12.00 13.00
Lunch, Crocker
Afternoon Light and
circadian clock
Fred Farr Forum
(Chair: Luis Larrondo)
14.30 14.50
Deb Bell-Pedersen
Direct Transcriptional Control of the OS MAPK Pathway by the Circadian
Clock
14.50 15.10
Jennifer Hurley Light
inducible system for tunable protein expression in Neurospora crassa
15.10 15.30
Christian Heintzen
Global light- and temperature responses in a clockless strain of
Neurospora
15.30 15.50
Patricia Lakin-Thomas
Potential
components of the FRQ-less oscillator
15.50 16.20
Coffee break
16.20 16.40
Martha Merrow
Temperature compensation
of circadian entrainment in Neurospora
and human cells
16.40 17.00
Chandrashekara Mallappa
Roles for CSP-1 in
light and circadian clock-regulated gene expression
17.00 17.20
Luis Larrondo
Transcriptional regulators and time-of-day-specific gene expression in the
Neurospora circadian system: a
spatiotemporal approach
17.20 17.40
Michael Brunner
Light-activated and clock-controlled transcription activation by the white
collar
complex
Evening
18.00 19.30
Banquet, Crocker
Banquet Speaker: Jennifer Loros
19.30 22.00
Poster session (Kiln)
Sunday,
March 11
Morning
Genomics, Evolution and Technology
Fred Farr Forum
(Chair: Charles Hall)
7.30 8.30
Breakfast, Crocker
8.30 8.50
Scott Baker
Associating genes with
phenotypes in Neurospora mutant
strains
8.50 9.10
Charles Hall
The development of genetics and genomics for
analysis of complex traits in the
model filamentous fungus, Neurospora crassa.
9.10 9.30
Chris Ellison
Harnessing natural variation to identify gene regulatory networks in
Neurospora crassa
9.30 9.50
Elizabeth Znameroski
Induction of lignocellulose degrading
enzymes in Neurospora crassa
by cellodextrins
9.50 10.20
Coffee break
10.20 10.40
David Catcheside
Insights into
recombination using gfp and next generation sequencing
10.40 11.00
Jason Stajich
Comparative genomics of
Neurospora and other fungi with
FungiDB
11.00 11.20
Jeremy Zucker Genome-scale
reconstruction and validation of Neurospora crassa metabolism.
11.20 11.40
Jay Dunlap et al. The
Neurospora Functional Genomics
Program Project
11.00
Checkout
12.00 13.00
Lunch, Crocker (or box lunches)