1:30 - 1:40 Introductory Remarks, Orientation

1:40 - 2:05 Deborah Bell-Pederson (Texas A&M)
Cloning of a pheromone gene in Neurospora

2:05 - 2:30 Tom Fowler (University of Vermont)
Illicit relationships, or Multiple sex pheromones and receptors of Schizophyllum turn on mating in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

2:30 - 2:55 Natalie Olesnicky (Oxford University, England)
A constitutively active G-protein coupled receptor causes self compatibility in Coprinus cinereus

2:55 - 3:20 Ping Wang (Duke University)
Molecular aspects of the mating cascade in Cryptococcus neoformans: a novel G- protein beta subunit and analysis of the map kinase and G-protein cAMP pathways

3:20 - 3:35 COFFEE BREAK

3:35 - 4:00 Gillian Turgeon (Cornell University)
Evolution of reproductive life styles: molecular analyses of mating-type loci of Gibberella /Fusarium spp. and Hypocrea spinulosa / Chromocrea spinulosa

4:00 - 4:25 Marjatta Raudaskoski (Helsinki University)
Small GTPases and cytoskeletal organization in mating interactions of Schizophyllum commune

4:25 - 4:50 Minou Nowrousian (Ruhr Universitat, Germany)
Sexual development of Sordaria macrospora requires ATP citrate lyase activity

4:50 - 5:00 Concluding discussion -- wrapup