Fungal Population Genetics: reproduction and speciation. John Taylor and Georgiana May (Chairs)
Format: 10 minutes each, 8 minutes presentation, 2 minutes question. Presenter is underlined.
Session 1, 3:00PM to 4:30PM, Thursday, March 25, 1999
1. David Geiser, Joe W. Dorner*, Bruce W. Horn* and John W. Taylor Penn State University, *National Peanut Research Lab and University of California. Domestication of Aspergillus oryzae from a non-aflatoxin producing lineage of Aspergillus flavus.
2. Dee Carter. University of Sydney. Genetic, morphological and biochemical investigations of a "cryptic species" within Aspergillus flavus.
3. Timothy James, Jean-Marc Moncalvo and Rytas Vilgalys. Duke University. Genetic drift versus selection in the cosmopolitan mushroom Schizophyllum commune.
4. Annette Kretzer and Joseph Spatafora. Oregon State University. Assessment of clone size in Rhizopogon vinicolor based on PCR amplification of microsatellite loci from mycorrhizal roots.
5. James Garton and Georgiana May. University of Minnesota. Population level genetic differences observed between geographically distant populations of Ustilago maydis.
6. U. Liane Rosewich and H. Corby Kistler. University of Florida. High levels of gene flow and heterozygote excess characterize Rhizoctonia solani AG-1 IA (Thanatephorus cucumeris) from Texas.
7. Amy Powell, Gregory S. Saenz, John G. Stam, *David Jacobson and Donald O. Natvig, University of New Mexico, *Stanford University, Allelic diversity at the het-c locus in Neurospora tetrasperma poses an evolutionary dilemma.
8. N. Mir-Rashed, O. C. Micali, *D. J., Jacobson and Myron L. Smith. Carleton University, *Stanford University. Insight into the molecular basis of fungal vegetative incompatibility using a population genetics approach.
9. Tyler Harp, James Correll, F. N. Lee and R. S. Zeigler. University of Arkansas, Addressing clonality in Magnaporthe grisea using vegetative compatibility.
Break, 4:30PM to 5:00PM
Session II, 5:00PM to 6:00PM
10. Takao Kasuga, *John Taylor and Thomas White. Roche Molecular Systems and *University of California, Berkeley, Phylogenetic study of Histoplasma capsulatum
11. Jianping Xu and Thomas G. Mitchell. Duke University. Evolutionary divergence and recombination in the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans.
12. Matthew Fisher, *Gina Koenig, *Tom White and John Taylor, University of California, Berkeley, *Roche Molecular Systems. Determining fungal phylogenies by the use of microsatellite markers.
13. Kurt Zeller, James E. Jurgenson and John F. Leslie. Kansas State University. AFLP markers reveal genetic variation in Egyptian populations of Cephalosporium maydis.
14. Lusike Wasilwa and Peter V. Oudemans, Rutgers University, Characterization of four populations of Monilinia vaccinii-corymbosi using AFLPs.
15. Matteo Garbelotto, Ignacio Chapela, and *William Otrosina, University of California, Berkeley, CA and *USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA. Phylogenetic analysis reveals past and present hybridization events between two North American species of the Heterobasidion annosum complex.