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Preliminary Program: The 7^th International Aspergillus Meeting

“Asperfest 7”

NH Conference Centre

Leeuwenhorst, The Netherlands

March 28, 2010 (Sun PM)

19:00-21:00  Posters and Welcome Reception (Sponsored by Novozymes)

Posters will remain up for whole meeting to be viewed during breaks

March 29 (Monday)

9:00 - Welcome, introductions and announcements                                 Michelle Momany

Session I: New Labs                                                                                 Masa Machida

9:20 - David Canovas, University of Seville, Spain

Tracing the activation path of conidiation by light.

9:40 - Ronald P. deVries, CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Fungal physiology and biodiversity in relation to the utilisation of natural carbon sources

10:00 - Samara Reck-Peterson, Harvard Medical School, USA

Towards a Global Analysis of Microtubule-Based Transport in Aspergillus nidulans

10:20-10:40   Coffee Break

Session II:    Genomics updates                                                                        Jennifer Wortman

10:40 - Colin DeSouza, Ohio State University, USA

            A. nidulans deletion cassette project

10:55 - Mark Caddick, University of Liverpool, UK

            High throughput sequencing of the A. nidulans transcriptome

11:10 - Kenneth Bruno, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA

            Tools and resources for A. niger at PNNL

11:25 - Jane Mabey Gilsenan, University of Manchester, UK

            CADRE and Ensembl Fungi update

11:40 – Martha Arnaud, Stanford University, USA

            AspGD: tools for exploration of Aspergillus gene, protein, and sequence information

11:55 - Jennifer Wortman on behalf of Bill Nierman and Natalie Fedorova, JCVI, USA

NIAID Genome Sequencing Center project for A. fumigatus

12:20-14:00   Lunch

14:00-14:20   Community directions discussion; Election              Michelle Momany

Session III: Talks from abstracts                                                           Arthur Ram

14:20

14:35

14:50

15:05  Coffee Break

Pontecorvo lecture            (Sponsored by AlerGenetica)                      Gerhard Braus

15:25 -16:10 - Geoff Turner, University of Sheffield, UK

Dreaming up excuses for Aspergillus: protoplasts, penicillin, polarity and pathogens

16:10-16:45   Announcements: election results; poster prizes; any other discussion items

16:45  End of Asperfest 7

18:00              ECFG10 Keynote and opening reception

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