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October 12, 2005

 

 

To:                   Neurospora Community

From:               Neurospora Policy Committee

Subject:            Neurospora 2006, March 30 - April 2, 2006

 

 

We are happy to present information on the upcoming Neurospora meeting, Neurospora 2006, which will be held at Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, California, starting this coming March 30 (Thursday) and ending after lunch on Sunday, April 2. Oded Yarden and Nora Plesofsky are arranging the scientific program this year, and Deb Bell-Pedersen and Tony Griffiths are handling other organizational matters. You probably recall that the Neurospora community decided several years ago to reestablish meetings devoted exclusively to Neurospora. The main purpose was to reclaim the spirit of the fabulous meetings that many of us enjoyed prior to expanding the meeting to become the Fungal Genetics Meeting. Neurospora 2006 will be the fifth reincarnated Neurospora meeting and all indications are that it will be a great  success.

 

Thursday night will be the reception mixer. Research talks will be presented Friday, Saturday, and Sunday mornings (8:30-12:00), Friday evening, (7:30-10:30), and Saturday afternoon (2:30-6:00). A workshop relating to the Program Project will be held Friday afternoon, and poster presentations will be made Saturday evening, with the posters available for viewing throughout the meeting from Friday through Sunday morning. There will be some free time in the afternoons (1:00-2:30) but those wishing to take excursions may wish to do so Thursday or Sunday afternoon.

 

Approximately 80% of the research talks will be by invited speakers. Additional speakers will be selected from volunteers based on submitted abstracts. Postdoctoral fellows and senior graduate students are especially encouraged to apply. All participants are encouraged to present their work on posters. We expect Neurospora 2006 to be an exceptionally fine meeting and we hope you can come!

 

A preliminary listing of plenary sessions is presented below:

 

I.       From Genes to Populations

II.      Genomics

III.    Cell Signaling and Gene Regulation

IV.    Cell Morphogenesis and Assembly

V.     Clocks, Light, and Oxygen

 

The final program will be posted on the Fungal Genetics Stock Center website in two weeks.

 

We look forward to seeing you at Neurospora 2006,

March 30 - April 2, 2006

 

Program Chairs
Nora Plesofsky Department of Plant Biology University of Minnesota St. Paul, MN 55108 nora@biosci.cbs.umn.edu	Oded Yarden Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Rehovot, 76100 Israel oded.yarden@huji.ac.il

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