Tuesday, March 20

3:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Registration

Administration Building

7:30 pm – 10:30 pm

Social Reception (Mixer)

Merrill Hall

Wednesday, March 21

8:30 am – 12:00 pm

Genome Structures and Dynamics

Chair, David Catcheside

Ken Wolfe

Duplication and divergence in genome evolution

Bettina Tudzynski

Evolution of gene clusters in fungi: lessons from isoprenoid gene clusters

Michael Freitag

Genome defense by repeat-induced point mutation: an evolutionary dead end?

Laura Rusche

Evolution of silencing mechanisms in Hemiascomycetes

Bill Holloman

Recombination and Repair in Ustilago maydis

3:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Concurrent Sessions I

Titles

Chairs

Associations between fungi and humans

Aaron Mitchell and Maurizio del Poeta

Signal transduction and cell surface receptors

Kathy Borkovich and Tom Fowler

Population Genetics

Matt Fisher and Mary Berbee

Regulation of primary and secondary metabolism

Joan Kelly and Ullrich Kuck

Industrial mycology in the post-genomics era

Joan Bennett and Merja Penttila

Dimorphic transitions

Anne Dranginis and Alex Andrianopoulos

Teaching fungal biology and genetics

Pat Pukkila and Amy Reese

7:30 pm – 10:30 pm

Poster Session I

Thursday, March 22

8:30 am – 12:00 pm

Host-pathogen and symbiotic interactions

Chair, Marc Orbach

Jim Beynon

Diversity of pathogenicity effectors of Hyaloperonospora parasitica

Barry Scott

Molecular insights into mutualism in a fungal-plant interaction

Jin-Rong Xu

Magnaporthe infection of rice and parallels with Fusarium graminearum

Joyce Longcore

Batrachochytrium dendrobadtidis: chytrid agent of amphibian declines

Jenny Lodge

Molecular dissection of the cell wall of Cryptococcus neoformans

3:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Concurrent Sessions II

Titles

Chairs

Fungal-plant interactions

Scott Gold and Jan van Kan

Mating and sexual development

JP Xu and Takashi Kamada

Biological applications of genomic sequence data – microarrays and expression analysis

Al Brown and Anita Sil

Circadian rhythms and photobiology

Yi Liu and Reinhard Fischer

Biofilms, quorum sensing and thigmotropism

Christophe d’Enfert and Neil Gow

Zygomycete and chytrid genomics, biotechnology and evolutionary biology

Scott Baker and Tim James

7:30 pm – 10:30 pm

Poster Session II

Friday, March 23

8:30 am – 12:00 pm

Development and metabolism

Chair, Axel Brakhage

Michael Hynes

Transcriptional controls of carbon source utilization in Aspergillus nidulans

Jae Hyuk Yu

Growth and developmental control in A. nidulans and A. fumigatus

Marty Dickman

The necrotrophic fungus, Sclerotinia sclerotiorum subverts host pathways by inducing apoptosis for disease development

Luis Corrochano

An intelligent primitive eukaryote: environmental sensing in Phycomyces

Deborah Hogan

Quorum sensing in bacterial-fungal interactions

3:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Concurrent Sessions III

Titles

Chairs

Epigenetics and genome dynamics (& transposons)

Emmanuelle Fabre and Ed Louis

Whole genome comparative analysis

Jim Kronstad and Cecile Fairhead

Proteome and post-genomic approaches to protein secretion

Dan Cullen and Debbie Fox

Small molecules and signaling

Gillian Turgeon and Hubertus Haas

Apoptosis and vegetative incompatibility

Louise Glass and Marty Dickman

Advances in oomycete research

Francine Govers and Brett Tyler

7:30 pm – 10:30 pm

Poster Session III

Saturday, March 24

8:30 am – 12:00 pm

Sex, time and evolution

Chair, Linda Kohn

Leah Cowen

Protein folding, environmental contingency, and the evolution of new traits: role of Hsp90 in fungal drug resistance

John Taylor

Comparative genomics of Coccidioides species

Deborah Bell-Pederson

Unwinding the Neurospora circadian clock

Christina Hull

Sex: how Cryptococcus neoformans controls Itself

Arturo Casadevall

Origin and maintenance of virulence in human pathogenic fungi

3:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Concurrent Sessions IV

Titles

Chairs

Cool tools for fungal biology: gene disruption and imaging

Matt Sachs and Nick Read

Evolutionary genetics and genomics

Jim Anderson and Dee Carter

Symbiotic and parasitic (viruses, nematodes, other fungi and insects) interactions

Teresa Pawlowska and Don Nuss

RNA functions

Michael Feldbrugge and Marcus Kuenzler

Cell morphogenesis and development

Amy Gladfelter and Michelle Momany

Basidiomycete biology

Regine Kahmann and Lorna Casselton

8:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Invited Lecture

June Kwon Chung

Sunday, March 25

8:30 am – 12:00 pm

AD HOC Workshops

12:00 pm

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