The 2013 Midwestern Universities Filamentous Fungal Symposium and Workshop on Methods in Fungal Collection Maintenance Thursday, February 14 - Friday, February 15, 2013 University of Missouri- Kansas City School of Biological Sciences

Schedule

Thursday, February 14
1:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Spencer Chemistry Building Room 504   

    1:00- 1:10    Kevin McCluskey, Fungal Genetics Stock Center, UMKC
                        Welcome and Introduction

    1:10- 1:35    Silvia C. Polaino Orts, University of Missouri- Kansas City. "Mapping Phototropism mutants in Phycomyces"

    1:35- 2:00    Martha Giraldo, Kansas State University. "Two distinct secretion systems facilitate tissue invasion by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae"

    2:00- 2:10    Break       

    2:10- 2:35     Kaoutar El-Mounadi, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center. "Structure-activity relationships and modes of antifungal action of plant defensins”

    2:35- 3:00    Jonathon Smith. Department of Plant Pathology, University of Arkansas. "A Host-Induced Gene Silencing Approach to Control Mycotoxin Contamination in Corn"

    3:00- 3:25   Robert "Lou" Hirsch. Department of Plant Pathology, University of Arkansas. "Oxygen and the stomatal cue: Dissecting stomatal tropism in Cercospora zeae-maydis."

 
Spencer Chemistry Building Room 213

  3:45 - 5:00    School of Biological Sciences invited seminar series
                         Li-Jun Ma, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
                         "Horizontal gene transfer and pathogenicity in Fusarium"

Spencer Chemistry Building Room 504 

5:00- 7:30     Posters and refreshments

Sponsored by Boulevard Brewery

Posters

Brooke Esquivel and Ted White, School of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri- Kansas City, MO
Azole Drug Import in the Pathogenic Fungus Aspergillus fumigatus

Christopher Toomajian, Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University,  Manhattan, KS
Clues to the origins of individual lineages from the Fusarium graminearum species complex from genome-wide SNPs.

Mihwa Yi and Barbara Valent, Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University,  Manhattan, KS
Magnaporthe oryzae effectors with putative roles in cell-to-cell movement during biotrophic invasion of rice.

Saara Mansouri and Bert Bluhm. Department of Plant Pathology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
Functional and comparative genomics approaches to define mechanisms of pathogenesis underlying foliar diseases of soybean caused by Cercospora sojina and C. kikuchii

Sandeep Sharma and Burt Bluhm. Department of Plant Pathology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
Phylogenetic and genomic analysis of a novel, nematophagous species of Brachyphoris.

John Ridenour and Burt Bluhm. Department of Plant Pathology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
The novel fungal-specific gene FUG1 is involved in development, reproduction, and pathogenesis in Fusarium verticillioides.

Cameron C. Hunter¹, Kendra S. Siebert¹, Damien J. Downes¹, Koon Ho Wong², Sara Lewis², James A. Fraser², David F. Clarke², Michael J. Hynes², Meryl A. Davis² and Richard B. Todd¹.
¹Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University and  ²Department of Genetics, University of Melbourne

Redundant nuclear localization signals mediate nuclear import of the Aspergillus nidulans transcription activator of nitrogen metabolic genes AreA

Brandon T. Pfannenstiel, Damien J. Downes and Richard B. Todd, Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University

Genetic analysis of the interaction between the nuclear export sequence of a GATA transcription factor and a nuclear exportin

Damien J. Downes, Kendra S. Siebert and Richard B. Todd. Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University
A single histidine residue in the nuclear export sequence of the GATA factor AreA is required for nuclear export.

Grethel Busot¹ Yasuaki Hiromasa², John M. Tomich ² and Richard B. Todd¹. ¹Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University,
²Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State University.

Logan M. Decker¹, Ian F. Selinger¹, Thomas M. Hammond², and Patrick K. T. Shiu¹.  Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO and ²School of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, Normal, IL.  Genetic mapping of a mutation that affects the number of chromosomes.

Giuseppe Ianiri, Alex Idnurm and R. Castoria. School of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri- Kansas City, MO
Genetics of patulin degradation in biocontrol yeasts.

Pinkuan Zhu and Alex Idnurm. School of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri- Kansas City, MO
Genetic and molecular characterization of virulence-regulation mechanisms by the photoreceptor Bwc1 in Cryptococcus neoformans

Viplendra Shakya and Alex Idnurm. School of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri- Kansas City, MO
Mitochondrial Inheritance in Phycomyces

Heather Hallen-Adams, Nabaraj Banjara, Mallory Suhr and  Brienna Klooster. Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Fungi in the human gut

Nicolette Dutken: Nicolette Dutken, Jonathon Gutzeit, Maze Ndonwi, and John Kennell. Department of Biology, Saint Louis University
The alternative oxidase induction pathway is involved in senescence associated with over-replication of a mitochondrial plasmid in Neurospora crassa

Friday, February 15

Spencer Chemistry Building Room 510 

     Workshop on methods in fungal collection maintenance

    Please contact the FGSC for  details. Limited to 12 participants