| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Metabolism I |
| Discussion Leader: Nick Talbot (University of Exeter) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Caroline Philpott
(Liver Diseases Section, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health)
"The Response to Iron Deprivation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Heinz Osiewacz
(Botanical Institute, J.W. Goethe University)
"Disruption of a Pathway Delivering Copper to the Respiratory Chain: Impact on Lifespan and Development of Podospora anserina" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Jesus Aguirre
(Instituto de Fisiologia Celular-UNAM)
"Reactive Oxygen Species during Growth and Cell Differentiation in Aspergillus nidulans" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Véronique Berteaux-Lecellier
(Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie, Université Paris Sud)
"Peroxisomal ABC Transporters in the Filamentous Fungus P. anserina" |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:45 am | Photograph |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Metabolism II |
| Discussion Leader: Gerhard Braus (Georg-August University) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Matthew S. Sachs
(Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oregon Health & Science University)
"Nascent Peptide Control of Gene Expression" |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Nancy Keller
(Department of Plant Pathology, Univeristy of Wisconsin - Madison)
"Mechanistic Studies of Global Regulation of Aspergillus Secondary Metabolism" |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Michael J. Hynes
(Department of Genetics, University of Melbourne)
"Regulatory Circuits Affecting Carbon Catabolism in Aspergillus nidulans" |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:50 am - 11:20 am | Martha S. Cyert
(Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University)
"Ca2+/Calcineurin Signaling Helps Yeast Cope with Stress" |
| 11:20 am - 11:50 am | Nick Talbot
(Washington Singer Laboratories, University of Exeter)
"Determining The Molecular Basis Of Appressorium Turgor Generation In The Rice Blast Fungus Magnaporthe grisea" |
| 11:50 am - 12:20 pm | Silke Busch
(Institut fur Mikrobiologie und Genetik, Georg-August-Universitat)
"The COP9 Signalosome is an Essential Regulator of Sexual Development in Aspergillus nidulans" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Cell Biology and Morphogenesis I |
| Discussion Leader: Michele Momany (University of Georgia) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Malcolm Whiteway
(Genetics Group, NRC Biotechnology Research Institute, Montreal)
"Regulation of Hyphal Development in the Fungal Pathogen Candida albicans" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Steve Harris
(Plant Science Initiative, University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
"The Fungal Polarisome and its Role in Hyphal Morphogenesis" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Juergen Wendland
(Department of Microbiology, Friedrich-Schiller University)
"Control of Polarized Morphogenesis in Ashbya gossypii" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Markus Aebi
(Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich)
"Structural and Functional Analysis of the galectin
CGL2 from Coprinopsis cinerea" |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Fungal-Host Interactions I |
| Discussion Leader: Neil Gow (University of Aberdeen) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Joseph Heitman
(Duke University Medical Center)
"Sex And The Evolution Of Fungal Virulence" |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Tamara L. Doering
(Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine)
"Capsule Synthesis in the Opportunistic Pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans" |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Anita Sil
(Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California San Francisco)
"Using Genetics and Genomics to Study Morphology in H. capsulatum" |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:50 am - 11:20 am | Greg May
(Department of Pathology, University of Texas/MD Anderson Cancer Center)
"A MAP Kinase That Senses Nitrogen Regulates Growth in Aspergillus
fumigatus" |
| 11:20 am - 11:50 am | Richard Bennett
(Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco)
"Mating and the Parasexual Cycle in C. albicans" |
| 11:50 am - 12:20 pm | Tricia Missall
(Saint Louis University School of Medicine)
"An Important Response to Stress in Cryptococcus neoformans" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session II |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Cell Biology and Morphogenesis II |
| Discussion Leader: Alex Andrianopolus (University of Melbourne) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Jaehyuk Yu
(Department of Food Microbiology and Toxicology & Molecular and Environmental Toxicology Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
"Negative Control of Asexual Development in Aspergillus nidulans" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Amy Gladfelter
(Molecular Microbiology, Biozentrum, University of Basel)
"Nuclear Autonomous Cell Cycle Regulation in Multinucleated Fungal Cells" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Shelley Sazer
(Department of Biochemistry, Baylor College of Medicine)
"Deciphering the Multiple Roles of the Ran GTPase in Fission Yeast" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Judith Berman
(Department of Genetics, Cell Biology & Development, University of Minnesota)
"Morphogenesis and the Cell Cycle in Candida albicans" |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Fungal-Host Interactions II |
| Discussion Leader: Jim Sweigard (DuPont) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Sebastien Duplessis
(UMR INRA-UHP "Interactions Arbres/Micro-Organismes" INRA-Nancy)
"Exploring the Transcriptome of Ectomycorrhizal Symbioses" |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Marc Henri LeBrun
(Bayer Cropscience)
"Magnaporthe grisea Pathogenicity: A Complex Behaviour for a Simple Task" |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | H. Corby Kistler
(USDA, ARS Cereal Disease Lab and Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota)
"Toxin evolution and pathogenomics of Fusarium graminearum" |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:50 am - 11:20 am | Francine Govers
(Department of Phytopathology, Wageningen University)
"Virulence and Avirulence in the Oomycete Phytophthora infestans" |
| 11:20 am - 11:50 am | Joerg Kamper
(MPI für Terrestrische Mikrobiologie, Marburg)
"Regulation of Pathogenic Development in U. Maydis" |
| 11:50 am - 12:20 pm | Shun-Wen Lu
(Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell University)
"The Neurospora crassa Counterpart of Cochliobolus heterostrophus CPS1 is Fully Functional as a Virulence Factor" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session III |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Epigenetics |
| Discussion Leader: Louise Glass (University of California, Berkeley) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Sven Saupe
(Institut de Biochimie et de Genetique Cellulaire, Universite de Bordeaux)
"The [Het-S] Prion Of Podospora: Respective Roles of the Globular and Flexible Domains in Prion Propagation and Amyloid Formation" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Michael Freitag
(Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon)
"Control Of DNA Methylation and Heterochromatin Formation in Neurospora" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Marie-Josée Daboussi
(Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie, Université Paris-Sud)
"Transposons In Filamentous Fungi: The Past Ten Years" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Jasper Rine
(University of California, Berkeley)
"Epigenetic Control of Silenced Chromatin" |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Genomic approaches to fungal biology |
| Discussion Leader: James Galagan (Broad Institute) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Dan Ebbole
(Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology, Texas A&M University)
"Functional Analysis of Secreted Proteins of the Rice Blast Fungus" |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | James B. Anderson
(Department of Botany, University of Toronto)
"Population Genomics and Evolution of Antifungal Drug Resistance" |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Manolis Kellis
(MIT Laboratory for Computer Science)
"Comparative Genomics in Yeast: Genes, Regulation, Evolution" |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:50 am - 11:20 am | Audrey P. Gasch
(Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
"Genomic Expression Programs in S. cerevisiae Responding to Diverse Environmental Changes" |
| 11:20 am - 11:50 am | Terry Roemer
(Elitra Canada, Montreal)
"Candida albicans Promoter Replacement and Fitness Test Strategies to Assist Antifungal Drug Discovery" |
| 11:50 am - 12:20 pm | Anthony Borneman
(Dept. of Mol., Cell. & Dev. Biology, Yale University)
"The Divergence of Transcriptional Networks Regulating Morphogenesis in Yeasts" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session IV |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:15 pm | Business meeting |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Signaling |
| Discussion Leader: Joseph Heitman (Duke University Medical Center) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Jay C. Dunlap
(Department of Genetics, Dartmouth Medical School)
"The Molecular Mechanism of the Neurospora Circadian Clock" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Katherine A. Borkovich
(Department of Plant Pathology, University of California)
"G Proteins and the Pheromone Response in Neurospora" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Scott Erdman
(Department of Biology, Syracuse University)
"Chemical Functional Genomics as a Means of Probing Mechanisms of Fungal Lipid and Membrane Homeostasis" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Hiten Madhani
(Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California - San Francisco)
"Mating Versus Filamentous Growth in S. cerevisiae: A Signaling Conundrum and its Solutions" |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Departure |
