| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in (Office Closed 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm) |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
| 7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | Evolutionary and Population Genomics |
| 7:40 pm - 7:50 pm | Discussion Leader: Bruce McDonald (ETH, Zurich, Switzerland)
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| 7:50 pm - 8:05 pm | Christina Cuomo (The Broad Insitute, Boston, MA, USA)
"Comparative Genomic Analysis of Microsporidia: Evolutionary Strategies for Obligate Intracellular Growth" |
| 8:05 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
| 8:15 pm - 8:30 pm | Paul Magwene (Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA)
"Combining Systems Biology and Population Genomics to Understand the Evolution of Developmental Pathways in Budding Yeast"
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| 8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
| 8:40 pm - 8:55 pm | Aleeza Gerstein (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
"The Genomic Basis of Adaptive Mutations in Budding Yeast" |
| 8:55 pm - 9:05 pm | Discussion |
| 9:05 pm - 9:20 pm | Antonis Rokas (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA)
"The Evolution of Metabolic Gene Clusters in Fungi"
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| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Group Photo |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Genome Organization and Expression |
| 9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Michael Freitag (Oregon State University, Corvalis, Oregon, USA)
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| 9:10 am - 9:25 am | Mark Caddick (University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom)
"The Transcriptome and How To Turn It Off: RNA Degradation and Translational Repression"
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| 9:25 am - 9:35 am | Discussion |
| 9:35 am - 9:50 am | James Fraser (University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia)
"Nitrogen Metabolism in Cryptococcus neoformans"
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| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:15 am | Martijn Rep (University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
"Organization and Expression of Fusarium oxysporum Genomes"
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| 10:15 am - 10:25 am | Discussion |
| 10:25 am - 10:55 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:55 am - 11:10 am | Brendan Cormack (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA)
"Subtelomeres and Virulence Gene Evolution in Candida glabrata"
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| 11:10 am - 11:20 am | Discussion |
| 11:20 am - 11:35 am | Anja Forche (Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, USA)
"Stress Alters Rates and Types of Loss of Heterozygosity in Candida albicans"
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| 11:35 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 12:00 pm | Barry Saville (Trent University, Ontario, Canada)
"The Identification and Analysis of Long Noncoding RNAs in Ustilago maydis"
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| 12:00 pm - 12:10 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Sex and Development |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Amy Gladfelter (Dartmouth University, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA) |
| 7:40 pm - 7:55 pm | Richard Bennett (Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA)
"Parasexual Genetics and Pathogenesis in Candida" |
| 7:55 pm - 8:05 pm | Discussion |
| 8:05 pm - 8:20 pm | Christina Hull (University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA)
"Control of Sexual Development by the Sex Inducer 1/2 Transcriptional Network of Cryptococcus neoformans" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 8:45 pm | Kirsten Nielsen (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA)
"Morphology Changes Affect Pathogenesis of Cryptococcus neoformans" |
| 8:45 pm - 8:55 pm | Discussion |
| 8:55 pm - 9:10 pm | Stefanie Pöggeler (Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany)
"Fruiting-body Development in the Filamentous Ascomycete Sordaria macrospora" |
| 9:10 pm - 9:20 pm | Discussion |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Cell Biology |
| 9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Steve Harris (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Nebraska, USA) |
| 9:10 am - 9:25 am | Michael Bolker (Phillips University, Marburg, Germany)
"Cycling of Rac1 GTPase is Essential for Polarized Growth in Ustilago maydis" |
| 9:25 am - 9:35 am | Discussion |
| 9:35 am - 9:50 am | Ane Sesma (Center for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics, Madrid, Spain)
"Alternative 3' End Processing mRNAs Regulates Fungal Development and Plant Virulence in Magnaporthe oryzae" |
| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:15 am | Michelle Momany (University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA)
"Septins in development" |
| 10:15 am - 10:25 am | Discussion |
| 10:25 am - 10:55 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:55 am - 11:10 am | Philippe Silar (CNRS Université de Paris, Paris, France)
"Signalling of Fruiting Body Development in the Model Ascomycete Podospora anserina" |
| 11:10 am - 11:20 am | Discussion |
| 11:20 am - 11:35 am | Eduardo Espeso (Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Madrid, Spain)
"Deciphering the Molecular Mechanisms of Asexual Development in Aspergillus nidulans" |
| 11:35 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 12:00 pm | Deb Bell-Pederson (Texas A&M, College Station, Texas)
"Circadian Clock Control of MAPK Pathways in Neurospora" |
| 12:00 pm - 12:10 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Organismal Interactions |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Nick Talbot (University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom) |
| 7:40 pm - 7:55 pm | Chris Schardl (University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA)
"Insights from Comparative Genomics of Plant-Pathogenic and Plant-Symbiotic Clavicipitaceae" |
| 7:55 pm - 8:05 pm | Discussion |
| 8:05 pm - 8:20 pm | Regine Kahmann (Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany)
"The Effectors of Smut Fungi and What We Can Learn from Comparative Approaches" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 8:45 pm | Fritz Muhlschlegel, University of Kent, Kent, United Kingdom)
"Fungal CO2 Sensing" |
| 8:45 pm - 8:55 pm | Discussion |
| 8:55 pm - 9:10 pm | Natalia Requena (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany)
"Fungal Reprogramming of a Plant Cell" |
| 9:10 pm - 9:20 pm | Discussion |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Host-Pathogen interactions |
| 9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Carol Kumamoto (Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA) |
| 9:10 am - 9:25 am | Melanie Wellington (University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA)
"Control of the Host Phagocyte Response to Candida albicans" |
| 9:25 am - 9:35 am | Discussion |
| 9:35 am - 9:50 am | Chad Rappleye (Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA)
"Role of Reactive Oxygen and Fungal Oxidative Stress Defenses in Histoplasma Pathogenesis" |
| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:15 am | Raymond St. Leger (University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland)
"The Versatile Life Histories of Insect Pathogens" |
| 10:15 am - 10:25 am | Discussion |
| 10:25 am - 10:55 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:55 am - 11:10 am | Aaron Mitchell (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA)
"Candida albicans Biofilm Genetics and Genomics" |
| 11:10 am - 11:20 am | Discussion |
| 11:20 am - 11:35 am | Rob Wheeler (University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA)
"Dynamics of Candida-Host Interaction During Infections" |
| 11:35 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 12:00 pm | Nicole Donofrio (University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA)
"Reactive Oxygen Species Relations During Rice and Rice Blast Interactions" |
| 12:00 pm - 12:10 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Energy Metabolism and Biomass Production |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Louise Glass (University of California, Berkeley, California, USA) |
| 7:40 pm - 7:55 pm | Jamie Cate (University of California, Berkeley, California, USA)
"Sugar Sensing in Neurospora crassa and Yeast" |
| 7:55 pm - 8:05 pm | Discussion |
| 8:05 pm - 8:20 pm | Kiyohiko Igarashi (University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan)
"Fungal Transcriptome as a Tool to Search for the Biomass-Converting Enzymes" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 8:45 pm | Suzanne Lantz (DuPont Industrial Biosciences, Palo Alto, California, USA)
"Trichoderma Stain Improvement for Large Scale Enzyme Production" |
| 8:45 pm - 8:55 pm | Discussion |
| 8:55 pm - 9:10 pm | TBA |
| 9:10 pm - 9:20 pm | Discussion |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Systems Biology |
| 9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Elaine Bignell (Imperial College London, UK) |
| 9:10 am - 9:25 am | Maitreya Dunham (University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA)
"Functional Genomic Analysis of Genome Evolution in Budding Yeasts" |
| 9:25 am - 9:35 am | Discussion |
| 9:35 am - 9:50 am | Martin Kupiec (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
"Vertical and Horizontal Views of Telomere Biology" |
| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:15 am | Suzanne Noble (University of California, San Francisco California, USA)
"Candida albicans Mechanisms of Virulence and Commensalism" |
| 10:15 am - 10:25 am | Discussion |
| 10:25 am - 10:55 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:55 am - 11:10 am | Norman Pavelka (Singapore Immunology Network, A*STAR, Singapore)
"Systems-level Effects of Aneuploidy on Yeast Cell Biology and the Evolutionary Adaptation of Fungal Pathogens to their Hosts" |
| 11:10 am - 11:20 am | Discussion |
| 11:20 am - 11:35 am | Ivana Gudelj (Biosciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom)
"The Interplay Between Resource Competition and Drug Resistance in Pathogenic Fungi" |
| 11:35 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 12:00 pm | Tim Hughes (University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
"Exploration of Transcription Factor Sequence Specificity Across the Fungal Kingdom" |
| 12:00 pm - 12:10 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Hot Topics |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leaders: Jenny Lodge (Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA) and Jim Anderson (University of Toronto, Canada) |
| 7:40 pm - 7:50 pm | Meleah Hickman (University of Minnesota)
"Dramatic ploidy shifts in Candida albicans" |
| 7:50 pm - 7:55 pm | Discussion |
| 7:55 pm - 8:05 pm | Shay Covo (National Institute of Environmental)
"Sister chromatid cohesion suppresses LOH mediated by interhomolog BIR and recombination-dependent chromosome gain" |
| 8:05 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:20 pm | Dana Wohlbach (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
"Multiomics analysis of natural variation in yeast to understand bottlenecks to bioenergy production" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:25 pm | Discussion |
| 8:25 pm - 8:35 pm | Sheng Sun (Duke University Medical Center)
"Gene Conversion Occurs within the Mating-type Locus of Cryptococcus neoformans during Sexual Reproduction" |
| 8:35 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
| 8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Nikola Kellner
"The Num1 protein in Ustilago maydis - a novel connection between splicing and transport" |
| 8:50 pm - 8:55 pm | Discussion |
| 8:55 pm - 9:05 pm | Kirk Czymmek (University of Delaware)
"The multiple origins and age/development-dependent nature of the fungal calcium pulse: New insights into Ca2+ signaling and its role in hyphal tip growth" |
| 9:05 pm - 9:10 pm | Discussion |
| 9:10 pm - 9:20 pm | Martha Giraldo (Kansas State University)
"Secretion of Magnaporthe oryzae cytoplasmic effectors occurs by a Golgi-independent mechanism during biotrophic invasion of rice" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:25 pm | Discussion |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Departure |
