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Cellular and Molecular Mycology

Gordon Research Conference

July 19 - 24, 1998
Chairs Jay C. Dunlap and Gillian B. Turgeon
Vice Chairs Beth J. Didomenico and Tom Adams
Holderness School
33 Chapel Lane
Holderness, New Hampshire, United States
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Conference Program

SUNDAY JULY 19
  • 2:00-11:00 PM - Registration / Sign-Up for Poster Session
  • 5:00-6:00 PM - Reception
  • 6:00-7:30 PM - Dinner
  • 10:00 PM - Reception
SUNDAY EVENING JULY 197:30 - 10:00
Genomics
Sarah Covert (Univ. of Georgia), Discussion Leader
  • Rolf Prade (Univ. of Oklahoma) - Large-scale genetics in Aspergillus
  • Mary Anne Nelson (Univ. of New Mexico) - The Neurospora genome project at UNM: Gold from the Mold
  • Jonathan Arnold (Univ. of Georgia) - Neurospora crassa physical mapping project
  • Michael Snyder (Yale Univ.) - Large-scale functional analysis of the yeast genome by transposon tagging
MONDAY MORNING July 209:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Signal Transduction
Regine Kahmann (Univ. of Munich), Discussion Leader
  • Tom Adams (Cereon Genomics, LLC) - Signals controlling sporulation and secondary metabolism
  • Jim Kronstad (Univ. of British Columbia) - cAMP and morphogenesis in Ustilago maydis
  • Jim Sweigard (DuPont) - Novel genes involved in appressorium formation in the rice blast fungus
  • Regine Kahmann (Univ. of Munich) - The interconnection of signaling pathways in Ustilago maydis
  • AFTERNOON FREE - Fifth biennial get acquainted softball game. Everyone should come, everyone can play. Refreshments will be provided.
MONDAY EVENING July 207:30 - 10:00
Morphogenesis
Mike Plamann (Univ. of Missouri), Discussion Leader
  • Steven Harris (Univ. of Connecticut) - Polarized morphogenesis in Aspergillus nidulans
  • Tanya Sandrock (Cornell Univ.) - Cytoplasmic dynein deficiency blocks aster formation and the anaphase B pulling force
  • Stephan Seiler (Univ. of Munich) - Microtubule dependent organelle transport in Neurospora crassa
  • Dan Ebbole (Texas A&M Univ.) - Glucose sensing and conidiation in Neurospora crassa
  • Yi Liu (Dartmouth Univ.) - Circadian Clock Regulation in Neurospora
TUESDAY MORNING July 219:00 - 12:30
Animal Pathogenesis
Pete Magee, (Univ. of Minnesota) Discussion Leader
  • Ted White (Seattle Biomedical Research Inst.) - Molecular mechanisms of antifungal drug resistance
  • Jennifer Lodge (St. Louis Univ. School of Medicine) - Genetic and biochemical inhibition of protein N-myristoylation in pathogenic fungi
  • Peggy Hostetter (Univ. of Minnesota School of Medicine) - The Candida albicans gene INT1: Linkage of adhesion, morphogenesis, and virulence
  • Joe Heitman (Duke Univ. Medical Center) - Signal transduction cascades regulating differentiation and virulence in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Cryptococcus neoformans
  • Diane Retallack (Univ. of Wisconsin Medical School) - Using IVET to identify Histoplasma capsulatum genes exressed during infection of human and murine cell lines"
  • AFTERNOON FREE
TUESDAY AFTERNOON July 213:30
Poster Session

TUESDAY EVENING July 217:30 - 10:00
Regulation
Bill Timberlake (Cereon Genomics, LLC), Discussion Leader
  • Matthew Sachs (Oregon Graduate Inst.) - Regulation of ribosome movement by the evolutionarily conserved arginine attenuator peptide
  • Mark Caddick (Univ. of Liverpool) - The perception of, and response to, nitrogen availability in Aspergillus
  • Rodolfo Aramayo (Texas A&M Univ.) - Meiotic trans-sensing in fungi
  • Mike Hynes (Univ. of Melbourne) - AnCF, the CCAAT binding complex of Aspergillus nidulans
WEDNESDAY MORNING July 229:00 - 12:30
Plant Pathogenesis
Olen Yoder (Cornell Univ.) , Discussion Leader
  • Jeffrey Lawrence (Univ. of Pittsburgh) - Horizontal transfer and genome organization
  • Olen Yoder (Cornell Univ.) - Secondary metabolites for general and specific fungal virulence
  • Hans VanEtten (Univ. of Arizona) - The PEP cluster and friends: conditionally dispensable for Nectria but always dispensable by the USDA/NRI!
  • Wolfgang Knogge (Max Planck Institute Cologne) -The virulence/avirulence factor NIP1 from the barley pathogen Rhynchosporium secalis
  • Greg Bryan (Dupont) - How does the Magnaporthe grisea avirulence gene AVR2-YAMO elicit a defense response in rice?
  • AFTERNOON FREE
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON July 223:30
Poster Session

WEDNESDAY EVENING July 227:30 - 10:00
Mycology, Molecules and Money
Tom Adams (Cereon Genomics, LLC), Discussion Leader
  • Vivian Miao (TerraGen Diversity Inc.) - Accessing polyketide biosynthetic genes from lichens
  • Eneido Pardo (Millennium Pharmaceuticals) - Metabolites from unculturable fungi
  • Mick Ward (Genencor) - Secreted protein production in filamentous fungi
  • Arthur Ryan (State Univ., Leiden) - Characterization of the secretion pathway in Aspergillus: development of a GFP-based reporter system
  • Bill Timberlake (Cereon Genomics, LLC) - The Aspergillus sequencing project
THURSDAY MORNING July 239:00 - 12:30
Sexual Development
Mimi Zolan (Indiana Univ.), Discussion Leader
  • Lorna Casselton (Oxford Univ.) - Coprinus signals through yeast: a highly conserved developmental cue
  • Ursula Goodenough (Washington Univ.) - Rapid evolution of sex-related genes
  • Gillian Turgeon (Cornell Univ.) - The self-fertile reproductive life style evolves from self-sterile ancestors
  • Veronique Berteaux-Lecellier (CNRS) - Peroxisomes, retrograde regulation and development in Podospora anserina
  • Martina Celerin (Indiana Univ.) - Interactions among DNA repair and recombination pathways essential for meiosis
THURSDAY AFTERNOON July 232:00 - 4:30
Evolution
Paula DePriest (Smithsonian Inst.), Discussion Leader
  • Mary Berbee (Univ. of British Columbia) - Phylogeny of life history strategies in ascomycetes
  • David Geiser (Penn State Univ.) - Defining and identifying species using DNA sequences from coding genes.
  • Dawn Field (UC San Diego) - Microsatellite evolution in fungi
  • 4:30 - BUSINESS MEETING
  • 6:00 PM - BANQUET AND PROGRAM
  • 8:30 PM - SOCIAL

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