Conference Program
 
CELLULAR & MOLECULAR FUNGAL BIOLOGY

June 20-25, 2004
Holderness School
Holderness, NH

Chairs:
James W. Kronstad & Louise Glass

Vice Chairs:
Aaron P. Mitchell & Anne E. Osbourn

ABSTRACT

The Cellular and Molecular Fungal Biology Conference (CMFB; formerly Cellular and Molecular Mycology) provides a forum for presentation of the latest advances in fungal research with a particular emphasis on filamentous and pathogenic fungi. The Conference brings together the leading scientists from academia and industry to discuss current research directions and themes at Holderness School, on outstanding venue for scientific interaction and recreation.

In addition to oral presentations, the CMFB Conference has always had highly valued poster sessions with the majority of attendees presenting either a talk or a poster. Past scientific programs have included the following topics: ecology, evolution, metabolism, gene regulation, development, epigenetics, medical mycology, phytopathology, cell biology, signal transduction, and genomics. In addition, a late-breaking session of oral presentations will be selected from submitted poster abstracts. The CMFB Conference provides a unique opportunity to examine the breadth of fungal biology in a small meeting format that encourages in-depth discussion among the attendees.

All scientists with an interest in fungal biology are encouraged to apply to attend the CMFB Conference. The organizers are committed to achieving a balance among the attendees in terms of career stage, gender, nationality and area of interest.

Supporters:

U.S. Department of Agriculture
National Science Foundation
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Genencor International, Inc.
GlycoFi, Inc.
Monsanto Company
Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.

SUNDAY
2:00 pm - 9:00 pmArrival and check-in
6:00 pm Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmMetabolism I
Discussion Leader: Nick Talbot (University of Exeter)
7:30 pm - 8:00 pmCaroline 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 pmJesus 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 amBreakfast
8:45 am Photograph
9:00 am - 12:30 pmMetabolism II
Discussion Leader: Gerhard Braus (Georg-August University)
9:00 am - 9:30 amMatthew S. Sachs (Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oregon Health & Science University)
"Nascent Peptide Control of Gene Expression"
9:30 am - 10:00 amNancy 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 amNick 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 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session I
6:00 pm Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmCell Biology and Morphogenesis I
Discussion Leader: Michele Momany (University of Georgia)
7:30 pm - 8:00 pmMalcolm Whiteway (Genetics Group, NRC Biotechnology Research Institute, Montreal)
"Regulation of Hyphal Development in the Fungal Pathogen Candida albicans"
8:00 pm - 8:30 pmSteve Harris (Plant Science Initiative, University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
"The Fungal Polarisome and its Role in Hyphal Morphogenesis"
8:30 pm - 9:00 pmJuergen Wendland (Department of Microbiology, Friedrich-Schiller University)
"Control of Polarized Morphogenesis in Ashbya gossypii"
9:00 pm - 9:30 pmMarkus Aebi (Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich)
"Structural and Functional Analysis of the galectin CGL2 from Coprinopsis cinerea"
TUESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmFungal-Host Interactions I
Discussion Leader: Neil Gow (University of Aberdeen)
9:00 am - 9:30 amJoseph Heitman (Duke University Medical Center)
"Sex And The Evolution Of Fungal Virulence"
9:30 am - 10:00 amTamara L. Doering (Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine)
"Capsule Synthesis in the Opportunistic Pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans"
10:00 am - 10:30 amAnita Sil (Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California San Francisco)
"Using Genetics and Genomics to Study Morphology in H. capsulatum"
10:30 amCoffee Break
10:50 am - 11:20 amGreg 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 amRichard Bennett (Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco)
"Mating and the Parasexual Cycle in C. albicans"
11:50 am - 12:20 pmTricia Missall (Saint Louis University School of Medicine)
"An Important Response to Stress in Cryptococcus neoformans"
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session II
6:00 pm Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmCell Biology and Morphogenesis II
Discussion Leader: Alex Andrianopolus (University of Melbourne)
7:30 pm - 8:00 pmJaehyuk 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 pmAmy 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 pmJudith Berman (Department of Genetics, Cell Biology & Development, University of Minnesota)
"Morphogenesis and the Cell Cycle in Candida albicans"
WEDNESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmFungal-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 amMarc Henri LeBrun (Bayer Cropscience)
"Magnaporthe grisea Pathogenicity: A Complex Behaviour for a Simple Task"
10:00 am - 10:30 amH. 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 amFrancine 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 pmShun-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 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session III
6:00 pm Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmEpigenetics
Discussion Leader: Louise Glass (University of California, Berkeley)
7:30 pm - 8:00 pmSven 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 pmMichael Freitag (Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon)
"Control Of DNA Methylation and Heterochromatin Formation in Neurospora"
8:30 pm - 9:00 pmMarie-Josée Daboussi (Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie, Université Paris-Sud)
"Transposons In Filamentous Fungi: The Past Ten Years"
9:00 pm - 9:30 pmJasper Rine (University of California, Berkeley)
"Epigenetic Control of Silenced Chromatin"
THURSDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmGenomic approaches to fungal biology
Discussion Leader: James Galagan (Broad Institute)
9:00 am - 9:30 amDan 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 amCoffee 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 amTerry Roemer (Elitra Canada, Montreal)
"Candida albicans Promoter Replacement and Fitness Test Strategies to Assist Antifungal Drug Discovery"
11:50 am - 12:20 pmAnthony Borneman (Dept. of Mol., Cell. & Dev. Biology, Yale University)
"The Divergence of Transcriptional Networks Regulating Morphogenesis in Yeasts"
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session IV
6:00 pm Dinner
7:15 pmBusiness meeting
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmSignaling
Discussion Leader: Joseph Heitman (Duke University Medical Center)
7:30 pm - 8:00 pmJay C. Dunlap (Department of Genetics, Dartmouth Medical School)
"The Molecular Mechanism of the Neurospora Circadian Clock"
8:00 pm - 8:30 pmKatherine A. Borkovich (Department of Plant Pathology, University of California)
"G Proteins and the Pheromone Response in Neurospora"
8:30 pm - 9:00 pmScott 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 pmHiten 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 amBreakfast
9:00 am Departure
Last Updated: August 14, 2006