PAG Fungal Genomics Workshop

Wednesday Afternoon, 16 January 2008 --- 4:40 pm - 6:50 pm

Fungal Genomics Workshop - Sunrise Room

Organizer: Steve Goodwin, USDA-ARS, Purdue University

(sgoodwin@purdue.edu)

Speakers:

1, 4:45 pm
Daniel Ebbole, Texas A&M University (d-ebbole@tamu.edu)
"Secreted proteins from Magnaporthe grisea and analysis of elicitor activity"

2, 5:05 pm
Brian Haas, Broad Institute (bhaas@broad.mit.edu)
"Comparative genome analysis of the potato blight pathogen Phytophthora infestans"

3, 5:25 pm
James Hane, Australian Centre for Necrotrophic Fungal Pathogens (ACNFP), Murdoch University (J.Hane@murdoch.edu.au)
"Genome sequencing and EST analysis of the wheat pathogen Stagonospora nodorum"

4, 5:45 pm
Bruce McDonald, Institute of Integrative Biology Zurich (IBZ), ETH Zurich (bruce.mcdonald@agrl.ethz.ch)
"Mycosphaerella graminicola and closely-related fungal species offer a model for identifying genes involved in host specialization and sympatric speciation"

5, 6:05 pm
Dan Cullen, USDA Forest Products Laboratory, University of Wisconsin (dcullen@facstaff.wisc.edu)
"Mechanisms of lignocellulose degradation inferred from genomes of wood decay fungi"

6, 6:25 pm
Diego Martinez, Los Alamos National Laboratory/Joint Genome Institute (admar@unm.edu)
"Genome organization of enzymes involved biomass degradation in T. reesei"


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