International PAG - Rice Blast Workshop


Sunday Afternoon, 11 January 2009 --- 1:30 pm - 3:40 pm

Rice Blast Workshop - Royal Palm 5 & 6

Organizers:
Ralph Dean, Center for Integrated Fungal Research, North Carolina State University

(ralph_dean@ncsu.edu)

and

Thomas K. Mitchell, Dept. of Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University

(mitchell.813@osu.edu)

Speakers:

1:30
Dr. Ralph Dean, North Carolina State University - CIFR (radean2@ncsu.edu)
"Introduction"

1:35
Dr. Songbio Chen, The Ohio State University (chen.1199@osu.edu)
"In-planta expressed secreted proteins from M. oryzae are enriched for extracellular effectors that induce cell death in rice"

2:00
Dr. Bo Zhou, The Ohio State University (zhou.131@osu.edu)
"The Magnaporthe oryzae avirulence gene AvrPiz-t encodes an effector protein that triggers the immunity mediated by rice blast resistance gene"

2:25
Dr. Nicole Donofrio, Universtiy of Delaware (ndonof@udel.edu)
"A global view of stress response gene expression data in Magnaporthe: the whys, hows and whats"

2:50
Dr. Thomas Mitchell, The Ohio State University (mitchell.815@osu.edu)
"DNA binding specificity of a calcium/calcineurin responsive transcription factor required for host penetration"

3:15
Dr. Heng Zhu, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (heng.zhu@jhmi.edu)
"Unraveling protein functions using a protein chip approach"

3:35-3:50
Kevin Greer, University of Arizona (kevin@agcol.arizona.edu)
"MGOS Annotation System Demonstration"

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