International PAG - Rice Blast Workshop


Sunday Afternoon, 14 January 2007 --- 1:15 pm - 3:25 pm

Rice Blast Workshop - Royal Palm Salon 1 & 2

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

(ralph_dean@ncsu.edu)

and

Thomas K. Mitchell, Center for Integrated Fungal Research, North Carolina State University

(Thomas_Mitchell@ncsu.edu)

Speakers:

1.
Dr. Barbara Valent, Kansas State University (bvalent@ksu.edu)
Genomic Challenges in Understanding the Amazing Cell Biology of Biotrophic Blast Invasion

2.
Dr. Ane Sesma, John Innes Centre (ane.sesma@bbsrc.ac.uk)
Understanding pathogenesis and fungal development in M. grisea

3.
Dr. Kevin Greer, University of Arizona (kevin@agcol.arizona.edu)
The MGOS (M. grisea O. sativa) interaction community database

4.
Dr. Yulin Jia, Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center (yjia@spa.ars.usda.gov)
Plants and Pathogens Engage in Trench Warfare-Knowledge Learned from Natural Variation of Rice Blast Resistance Gene Pi-ta

5.
Dr. Nick Talbot, University of Exeter (n.j.talbot@exeter.ac.uk)
Investigating the molecular genetics of appressorium function in Magnaporthe grisea

6.
Dr. You-Liang Pang - tentative, China Agricultural University ()
TBA

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