Applications for this meeting must be submitted by May 23, 2010. Please apply early, as some meetings become oversubscribed (full) before this deadline. If the meeting is oversubscribed, it will be stated here. Applications will still be accepted for oversubscribed meetings. However, they will only be considered by the Conference Chair if more seats become available due to cancellations.
The Cellular and Molecular Fungal Biology Conference provides a forum for presentation of the latest advances in fungal research with an emphasis on filamentous fungi. This open-registration scientific meeting brings together the leading scientists from academia, government and industry to discuss current research results and future directions at Holderness School, an outstanding venue for scientific interaction. A key objective of the conference is to foster interaction among scientists working on model fungi such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Neurospora crassa and Aspergillus nidulans and scientists working on a variety of filamentous fungi whose laboratory tractability is often inversely proportional to their medical, industrial or ecological importance. Sessions will be devoted to Systems Biology, Fungi and Cellulosic Biomass, Small RNAs, Population Genomics, Symbioses, Pathogenesis, Membrane Trafficking and Polarity, and Cytoskeleton and Motors. A session will also be devoted to hot topics picked from 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.
A list of preliminary session topics and speakers is displayed below (discussion leaders are noted in italics). The detailed program is currently being developed by the Conference Chair and will be available by February 13, 2010. Please check back for updates.
- Systems Biology
(Judy Berman / Tim Galitski / Brenda Andrews / Aviv Regev / Clay C.C. Wang)
- Fungi and Cellulosic Biomass
(Scott Baker / Adrian Tsang / Jonathan Walton / Shauna Somerville / Louise Glass / Dan Cullen / Paul Harris)
- Small RNAs
(Don Nuss / Jim Carrington / Yi Liu / Jason Stajich / Xuemin Zhang)
- Population Genomics
(Jim Anderson / Eva Stukenbrock / Rachel Brem / Bridget Barker / Jan Stenlid / Dawn-Anne Thompson / Chris Todd Hittinger)
- Symbioses
(Tom Bruns / Lee Taylor / Ian Sanders / Betsy Arnold / Georgiana May)
- Pathogenesis
(Barbara Valent / Jennifer Lodge / Tamara Doering / Alexandra Brand / Nick Talbot / Regine Kahmann / Timothy Friesen)
- Membrane Trafficking and Polarity
(Greg Jedd / Meritxell Riquelme / Miguel Peñalva / Steve Harris / Rong Li)
- Cytoskeleton and Motors
(Berl Oakley / Samara Reck-Peterson / Amy Gladfelter / Reinhard Fischer / Gero Steinberg / Michael Feldbrügge / Bo Liu)
- Hot Topics Selected from Poster Abstracts
(Judy Berman, Alex Andrianopoulos)