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Saturday
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| 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm |
Arrival and Check-in
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| 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm |
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
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| 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm |
Keynote Session: The Impact of Fungal Genome Size Changes on Adaptation
Discussion Leader: Dana Opulente (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
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| 3:45 pm - 4:25 pm |
Anna Selmecki (Creighton University School of Medicine, USA)
"The Impact of Fungal Genome Size Changes on Adaptation"
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| 4:25 pm - 4:30 pm |
Discussion
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| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm |
Poster Session
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| 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm |
Dinner
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| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm |
Pathogens, Commensalism and Fungal Communication
Discussion Leader: Brandon Ross (Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, USA)
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| 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm |
Caitlin Kowalski (Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, USA)
"Experimental Evolution of Aspergillus fumigatus Identifies Novel Subtelomeric Genes that Promote Hypoxia Fitness and Virulence"
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| 7:45 pm - 7:50 pm |
Discussion
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| 7:50 pm - 8:05 pm |
Arnab Pradhan (MRC Centre for Medical Mycology, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom)
"Non-Canonical Signaling Mediates Changes in Fungal Cell Wall PAMPs that Drive Immune Evasion"
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| 8:05 pm - 8:10 pm |
Discussion
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| 8:10 pm - 8:25 pm |
Elisa Vesely (University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA)
"Characterization of Small ORFs Upregulated After Macrophage Phagocytosis Reveals the Novel Microadhesin Sma12"
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| 8:25 pm - 8:30 pm |
Discussion
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| 8:30 pm - 8:45 pm |
José Vargas-Muñiz (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
"Fishing for Fungi: Marine Fungi Provide New Models of Cell Division"
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| 8:45 pm - 8:50 pm |
Discussion
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| 8:50 pm - 9:05 pm |
Tran Thao (Murdoch University, Australia)
"A Comparison of Genetic Diversity and Fungicide Tolerance of Monilinia Isolates from Organic and Conventional Stone Fruit Orchards"
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| 9:05 pm - 9:10 pm |
Discussion
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| 9:10 pm - 9:25 pm |
Brian Lovett (University of Maryland, USA)
"Stopping Malaria with Transgenic Insect-Killing Fungi"
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| 9:25 pm - 9:30 pm |
Discussion
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Sunday
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| 7:30 am - 8:30 am |
Breakfast
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| 9:00 am - 11:00 am |
Biotechnology, Systems Biology and Ecology
Discussion Leader: Rebecca Shapiro (University of Guelph, Canada)
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| 9:00 am - 9:15 am |
Delma Childers (MRC Centre for Medical Mycology, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom)
"Fungal Transformers: Tracking a Moving Target"
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| 9:15 am - 9:20 am |
Discussion
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| 9:20 am - 9:35 am |
William Beckerson (University of Louisville, USA)
"The First Cut Is the Deepest: Implementing CRISPR Cas9 as a Transformation System for Site Specific Gene Disruptions in the Fungal Pathogen Species Complex Microbotryum violaceum"
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| 9:35 am - 9:40 am |
Discussion
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| 9:40 am - 9:55 am |
Swati Bijlani (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
"Autonomously Replicating Linear Plasmids for Analysis of Origin Function and Genetic Analysis in C. albicans"
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| 9:55 am - 10:00 am |
Discussion
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| 10:00 am - 10:15 am |
Cullen Roth (Duke University, USA)
"Mapping Virulence QTLs in Cryptococcus"
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| 10:15 am - 10:20 am |
Discussion
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| 10:20 am - 10:35 am |
Abigail LaBella (Vanderbilt University, USA)
"Using Codon Usage Bias to Predict Ecologically Adaptive Metabolic Pathways in the Budding Yeast Subphylum"
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| 10:35 am - 10:40 am |
Discussion
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| 10:40 am - 10:55 am |
Megan McDonald (The Australian National University, Australia)
"A New Origin for ToxA?"
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| 10:55 am - 11:00 am |
Discussion
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| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm |
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
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| 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm |
Lunch
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| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm |
Mentorship Component: Career Planning
Discussion Leader: Brad Bartholomai (Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, USA)
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| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm |
Panel Discussion
Career Planning
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Judith Berman (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
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Armin Djamei (Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Austria)
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Luis Larrondo (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile)
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Nicholas Talbot (University of Exeter, United Kingdom)
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Kyria Boundy-Mills (University of California, Davis, USA)
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Dawn-Anne Thompson (Ginkgo Bioworks, USA)
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| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm |
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
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| 3:00 pm |
Seminar Concludes
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