Neurospora October 18-21, 2018 Asilomar Conference Center Pacific Grove California. Program & Abstracts

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1 Neurospora 2018 October 18-21, 2018 Asilomar Conference Center Pacific Grove California Program & Abstracts 1

2 In the 1920's and 1930'3 researchers were looking for organisms in which to test hypotheses regarding the new field of genetics. Neurospora was selected for use because it grew rapidly on chemically defined medium and reproduced in the laboratory. It has a haploid genome and the production and isolation of morphological or biochemical mutants is straightforward. Four figures were designed and commissioned by George Beadle and were published in at least two places: American Scientist 34:31-53 (1946) 'Genes and the chemistry of the organism,' and Fortschritte der Chemie organischer Naturstoffe 5: (1948) 'Some recent developments in chemical genetics'. Beadle and Tatum won the 1958 Nobel prize for their demonstration of the One-gene, One-enzyme hypothesis and they shared the prize with Joshua Lederberg who had demonstrated transduction in Salmonella. The drawings show, among other things, the process of isolation of auxotrophic mutants, the screening of auxotrophic mutants, the segregation of mutants, and the chromosome events associated with this segregation. The original drawings are held at the Fungal Genetics Stock Center. 2

3 Neurospora 2018 October Asilomar Conference Center Pacific Grove California Scientific Organizers André Fleißner Institut für Genetik Technische Universität Braunschweig Thomas M. Hammond School of Biological Sciences Illinois State University Neurospora Policy Committee Barry Bowman Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology University of California - Santa Cruz Jason E. Stajich Dept. Plant Pathology & Microbiology University of California - Riverside André Fleißner Institut für Genetik Technische Universität Braunschweig Thomas M. Hammond School of Biological Sciences Illinois State University 3

4 Brief Schedule Morning Afternoon Evening Thursday October 18 Arrival Registration Dinner Mixer (Heather) Friday October 19 Breakfast Plenary Session I Cell Biology and Morphogenesis Lunch Plenary Session II Metabolism, Signaling and Development Dinner Poster Session Saturday October 20 Breakfast Plenary Session III Gene Expression and Epigenetics Lunch Plenary Session IV Genomics, Evolution, and Tools Banquet Speaker: Poster Session Sunday October 21 Breakfast Plenary Session V Circadian Clocks and Environmental Sensing Lunch Departure All Plenary Sessions will be held in Heather. Posters will be displayed in Heather throughout the meeting. They may be set up Friday and be displayed until the end of the poster session/reception on Saturday evening. 4

5 Friday October 19 7:30-8:30 Breakfast, Crocker Dining Hall Morning (Heather) Cell Biology & Morphogenesis Barry Bowman 08:30-08:40 Welcome & Announcements 08:40-09:00 Meritxell Riquelme 09:00-09:20 Oded Yarden 09:20-09:40 Rosa Mourino 09:40-10:00 TBD 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break 10:30-10:50 TBD 10:50-11:10 TBD 11:10-11:30 (Glass invitation sent) 11:30-11:50 André Fleißner 12:00-13:00 Lunch, Crocker Dining Hall Afternoon (Heather) Metabolism, Signaling, & Development Andre Fleißner 14:30-14:50 14:50-15:10 15:10-15:30 15:30-15:50 15:50-16:20 16:20-16:40 16:40-17:00 17:00-17:20 17:20-17:40 Elizabeth Hutchison Choaguang Tian Raphael Gabriel Katherine Borkovich Coffee Break Stephen Free Liran Aharoni-Kats (Yarden Lab, Perkins Award) TBD TBD 18:00-19:00 Dinner, Crocker Dining Hall Evening (Heather) All topics 19:30-20:15 Beadle and Tatum lecture (Zack Lewis) 20: Poster session 5

6 Saturday October 20 07:30-08:30 Breakfast, Crocker Dining Hall Morning (Heather) Gene Expression and Epigenetics Tom Hammond 08:40-09:00 Shinji Honda 09:00-09:20 Shiu Laboratory 09:20-09:40 Eugene Gladyshev 09:40-10:00 Zhipeng Zhou (Perkins Award, Liu Lab) Codon usage determines gene expression level by regulating transcription 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break 10:30-10:50 Jin-Rong Xu 10:50-11:10 Matt Sachs 11:10-11:30 TBD 11:30-11:50 TBD 12:00-13:00 Lunch, Crocker Dining Hall Afternoon (Heather) Evolution, Genomics, and New Tools Jason Stajich 14:30-14:50 Andrew Klocko 14:50-15:10 Michael Freitag 15:10-15:30 Lori Huberman (Glass and Skerker Labs) 15:30-15:50 Ashish Giri (Kasbekar Lab, Perkins Award) 15:50-16:20 Coffee Break 16:20-16:40 Marcus Roper 16:40-17:00 TBD 17:00-17:20 (FungiDB invitation sent) 17:20-17:40 Jason Stajich 18:00-19:00 Banquet, Crocker Dining Hall, 19:00-19:30 Banquet Speaker (CICESE group, B.O. Dodge Award) Evening (Heather) All topics 19:30-21:30 Poster session 6

7 Sunday, October 21st 07:30-08:30 Breakfast, Crocker Dining Hall Morning (Heather) Circadian Clocks & Environmental Sensing TBD 08:40-09:00 Jennifer Hurley 09:00-09:20 Luis Corrochano 09:20-09:40 Deborah Bell-Pedersen 09:40-10:00 Michael Brunner The role of frq-antisense transcription in the circadian clock of Neurospora 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break 10:30-10:50 Larrondo Lab 10:50-11:10 Dunlap and Loros laboratories 11:10-11:30 TBD 11:30-11:50 TBD 12:00-13:00 Lunch, Crocker Dining Hall / Box Lunches Departure 7