Program

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Sunday April 29, 2007

from 15.00 on     Arrival and Registration

18.00 - 19.00 Welcome Reception

19.30 - 20.30 Dinner

Presentations

Monday April 30, 2007

07:00-08:30    Breakfast

08:30-09:00    Welcome and introductory remarks by Bruce McDonald

09:00-09:45    Linda Kohn: Ecological speciation with antagonistic epistasis in experimental populations of Neurospora crassa and Saccharomyces cerevisiae: evidence for a plausible avenue of fungal speciation. AB-47.

09:45-10:15    Coffee

10:15-10:40    Paulo Ceresini: The population genetic structure of the rice, maize and soybean infecting pathogen Rhizoctonia solani AG-1 IA: the American history. AB-51.

10:40-11:05    David P. Hughes. A tale of two Continents: Cordyceps in ants. AB-12.

11:05-11:30    Didier  Tharreau: Migration of the rice blast fungus, Magnaporthe grisea. AB-26.

11:30-11:40    Stand, stretch and talk with your neighbor!!

11:40-12:05    Matthew C. Fisher: Molecular epidemiology integrating spatial and multilocus genotypic data within a whole-earth framework. AB-06.

12:05-12:20    James K. M. Brown: A theoretical basis for polymorphism in coevolving host-parasite interactions. AB-46.

12:20-12:35    Ales Lebeda. Structure and dynamics of pathogenicity and fungicide resistance in populations of Pseudoperonospora cubensis. AB-28.

12:35-14:00    Lunch

14:00-14:45    Cameron R. Currie: Evolutionary ecology of ancient agriculture in ants. AB-32.

14:45-15:15  Coffee

15:15-15:40    Morten  Schiøtt: Xylanase activity in the fungal symbionts of fungus-growing ants. AB-14.

15:40-16:05    Adrian Leuchtmann: Do Botanophila flies play a role in reproductive isolation of Epichloë grass endophytes? AB-43.

16:05-16:30    Malene Lihme: Population genetic structure of Entomophthora muscae epidemics. AB-30.

16:30-16:40   Stand, stretch and talk with your neighbor!!

16:40-17:05    Marc A. Cubeta: Evolutionary history and population dynamics of the M2 double-stranded RNA of the soil fungus Rhizoctonia solani. AB-45.

17:05-17:30    Rosmarie Honegger: Mating systems in lichen-forming ascomycetes. AB-29.

17:30-17:45    Jürg Enkerli: Cultivation-independent monitoring of strains and populations of the insect pathogenic fungus Beauveria brongniartii in soil. AB-34.

17:45-18:00    Henrik H. De Fine Licht: Has substrate- dependent co-evolution of enzyme function occured in the attine ant-fungus symbiosis? AB-10.

18:30-19:30    Dinner

19:30-    Posters and Bar

Tuesday May 1, 2007

07:00-08:30    Breakfast

08:45-09:00    Announcements

09:00-09:45    Bruce McDonald:  Horizontal transfer of ToxA between the wheat pathogens Phaeosphaeria nodorum and Pyrenophora tritici repentis. AB-52.

09:45-10:15    Coffee

10:15-10:40    Patrick Brunner: NIP1 evolution in Rhynchosporium secalis.

10:40-11:05    Soledad Sacristan:  Diversity and evolution of avirulence genes in powdery mildew fungi. AB-25.

11:05-11:30    Marie-Hélène Balesdent: Genome structure impacts molecular evolution at the AvrLm1 and AvrLm6 avirulence loci of Leptosphaeria maculans. AB-19.

11:30-11:40    Stand, stretch and talk with your neighbor!!

11:40-12:05    Ales Lebeda: Comparative analysis of variation and dynamics of virulence of Bremia lactucae populations on Lactuca sativa and Lactuca serriola. AB-27.

12:05-12:20    Natalia Sapoukhina: Virulence evolution in multilocus gene-for-gene systems: the effects of spatial arrangement of resistant host genotypes. AB-09.

12:20-12:35    Kiyoshi Ishiguro: A strategy for preventing the spread of super races in the blast fungus population with multiline varieties of rice. AB-22.

12:35-14:00    Lunch

14:00-14:45    John W. Taylor: Evolutionary genetics of a reproductive isolation barrier separating Neurospora crassa and N. intermedia. AB-36.

14:45-15:15    Coffee

15:15-15:40    Jeffrey Townsend: Optimal genes for accurate phylogenetic inference in the fungi. AB-02.

15:40-16:05    Pascal L. Zaffarano: Rhynchosporium secalis is a species complex defined by host specialization. AB-04.

16:05-16:30    Vassiliki Koufopanou: The population genomics of a model organism: the wild yeast Saccharomyces paradoxus. AB-42.

16:30-16:40    Stand, stretch and talk with your neighbor!!

16:40-17:05    Jan Stenlid: Dispersal, pathogenicity and speciation of wood decay fungi. From population genetics to genomics. AB-44.

17:05-17:30    Fabien Halkett: Population genetic structure of the poplar rust fungus Melampsora larici-populina at different spatial scales. AB-20.

17:30-17:45    Pascal Frey: New hypotheses on the origin of the interspecific hybrid Oomycete Phytophthora alni. AB-21.

17:45-18:00    Jan Nechwatal: Occurrence of natural hybridisation in reed-associated Pythium spp. AB-18.

18:30-19:30    Dinner

19:30-    Posters and Bar

Wednesday May 2, 2007

07:00-08:30    Breakfast

08:45-09:00    Announcements

09:00-09:45    Keith Clay: Ecological consequences of endophyte symbiosis with grasses. AB-38.

09:45-10:15     Coffee

10:15-10:45    Christopher L. Schardl: Host-specific populations of Epichloë typhina, and a test of the phylogenetic species recognition method. AB-39.

10:45-11:15    Christoph R. Grünig: Black is beautiful – Exploring the population biology and ecology of dark septate endophytes. AB-37

11:15-11:25    Stand, stretch and talk with your neighbor!!

11:25-11:55    Tatiana Giraud: Reproductive isolation in the Microbotryum violaceum species complex, anther smut of the Caryophyllaceae. AB-01.

11:55-12:25    Lucie Salvaudon: Arabidopsis thaliana and the Robin Hood parasite. AB-03.

12:35-14:00    Lunch

14:00-18:00    Excursion (mountain hike to Cardada)

18:30-19:30    Dinner (at Cardada)

Thursday May 3, 2007

07:00-08:30    Breakfast

08:45-09:00    Announcements

09:00-09:45    Ian R. Sanders: The dogma of asexuality in symbiotic arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. AB-16.   

09:45-10:15    Coffee

10:15-10:40    Daniel Croll: Non-self vegetative fusion and genetic exchange in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. AB-17.

10:40-11:05    Aurelien Tellier: Polymorphism maintenance in gene-for-gene interactions: integrating selective and ecological factors. AB-23.

11:05-11:30    Didier Andrivon: Pathogenicity, survival and transmission over seasons of Phytophthora infestans isolates. AB-41.

11:30-11:40    Stand, stretch and talk with your neighbor!!

11:40-12:05    Søren Rosendahl: Evolution in the Glomeromycota: ancient asexual speciation or human mediated dispersal? AB-56

12:05-12:20    Katarzyna Turnau: Interactions between grasses, endophytes and mycorrhizas under extreme conditions. AB-24.

12:20-12:35    Caroline Angelard: Effect of genetic exchange in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) on plant growth. AB-11.

12:35-14:00    Lunch

14:00-14:45    Ignazio Carbone: The  evolution of aflatoxin biosynthesis. AB-40.

14:45-15:15    Coffee

15:15-15:40    Jean Carlier: Landscape genetics and gene flow in the banana pathogenic fungus Mycosphaerella fijiensis. AB-31.

15:40-16:05    Jiasui Zhan: Race dynamics and invasion of complex races in Rhynchosporium secalis. AB-15.

16:05-16:30    Pierre Gladieux: Historical patterns of range expansion of Venturia inaequalis on domestic apples at world scale. AB-07.

16:30-16:40    Stand, stretch and talk with your neighbor!!

16:40-17:05    Claire Neema: Coevolution in host-pathogen interactions. AB-35.

17:05-17:30    Georgiana May: Evolution of Complex Symbioses. AB-49.

17:30-17:45    Bruno Le Cam: Host specialization prevents gene flow between sympatric divergent lineages of the apple scab fungus Venturia inaequalis. AB-08.

17:45-18:00    Roberto A. Geremia: Space and temporal dynamics of Fungal communities in alpine ecosystems. AB-48.

18:30-19:30    Dinner

19:30-    Posters and Bar

Friday May 4, 2007

07:00-08:30    Breakfast

08:45-09:00    Announcements

09:00-09:45    Overview of main themes by Bruce McDonald, setting of tasks for the delegates

09:45-10:15    Coffee

10:15-10:40    Discussion 1

10:40-11:05    Discussion 2

11:05-11:30    Discussion 3

11:30-11:40    Closing remarks

11:40-12:30    Open

12:30-14:00    Lunch

14:00-onwards    Departure

Poster presentations along the week:

AB-05. Rubik Sommerhalder. Analysis of the mating type distribution and of the mitochondrial and nuclear genetic structure of the wheat pathogen Stagonospora nodorum indicate the importance of sexual reproduction, gene flow, and absence of selection in shaping the populations genetic structure.

AB-13. Maj-Britt Pontoppidan. Genetic population structure in Cordyceps-fungi parasitizing Camponotus ants.

AB-37. Christoph R. Grünig. Black is beautiful: discovering the divsersity and ecology of dark septate endophytes in forest ecosystems

AB-53. Stefano Torriani.  Structure of fungal mtDNA genomes

AB-54. Joana Bernardes de Assis. Divergent structure and lack of gene flow characterize host distinct populations of Rhizoctonia solani AG-1 IA from soybean and rice in Louisiana: a history before Katrina and Rita

AB-55. Maisa Boff Ciampi. Genetic diversity and structure of populations of Rhizoctonia solani AG-1 IA from soybean in Brazil.

AB-57. Jiasui Zhan.  Evolution of thermal adaptation in Mycosphaerella graminicola.

AB-58. Jiasui Zhan. Algorithms for estimating genotype.

AB-59. Christoph R. Grünig. Were the quaternary ice ages responsible for the speciation in Phialocephala fortinii s.l.?

AB-60. Christoph R. Grünig. Are nursery plants responsible for the dissemination of Phialocephala fortinii ?