Colletotrichum Workshop Date: 9 April 2008
Venue: European Fungal Genetics meeting (ECFG9), David Hume Tower Conference Room
Workshop Programme (Abstracts):
9.00 – 9.30 Coffee & Introductions
9.30 – 10.00 A Genome Sequence for the model hemibiotroph Colletotrichum graminicola Lisa Vaillancourt, Marty Dickman, Lijun Ma, Mike Thon, Jeff Osborn
10.00 – 10.15 FPC-DB: The Fungal Protein Cluster Database and its use for comparative fungal genomics. Mike Thon
10.15 – 10.45 The yeast signal sequence trap identifies secreted proteins of the
hemibiotrophic corn pathogen Colletotrichum graminicola. Stefan Wirsel
10.45 – 11.15 Coffee
11.15 – 11.45 Role of STE12-like transcription factors in the production of microbial effectors inducing plant immunity in Colletotrichum-Legumes interactions. Bernard Dumas et al
11.45 -12.15 Overview of Colletotrichum research at Saskatchewan. Sabine Banniza
12.15 -12.30 Identification and functional analysis of ClaKEL1 gene encoding kelch repeat protein in Colletotrichum lagenarium. Ayumu Sakaguchi
12.30 – 1.30 Lunch
1.30 – 1.45 Mining candidate effectors from the secretome of Colletotrichum higginsianum appressoria. Jochen Kleemann et al
1.45 – 2.15 Identification of biotrophy-related genes in Colletotrichum higginsianum. Hiroyuki Takahara et al
2.15 – 2.30 Development of a high throughput system for large-scale gene discovery in Colletotrichum higginsianum. Hiroshi Terada, Kie Tsuboi, Ai Mori, Gento Tsuji, and Yasuyuki Kubo
2.30 – 2.45 Colletotrichum spp. associated with coffee berry like disease in Vietnam. Phuong Nguyen, Olga Vinnere Pettersson and Erland Liljeroth
2.45 – 3.00 Genotypic and phenotypic diversity in Colletotrichum pathosystems. S. Sreenivasaprasad
3.00 – 3.15 Colletotrichum vs Neurospora: what are the roles of conidial anastomosis tube fusion? M. Gabriela Roca and Nick D. Read
3.30 – 5.00 Coffee & Discussion Session:
Genome annotation efforts; Infection biology, Functional & Comparative Genomics
Population biology, Phylogenetics & Systematics; Colletotrichum database
Tools & Resources; Collaboration & Funding Opportunities