October 23-25, 2011 at Yunnan University, Kunming, China

Oct. 23,  Registration

Oct. 24,  Invited Lectures

 
Chair: Prof: Zhiqiang An

8:30-9:00am  Welcome Speech and Introduction of the University and Key Lab. Prof. Ke-Qin Zhang

9:00-9:30am  How phylogenomics and population genomics has changed how we think about fungal evolution. Prof. John Taylor

9:30-10:00am Comparative and functional genomics of oomycete pathogens of plants and animals. Prof. Brett Tyler

10:00-10:30am Title to be determined, Prof. Ke-Qin Zhang

 10:30-11:00am  Break

 Chair: Prof. Xingzhong Liu

11:00-11:30am  Microbial genomics in the era of next-generation sequencing. Prof. George Weinstock

11:30-12:00am  Comparative Genomics of insect pathogenic fungi. Prof. Chengshu Wang

12:00-12:30am Genetics and genomics of aflatoxin-producing mold Aspergillus flavus. Dr. Jiujiang Yu

12:30-1:30 Pot lunch

Chair Prof. Joan Bennett

1:30-2:00pm  Genetically engineering insecticidal biopesticides and investigating their potential for evolution. Prof. Ray St. Leger

2:00-2:30pm  Title to be determined, Xingzhong lab

2:30-3:00pm  Comparative genomics of  the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae, Prof. Youliang Peng

3:00-3:30pm  Fueling the future with fungal genomics, Dr. Igor Grigoriev

 3:30-4:00pm  Break

Chair: Prof. Chengshu Wang

4:00-4:30pm  Genome dynamics and host specificity in Fusarium oxysporum species complex, Dr. Li-Jun Ma

4:30-5:00pm  Genome Evolution of Fungal Pathogens, Dr. Christina Cuomo

5:00-5:30pm  A systems biology perspective of a fungal lignocellulolytic enzyme system and its artificial evolution. Prof. Yinbo Qu

5:30-6:00pm  Genome sequencing of the cyclosporin producer Tolypocladium inflatum. Dr. Kathryn Bushley

6:30-7:30pm  Dinner

Chair: Prof. Raymond St. Leger

7:30-8:30 pm  Banquet Speech: Prof. Joan Bennett

 Oct. 25, Workshop:

 Chair: Dr. Jiujiang Yu

8:30-9:20am   How to dig out the selling points from the genome data，Chengshu Wang

10:30-11:20am  Genome browser and synteny analysis, Li-Jun Ma
 
Break

 9:20-10:10am   SMURF and fungal secondary metabolic pathway analysis, Jiujiang Yu

11:20-12:10am  Xinglai Ji

 12:30-1:30 Pot lunch

 Chair: Dr. Li-Jun Ma

2:00-2:40pm   Zhang Yu

2:40-3:30pm   Platform construction and secondary metabolite biosynthesis cluster analysis, Xinyu Zhang

  Break

3:50-4:20pm  Ruiqiang Li

4:20-5:10pm Construction of local database for protein family analysis, Guohua Xiao

6:00-8:00am  Dinner