The Hyphal Tip

Registration opens today for the 25th Fungal Genetics conference at Asilomar. The preliminary program is also available with a great slate of speakers already lined up and plenty of opportunity for many students and postdocs to present their work.

The 24th conference help in 2007 was great and expect a similar great opportunity for sharing science and networking with the fungal genetics community.

Related links

• Attend Fungal Genetics 2009!
• Fungal Genetics 2007 summary

If you are interested in fungal genetics and genomics, comparative biology, and of course dancing with fungal geneticists, plan to attend the 25th Fungal Genetics Meeting held at the beautiful Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove, California. Below is info sent out from the Policy Committee and registration opens in a little over a month.  Budding (and conidiating) artists can also submit a Logo design

Just finished attending Genetics and Cell Biology of Basidiomycetes in Cape Girardeau, MO which was an intimate gathering of basidiomycetaphiles.  I learned about systems that are used for studying fruiting body development, genetic mapping, pheromone and mating genes, kinesin dynamics, meoitic gene regulation, and a host of topics.  I’m happy I got a chance to meet more folks in the community and learned about where informatics is needed

A few of the summer meetings that relate to fungal biology and evolution. 

• Genetics and Cell Biology of Basidiomycetes, May 28-June 1, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO. Registration deadline April 25.
• North American Pombe Meeting, June 6-8, Los Angeles, CA. Registration deadline May 14.
• Cellular & Molecular Fungal Biology Gordon Conference, June 29-July 4, The Holderness School, Holderness, NH. Registration deadline June 8 (if it doesn’t fill up sooner).
• Yeast Genetics and Molecular

I’m including a recapping as many of the talks as I remember. There were 6 concurrent sessions each afternoon so you have to miss a lot of talks. The conference was bursting at the seams as it was- at least 140 people had to be turned away beyond the 750 who attended.

If there was any theme in the conference it was “Hey we are all using these genome sequences”.