2012 Cellular & Molecular Fungal Biology Gordon Research Conference, 17-22 June 2012, Holderness, New Hampshire

戈登细胞和分子真菌生物学研究会议的重点是真菌的生物学，包括但不限于丝状真菌。它汇集了成熟的和年轻的研究人员，来自学术界、工业界和教育界的研究人员，以及那些研究感染人和植物的真菌的研究人员，那些回收聚合物的研究人员和那些合成生物燃料的研究人员。这些真核生物是生物学的模型，在社会上作为共生体（共生、寄生虫和病原体）和工业（食品、化学和制药制造，包括将植物生物质转化为运输燃料的重要酶）具有重要意义。今年会议的主题包括共生体（共生体和病原体）和防御病毒和水平转移的DNA；真菌小RNA和真菌群体基因组学的新研究领域；丝状真菌系统生物学新研究领域；最近重新引起兴趣的领域，包括植物生物量的真菌转化；以及丝状细胞生长发育的核心区域，即细胞骨架和马达、膜运输和极性。这次会议在丝状真菌的定期会议中是独一无二的，因为它规模小，它强调由经验丰富的研究人员领导的讨论，它有意识地避免与其他会议重复的主题，并且它有很大比例的年轻科学家向整个小组做口头报告。会议组织者致力于通过在邀请演讲者时强调女性和代表性不足群体的成员来扩大研究界。会议规模小，强调讨论，鼓励积极参与。海报会议的特点是没有竞争活动，将注意力集中在最年轻的科学家身上，他们通常拥有最新的数据。在会议前不久，四分之一的演讲者将从提交海报摘要的人中选出，以使最年轻科学家的工作引起整个会议的注意。本次会议还致力于将基础知识应用于涉及丝状真菌的重要社会问题的研究，特别是与植物的相互作用（菌根），植物寄生（植物病理学）和动物（动物病理学），以及工业真菌学（酶生产）。关注基础研究和社会重要研究的研究人员之间的互动将加速旨在解决真菌引起的社会问题和旨在提高真菌提供的社会效益的研究。

The Gordon Research Conference on Cell and Molecular Fungal Biology focuses on the biology of fungi, including but not exclusively filamentous fungi. It brings together established and young researchers, researchers from academia and industry and education, and those who work on fungi that infect people and plants, those that recycle polymers, and those that synthesize biofuels. These eukaryotes serve as models for biology and are socially important as symbionts (mutualists, parasites, and pathogens) and in industry (food, chemical, and pharmaceutical manufacture, including enzymes important for conversion of plant biomass to transportation fuels). Featured topics at this year's conference include symbioses (mutualists and pathogens) and defense from viral and horizontally transferred DNA; areas of new research in fungal small RNA and fungal population genomics; areas of new research in filamentous fungal systems biology; areas of recently revitalized interest, inlcuding fungal conversion of plant biomass; and the core area of filamentous growth and development, that is, cytoskeleton and motors, membrane trafficking, and polarity. This conference is unique among regularly scheduled meetings on filamentous fungi in that it is small, that it emphasizes discussions led by experienced researchers, that it consciously avoids duplication of topics with other meetings, and that it has a large percentage of young scientists making oral presentations to the entire group. The conference organizers are dedicated to broadening the research community by emphasizing women and members of underrepresented groups in inviting speakers. The small size of the meeting and the emphasis on discussion encourages active participation. Poster sessions are featured without competing events to focus attention on the most junior scientists, who often have the newest data. Shortly before the meeting, one quarter of the speakers will be chosen from those submitting poster abstracts to bring the work of the youngest scientists to the attention of the entire meeting. This conference also is dedicated to research that applies basic knowledge to socially important questions involving filamentous fungi, particularly mutualisms with plants (mycorrhizae), parasitism on plants (plant pathology) and animals (animal pathology), and industrial mycology (enzyme production). The interactions among researchers focused on both basic and socially important research will accelerate research aimed at solving social problems caused by fungi and research aimed at improving social benefits provided by fungi.