Twenty Sixth Fungal Genetics Conference

描述(申请人提供)：第26届真菌遗传学会议将于2011年3月15-20日在Asilomar会议中心举行。来自世界各地的大约900-1000名科学家和学生将参加会议。这一两年一次的会议的一个主要目标是促进传播真菌生物学各方面的最新研究成果，重点是丝状真菌。另一个重要目标是促进对医学病原体感兴趣的研究人员与那些致力于植物病原体、腐生真菌和共生真菌的研究人员之间的交流与合作，以增加对传染性真菌疾病的研究。更好地了解真菌的生物学及其与宿主和环境的相互作用将导致治疗真菌疾病的疗法的发展。会议将包括四次全体会议、四组涉及专门领域的并行会议和三次海报会议。四次全体会议的主题领域是：基因组进化、调控网络、生长和繁殖以及共生。27个并行主题包括：感染人类的真菌，紧急真菌疾病，杀菌剂和抗真菌药物，基因组防御机制，表观遗传学和RNAi，系统和合成生物学，细胞周期，发育和形态发生，胁迫信号，ROS信号和细胞程序性死亡，真菌效应，丝状真菌的高通量方法，芯片/芯片-序列：蛋白质与DNA的相互作用，生物燃料和生物能源，分泌物，内吞和膜运输，真菌中性别的进化，种群基因组学和真菌生物学和遗传学教学，等等。本次会议高度重视青年科学家和学生的参与，特别是来自代表性不足群体的青年科学家和学生的参与。许多人第一次有机会在大型国际会议上展示他们的研究成果。申请的资金用于支付学生、博士后研究人员和一些青年科学家的旅费和参与费，并将根据需要分配。 与公共卫生相关：这次会议汇集了研究大多数主要真菌系统的真菌生物学家，并促进了医学真菌学家之间的交流和合作，他们致力于研究导致人类疾病的真菌，以及那些致力于植物病原体、腐生菌和共生真菌的科学家。这种互动使从事真菌研究的学生找到并追求机会，从事传染病的研究事业，以减少真菌对人类健康的影响。真菌也是理解人类疾病的重要模式系统，因为真菌中存在许多与动物疾病相关的基因。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The 26th Fungal Genetics Conference will be held at the Asilomar Conference Center from March 15-20, 2011. Approximately 900-1000 scientists and students from around the world will attend. A main goal of this biennial meeting is to promote the dissemination of the latest research on all aspects of the biology of fungi with a focus on filamentous fungi. Another important goal is to promote communication and collaboration between researchers interested in medical pathogens, and those working with plant pathogens, saprobic fungi and symbiotic fungi to increase research on infectious fungal diseases. A better understanding of the biology and interactions of fungi with their hosts and environment will lead to development of therapeutics to treat fungal diseases. The meeting will consist of four plenary sessions, four sets of concurrent sessions covering specialized areas, and three poster sessions. Topics areas of the four plenary sessions are: Genome evolution, Regulatory Networks, Growth and Reproduction and Symbioses. The 27 concurrent session topics include: Fungi that infect humans, Emergent fungal diseases, Fungicides and antifungals, Genome defense mechanisms, epigenetics and RNAi, Systems and synthetic biology, Cell cycle, development and morphogenesis, Stress signaling, ROS signaling and programmed cell death, Fungal effectors, High throughput methods for filamentous fungi, ChiP-chip/ChiP-seq: protein interactions with DNA, Biofuels and Bioenergy, Secretion, endoyctosis and membrane trafficking, Evolution of sex in fungi, Population genomics and Teaching fungal biology and genetics, to name a few. This meeting places a strong emphasis on the participation of young scientists and students, particularly those from underrepresented groups. Many have their first opportunity to present their research at a major international conference. Funds are requested to help defray the travel and participation costs of students, postdoctoral researchers and some young scientists, and will be distributed on a need basis. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This conference brings together fungal biologists working on most major fungal systems and promotes communication and collaboration between Medical mycologists, working on fungi that cause disease on humans and those working on plant pathogens, saprobes and symbiotic fungi. This interaction allows students working on fungi to find and pursue opportunities for research careers in Infectious diseases towards reducing the impact of fungi on human health. Fungi also serve as important model systems to understand human disease based on the presence in fungi of many genes related to those involved in animal diseases.