Conference: Twenty-Fourth Fungal Genetics Conference to be held in Pacific Grove, California from March 20 -25, 2007.

第二十四届真菌遗传学会议将于2007年3月20日至25日在阿西洛马会议中心举行。来自世界各地的大约750-800名科学家和学生将参加。会议聚焦于丝状真菌的分子生物学、遗传学、基因组学、生物化学和细胞生物学。这个两年一度的会议促进了对植物病原体、医学病原体、腐殖真菌和共生真菌感兴趣的研究人员之间的互动。 所有与会者都留在会议场地上，这一事实促进了他们之间的非正式讨论，并在过去导致了新的合作和研究方向的发展。 正式会议将包括四次全体会议、四组同时举行的专门讨论专门领域的会议和三次海报会议。全体会议将涵盖的主题包括以下内容：1）基因组结构和动力学，2）宿主-病原体和共生体相互作用，3）发育和代谢，以及4）性别，时间和进化。同时举行的会议的主题将涵盖以下领域：1）全基因组比较分析，2）真菌-植物相互作用，3）接合菌和壶菌基因组学，生物技术和进化生物学，4）真菌生物学和遗传学教学，5）进化遗传学和基因组学，6）真菌与人类之间的关联，7）初级和次级代谢的调节，8）表观遗传学和基因组动力学，9）群体遗传学，10）基因组序列数据的生物学应用，11）生物膜，群体感应和触变，12）二态转换，13）共生和寄生（病毒、线虫、其他真菌和昆虫）相互作用，14）交配和性发育，15）RNA功能，16）昼夜节律和光生物学，17）后基因组时代的工业真菌学，18）蛋白质分泌的蛋白质组和后基因组方法，19）小分子和信号传导，20）细胞凋亡和营养不相容性，21）基因簇的进化，22）细胞形态发生和发育，23）信号转导和细胞表面受体，24）真菌生物学的酷工具：基因破坏和成像，25）卵菌研究和担子菌生物学的进展。从20世纪40年代开始，比德尔和塔图姆的工作，他们首先证明了遗传学和生物化学之间的关系，真菌已经作为模型真核生物，帮助理解基本的生物学过程。这次会议特别强调青年科学家和学生的参与，特别是代表性不足群体的青年科学家和学生的参与。它为许多人提供了第一次参加重大国际会议并展示其研究成果的机会，这是他们培训和专业发展的重要组成部分。资金将根据需要分配，用于支付学生、博士后研究人员和一些无法参加会议的年轻科学家的旅费和与会费用。

The Twenty Fourth Fungal Genetics Conference will be held at the Asilomar Conference Center from March 20-25, 2007. Approximately 750-800 scientists and students from around the world will attend. The conference focuses on the molecular biology, genetics, genomics, biochemistry and cell biology of filamentous fungi.This biennial conference promotes interaction between researchers interested in plant pathogens, medical pathogens, saprophytic fungi, and symbiotic fungi. All participants stay on the conference grounds, a fact that facilitates informal discussions among them and in the past has led to the development of new collaborations and research directions. The formal meeting will consist of four plenary sessions, four sets of concurrent sessions devoted to specialized areas, and three poster sessions. Topics to be covered in the plenary sessions include the following: 1) Genome structures and dynamics, 2) Host-pathogen and symbiotic interactions, 3) Development and metabolism, and 4) Sex, time, and evolution. Topics for the concurrent sessions will cover the following areas: 1)Whole genome comparative analysis, 2) Fungal-plant interactions, 3) Zygomycete and Chytrid genomics, biotechnology and evolutionary biology, 4)Teaching fungal biology and genetics, 5) Evolutionary genetics and genomics, 6) Associations between fungi and humans, 7)Regulation of primary and secondary metabolism, 8) Epigenetics and genome dynamics, 9) Population genetics, 10) Biological applications of genomic sequence data, 11) Biofilms, quorum sensing, and thigmotropism, 12) Dimorphic transitions, 13) Symbiotic and parasitic (viruses, nematodes, other fungi and insects) interactions, 14) Mating and sexual development, 15) RNA functions, 16) Circadian rhythms and photobiology, 17) Industrial mycology in the post-genomics era, 18) Proteome and postgenomic approaches to protein secretion, 19) Small molecules and signaling, 20) Apoptosis and vegetative incompatibility, 21) Evolution of gene clusters, 22) Cellular morphogenesis and development, 23) Signal transduction and cell surface receptors, 24) Cool tools for fungal biology: gene disruption and imaging, and 25) Advances in oomycete research and Basidiomycete biology.Beginning in the 1940s with the work of Beadle and Tatum, who first demonstrated the relationship between genetics and biochemistry, fungi have served as model eukaryotes, aiding in understanding of basic biological processes. This meeting places a strong emphasis on the participation of young scientists and students, particularly those from underrepresented groups. It provides many with their first opportunity to attend a major international conference and present their research findings, an important part of their training and professional development. Funds will be distributed on the basis of need and will be used to defray the travel and participation expenses of students, postdoctoral researchers, and some young scientists who would otherwise be unable to attend the meeting.