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Associated Meeting

Genomic methods in fungal community ecology (Fesin/Nordforsk Research Networks)

Organiser

Karen Hughes and Tom Bruns

1:00
Introduction to the session – Jean Lodge

1:10 – 1:30
Ongoing progress in sequencing fungal genomes and application to fungal population biology and ecology 
Jason Stajich 

1:45- 2:05
What not to do when doing 454 sequencing
Ari Jumpponen

2:15 – 2:35
Chytrid Metatranscriptomics 
Terri Porter and Rytas Vilgalys, Duke University

2:45 – 3:15
New features of UNITE - massBLASTer, 454 pipeline, global ITS key, annotating INSD sequences, etc.
Urmas Kõljalg -annotating INSD sequences, global ITS key and future developments.
Henrik Nilsson New features of UNITE II - massBLASTer, 454 pipeline

3:15 - 3:45
Tea/Coffee and Breakout sessions

  1. Automated classification/ How could a centralized reliable infrastructure for fungal metagenomics be constructed? Andrea Poras-Alfaro, Conrad Schoch, Urmas Kõljalg  (people interested in collaborating on an automated classification system should join this group)
  2. Fungal Genomes – priorities.  Jason Stajich and Karl-Henrik Larsson
  3. How can fungal data be made more useful to the community at large. Is depositing sequences in GenBank/NCBI sufficient? Some of the issues that we may consider would be SRA (Short Read Archive) and how to harvest data from there for meta-analyses, what are the metadata that we should request to be included, what is the best strategy for sequence accession (submit all or examples of unisequences). Tesfaye Wubet

3:45 – 4:15
Breakout session Reports (5-10 mins)