Special Interest Group Meeting

Fungal photobiology

Organiser

The meeting will review the latest news on fungal photoreceptors and photoresponses, and will allow the proposal of new avenues of research and collaborations. Proteins similar to WC-1 and WC-2, components of the Neurospora crassa photoreceptor and transcription factor complex, have been identified in most fungi, and many of them are required for their responses to light. In addition, most fungal genomes contain genes for other photoreceptors, but their roles in the fungal cell are largely unknown. The meeting will include invited talks describing the latest results on fungal photobiology with selected representatives of the fungal kingdom.

Confirmed speakers

Gerhard Brauss, Georg-August-University Goettingen, Germany
Coordination of fungal development and secondary metabolism by light

Victoriano Garre, University of Murcia, Spain
Functions of white collar-1 genes in the regulation of Mucor circinelloides photoresponses

Takashi Kamada, Okayama University, Japan
Regulation by light of fruiting-body development in the homobasidiomycete Coprinopsis cinerea

Julio Rodríguez-Romero, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Gene regulation mediated through a red- and blue-light sensing protein complex in Aspergillus nidulans

Gencer Sancar, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Hierarchical gene regulation in the Neurospora circadian clock

Programme

10.00
Luis M. Corrochano, University of Seville, Spain
Introduction

10.05
Gerhard Brauss, Georg-August-University Goettingen, Germany
Coordination of fungal development and secondary metabolism by light

10.30
Julio Rodríguez-Romero, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Gene regulation mediated through a red- and blue-light sensing protein complex in Aspergillus nidulans

10.55
Gencer Sancar, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Hierarchical gene regulation in the Neurospora circadian clock

11.20
Break

11.35
Victoriano Garre, University of Murcia, Spain
Functions of white collar-1 genes in the regulation of Mucor circinelloides photoresponses

12.00
Takashi Kamada, Okayama University, Japan
Regulation of fruiting body photomorphogenesis in Coprinopsis cinerea

12.25-12.30
General Discussion