Special Interest Group Meeting

Filamentous fungi as model systems in eukaryotic cell biology

Organiser

Lene Lange, Aalborg University, Copenhagen Institute of Technology, Denmark

This special interest group will present state a broad perspective of the art within research in filamentous fungi. The session will be a safari through mycological model systems, including both Ascomycetes (Trichoderma, Aspergillus, and Neurospora) and Basidiomycetes (Coprinus and Paxillus). Some of the very best mycologists will be our special guides. Initially we will have an update on the most important use of fungal products for making more sustainable solutions possible. Lastly, we will together take the helicopter view and try to put in a global perspective what we learned about using model species to study filamentous fungi and how we should go about in future.

List of speakers

Amanda Fischer, Novozymes, US
- Production of blends of recombinant and wild type proteins in the filamentous fungus Trichoderma, making 2.gen biomass conversion a reality

Charissa de Bekker and Han Wösten, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
- Assessing heterogeneity in the mycelium of Aspergillus niger

Jens Cristian Frisvad, Technical University of Denmark
- Aspergillus som model for the fungal metabolome

J. Dunlap, Department of Genetics, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH
- Thinking beyond genome sequences: Large scale High-throughput Functional Genomics in Neurospora

John W. Taylor, University of California, Berkeley, US
- Use of model species for studying fungal human pathogens (tbc)

Anders Tunlid, University of Lund, Sweden
- Progress within development of Paxillus as model for studying mycorrhiza

Ursula Kües, University of Göttingen, Germany
- Coprinopsis cinerea, the perfect model to use for studying genomics, genetics and biology