Stromlo 2015 programme
Tuesday 1st December
8.55-9.00
Peter Solomon
Welcome and introduction
Session 1 Megan McDonald (Chair)
9.00-9.30
Diana Ramirez-Garces
Unravelling CRN effector functions: insights into CRN13s from the phytopathogen oomycete Aphanomyces euteiches and the animal pathogenic chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
9.30-10.00
Xiaoxiao (Arwen) Zhang
Structural and functional investigation for plant TIR domain interaction
10.00-10.15
Jason Carere
Investigating the role of a putative beta-xylanase during infection of wheat by Fusarium graminearum
10.15-10.30
Kim Plummer
Comparative transcriptomics/genomics to identify a specific effector in the scab fungus
10.30-11.00 Morning tea
Session 2 Adam Taranto (Chair)
11.00-11.30
Carl Mesarich
Harnessing the power of transcriptome sequencing to identify avirulence effector genes of the tomato pathogen Cladosporium fulvum
11.30-12.00
Eli Thynne
HGT and gene loss shape the evolutionary path of three emerging pathogens in Australia
12.00-12.15
Brendan Kidd
Molecular dissection of host and non-host interactions with Rhizoctonia solani
12.15-12.30
Andrew Milgate
Same, same but different, Zymoseptoria tritici fungicide resistance in Australia
12.30-1.30 Lunch
Session 3 Katherine Zulak (Chair)
1.30-2.00
Veronica Roman Reyna
Relocation of energy during wheat stripe rust
2.00-2.30
Mariano Jordi Muria Gonzalez
Blowin' in the wind: Parastagonospora nodorum bioactive VOCs
2.30-2.45
Megan Outram
Elucidating the structural basis of effector-induced susceptibility in Parastagonospora nodorum - wheat interactions
2.45-3.00
Rohan Lowe
Combining transcriptomics and proteomics to characterise the secreted peptidases of Fusarium graminearum
3.00-3.30 Afternoon tea
Session 4 Rohan Lowe (Chair)
3.30-4.00
Angela Van de Wouw
Does RIP in Leptosphaeria maculans occur during mitosis?
4.00-4.30
Alison Testa
AT-rich regions in fungal genomes
4.30-4.45
Jana Sperschneider
EffectorP: predicting fungal effector proteins from secretomes using machine learning
4.45-5.00
Adam Taranto
Cross-cultivar transcriptomics in polyploid hosts - A novel method for comparing pathogen-induced gene expression between non-model host varieties
Wednesday 2nd December
Session 5 Carl Mesarich (Chair)
9.00-9.30
Stella Cesari
Cytosolic activation of cell death and wheat stem rust resistance by self-associated MLA-related CC-NLR proteins
9.30-10.00
Benjamin Schwessinger
What makes a good plant plasma membrane localized immune receptor?
10.00-10.15
Ricky Milne
Functional analysis of a plant defense sugar transporter
10.15-10.30
Jiapeng Chen
Genomics analysis of Barley leaf rust pathogen Puccinia hordei
10.30-11.00 Morning tea
Session 6 Liz Czislowski (Chair)
11.00-11.30
Matthew Campbell
Hybrid gene expression: Parental divergence guides post-genome merger gene expression patterns
11.30-12.00
Anita Severn-Ellis
In search of durable resistance to Guava wilt disease
12.00-12.15
Ailisa Blum
A FACS based forward screen identifies a constitutive allele of adenylyl cyclase activating toxin production in Fusarium graminearum
12.15-12.30
James Hane
CCDM Bioinformatics – comparative pathogenomics and effector prediction
12.30-1.30 Lunch
Session 7 Alison Testa (Chair)
1.30-2.00
Louise Thatcher
Comparative genomics and transcriptome studies for effector prediction in legume-infecting Fusarium wilt pathogens
2.00-2.30
Huyen Phan
Modelling effector-receptor interactions and susceptibility to septoria nodorum blotch in wheat
2.30-2.45
Jo Bowen
The genome sequence of two isolates of Neonectria ditissima, the causal agent of European canker of apple, differing in virulence
2.45-3.00
Ismail Ismail
Proteomics of the filtrates from barley and barley grass isolates of Pyrenophora teres f. teres
3.00-3.30 Afternoon tea
Session 8 Oliver Mead (Chair)
3.30-4.00
Sam Periyannan
MutRenSeq for rapid isolation of R genes
4.00-4.15
Lukas Hunziker
Dothistroma needle blight: searching for effectors and methods to test them in pines
4.15-4.30
Kath De Boer
A role for the lupin beta-conglutin seed storage proteins in plant defence against fungal plant pathogens
4.30-4.35
Peter Solomon
Closing remarks