FOCUSED MEETING 2016: THE DYNAMIC FUNGUS

Location: 

This Focused Meeting is being jointly hosted by the Microbiology Society and the British Mycological Society. It will take place at the Mercure Exeter Rougemont Hotel, Exeter, UK.

Start & end date: 

Monday, September 5, 2016 to Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Further information: 

Fungi display dynamics in all aspects of their biology, ranging from the control of intracellular motility to their migration across ecosystems. This meeting aims to celebrate the dynamic nature of fungi and provide an overview of some of the most cutting-edge current research in fungal biology. Initially the meeting will focus on the dynamic processes involved in the cell biology of fungi, and during the development and control of their cellular differentiation. The meeting will then concentrate on the dynamic nature of fungal pathogenicity, at both the level of host invasion and global movement of pathogens, before focusing on the dynamic nature of fungal genomes and their evolution and adaption. Finally, the meeting will explore how mathematical modelling can be used to explain the dynamic nature of fungi.

Organising committee: Steven Bates, Gero Steinberg, Sarah Gurr, Ken Haynes, Ivana Gudelj, Tom Richards, David Studholme and Nick Talbot (all University of Exeter, UK).

Key topics:

  • Dynamics of the fungal cell
  • Mathematical modelling in fungal science
  • Dynamics of cellular differentiation
  • Dynamics in fungal pathogenicity
  • Dynamic evolution and adaption of fungi

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