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BSPP2003: Plant Pathogen Genomics – From Sequence To Application
15th December 2003 - 18th December 2003
President: John Lucas
The BSPP Presidential meeting was held on 15-18th December, 2003 at the Jubilee Campus, University of Nottingham and titled ‘Plant-Pathogen Genomics – from Sequence to Application’. The BSPP President was Prof. John Lucas.
Meeting Details
Garrett Memorial Lecture
Twenty Five Years of resistance genes
Richard Michelmore, UC Davis, USA
Session 1: Why Use Genomics?
Structural and functional analysis of fungal pathogenesis: the rice blast fungus genome project
Ralph Dean, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
Genome Dynamics in Bacterial Pathogens
Julian Parkhill, Sanger Centre, Cambridge, UK
Using genomics to identify Pseudomonas syringae Type III effectors and determining their activities in plants
Jim Alfano, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
C. elegans and plant parasitic nematodes
Charlie Opperman, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
Session 2: The State Of The Art
Genome sequencing and functional genomics approaches in the battle against soft-rot Erwiniae
Ian Toth, Kenneth Bell, Julian Parkhill, Mohammed Sebaihia, Leighton Pritchard, Lizbeth Hyman & Paul Birch
Signalling in the U. maydis/maize pathosystem: what we can learn from expression profiling
Regina Kahmann
Genomic studies on the late blight pathogen, Phytophthora infestans
Paul Birch
Plant Virus Infections: Interactions between three genomes
Roger Hull
Session 3: Tools – Functional Genomics/ Bioinformatics
Functional genomics of plant infection by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea
Nicholas J. Talbot, Martin J. Gilbert, Michael J. Kershaw, Darren M. Soanes, Zheng Yi Wang, Joanna M. Jenkinson, Lucy J. Holcombe & Gurpreet Bhambra.
ColiBASE, an online resource for E. coli, Salmonella and Shigella comparative genomics
Roy R. Chaudhuri & Mark J. Pallen
Exploring the potential of plant virus sequences
Mike Adams and Jon Antoniw, Rothamsted Research, UK
RNAi in Plants
Jasmina Dedic, Varsha Wesley, Chris Helliwell, Ming-Bo Wang, Neil Smith, John Watson, and Peter Waterhouse
BSPP Presidential Address
Survival, surfaces, and susceptibility – the sensory biology of pathogens
John Lucas, Rothamsted Research, UK
Session 4: Emerging Insights Into Pathogens and their Interactions With Plant Hosts
Bioinformatic resources for studying phytopathogenic fungi: The COGEME phytopathogen EST database
Darren M. Soanes, and Nicholas J. Talbot
Microbial history revealed by genome analysis
Siv G. E. Andersson, Bastien Bosseau, Wagied Davids, Carolin Frank, Hans-Henrik Fuxelius, Olof Karlberg, Lisa Klasson, Boris Legault, Hillevi Lindross, Gabor Nyori
Plant-viroid interactions
Ricardo Flores
Pathogenomics and finding effectors, their function and the affected
John Mansfield, Marta de Torres, George Tsiamis, Hassan Ammouneh, Andy Pitman, Dawn Arnold, Rob Jackson & Jens Boch
Pathogenicity and trichothecene mycotoxin production by the ear blight pathogens Fusarium graminearum and F. culmorum
Martin Urban, Thomas Baldwin, Arsalan Daudi, Dimitry Kornyukhin, Frances Trail & Kim E. Hammond-Kosack
Molecular Dissection of the Stagonospora nodorum wheat interaction
Richard P. Oliver, Peter S. Solomon, Kar-Chun Tan, T.J. Greer Wilson & Robert Lee
Sensing, signalling and stress in the barley powdery mildew fungus
S.J. Gurr, Z. Zhang, C. Henderson & E. Perfect
Molecular Analysis of Pathogenicity of Leptosphaeria maculans
Barbara Howlett, Candace Elliott, Alex Idnurm, Donald Gardiner, Soledade Pedras, Marie-Helene Balesdent, Franoise Blaise, Michel Meyer, Estelle Remy & Thierry Rouxel
Multiple Layers of Host Resistance to Pathogens
J. Parker, B. Feys, L. Moisan, N. Medina-Escobar, M. Wiermer, S. Betsuyaku, P. Muskett, & L. Nol
Session 5: Applications
The use of multi-locus sequence typing to study the epidemiology and molecular evolution of Candida albicans
A. Tavanti, A. Davidson, N.A.R. Gow, M. J. Maiden & F.C. Odds
Sequencing Aspergillus fumigatus a remarkable human pathogen and allergen
David W. Denning
Fungicide resistance diagnostics based on sequence analysis
Bart Fraaije
Genomics: A new dimension to fungal taxonomy
Pedro W. Crous
Can crop genomic technologies really impact commercial crop protection?
John E. Hamer
Beyond gene-for-gene. Where we go from here in understanding the Cladosporium fulvum tomato interaction
Pierre J.G.M. de Wit
