Division F Program for the 102nd Annual ASM Meeting

Business/Social Gatherings

Division F Social Mixer; Monday, 7 PM; Savoy Room at the Grand America Hotel

Medical Mycology Society of the Americas Banquet; Tuesday evening. See this site for information.

Annual Division F Business Meeting; Wednesday at Noon

Division F-Sponsored Sessions

Conserved and Overlapping Strategies of Human and Plant Fungal Pathogens

Monday, May 20 2:30 p.m-5:00 p.m.

Conveners: J. Heitman, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Durham, NC and N.P. Keller, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Signaling Cascades Governing Differentiation and Virulence of Cryptococcus neoformans
J. Heitman Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Durham, NC

Signal Transduction Regulation of Aspergillus Growth, Development and Toxin Production
N.P. Keller Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Genomic and Genetic Approaches to Explore Virulence in Basidiomycete Fungal Pathogens
J. Kronstad Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, CANAD

Mating Type Loci: MAP Kinase Signalling Pathways and their Role in Pathogenicity in P. carinii
A. G. Smulian Univ. of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH

Dissecting the Disease Cycle of Coccidiodes immitis, the Valley Fever Fungus
M. J. Orbach Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Functional Genomic Approaches for Tracking Fungal Pathogenesis

Tuesday, May 21 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.

Conveners: W. E. Goldman, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO and B. Cormack, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Structure of Gene Families Associated with Antigenic Variation in Pneumocystis carinii
J. R. Stringer Univ. of Cincinnati, OH

Identifying New Drug Targets Using Genomics
C. A. Hitchcock Pfizer Global Research & Development, Kent, UNITED KINGDOM

Genetic Analysis of Virulence in the Yeast Pathogen Candida glabrata
B. Cormack The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

A Proteomic Approach to Identification of Virulence Gene in C. neoformans
J. Lodge St. Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO

Genomic Analysis of Macrophage-Candida Interactions
M. C. Lorenz Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA

New Concepts in Physiology and Biochemistry of Pathogenic Fungi

Wednesday, May 22 8:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.

Conveners: J. Woods, Univ. of Wisconsin Med. Sch., Madison, WI and A. Casadevall, Albert Einstein Coll. Of Med., Bronx, NY

Polysaccharide Capsule Synthesis in Cryptococcus neoformans
T. L. Doering Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO

Cryptococcus neoformans Interactions with Amoeba Suggest an Explanation for its Virulence and Intracellular Pathogenic Strategy in Macrophages
A. Casadevall Albert Einstein Coll. of Med., Bronx, NY

Responsiveness of Histoplasma capsulatum to the Host Environment
J. Woods Univ. of Wisconsin Med. Sch., Madison, WI

Evolutionary Biology Applied to Medically Important Fungi: New Concepts and Old Mysteries
J. W. Taylor Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA

New Concepts in Candida Biofilm Formation
M. A. Ghannoum Case Western Reserve University/Univ. Hosp., Cleveland, OH

Linkage of Innate and Adaptive Immunity to Fungi

Wednesday, May 22 2:30 p.m.-5:00p.m.

Conveners: G. S. Deepe, Jr., Univ. of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH and G. B. Huffnagle, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Division F Lecture: Sugars of Cryptococcus neoformans: Sweet Success or Yeast Decay?
S. M. Levitz Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA

Role of Innate Immunity and Fungal Virulence Factors in the Development of Adaptive Immunity
G. B. Huffnagle Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Sensing Fungi and Tuning Immune Responses by Dendritic Cells
L. L. Romani Univ. of Perugia, Perugia, ITALY

HIS62 Innate and Adaptive Immune Recognition: What Makes a Molecule an Antigen, and What makes an Antigen Protective
F. J. Gomez Univ. of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

Chemokines and the Innate Defense of the Lung Against Aspergillus fumigatus
B. Mehrad Univ. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas TX

Other Sessions of Interest to Division F Members

Evolving Paradigms in Microbial Pathogenesis Developmentally Regulated Gene Expression in Eukaryotic Pathogens

Monday, May 20 8:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.

Conveners: B.S. Klein, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison WI and J. Boothroyd, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Toxoplasma
J. Boothroyd Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Candida
P. Sundstrom The Ohio State Univerrsity, Columbus, OH

Translational Control of Stage-Specific Gene Exprression in the Intracellular Form of the Protozoan Parasite Leishmania: A Novel Common Mechanism of Gene Regulation
B. Papadopolou Universite Laval, Ste-Foy, PQ, CANADA

Blastomyces
B.S. Klein Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI