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Preliminary AMS Scientific Meeting Program, Canberra July 14-16, 2015 Tuesday 14th July 1200-2000 Pre-conference trip to Li-Sun Mushroom Tunnel at Mittagong Meet at 1130 at Mittagong Public Swimming Pool. Wednesday 15th July 0800 AMS registration desk open - Foyer QT Hotel Combined AMS-ASM meeting 0900 Invited Plenary Talk I – Professor Judith Berman, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University. 0945 Snowdon Oratory – Chris Baggoley, Chief Medical Officer, Australia 1030 Morning Tea (30 min) Joint ASM-AMS concurrent symposia: 1100 Symposium IA: Antimicrobials and resistance Room XXX Chair: TBA Presentation Title Melissa Brown 20 min TBA Rowena Martin 20 min TBA Dale Dominey-Howes 20 min TBA TBA 20 min TBA OR 1 1100 Symposium IB: Ecosystem Health Room XXX Chair: TBA Presentation Title Anthol Klieve 20 min TBA Martina Doblin 20 min TBA Jackie Aislabie 20 min TBA Ian Anderson 20 min TBA OR 1100 Symposium IC: Host Pathogen Interactions II Room XXX Chair: TBA Presentation Title Megan McDonald 20 min TBA Alex Andrianopoulos 20 min TBA Thomas Naderer 20 min TBA Rohit Jain 20 min TBA 1240 Lunch / ASM Mycology SIG meeting / ASM-AMS joint posters (80 min) 1400 Symposium 2: AMS-ASM Proffered papers Room XXX Chair: TBA Presentation Title TBA 10 min TBA TBA 10 min TBA TBA 10 min TBA TBA 10 min TBA TBA 10 min TBA 1450 Afternoon Tea (40 min) 2 Joint ASM-AMS concurrent symposia: 1520 Symposium 3A: Public Health Microbiology Room XXX Chair: TBA Presentation Title Amy Jennison 20 min TBA Peter Collignon 20 min TBA Monica Lahra 20 min TBA TBA 20 min TBA OR 1520 Symposium 3B: Mobile DNA Room XXX Chair: TBA Presentation Title Sally Partridge 20 min TBA Michael Gillings 20 min TBA Stephen Kwong 20 min TBA Julian Rood 20 min TBA OR 1520 Symposium 3C: Omics and Systems Biology Room XXX Chair: TBA Presentation Title Judith Berman 20 min TBA Peter Soloman 20 min TBA Marc Wilkins 20 min TBA James Fraser 20 min TBA (1700-1730 ASM closing address) 1900 AMS conference dinner at Boffins Restaurant, ANU 3 Thursday 16th July Venue - Innovations Theatre, Building 124, corner Eggleston and Garran Roads, Australian National University 0800 AMS registration desk open - outside Room 124 Australian National University 0855 Welcome and Housekeeping - AMS President John Dearnaley Room 124 0905 Invited Plenary Talk II – Professor Adrienne Hardham, Plant Pathogen Laboratory, Australian National University. 0950 Symposium 1: Plant-Pathogen Interactions Chair: Peter Solomon Kim Plummer Presentation Title 15 min Sex and ‘omics’ a powerful combo for hunting down fungal effectors Donald Gardiner 15 min How to be a good pathogen: molecular interactions in the Fusarium-wheat pathosystem Alex Idnurm 15 min Dissection of the Leptosphaeria macula – canola interaction Ann-Maree Catanzariti 15 min Deciphering the role of pathogen effectors in flax rust disease 1050 Morning tea (15 min) 1105 Symposium II: Fungal Ecology Chair: Celeste Linde Presentation Title Jennifer Walker 15 min Ecto- and endomycorrhizal dynamics in Eucalyptus species Elenora Egidi 15 min High throughput sequencing of soil fungal communities from overlooked Australian biomes Hayley Ridgway 15 min Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi associated with New Zealand native plants used in rongoā Māori (traditional Māori medicine) 4 Frank Gleason 15 min The potential ecological impacts of newly described true fungal and fungal-like parasites on wild vertebrate populations 1205 Lunch (85 min) 1205 Fungal Skills Workshop 1330 Symposium III: Molecular Mycology Chair: Julie Djordjevic Benjamin Schulz Presentation Title 15 min Form and function: glycoproteomics of the Saccharomyces cereviseae cell wall. Wieland Meyer 15 min TBA Richard Cannon 15 min Understanding and overcoming fungal resistance Mark Prescott 15 min Regulation of mitophagy in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae 1430 Symposium IV: Systematics Chair: John Dearnaley Tom May Presentation Title 15 min Modifications to the International Code of Nomenclature in support of modern fungal taxonomy Morwenna Boddington 15 min Molecular identification of mycorrhizal Russulaceae fungi Cecile Gueidan 15 min Molecular phylogeny of the tropical lichen family Pyrenulaceae Michael Whitehead 15 min Species delimitation and mycorrhizal specificity in Caladenia spider orchids 1530 Afternoon Tea/Posters (15 min) 5 1545 Symposium V: Applied Mycology Chair: Leona Campbell Jess Mowle Presentation Title 15 min Improving the recovery outcomes of the critically endangered Wollemi pine: is success determined by soil microbes? Ignatius Pang 15 min Hunting for anti-fungal chelator drug synergy using biological networks Andrew Milgate 15 min Characterising levels of fungicide resistance in the wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici Rosamond Godwin 15 min Development of commercial formulations of a fungal bio-control agent for house fly control 1700 Closing Address and Prizes 6
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