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12.00pm - 5.00pm

WORKSHOP

Clinical Mycology Workshop | University of Technology Sydney

 (workshop registration required)

1.00pm - 4.00pm

WORKSHOP

Fungal Foray | Lane Cove Bushland Park

 (RSVP required)

Conference Opening & Plenary Presentation   

Sunday 4 July 2010  |  6.00pm

Plenary Hall, Bayside Auditorium A

presentation title tba

Nobel Laureate Professor Harald zur Hausen

German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg Germany

**The Bazeley Oration is made possible with support from CSL

Welcome Reception cocktail function

8.00pm - 9.30pm

Exhibition Hall - included with registration

Monday 5 July 2010

PLENARY PRESENTATION    Monday 5 July 2010  |  8.30am

Plenary Hall, Bayside Auditorium A

presentation title tba

Professor Aaron Mitchell

Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, USA

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING - Australasian Mycological Society

 Tuesday 6 July 2010  |  9.15am

Bayside 106

Fungal Phylogeny & Taxonomy    Monday 5 July 2010  |  10.30am

Bayside 106

Biostatus and distribution assessments for Australian Fungi

Dr Tom May

Defining genetic species limits in Colletotrichum

Dr Bevan Weir

Postdoctoral Researcher, Landcare Research, Auckland New Zealand

New Indigenous species of Hebeloma in Australia

Dr Betty Rees

Honorary Research Associate, Faculty of Science, BEES, University of NSW, Sydney

Dr David Orlovich

Senior Lecturer, Department of Botany, Univeristy Of Otago, Dunedin New Zealand

A model based "unified species concept" for the Lecanoromycetes: fool's errand or practical solution?

Benjamin Myles

Department of Botany, Univeristy Of Otago, Dunedin New Zealand

Dr David Orlovich

Senior Lecturer, Department of Botany, Univeristy Of Otago, Dunedin New Zealand

PLENARY PRESENTATION - ASM FENNER LECTURE    Monday 5 July 2010  |  1.15pm

Plenary Hall, Bayside Auditorium A

Presentation title tbc

Associate Professor Elizabeth Hartland

Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC

**The Fenner Lecture is made possible with support from the Australian Society for Microbiology 

Fungal Population Genetics & Epidemiology    Monday 5 July 2010  |  2.00pm

Bayside 106

MLST Typing of Scedosporium aurantiacum

Azian Harun

Molecular Mycology Research Laboratory, CIDM, Sydney Medical School - Westmead Hospital, University of Sydney, NSW

Population genetics of the emerging human pathogenic yeasts Candida glabrata and Candida krusei

Associate Professor Wieland Meyer

Head Molecular Mycology Research Laboratory, Centre For Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Sydney Medical School - Westmead, University of Sydney, Westmead Hospital, NSW

Molecular Epidemiology of Australian cryptococcal VGII isolates

Dr Fabian Cariconde

Postdoctorial Fellow, Molecular Mycology Research Laboratory, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Sydney Medical School - Westmead, University of Sydney, Westmead Hospital, NSW

The origin of the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis,
the cause of chytridomycosis in frogs

Associate Professor Russell Poulter

Associate Professor in Genetics, Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, Dunedin New Zealand

Mycology Poster Session    Monday 5 July 2010  |  3.35pm

Exhibition Hall

Poster Discussion Session: Authors standing next to posters for informal discussion during afternoon tea break - Mycology Posters

Biocontrol with Fungi    Monday 5 July 2010  |  4.30pm

Bayside 106

Fungal control of livestock ectoparasites

Dr Diana Leemon

Senior Scientist, Department Of Employment Economic Development And Innovation, Agri-Science Qld, Moorooka QLD

Aflatoxin control through competitive inhibition with selected Aspergillus strains

Dr John Pitt

Honorary Research Fellow, CSIRO Food And Nutritional Sciences, North Ryde NSW

Fungal control of plant pathogens

Dr Dean Metcalf

Endophytes: An unexplored dimension to biocontrol of pests and pathogens

Associate Professor Peter McGee

School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, NSW

**Shared Session - ASM & AMS Programs

SY06/AMS03: Clinical Mycology    Monday 5 July 2010  |  4.30pm

Plenary Hall, Bayside Auditorium A

Fungal eye infections

Dr Jenny Robson

Microbiologist & Infectious Diseases, Sulivan Nicolaides Pathology, Brisbane QLD

What’s new in the diagnostic front in invasive Candidiasis

Anna Lau

Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Westmead Hospital, University of Sydney, Westmead NSW

Antifungal susceptibility testing: clinical relevance

Associate Professor David Ellis

Head, Mycology Unit, Women's and Children's Hospital, North Adelaide SA

New Issues with Black Fungi

Associate Professor Sharon Chen

Senior Staff Specialist, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Westmead Hospital, NSW

AMS Dinner    Monday 5 July 2010  |  8.00pm

Venue: tba

Dinner not included with conference registration

Email AMS Program Coordinator for details: Associate Professor Wieland Meyer

Tuesday 6 July 2010

Fungal Ecology    Tuesday 6 July 2010  |  8.30am

Bayside 106

Macrofungal communities and their substrate associations - a comparison of four Tasmanian vegetation types

Dr Sapphire McMullan-Fisher

The effects of timber harvesting on macrofungal communities in the
jarrah forest - results from 5 years of FORESTCHECK monitoring

Dr Richard Robinson

The ties that bind: interrelationships among flora, fauna and fungi help maintain forests

Dr Andrew Claridge

Sampling strategies in assessment of fungal diversity using molecular methods

Dr Morag Glen

Fungal-Plant Interactions    Tuesday 6 July 2010  |  10.30am

Bayside 106

Orchid mycorrhizas – a disproportionate focus on the minutiae?

Dr John Dearneley

Senior Lecturer in Cellular and Molecular Biology, Department of Biological and Physical Sciences, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba QLD

Why are culturable fungi found in roots of plants?

Dr Tom Mukasa-Mugerwa

Fungal Interactions in Grapevine

Dr Melanie Weckert

Research Scientist, Charles Sturt University, National Wine & Grape Industry Centre, Wagga Wagga NSW

Using mutants to explore mycorrhizal responses to a changing environment

Dr Tim Cavagnaro

Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Australian Centre for Biodiversity, Clayton VIC

Molecular Aspects of Fungal Pathogenesis    Tuesday 6 July 2010  |  1.15pm

Bayside 106

Pathogenicity and toxin discovery in Stagonospora nodorum, the necrotrophic wheat pathogen

Dr Peter Solomon

Laboratory Leader, Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra ACT

Functional genomics in Fusarium pathogens of plants

Dr Don Gardiner

Mechanisms controlling morphogenesis
in the human fungal pathogen Penicillium marneffei

Associate Professor Alex Andrianopoulous

Regulation of cell wall biogenesis in Candida albicans by the post-transcriptional regulator Ccr4-Pop2

Dr Ana Travern

A Systems Biology Approach to Understanding the Oxidative Stress
Response in the Fungal Pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans

Dr Leona Campbell

Post-Doctoral Research Associate, School of Molecular Bioscience, University of Sydney, NSW

PLENARY PRESENTATION    Tuesday 6 July 2010  |  3.30pm

Bayside 106

Presentation title tbc

Professor Barbara Howlettt

School of Botany, University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC

Mycology Proffered Papers    Tuesday 6 July 2010  |  4.30pm

Bayside 106

Based on Mycology abstract submissions accepted as oral presentations.

Chairs: Dr. Anna Hopkins and Dr. David Orlovich