Sunday, 17 October 2004: 1:00 PM-5:00 PM

Classroom - 307 (Illinois Central College)

AGFD: Mycotoxins

Mycotoxins are secondary metabolites produced by fungi that are toxic and carcinogenic to both animals and man. Due to their potential occurrence in a variety of agricultural commodities, diverse research programs are directed at understanding mycotoxin biosynthetic pathways and their genetic controls. Topics presented will describe proteomic and sequence driven approaches to identify high-value target proteins/genes and projects directed at elucidating the role some of these genes play in toxin synthesis as well as plant/fungal interactions.
Organizer:Daren Brown
1:00 PM Fungal Proteomics at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Pnnl)
Scott E. Baker, Jon Magnuson, Ellen Panisko, Linda Lasure
1:40 PM Finding homes for orphan secondary metabolites: a genomic approach
Lori Maggio-Hall, Jin Woo Bok, Nancy Keller
2:05 PM Utilizing EST libraries to investigate the regulation of the fumonisin gene cluster in Fusarium verticillioides
Robert A.E. Butchko, Daren W. Brown, Robert H. Proctor
2:30 PM Profiling of genes related to aflatoxin formation using Aspergillus flavus microarray
Jiujiang Yu, Deepak Bhatnagar, Thomas E. Cleveland
2:55 PM Break
3:20 PM Functional analysis of the polyketide synthase genes in Gibberella zeae
Shidad I. Gaffoor, Daren W. Brown, Weihong Qi, Frances Trail
3:45 PM Fungal secondary metabolites as fitness and pathogenicity factors: A closer look at fumonisin B1
Anthony E. Glenn, L.D. Williams, R.T. Riley
4:10 PM The role of the veA gene in fungal secondary metabolism
Ana M. Calvo, Naoki Kato, Wilhelmina Brooks
4:35 PM Fumonisin biosynthesis by Fusarium verticillioides in a corn kernel microenvironment
Charles P. Woloshuk

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