Fall 2000 Calendar

August 24, 2000

Organizational Meeting

September 1, 2000

Summer meeting presentations by Scott Gold and Tony Glenn

September 7, 2000

Celeste Leander, Charla Haarbauer, and Sharon Mozley will all present summer meeting talks from both MSA (Mycological Society of America) and ISEP (International Society of Evolutionary Protozoologists) meetings

September 14, 2000

Dr. Hanlin will present on the Herbarium collection and Dr. Porter will present on "Fungi are part of the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory(ATBI) in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park."

September 21, 2000

Dr. Jonathan D. Walton
from MSU DOE Plant Research Laboratory at Michigan State University will give a talk on "Evolution of a Plant Disease Interaction: the Example of Cochliobolus carbonum and Maize" sponsored by The Plant Center.

September 28, 2000

MDG President Karen Snyder will be talking about mine reclaimation and mycorrhizae

October 3, 2000

Dr. Harald Scherm from the Department of Plant Pathology will give a talk entitled "Ecology of Monilinia vaccinii-corymbosi, the amazing fungus that causes mummy berry disease of blueberry"
Click on his name to learn more about his research.

Monday October 9, 2000
4:00 PM in 2401 Miller Plant Sciences

Dr. Keith Clay from Indiana University will give a presentation on "Effects of fungi on plant communities: Lessons from grasslands, mountaintops and forests."
He will also be leading a discussion about endophytes with the Fungal Ecology class at 8:00 AM on Tuesday, October 10th in 2507 Miller Plant Sciences. All interested persons are welcome to join us. To read more about his research, click on his name above.

October 19, 2000

Tony Glenn will present a scary Halloween-themed presentation on Fungi in popular culture. Treats will be served. Be there or be scared!!

THURSDAY Oct. 19
and FRIDAY Oct. 20

FRIDAY Oct.20 ECOLOGY SEMINAR: "Fungi in Freshwater Ecosystems," by Dr. Carol Shearer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (Host: Dr. Cathy Pringle,542-4289; pringle@sparc.ecology.uga.edu)
12:20pm Ecology Auditorium

November 1, 2000

Dr. Zhao from the CCRC will share with us his previous research. His talk is entitled, "White rot fungi:physiology and molecular biology of lignocellulose degradation." So come and enjoy some good rotting fungi!

Monday November 6, 2000

"Dynein/Dynactin-mediated nuclear migration in Aspergillus"
Dr. N. Ron Morris Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
The focus of Dr. Morris's laboratory is on understanding nuclear migration, a process fundamental to the growth and development of eukaryotic organisms. They have collected a large number of nud (nuclear distribution) mutants in which nuclear migration is inhibited and are using them to identify and study the genes and proteins involved. One of these genes turns out to be important in human disease.
To learn more about Ron's work and to see some wonderful movies go to his homepage at http://www2.umdnj.edu/rmlabweb/index.html

November 9, 2000

Our presenter will be Dr. Sheng-Cheng Wu. His talk will focus on Magnaporthe grisea, the causal agent of Rice Blast and he will give us an overview of his work. The presentation is entitled
"In Search of Anti-fungal Targets from the Rice Blast Fungus,".
Dr. Wu is an Assistant Research Scientist at the Complex Carbohydrate Center and his primary research focus is on xylanases and pathogenicity.

November 16, 2000

Gail Celio, a Ph.D. student in Plant Pathology, will be giving a presentation entitled "Fungi in Popular Culture."

Future Events

Thinking about giving a talk at MDG... Please send an e-mail to the MDG president (mycology@dogwood.botany.uga.edu) on your topic idea. This semester we focused on Fungal Ecology, and Pathogenicity. Next, semester we plan to discuss Fungal Genetics and Evolution. We look forward to hearing from you next Semester!

Thursdays at 4:00pm in the Botany Conference Room, RM 2307, Miller Plant Sciences Building