April 10^th Evening mixer at the Field Museum

April 11^th

Tree of Life

8:00 am: Introduction by Robert Martin, V.P. Academic Affairs and Provost, the Field Museum

8:10 am: AFTOL update

David Hibbett - Introduction

David McLauhglin - Developing a database for fungal subcellular characters

Francois Lutzoni - Coordination of sampling of molecular data

Cymon Cox - Development of databases and bioinformatic tools

9:00 am: Shannon Hackett - Bird Tree of Life

9:45 am: David Maddison - "The Tree of Life Project"

10:30 am: break

10:45 - 12:00 pm: TOL breakout sessions

12:00 - 1:30 pm: Lunch

1:30 - 2:00 pm: break out session reports

New Deep Hypha initiatives

2:00 pm Meredith Blackwell: New initiatives at NSF

2:20 pm Joey Spatafora: International opportunities at NSF

2:40 pm: Open comments period

Other RCNs

2:45 pm: Brett Tyler: The Phytophthora RCN

3:15 pm: Bruno Sobral - Data Management and Integration for Distributed Systems

3:45 pm: break

4:00 pm: break out sessions

5:00 pm: break out session reports

April 12^th

Environmental sampling and discovering fungi

8:00 am: Izabela Makalowska - Plant pathogen database: A community resource for cataloging the genetic and phenotypic diversity of pathogens at both the species and population levels

8:30 am: Rytas Vilgalys - Environmental Genomics: the Duke Forest Project

9:30 am: Mary Berbee - Fungal diversity of ericoid roots

10:00 am: Thorsten Lumbsch - "Combining fieldwork and molecular data to document diversity and biogeographic patterns"

10:30 am: Environmental sampling break out sessions

11:15 am: Break out session reports

12:00 pm: Close meeting