Deep Hypha: The Mardi Gras Meeting February 8-10, 2001
Getting started: selection of exemplar taxa, target data, and
coordination
February 8, 2002
7:00 pm Mixer: Meredith Blackwellís house (directions will be provided)
February 9, 2002
8:15 Coffee
8:30 Introduction ñ Meredith Blackwell
8:45 The Deep Green Experience ñ Russ Chapman
9:15 Deep Hypha & the Tree of Life (TOL) ñ Joey Spatafora
- Deep Hypha involvement
- Potential models
9:30 Discussion I: TOL
- Fungal TOL model
- Define hypotheses to test
- Develop list of comments for circulation
10:30 Break
10:45 Taxon Sampling ñ Joey Spatafora
- Goal of taxon sampling
- Review of evaluation criteria for taxon sampling
- Questions
11:00 Discussion II: taxon sampling
- Defining target taxa
- Develop list of comments for circulation
12:00 Lunch
1:30 Defining target loci
- Ben Hall ñ RNA polymerase genes & fungi phylogenies (1:30 ñ 2:00)
- Kerry OíDonnell ñ Shallow hypha: Choosing between nuclear
ribosomal and protein coding genes: (2:00 ñ 2:30)
- Naomi Fast ñ The curious fungi: microsporidian origins, lifestyle and
metabolism (2:30 ñ 3:00)
3:00 Break
- Steve Rehner ñ Hustling novel phylogenetic markers: trolling, scamming
and doing it yourself: (3:15 ñ 3:45)
- Brandon Matheny ñ Using RPB1 and RPB2 sequence data to improve the
phylogeny
of Inocybe (Agaricales): (3:45 ñ 4:15)
- Jean-Marc Moncalvo ñ Non rDNA markers in basidiomycetes: (4:15 ñ
4:45)
February 10, 2001
8:15 coffee
8:30 Introduction ñ Meredith Blackwell
- Circulate list of taxa comments
- Circulate list of TOL comments
- Any general comments
8:45 David Pollock ñ TBA (genomics considerations)
9:15 Discussion III: Molecular data sets
- Defining target loci
- Development of tools
- Develop list of comments for circulation
10:15 Non molecular character sets ñ Meredith Blackwell
- Blackwell ñ Morphobank & new techniques (10:15 ñ 10:45)
- MacLaughlin ñ Morphological characters in basidiomycete phylogenies:
problems and prospects (10:45 ñ 11:15)
- Lichtwardt ñ Utility of morphological characters in Harpellales and
other Trichomycetes (11:15 ñ 11:45)
- Seifert ñ Finding phylogenetic homes for the 80% of anamorph genera
lacking known teleomorphs (11:45 ñ 12:15)
12:15 Lunch
1:45 Discussion IV: Nonmolecular data sets
- What characters can be gathered across Fungi?
- What characters can be gathered across major clades?
- Develop list of comments for circulation
2:45 Mechanics of data collection and distribution ñ Joey Spatafora
- Methods for generating data
- Web-accessible databases & datasets
3:00 Discussion V
- Review of taxon lists and hypotheses
- Review of TOL model
- Thoughts on a Deep Hypha TOL proposal
- make list of tools available for different taxa
- planning on development of tools for key under-studied taxa
- establishing evaluation criteria
4ish Closing comments and end meeting