Comparative genomic
approaches to understanding the evolution of Magnaporthales *
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to a symposium convened by Drs. Ning
Zhang and Debashish Bhattacharya entitled “Comparative genomic approaches to
understanding the evolution of Magnaporthales” that is supported by the
National science Foundation, Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological
Sciences, and the Rutgers Center for Turfgrass Science. Magnaporthales is a fungal order that
includes the rice blast fungus (important plant pathogen and model system for
plant-fungal interaction study), summer patch pathogen of turfgrass, take-all
pathogen of cereals, as well as saprotrophs. The speakers will talk about their
recent progress on the comparative genomics, population genomics,
phylogenetics, effector genes, horizontal gene transfer studies etc. We plan to
hold the meeting at the Rutgers University Inn on January 7th, 2016.
Regards,
Ning Zhang and Debashish Bhattacharya
