Session Announcement: Botrytis - "Omics"

Details of the speaker:

Dr. Sabine Fillinger
UMR BIOGER, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Route de Saint-Cyr, F-78026 Versailles, France
Phone: +33 1 3083 3190, Fax +33 1 3083 3119, E-mail: sabine.fillinger@versailles.inra.fr

Biography:
1996: PhD Microbiology, University of Paris XI, France.
1996-2001: Postdoc, INRA (Versailles-Grignon), Institut Pasteur (Paris).
Since 2001: Senior scientist and project leader, INRA Versailles, Fungicides laboratory. Research focus on molecular-genetic studies of Botrytis cinerea with particular interest in resistance to fungicides (signal-transduction, ergosterol biosynthesis, multiple drug resistance). Development of genomic tools for the functional analysis of B. cinerea, e.g. fungicide resistance.

The Host-Pathogen Interaction Session:
Botrytis cinerea is one of the major pathogens on grapevine responsible for serious impacts on quality and quantity of harvest. Community efforts allowed the sequencing of the Vitis vinifera genome and those of two B. cinerea strains. Along with classical molecular genetic studies, the complete genome sequence of this patho-system opens the way to new possibilities for gene-function analyses in both organisms and their interaction. From the microbiological point of view, comparing B. cinerea genes to other fungi helps to identify a signature in Botrytis genes and gene content, but also to follow up genome evolution, in particular in the Botrytis species complex.

For more details see:
http://urgi.versailles.inra.fr/projects/Botrytis/index.php
http://www.broad.mit.edu/annotation/genome/botrytis_cinerea/Home.html

This session will discuss the recent achievements in B. cinerea genomics, with particular focus on first results of genome analyses. Sabine Fillinger will provide an overview of the genome project supported by an international consortium integrating data of the closely related species B. cinerea and Sclerotiona sclerotiorum. Genome comparison will be linked to the biological differences between both species. Further speakers dealing with functional genomics will be selected from the abstracts submitted for this session.