20-21 January 2015
INRA Nancy-Lorraine Center
LEGF conference room

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The Pezizomycetes belong to an early diverging class within the Pezizomycotina.The Pezizomycetes are either saprobic, mycorrhizal or pathogens; the biotic interactions of many taxa are not known. Species are found in soils, wood decays, leaves, roots and dung. Some Pezizomycetes species are well know due to their edible fructifications (so-called ascocarps) such as truffles and morchels. Ascobolus immersus, a Pezizomycete species living on herbivore dung (coprophilous) has been introduced in the late 1930s as a model organism for genetic studies. To date, only the genome of two Pezizomycetes have been published: Tuber melanosporum (Martin et al., 2010) and Pyronema confluens (Traegger et al., 2013).

To help close the sequence gap among basal filamentous ascomycetes, and to allow conclusions about the evolution of fungal development, the genome and transcriptomes of six additional Pezizomycetes have been sequenced: Ascobolus immersus, Choiromyces venosus, Morchella conica, Terfezia boudieri, Tuber aestivum and Tuber magnatum.

A workshop will be held at INRA-Nancy on January 20-21, 2015 to discuss the structure and evolution of these Pezizomycete genomes and comparative analyses of their gene repertoires.

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Program