Many excellent presentations and great weather at this year’s Fungal Genetics Meetings (March 17-22, 2015). Here’s a link to the program and abstracts, and a link to the #fungal15 twitter feed. The meetings were well-attended by current and former Duke mycologists. Some of my highlights included
-opening plenary session talk by Duke’s Nick Buchler on evolution of cell cycle regulation in fungi
-Fungal Biodiversity session chaired by Georgiana May and Linda Kohn, featuring talks by members of the Lutzoni lab
-Contributed session on Environmental Transcriptomics chaired by Cheryl Kuske and myself, and featuring talks by Sunny Liou and Greg Bonito
-sneaking out with the lab group to visit Point Lobos State Park