Growth, Differentiation and Sexuality

Fungal cell types.- Organelle inheritance in budding yeast and other fungi.- Mitosis in filamentous fungi.- Apical wall biogenesis.- The fungal cell wall.- Septation and cytokinesis in fungi.- Re-wiring the network: understanding the mechanism and function of anastomosis in filamentous ascomycete fungi.- Heterogenic incompatibility in fungi.- Programmed cell death in fungi.- Senescence andlongevity.- Autoregulatory signals in mycelial fungi.- Pheromone action in the fungal groups Chytridiomycota, and Zygomycota, and in the Oomycota.- Photomorphogenesis and gravitropism.- Asexual sporulation in mycelial fungi.- Regulation of sexual development in filamentous ascomycetes (mating types, pheromones).- Fruiting body development in ascomycetes.- Mating type genes of the basidiomycetes.- Regulatory and structural networks, orchestrating mating, dimorphism, cell shape, and pathogenesis in Ustilago.- The emergence of fruiting bodies in basidiomyctes.- Meiosis in mycelial fungi.