41st Annual Meeting of the Society for Invertebrate Pathology
and 9th International Conference on Bacillus thuringiensis

VIRULENCE FACTORS IN FUNGAL PATHOGENS: A COMPARATIVE APPROACH

Organizer: Enrique Quesada-Moraga

Raymond St. Leger, University of Maryland, USA

Pathogenicity determinants of the entomopathogenic fungi Metarhizium anisopliae

Tariq Butt, University of Wales, Swansea, UK

Attenuation of virulence of fungal entomopathogens

Michael Bidochka, Brock University, Canada

Developing insect models for the study of human fungal pathogens

Martin Egan, University of Exeter, UK

Investigating the biology of plant infection by the rice blast fungus Magnaprthe grisea

Alice Churchill, Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell University, USA

Are there overlaps between virulence factors of fungal pathogens of arthropods, plants and vertebrates?