Fruiting under pressure-the 33rd meeting of the Fungal Genetics Conference

The 33rd Fungal Genetics Conference was held from March 17th to the 22nd at the Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove, California. The conference has been held at Asilomar 24 times since it began as the “Neurospora Information Conference” in 1961. Over meals at the large round tables, it is common for attendees to compare their conference history with some participants having attendance records stretching back to the last century. This year, however, the attendees set a different kind of record.