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Joseph Heitman

Chair, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Duke Box 3546, Durham, NC 27710
322 Clin & Res Labs, Durham, NC 27710

Teaching Activities


  • 2001      Plenary Lecture, Asilomar Fungal Genetics meeting
  • 2007      Plenary Lecture, International Yeast meeting, Melbourne, Australia
  • 2007      Keynote Lecture, Drexel University College of Medicine, Graduate program in Microbiology                       and Immunology research symposium
  • 2009      Division F Lecture, American Society of Microbiology General Meeting
  • 2009      Keynote Lecture, Third FEBS Human Fungal Pathogens Course, La Colle sur Loup, France
  • 2010      Foundation Lecture, British Society for Medical Mycology, Exeter, UK
  • 2010      Plenary Lecture, 9th International Mycological Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland
  • 2011      Keynote Lecture, 14th Annual Bay Area Microbial Pathogenesis Symposium, UCSF
  • 2011      Keynote Lecture, 8th International Conference on Cryptococcus and Cryptococcosis,                              Charleston, SC
  • 2011      Karling Lecture, Mycological Society of America, Fairbanks, Alaska
  • 2011      Keynote Lecture, Molecular Biology of Fungi 10 meeting, Marburg, Germany
  • 2012      Plenary Lecture, 13th International Congress on Yeasts, Madison, Wisconsin
  • 2013      Plenary Lecture, Asilomar Fungal Genetics meeting
  • 2013      Plenary Lecture, Korean Microbiology Society meeting
  • 2014      Plenary Lecture, 12th European Conference on Fungal Genetics, Seville, Spain
  • 2014      Keynote Lecture, 12th International Conference on Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary                  Genetics of Infectious Diseases (MEEGID), Bangkok, Thailand
  • 2014      Plenary Lecture, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany, Matt                                Meselson Seminar Series on the Evolution of Sex; Evolution of Sexual Reproduction
  • 2015      Plenary Speaker, ISHAM international meeting, Melbourne, Australia
  • 2017      Max Delbrück Lecture, German Genetics Society Meeting, Bochum, Germany
  • 2019      Gene E. Michaels Honorary Mycology Lecture, University of Georgia, Athens, GA


Talks