Fungwall management

The fungal cell wall as a target for antifungal therapies

Management Structures

Co-ordinator | Steering Committee | Scientific committee

The Co-ordinator

Jean-Paul Latgé is the co-ordinator of the project. He will represent the Consortium and negotiate on its behalf with the EC. He will be responsible for the implementation of the workplan in collaboration with the Steering Committee and will secure a smooth coordination of the project by following up on decisions. He will also have overall responsibilities for the quality of the research project, for the overall contractual and legal obligations, for overall responsibility for ethical issues and for the knowledge management.
Each work programme will have a scientific coordinator who will be a specialist in the corresponding field and who will ensure the coordination among WP and the proper realisation of the programme. For each workpackage in this proposal, one of the partners has been appointed to take on the primary responsibility for the proper evaluation of the particular workpackage. Main task of the Workpackage Leaders will be to coordinate work by partners active in each workpackage:

Neil Gow for WP1, Chitin synthesis and hydrolysis,
Mick Black for WP2, beta-1,3glucan synthesis and hydrolysis,
Frans Klis for WP3, Identification of beta 1,3 glucan branching and cross linking enzymes
Sabine Strahl for WP4, Mannosylation and cell wall.

The Steering committee

The Steering Committee will be the main entity responsible for scientific, technical and financial issues. More specifically, it will decide on scientific orientations of the project, and eventual re-allocation of funds if needs be (e.g., new major scientific orientations to pursue; lack of progress of one participant). It will be chaired by the Co-ordinator (J.P. Latgé) and will include the leader of each partner teams or one of her/his representative. The Steering Committee will have meetings at each annual scientific meetings to discuss privately the issues mentioned above. Alternative conference calls will be set up if urgent matters arise. The Institut Pasteur- EC liaison officer (Mr Jean-Pierre Broyart) and the project assistant will participate as non-voting members to all meetings of the Steering committee. The Steering Committee will pay attention to establish gateways with other Consortiums in particular those focusing on medical mycology and drugs. The Steering Committee will be assisted in its role by the Scientific Advisory Board.

Scientific Advisory Board

An external Scientific Committee composed of key leaders in the field of the fungal cell wall and antifungal drugs has been created. It is composed of :

Howard Bussey, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, (acting as chair)
Brendan Cormack, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Tamara Doering, Washington University, St-Louis, USA
Dominique Sanglard, CHUV Lausanne, Switzerland
Yoshikazu Ohya, Tokyo University, Chiba, Japan

The scientific committee and the steering committee will work together to monitor the progress of the project in relation with the proposed time table, to discuss the ways of solving unforeseen scientific problems and to provide guidance on scientific strategic issues for the project. It will meet at the end of the first and second year of the project. It will meet at the end of the first and second year of the project.

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