A paper in Genetics today has many, many (!) authors -- and they aren't from a big multi-nation project or large genome sequencing center, but a collection of undergraduates at UCLA. Maybe they didn't all write the paper which can be confusing to some folks, but it looks like a group effort lead to some important results.
Entries from August 2007
Really involving undergrads in research
Posted on August 25th, 2007 by Jason Stajich · 2 Comments
A paper in Genetics today has many, many (!) authors -- and they aren't from a big multi-nation project or large genome sequencing center, but a collection of undergraduates at UCLA. Maybe they didn't all write the paper which can be confusing to some folks, but it looks like a group effort lead to some important results.
Categories: education
Postia annotation
Posted on August 21st, 2007 by Jason Stajich · No Comments
Not sure when this went live but the Postia placenta annotation is available on the JGI site. 17k genes are predicted which is in the neighborhood of Laccaria.
Categories: genome · genome annotation
Beware Aspergillus
Posted on August 18th, 2007 by Jason Stajich · No Comments
Aspergillus fumigatus can be dangerous, even to those with intact immune systems. A recent article in Discover magazine's Vital Signs describes how dangerous the ubiquitous fungus can be.
Categories: aspergillus · pathogens
Fungus Finds Frogs, Frogs Croak
Posted on August 14th, 2007 by sharpton · No Comments
Frogs have been having a tough time of it lately. While there are likely many contributing factors to the global frog decline, one known cause of frog dieoff is a fungal pathogen: Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. Unfortunately, little is known about how this aquatic fungus kills frogs or how the disease was originated and spread.
However, Dr. Jess Morgan and colleagues published in PNAS (open access article)
Categories: chytridomycota · fungi