September 2007 « The Hyphal Tip

Keep track of the genome project for Blumeria graminis, a powdery mildew and barley pathogen. http://bit.ly/bvEwsS 3 days ago
Check out some Space Microbiology including lichens - http://bit.ly/cWEa9M /via genrepair http://bit.ly/c3WKmP 1 week ago
At least all are sequenced. Armed & Dangerous: Plant Diseases that threaten food security http://bit.ly/dx3qrY /via @plantdisease @KamounLab 1 week ago
The JGI Mucor circinelloides CBS277.49 v2 Genome Portal is now on the public JGI website: http://www.jgi.doe.gov/Mucor/ 2 weeks ago
RT @doe_jgi: Naegleria gruberi video on JGI's SciVee (http://tr.im/QCZn) features Simon Prochnik and UC Berkeley's Lillian Fritz-Laylin 2 weeks ago
More updates...

Evolution of aflatoxin gene cluster

By Jason Stajich, on September 29th, 2007

Ignazio Carbone and colleagues published a recent analysis of the evolution of the aflatoxin gene cluster in five Aspergillus fungi entitled “Gene duplication, modularity and adaptation in the evolution of the aflatoxin gene cluster” in BMC Evolutionary Biology. [...]

New machines

By Jason Stajich, on September 26th, 2007

If all went well you didn’t even notice… We migrated wiki and blog to new web server in Berkeley out of its kind hosting at OBF servers in Boston area. We’ve started the process of rebuilding the genome browser data similar to what was deployed at fungal.genome.duke.edu server, but we are redeveloping the data dumping and importing scripts to be more [...]

Neurospora alternative splicing

By Jason Stajich, on September 21st, 2007

A quick link to a Neurospora paper in Genetics today entitled “Alternative Splicing Gives Rise to Different Isoforms of the Neurospora crassa Tob55 Protein That Vary in Their Ability to Insert Beta-Barrel Proteins Into the Outer Mitochondrial Membrane”. The authors investigated alternative splicing of a gene found in the TOB complex on the outside of the mitochondria. [...]

Gene knockouts in Candida parapsilosis

By Jason Stajich, on September 18th, 2007

A recent paper “Targeted gene deletion in Candida parapsilosis demonstrates the role of secreted lipase in virulence”, from the Nosanchuk lab at Yeshiva University, shows the role of secreted lipases in virulence of this pathogen. [...]

Fusarium graminearum genome published

By Jason Stajich, on September 8th, 2007

The genome of the wheat and cereal pathogen Fusarium graminearum was published in Science this week in an article entitled “The Fusarium graminearum Genome Reveals a Link Between Localized Polymorphism and Pathogen Specializationtion”. The project was a collaboration of many different Fusarium research groups. [...]

Tracking honeybee decline

By Jason Stajich, on September 6th, 2007

An early access to article in Science A Metagenomic Survey of Microbes in Honey Bee Colony Collapse Disorder (direct link since DOI is not updated yet) using the current favorite buzzword, metagenomics, of course, describes some early work to try and discover what is killing the honeybees. [...]

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