The NY Times has an article on the high rate of Coccidioides incidence at the state prison in Pleasant Valley, California. The infection rate has been documented by Pappagianis et al in an in-depth study of Coccidioidomycosis in the California state prisons. The disease has stalled some plans for constructing a new prison the edge of the San Joaquin Valley so the [...]
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Suzanne Leal wrote a very touching tribute in PLoS Genetics to Marcy Speer who passed away this summer. Marcy was one of the reasons I went to grad school at Duke and was a wonderfully generous and brilliant scientist, mother, and friend. I had the great opportunity to know her both when I worked at the CHG during and after college (where she would later become [...]
I’m excited about our projects to tackle the evolution of the Onygenales fungi. I just remembered to look and see what was going on with the Blastomyces genome sequencing at WashU. I checked and the Blastomyces dermatitidis genome sequence assembly version 3 was released in October 2007 and ESTs via 454 and ABI technologies are all available from WUSTL Genome Sequencing Center. With the Broad Institute release this week [...]
The article contains some beautiful pictures many of which are taken from some of the eminent mycological photographers and mycologists Michael Wood and Taylor Lockwood.
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Careful eating those old noodles left in the fridge, lots of fungi probably have made a home in the starch rich environment. But can food be inoculated with some inherent antifungal properties to help it last longer. A recent paper in the Intl Journal of Food Microbiology