The Hyphal Tip: Fungal Genomes and Comparative Genomics

The Cornell Mushroom Blog has an excellent video of Coprinopsis growing and some discussion about these mushrooms.

Mike Challen has summarized discussion at two recent conferences regarding a Basidiomycete Research Network at his blog in a post on BRN - Summary of Discussions, 14/07/08. In particular it is important to establish a community network that will help basidiomycete labs. There is also a strong need for shared approaches for effective use the genomic data from the more than a dozen basidiomycete genomes currently being sequenced.