By Jason Stajich, on September 30th, 2008
BBC news and GTO report the sequence of P. chrysogenum, will be published in October in Nat Biotechnology in a project based at the biotech company DSM. P. chrysogenum being the mold that fortuitously contaminated Dr Fleming’s bacterial plates.
The 13,500 reported genes in the press release is quite bit larger than relatives in the [...]
By Jason Stajich, on September 26th, 2008
Mike Challen asks for anyone with Agaricus bisporus ESTs, BAC data, or mapping information to send them in the direction of the JGI to aid in the assembly and annotation of this mushroom genome.
By Jason Stajich, on September 16th, 2008
In a paper appearing today in PLoS One, “The Fastest Flights in Nature: High-Speed Spore Discharge Mechanisms among Fungi” Nicholas Money and colleagues including 6 undergraduates and 3 graduate students, have measured the speed of flight of spores discharging from several Ascomycete and Zygomycete dung [...]
By Jason Stajich, on September 12th, 2008
NPR’s Science Friday covered fungi with several myco-luminaries on the [...]
By Jason Stajich, on September 11th, 2008
Some tasty research if you are of the set who enjoy a good pint of beer. GenomeWebNews reports on study in Genome Research by Barbara Dunn and Gavin Sherlock at Stanford, looking at the history of lager yeast Saccharomyces [...]
By Jason Stajich, on September 8th, 2008
By Jason Stajich, on September 7th, 2008
A new paper in Genome Research from Borodovsky lab at Georgia Tech provides an improved ab initio gene prediction building on their previous program GeneMark called GeneMark.hmm ES. This application doesn’t require a training set when building models for gene prediction in fungal genomes and reports to have as good or better sensitivity and specificity than most of the commonly used ab initio [...]
By Jason Stajich, on September 5th, 2008
If you are interested in fungal genetics and genomics, comparative biology, and of course dancing with fungal geneticists, plan to attend the 25th Fungal Genetics Meeting held at the beautiful Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove, California. Below is info sent out from the Policy Committee and registration opens in a little over a month. Budding (and conidiating) artists can also submit a Logo [...]