July 2009 « The Hyphal Tip

Keep track of the genome project for Blumeria graminis, a powdery mildew and barley pathogen. http://bit.ly/bvEwsS 12 mins ago
Check out some Space Microbiology including lichens - http://bit.ly/cWEa9M /via genrepair http://bit.ly/c3WKmP 4 days ago
At least all are sequenced. Armed & Dangerous: Plant Diseases that threaten food security http://bit.ly/dx3qrY /via @plantdisease @KamounLab 6 days ago
The JGI Mucor circinelloides CBS277.49 v2 Genome Portal is now on the public JGI website: http://www.jgi.doe.gov/Mucor/ 1 week 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 1 week ago
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-27

By Jason Stajich, on July 27th, 2009

Add a blogroll link to another src of fun mycological news and tips http://mycorant.com #

EMBO Comparative Genomics conference

By Jason Stajich, on July 22nd, 2009

If you can make plans to head to Spain in October you should consider attending the EMBO conference on Comparative Genomics of Eukaryotic Microorganisms October 17-22 outside of Barcelona. Lots of very interesting speakers and I’ve got the chance to be there to speak about ideas and results using comparative genomics to study evolution of [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-20

By Jason Stajich, on July 20th, 2009

RT @cfvillalta: ITS NOT A FUNGUS! "Outbreak of Fungus Threatens Tomato Crop" http://bit.ly/WsPQp (via @nytimes) #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-13

By Jason Stajich, on July 13th, 2009

Some new postdoc job opportunities on the wiki http://bit.ly/aW47p #
More postdoc and tech jobs listed at the FGSC http://bit.ly/XYto1 #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-06

By Jason Stajich, on July 6th, 2009

Checking out GD::SVG repository by @tharris to try &fix some problems with dumping SVG of allele freq from hapmap glyph http://bit.ly/dTmCE #

Jelly fungus Tremella genome available at JGI

By Jason Stajich, on July 2nd, 2009

The Tremella mesenterica genome portal is live on the JGI site. Tremella is a Basidiomycete jelly fungus and an interesting study system from the perspective of discovery of novel lignin degrading enzymes. It also occupies an interesting phylogenetic position being an outgroup to the human pathogenic yeast Cryptococcus neoformans and C. [...]

July 2nd, 2009 | Tags: cryptococcus, jelly fungus, mating locus, tremella | Category: cryptococcus, genome sequencing | Leave a comment

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