By Jason Stajich, on February 25th, 2010
We had an impressive marshaling of fungal biologists, database builders, and sequencing centers to discuss what would be important for researchers, developing use cases to demonstrate what is needed by the community, and plotting some courses on how to get there. A more formal meeting report is being prepared, but I can summarize that everyone [...]
By Jason Stajich, on February 20th, 2010
Next week a collection of international scientists with stakes in seeing fungal genome databases evolve and rise to meet the tide of genome data being produced and analyzed from fungi will be meeting in DC. I am hopeful we’ll come up with some strategies and principles that can guide how this data can be more [...]
By Jason Stajich, on February 8th, 2010
An article in PLoS Pathogens by Morris et al describe a hypothesis about the evolution and origins of plant pathogens applying the parallel theories to the emergence of medically relevant pathogens. The authors highlight the importance of understanding the evolution of organisms in the context of emerging pathogens like Puccinia Ug99 for our ability [...]
By Jason Stajich, on January 25th, 2010
The cover of the Jan/Feb Mycologia has a picture of a pretty weird place to find a mushroom growing – a new species of mushroom that was found fruiting underwater in the Rogue river in Oregon. This was reported about two years ago for a discovery that was made in 2005, but this is a [...]
By Jason Stajich, on January 12th, 2010
These papers got lost in my drafts of things to write about. Grants and overdue manuscripts are keeping me away from the blog.
Published work from Gary Foster’s lab in Applied Env Micro show progress on genetic engineering tools to express introduced genes in the basidiomycete mushroom system Clitopilus passeckerianus. C. passeckarianus produces an antibiotic, pleuromutilin, an [...]
By Jason Stajich, on December 30th, 2009
Holiday petri-art from Stephanie Mounaud at JCVI. [h/t] to Rob Cramer and Stephanie for sending along.
2009 Eyes, Mouth, Buttons: Aspergillus niger Arms:A. nidulans Nose: A. terreus with Penicillium marneffei Body: Neosartorya fischeri
2008 Top: Talaromyces stipitatusTree: A. nidulans Ornaments: P. marneffei Trunk: A. terreus
By Jason Stajich, on December 14th, 2009
genomePad iPhone/iPod App web site is out: http://bit.ly/840Y60 #iphone #genomics #bioinformatics #UCSC #genomebrowser (via @bffo) #
Phil Ross does another fungal sculpture. Tea house out of Ganoderma fungus bricks which will made into tea over time. http://bit.ly/5wzJNu #
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By Jason Stajich, on December 7th, 2009
Intl Tomato Sequencing Project announces the pre-release of WGS tomato genome http://bit.ly/5eIwB8 (via @KamounLab via @widdowquinn@ismpmi) #
Gbrowse2 working http://bit.ly/4ZPAJp #
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By Jason Stajich, on November 27th, 2009
On a recent trip to Joshua Tree NP we saw only a few fungi, some beautiful lichens. I also took a picture of this grass (right) which in a funny way, resembles a zygomycete sporangia. We will have to return when the rains come for the wildflower show and seek out the palm oases in [...]