Congrats are in order to Gerry Fink on winning the 2010 Gruber Foundation award for his work on the genetics of yeast and Arabidopsis. He has been a pioneer in the field developing molecular biology approaches and leading the field in study of genetics. See the press release announcement for more details on the award – [...]
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Dear Hyphal Tip reader- I’m having a hard time making enough to blog about interesting papers at length, but to spell you I am putting up twitter msgs about papers that have interesting abstracts and are worth a followup look. You’ll see these in the boringly titled “Weekly Twitter Updates” on Monday morning with a round up [...] Several groups working on Fungi are submitting proposals to the JGI Community Sequencing Program. Several proposals relating to the JGI’s interest in an encyclopedia of fungal genomes sequencing genomes of ascomycete and basidiomycete yeasts, filamentous ascomycetes, basidiomycetes, and early diverging fungi are being put forward. If you haven’t been contacted by these community members but would like to write [...] Congrats to Neurospora biologists Louise Glass and Jay Dunlap on their election to American Academy [...] I was so sad to learn of the death of Prof Gopi Podila at the shooting at University of Alabama in Huntsville. I had only met him once at a MSA meeting but he was extremely respected scientist for his work on ectomycorrhizal fungi, plant-microbial interactions, and functional genomics to study plant stress. My thoughts go out to [...] I’ve migrated some of the services from UCB to UCR so the blog and wiki server as well as Gbrowse V1 services have migrated to UCR machine. The Gbrowse2 installation and migration of under-development services are still in progress but will hopefully be done in next two weeks. This setup is more flexible and I’ll blog about [...] Too much on my plate as of late, so I’m woefully behind on posting much on interesting papers or news. Here’s a short list of links and papers that are worth a look though. “Evolution of pathogenicity and sexual reproduction in eight Candida genomes” published (Nature) Postia placenta genome is now published in early edition of PNAS. Brown rotting fungi are import part of the cellulose degrading ecology of the forest as well (hopefully) providing some enzymes that will help in the ligin to biofuels process. Brown rotters cannot break down lignin while white rotters (like the previously sequenced Phanerochaete chrysosporium). This fungus was chosen for sequencing as it is another potentially helpful fungus in the war on sugars (turning them into fuels) including recently published Trichoderma reesei and 1st basidiomycete genome Phanerochaete (all incidentally with the Diego Martinez as first author – go Diego!). [...] SFChronicle has an article on musroom poisining over this holiday season. Please be sure of what you are have found before eating. Waiting for that spore print is worth it when in doubt (at all!). [...] Eigenfactor.org computes journal’s influence (akin to Impact Factor). Here’s a plot of the influence and number of articles in journals classified as “Mycology”. It shows bubbles representing eigenfactor and the lines are the representation of change over time – the animation is much more informative. Unfortunately a few mycology journals like Fungal Genetics and Biology aren’t included. [...] |
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