Congrats to Neurospora biologists Louise Glass and Jay Dunlap on their election to American Academy of Microbiology.
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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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] The Scientist has an article about airborne opportunistic fungal infections and interviewing several Cryptococcus researchers including Karen Bartlett and James Fraser. Trying a little experiment here. I’ve started a wiki page for jobs that fall into the general category of genomics, fungi, and evolution and added a tab link to this at the top of the blog site. At this point I am only posting academic positions (Faculty and postdoctoral positions) but it may [...] NPR’s Science Friday covered fungi with several myco-luminaries on the [...] |
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