Posted on March 12th, 2008 by Jason Stajich · 1 Comment
Researchers from Technical University of Denmark published some interesting results from comparing expression across the very distinct Aspergillus species.
Kudos also goes to making it Open Access. I am posting a few key figures below the fold because I can! They grew the fungi in bioreactors fermenting glucose or xylose. After calibrating the growth curves they were able to sample the appropriate time points for comparison of gene expression across these three species. They found a set of genes commonly expressed.
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Categories: aspergillus · evolution · gene regulation · microarray
Tags: aspergillus, candida, cerevisiae, comparative, development, evolution, fermentation, filamentous, fungi, gene, genes, genome, microarray, saccharomyces, sequencing, solexa, transcription, yeast
Posted on October 31st, 2007 by Jason Stajich · No Comments
Categories: candida · development · human pathogen
Tags: candida, cell divisions, differential expression, feedback loops, fungi, fungus candida, master regulator, opaque, pathogen, pathogenic fungus, pathogens, phenotype, transcription
Posted on October 9th, 2007 by Jason Stajich · 1 Comment
Reverting CUG tRNA from derived change coding for serine back to leucine (standard code) has profound effect on organism.
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Categories: candida · evolution · fungi · gene regulation · genetic code
Tags: ancestral, candida, character evolution, comparative, genome, leucine, mushroom, pathogen, pathogens, reconstruction, saccharomyces, systematics, tRNA
Posted on September 18th, 2007 by Jason Stajich · 1 Comment
Categories: candida · functional · gene function · gene knockout · human pathogen · pathogens
Tags: candida, functional, gene function, gene knockout, human pathogen, pathogens
Posted on March 28th, 2007 by Jason Stajich · 2 Comments
I’m including a recapping as many of the talks as I remember. There were 6 concurrent sessions each afternoon so you have to miss a lot of talks. The conference was bursting at the seams as it was- at least 140 people had to be turned away beyond the 750 who attended.
If there was any theme in the conference it was “Hey we are all using these genome sequences”.
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Categories: Fungal Genetics · bioinformatics · chytridomycota · cryptococcus · dothideomycetes · euriotiomycetes · filamentous · glomeromycota · homobasidiomycota · horizontal gene transfer · neurospora · news · sordariomycetes · zygomycete
Tags: annotation, annotations, asilomar, aspergillus, basidiomycete, batrachochytrium, bioinforics, biology, candida, chytrid, clone, comparative, conferences & courses, coprinus, cryptococcus, definitions, development, diversity, ecology, endophyte, enzymes, evolution, experimental, frog, fungal, fungi, fungus, gene, genes, genome, genomes, horizontaltransfer, infection, JGI, maps, MAT, meetings, methods, microarray, microbes, multicellularity, mycological, neurospora, news, NRPS, organisms, pathogen, pathogens, phenotype, philosophy, phylogenetics, plant, plants, podospora, pombe, protein, repeats, rhizopus, RIP, s, saccharomyces, seminar, sequences, sequencing, SOLiD, speciation, species, strain, taxa, transcription, transcripts, wheat, yeast, zygomycete, zygomycetes
Posted on March 18th, 2007 by Jason Stajich · 1 Comment
The Candida clade of Hemiascomycete fungi have received much attention from funding bodies so that many genomic and experimental resources are available address questions of pathogenecity and industrial applications of these species.
The Candida genus
Traditionally, species of yeasts that were thought to be asexual were given the genus name Candida. This has lead to Candida being a sort of taxonomic rubbish bin.
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Categories: candida · comparative · phylogeny · saccharomyces
Tags: candida, comparative, phylogeny, saccharomyces
