Basidiomycete Research Networks
Posted on July 14th, 2008 by Jason Stajich · No Comments
Categories: basidiomycota · news
AAM Releases "The Fungal Kingdom" Report
Posted on July 9th, 2008 by Jason Stajich · 1 Comment
The American Academy of Microbiology has released a report (PDF) on the Fungal Kingdom outlining importance of research in the kingdom and recommending several areas of priority for future areas of research.
Categories: news · science policy
Theobroma cacao to be sequenced, Oompa Loompa genome to follow.
Posted on June 26th, 2008 by Chris Villalta · 2 Comments
Categories: genome
Amphibian skin bacteria shown to fight off Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis.
Posted on June 5th, 2008 by Chris Villalta · No Comments
Categories: adaptation · chytridomycota · ecology · evolution · fungi
Server changes
Posted on April 21st, 2008 by Jason Stajich · No Comments
The old site I setup during my PhD (fungal.genome.duke.edu) was shutdown by Duke. I have been able to migrate the domain name to the fungalgenome.org site that is funded by the TaylorLab, but have not had time to restore all functionality of the old data and site.
Categories: news
(re)Annotating GenBank
Posted on March 22nd, 2008 by Jason Stajich · No Comments
There's a nice quote in the news article from Steven Salzberg talking about the difficulties in getting sequences, especially from big centers, updated. I'm sure he is thinking of many examples, like reclassifying some Drosophila sequence traces.
Categories: database · fungi · metagenomics · news
Ireland's blight and Puccinia update
Posted on March 17th, 2008 by Jason Stajich · 2 Comments
Hyphoid logic points out that it is appropriate to discuss about the oomycete Phytophthora infestans on St. Patrick's Day and mentions a NYT article "The fungus that conquered Europe" that is worth a look.
It is also worth thinking about another blight, well rust, that is spreading through the middle east and could threaten wheat crops worldwide. New Scientist has excellent coverage of Puccinia
Categories: oomycete · plant pathogen · rusts
B. dendrobatidis strain JAM81 released
Posted on March 6th, 2008 by Jason Stajich · No Comments
The following is an announcement to the B.dendrobatidis and fungal community at large from Alan Kuo at JGI. This is the JAM81 strain (Jess Morgan collected from a frog in the California Sierra Nevada). The JEL423 (Joyce Longcore, collected in Panama) strain genome sequence and annotation is available from the Broad Institute.
Categories: chytridomycota · genome · news
Ectomycorrhizal fungus Laccaria bicolor genome
Posted on March 6th, 2008 by balaji · No Comments
Categories: Agaricomycota · basidiomycota · fungi · genome · genome sequencing · symbiosis
Some links
Posted on March 3rd, 2008 by Jason Stajich · 1 Comment
Categories: basidiomycota · database · extremophiles · molecular evolution · pathogens · zygomycete
