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Server moved
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...
View ArticleTragic loss of Gopi Podila
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...
View ArticleCongrats new AAM fellows
Congrats to Neurospora biologists Louise Glass and Jay Dunlap on their election to American Academy of Microbiology.
View ArticleCSP: Letter of support time!
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...
View ArticleBusy, but here are some links
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...
View ArticleGerry Fink wins Gruber Genetics prize
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...
View ArticleWhite nose syndrome genome released
The Broad Institute released their sequence of the genome of Geomyces destructans implicated in the White Nose Syndrome that is causing a massive die-offs of bats. The researchers sequenced a North...
View ArticleAnd the streets will be paved with mushrooms…
In case you wanted to live on a mycologically fun street – Looks like there is a home for sale on Ustilago Drive which is just around the corner from Chanterelle Drive. I do wonder how many pathogens...
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Fungal conferences abstract wordle
I am preparing to read through the abstracts submitted for the 26th Fungal Genetics Conference in choosing talks for my session and I wondered if there were any changing trends in the topics over the...
View ArticleLove, Sex and Mushrooms: Adventures of a Woman in Science
[Reposted from FGSC news] Cardy Raper, University of Vermont Professor Emerita, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, has just published a memoir titled “Love, Sex and Mushrooms: Adventures of a Woman...
View ArticleThe passing of Walter Fitch
Walter Fitch passed away on Thursday. Below is Brandon Gaut’s message that was posted to EvolDir. He was truly an intellectual giant in evolutionary biology making key contributions to phylogenetics...
View ArticleStill time to sign up for EMBO Comparative Genomics meeting
[via Teun Boekhout] This year looks like another great lineup of speakers for the EMBO Comparative Genomics of Microorganisms: ‘Understanding the Complexity of Diversity’ 15-20 Oct 2011 Sant Feliu de...
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Orange goo is in fact rust spores in Alaska waters
Previously incorrectly identified as eggs, the ‘orange goo’ floating off the shore of a small Alaskan village has now been identified as a rust fungus. If they had known that a hoard of Mycologists...
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MSA award nominations
The deadline for MSA nominations is 15 Feb 2012 so go see the MSA awards website for more information. These require letters of nomination for candidates and require some advance preparation. For...
View ArticleThe Alaskan Goo demystified
Another delightful well written piece by Jennifer Frazer in her SciAm blog. She presents a solution to a unknown fungus that showed up as a blanket of orange spores in the water near the town of...
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Interested in Polypores?
If you are interested in Polypores check out the NSF funded PEET site for the Taxonomy of the Polyporales from David Hibbett and colleagues. .
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Fear of Fungi!
The cover of Nature today highlights an article from Matthew Fisher and colleagues on the major impact that Fungi as emerging infectious diseases are playing on threatening diversity of ecosystems and...
View ArticleCongrats new NAS fungal biologists
Congrats to newly elected NAS members and especially to fungal biologist Eric Selker at the University of Oregon who has been a leader in research on chromatin biology and methylation working with...
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Congratulations Joyce Longcore!
Joyce Longcore Congratulations to Chytrid biologist Joyce Longcore from the University of Maine who was elected as one of 701 of the 2012 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of...
View ArticleFungiDB 2.3 released with 52 genomes
The latest release of FungiDB (2.3) is now live and includes 52 genomes, 11 of which are new for this release. This was a longer than expected release cycle due to reintegration with the EuPathDB...
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