Dan Lindner, a research plant pathologist with the Northern Research Station’s Center for Forest Mycology Research (CFMR), is one of 13 scientists participating in the ‘1000 Fungal Genomes’ project, which in collaboration with the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Joint Genome Institute will sequence two species from every known fungal family. The project is a first step in creating an encyclopedia of all fungi, which will one day help researchers understand not only what they do, but how fungi operate.The ‘1000 Fungal Genomes’ project was one of 41 research projects awarded funding through the Department of Energy’s 2012 Community Sequencing Program (CSP), the DOE announced November 3.
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