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The Fungal & Algal Program explores the vast diversity of fungi … and advanced genomic analysis to explore the rich diversity of fungi and algae. These organisms play a …

The Fungal & Algal Program Advisory Committees is chartered by …

Plants are complex organisms that harbor a fantastic diversity of cell types and associated organisms, including fungal and bacterial symbionts, detrimental microbial … ‘omics methods. Here we were able to capture both plant and fungal expression patterns in root cross-sections. … …

… that consists of coordinated hands-on experiments across fungal biology teaching labs. The purpose of the program is … and data analyses compile original data for improving fungal genomic resources empower students through isolation … to biological inference and understanding of fungal diversity, ecology, and potential applications. … The …

Yeah, so any metabolite, produced by bacterial or fungal metabolism by microbes, will have a functional role. … is that you could, therefore, expect a lot of chemical diversity. So many compounds will fulfill the same function. … compounds, which, in turn, translate into a high chemical diversity. So that’s just the type of relationship between …

… four forests, researchers have leveraged data from the 1000 Fungal Genomes project to form new connections between … of species decompose debris, mobilize nutrients from that decay, and deliver those nutrients to tree roots and soil. … and Environment (INRAE). Remarkable Similarity Despite Vast Diversity For this study, researchers collected soil samples …

… where I was a graduate student. Aflatoxin, of course, is a fungal natural product which is a liver toxin when humans … with animal metabolism itself, and it’s really amazing what diversity there is in animals. I think, even despite the … backbones, and so that’s our specialty. That’s where most diversity of life on earth is located. ALISON:  Have you …

… natural products of microbial origin is around 30,000 from fungal, and a 40,000 from bacteria. Okay? And among the … you to, say, go to your grandma’s backyard. To collect the diversity that exists in the 1940s? The answer is no! If diversity disappears, it’s never able to be recreated. We …

… the answer would be that there’s actually a great deal of diversity within these methanotrophs for example, that are … And so it’s really important because that structural diversity it encodes for communication specificity. So it’s … AARON PURI: Yeah. Right. And that’s you’ll find me in the woods then. [LAUGHTER] JACKIE: So we’re kind of across — …