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The Impact N. crassa is the model organism for filamentous fungi, all of which contain a wide array of plant cell-wall … of sustainable biofuels and bioproducts. Filamentous fungi are also being used in the biotechnology industry to … a Joint Genome Institute Community Science Program grant (CSP 982), and funds from the Fred E. Dickinson Chair of Wood …
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Pro Tips for Successful Community Science Program (CSP) Applications Webinar inviting researchers to submit white papers to the CSP New Investigator call for proposals. Tips: Contact us … if you have questions about how KBase can support your CSP data. The proposal call is open year-round, but …
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… project manager Miranda Harmon-Smith, who helps shepherd CSP projects along. …
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… of my supervisor, that in parallel, people in Tubingen in southern Germany were working on a very similar project like … metabolomics, and natural products in plants, fungi, and microorganisms. If you want to collaborate, let …
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Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help or harm plant host health. The Science … work was partly enabled by a JGI Community Science Program (CSP) proposal led by INRAE’s Francis Martin that contributed … Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231 within the framework of CSP 1974 “1KFG: Deep-sequencing of ecologically relevant …
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… with Christian, I started getting a little bit more into fungi and learning the differences of all the genetic … has been doing work in secondary metabolism. The very first CSP I ever worked on back in Brad’s lab, we talked about it … was the Salinispora genome project. And that was a JGI CSP project. They sequenced that genome for us at a time …
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… genomic information into biological function. Through our CSP Functional Genomics call , we look for projects that …
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Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the “chytrids”). A collaborative … Olpidium is a link in the evolution and transition of fungi from aquatic to terrestrial habitats. The work is part … aims to provide genomic information for every family of fungi. In the following guest piece, JGI user Ying Chang in …
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… of tough plants. Thanks to gut microbes — namely, anaerobic fungi — these animals are able to pry apart plant polymers … use to bust biomass apart. She and her team find these fungi, and their enzymes, primarily in animal poop. “As an … diversity.” Within that diversity of bacteria and fungi, O’Malley and her team are amassing all kinds of …
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Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex … thought to be too costly for them. The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell in … their last leafy meal. In their evolutionary history, these fungi branched off early from aerobic fungi, which can …
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Black fungi are microscopic and mighty. They survive everywhere …
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