Some published papers this last month

Jason Stajich — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:33:12 +0000

We had a productive period over the last year and finally saw set of papers representing this work come out in the last month. This represents great collaborations with several different groups. In addition to the Coprinus genome, we were involved in the publication of two other genome sequences thus summer. One a basidiomycete mushroom and one for an oomycete and pathogen of plants, both with a host of collaborating labs. Two papers on Neurospora also appeared as part of collaborations with Hanna Johannesson‘s group and Michael Freitag, Michael Brunner, and Deb Bell-Pedersen. A fifth paper on Coprinopsis meiotic genes is in press but will post about it when it appears.

Transcription factors in light and circadian clock signaling networks revealed by genome-wide mapping of direct targets for Neurospora WHITE COLLAR COMPLEX. Smith KM, Sancar G, Dekhang R, Sullivan CM, Li S, Tag AG, Sancar C, Bredeweg EL, Priest HD, McCormick RF, Thomas TL, Carrington JC, Stajich JE, Bell-Pedersen D, Brunner M, Freitag M. Eukaryot Cell. 2010 Jul 30.
Genome sequence of the necrotrophic plant pathogen Pythium ultimum reveals original pathogenicity mechanisms and effector repertoire. Lévesque CA, Brouwer H, Cano L, Hamilton JP, Holt C, Huitema E, Raffaele S, Robideau GP, Thines M, Win J, Zerillo MM, Beakes GW, Boore JL, Busam D, Dumas B, Ferriera S, Fuerstenberg SI, Gachon CM, Gaulin E, Govers F, Grenville-Briggs L, Horner N, Hostetler J, Jiang RH, Johnson J, Krajaejun T, Lin H, Meijer HJ, Moore B, Morris P, Phuntmart V, Puiu D, Shetty J, Stajich JE, Tripathy S, Wawra S, van West P, Whitty BR, Coutinho PM, Henrissat B, Martin F, Thomas PD, Tyler BM, De Vries RP, Kamoun S, Yandell M, Tisserat N, Buell CR. Genome Biol. 2010;11(7):R73. Epub 2010 Jul 13.
Genome sequence of the model mushroom Schizophyllum commune. Ohm RA, de Jong JF, Lugones LG, Aerts A, Kothe E, Stajich JE, de Vries RP, Record E, Levasseur A, Baker SE, Bartholomew KA, Coutinho PM, Erdmann S, Fowler TJ, Gathman AC, Lombard V, Henrissat B, Knabe N, Kües U, Lilly WW, Lindquist E, Lucas S, Magnuson JK, Piumi F, Raudaskoski M, Salamov A, Schmutz J, Schwarze FW, Vankuyk PA, Horton JS, Grigoriev IV, Wösten HA. Nat Biotechnol. 2010 Jul 11.
Conflict between reproductive gene trees and species phylogeny among heterothallic and pseudohomothallic members of the filamentous ascomycete genus Neurospora. Strandberg R, Nygren K, Menkis A, James TY, Wik L, Stajich JE, Johannesson H. Fungal Genet Biol. 2010 Jul 1.

Our work on the cover

Jason Stajich — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:37:43 +0000

Our work on the mushroom genome of Coprinopsis cinerea is featured on the cover of this week’s PNAS. Check out the blog post and the article.

Fusarium mobile chromosomes

Jason Stajich — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:51:26 +0000

Congrats to graduate student Divya Sain a co-author on a paper published in Nature on mobile chromosomes in Fusarium, stemming from her work her work during a rotation in the Borkovich laboratory.

The work highlights the important aspect of how pathogenicity factors can be exchanged via mobile chromosomes and can be an important pathway for adaptive evolution and acquisition of new function through whole chromosome exchange between strains.

PLoS Pathogens Pearl published

Jason Stajich — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:17:17 +0000

PLoS Pathogens has a short review format called Pearls. We were invited to write a short summary on Batrachochytrium which was published in the January issue.

Rosenblum, E., Voyles, J., Poorten, T., & Stajich, J. (2010). The Deadly Chytrid Fungus: A Story of an Emerging Pathogen PLoS Pathogens, 6 (1) DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000550

Fungal Evolutionary Genomics » publications

Some published papers this last month

Our work on the cover

Fusarium mobile chromosomes

PLoS Pathogens Pearl published