FGSC Aspergillus Homepage Archive, 2009
12/4/09
Asperfest 7 will be March 28, 2010 (evening) and
March 29, 2010 (full day) at the NH Conference Centre Leeuwenhorst in The
Netherlands immediately before ECFG
10. The meeting will feature a variety of the best work in
Aspergillus species. Get details on abstract
submission and register online at: http://www.ecfg10.info/.
Early registration for ECFG closes December 19, so don't delay.
Students: This
year students have a special reduced registration rate thanks to the generosity
of Steve
Osmani and Gustavo Goldman who donated
royalties from their Aspergillus book
for student support.
We will also have student poster prizes again, so be sure to submit a poster abstract.
New
Investigators: We will have a session this year featuring new
investigators. If you have been an assistant professor or
equivalent with your own group for 6 years or less, please email me at aspergillus@plantbio.uga.edu
with a tentative title and a brief description of your work (2-4 sentences).
Programs from Asperfest-6
and other
Aspergillus meetings can be found on our homepage. (http://www.fgsc.net/Aspergillus/asperghome.html).
Check out the new
FGSC Strain and
Plasmid catalog interfaces.
The 2009 Aspergillus
Bibliography is now available online as part of Fungal Genetics Reports, 56.
10/28/09
The final program and minutes from AsperFest
6 are now available online as are several photos:
10/14/09
News from the AspGD
Orthologs and syntenic regions
AspGD users can now
navigate from A. nidulans genes to orthologs
and syntenic regions in the other sequenced
Aspergillus species. Links are available from the Locus Summary page that
navigate to an interactive comparative visualization tool (please see this example).
Alternatively, the ortholog
clusters can be searched for gene name from any Aspergillus species, at http://aspgd.igs.umaryland.edu/.
Orthologs among the
sequenced Aspergillus genomes were generated via a modified mutual best hit
(MBH) approach, in which close paralogs are collapsed into a single node prior
to MBH clustering.
AspGD is using Sybil,
an open source, web-based software package for searching and visualizing comparative genome data (http://sybil.sf.net).
A paper entitled "The Aspergillus Genome
Database, a curated comparative genomics resource for gene, protein and
sequence information for the Aspergillus research community" will
appear in the 2010 Database Issue of Nucleic Acids Research. The paper is now available online
as a Nucleic Acids Research Advance Access article.
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6th International Aspergillus Meeting Asperfest 6 will be held as a satellite meeting at the 25th Fungal Genetics Conference |
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January 2009
Postdoctoral position
The Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Dept. of Molecular Microbiology and
Genetics at the Georg-August-University of Goettingen
invites applications for a Postdoctoral position
(salary class 13 TV-L) within the BMBF-project “ERA-Net PathoGenoMics:
Transcriptional networks controlling virulence in fungal pathogens” for at
least three years
Area of research: Molecular analysis of the growth of Aspergillus
fumigatus mutants in blood.
Prerequisite: Ph.D. in biology or biochemistry/molecular biology
with focus on genetic/biochemistry and/or cell biology. Experience with
filamentous fungi and bioinformatics will be of advantage but not required.
The University aims to increase the number of female scientific staff employed
and expressly requests applications from qualified women. In the framework of
the legal requirements and in the case of equal qualifications, women will be
considered preferentially in all areas in which they are under-represented.
Disabled persons will also be considered preferentially in the case of equal
aptitude.
Written applications should be sent to Prof. Dr. Gerhard Braus,
Institut für Mikrobiologie und Genetik, Abt. Molekulare Mikrobiologie und Genetik, Grisebachstr. 8, D-37077
Göttingen. E-mail: gbraus@gwdg.de until March 1st , 2009.
Please send only copies of your documents (no originals). We will not be able
to send back your application and all documents will be destroyed after 3
months.
Scientific Curator
The Aspergillus Genome Database (http://www.aspgd.org/)
is a new collaborative project between Jennifer Wortman's
group at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Gavin Sherlock's
group in the Department of Genetics at Stanford Medical School (which is also
responsible for the Candida Genome Database). AspGD
has an open position for a scientific curator, available immediately at
Stanford University. Ideally, the successful candidate will have a Ph.D. in
molecular biology or microbiology, with experience in Aspergillus or another
fungal system. More details about the position are available online
All applications must be
submitted through the Stanford jobs website.
11/25/08
A. FUMIGATUS KO CASSETTES AVAILABLE FREE
The PFGRC at JCVI has made a set of 70 knock out cassettes for A. fumigatus available. Starting in January, 2009 you will
also be able to order up to 12 custom A. fumigatus
knock out cassettes of your choice. See more info at: http://pfgrc.jcvi.org/index.php/gateway_clones/available_knockouts.html
WISH YOU COULD COLLABORATE WITH J. CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE (FORMERLY TIGR)?
The PFGRC at J Craig Venter Institute is calling for white paper proposals.
These are essentially mini-grants that allow collaboration between individual
researchers and JCVI on Gene Expression studies, Comparative Genomics, Gene
Knock Outs, Proteomics and Bioinformatics as well as associated methodologies
and technologies.
Pre-proposal deadline December 12, 2008
Final proposal deadline is January 19, 2009.
For more information see:
White Paper Requests -
http://pfgrc.jcvi.org/index.php/white_papers/white_papers_main.html
Submission Process - http://pfgrc.jcvi.org/index.php/white_papers/white_papers_requests.html
Review and Selection Process - http://pfgrc.jcvi.org/index.php/white_papers/white_papers_review.html
October 28, 2008
Asperfest6 registration is available
at the GSA webpage
Online
abstract submission is via the FGSC website.
September 29, 2008
Professor
Herb Arst of Imperial College, London, will
present the Pontecorvo Lecture at the 6th
International Aspergillus Meeting.
September 15, 2008
Asperfest 6 will be held as a satellite meeting at
the 25th Fungal Genetics Conference at Asilomar.
The meeting will commence Sunday, March15 with an evening reception and will
continue with scientific sessions until Noon on Tuesday, March 17.
March 11, 2008
The program
and abstracts for the 5th International
Aspergillus meeting are available online.
Please see the updated Asperfest5
home page
January 11, 2008
January 2008 new
strain update (pdf)