The COVID-19 CONVALESCENT PLASMA PROJECT (CCPP19) website now live at ccpp19.org. Protocols and IND available for download. Bare bones site with much content to be added later. Kudos to Nigel Paneth who led efforts and thank you Amazon and MITRE for your help!

Illuminating review on fungal light sensing by an international leader in the field, Luis Corrochano (Luis Corrochano), in Annual Review of Genetics (Annual Reviews): "Light in the Fungal World: From Photoreception to Gene Transcription and Beyond" annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.114…

Our collaborative work with the labs of V Garre and A Batschauer describing how a cryptochrome from the fungus Mucor repairs DNA is available online in ⁦Current Biology⁩ sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Have you ever wondered how aseptated fungi prevent cytoplasmic bleeding after hyphal breaks? Read this article from the Jedd lab in Current Biology on the discovery of Gellins in Phycomyces and Mucor. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Check out this paper by John Hallsworth. Mars’ surface is not universally biocidal - Hallsworth - - Environmental Microbiology sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

Our latest work on light regulation and velvet proteins in Neurospora crassa is out: Light regulates the degradation of the regulatory protein VE-1 in the fungus Neurospora crassa ⁦BMC Biology⁩ bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

A study into how light regulates the degradation of the regulatory protein VE-1 in the fungus Neurospora crassa. Luis Corrochano Read it here: bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

This paper describes an ancestral light-sensing system based on rhodopsin. A light-sensing system in the common ancestor of the fungi. ⁦@AncestralState⁩ ⁦Current Biology⁩ cell.com/current-biolog…

Our latest paper on transcriptional regulation during Neurospora development is out in mBio Transcriptional Regulation by the Velvet Protein VE-1 during Asexual Development in the Fungus Neurospora crassa | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

Animals and fungi are close relatives. This brilliant paper from the laboratory of Iñaki Ruiz Trillo helps to understand how they diverged. Divergent genomic trayectorias predate the origin of animals and fungi. ⁦Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo⁩ ⁦nature⁩ nature.com/articles/s4158…

This is a very interesting paper by John Hallsworth et al. that will expand your ideas about theoretical biology. Scientific novelty beyond the experiment - Hallsworth - Microbial Biotechnology - Wiley Online Library ami-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Registration for Neurospora 2023 is now open. The 2023 Neurospora Conference will take place in Navasota, Texas, October 1-4th of 2023. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn the latest discoveries in Neurospora research. Neurospora crassa Community⁩ neurospora.org/meetings/

Hello All,        There is still time to register and submit an abstract for the Neurospora 2023 meeting! Please follow this link neurospora.org/meetings/ to register.

Our review on the photobiology of Phycomyces is online. Light reception of Phycomyces revisited: several white collar proteins confer blue- and red-light sensitivity and control dynamic range and adaptation | Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Our latest paper on adenine and cytosine methylation in Mucoral fungi just appeared in Nature Communications. This is a collaboration between us, Victor Garre’s group at U Murcia (Spain), Joint Genome Institute and many other amazing colleagues. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Our latest work on the role of the velvet proteins in transcriptional regulation during sexual development in Neurospora. VE-1 regulation of MAPK signaling controls sexual development in Neurospora crassa | ⁦mBio⁩ ⁦Neurospora crassa Community⁩ journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

Muchas felicidades Dra. Meritxell Riquelme por sus 20 años de trayectoria como investigadora en CICESE 👏🏽 Estamos orgullosxs de usted ✨ // Congratulations, Dr. Meritxell Riquelme, on your 20 years of experience as a researcher at CICESE👏🏽 We are very proud of you✨

Congratulations to the Corrochano lab for their nice work in mBio to characterize the role of the velvet complex (VE-1, VE2, and LAE-1) in the sexual development of Neurospora, directly regulating MAK-1/2 kinase expression. See here: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

A very interesting paper in Current Biology by Luis Javier Galindo Jasmine Nirody and Tom Richards. Evolutionarily diverse fungal zoospores show contrasting swimming patterns specific to ultrastructure cell.com/current-biolog…

⁦ECFG17 - 17 European Conference on Fungal Genetics⁩ is now accepting abstract submissions. Deadline is October 25th. Several workshops will take place on March 2nd, including a ⁦⁦Neurospora⁩ session with oral presentations by students and postdocs. Neurospora crassa Community AbstractsECFG ecfg17.org/call-for-abstr…