In animal cells, the nuclear lamina keeps nuclear pore complexes evenly distributed throughout the nuclear envelope. Steinberg et al. reveal that fungi, which lack nuclear laminae, prevent their nuclear pores from clustering by moving them around on cytoskeletal tracks, a process that also helps to organize fungal chromosomes and optimize nucleocytoplasmic transport. This biosights episode presents the paper by Steinberg et al. from the August 6, 2012, issue of The Journal of Cell Biology...

Stan Wullschleger of Oak Ridge National Laboratory on "Omics in the Arctic: Genome-enabled Contributions to Carbon Cycle Research in High-Latitude Ecosystems" on March 22, 2012 at the 7th Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting in Walnut Creek, Calif.Stan Wullschleger at the DOE JGI 2012 Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting

N. Louise Glass of UC Berkeley and the Energy Biosciences Institute on "Systems Biology Approaches to Deciphering Plant Cell Wall Deconstruction by a Model Filamentous Fungus" on March 22, 2012 at the 7th Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting in Walnut Creek, Calif.

Siobhan Brady of UC Davis on "Getting to The Root of Things: Spatiotemporal Networks in the Arabidopsis Root" on March 22, 2012 at the 7th Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting in Walnut Creek, Calif.

Annika Mosier from UC Berkeley on "In situ Expression of Acidic and Thermophilic Carbohydrate Active Enzymes by Filamentous Fungi" on March 22, 2012 at the 7th Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting in Walnut Creek, Calif.

New York Times science writer Carl Zimmer delivering the opening keynote "On the Genome Beat" at the 7th Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting on March 20, 2012 in Walnut Creek, Calif.

Episode 54 of MicrobeWorld Video, filmed at the 51st Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy on September 17, 2011, features a live recorded video episode of This Week in Microbiology (TWiM), a podcast about life on Earth.

Host Vincent and co-host Michael, along with guests Arturo, Stuart, and David converse about antimicrobial resistance and why most fungi do not cause disease.

A presentation on the report of the project done to (1) identify fungi in seeds of Jatropha, (2) determine the effect of the seed-borne fungi on germination and seedling stand, and (3) evaluate quantity and quality of oil as affected by the seed-borne fungi.

DR. TERESITA U. DALISAY
Crop Protection Cluster
College of Agriculture
University of the Philippines Los Baños

DOE JGI's Igor Grigoriev and University of Utrecht's Han Wosten discuss the split-gill mushroom, a wood-degrading fungus whose genome was published online July 11, 2010 in Nature Biotechnology in this complement to the DOE Joint Genome Institute's news release (http://go.usa.gov/O8a).

From left to right: Dibyendu Kumar of the University of Florida, Christian Buhay of Baylor College of Medicine, Andries van Tonder of Wellcome Sanger Trust Institute, Anna Montmayeur of the Broad Institute and Karen Davenport of Los Alamos National Laboratory at the Finishing forum on June 3, 2010 at the "Sequencing, Finishing, Analysis in the Future" meeting in Santa Fe, NM.