Chlamydomonas Sourcebook
The Chlamydomonas Sourcebook, Second Edition, is now available for purchase from Elsevier Science and Technology. From the home page, a search for “Chlamydomonas” will retrieve the information on how to order. The three volumes can be purchased individually, or as a set.
Chlorella genome at JGI
A draft genome of Chlorella sp. NC64A is now available at the JGI browser. See http://genome.jgi-psf.org/ChlNC64A_1/ChlNC64A_1.info.html for details of the project. There is also a web site dedicated to Chlorella and chlorella virus genomes: http://greengene.uml.edu/
EMBO Workshop on the Cell and Molecular Biology of Chlamydomonas
May 27-June 1, 2008, Hyères-les-Palmiers, France; Organizers: Michel Goldschmidt-Clermont, Carolyn Silflow and Francis-André Wollman Report on the meeting, by Kevin Redding and Doug Cole: Chlamydomonas: a sexually active, light-harvesting, carbon-reducing, hydrogen-belching ‘planimal’. Conference on the Cell & Molecular Biology of Chlamydomonas. EMBO Reports 9(12), 1182-1187 (2008). PMID: 18997729 meeting photos by Barb Sears