Yearly Archives: 2011

Dear Chlamy Community, The JGI is pleased to announce the release of Chlamydomonas assembly version 5. This assembly represents a substantial improvement over version 4 and is the result of an effort led by Jane Grimwood and Jeremy Schmutz at HudsonAlpha with help from several members of the Community. Highlights of this assembly include: contig … Continued

Back by popular demand: The chloroplast genome site created at Cornell University has been restored. We are aware that some features aren’t working, notably the utility to retrieve sequences. We’ll let you know when those have been fixed.

If you’re a regular visitor to www.chlamy.org, you’ll see that we have a new look. This change coincides with the debut of the Chlamydomonas Resource Center web site, featuring on-line “shopping cart” ordering with credit card payments, and extensive revisions to the descriptions of individual strains. Another new feature is ChlamyBiblio, a comprehensive database for … Continued

Please join us for the 1st International Volvox Conference (focused on the green alga Volvox and its close relatives) to be held December 1-4, 2011 at the Biosphere 2, in Arizona, USA (http://www.b2science.org/). This is the first of what we hope to be a long series of Volvox meetings to be held every other year, … Continued

We are pleased to alert you to new functionalities at the http://pathways.mcdb.ucla.edu/chlamy/ site. The site is designed to help you analyze gene lists and expression profiles. The site is being updated on a regular basis. paper by Lopez et al., describing this site

from Maria Mittag Chlamydomonas and Phaeodactylum Workshop within the frame of DFG Research Group “Specific Light Driven Reactions in Unicellular Model Algae” Jena (Germany), March 27-28, 2011 We invite PhD students and postdocs to apply for participation in a workshop on selected methods established for C. reinhardtii and P. tricornutum (program, seehttp://www.uni-jena.de/en/DFG_Research__Group_1261.html under Workshop March … Continued