Postdoctoral Position in Microalgae Research
This position is for a postdoctoral fellow with experience in Chlamydomonas. The project is part of a larger DOE collaboration focused on approaches to improve biomass and lipid production in microalgae. The work will take place at the NASA Ames Research Center in California and is centered on the molecular and biochemical aspects at the … Continued
Two-Year Post-Doc Position in Cell Biology
Post Doc Announcement in Petroutsos Lab
First Batch of CLiP Mutants Now Available!
Dear Colleagues, Thank you for your support of the Chlamy Mutant Library project! We are pleased to announce that the first batch of ~1,900 mutants are now available at the Chlamydomonas Resource Center. Strains can be searched and ordered at this website: https://www.chlamylibrary.org/. A manuscript describing this collection has been provisionally accepted and should be … Continued
17th International Conference on the Cell and Molecular Biology of Chlamydomonas (Chlamy2016) is now open
From Hideya Fukuzawa: The 17th Chlamydomonas meeting (website) will be held at the Kyoto International Conference Center, Kyoto, Japan, on June 26-July 1, 2016. The plenary session will start on Sunday, June 26, in late afternoon. I also announce that satellite meeting on Photosynthesis will be held on July 1-2 at the Kyoto university.
17th International Meeting on the Cell and Molecular Biology of Chlamydomonas
From Hideya Fukuzawa: The next Chlamydomonas meeting will be held at the Kyoto International Conference Center, Takaragaike, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-0001 Japan, on June 26-July 1, 2016. The plenary session will start on Sunday, June 26, in late afternoon. July 1st is just for departure.
Chlamy mutant library, update
Dear Chlamy community, We have set up another opportunity for labs who haven’t yet received a mutant from the pilot collection to obtain one [see previous announcement below, posted in December]. If you are interested, please see the website below and use the form at the bottom to submit a request by June 23rd, 2014. … Continued
New link for Chlamydomonas at Phytozome
Verson 5.5 of the C. reinhardtii genome is now available at http://phytozome.jgi.doe.gov/pz/portal.html#!info?alias=Org_Creinhardtii
Batch conversion of Chlamydomonas gene identifiers
The tool for converting batches of Chlamydomonas gene identifiers between different annotation versions has been updated to include all versions from JGI v3 onwards. The tool is available here: http://pathways.mcdb.ucla.edu/algal/id_conversion.html The versions that can be converted are JGI v3, v4, v4.3 (Augustus u10.2), v5.3.1, v5.5 as well as Augustus u5 and u9 and GenBank accessions … Continued
Chlamy mutant library
Dear Chlamy community, Thanks to letters of support from many of you, the Chlamy mutant library project is now well underway, and we currently have a pilot collection covering ~10% of all genes. While the paper is still a ways away, we have received many requests for collaborative distribution of individual mutants before we publish. … Continued
BAC library is OK
From Olivier Vallon, IBPC, Paris: Recently, concerns were raised about possible plate swaps in the BAC library distributed by Clemson University Genomics Institute and sequenced by JGI under the accessions PTQ…. While the copy #23 received by the Paris group indeed suffers from plate swaps, this seems to be due to a one-time error of … Continued