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Louise Glass, together with Barbara Baker and David Card, Faculty members of UC Berkeley, have been elected to join the National Academy of Science (NAS). http://news.berkeley.edu/2021/04/26/three-berkeley-faculty-elected-to-t… The National Academy of Science (NAS), established in 1863, is a private, non-profit society of distinguished scholars. Members are elected to the National Academy of Sciences to recognize their […]

A recent article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (http://www.pnas.org/content/117/11/6003.long) reports on how a fungus senses and responds to different carbon sources, making the most nutritious choices for utilization of a plant biomass buffet. The findings reported in this article are the fruit of a collaborative project between the laboratories of PMB […]

Focalization of Lifeact-GFP (actin marker) upon cell contact (arrow) in germlings of Neurospora crassa. Image of live cells was acquired on the Leica Spinning Disk confocal microscope in the BIF. Image contributed by Adriana Rico Ramírez, Postdoc. Glass Lab. Image of the month (October 2019) in CNR Biological Imaging Facility. http://microscopy.berkeley.edu/

Darae presented her doctoral thesis work entitled: Dissecting the mechanism of signaling and regulation of chemotropic interactions during cell fusion in Neurospora crassa.

From left to right: Linfang, Louise, Gabe, Lori, Jens.

Monika and Pedro represented the Glass Lab at the IMC11 – International Mycological Congress 2018, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Both gave a talk on different aspects of cell-cell fusion in Neurospora crassa. Good luck Monika on your new postdoc position with Matt Traxler.

Congrats Lori on the poster award!

Regulation of Cell-to-Cell Communication and Cell Wall Integrity by a Network of MAP-Kinase Pathways and Transcription Factors in Neurospora crassa Monika S. Fischer, Vincent W. Wu, Ji E. Lee, Ronan C. O’Malley and N. Louise Glass GENETICS Early online April 20, 2018; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.118.300904

NLR surveillance of essential SEC-9 SNARE proteins induces programmed cell death upon allorecognition in filamentous fungi Jens Heller, Corinne Clavé, Pierre Gladieux, Sven J. Saupe and N. Louise Glass PNAS 2018; published ahead of print February 20, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1719705115