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.
Linfang Wei, Natalia Requena and Sara Cea-Sánchez after a group lunch at UC Berkeley’s Gladys & Wayne Plaza. The three will be sharing their research and experience with us during the next couple of months.
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
A new paper on Molecular Microbiology by Starr et al provides insights on the trafficking pathways of lignocellulolytic enzymes in filamentous fungi. The Major Cellulases CBH-1 and CBH-2 of Neurospora crassa Rely on Distinct ER Cargo Adaptors for Efficient ER-Exit Trevor Starr, A. Pedro Gonçalves, Neeka Meshgin, N. Louise Glass DOI: 10.1111/mmi.13879 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mmi.13879/full
Pedro and Darae were the representatives of the Glass Lab at the Fungal Cell Wall Conference 2017, in Ensenada, Mexico. Both had a poster and Pedro gave a talk for an auditorium full of fungal cell wall connoisseurs.
Regulated Forms of Cell Death in Fungi. Gonçalves AP, Heller J, Daskalov A, Videira A, Glass NL. Front Microbiol. 2017 Sep 21;8:1837. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01837. eCollection 2017. Review. Network of nutrient-sensing pathways and a conserved kinase cascade integrate osmolarity and carbon sensing in Neurospora crassa. Huberman LB, Coradetti ST, Glass NL. Proc Natl Acad Sci U […]
Congrats Louise! Glass Named Fellow of the Mycological Society of America https://msafungi.org/awards/msafellowsaward
Jens Heller and Lori Huberman won the GSA poster prize at the Fungal Genetics Conference, Asilomar Conference Grounds, in California. Well done!
The Glass Lab crew; left to right: Pedro, Jason, Lori, Louise and Monika Ready to crack some lobster:
MBio. 2017 Jan 17;8(1). pii: e02231-16. doi: 10.1128/mBio.02231-16. Identification of Glutaminyl Cyclase Genes Involved in Pyroglutamate Modification of Fungal Lignocellulolytic Enzymes. Wu VW1,2, Dana CM2,3, Iavarone AT4, Clark DS2,3, Glass NL5,2,6. Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA. Energy Biosciences Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA. Chemical […]
Last September 22, during the National Postdoc Appreciation Day, Glass Lab postdoc Jens Heller was one of the two postdocs awarded with the 2016 Postdoc Leadership Award by UC Berkeley’s Visiting Scholar and Postdoc Affairs office. In their own words, the award was given to them due to their “outstanding efforts to support the postdoctoral […]
The 2016 Meeting of the Mycological Society of America was held in Berkeley, CA in August. Our lab was represented by Louise Glass and Vince Wu, who gave a talk on “Neurospora crassa mRNA Reveals Secrets of Plant Cell Wall Deconstruction by Filamentous Fungi”. Good job Vince!
Postdoctoral researcher Lina Qin from the Glass Lab and the Energy Biosciences Institute gave a talk at the 2016 conference of the Society for Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology in New Orleans, LA. Good job Lina! “Deciphering the regulatory role of the SREBP pathway in protein secretion in Neurospora crassa”
Jens et al paper on PLoS Biology has been featured in Science Magazine’s “ScienceShots”, EurekAlert and UC Berkeley News. Congratulations!
Characterization of Greenbeard Genes Involved in Long-Distance Kind Discrimination in a Microbial Eukaryote. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27077707
Chemotropism and Cell Fusion in Neurospora crassa Relies on the Formation of Distinct Protein Complexes by HAM-5 and a Novel Protein HAM-14. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27029735
Research and video done in the Glass Lab is featured in the New York Times online series “Science Take” by James Gorman. The video message highlights an amazing, interconnected transport system used by Neurospora crassa to spread nuclei among its filaments as it grows. Fungi can have many nuclei in one cell. As that cell […]
The Glass lab flag was elected fourth in the Department of Plant & Microbial Biology’s recent flag competition. Thumbs up for Monika, Vincent and Jason.
Louise Glass discusses systems biology approaches to understanding plant cell wall degradation in a model filamentous fungus:
The discovery resulted from work completed by teams at UC Berkeley and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to optimize sugar conversion yields by the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to produce bioethanol. The scientists transferred cellodextrin transporters and an intracellular β-glucosidase identified in the plant biomass degrading filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa into a C5 utilizing yeast […]