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Louise Glass has been elected to join the National Academy of Science (NAS). We congratulated Louise on this outstanding achievement.

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 […]... Read More

How does a fungus senses and responds to different carbon sources?

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 […]... Read More

Image of the month (October 2019) in CNR Biological Imaging Facility, UC Berkeley

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/... Read More

Glass Lab at the International Mycological Congress

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.... Read More

Glass Lab discovers a fungal NLR surveillance system

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... Read More

Glass Lab helps understanding trafficking pathways of lignocellulolytic enzymes

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... Read More

Congratulations Glass Lab for the recent papers

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 […]... Read More

Paper published!

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 […]... Read More

Jens Heller wins the Postdoc Leadership Award

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 […]... Read More

Vince gave a talk at the 2016 MSA Meeting

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!... Read More

Lina at the annual conference of the SIMB

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”... Read More

Paper published!

Characterization of Greenbeard Genes Involved in Long-Distance Kind Discrimination in a Microbial Eukaryote. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27077707... Read More

Paper published!

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... Read More

Glass Lab Featured in NY Times

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 […]... Read More

Energy Biosciences Institute Announces First Patent

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 […]... Read More