Articles tagged GSA Fungal Genetics Conference
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We are pleased to announce the GSA Poster Award winners from the 31st Fungal Genetics Conference! Congratulations to all! Jorge Lightfoot, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center   Fungal hypoxia adaptation is critical for the establishment of keratitis vayu maini rekdal, UC Berkeley CRISPR-Cas9 engineering of A. oryzae for meat-like flavor and appearance Amber Matha,…

Four GSA communities are excited to meet in person in 2022 — and to experiment with hybrid conferences that combine the benefits of online and in-person meetings. After two years of online meetings of all kinds, we are thrilled to return to scientific conversations in person! In 2022, many of us will be together again,…

Congratulations to all the winners of poster awards at the 2019 Fungal Genetics Conference! Fabrizio Alberti Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, University of Warwick “The aim of my research is to understand how antibiotic and anticancer terpenoid molecules are made by basidiomycete fungi.”   María Angélica Bravo Núñez Graduate student, Stowers Institute for Medical Research “I study…

Prize recognizes extraordinary creativity and ingenuity in genetics research. Joseph Heitman, MD, PhD of Duke University is the recipient of the 2019 Genetics Society of America (GSA) Edward Novitski Prize. Heitman is honored for his work on human fungal pathogens and for identifying the molecular targets of widely-used immunosuppressive drugs. The latter work proved to…