Scientific and Community News

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

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.

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.

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

Verson 5.5 of the C. reinhardtii genome is now available at http://phytozome.jgi.doe.gov/pz/portal.html#!info?alias=Org_Creinhardtii

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

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

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

From Katia Wostrikoff and Olivier Vallon, IBPC, Paris: While trying to complement mutations in specific regions of the genome using the BAC library from the Silflow/Lefebvre labs, we have come to realize that for many plates, the sequences indicated by the JGI browser (http://genome.jgi-psf.org/Chlre4/Chlre4.home.html) were not correct. We have systematically sequenced BAC ends from all … Continued

From Olivier Vallon: The collection of photosynthesis mutants of the Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique in Paris is made available to the Chlamydomonas research community. This collection includes about 500 strains generated in our laboratory, mostly single mutants but also double or triple mutants, all with rigorously verified phenotypes. The stocks are stored in liquid nitrogen … Continued