Project description:RATIONALE: Gathering information about how often fungal infections of the blood occur in patients with cancer or in patients who have undergone stem cell transplant may help doctors learn more about the disease.
PURPOSE: This natural history study is collecting information about fungal infections of the blood over time from patients with cancer or from patients who have undergone a stem cell transplant.
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Project description:Information on fungal community structure of activated sludge
Project description:The next generation of personalized medical treatment according to the type of personal genetic information are evolving rapidly. The genome analysis needs systematic infra and database based on personal genetic information. Therefore, a big data of genome-clinical information is important.
To determine the feasibility of the use of tumor’s molecular profiling and targeted therapies in the treatment of advanced cancer and to determine the clinical outcome(Response rate,PFS, duration of response and overall survival )of patients with advanced cancer, the investigators are going to take a tumor tissue of patients and process molecular profiling and receive molecular profile directed treatments.
Project description:Isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans, a fungal pathogen that kills almost 200,000 people worldwide each year, differ at a few thousand up to almost a million DNA sequence positions compared to a 19-megabase reference genome. We used bulked segregant analysis and association analysis, genetic methods that require no prior knowledge of sequence function, to address the key question of which naturally occurring variants influence fungal virulence. We identified a region containing such variants, prioritized them, and engineered strains to test our findings in a mouse model of infection. At one locus we identified a 4-nt variant in the PDE2 gene, which severely truncates its phosphodiesterase product and significantly alters virulence. Our studies demonstrate a powerful and unbiased strategy for identifying key genomic regions in the absence of prior information, suggest revisions to our assumptions about cAMP levels and about common laboratory strains, and provide significant sequence and strain resources to the community.
Project description:Laser Capture Microdissection (LCM) was used for expression analysis of three contrasted fungal tissues of uredinia corresponding respectively to spores and sporogenous hyphae, fungal structures in the spongy mesophyll and fungal infection structures in the palisade mesophyll. The array probes were designed from gene models taken from the Joint Genome Institute (JGI, Department of Energy) Melampsora larici-populina genome sequence version 1. The aim of this study was to identify tissue-specific gene expression to gain insights into the genes specifically associated with the biotrophic phase and the sporulation phase of the rust fungus.
Project description:Laser Capture Microdissection (LCM) was used for expression analysis of three contrasted fungal tissues of uredinia corresponding respectively to spores and sporogenous hyphae, fungal structures in the spongy mesophyll and fungal infection structures in the palisade mesophyll. The array probes were designed from gene models taken from the Joint Genome Institute (JGI, Department of Energy) Melampsora larici-populina genome sequence version 1. The aim of this study was to identify tissue-specific gene expression to gain insights into the genes specifically associated with the biotrophic phase and the sporulation phase of the rust fungus. We performed 9 hybridizations (NimbleGen) with samples derived from Laser Capture Microdissection (LCM) of three contrasted fungal tissues of uredinia, corresponding respectively to spores and sporogenous hyphae, fungal structures in the spongy mesophyll and fungal infection structures in the palisade mesophyll. Three replicates per tissue. All samples were labeled with Cy3.
Project description:Amplicon-based fungal metagenomic sequencing for the identification of fungal species in brain tissue from Alzheimer's disease. The study consists in 14 samples, sequenced using Illumina's paired-end technology.
Project description:For a eukaryotic genome to properly function, its chromatin must be precisely organized, as genome topology impacts transcriptional regulation, cell division, DNA replication, and DNA repair, among other essential processes. Disruption of human genome topology can lead to disease states, such as cancer. The advent of chromosome conformation capture with high-throughput sequencing (Hi-C) technologies to assess genome organization has revolutionized our understanding of the arrangement of chromosomes within the nuclear genome. Critical developments include chromosomal territories, active/silent chromatin compartments, Topologically Associated Domains (TADs), and chromatin loops. However, to fully elucidate folding principles at the gene level, Hi-C datasets at an extremely high resolution are required: while low resolution (e.g., 40 kb bin) heatmaps can provide important insights into chromosomal level contacts, lower resolution datasets cannot provide information about individual gene or promoter contacts. Thus, high-resolution Hi-C datasets can elucidate principles of folding, including those of model organisms whose chromosome conformation can elucidate the folding of the human genome. Here, we have examined the high-resolution genome topology of the model fungal organism Neurospora crassa: our composite Hi-C dataset, generated using two restriction enzymes to monitor euchromatin (DpnII) and heterochromatin (MseI), provides exquisite detail for both larger chromosomal structures and individual gene contacts, including how repressed euchromatic genes associate with constitutive heterochromatic regions. Our high-resolution Neurospora Hi-C datasets should be an outstanding resource to the fungal community and provide valuable insights to the folding of higher organism genomes.
Project description:Genome sequence data results are reported from experimental and bioinfomatic work using the technique 'Bulk Segregant Analysis' to determine the genetic basis of observed resistance to the azole antifungal compound itraconazole in the opportunistic fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus.