UBC expertise: Fungal Genomics

“Knowledge about Bioinformatics is vital to unravel the large data sets we work with in our field of Fungal Genomics.”

PNAS publication UBC members: System that controls cell division resembles a mosaic

Cell division in cells with a nucleus: microtubules (red) are pulling the chromosomes (blue) towards both sides of the nucleus. On every chromosome, a kinetochore (light dots) is present.

The protein complex that the cells of animals, plants, and fungi use to control cell division was created long ago from at least 40 different proteins. This could explain the overwhelming success of all cells with a cell nucleus, according to researchers at Utrecht University and the Hubrecht Institute. Their results were published in the […]