Gerald Presley

Oregon State University

0000-0002-5506-7419

Projects

Spatial partitioning and differential expression by wood-degrading fungi

Lead Institution

University of Minnesota

Principal Investigator

Jonathan Schilling

Project type

Special Science

Certain filamentous fungi are uniquely able to deconstruct lignocellulose, and their poorly understood mechanisms have potential biofuels applications. A key hindrance to harnessing these fungal…

Orchestrated chaos at the hyphal tip as fungi oxidatively decompose plant cell walls

Lead Institution

University of Minnesota

Principal Investigator

Jonathan Schilling

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Our research, supported by a new DOE BER Systems Biology grant (as of Sept. 2018), focuses on "brown rot" fungi that selectively extract sugars embedded in lignin. These fungi, we…