Jiwei Zhang

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…

Spatially-resolved -omics to target reaction partitioning mechanisms in a unique lignocellulose-degrading fungus

Lead Institution

University of Minnesota

Principal Investigator

Jonathan Schilling

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Brown rot fungi are among a select group of filamentous fungi able to deconstruct lignocellulose, and their biochemical pathways have potential biofuels applications and carbon cycling implications…

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…

Carbon signaling cascades that enable the carbohydrate-selective plant biomass degradation by brown rot fungi

Lead Institution

University of Minnesota

Principal Investigator

Jiwei Zhang

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Fungi are dominant microbes for carbon turnover of plant biomass in terrestrial systems. Some of them, namely brown rot fungi, evolved more efficient mechanisms than others, causing the fast…

EMSL Science Overview

Jiwei Zhang

Projects

Spatial partitioning and differential expression by wood-degrading fungi

Spatially-resolved -omics to target reaction partitioning mechanisms in a unique lignocellulose-degrading fungus

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

Carbon signaling cascades that enable the carbohydrate-selective plant biomass degradation by brown rot fungi