Evolutionary biology and systematics seek to understand how organisms are related and processes that lead to species, populations and associated traits of organisms. Using whole genome sequencing to inventory the DNA, computational tools to assemble and annotate genomes, and analyses to identify shared gene sequences among organisms we are assembling the fungal tree of life from the more than 1000 genomes. This talk will discuss the 1KFG project, efforts to sequence the fungal diversity, phylogenomic approaches to rapidly identify genes for phylogenetic analyses, and comparisons of gene content that can be associated with groups of species with shared ancestry or shared traits.

Prof. Jason Stajich