Mating of compatible haploid cells of Ustilago maydis is essential for infection and disease development in the host. For mating and subsequent filamentous growth and pathogenicity, the transcription factor, prf1 is necessary. Prf1 is in turn regulated by the cAMP and MAPK pathways and other regulators like rop1 and hap1. Here we describe the identification of another putative Prf1 regulator, m...

Disclosure: Prof Matthias Kramer is an employee of Allergy Therapeutics UK Ltd. Prof Ralph Mösges has received consulting and/or speaker’s fees from, and/or conducted contract research for, several companies including ALK, Allergopharma, Bencard, Dr Beckmann, BioTechTools, HAL, Leti, Lofarma, Novartis, Roxall, Merck, and Stallergènes. Prof Randolf Brehler has received consulting and/or speaker‘...

Face recognition has assigned a special place to itself because of its low intrusiveness, low cost and effort and acceptable accuracy. There are several methods for recognition and appearance based methods is one of the most popular one. Unfortunately most of the papers that have been published these years have just shown the results on the databases that are all without any noise and all of fo...

On Saturday July 10, 1976, it was a warm spring day filled with blue skies and normalcy. With children playing outside under the sun-kissed rays and others enjoying lunch outdoors, all were oblivious to one of the biggest man-made chemical disasters that was about to take place. What was a seemingly picturesque afternoon was soon to be history due to the foreboding thick, whitish cloud overhead...

This paper proposes a new dynamic multi-objective optimization algorithm by integrating fitting-based prediction (FBP) mechanism with regularity model-based estimation of distribution (RM-MEDA) for in changing environments. The prediction-based reaction aims to generate high-quality population when changes occur, which includes three subpopulations tracking the moving Pareto-optimal set effecti...