teaserEuglenoids show great promise to benefit our world; as biofuels, environmental remediators, anti-cancer agents, robotics design simulators and food nutritional agents, but the absence of reference genomes currently limit realizing...
moreteaserEuglenoids show great promise to benefit our world; as biofuels, environmental remediators, anti-cancer agents, robotics design simulators and food nutritional agents, but the absence of reference genomes currently limit realizing these benefits. The Euglena International Network (EIN) (
https://euglenanetwork.org/) aims to address these challenges, and is currently seeking formative phase support and funding.Body startOf the nearly 1000 known species of euglenoids (Triemer and Zakryś, 2015), including Euglena gracilis and Rhabdomonas costata, fewer than 2 % have been explored for any level of translational potential in the past 20 years. The absence of reference genomes currently limits biotechnology applications, including the development of efficient tools for genetic manipulation in euglenoids.EIN aims to advance euglenoid science through a creative amalgam of academic institutions, national research institutes and biotechnology industry, to translate and exploit euglenoids...