User talk:SherryDai93/sandbox

Hi Sherry, my name is Neda and I'm in CSB436 as well. I just have a couple of suggestions for your page!

First of all, your fungus has lots of potential to become an amazing Wiki page. I think you should separate the subheadings and add a new one for the diseases that K. marxanius causes (or contributes to in the case of candidemia), so you can add more to your page and further indulge in the pathogenicity of the fungi to humans. A good idea to add content to your page is to focus on the disease aspect of the fungi and the industrial application of them. You can focus not only on their physiology more, but also focus on the products that they make and how they are helpful or beneficial to humans (otherwise they would not be used at all in the industry right??). Here are a couple of resources I've found that may come in handy for you when you're working on those sections:

1. Yang, C., Hu, S., Zhu, S., Wang, D., Gao, X., & Hong, J. (2015). Characterizing yeast promoters used in kluyveromyces marxianus. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 31(10), 1641-1646. doi:10.1007/s11274-015-1899-x

2. Fonseca, G. G., Heinzle, E., Wittmann, C., & Gombert, A. K. (2008). The yeast kluyveromyces marxianus and its biotechnological potential. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 79(3), 339-354. doi:10.1007/s00253-008-1458-6

3. Lane, M., Burke, N., Karreman, R., Wolfe, K., O’Byrne, C., & Morrissey, J. (2011). Physiological and metabolic diversity in the yeast kluyveromyces marxianus. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek, 100(4), 507-519. doi:10.1007/s10482-011-9606-x

As well, the name of your fungus seems interesting, since it has the word Marx in it, so maybe you could go into the history of how it was named and how they discovered it under its own heading.

Finally, the first part of your Wikipedia page could be organized better using a Taxobox. Professor Scott mentions it and gives us a template for it in the course Wiki page: Wiki_Ed/University_of_Toronto/HMB436H_Medical_and_Veterinary_Mycology_(Fall_2015)/overview

Good luck on the rest of your assignment and the rest of the course! Let me know if there's anything else I can help you with.

Neda

Some helpful tips and articles!
Hi, my name is Parmeet and I’m one of your classmates from HMB436. First off, I wanted to say the name of your fungus is so cool! Sounds like the names of a bunch of philosophers put together. Anyways, here are some tips to expand your article. First, for your final article, it would be great if you could include a picture of your fungus, I saw some very cool ones on google images. From the pictures, you could also write about the morphology of the fungal cells and infer their growth patterns. Second, I found an article available through UofT Libraries titled, “Kluyveromyces marxianus: A yeast emerging from its sister’s shadow,” which has some really interesting information about it’s industrial applications. The authors of that article state that your yeast has the “fastest growth rate of any eukaryotic microbe, thermotolerance, the capacity to assimilate a wide range of sugars, secretion of lytic enzymes, and the production of ethanol by fermentation.” I believe this article will provide some great points for you to expand on about your fungus about its applications, physiology, and ecology. Furthermore, I found this interesting article that expands on why Kluyveromyces marxianus produces ethanol at such high temperatures. The article is titled, “Alcohol dehydrogenases from Kluyveromyces marxianus: heterologous expression in Escherichia coli and biochemical characterization.” The authors of the article states, “KmAdh1 is the primary ADH responsible for the production of ethanol from the reduction of acetylaldehyde in K. marxianus.” This article would be great to use for information to expand on in physiology section of your article. Hope this helps, cheers! Pkgill (talk) 01:20, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

Hi, I am one of your classmates in HMB436. I loved reading your article, it's pretty balanced and has covered your fungus generally really well. I would suggest that you add more information to your introduction and perhaps more on applications regarding your fungus. Your fungus looks like it might have a lot of applications in medicine and industry. But in general, your article is great, keep up the good work! Farissulaiman92 (talk) 05:17, 14 November 2015 (UTC)Farissulaiman92