Fungal Genetics Stock Center

This has led them to expand the collection, with additional materials including strains from genome programs[2] and mutant collections for organisms such as Neurospora crassa, Aspergillus nidulans, Cryptococcus neoformans, and Candida albicans.

Other strain collections include Allomyces (pdf), Aspergillus niger, Ustilago madis, and Neurospora strains from the historical Tatum lab collection In the period from January 1998 to December 2018, the FGSC distributed over 630,000 cultures including nearly 5,000 individual mutants and over 20,000 gene deletion mutants arrayed in 96-well format.

At KU Med Center Dr. J. Kinsey was director and he worked on genetics of amino acid metabolism and later identified the transposon "Tad" in a Neurospora crassa strain from Adiopodoume, Ivory Coast.

[4] Since 2014, Dr. John Leslie of the Kansas State University Department of Plant Pathology has been Director.

[6] For many years the FGSC was supported by the US National Science Foundation under their Living Stock Collection program.

[7] Beginning in 2015, the FGSC has been supported by the Kansas State University College of Agriculture and by fees paid by clients.

One of the main goals of the FGSC is to make research with filamentous fungi (mold) more accessible.