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Hello Czeer! Thank you for contacting me! I will try replying to your message asap, but wanted to try writing to your talk page first.

--Wendyxie99 (talk) 19:31, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Untereiner, WA; Naveau, FA. 1999. Molecular systematics of the Herpotrichiellaceae with an assessment of the phylogenetic positions of Exophiala dermatitidis and Phialophora americana. MYCOLOGIA Volume: 91 Issue: 1 Pages: 67-83 Published: JAN-FEB 1999 Medmyco (talk) 22:27, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

P. Zalar, M. Novak, G.S. de Hoog, N. Gunde-Cimerman. Dishwashers – A man-made ecological niche accommodating human opportunistic fungal pathogens. Fungal Biology, 2011; 115 (10): 997 DOI: 10.1016/j.funbio.2011.04.007 Medmyco (talk) 23:50, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Thanks Czeer! I look forward to your edits on bioinorganics as well.Dbzam (talk) 16:53, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

You may find some additional useful information in the Untereiner and Naveau paper (doi: 10.2307/3761194) and the Zalar et al. paper (doi: 10.1016/j.funbio.2011.04.007). Great start though! Medmyco (talk) 22:29, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Hello Czeer! Great work on your article so far, especially in the pathophysiology section. One thing you could add is how infections are identified as attributable to E. dermatitidis? Also, how can the fungus be removed form dishwashers (that was hilarious), if they impose a serious health risk? Wendyxie99 (talk) 18:06, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

Hey Wendy! Thanks for the suggestions! I still have a ways to go, and appreciate any and all recommendations. See you in class tomorrow! Czeer (talk) 03:19, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

Wow! great work on your paragraphs, you have a really interesting fungus to work with. It would be a good idea to add examples of clinical cases since this species commonly affects humans. KassF (talk) 02:27, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

Thanks KassF for your suggestion! It's much appreciated. Czeer (talk) 03:16, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

Hi Czeer! Great work on your article, it's extremely detailed and very organized. I think it would be a good idea to add a section about the phylogeny of the fungus. Brendanguyen5 (talk) 22:59, 29 October 2014 (UTC)Brendanguyen5

Hey Czeer, great job on your article, it is very descriptive and contains a lot of interesting points. Perhaps you could add more information to your introductory paragraph (just a few summarized and key points from your subsections). In addition, you could mention where E. dermatitidis could have potentially originated. This article could provide some useful points: The neurotropic black yeast Exophiala dermatitidis has a possible origin in the tropical rain forest. In addition, perhaps you could elaborate on it's occurrence in saunas (which countries did they occur in and other fungi that could have been present in these saunas and caused similar symptoms). This article could provide a few points relating to that: High prevalence of the neurotrope Exophiala dermatitidis and related oligotrophic black yeasts in sauna facilities.. I hope you find these suggestions useful and I look forward to reading your finished article. Waleed Shahid1 (talk) 19:28, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Thank you! Excellent references, I will definitely include information from them. All the best, Czeer (talk) 02:39, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

I encountered an interesting paper on your fungus starting on pg 145 of this: http://www.cbs.knaw.nl/publications/sim61.pdf Medmyco (talk) 16:29, 2 November 2014 (UTC)

...overlapping with Waleed's suggestion! Medmyco (talk) 16:32, 2 November 2014 (UTC)

How do we add pictures :( Wendyxie99 (talk) 02:32, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

I am trying to figure out how to use this wikipedia thing...Reminder:Don't spend your whole break on wikipedia! LacMJ (talk) 11:30, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

Preparing for a future, later-in-life test here. Czeer (talk) 19:27, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

I know how to use the talk page now. ATB Lozmeister (talk) 03:12, 22 January 2015 (UTC) I also am learning how to use the talk function. Batcheld (talk) 03:54, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Hi Czeer.

I'm learning how to communicate on Wikipedia.

Your classmate, Ryder

--Rfwh (talk) 17:43, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Hi. I work with the Wiki Education Foundation, and help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment. If there's anything I can do to help with your assignment (or, for that matter, any other aspect of Wikipedia) please feel free to drop me a note. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:57, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

Dear Czeer; nice start on your page on calprotectin. There are a lot of points here, so you might need to focus a bit. For the course, the chemistry/biochemistry is much more interesting! Also, I was surprised to see your statement that manganese binds more tightly than zinc, I wonder how that works. Have a nice weekend.Dbzam (talk) 19:14, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Hi Dbzam. I was also surprised, which is why I decided to preface the point with "remarkably." Unfortunately, I'm not totally sure the authors were correct. I double checked the textbook I referenced, and although they write, "The high affinity of Mn²⁺, even over Zn²⁺, arises from its asymmetrical heterodimer structure that allows one Mn binding site made of six histidine residues..." I don't think this is backed by the primary article they cite. Instead it seems that the site binds Mn²⁺ nearly as strongly as it does Zn²⁺... but not quite. After mutating out the low binding site, they actually found that Zn²⁺ K_d = 3.4 ± 1.2 (SD) nM and Mn²⁺ K_d = 5.8 ± 1.6 (SD) nM.^[1] This seems to be in agreement with other primary sources, as well as Brophy and Nolan's recent review article. ^[2] That being said, the book may have intended to cite an earlier paper by the same authors, where the K_d of Zn²⁺ and Mn²⁺ were found to be essentially identical, with Mn²⁺ maybe binding ever so slightly slightly stronger! Their earlier finding (using WT protein) was that Zn²⁺ K_d = 1.35 nM and Mn²⁺ K_d = 1.3 nM.^[3]

Either way, it's a remarkable complex. All the best, Czeer (talk) 20:51, 6 February 2015 (UTC)