Student research
Topics for potential bachelor projects
- Beschrijf nieuwe soorten Leotia (Fungi, Ascomycota)
- Laboulbeniales op arthropoden: vergelijken van gastheergroepen en entomologische technieken
- Schimmelparasieten op invasieve lieveheersbeestjes in ruimte en tijd
- Interacties in een verborgen microkosmos: mieren, mierengasten en fungale ectoparasieten
- Laboulbeniales-zwammen op insectencollecties
Topics for potential master projects
- Environmental preferences of Laboulbeniales microfungi obligately associated with insects
- Revision of sequenced fungarium specimens of Lactifluus: morphology, analysis of amplicon sequence data, and linkage to ecology
- Composition of bacterial biofilms on insect-associated Laboulbeniomycetes fungi
- Fungal conservation: from database records to prioritization
- Abiotic factors influencing the presence and prevalence of parasitic microfungi on an invasive ladybird
- Screening insect collections for the presence of ectoparasitic microfungi
Current master projects
- The Funga from Honduras (Ruben Vanhoomissen)
- A survey of ant nest-associated microorganisms in Belgium and The Netherlands (Koen Martens)
- Disentangling species in the genus Laboulbenia (Fungi, Ascomycota) using molecular phylogenetic data (Warre Van Caenegem)
- Diversity and species delimitation in Arthrorhynchus (Aimée Blondelle)
- A fungal monitoring project in Honduras: community ecology and taxonomy (Libelje Mortier)
- Abiotic factors influencing the presence and prevalence of parasitic microfungi on an invasive ladybird (Brianna Santamaria, 2022-2023)
