You’d think that in Belgium, a country with a very high population density, not much more biodiversity can be found in addition to...
2021 in numbers
2021 top 10 posts by view: Forensic Mycology: Taking Hebeloma to Court The art of taxonomy: how is a new species described? Genetische...
O Stigmatomyces baeri, where art thou?
I am a mycologist, and one could argue that I am also an entomologist and a mammalogist. I work quite a bit with insects and with bats. I...
[News] International team explores the mysterious and understudied parasitic microfungi
The world around you is teeming with life you can’t see. Plants, soil, water, insects – even your hair and skin – are home to...
Danny back@ugent
Toen ik in 2011 mijn schup afkuiste met het indienen van mijn masterthesis, getiteld “Exploring and testing DNA extraction protocols,...
Our response published in Science!
A few weeks ago, Cao et al. (2021) published a letter in Science, about including macrofungi in the post-2020 global biodiversity...
Boek zonder Naam
Ooit schrijf ik een boek. Ik weet nog niet of het autobiografisch moet worden of eerder een fictieverhaal met elementen uit het echte...
Undergrad finds microscopic fungus resembling prehistoric marine reptile
When my undergraduate student Warre started his project in February studying microscopic fungal ectoparasites of bat flies, I knew that...
Long-term fungal inventory in Cusuco National Park, Honduras
The Kingdom Fungi includes a highly diverse group of organisms, in terms of both species richness as well as the ecological roles they...
