Danny Haelewaters
PhD | mycologist | writer
  • About me
    • CV
  • Laboulbeniales
  • Research
    • Understudied fungi in understudied habitats
    • Laboulbeniomycetes evolution and speciation
    • Multitrophic interactions
    • Student research
  • Pubs & talks
    • Selected papers
    • Peer-reviewed papers
    • Conference presentations
    • Invited presentations
  • Funding
  • Resources
    • A healthy research lab
    • A motivated research group
    • Avoiding helicopter research
    • Data organization in spreadsheets
    • Molecular phylogenetic methods
    • Infographic—effect of fungal infections on ladybird survival
    • Ant–Laboulbeniales literature
    • Bat fly–Laboulbeniales literature
  • Popsci
    • Populair wetenschappelijk (nl)
  • Twitter
  • Blog
    • Danny’s blog
    • Sarah & Danny’s blog
  • About me
    • CV
  • Laboulbeniales
  • Research
    • Understudied fungi in understudied habitats
    • Laboulbeniomycetes evolution and speciation
    • Multitrophic interactions
    • Student research
  • Pubs & talks
    • Selected papers
    • Peer-reviewed papers
    • Conference presentations
    • Invited presentations
  • Funding
  • Resources
    • A healthy research lab
    • A motivated research group
    • Avoiding helicopter research
    • Data organization in spreadsheets
    • Molecular phylogenetic methods
    • Infographic—effect of fungal infections on ladybird survival
    • Ant–Laboulbeniales literature
    • Bat fly–Laboulbeniales literature
  • Popsci
    • Populair wetenschappelijk (nl)
  • Twitter
  • Blog
    • Danny’s blog
    • Sarah & Danny’s blog

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...

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4-05-2021 |

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...

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3-31-2021 |
"Bamboo brain", Mycocitrus sp. nov. (HONDURAS19-F055)

Long-term fungal inventory in Cusuco National Park, Honduras

Mycology would be nothing without the tropics E.J.H. Corner (1946) To this day, the vast majority of fungi have been described by...

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3-10-2021 |

New species named after COVID-19

What do three species of fungi, a weevil, a katydid, a shrimp, and a wasp have in common? Nothing, except for their names. All of them...

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2-02-2021 |

A new species of Laboulbeniales finally discovered after millions of years in the waiting

When collaborator Menno Schilthuizen, whom I published a paper with introducing a new species of Diphymyces from Borneo, mentioned...

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1-29-2021 |

The art of taxonomy: how is a new species described?

Taxonomy (the science of naming of species) is of fundamental importance to both biologists and conservationists. Without taxonomy, we...

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1-26-2021 |

Pizza paper making the rounds

Our predatory paper about the Fishiness of Piscine Birds Linked to Absence of Poisonous Fungi but not Pizza seems to have touched a...

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1-15-2021 |

Fishy birds, birdy fish, poisonous fungi, and pizza: Our “scientific breakthroughs” published in predatory journal

Did you see Dan Baldassarre’s wonderful paper entitled “What’s the Deal with Birds?” published on April 1 (!) last year? If...

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1-12-2021 |

2020 in numbers

2020 top 10 posts by view: Genetische modificaties: voor of tegen? Forensic Mycology: Taking Hebeloma to Court Parasites of parasites:...

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1-03-2021 |

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