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...
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...
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...
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...
