A few years ago, I was offered the opportunity to edit a book, named “Biodiversity and Evolution of Fungal Parasites and Pathogens”...
Opening for a postdoctoral position in my lab
We are inviting applications for a postdoctoral researcher to support the Laboratory of Fungal Ecology and Evolution, and join our...
Lab updates October 2025
Aimée received a PhD Fellowship for Fundamental research of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO). This is a Meise-FWO Fellowship,...
Lab updates September 2025
I spent a night in Zoutelande and collected several epigeous gasteromycetes in the coastal forests behind the dunes. Among others, I...
On the importance of fungi …
Jonathan Cazabonne, a PhD student at the University of Quebec in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, and I wrote a correspondence about the need for...
Biodiversity Monitoring
The large gap between described and estimated species is referred to as the Linnean shortfall in conservation biology or, specifically...
Why Riaz et al. (2023) should be retracted
A few weeks ago, I stumbled across Riaz et al. (2023), “Symbiotic association between ants and fungus” in the Annals of the...
Rare species hanging out in my front yard
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...
