5th Annual CanFunNet Fungal Biology Conference

Marine fungal biodiversity, including fungal systematics, ecology and conservation; teaching mycology

Twitter: @fungaldreamteam

Grad student in the Shapiro Lab at UoG, working with Candida albicans, to determine how stress response genes within the pathogenic fungus interact with each other, using Crispr to create stress response mutants.

Biodiversity and genomic dynamics of fungal–plant interactions, including the detection of pathogenic and symbiotic fungi and the development of integrated management strategies to support plant health and sustainable agriculture.

Fungal pathogens, transcription, stress responses, drug resistance
X: @patounet80

Brent is interested in the genetics, genomics, and biodiversity of organisms that reside in coastal regions. Research areas include the mitochondrial genomics of bivalves and fungal endophytes, the characterization of marine microbial community dynamics both spatially and temporally (for e.g., fungi, archaea, bacteria, and eukaryotic phytoplankton), and the biodiversity of phytoplankton and diazotrophs in the North Atlantic and Arctic sectors.

Twitter: @B_Robicheau

Ecology and Evolutionary Genetics of Fungi. The overall objective in our research is to understand how fungi evolve. We examine both the patterns of fungal evolution as well as the mechanisms responsible for the observed patterns of evolution. We study fungal communities and populations from the environment, human, animal, plant, and fungal hosts, clinics, and the laboratory to address a variety of issues such as the rates and effects of spontaneous mutations; the persistence and spread of mutations in natural environments and anthropogenic populations; and the origins of novel traits, genotypes and species.

Linda studies variation in metabolism and stress responses across different yeast species and seeks to understand how we can take advantage of yeast metabolism for the betterment of society. This can include harnessing yeast metabolism for bioproduction of foods, beverages, fuels, or other valuable products or targeting divergent components of yeast metabolism to thwart pathogenic yeasts.
Socials: @linder-surprise.bsky.social