3rd Annual CanFunNet Fungal Biology Conference

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

Twitter: @fungaldreamteam

Mycological biodiversity, including fungal systematics, phylogenetics, phylogenomics, biogeography and conservation.
Twitter: @FredoJusto

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.

Fungal ecology; mycorrhizae, endophytes, yeasts

Greg Thorn is a mycologist whose graduate studies at the University of Guelph (with George Barron) and the University of Toronto (with David Malloch) were followed by positions in Japan, Michigan, Indiana, Wyoming, and finally back to London as a faculty member in the Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario. My research is focused on the ecology and diversity of fungi. I teach courses on Biodiversity, Plant Evolution, Field Botany, and Mycology, and am the Curator of the Dr. Laurie L. Consaul Herbarium (UWO).

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 spatial 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

Mycologist and evolutionary biologist who studies the genetic bases of adaptation in species interactions. Especially interested in the mechanisms of genome evolution and the ecological consequences of structural variation.

Linda studies the metabolic variation 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 the bioproduction of fuels or other valuable products or targeting divergent components of yeast metabolism to thwart pathogenic yeasts.
Twitter: @Linder_surprise