Last month, we organized a workshop on FUNGAL PHYLOGENOMICS, with 16 participants from Czechia, Hungary, Italy, and Poland. I presented an open lecture about #Laboulbeniomycetes (of course 😊🍄🪲). The workshop was funded through our Visegrad Fund grant no. 22420237.

What a week! #newPI 🍄
- Libelje submitted our Honduran checklist paper
- drafted a manuscript on priorities for citizen science in mycology
- Aimée started preparing for her PhD interview
- planned fieldwork in #Brunei
- started finalizing our #TeamLaboul best practices paper on #Laboulbeniomycetes

Getting ready for my lecture on #Laboulbeniomycetes. Hopefully a few more people will show up 😅😂

📢 I wrote an article with @jonathancazabonne.bsky.social for @theconversation.com about the need for fungal conservation (and funding, and attention all-round)! We also mention knowledge shortfalls and #Laboulbeniomycetes as a case study for poorly studied taxa. theconversation.com/fungi-are-am...

Our latest #Preprint on knowledge gaps, or shortfalls, in understudied taxa—with #Laboulbeniomycetes as case study, led by @jonathancazabonne.bsky.social. www.authorea.com/users/891997... #TeamLaboul

Knowledge gaps explored for Laboulbeniomycetes, a clade of understudied microfungi, including a new shortfall related to a lack of taxonomic expertise Despite escalating efforts to document and understand biodiversity, gaps in knowledge persist due to the inherent complexity of biological systems and the sheer scale of global biodiversity. Such know...

📣New book chapter preprint: We explored knowledge gaps for #Laboulbeniomycetes, a clade of understudied #microfungi, and introduced a new #shortfall named after Roland Thaxter.

Big thanks to the coauthors! @tommartin2024.bsky.social @dhaelewa.bsky.social

#TeamLaboul @teamlaboul.bsky.social