Recent Species
Class: Sordariomycetes Subclass: Lulworthiomycetidae
Order: Lulworthiales
Family: Lulworthiaceae
posidoniae
Class: Sordariomycetes Subclass: Lulworthiomycetidae
Order: Lulworthiales
Family: Lulworthiaceae
gigaspora
Class: Dothideomycetes
Order: Pleosporales
Family: Thyridariaceae, Subclass Pleosporomycetidae
nitidula
Class: Dothideomycetes
Order: Pleosporales
Family: Halotthiaceae, Subclass Pleosporomycetidae
biturbinata
Class: Dothideomycetes
Order: Pleosporales
Family: Neocamarosporiaceae Wanas., Wijayaw., Crous & K.D. Hyde, Studies in Mycology 87: 245 (2017), Subclass Pleosporomycetidae
phragmitis
Class: Dothideomycetes
Order: Pleosporales
Family: Morosphaeriaceae, Subclass Pleosporomycetidae
muthupetensis
Class: Dothideomycetes
Order: Pleosporales
Family: Kirschsteiniotheliaceae, Subclass Pleosporomycetidae
phoenicis
Class: Dothideomycetes
Order: Pleosporales
Family: Lentitheciaceae, Subclass Pleosporomycetidae
obiones
Class: Dothideomycetes
Order: Pleosporales
Family: Pleosporaceae, Subclass Pleosporomycetidae
lignatilis
Curators
Head curator
Jones EBG, Professor, Department of Botany and Microbiology, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Email: torperadgj@gmail.com
Professor Jones has devoted 60 years to the study of marine fungi, and worked extensively in Asian. He has supervised circa 100 PhD/MSc students by research, published 600 research articles and is a highly cited scientist. Besides marine mycology, he has studied marine biofouling, biodeterioration of materials, and wood decay by fungi.
Managing curators
Marine fungi
Calabon MS, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, 333 Moo 1 Muang District, Chiang Rai, Thailand 57100.
Email: mscalabon@up.edu.ph
Mark is currently pursuing his PhD degree in Biological Sciences (Marine Mycology) at Mae Fah Luang University, Thailand under the supervision and co-supervision of Prof. KD Hyde and Prof. EB Gareth Jones, respectively. His research focuses on the taxonomy, phylogeny and evolution of marine fungi.
Fungal-like organisms
Bennett RM, Department of Biological Sciences, College of Science, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines
Email: rmbennett@ust.edu.ph, reuelmbennett@gmail.com
Reuel is currently pursuing his PhD at Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany under the supervision of Prof. Marco Thines. His research focus is on the on the Phylogeny of Mangrove Oomycetes and is the author/co-author of 10 publications
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Curators
Abdel-Wahab MA, Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Sohag University, Sohag 82524, Egypt
Email: mohamed.eisa@science.sohag.edu.eg
Mohamed A. Abdel-Wahab obtained his MSc degree in Marine Fungi from the Sohag University, Egypt. He joined City University of Hong Kong in 1997–2001 and obtained his PhD degree in Marine Mycology in 2001. During 2004–2008, he worked as a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Biotechnology and Drug-Research, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, Center of Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine – Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California-San Diego, USA and XBR, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan where he worked on ecology, molecular phylogeny and natural products of marine fungi. During 2011–2013 he joined the Department of Botany and Microbiology, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. Currently he is a professor of marine mycology and his research interest includes: ecology and taxonomy of marine fungi and natural products from aquatic and endophytic fungi.
Hyde KD, Professor, Center for Excellence in Fungal Research, School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, 333 Moo 1 Muang District, Chiang Rai, Thailand 57100.
Email: kdhyde3@gmail.com
Prof. Kevin David Hyde is currently the director of the Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University. He has published 1400 research articles on fungi and currently supervise 70+ graduate students.
Pang KL, Institute of Marine Biology and Center of Excellence for the Oceans, National Taiwan Ocean University, 2 Pei-Ning Road, Keelung 20224, Taiwan (ROC)
Email: klpang@ntou.edu.tw
Ka-Lai Pang obtained his B.Sc. and Ph.D. from City University of Hong Kong in 1998 and 2001, respectively. During 2002-2007, he worked as a post-doc research at the University of Portsmouth (UK), BIOTEC (Thailand) and City University of Hong Kong on various projects related to the ecology and phylogeny of marine fungi. In 2007, he joined the faculty at National Taiwan Ocean University where he studies the biology of marine fungi and fungus-like organisms, and endophytic fungi associated with mangrove plants and macroalgae.
Fryar SC, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide SA 5001, Australia
Email: sally.fryar@flinders.edu.au
Sally Fryar obtained her BSc (Hons) and PhD at Flinders University, graduating at the end of 1997. From 1998 to 2000 she worked as a post-doc at the University of Hong Kong with Professor Hyde on marine and freshwater fungi in Borneo. Since returning to Australia she has continued to research marine and freshwater fungi.