New paper out!

A new paper disentangling drivers behind fungal diversity gradients along altitude and latitude is out in New Phytologist! These results suggest that environmental conditions differentially shape the diversity of fungal guilds along elevational and latitudinal...
New team member

New team member

We are welcoming Vasilii Shapkin in our team. Vasilii is a mycologist who previously studied in Biodiversity Center SAS in Bratislava, focusing on development of fungal metabarcoding methods and fungal ecology in general. During his PhD study, he will focus...
New team member

New team member

We are excited to welcome Cristina Turcu in our team. Cristina is a microbial ecologists who previously focused on microbial community responses to experimental warming in boreal peatlands at the University of Western Ontario where she completed her master’s thesis....
New paper out!

New paper out!

A new paper describing the importance of pathogens in plant population dynamics has been just published in New Phytologist. Besides that, we also identified increasing proportion of mycoparasitic fungi under highly fluctuating legume species, which may indicate an...
New team member!

New team member!

We are excited to welcome Tereza Branyšová in our team. Tereza is a microbiologist who recently completed her PhD at the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague, focusing on microbial contamination of cultural heritage objects. During her postdoc, she will...