Not all budding yeast can bud! Learn more about cell morphology traits including the diversity of shape and size of the yeast subphylum, Saccharomycotina, in my recent review! Thank you to awesome co-authors Marizeth Groenewald HittingerLab RokasLab academic.oup.com/femsyr/article…

Our Fungal Biodiversity Course this week: 25 students, 10 nationalities, lots of happy faces and new fungi lovers! Come join us next year (or in Q4 for the Food and Indoor course🍄) #welovefungi 👉 wi.knaw.nl/news/category/… Pedro Crous Gerard Verkley

Great work lead by Liang Sun and a truly collaborative effort from Kyle T. David 🍄 Carla Gonçalves Dana A Opulente The Lab LaBella Marizeth Groenewald Xingxing Shen RokasLab and several Twitter-less colleagues. 💪
Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC)

It was a great pleasure hosting the yearly meeting of the KNPV Fusarium Working Group again today here at the Westerdijk Institute De KNAW. WUR Plant Pedro Crous #fungi #banana #fusarium

At the meeting of the ⁦KNPV⁩ Fusarium Working Group, ⁦Pedro Crous⁩ made some nice PR for the 2024 ⁦12th International Mycological Congress (IMC12)⁩ meeting that will take place in Maastricht. imc12.org. #imc12 #fungi 🍄

A tour for the King through the Westerdijk Institute.

This is such a special photo of the King at the liquid nitrogen facilities at the Westerdijk Institute.

Great talk about my favourite micro-organism, yeasts!

Jos Houbraken giving an excellent talk on heterogeneity in food spoilage fungi at the ECCO XLI meeting in Brussels. Westerdijk Institute Jos Houbraken

YEAST PREPRINT!
Marie-Claire Harrison leverages machine learning to reveal who, how and why galactose metabolism evolved in yeasts

Surprise! Not all yeast use the GAL genes

The Lab LaBella Dana A Opulente Xingxing Shen Marizeth Groenewald HittingerLab RokasLab

biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We bid farewell to Pedro as the director and welcome Wieland as the new director in various languages. Look at how diverse we are!

Today we welcome our new director, Prof. Wieland Meyer!!

And here it is, more than 1000 Saccharomycotina (mostly type strains) genomes sequenced - what a privelage to be part of this!

A moment to capture: with Gerard Verkleij (curator of the CBS-WI fungal collection) as ECCO session chair and Wieland Meyer (incomming director of the WI) giving a talk at the ICCC15, Braga, Portugal Westerdijk Institute

Westerdijk Seminar: 20 years post PhD, Lizel Mostert is back at the institute, sharing recent results of canker and wood rot diseases of fruit trees and grapevines in South Africa

Westerdijk Seminar: Cheryl Lennox visiting from the Department of Plant Pathology at Stellenbosch University : the impact of plant diseases

A long awaited reclassification of the higher ranks within the subphylum #Saccharomycotina , proposing 12 orders & seven classes to make the higher rank lineages more consistent with the high level of genomic diversity that exists. ingentaconnect.com/content/wfbi/s… 1/3

It is with great pleasure that we announce that the Westerdijk Institute will have a new director per 1 July 2023: Professor Wieland Meyer! We can think of no better candidate to launch us into the future, and to spearhead global #mycology ! De KNAW More: wi.knaw.nl/news/details/1…

📣Save the date!
📍15th International Conference on Culture Collections (ICCC15) in Braga
🗓12-16 June `23
📌Organized by The Micoteca da Universidade Minho, in collaboration with UFRO, MIRRI-ERIC, @MIRRI, the (Pt-mBRCN), Sociedade Portuguesa de Microbiologia and the SPBT
#IS_MIRRI21 #MIRRI_ERIC

I am very happy to share with you the very good news: We won the Dutch data prize 2022 (aanmelder.nl/fairdataday/du…) in the Life sciences and Health category for our dataset released in the paper doi.org/10.1016/j.simy…. Pedro Crous Gerard Verkley Marizeth Groenewald Westerdijk Institute