Journal of Fungi

Dr. Paschalis Vergidis

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Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
Interests: candidiasis; aspergillosis; endemic mycoses; fungal infections in hematology-oncology; fungal infections in transplant recipients

Dr. Arnaldo Videira

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1. ICBAS—Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
2. i3S—Institute for Research and Innovation in Health, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Interests: fungi; Neurospora crassa; mitochondria; respiratory chain; complex I; programmed cell death; molecular biology

Dr. Donald C. Vinh

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Section Head, Infectious Diseases - Hematology/Oncology/Transplant Clinical Program, Director, Centre of Excellence for Genetic Research in Infection and Immunity, McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), 1001 Decarie Boulevard, Montreal, QC H4A 3J1, Canada
Interests: human antifungal immunity; inborn errors of immunity; genetic susceptibility to fungal disease; candidiasis; aspergillosis; thermally-dimorphic mycoses

Dr. Jatin M. Vyas

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Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Interests: host-pathogen interactions; innate immune; fungal pathogens
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Prof. Dr. Timoleon-Achilleas Vyzantiadis

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First Department of Microbiology, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: applied laboratory medicine; infectious diseases; clinical microbiology; fungal infections; diagnosis and monitoring of fungal infections; antifungal agents
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Prof. Dr. Zonghua Wang

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Institute of Oceanography, Minjiang University, Fuzhou 350108, China
Interests: Magnaporthe oryzae; fungal genetics; plant pathology
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Dr. P. Lewis White

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Public Health Wales Mycology Reference Laboratory, PHW Microbiology Cardiff, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff CF14 4XW, UK
Interests: novel diagnostics; invasive fungal disease; novel strategies; SNPs; aspergillosis; candidosis; pneumocystosis; mucormycosis
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Prof. Dr. Brian L. Wickes

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Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
Interests: molecular diagnostics; fungal pathogenesis; Cryptococcus neoformans morphology and development; Candida glabrata and Candida auris drug resistance
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Prof. Dr. Nathan P Wiederhold

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Director, Fungus Testing Laboratory, Departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Medicine/Infectious Diseases, UT Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA
Interests: antifungal susceptibility; antifungal resistance; investigational antifungals; diagnostic microbiology; emerging fungal pathogens

Prof. Dr. Birgit Willinger

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Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Interests: epidemiology; diagnosis of fungal infections; antifungal susceptibility testing
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Prof. Dr. Jian-Qiu Wu

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Department of Molecular Genetics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
Interests: cytokinesis; cell division; cell biology; fission yeast; fungal genetics; cell integrity; anti-fungal drug targets
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Prof. Dr. Xuehong Wu

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College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
Interests: species identification of Alternaria, Rhizoctonia, and Fusarium; molecular mechanism of resistance to fungicides; mycoviruses associated with fungi
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Prof. Dr. Yuxian Xia

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Genetic Engineering Research Center, School of Life Science, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400030, China
Interests: molecular mechanisms of conidiation, pathogenicity, stress tolerance in entomopathogenic fungi; molecular mechanism of insect immunicty against entomopathogenic fungi; development of fungal pesticides

Prof. Dr. Wei Xiao

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Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E5, Canada
Interests: budding yeast; genetics; DNA repair and mutagenesis; ubiquitination; transcriptional regulation in response to toxic agents

Dr. Chaoyang Xue

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1. Public Health Research Institute, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 07103, USA
2. Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 07103, USA
Interests: host-pathogen interactions; fungal virulence; Cryptococcus; cell surface receptors on fungal pathogens; novel antifungal drug targets discovery
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Prof. Dr. Jinkui Yang

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State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-Resources, Key Laboratory for Microbial Resources of the Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China
Interests: nematophagous fungi; fungal genetics; fungus–nematode interaction; signal transduction; fungal morphogenesis; fungal pathogenicity and development
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Prof. Dr. Jun Yang

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MARA Key Laboratory of Pest Monitoring and Green Management, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
Interests: rice blast fungus; rice blast; fungal pathogenesis; green fungicide development; broad-spectrum resistance gene; strategy on the deployment of resistance genes
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Prof. Dr. Oded Yarden

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Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
Interests: hyphal elongation/branching; fungal cell polarity; marine-derived fungi

Prof. Dr. Wenbing Yin

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State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Interests: fungal secondary metabolites; combinatorial biosynthesis; genome mining; new tools or techniques; biological and ecological function of fungal natural product
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Dr. Yanbin Yin

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Department of Food Science and Technology, Nebraska Food for Health Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
Interests: bioinformatics and evolutionary genomics; computational microbiomics; carbohydrate metabolism
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Dr. Andrey Yurkov

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Department of Bioresources for Bioeconomy and Health, Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Brunswick, Germany
Interests: yeasts; taxonomy; systematics; dimorphic fungi; yeast ecology
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Dr. Giovani Leone Zabot

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Laboratory of Agroindustrial Processes Engineering (LAPE), Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), 3013, Taufik Germano Rd, Universitário II DC, Cachoeira do Sul 96503-205, Brazil
Interests: fermentation; fungal metabolites; biopesticides; biofertilizers; bioinputs formulation
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Dr. Susanne Zeilinger

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Department of Microbiology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Interests: fungal communication and interactions; mycoparasitic fungi; fungal secondary metabolism; signal transduction; Trichoderma biocontrol agents

Dr. Wei Zhang

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College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China
Interests: soil microorganisms; microbial ecology; plant-microorganism-insect interactions; endophytic fungi; plant symbiotic fungi
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Dr. Xiaoyong Zhang

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College of Marine Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510000, China
Interests: marine fungi; fungal ecology; coral-associated microorganisms; active substance marine fungi; marine fungal polysaccharides
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Prof. Dr. Xin Zhang

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Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
Interests: physiological and molecular mechanisms in mycorrhizal plant under stresses; migration and transformation of heavy metal(loid) among soil-microorganisms-plant system
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Prof. Dr. Mingwen Zhao

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College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Interests: cultivation physiology and genetic breeding in edible fungi
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Prof. Dr. Ruilin Zhao

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State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Interests: diversity and systematics of macrofungi; evolutionary genomics; molecular biology of mushrooms
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Prof. Dr. Xin-Qing Zhao

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School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
Interests: yeast; synthetic biology; metabolic engineering; biofuels; organic acids; genome mining
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