Leading scientists of the future at the European Conference on Fungal Genetics - On Biology

Leading scientists of the future at the European Conference on Fungal Genetics - On Biology

Jillian Romsdahl, Freek Appels & Sara Cea-Sánchez

Jillian Romsdahl: University of Southern California

Freek Appels: Molecular microbiology, Utrecht University

Sara Cea-Sánchez: Department of Genetics, University of Seville, Spain

Leading scientists of the future at the European Conference on Fungal Genetics

Editors of Fungal Biology and Biotechnology recently attended the 14th European Conference on Fungal Genetics in Haifa, Israel. We invited young scientists who presented excellent posters at the conference to tell us more about their research. In this blog, we hear from Jillian Romsdahl, Freek Appels and Sara Cea-Sánchez about their work.

Jillian Romsdahl, Freek Appels & Sara Cea-Sánchez 10 May 2018

Characterization of Aspergillus niger isolated from the International Space Station – Jillian Romsdahl

Fungal communities will accompany us into space, but how will the environment effect them?

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On each individual there exists diverse fungal communities that will, without question, accompany us as we travel to Mars and beyond. Through adaptation, these microorganisms possess the capacity to thrive in a wide variety of ecological niches.