2018-2024
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Prof. Dr. Wieland Meyer |
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Prof. Meyer is a molecular medical mycologist, PhD 1992 Humboldt University Berlin, Germany; post-doctoral fellow 1992-1995 Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA; established the Molecular Mycology Research Laboratory in 1995, Prof. for Molecular Medical Mycology (2013-2022), Adjunct Prof. since 2022, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, NSW; Associate Dean Curtin Medical School 2021–2022 and Dean of Research Faculty of Health Sciences 2022–2023, and Adjunct Prof. for Molecular Medical Mycology since 2023 at Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia; Guest Professor at Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil since 2013; Director of the Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Science (KNAW) in Utrecht, Netherlands since 2023. His research interest is in evolution, phylogeny, population genetics, genomics, molecular epidemiology and identification of human/animal pathogenic fungi, the impact of mycoses on global heath, fungal pathogenesis and antifungal resistance. |
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Secretary-General |
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Dr. Jennifer Luangsa-ard |
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Dr. Jennifer Luangsa-ard is a biotechnologist and mycologist; Dipl. Biotechnologie TU Braunschweig; PhD Tropical Agriculture at Kasetsart University. To date she’s a senior researcher at BIOTEC, NSTDA, Thailand. Past IMA Vice President (2014-2018), IMA Secretary General (2018-present).Her research focusses on the evolution of invertebrate pathogenic fungi, phylogenetics and plant microbe interactions. |
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Treasurer |
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Dr. Andrin Gross |
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Dr. Gross is a mycologist; PhD 2013, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, focusing on various aspects of the ash dieback pathogen Hymenoscyphus fraxineus; postdoctoral studies at ETH Zurich (2013-2016) on the same pathosystem and at INRA Pierroton, Bordeaux, France (2017) focusing on the population genetics of oak powdery mildew. Became the leader of the Swiss national datacenter SwssFungi (2018-to date) which hosts a fungi records database, and which is responsible to guide fungal conservation in Switzerland. His main research interests is in fungal taxonomy, ecology and the development and implementation of new monitoring tools such as eDNA metabarcoding. Currently, he and his colleagues are working on the revision of the fungal red lists for Switzerland using a combination of data from eDNA, citizen science campaigns and traditional surveys on randomly selected plots. Besides, he is still interested in invasive fungi and regularly publishes factsheets for practitioners about newly introduced species. |
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Past President |
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Prof. dr. K.A. Seifert |
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President Elect |
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Prof. Dr. Marc Stadler |
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Marc Stadler studied biology at the University of Kaiserslautern and received his PhD in 1993 the subject of new antibiotics and nematicides from predacious fungi. After a post-doctoral stay at University of Lund/Sweden in natural product chemistry, he joined the pharmaceutical industry in 1995 and worked in the natural products department of Bayer Healthcare (Pharma Division). He co-founded the company InterMed Discovery GmbH in 2006, as an MBO from Bayer. Concurrently, he was teaching at University of Bayreuth, where he received the venia legendi in Mycology in 2009. He took up his current position as Department Head at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI, Braunschweig, Germany) in 2012 and is teaching biology and biotechnology at Technical University of Braunschweig. His main research interests are the discovery of new beneficial secondary metabolites and the development of biotechnological processes for their sustainable production, as well as the taxonomy and phylogeny of the ascomycete class Sordariomycetes. |
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Chair of the IMC11 |
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Prof. dr. S.A. Cantrell Rodrigues |
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Chair of the IMC12 |
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Prof. Dr. P.W. Crous
Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute |
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Prof. Crous is a mycologist and plant pathologist; PhD 1992 Orange Free State Univ., South Africa; DSc 2009 Univ. of Pretoria; Prof. at Univ. of Stellenbosch since 1995, Univ. of Pretoria since 2002, Univ. of Utrecht since 2010, Univ. of Wageningen (2002–2023), Univ. of the Free State (2012–2021), Univ. of Melbourne (2013–2015), Univ. of Murdoch (2014–2016), Univ. of Chiang Mai (2017), Beijing Forestry Univ. (2019–2021); past Director, Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute (KNAW) (2002–2023), past President, International Mycological Association (2006–2010), Member, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Member Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences, Fellow Linnean Society of London, Southern African Society for Plant Pathology, and Honorary Member Mycological Society of America, and Mycological Society of India. His research focusses on the evolution of plant pathogenic fungi, phylogenetics, host adaptation, speciation and fungal sex. |
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