We study the taxonomy and ecology of marine fungi & fungi associated with coastal and marine plants in the Department of Biology at Acadia University. Research in our lab includes field collecting in coastal habitats (saltmarsh, intertidal, seagrass, Acadian forest) as well as agroecosystems, and traditional culture-based and microscopic identification of fungi. This is combined with modern molecular systematic and phylogenetics, DNA community fingerprinting, ITS barcoding, quantitative-PCR, genomics & metagenomics. Recent collaborative projects have discovered a new obligate marine fungus Lulworthia fundyensis and explored fungal interactions with microarthropods in salt marshes. I welcome inquiries from students interested in pursuing research in coastal plant-fungal interactions, marine mycology or fungal community ecology on the Bay of Fundy.
Come explore and help document this fascinating and little-known component of Canada’s biodiversity, where many discoveries await!
New open access MSc research here by Rebecca Mader! ‘Using historic fungarium collections to assess macrofungal community shifts in insect-damaged eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) forests’ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1754504825000844
We hosted the 2023 CanFunNet Conference in collaboration with the New Brunswick Museum in Saint John. Learn more about the conference here: CanFunNet 2023
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