@dhaelewa
Luna's dad | PI Laboratory of Fungal Ecology and Evolution, Biology Centre CAS | visiting prof Ghent University | #TeamLaboul | biodiversity monitoring, conservation, ecology, genomics | #scicomm | 1stgen/queer/he/him | PhD #Harvard | dannyhaelewaters.com
And today I spent the day driving the moving van back to Belgium. Beautiful sights in 🇨🇿, a much-needed 🇩🇪 breakfast, and... traffic jams from the moment I crossed the border with 🇧🇪. Let's get back to work!
Just drove my new PhD student Brianna Santamaria and all her belongings from Belgium to Czechia. An intense and tiring 11-hour drive, but we made it.
Welcome to the Laboratory of Fungal Ecology and Evolution, Brianna! #LFEE #JuniorStar
I think it is the Harlequin. There is the typical M shape on its pronotum.
Congratulations!!
What do you mean?! Isn't "utilize" an efficacious term? 😏
We organized three workshops as part of our #C4inV4 project supported by the #VisegradFund (no. 22420237), on #citizenscience, phylogenomics, and comparative genomics. The workshops attracted between 21 and 33 participants from 🇧🇪🇨🇳🇨🇿🇪🇪🇩🇪🇭🇺🇲🇰🇵🇱🇪🇸🇬🇧! THANK YOU ❤️🍄
Opening the third and final #C4inV4 workshop on #genomics in Szeged, Hungary, hosted by Dr. László Nagy at the HUN-REN Biological Research Centre. This series of workshops received support from the #VisegradFund (project no. 22420237).
Amazing!! 👌
Infected Harmonia quadripunctata would be very useful for our research. Thanks for checking!
How amazing! Do you have the specimen? Would love the sequence the fungus!
So far, we found 16 insects with #Laboulbeniales ectoparasitic microfungi, out of 361 screened ones — marking a prevalence of 4.4%. Not bad at all! Go #TeamLaboul! @taxonexpeditions.bsky.social
I am working with #citizenscientists this weekend in the @taxonexpeditions.bsky.social entomological collection, to screen insects for the presence of ectoparasitic microfungi. This project is supported by @msafungi.bsky.social. #TeamLaboul #Laboulbeniales
It's one thing not to get an MSCA postdoc with a so-and-so proposal. It's another not getting one with an excellent proposal. I am also sad right now – but there is a 'Czech MSCA' call here, to support what they refer to as "no money projects" (= excellent but unfunded).
Not that I know of. The only thing I can think of dealing with fungi x gastropods is our #mycophagy review. doi.org/10.3390/jof9...
cc @meisebotanicgarden.bsky.social @filipvandelook.bsky.social
This is one of already 12 #Preprints that will be chapters in a book I am editing on fungal parasites and pathogens. They are combined in this post: www.dannyhaelewaters.com/preprints-of...
While you're at it, can you take my migraine away?
New #Preprint! 📢
A direct result of a roundtable discussion at the 2024 workshop on arthropod-associated fungal parasites and pathogens. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as we did writing it! "Ecology and management perspectives in arthropod–fungal associations": doi.org/10.22541/au....
Xylaria longipes is a soft-rotter, slowly breaking down cellulose in wood. Cut it lengthwise and you can see the individual closed fruitbodies producing sexual spores, or perithecia, along the margin. 🍄
Photos from Zoutelande (The Netherlands), 2025.
Xylaria longipes is a soft-rotter, slowly breaking down cellulose in wood. Cut it lengthwise and you can see the individual closed fruitbodies producing sexual spores, or perithecia, along the margin. 🍄
Photos from Zoutelande (The Netherlands), 2025.
Poster for upcoming webinar. Title: Fungal Conservation in the New Year: Species Discovery, Action, Policy, and a Global Strategy. Seven February 2026 11AM PST / 2PM EST / 4PM BRT / 7PM GMT with a registration link. Photos of presenters with talk titles. Huzefa Raja: Discovery is the first step toward conservation: Atromagnispora, a newly identified genus of freshwater ascomycete fungus from Indiana. Kelmer Martins-Cunha: From fungal neglect to action: shifting paradigms in Brazilian conservation. Greg Mueller: Developing A global strategy for fungal conservation. Images of 4 fungi are followed by the text "A webinar presented for Reverse the Red Day" and the logos of Reverse the Red, IIUCN SSC Mushrooms, Brackets, and Puffballs Specialist Group. Global Center for Species Survival at the Indianapolis Zoo. IUCN SSC FUNCC. IUCN SSC Brazil Fungal Specialist Group.
I just saw this and am excited to share!
🍄 Reverse the Red Day 7 Feb.
"Fungal Conservation in the New Year: Species Discovery, Action, Policy, and a Global Strategy"
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
It was a pleasure to host 🇧🇷 PhD student Marília Pereira Rodrigues de Melo in our group for a few months! She returns home with new knowledge, new friends, and the #TeamLaboul mug 🍵🪲🍄
Photo shows me surrounded by PhD students Aimée Blondelle, Marília, and @michieldegroot.bsky.social.
PS: We are starting a journal club in my lab and I was thinking about this paper. Would you be interested to join (by Teams) for a discussion of the paper? Perhaps we can email?
Very cool paper! The kingdom Fungi loses an amazing fossil taxon but there are still some pretty damn old fossil fungi around—but, granted, often (very) small. Take this billion-year-old Ourasphaira giraldae 🔬🍄
I spent last night with hundreds of people from around the world learning about Joint Species Distribution Modeling from Dr. Otso Ovaskainen.
Thanks also for great questions from the live participants!
Didn't get to join live? Welcome to watch the recording 👇
@mostfun.bsky.social @geobon.org
Congratulations! Will you move effectively?
Today, the lover "met" my mum, who left us 20 years ago. Being back in Tielen felt like a journey to the past.
How to register for this workshop that will be taking place tomorrow: email Dr. Terry Torres-Cruz at ttorresc [at] purdue [dot] edu.
📢Make sure to apply for one of 29 @msafungi.bsky.social student/postdoc/research awards! msafungi.org/msa-awards-c... 🍄💰
Great to read those reviews again! I think there is enough for a follow up paper.
This paper was a huge undertaking, with 44 authors from 29 countries in #Europe. So, a big thank you to everyone, including editors and reviewers (this paper has seen many version)!