MEM Visiting researchers

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA, a visit from 13^th to 22^th March 2022 funded by National Science Foundation grant (DEB-2030779). Chance is a PhD. student of prof. Brandon Matheny. He was focusing on adopting of microscopic techniques used for Russula morphology standards and Global Fungi data mining. We are preparing a study about delimitation and ecology of two boreal Russula species occurring in Rocky Mts. The photo show him with our lab members, from left Vasilii Shapkin, Miroslav Caboň and Chance Noffsinger.

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Goethe Univestity, Germany, two visits, first at 9^th to 16^th December 2020, second supported by scientific mobility project DAAD 57561196 at 1^st to 14^th December 2021 Cathrin is a PhD. student of prof. Meike Piepenbring and Slavomir is her co-advisor. She prepared phylogeny of Russula sect. Roseinae in Panama including description of four new species (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257616). During her second visit she was dealing with descriptions of Russula collections from Benin.

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From Germany is a passionate mycologist organising citizen science research in Germany. He has a big heart for Russula. He accompanied Cathrin Manz during her both visits. He supported our research by observations on European Russula.

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visited us also at 4^th to 20^th January 2023. We identified a new phylogenetic group of Russula in Benin that is frequent in the country and is important part of natural forest ecosystems. The groups evolved before split of Gondwana and is especially diverse in the Africa with only two known members outside the continent. Fruiting bodies of these ectomycorrhizal species are distinctly morphologically adapted to two types of forest ecosystem in Benin, savannah or gallery riparian rain forest.

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From Indiana University Northwest, Indiana, USA, travel fellowship of Indiana University Northwest, USA, 3^rd February 2020 to 14^th March 2020. Ben made full micromorphological descriptions of two North American foetid Russulas, we wait for a good season to improve our sampling in multilocus phylogeny and our knowledge of field aspect of the species. He visited us at the beginning of Covid-19 pandemic and had to finish his stay few days before expected stay end.

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From University of Punjab, Pakistan, two stays supported by fellowship of National Scholarship program SAIA, 1^st April to 31^st May 2019, 20^th February 2020 to 12^th July 2020. The first stay of Munazza was aimed to Russula systematics and resulted to new Russula species descriptions including a comprehensive study about bioclimatic adaptations of the Russula globispora lineage (https://doi.org/10.3390/life11070662). During the second stay she helped with our research of Dermoloma diversity https://doi.org/10.1007/s11557-020-01651-y.

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From Rosario University, Bogotá, Colombia, visit supported by IAPT travel grant, 4^th June to 5^th July 2019, Michelle was undergraduate university student of Dr. Adriana Corrales. She prepared data for publication about diversification of ectomycorrhizal Russula species along the Isthmus of Panama (https://doi.org/10.1080/00275514.2021.1897377).

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From Ghent University, Department of Biology, Research Group Mycology, visit from 5^th to 12^th December 2018. Ruben visited us as a PhD student of prof. Annenmieke Verbeken. Slavomír was his co-advisor. We focused on the analysis of pileipellis structure and chemical reactions of microscopic elements in Russula albonigra lineage. The data were used in publication that includes phylogeny of European members of the lineage and description of five species, including three new to science (https://doi.org/10.1186/s43008-021-00064-0).

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from University of Swat, Pakistan, 3 months visit from 1^st April to 30^th June 2022. Junaid was working on unravelling of the diversity of an ectomycorrhizal genus Russula in Pakistan.  Junaid’s collections and molecular phylogenetic studies have demonstrated that the Russula diversity in Pakistan is different from European continent and majority of species might be new to science. We are preparing studies on Pakistani Russula species related to European R. insignis and R. firmula.

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from University of Vigo, Spain, visited our lab for Student mobility traineeship Erasmus+ from 1^st December 2023 to 30^th May 2023. She practices her training in microscopy, molecular analyses and sequence editing on the genus Camarophyllopsis, that is an agaric member of family Clavariaceae. She plans to continue on this study as part of her master thesis at Goethe University Frankfurt Germany under supervision of prof. Meike Pieberbring and Slavomír Adamčík.