Since the start of this year AFN has been holding webinars every 2-3 months.
These webinars are only open to AFN members, so if you are not already a member please just get in touch.
AFN membership is free!
AFN is now on LinkedIn
The anaerobic fungi network is now on LinkedIn!
https://www.linkedin.com/company/anaerobic-fungi-network
This is in addition to our twitter and facebook presence.
Keep up to date by following us in any of these forums 🙂
19th genus now published
We are very happy to share with you details of a paper that was recently published: “Aestipascuomyces dupliciliberans gen. nov, sp. nov., the First Cultured Representative of the Uncultured SK4 Clade from Aoudad Sheep and Alpaca”.
This paper describes the characterization of the 19th anaerobic fungal genus, which was independently isolated by two different research groups.
You can read further details in the open-access paper which can be accessed here.
Prof Tony Trinci, a great mycologist, has died
A quote from Prof Neil Gow of the University of Aberdeen, UK: “Professor Tony Trinci, one of the true greats in mycology, died earlier today [7 Oct 2020]. A gentleman, mentor to many, whose work framed our understanding of fungi multicellularity.“
Prof Trinci’s funeral will be held on Monday 26th at 13:00 (UK time) at Stockport Crematorium (Rowan Chapel). It is possible to remotely attend the funeral via a webcast – for further details please contact anaerobicfunginetwork@gmail.com
A document containing some recollections of Tony, by several anaerobic fungal researchers who were fortunate to have worked with Tony during his career, can be found here.
An obituary in ‘The Guardian’ newspaper can also be read online here.
Featured anaerobic fungal researchers
Every month, we feature an anaerobic fungal researcher on our website. To see the list of featured researchers, and to find links to the associated website pages, please click here.
Seven new genera!!!
We are delighted to share with you details of a paper that was published at the end of last week entitled “Seven new Neocallimastigomycota genera from wild, zoo-housed, and domesticated herbivores greatly expand the taxonomic diversity of the phylum”.
This substantial collaborative piece of work brings the number of described genera from 11 up to 18!!!
You can read further details about the 7 new genera in the paper here.
New website
The website of the anaerobic fungi network has recently had an overhaul!
We hope you like the new look and content.
More information has still to be added to the site, so watch this space….
Microbe of the month
We are delighted to announce that anaerobic fungi are featured as ‘Microbe of the month’ at the Dutch microbiology museum in Amsterdam, Micropia.
This is the result of a collaboration between Wageningen University & Research and TU Delft.
More details about anaerobic fungi and the museum can be found here.
Updated anaerobic fungal ITS1 database – version 3.4 – now available!
The database for the assignment of anaerobic fungal ITS1 next-generation sequence reads (compatible with Mothur and QIIME), as described in the paper by Koetschan et al (2014), has just been updated to now include all 11 currently characterized genera – please see the Resources & Links page to download the two files for version 3.4!
Frontiers: Herbivore gut eukaryota and viruses
We would like to bring to your attention a new Frontiers in Microbiology research topic on: Advances in the understanding of the commensal eukaryota and viruses of the herbivore gut. The topic is also a tribute to the tremendous contributions of the late Professor Burk Dehority and Professor Colin Orpin to the field of herbivore gut microbiology. The topic is open to all type of herbivores – not just mammalian. For further details please see here.