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Category: Miscellaneous

June 22, 2015April 6, 2023 Joan Edwards Miscellaneous

Photo competition winner: image details

Colin Orpin loved Tony Callaghan's figure as it showed both the basic morphology of a mature plant and the growth of the germinated zoospores that had invaded the plant tissue. It also nicely demonstrated both ‘ends’ of the vegetative stage of the growth cycle. Tony's winning image is now featured on our website 🙂

June 22, 2015April 6, 2023 Joan Edwards Miscellaneous

Photo competition results!!

The network recently held a photo competition, which Colin Orpin kindly agreed to judge. Colin had 59 entries to choose from and paid particular attention to the quality of the image, its significance and originality. I am delighted to announce that Tony Callaghan from Aberystwyth University was placed first (see new image on our website). Yanfen … Continue reading Photo competition results!!

March 4, 2015April 6, 2023 Joan Edwards Miscellaneous

Colin Orpin

I had a lovely conversation with Colin Orpin the other evening - he was delighted to hear about our network and that anaerobic fungal research is still alive and kicking! For those of you not familiar with the name, Colin Orpin is the researcher who conducted much of the ground breaking work in the 1960s/70s … Continue reading Colin Orpin

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  • Joan Edwards collecting faeces at the Donkey Sanctuary (Sidmouth, UK) for hindgut microbiota analysis as part of her Marie Curie funded EQUIANFUN project.
  • Wantanasak Suksong picking up faecal samples at Alpenzoo, Austria for culturing anaerobic fungi.
  • Lokesh S. Mane, a project trainee with Dr Sumit Singh Dagar growing the anaerobic fungus Orpinomyces at the Agharkar Research Institute (Pune, India) for bioaugmentation in rice straw fed anaerobic digester.
  • Liren Huang and Sophia Strobl marvel at anaerobic fungi through microscopes.
  • Xiaojing Liu is analyzing the sequencing data at Nanjing Agricultural University, China.
  • Rob Gruninger busy processing rumen samples for a research project.
  • Bachelor students isolating anaerobic fungi in their practical course at ZHAW (Switzerland).
  • Hongjian Dai is reading the literature related to fiber degrading enzymes at Nanjing Agricultural University, China.
  • Lona Mosberger and Joshi Akshay from Zurich University of Applied Sciences on a trip to collect wild animal faeces for analysis.
  • Post experimental clean up by Leonie Sonderegger & Julia Vinzelj at University of Innsbruck.
  • Purification of heterologously expressed cellulase protein of anaerobic fungi by Zhenxiang Meng, Nanjing Agricultural University, China.
  • Colour mix swirling around in flasks during anaerobic medium preparation captured by Sophia Strobl & Julia Vinzelj (University of Innsbruck, HiPoAF project).
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