Website Updates – Anaerobic Fungi Network

April 29, 2024 Akshay Joshi Facts, Website Updates

AFN 2.0: Explore the Latest Taxonomic Advancements

Taxonomic databases are a valuable tool to enable the annotation of sequence data, whether it be generated from a new isolate or environmental samples. AFN provides a dedicated anaerobic fungi database for this purpose, and a brand new updated version is now out! Updates to version 2.0 include the addition of four new families, two characterized genera, and 56 novel genera. Find out more information here.

January 30, 2023 Akshay Joshi Facts, Website Updates

New genus Aestipascuomyces!

Aestipascuomyces was the 19th anaerobic fungal genus described by two different research teams. The genus name is derived from the Latin words for summer (aestas) and pasture, indicating the apparent enrichment from the feces of barbary sheep and alpaca grazing on summer pasture.

July 14, 2022 Akshay Joshi Real Science Gallery

Real Science Gallery: New Post!

New Real Science Gallery pictures will be posted here as soon as they are available.

Colour mix swirling around in flasks during anaerobic medium preparation captured by Sophia Strobl & Julia Vinzelj (University of Innsbruck, HiPoAF project).

June 23, 2022 Akshay Joshi Real Science Gallery

Real Science Gallery: New Post!

New Real Science Gallery pictures will be posted here as soon as they are available.

Alissa Tophinke giving an on-site presentation at the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) conference 2022 in Copenhagen.

May 2, 2022 Akshay Joshi Real Science Gallery

Real Science Gallery: New Post!

New Real Science Gallery pictures will be posted here as soon as they are available.

Bachelor students performing cultivation and isolating of anaerobic fungi in their practical course at ZHAW (Switzerland).

April 25, 2022 Akshay Joshi Website Updates

Featured genus: Agriosomyces

Agriosomyces was identified in 2020 as a part of a collaborative isolation effort that targeted a wide range of wild and zoo-kept herbivores (Hanafy et al, 2020). Like several other genera that have been described to date, Agriosomyces has a monocentric sporangium, filamentous rhizomycelium and monoflagellated zoospores.

The genus name, Agriosomyces, is derived from the Greek word for wild: Agrios. This is because Agriosomyces was isolated from a wild Mouflon sheep and a wild Boer goat.

Please find more information on Agriosomyces here.

March 28, 2022 Akshay Joshi Real Science Gallery