Consortium for Classification of Fungi and fungus-like taxa

Name

Expertise

Country/Region

Abdel-Wahab Mohamed A

Marine fungi

Egypt

Abdollahzadeh Jafar 

Dothideomycetes

Iran

Abeywickrama Pranami D

Dothideomycetes

Thailand

Absalan Sahar

Eurotiomycetes

Thailand

Acharya Krishnendu

India

Afshari Naghmeh

Ascomycetes

Thailand

Afshan Najam ul Sehar 

Pakistan

Afzalinia Sadegh

Iran

Ahmadpour SA

Iran

Akulov Olexander

Ukraine

Alizadeh M

Iran

Al-Sadi AM

Phytopathogens

Oman

Alves Artur

Dothideomycetes, marine fungi

Portugal

Alves VCS

Brazil

Alves-Silva G

Brazil

Antonín Vladimír

Basidiomycetes

Czech

Aouali Souhila

Lichens

Algeria

Aptroot Andre

Dothideomycetes, Eurotiomycetes, Lichenized fungi, Marine fungi

Apurillo Carlo C S

Philippines

Arias RM

México

Armand A

Thailand

Asgari B

Iran

Asghari Raheleh

Marine fungi

Thailand

Assis DMA

India

Assyov B

Bulgaria

Atienza V

Spain

Aumentado HDR

Thailand

Avasthi S

Pathogens

India

Azevedo Egídia 

Portugal

Bakhshi Mounes

Plant pathogens

Iran

Bao Dan-Feng

Freshwater fungi, Dothideomycetes

China

Baral Han-Otto

Leotiomycetes

Germany

Barata Margarida 

Portugal

Barbosa KD

Brazil

Barbosa Renan do Nascimento

Eurotiales (Aspergillaceae, Trichocomaceae, Thermoascaceae)

Brazil

Barbosa FR

Brazil

Baroncelli R

Italy

Barreto GG

Brazil

Baschien Christiane

Freshwater fungi

Germany

Bennett Reuel M

Basal fungi

Philippines

Bera I

Thailand

Bezerra Jadson Diogo Pereira

Ascomycetes

Brazil

Bhunjun Chitrabhanu S.

Dothideomycetes, Pathogens

Thailand

Bianchinotti MV

Argentina

Biketova AY

UK

Błaszkowski J

Geoglossomycetes

Poland

Boekhout Teun

Yeast

Netherland

Bonito Gregory M

Pezizales

USA

Boonmee Saranyaphat

Freshwater fungi

Thailand

Boonyuen Nattawut

Sordariomycetes

Thailand

Bortnikov FM

Russia

Bregant Carlo

Italy

Bundhun Digvi

Sordariomycetes

Thailand

Burgaud Gaëtan 

France

Buyck Bart

Basidiomycetes

France

Caeiro Maria Filomena 

France

Cabarroi-Hernández Milay

Mexico

Cai M Feng 

Trichoderma

China

Cai Lei

Sordariomycetes

China

Calabon Mark

Freshwater fungi

Philippines

Calaça Francisco Júnior Simões 

Brazil

Callalli Chancahuaña, Mario

Basidiomycota, Agaricomycetes

Perú

Camara Marcos Paz Saraiva

Pathogens

Brazil

Cano-Lira JF

Ascomycota

Spain

Cao Bin

Basidiomycetes

China

Carlavilla JR

Spain

Carvalho A

Medically relevant fungi

Portugal

Carvalho TG

Brazil

Castañeda-Ruiz Rafael F.

Hyphomycetes

Cuba

Catania Myriam

Ascomycetes

Argentina

Cazabonne Jonathan

Laboulbeniales

Canada

Cedeño Sanchez Marjorie Lisset

Xylariales

Germany

Chaharmiri-Dokhaharani S

Thailand

Chaiwan N

Ascomycetes

Thailand

Chakraborty Nilanjan

Geoglossales, poroid fungi

India

Cheewangkoon R

Thailand

Chen C

Thailand

Chen Jie (Linda)

Basidiomycetes

Mexico

Chen Qian

Dothideomycetes

China

Chen YP

China

Chethana KWT

Thailand

Chinaglia S

Italy

Coelho-Nascimento CC

Brazil

Coleine Claudia

Lichens

Italy

Costa-Rezende Diogo

Brazil

Cortés-Pérez Alonso

Mexico

Crouch JoAnne

Fungal pathogens (Calonectria, Clarireedia, Waitea, Colletotrichum), Peronosporaceae

USA

Crous Pedro W

General fungi

Netherland

Cruz RHSF

Brazil

Czachura Paweł 

resinicolus fungi, sooty moulds

Poland

Damm Ulrike

Pathogens

Germany

Darmostuk Valerii

Hypocreales, Acrospermales

Poland

Daroodi Zoha

Iran

Das Kallol

Soil Fungi

India

Das Kanad

Basidiomycetes

California

Davoodian Naveed 

Australia

Davydov Evgeny

Lichens

Russia

da Silva Gladstone Alves

Geoglossomycetes, endophytes

Brazil

da Silva IR

United States

da Silva Rejane Maria Ferreira

Ascomycetes

Brazil

da Silva Santos Ana Carla

Hypocreales

Brazil

Dai Dong-Qin

Dothideomycetes

China

Dai Yu-Cheng

Basidiomycota

China

de Groot Michiel D

Belgium

De Kesel André

Laboulbeniales

Belgium

De Lange Ruben 

Belgium

de Medeiros EV

Brazil

de Souza CFA

Brazil

de Souza FA

Brazil

dela Cruz TEE

Philippines

Decock C

Belgium

Delgado Gregorio

Sordariomycetes

USA

Denchev Cvetomir M.

Smut

Bulgaria

Denchev Teodor

Smut

Bulgaria

Deng YL

P.R. China

Dentinger Bryn TM

Agaricales, Boletles

USA

Devadatha B

Marie fungi

India

Dianese Jose C

Sordariomycetes

Brazil

Dima Bálint

Entolomataceae, Cortinariaceae

Hungary

Doilom Mingkwan

Dothideomycetes

China

Dissanayake Asha

Dothideomycetes

China

Dissanayake DMLS

Dissanayake Lakmali

Dothideomycetes

China

Diniz Athaline

Fungal pathogens

Brazil

Dolatabadi S

Mucorales

Iran

Dong JH

China

Dong Wei

Freshwater fungi

China

Dong Zhangyong

Trichoderma

China

Drechsler-Santos Elisandro Ricardo

Hymenochaetaceae (Hymenochaetales), Ganodermateceae, Polyporaceae (Polyporales)

Brazil

Druzhinina IS

UK

Du Tianye 

Microfungi

China

Dubey Manish Kumar

Zoosporic fungi

India

Dutta Arun Kumar 

India

Elliott Todd

Basidiomycetes

USA

Elshahed Mostafa

Neocallimastigomycetes

USA

Egidi Eleonora

Australia

Eisvand P

Iran

Erdoğdu M

Türkiye

Fan L

China

Fan Xinlei

Sordariomycetes

China

Fan XL

China

Fedosova Anna G

Ascomycetes, Geoglossomycetes

Russia

Ferro LO

Brazil

Fiuza Patrícia Oliveira

Freshwater fungi

Brazil

Flakus Adam

Lichenicolous and lichenized fungi (tropical)

Poland

Fonseca EO

Brazil

Fryar Sally

Freshwater fungi

Australia

Gabaldon Toni

Yeast

Spain

Gajanayake AJ

Thailand

Gannibal Philipp B.

Dothideomycetes

Russia

Gao F

China

Garcia-Sánchez Dania

Ascomycetes

Spain

Garcia-Sandoval Ricardo 

México

Garrido-Benavent Isaac

Lichenized fungi and Basidiomycota (Cortinarius)

Spain

Garzoli Laura

Aquatic fungi

Italy

Gasca-Pineda Jaime

Mexico

Gautam Ajay

Pathogens

India

Gené Díaz Josepa

Ascomycetes

Spain

Ge ZW

China

Ghobad-Nejhad Masoomeh

Basidiomycetes

Iran

Ghosh A

India

Giachini Admir J. 

Brazil

Gibertoni Tatiana Baptista 

Basidiomycota

Brazil

Gentekaki E

Cyprus

Gmoshinskiy VI

Russia

Góes-Neto Aristóteles 

Basidiomycota, especially Hymenochaetales, Poyporales, and Ganodermatales

Brazil 

Gomdola Deesksha

Forestry

Thailand

Gorjon Sergio P

Corticioid fungi, Polypores

Spain

Goto BT

General fungi

Brazil

Granados María M. 

Costa Rica

Griffith Gareth W

anaerobic fungi, grassland basidios (Hygrophoraceae/Microglossum ssp./little bit on Pterulaceae

UK

Groenewald Marizeth

Ascomycete yeasts

Netherlands

Groenewald JZ

Netherland

Grossar tHans Peter  

Aquatic fungi and oomycetes

Germany

Gu ZR

China

Gueidan Cecile

Lichens

UK

Gunarathne Anujani 

Gunaseelan Sugantha

Hymenochaetaceae. Polyporales

India

Guo SL

China

Gusmão Luis F. Pascholati

Asexual ascomycetes

Brazil

Gutierrez Alejandra C

Laboulbeniales

Argentina

Guzman Davalos Laura

Basidiomycetes

Mexico

Haelewaters Danny

Discomycetes, Laboulbeniales

Belgium

Haituk H

Thailand

Halling Roy

Basidiomycetes

USA

He MQ

Basidiomycetes

China

He SC

Thailand

Heredia G

México

Hernández-Restrepo M

Netherland

Hongsanan S

China

Hosoya T

Japan

Hoog SD

Netherland

Horak E

Austria

Hou CL

China

Houbraken Jos

Eurotiomycetes

Netherlands

Htet ZH

Thailand

Huang Shi-Ke

Sordariomycetes

China

Huang WJ

China

Hurdeal VG

Canada

Hustad Vincent P.

Discomycetes

USA

Hyde KD

China, Thailand

Inacio Carlos Antonio 

Brazil

Janik Paulina

Myxomycetes

Poland

Jayalal Udeni

Lichenized fungi

Sri Lanka

Jayasiri Subashini C.

Dothideomycetes

Australia

Jayawardena Ruvishika S.

Pathogens

Thailand

Jeewon Rajesh

Pathogens

Mauritius

Jerônimo GH

Brazil

Jin Jing

China

Johnston PR

New Zealand

Jones E.B. Gareth

Dothideomycetes

UK

Joshi Y

India

Jurjević Ž

USA

Justo Alfredo

Basidiomycetes

Canada

Kakishima Makoto

Rusts

Japan

Kaliyaperumal Malarvizhi

Hymenochaetaceae, Polyporales

India

Kang Gongping

General macrofungi

China

Kang Ji-Chuan

Amphisphaeriales

China

Karimi Omid

Xylariomycetidae

Thailand

Karunarathna Samantha

Basidiomycota

China

Karpov Sergey

Basal fungi

Russia

Kezo Kez

Hymenochaetaceae, Polyporales

India

Khalid AN

Pakistan

Khan MK

India

Khuna S

China

Khyaju S

Lichens

Nepal

Kirchmair M

Austria

Klawonn Isabell

Marine fungi

Germany

Kraisitudomsook N

Thailand

Kukwa M

Lichenized fungi

Poland

Kularathnage ND

China

Kumar S

India

Kušan I

Croatia

Lachance MA

Canada

Lado Carlos

Eumycetozoa

Spain

Latha K.P. Deepna

Lichens

India

Lee HB

Korea

Leonardi Marco

Laboulbeniales

Italy

Leontyev DV

Germany

Lestari Anis

Discomycetes

Thailand

Li C

Thailand

Li DW

USA

Li Haiyan 

General fungi

China

Li J

China

Li Quiri

Xylariales

China

Li Y

China

Li Yan-Chun

Macrofungi

China

Li YX

China

Liao Chunfang

Ascomycetes

China

Lima JLR

Brazil

Lima JMS

Brazil

Lima NB

Brazil

Lin CG

China

Lin L

China

Linaldeddu Benedetto Teodoro 

Botryosphaeriaceae and Phytophthora

Italy

Linn Muang Muang

Yeast

Myanmar, Thailand

Liu Fei 

China

Liu Jian‑Kui (Jack)

Dothideomycetes

China

Liu JW

China

Liu NG

China

Liu Shun

Polypores

China

Liu Shi-Liang 

China

Liu XF

Bat associated fungi

China

Liu XY

China

Longcore JE

USA

Luangharn T

Thailand

Luangsa-ard Jennifer

Insect fungi

Thailand

Lu L

China

Lu Yongzhong

Dothideomycetes

China

Lumbsch Thorsten

Lichenized fungi

USA

Luo L

Thailand

Luo Mei

Endophytes

China

Luo Zonglong

Dothideomycetes

China

Ma Juan

Hyphomycetes (dematiaceous)

China

Madagammana AD

Thailand

Madhushan A

China

Madrid Hugo

Coelomycetes, Eurotiomycetes, Hyphomycetes

Chile

Magurno F

Poland

Magyar Donat

Hagnosaceae

Hungary

Mahadevakumar S

India

Maharachchikumbura SSN

China

Malosso Elaine

General fungi

Brazil

Malysh JM

Russia

Mamarabadi M

Iran

Manawasinghe Ishara

Pathogens

China

Manfrino RG

Argentina

Manimohan P

India

Mao N

China

Mapook Ausana

Dothideomycetes

Thailand

Marchese P

Italy

Marasinghe Diana S.

Dothideomycetes, Epi-foliar fungi

United States

Mardones Melissa

Phyllachorales, Boliniales, Coronophorales, mainly the genus Lichenochora

Costa Rica

Márquez Rodrigo 

Cantharellales

Spain

Marin-Felix Yasmina

Sordariales, Melanosporales, Helminthosporioid fungi,

Germany

Masigol Hossein 

Oomycetes

Iran

Matočec N

Croatia

May TW

Australia

McKenzie EHC

New Zealand

Mehrabi M

Iran

Mehrabi-Koushki M

Iran

Meiras-Ottoni Angelina 

Brazil

Melo Roger Fagner Ribeiro

Coprophilous ascomycetes (Podospora, Saccobolus, Sporormiella)

Brazil

Mendes Alvarenga Renato Lúcio

Auriculariales, Tremellales, Dacrymycetes

Brazil

Mendieta S

Perú

Meng QF

Thailand

Menkis A

Forest Pathology

Sweden

Menolli Jr. Nelson 

Brazil

Mešić A

Croatia

Mikšík M

Czech Republic

Miller Steven

Russulaceae, Sequestrate basidiomycetes

USA

Moncada Bibiana

Lichenized fungi

Colombia

Moncalvo Jean-Marc

Agaricales, Ganodermataceae

Canada

Monteiro Josiane Santana

Sordariomycetes

Brazil

Monteiro M

Brazil

Mora-Montes Héctor M. 

Sordariomycetes

Mexico

Moroz EL

Belarus

Moura JC

Brazil

Muhammad U

Pakistan

Mukhopadyay S

Thailand

Nagy László G. 

Hungary

Najam ul Sehar A

Pakistan

Najafiniya Mousa

Pathogens

Iran

Nanayakkara CM

Sri Lanka

Naseer A

Pakistan

Nascimento ECR

Brazil

Nascimento SS

Brazil

Neuhauser S

Austria

Neves Maria Alice

Soil Fungi, Fossil fungi

Brazil

Niazi AR

Pakistan

Nie Yong

Entomophthoroid fungi

China

Nilsson Henrik

Pathogens

Sweden

Nogueira PTS

Brazil

Novozhilov YK

Russia

Noorabadi MT

China

Noordeloos Machiel

Entolomataceae, white spores genera in Tricholomatales sensu lato, Strophariaceae, Boletales, Lactarius

Netherlands

Norphanphoun Chada

Coelomycetes

China

Nuñez Otaño Noelia B.

Fossil fungi

Argentina

O'Donnell Ryan

Orchid fungi

Australia

Oehl F

Geoglossomycetes

Switzerland

Oliveira JA

Brazil

Oliveira Junior I

Brazil

Oliveira NVL

Brazil

Oliveira PHF

Brazil

Orihara T

 Japan

Oset M

Poland

Pang Ka-Lai

Freshwater fungi

Keelung

Papp Viktor

Pathogens

Hungary

Pathirana LS

Thailand

Peintner Ursula

Mucorales/ Mortierellaceae, Agaricales (Cortinariaceae), Polyporoid or corticoid taxa

Switzerland

Pem Dhandevi

Dothideomycetes

Thailand

Perera RH

Thailand

Pereira Olinto L.

Microfungi-Taxonomy/Phylogeny

Brazil

Perez-Moreno Jesus

Basidiomycota

Mexico

Pérez-Ortega Sergio

Collemopsidiales, some groups Verrucariaceae (marine genera), Lecanoraceae

Spain

Péter G

Hungary

Piątek M

Poland

Pires-Zottarelli Carmen Lidia Amorim

Orchid Mycorhizae

Brazil

Phonemany Monthien

Basidiomycota

Thailand

Phongeun S

Thailand

Phukhamsakda C

Thailand

Pošta A

Croatia

Prazeres JFSA

Brazil

Quan Y

China

Quandt Alisha

Leotiomycetes

USA

Queiroz MB

Brasil

Radek R

Basal Fungi

Germany

Rahnama Kamran

Venturiales

Iran

Raj K.N. Anil

Macrofungi

India

Rajeshkumar KC

Xenospadicoidales

India

Rajwar Soumyadeep

India

Ralaiveloarisoa AB

Antananarivo - Madagascar

Rämä Teppo

Norway

Ramírez-Cruz Virginia

Mexico

Rambold Gerhard

Lichenized fungi

Germany

Rathnayaka Achala

Botryosphaeriales

Thailand

Raza Mubashar

Pathogens

China

Ren Guangcong

Ascomycetes

China

Rinaldi AC

Italy

Rivas-Ferreiro M

Spain

Robledo Gerardo

Polypores (Ganodermataceae, Diacanthodes, Perenniporiella, Grammothelopsis, and groups of Polyporus, Hymenochaetaceae, Fomitiporia, Phellinus, Phylloporia, Arambarria

Argentina

Ronikier Anna

Myxomycetes

Poland

Rossi W

Italy

Rusevska K

Macedonia

Ryberg Martin

Basidiomycetes

Sweden

Safi A

Iran

Salimi F

Iran

Salvador‑Montoya CA

Argentina

Samant Bandana

Fossil fungi

India

Samaradiwakara NP

Thailand

Samarakoon MC

Thailand

Sánchez-Castro I

Geoglossomycetes

Spain

Sandoval-Denis Marcelo

Microascales, Hypocreales, Fusarium

Netherlands

Santiago Luiz André C. M de A. 

Soil Fungi

Brazil

Santos ACS

Brazil

Santos LA dos

Brazil

Sarma VV

Marine fungi

India

Sarwar S

Pakistan

Savchenko Anton 

The Netherlands

Savchenko Kyryll

Pathogens

USA

Saxena RK

Fossil fungi

India

Schoutteten Nathan

Corticiaceae, Heterobasidiomycetes, mycoparasitic fungi

Belgium

Selbmann L

Dothideomycetes

Italy

Selcuk F

Türkiye

Senanayake IC

China

Ševčíková H

Czech Republic

Sharma A

India

Shen HW

Spathulosporales

Taiwan

Shen Yuan-Min

General fungi

Taiwan

Shu YX

Thailand

Silva HF

Brazil

Silva-Filho Alexandre G. S. 

Brazil

Silva VSH

Thailand

Simmons, D. Rabern

Basal fungi

USA

Singh Raghvendra

Pathogenic fungi, saprobic fungi related to ascomycotina and basidiomycotina(rust fungi)

Sir Esteban

Xylariales

Argentina

Sohrabi M

Iran

Souza FA

Brazil

Souza-Motta Cristina M. de 

Ascomycetes

Brazil

Sri-indrasutdhi V

Thailand

Sruthi OP

India

Stadler Marc

Sordariomycetes

Germany

Stemler Jannik

Pathogens

Germany

Stephenson Steve

Myxomycetes

USA

Stoyneva-Gaertner MP

Bulgaria

Strassert JFH

Germany

Stryjak-Bogacka Monika 

endophytic fungi of bryophytes, sooty moulds

Poland

Su Hongli

Discomycetes

Thailand

Sun Yaru

Pathognes

China

Svantesson Sten

Atheliales and Thelephorales

Sweden

Sysouphanthong Phongeun

Basidiomycetes

Laos

Takamatsu Susumu

Erysiphaceae

Japan

Tan Tinghong

China

Tanaka Kazuaki

Dothideomycetes

Japan

Tang C

Netherland

Tang Xia (Bella)

Forest fungi

China

Tanney Joey

Leotiomycetes

Canada

Taylor JE

United Kingdom

Taylor PWJ

Australia

Tennakoon Danushka S.

Dothideomycetes

Thailand

Thakshila SAD

Thailand

Thambugala KM

Sri Lanka

Thamodini GK

Eurotiomycetes

Oman

Thiyagaraja V

China

Thilanga D

Thailand

Thines Marco

Smut

Germany

Tiago Patricia Vieira

Fungal Pathogenes

Brazil

Tian Q

China

Tian XG

China

Tian WH

Ascomycota

China

Tibpromma Saowaluck

Dothideomycetes, Pathogens, Sordariomycetes

China

Tkalčec Zdenko

Basal fungi

Croatia

Tokarev YS

Russia

Tomšovský M

Polyporales, Hymenochaetaceae, Armillaria, Melanoleuca, Pathogens

Czechia

Torruella G

Catalonia

Tsurykau Andrei

Eurotiomycetes

Belarus

Udayanga Danuska

Pathogens

Sri Lanka

Ulukapı Merve

Ascomycetes

Turkey

Untereiner Wendy

Leotiomycetes

USA

Usman M

Pakistan

Uzunov Blagoy Angelov

General fungi (incl. lichenized fungi)

Bulgaria

Vadthanarat S

Thailand

Valenzuela R

Instituto Politécnico Nacional

Van den Wyngaert Silke

Phytoplankton associated zoosporic fungi, Chytridiomycota

Finland

Van Vooren Nicolas

Pezizomycetes

France

Velez Patricia 

Mexico

Verma RK

India

Vieira Larissa Cardoso

Glomeromycota

Brazil

Vieira Willie Anderson dos Santos

Colletotrichum

Brazil

Vinzelj JM

USA

Vizzini A

Italy

Tang AMC

China

Walker Attapon

Basidiomycetes

Thailand

Walker Allison K. 

Marine fungi

USA

Wanasinghe DN

China

Wannasawang N

Thailand

Wang QM

China

Wang Yong

Pathogens

China

Wang Xin-Yu

Caliciaceae, Physciaceae

China

Wang ZY

China

Wannathes N

Thailand

Wartchow Felipe

Agaricoid

Brazil

Weerakoon G

UK

Wei DePing

Pathogens

China

Wei Xinli

Lichenized fungi

China

White Jim F

Endophytes, Ascomycota

USA

Wijayawardene NN

China

Wijesinghe SN

Thailand

Wijesundara DSA

Sri Lanka

Wisitrassameewong Komsit

Basidiomycetes

Thailand

Worobiec G

Poland

Wu Hai X.

Epi-foliar fungi

China

Wu Na

Ascomycetes

China

Xiong YR (Richard)

Ascomycetes

China

Xu B

China

Xu, Jianping

Medical

Canada

Xu Rong

Ascomycetes

China

Xu Ruifang

Ascomycetes

China

Xu RJ

Thailand

Yadav S

India

Yakovchenko Lidiya

Lichens

Russia

Yang HD

Yang X

China

Yang YH

Thailand, China

Yang Y

China

Yang YY

Thailand

Yoshioka R

Japan

Youssef Noha H

Neocallimastigomycota

USA

Yu FengMing

Discomycetes

China

Yu Zefen

Nematode trapping fungi

China

Yuan LL

Thailand

Yuan Q

China

Zabin DA

Brazil

Zamora Juan-Carlos

Geastrales, Dacrymycetes, Tremellales

Chile

Zapata CV

Argentina

Zare Rasoul

Phialidic hyphomycetes (phytopathogens, entomogenous and nematophagous fungi)

Iran

Zeng Ming

Discomycetes

China

Zeng Xiang-Yu (Jason)

Dothideomycetes, Epi-foliar fungi , Eurotiomycetes

China

Zhang JF

Zhang Jingyi

Ascomycetes

China

Zhang Shengnan

Dothideomycetes

China

Zhang XC

China

Zhao Chang-Lin

Basidiomycetes

China

Zhao H

China

Zhao HJ

Thailand

Zhao RL

China

Zhao Qi

Pezizales

China

Zhou HM

China

Zhu XY

Thailand

Zmitrovich Ivan V

Russia

Zucconi Laura Galli Fonseca

Ascomycetes

Italy

Zvyagina Elena

Russia