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MycoBiodet Lab

The MycoBiodet Lab is part of the Centre for Functional Ecology - Science for People & the Planet and the Associate Laboratory TERRA, being allied with the Department of Life Sciences of the University of Coimbra. The Lab main areas of research concern the study of historical cultural heritage monuments biodeterioration (with a particular emphasis on stone relics) and Fungal systematics, molecular biology, phylogenetics and -omics. During the last years the Lab has also strongly focused on photoautotrophic, fungal and prokaryotic diversity and systematics in extreme environments.

Research areas

The MycoBiodet main scientific areas are related to:

General mycology
Microbial systematics
Biodiversity characterization using classical morphological and modern molecular biology techniques
Genomic analysis and materials biodeterioration characterization

We aim to dwell deeper in the microbial deterioration mechanisms involved in stone biodeterioration and expand the knowledge on fungal systematics in underexplored and extreme environments. Moreover, taking into account the recent advances in microbial molecular biology, the Lab also has a keen interest in Next-generation-sequencing methods and bioinformatics.

Team

António Portugal

Coordenação

Ph.D.

João Trovão

Coordenação

Ph.D.

Fabiana Soares

Ph.D.

Hugo Paiva de Carvalho

Ph.D.

Nuno Mesquita

Ph.D.

Diana Sofia Paiva

Ph.D. student

Luis Fernandes

Ph.D. student

Emilia Pereira

M.Sc. student

Ivo Roxo

M.Sc. student

Publications

Crous, P.W., Osieck, E.R., Shivas, R.G., Tan, Y.P., Bishop-Hurley, S.L., Esteve-Raventós, F., Larsson, E., Luangsa-ard, J.J., Pancorbo, F., Balashov, S., Baseia, I.G., Boekhout, T., Chandranayaka, S., Cowan, D.A., Cruz, R.H.S.F., Czachura, P., De la Peña-Lastra, S., Dovana, F., Drury, B., Fell, J., Flakus, A., Fotedar, R., Jurjević, Ž., Kolecka, A., Mack, J., Maggs-Kölling, G., Mahadevakumar, S., Mateos, A., Mongkolsamrit, S., Noisripoom, W., Plaza, M., Overy, D.P., Piątek, M., Sandoval-Denis, M., Vauras, J., Wingfield, M.J., Abell, S.E., Ahmadpour, A., Akulov, A., Alavi, F., Alavi, Z., Altes, A., Alvarado, P., Anand, G., Ashtekar, N., Assyov, B., Banc-Prandi, G., Barbosa, K.D., Barreto, G.G., Bellanger, J.-M., Bezerra, J.L., Bhat, D.J., Bilanski, P., Bose, T., Bozok, F., Chaves, J., Costa-Rezende, D.H., Danteswari, C., Darmostuk, V., Delgado, G., Denman, S., Eichmeier, A., Etayo, J., Eyssartier, G., Faulwetter, S., Ganga, K.G.G., Ghosta, Y., Goh, J., Góis, J.S., Gramaje, D., Granit, L., Groenewald, M., Gulden, G., Gusmão, L.F.P., Hammerbacher, A., Heidarian, Z., Hywel-Jones, N., Jankowiak, R., Kaliyaperumal, M., Kaygusuz, O., Kezo, K., Khonsanit, A., Kumar, S., Kuo, C.H., Læssøe, T., Latha, K.P.D., Loizides, M., Luo, S.M., Maciá-Vicente, J.G., Manimohan, P., Marbach, P.A.S., Marinho, P., Marney, T.S., Marques, G., Martín, M.P., Miller, A.N., Mondello, F., Moreno, G., Mufeeda, K.T., Mun, H.Y., Nau, T., Nkomo, T., Okrasińska, A., Oliveira, J.P.A.F., Oliveira, R.L., Ortiz, D.A., Pawłowska, J., Pérez-De-Gregorio, M.À., Podile, A.R., Portugal, A., Privitera, N., Rajeshkumar, K.C., Rauf, I., Rian, B., Rigueiro-Rodríguez, A., Rivas-Torres, G.F., Rodriguez-Flakus, P., Romero-Gordillo, M., Saar, I., Saba, M., Santos, C.D., Sarma, P.V.S.R.N., Siquier, J.L., Sleiman, S., Spetik, M., Sridhar, K.R., Stryjak-Bogacka, M., Szczepańska, K., Taşkın, H., Tennakoon, D.S., Thanakitpipattana, D., Trovão, J., Türkekul, İ., van Iperen, A.L., van ’t Hof, P., Vasquez, G., Visagie, C.M., Wingfield, B.D., Wong, P.T.W., Yang, W.X., Yarar, M., Yarden, O., Yilmaz, N., Zhang, N., Zhu, Y.N., Groenewald, J.Z. , 2023. Fungal Planet description sheets: 1478–1549. Persoonia - Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi. 50, 158–310. https://doi.org/10.3767/persoonia.2023.50.05.
Crous, P.W., Osieck, E.R., Jurjević, Ž., Boers, J., van Iperen, A.L., Starink-Willemse, M., Dima, B., Balashov, S., Bulgakov, T.S., Johnston, P.R., Morozova, O.V., Pinruan, U., Sommai, S., Alvarado, P., Decock, C.A., Lebel, T., McMullan-Fisher, S., Moreno, G., Shivas, R.G., Zhao, L., Abdollahzadeh, J., Abrinbana, M., Ageev, D.V., Akhmetova, G., Alexandrova, A.V., Altés, A., Amaral, A.G.G., Angelini, C., Arenas, F., Asselman, P., Badali, F., Baghela, A., Bañares, A., Barreto, R.W., Baseia, I.G., Bellanger, J.M., Berraf-Tebbal, A., Biketova, A.Yu., Bukharova, N.V., Burgess, T.I., Cabero, J., Câmara, M.P.S., Cano-Lira, J.F., Ceryngier, P., Chávez, R., Cowan, D., de Lima, A.F., de L. Oliveira, R., Denman, S., Dang, Q.N., dos Santos Vieira, W.A., Dovana, F., Duarte, I.G., Eichmeier, A., Erhard, A., Esteve-Raventós, F., Fellin, A., Ferisin, G., Ferreira, R.J., Ferrer, A., Finy, P., Gaya, E., Geering, A.D.W., Gil-Durán, C., Glässnerová, K., Glushakova, A.M., Gramaje, D., Guard, F.E., Guarnizo, A.L., Haelewaters, D., Halling, R.E., Hill, R., Hirooka, Y., Hubka, V., Iliushin, V.A., Ivanova, D.D., Ivanushkina, N.E., Jangsantear, P., Justo, A., Kachalkin, A.V., Kato, S., Khamsuntorn, P., Kirtsideli, I.Y., Knapp, D.G., Kochkina, G.A., Koukol, O., Kovács, G.M., Kruse, J., Kumar, T.K.A., Kušan, I., Læssøe, T., Larsson, E., Lebel, T., Lebeuf, R., Levicán, G., Loizides, M., Lúcio, P.S.M., Luangsa-ard, J.J., Lukina, E.G., Magaña-Dueñas, V., Maggs-Kölling, G., Malysheva, E.F., Malysheva, V.F., Martín, B., Martín, M.P., Matočec, N., McTaggart, A.R., Mehrabi-Koushki, M., Mešić, A., Miller, A.N., Mironova, P., Moreau, P.A., Morte, A., Müller, K., Nagy, L.G., Nanu, S., Navarro-Ródenas, A., Nel, W., Nguyen, T.H., Nóbrega, T.F., Noordeloos, M.E., Olariaga, I., Overton, B.E., Ozerskaya, S.M., Palani, P., Pancorbo, F., Papp, V., Pawłowska, J., Pham, T.Q., Phosri, C., Pichai, S., Popov, E.S., Portugal, A., Pošta, A., Reschke, K., Reul, M., Ricci, G.M., Rodríguez, A., Romanowski, J., Ruchikachorn, N., Saar, I., Safi, A., Sakolrak, B., Salzmann, F., Sandoval-Denis, M., Sangwichein, E., Sanhueza, L., Sato, T., Sastoque, A., Senn-Irlet, B., Shibata, A., Siepe, K., Somrithipol, S., Spetik, M., Stchigel, A.M., Stuskova, K., Suwannasai, N., Tan, Y.P., Thangavel, R., Tiago, I., Tiwari, S., Tkalčec, Z., Tomashevskaya, M.A., Tonegawa, C., Tran, H.X., Tran, N.T., Trovão, J., Trubitsyn, V.E., Van Wyk, J., Vila, J., Visagie, C.M., Vizzini, A., Volobuev, S.V., Vu, D.T., Wangsawat, N., Yaguchi, T., Ferreira, B.W., de Souza, A.P., Vieira, B.S., Groenewald, J.Z., 2021. Fungal Planet description sheets: 1284–1382. Persoonia - Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi 47, 2021: 178–374. https://doi.org/10.3767/persoonia.2021.47.06.
Trovão, J., Tiago, I., Soares, F., Paiva, D.S., Mesquita, N., Coelho, C., Catarino, L., Gil, F., Portugal, A., 2019. Description of Aeminiaceae fam. nov., Aeminium gen. nov. and Aeminium ludgeri sp. nov. (Capnodiales), isolated from a biodeteriorated art–piece in the Old Cathedral of Coimbra, Portugal. MycoKeys 45, 57–73. https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.45.31799.
Soares, F., Trovão, J., Ahn, A.-C., Wilmotte, A., Cardoso, S.M., Tiago, I., Portugal, A., 2022. Introducing Petrachlorosaceae fam. nov., Petrachloros gen. nov. and Petrachloros mirabilis sp. nov. (Synechococcales, Cyanobacteria) isolated from a Portuguese UNESCO monument. Journal of Phycology, 58(2): 219-233. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpy.13241.
Soares, F., Ramos, V., Trovão, J., Cardoso, S.M., Tiago, I., Portugal, A., 2021. Parakomarekiella sesnandensis gen. et sp. nov. (Nostocales, Cyanobacteria) isolated from the Old Cathedral of Coimbra, Portugal (UNESCO World Heritage Site). European Journal of Phycology. 56(3): 301-315. https://doi.org/10.1080/09670262.2020.1817568.
Soares, F., Tiago, I., Trovão, J., Coelho, C., Mesquita, N., Gil, F., Catarino, L., Cardoso, S.M., Portugal, A., 2019. Description of Myxacorys almedinensis sp. nov. (Synechococcales, Cyanobacteria) isolated from the limestone walls of the Old Cathedral of Coimbra, Portugal (UNESCO World Heritage Site). Phytotaxa 419, 77–90. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.419.1.5.
Soares, F., Trovão, J., Coelho, C., Costa, I., Mesquita, N., Gil, F., Catarino, L., Cardoso, S.M., Portugal, A., Tiago, I., 2020. High–Quality draft genome sequences of three cyanobacteria isolated from the limestone walls of the Old Cathedral of Coimbra. Microbiology Resource Announcements 9 (26), e00575–20. https://doi.org/10.1128/MRA.00575–20.
Trovão, J., Tiago, I., Soares, F., Paiva, D.S., Mesquita, N., Coelho, C., Catarino, L., Gil, F., Portugal, A., 2019. High–Quality Draft Genome Sequence of the Microcolonial Black Fungus Aeminium ludgeri DSM 106916. Microbiology Resource Announcements 8 (14), e00202–19. https://doi.org/10.1128/MRA.00202–19.
Paiva, D.S., Fernandes, L., Trovão, J., Mesquita, N., Tiago, I., Portugal, A., 2022. Uncovering the fungal diversity colonizing limestone walls of a forgotten monument in the Central Region of Portugal by High-Throughput Sequencing and Culture-based methods. Applied Sciences. 12(20), 10650; https://doi.org/10.3390/app122010650.
Paiva D.S., Fernandes, L., Pereira, E., Trovão, J., Mesquita, N., Tiago, I., Portugal, A., 2023. Exploring differences in culturable fungal diversity using standard freezing incubation – A case study in the Lemos Pantheon of Trofa limestones. Journal of Fungi. 9(4), 501. https://doi.org/10.3390/jof9040501.

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MycoBiodet Lab

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