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Our institute colleague receives a prestigious LinnéSys grant for his research on fungi from Bolivian tropical forests

We are pleased to announce that the Councils of the Linnean Society of London and the Systematics Association awarded the LinnéSys grant to our institute colleague, dr Valerii Darmostuk, to support his research on molecular evolution and systematics of the fungal genus Xenonectriella (Hypocreales) inhabiting lichens in tropical montane forests of Bolivia.

Congratulations!

A young man with a notebook in his hand stands in a sunlit forest. Next to him is a tree trunk covered with spots of lichen

Dr Valerii Darmostuk.
Photo: From the Valerii Darmostuk's archive.

A slope covered with a thicket of tropical vegetation. In the background, barely visible mountains

Yungas cloud forest, Bolivia.
Photo: Adam Flakus.

A fragment of a brown leafy lichen thallus in magnification. Three red spherical structures gleam on its surface

Undescribed Xenonectriella species growing on Leptogium sp.
Photo: Valerii Darmostuk.