The Imperial Fungal Science Network welcomes attendees to Campus for an exciting programme of talks from post-docs and early-career researchers

An Imperial Fungal Science Network Symposium hosted by Dr Emily Masters-Clark, Imperial College London: Early career researchers in fungal science – what now and what next? 

The symposium showcased the wealth of contributions to fungal science made by post-docs and early-career researchers.  The Network welcomed forty in-person attendees to the Flowers Building at South Kensington Campus for an exciting programme of talks from ECRs across the Network’s broad scope of fungal science.  Thank you to all of our visiting, as well as Imperial College, speakers for illustrating the diversity of interesting and alternative career options.  

Dr. Adriana Torres-Ballesteros (Rothamsted Research) - Fungal drivers of crop productivity identified with machine learning

Dr Tania Chancellor (The Crop Science Centre, University of Cambridge) - Multi-omic techniques for the investigation of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in rice

Dr Razieh Rafieenia (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellow, Department of Bioengineering, ICL) - Metabolic engineering of Yarrowia lipolytica for value-added chemicals production from lignocellulosic biomass

Dr Johanna Rhodes (Imperial College London and Radboudumc) - Fungi, Careers, and Beyond: Exploring the Exciting World of Mycology as an ECR

Dr Claire Stanley (Department of Bioengineering, ICL) - FUNGI-ON-A-CHIP: Discovering the secret life of soil microbes using bioengineering techniques