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Congratulations to Marcel on successfully defending his doctoral thesis on 2 October 2026!

New Publication out! Mini-Review on "What we (still don’t) know about wood‑degrading fungi"

From forest destroyer to bioeconomy hero: the fascinating dual role of wood-degrading fungi

Congratulations to Marcello on successfully defending his doctoral thesis on 22 September 2026!

Congratulations to Sonja on successfully defending her doctoral thesis on 3 August 2026!

Weihenstephaner Berglauf 2026

On 10 June 2026, the Chair of Fungal Biotechnology organised the Weihenstephan "Mountain Run" for the third time!

Congrats to Basant for successfully defending her doctoral thesis on June 17th 2026!

Congrats to Prasath for successfully defending his doctoral thesis on June 2nd, 2026!

What goes on hidden beneath a tree’s roots?

Sonja’s first paper on spruce-beneficial microbes has been accepted for publication in *Environmental Microbiome*!

Congratulations to Sonja on the publication of her first paper based on her PhD thesis! → see here Magosch, S., Barrera, C., Bölz, A., Pritsch, K., Rothballer, M., & Benz, J. P. (2026). Microbial allies against drought stress: an optimized screening method to improve seedling survival for forest…

MY-CO BUILD Collaborative Research Centre successfully approved!

The new SFB MY-CO BUILD, in which the professorship is involved, was successful in the last round of DFG funding approvals!

Felix presents at the "Towards New Food Systems" conference in Berlin

Felix presented our latest research on fungal biotechnology for alternative meat products that we are doing in collaboration with the lab of Marius Henkel (TUM, Cellular Agriculture) at the “Towards New Food Systems” conference in Berlin. Please find the feature article on the conference that was…

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