Project team

Dr. Duong Vu

Westerdijk Institute

Project leader · main applicant · WP2 leader

Dr. Duong Vu

WI Biobank

Computer scientist, bioinformatician and data steward at the Westerdijk Institute, and developer of WI-LIMS and MycoBank. Holds a leadership role in the UNITE community.

Prof. Dr. Wieland Meyer

Westerdijk Institute

WP1 · lead

Prof. Dr. Wieland Meyer

Medical Mycology

Director and head of Medical Mycology at the Westerdijk Institute. Founder of the ISHAM ITS barcoding database.

Dr. Balazs Brankovics

Westerdijk Institute

WP4 · lead

Dr. Balazs Brankovics

Medical Mycology

Prof. Dr. Bastiaan Krom

ACTA

WP1 · co-lead

Prof. Dr. Bastiaan Krom

Preventive Dentistry

Head of department. Mycology expertise, particularly on oral and systemic fungal infections.

Dr. Bernd Brandt

ACTA

WP4 · co-lead

Dr. Bernd Brandt

Preventive Dentistry

Dr. Emilia Hannula

CML Leiden University

WP5 · lead

Dr. Emilia Hannula

Department of Environmental Biology

Chair of the Food programme and lead of the soil ecology group.

Dr. Auke de Jong

RIVM

WP3 · lead

Dr. Auke de Jong

Bacterial and Parasitological Diagnostics

Dr. Jasper Koehorst

WUR

WP2 · FAIR development lead

Dr. Jasper Koehorst

Laboratory of Systems and Synthetic Biology

Expertise in computational biology, bioinformatics pipelines and applying FAIR principles to complex omics data.

Dr. Brett Metcalfe

WUR

WP2 · FAIR development co-lead

Dr. Brett Metcalfe

Laboratory of Systems and Synthetic Biology

Dr. Michiel Punt

SURF

WP2 · SURF coordinator

Dr. Michiel Punt

SURF

Expertise in secure data storage, high-performance computing and cloud infrastructure.

Dr. Thomas Abeel

TU Delft

WP2 · co-lead

Dr. Thomas Abeel

Computational Microbial Genomics Group

Expertise in large-scale data infrastructures and bioinformatics.

Dr. Michael Seidl

Utrecht University

WP5 · co-lead

Dr. Michael Seidl

Department of Biology

Programme Director of Bioinformatics & Biocomplexity and member of the FungiDB Strategic Advisory Committee.

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