Grupo especialista en hongos acuáticos de la CSE de la UICN

I am a freshwater ecologist particularly fond of aquatic fungi. I want to understand how global changes can determine microbial communities diversity and activity and how that impacts freshwater ecosystem functioning. My interests include the effects of biodiversity changes, temperature, nutrient enrichment, drought, fungicides, multiple stressors... My work range from lab to field work, from small tubes to mesocosms and streams. I use microscopy- and molecular-based techniques to assess microbial diversity. I am working towards aquatic fungi conservation (freshwater and marine). 

Huzefa Raja – is a Research Scientist in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), where he researches fungal diversity and biology. He received his Ph.D. in Plant Biology (Mycology) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2007. One of his main projects is focused on bioactive secondary metabolites from saprobic fungi, including aquatic fungi. He contributes to this project by leveraging his expertise in fungal biology, taxonomy, and molecular systematics, collaborating with natural products chemists, pharmacologists, and microbiologists. His research findings have important implications for studies of biodiversity, phylogenetics, taxonomy, and secondary metabolites of the kingdom Fungi.