Recently, we have been using microfluidic chip systems to examine whether fungi leave behind or recycle their own mycelium . By following the growth and persistence of fungal hyphae inside the chip systems, we have been able to quantify the speed and extent at which fungal mycelia grow and turn over . In our latest study, we show some first estimates of how much this can vary between fungal species. Our results show that the six wood decomposers we examined separated into two

It was with great enthusiasm that Ayla Mongès and I took on the challenge of sampling soils and epiphytes across the diverse habitats of Martinique - an island not bigger than 1 128 km² , a known biodiversity hot spot, with an almost unknown fungal diversity . Thanks to an Underground explorer grant and additional funding from the Royal Physiographic Society, we were able to travel to Martinique (Aylas childhood home) in the end of November 2025. For two weeks, we traveled

The SOUND+PURPOSE conference started off with a big snowstorm and brought together an international crowd of people from very diverse fields, all working with sound in one way or another. We were encouraged to be curious and open to each other's research, and I think it was a very open-minded group of people that wanted to learn about new things. I presented in the session "Understanding ecological change through sound" which included contributions from researchers working w

Ayla has been appointed as a SPUN Underground Explorer 2025 and received a research grant from SPUN , as well as a travel grant from The...

It was a pleasure to attend the workshop on Behavior across the tree of life at KU Leuven, organized by the Ramsey lab . We listened to...

SOUND+PURPOSE is the inaugural conference of the SOUND+ Network for Transdisciplinary Research in Sound. It is organized by the Sound...

Thanks to an internal faculty grant from Ove Almborns donation that Ayla got in the spring, and the generous funding of VKRF, we were...

In September, Kristin will be speaking at the workshop: “Behavior Across the Tree of Life: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges”....

Ayla has received a grant from New Phytologist and will be attending and presenting at the "Next Generation Scientists" meeting Monday 4...

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