BRYN DENTINGER
Associate Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Orcid identifier0000-0001-7965-4389 (opens in a new tab)
- Associate ProfessorSchool of Biological Sciences
RESEARCH INTERESTS
My lab studies fungal diversity using collections-based research, integrating fieldwork and molecular data to discover and understand the awesome and often weird world of Fungi. We routinely employ DNA barcoding to identify fungi collected from all over the world. More recently, genome sequencing has become standard practice for phylogenetic inference, metagenomic discovery in complex samples, and comparative approaches to elucidate natural product biosynthesis and genome evolution.
GRANTS
- EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACTDISCOVERING THE BIOMECHANICS OF FILAMENTOUS FUNGI AND THEIR HYPHAE1 May 2023 - 30 Apr 2027
- EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACTSYSTEMATICS AND DIVERSIFICATION OF PORCINI MUSHROOMS (BOLETACEAE)NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION1 Oct 2021 - 30 Sep 2024
- EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACTNATURAL CONSUMPTION AND EVOLUTION OF THE NEW ZEALAND PSYCHEDELIC FALSE TRUFFLE, <I>PSILOCYBE WERAROA</I>NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY1 Oct 2019 - 31 Dec 2024
- EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACTDIMENSIONS US-BIOTA-SãO PAULO: INTEGRATING PHYLOGENY, GENETICS, AND CHEMICAL ECOLOGY TO UNRAVEL THE TANGLED BANK OF THE MULTIPARTITE FUNGUS-FARMING ANT SYMBIOSISNATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION15 Aug 2019 - 31 Jul 2025