BRYN DENTINGER

Associate Professor

School 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 CONTRACT
    DISCOVERING THE BIOMECHANICS OF FILAMENTOUS FUNGI AND THEIR HYPHAE
    1 May 2023 - 30 Apr 2027
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    SYSTEMATICS AND DIVERSIFICATION OF PORCINI MUSHROOMS (BOLETACEAE)
    NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION1 Oct 2021 - 30 Sep 2024
    NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    NATURAL CONSUMPTION AND EVOLUTION OF THE NEW ZEALAND PSYCHEDELIC FALSE TRUFFLE, <I>PSILOCYBE WERAROA</I>
    NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY1 Oct 2019 - 31 Dec 2024
    NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    DIMENSIONS US-BIOTA-SãO PAULO: INTEGRATING PHYLOGENY, GENETICS, AND CHEMICAL ECOLOGY TO UNRAVEL THE TANGLED BANK OF THE MULTIPARTITE FUNGUS-FARMING ANT SYMBIOSIS
    NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION15 Aug 2019 - 31 Jul 2025
    NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION