Directors: Carolina Elena Girometta; Solveig Tosi
Collaborators: Simone Buratti, Marta Elisabetta Eleonora Temporiti, Lidia Nicola
Headquaters: Orto Botanico, Via S. Epifanio 14 (first floor, rooms 4, 5 e 12)
Our main activities: survey of fungal diversity in several environments; analysis of fungal diversity at the genetic, population and species level; metabarcoding analysis; taxa identification through morphological as well as molecular methods; diagnostics of diversity groups for edible and medicinal fungi, as well as for other applications.
Our researches address both microfungi from several enviromental matrices and macrofungi; as concerns the latter, wood decay species are our greatest interest.
Our Laboratory also includes a research culture collection of fungal strains (MicUNIPV).
Main instruments:
- Sterile hood
- Freezers and refrigerators
- Optical microscopes
- Stereomicroscopes
- Thermostats
- Bunsen flames
- Oven
- Freeze dryer
- Fume hood
- Autoclave
- Water distiller
- Thermocycler for PCR
- Set for gel electrophoresis
- Complete micropipette set
- Microcentrifuge
- Vortex
- Thermostated bath
- Cold centrifuge
The Laboratory is equipped for:
Bachelor's theses, Doctoral theses, Teaching exercises for the Master's degree in Natural Sciences, Third-party services with reference price list, Other third-party services