Mycology

Team

Dr. Ulrike Damm
Head of Section Mycology

Born 1966 in Berlin

2014 – present   
Head of Section Mycology, Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz

 

2008 – 2013        
Guest researcher, since 2009 Postdoctoral researcher at the CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, the Netherlands, research topics: Revision of the genus Colletotrichum, Systematics of fungal wood pathogens, since 2010 Curator of the herbarium CBS as well

 

2003 – 2008        
Researcher at the Department of Plant Pathology, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, research topics: Molecular and morphological characterisation of wood pathogens on Prunus trees, Development of molecular detection methods of fungal plant pathogens in wood and soil

 

2001 – 2003        
Scientific assistant at the Department of Biology of the University of Konstanz, Germany, research topics: Fungal infection of reed roots in an anoxic environment and anaerobic growth of fungi

 

1998 – 2001        
Mycologist at the Research Institute for Raw-Materials of the Research and Teaching Institute for Brewing in Berlin (VLB), Germany, research topic: Ecological and agronomical factors causing fungal contamination of brewing cereals, especially with Fusarium species

 

1997 – 1998        
Voluntary scientific assistant at the Institute for Microbiology of the Federal Biological Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry (BBA) in Berlin, Germany

 

1994 – 1997        
PhD student at the Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany, Agricultural and Horticultural Faculty, Department of Phytomedicine, title of the doctoral thesis: Fungal colonisation of plant and soil in two differently cultivated wheat ecosystems with special consideration given to Fusarium species

 

1991 – 1994        
Research student at the Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany, Agricultural and Horticultural Faculty, Department of Phytomedicine

 

1986 – 1991        
University of Rostock, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences training to an agricultural engineer, title of the diploma thesis: Fungal diseases of peas and methods for artificial infection

 

1985 – 1986        
Preparatory year at the Agricultural Production Co-operative in Crivitz and Secondary Technical School of Agriculture in Schwerin leading to skilled worker’s certificate as an agro-technician

 

2023

Jia X,  Lu X, Damm U, Niu X, Feng Y, Zhang W. 2023. Stenocarpella vetiveriae, a new species caused leaf streak of vetiver grass (Vetiveria zizanioides) in Southern China. Plant Disease.

Qu H, Damm U, Hou YJ, Ge ZW. 2023. Taxonomy and phylogeny of Cystolepiota (Agaricaceae, Agaricales): new species, new combinations and notes on the C. seminuda complex. Journal of Fungi 9(5), 537.

2022

Liu F, Ma ZY, Hou LW, Diao YZ, Wu WP, Damm U, Song S, Cai L. 2022. Updating species diversity of Colletotrichum, with a phylogenomic overview. – Studies in Mycology 101: 1–56.

Alizadeh A, Javan-Nikkhah M, Nourmohammadi Nazarian R, Liu F, Zare R, Fotouhifar KB, Stukenbrock EH, Damm U. 2022. New species of Colletotrichum from wild Poaceae and Cyperaceae plants in Iran. – Mycologia 114: 89–113.

Gupta C, Salgotra RK, Damm U, Rajeshkumar KC. 2022. Phylogeny and pathogenicity of Colletotrichum lindemuthianum causing anthracnose of Phaseolus vulgaris cv. Bhaderwah-Rajmash from northern Himalayas, India. – 3 Biotech 12, 169.

2021

Damm U., Bien S. 2021. Pilze im Holz von Sauerkirschbäumen im Stadtgut Görlitz. – Berichte der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft der Oberlausitz 29: 101–110.

Damm U. 2021. Die unbekannte Vielfalt phytopathogener Pilze. Senckenberg 2020: 10–13.

Crous PW, Lombard L, Sandoval-Denis M, Seifert KA, Schroers H-J, Chaverri P, Gené J, Guarro J, Hirooka Y, Bensch K, Kema GHJ, Lamprecht SC, Cai L, Rossman AY, Stadler M, Summerbell RC, Taylor JW, Ploch S, Visagie CM, Yilmaz N, Frisvad JC, Abdel-Azeem AM, Abdollahzadeh J, Abdolrasouli A, Akulov A, Alberts JF, Araújo JPM, Ariyawansa HA, Bakhshi M, Bendiksby M, Ben Hadj Amor A, Bezerra JDP, Boekhout T, Câmara MPS, Carbia M, Cardinali G, Castañeda-Ruiz RF, Celis A, Chaturvedi V, Collemare J, Croll D, Damm U, Decock CA, de Vries RP, Ezekiel CN, Fan XL, Fernández NB, Gaya E, González CD, Gramaje D, Groenewald JZ, Grube M, Guevara-Suarez M, Gupta VK, Guarnaccia V, Haddaji A, Hagen F, Haelewaters D, Hansen K, Hashimoto A, Hernández-Restrepo M, Houbraken J, Hubka V, Hyde KD, Iturriaga T, Jeewon R, Johnston PR, Jurjević Ž, Karalti İ, Korsten L, Kuramae EE, Kušan I, Labuda R, Lawrence DP, Lee HB, Lechat C, Li HY, Litovka YA, Maharachchikumbura SSN, Marin-Felix Y, Matio Kemkuignou B, Matočec N, McTaggart AR, Mlčoch P, Mugnai L, Nakashima C, Nilsson RH, Noumeur SR, Pavlov IN, Peralta MP, Phillips AJL, Pitt JI, Polizzi G, Quaedvlieg W, Rajeshkumar KC, Restrepo S, Rhaiem A, Robert J, Robert V, Rodrigues AM, Salgado-Salazar C, Samson RA, Santos ACS, Shivas RG, Souza-Motta CM, Sun GY, Swart WJ, Szoke S, Tan YP, Taylor JE, Taylor PWJ, Tiago PV, Váczy KZ, van de Wiele N, van der Merwe NA, Verkley GJM, Vieira WAS, Vizzini A, Weir BS, Wijayawardene NN, Xia JW, Yáñez-Morales MJ, Yurkov A, Zamora JC, Zare R, Zhang CL, Thines M. 2021. Fusarium: more than a node or a foot-shaped basal cell. Studies in Mycology 98: 100116.

Crous PW, Cowan DA, Maggs-Kölling G, Yilmaz N, Thangavel R, Wingfield MJ, Noordeloos ME, Dima B, Brandrud TE, Jansen GM, Morozova OV, Vila J, Shivas RG, Tan YP, Bishop-Hurley S, Lacey E, Marney TS, Larsson E, Le Floch G, Lombard L, Nodet P, Hubka V, Alvarado P, Berraf-Tebbal A, Reyes JD, Delgado G, Eichmeier A, Jordal JB, Kachalkin AV, Kubátová A, Maciá-Vicente JG, Malysheva EF, Papp V, Rajeshkumar KC, Sharma A, Sharma A, Spetik M, Szabóová D, Tomashevskaya MA, Abad JA, Abad ZG, Alexandrova AV, Anand G, Arenas F, Ashtekar N, Balashov S, Bañares Á, Baroncelli R, Bera I, Yu Biketova A, Blomquist CL, Boekhout T, Boertmann D, Bulyonkova TM, Burgess TI, Carnegie AJ, Cobo-Diaz JF, Corriol G, Cunnington JH, da Cruz MO, Damm U, Davoodian N, de A Santiago ALCM, Dearnaley J, de Freitas LWS, Dhileepan K, Dimitrov R, Di Piazza S, Fatima S, Fuljer F, Galera H, Ghosh A, Giraldo A, Glushakova AM, Gorczak M, Gouliamova DE, Gramaje D, Groenewald M, Gunsch CK, Gutiérrez A, Holdom D, Houbraken J, Ismailov AB, Istel Ł, Iturriaga T, Jeppson M, Jurjević Ž, Kalinina LB, Kapitonov VI, Kautmanová I, Khalid AN, Kiran M, Kiss L, Kovács Á, Kurose D, Kušan I, Lad S, Læssøe T, Lee HB, Luangsa-ard JJ, Lynch M, Mahamedi AE, Malysheva VF, Mateos A, Matočec N, Mešić A, Miller AN, Mongkolsamrit S, Moreno G, Morte A, Mostowfizadeh-Ghalamfarsa R, Naseer A, Navarro-Ródenas A, Nguyen TTT, Noisripoom W, Ntandu JE, Nuytinck J, Ostrý V, Pankratov TA, Pawłowska J, Pecenka J, Pham THG, Polhorský A, Pošta A, Raudabaugh DB, Reschke K, Rodríguez A, Romero M, Rooney-Latham S, Roux J, Sandoval-Denis M, Smith MTh, Steinrucken TV, Svetasheva TY, Tkalčec Z, van der Linde EJ, vd Vegte M, Vauras J, Verbeken A, Visagie CM, Vitelli JS, Volobuev SV, Weill A, Wrzosek M, Zmitrovich IV, Zvyagina EA, Groenewald JZ. 2021. Fungal Planet description sheets: 1182–1283. Persoonia 46: 313–528.

2020

Bien S, Damm U. 2020. Arboricolonus simplex gen. et sp. nov. and novelties in Cadophora, Minutiella and Proliferodiscus from Prunus wood in Germany. – MycoKeys 63: 119–161.

Bien S, Damm U. 2020. Prunus trees in Germany – a hideout of unknown fungi? – Mycological Progress 19: 667–690.

Bien S, Kraus C, Damm U. 2020 (published online 2019). Novel collophorina-like genera and species from Prunus trees and vineyards in Germany. – Persoonia 45: 46–67.

Damm U, Sun YC, Huang CJ. 2020. Colletotrichum eriobotryae sp. nov. and C. nymphaeae, the anthracnose pathogens of loquat fruit in central Taiwan, and their sensitivity to azoxystrobin. – Mycological Progress 19: 367–380.

Kraus C, Damm U, Bien S, Voegele RT, Fischer M. 2020. New species of Phaeomoniellales from a German vineyard and their potential threat to grapevine (Vitis vinifera) health. – Fungal Systematics and Evolution 6: 139–155.

Zhang W, Damm U, Crous PW, Groenewald JZ, Niu X, Lin J, Li Y. 2020. Anthracnose disease of carpetgrass (Axonopus compressus) caused by Colletotrichum hainanense sp. nov. – Plant Disease 104: 1744–1750.

Wijayawardene NN, Hyde KD, Al-Ani LKT, Tedersoo L, Haelewaters D, Rajeshkumar KC, Zhao RL, Aptroot A, Leontyev DV, Saxena RK, Tokarev YS, Dai DQ, Letcher PM, Stephenson SL, Ertz D, Lumbsch HT, Kukwa M, Issi IV, Madrid H, Phillips AJL, Selbmann L, Pfliegler WP, Horváth E, Bensch K, Kirk PM, Kolaříková K, Raja HA, Radek R, Papp V, Dima V, Ma J, Malosso E, Takamatsu S, Rambold G, Gannibal PB, Triebel D, Gautam AK, Avasthi S, Suetrong S, Timdal E, Fryar SC, Delgado G, Réblová M, Doilom M, Dolatabadi S, Pawłowska JZ, Humber RA, Kodsueb R, Sánchez-Castro I, Goto BT, Silva DKA, de Souza FA, Oehl F, da Silva GA, Silva IR, Błaszkowski J, Jobim K, Maia LC, Barbosa FR, Fiuza PO, Divakar PK, Shenoy BD, Castañeda-Ruiz RF, Somrithipol S, Lateef AA, Karunarathna SC, Tibpromma S, Mortimer PE, Wanasinghe DN, Phookamsak R, Xu J, Wang Y, Tian F, Alvarado P, Li DW, Kušan I, Matočec N, Mešić A, Tkalčec Z, Maharachchikumbura SSN, Papizadeh M, Heredia G, Wartchow F, Bakhshi M, Boehm E, Youssef N, Hustad VP, Lawrey JD, Santiago ALCMA, Bezerra JDP, Souza-Motta CM, Firmino AL, Tian Q, Houbraken J, Hongsanan S, Tanaka K, Dissanayake AJ, Monteiro JS, Grossart HP, Suija A, Weerakoon G, Etayo J, Tsurykau A, Vázquez V, Mungai P, Damm U, Li QR, Zhang H, Boonmee S, Lu YZ, Becerra AG, Kendrick B, Brearley FQ, Motiejūnaitė J, Sharma B, Khare R, Gaikwad S, Wijesundara DSA, Tang LZ, He MQ, Flakus A, Rodriguez-Flakus P, Zhurbenko MP, McKenzie EHC, Stadler M, Bhat DJ, Liu JK, Raza M, Jeewon R, Nassonova ES, Prieto M, Jayalal RGU, Erdoğdu M, Yurkov A, Schnittler M, Shchepin ON, Novozhilov YK, Silva-Filho AGS, Gentekaki E, Liu P, Cavender JC, Kang Y, Mohammad S, Zhang LF, Xu RF, Li YM, Dayarathne MC, Ekanayaka AH, Wen TC, Deng CY, Pereira OL, Navathe S, Hawksworth DL, Fan XL, Dissanayake LS, Kuhnert E, Grossart HP, Thines M. 2020. Outline of Fungi and fungi-like taxa. – Mycosphere 11: 1060–1456.

2019

Damm U, Sato T, Alizadeh A, Groenewald JZ, Crous PW. 2019 (published online 2018). The Colletotrichum draecaenophilum, C. magnum and C. orchidearum species complexes. – Studies in Mycology 92: 1–46.

Gan P, Tsushima A, Hiroyama R, Narusaka M, Takano, Y, Narusaka Y, Kawaradani M, Damm U, Shirasu K. 2019. Colletotrichum shisoi sp. nov., an anthracnose pathogen of Perilla frutescens in Japan: molecular, phylogenetic, morphological and genomic evidence. – Scientific Reports 9: 13349. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-50076-5

Sun YC, Damm U, Huang CJ. 2019. Colletotrichum plurivorum, the causal agent of anthracnose fruit rot of papaya in Taiwan. – Plant Disease 103: 1040.

Crous PW, Carnegie AJ, Wingfield MJ, Sharma R, Mughini G, Noordeloos ME, Santini A, Shouche YS, Bezerra JDP, Dima B, Guarnaccia V, Imrefi I, Jurjević Ž, Knapp DG, Kovács GM, Magistà D, Perrone G, Rämä T, Rebriev YA, Shivas RG, Singh SM, Souza-Motta CM, Thangavel R, Adhapure NN, Alexandrova AV, Alfenas AC, Alfenas RF, Alvarado P, Alves AL, Andrade DA, Andrade JP, Barbosa RN, Barili A, Barnes CW, Baseia IG, Bellanger J-M, Berlanas C, Bessette AE, Bessette AR, Biketova AYu, Bomfim FS, Brandrud TE, Bransgrove K, Brito ACQ, Cano-Lira JF, Cantillo T, Cavalcanti AD, Cheewangkoon R, Chikowski RS, Conforto C, Cordeiro TRL, Craine JD, Cruz R, Damm U, de Oliveira RJV, de Souza JT, de Souza HG, Dearnaley JDW, Dimitrov RA, Dovana F, Erhard A, Esteve-Raventós F, Félix CR, Ferisin G, Fernandes RA, Ferreira RJ, Ferro LO, Figueiredo CN, Frank JL, Freire KTLS, García D, Gené J, Gęsiorska A, Gibertoni TB, Gondra RAG, Gouliamova DE, Gramaje D, Guard F, Gusmão LFP, Haitook S, Hirooka Y, Houbraken J, Hubka V, Inamdar A, Iturriaga T, Iturrieta-González I, Jadan M, Jlang N, Justo A, Kachalkin AV, Kapitonov VI, Karadelev M, Karakehian J, Kasuya T, Kautmanová I, Kruse J, Kušan I, Kuznetsova TA, Landell MF, Larsson K-H, Lee HB, Lima DX, Lira CRS, Machado AR, Madrid H, Magalhães OMC, Majerova H, Malysheva EF, Mapperson RR, Marbach PAS, Martín MP, Martín-Sanz A, Matočec N, McTaggart AR, Mello JF, Melo RFR, Mešić A, Michereff SJ, Miller AN, Minoshima A, Molinero-Ruiz L, Morozova OV, Mosoh D, Nabe M, Naik R, Nara K, Nascimento SS, Neves RP, Olariaga I, Oliveira RL, Oliveira TGL, Ono T, Ordoñez ME, Ottoni A de M, Paiva LM, Pancorbo F, Pant B, Pawłowska J, Peterson SW, Raudabaugh DB, Rodríguez-Andrade E, Rubio E, Rusevska K, Santiago ALCMA, Santos ACS, Santos C, Sazanova NA, Shah S, Sharma J, Silva BDB, Siquier JL, Sonawane MS, Stchigel AM, Svetasheva T, Tamakeaw N, Telleria MT, Tiago PV, Tian CM, Tkalcec Z, Tomashevskava MA, Truong HH, Vecherskii MV, Visagie CM, Vizzini A, Yilmaz N, Zmitrovich IV, Zvyagina EA, Boekhout T, Kehlet T, Læssøe T, Groenewald JZ. 2019. Fungal Planet description sheets: 868–950. – Persoonia 42, 2019: 291–473.

2018

Bagherabadi S, Zafari D, Ghobadi Anvar F, Damm U. 2018 (published online 2019). Colletotrichum gloeosporioides sensu stricto, the causal agent of a leaf spot disease of Schefflera arboricola in Iran. – Mycologia Iranica 5: 29–34.

Nasr S, Bien S, Soudi MR, Alimadadi N, Fazeli SAS, Damm U. 2018. Novel Collophorina and Coniochaeta species from Euphorbia polycaulis, an endemic plant in Iran. – Mycological Progress 17: 755–771.

Moyo P, Damm U, Mostert L, Halleen F. 2018. Eutypa, Eutypella and Cryptovalsa species (Diatrypaceae) associated with Prunus species in South Africa. – Plant Disease 102: 1402–1409.

Moyo P, Mostert L, Spies CFJ, Damm U, Halleen F. 2018. Diversity of Diatrypaceae species associated with dieback of grapevines in South Africa, with the description of Eutypa cremea sp. nov. – Plant Disease 102: 220–230.

Xu H, Zhou R, Fu J, Yuan Y, Ge X, Damm U. 2018. Colletotrichum atractylodicola sp. nov. – the anthracnose pathogen of Atractylodes chinensis in China. – Mycological Progress 17: 393–402.

Crous PW, Wingfield MJ, Burgess TI, Hardy GEStJ, Gené J, Guarro J, Baseia IG, García D, Gusmão LFP, Souza-Motta CM, Thangavel R, Adamčík S, Barili A, Barnes CW, Bezerra JDP, Bordallo JJ, Cano-Lira JF, de Oliveira RJV, Ercole E, Hubka V, Iturrieta-González I, Kubátová A, Martín MP, Moreau P-A, Morte A, Ordoñez ME, Rodríguez A, Stchigel AM, Vizzini A, Abdollahzadeh J, Abreu VP, Adamčíková K, Albuquerque GMR, Alexandrova AV, Álvarez Duarte E, Armstrong-Cho C, Banniza S, Barbosa RN, Bellanger J-M, Bezerra JL, Cabral TS, Caboň M, Caicedo E, Cantillo T, Carnegie AJ, Carmo LT, Castañeda-Ruiz RF, Clement CR, Čmoková A, Conceição LB, Cruz RHSF, Damm U, da Silva BDB, da Silva GA, da Silva RMF, Santiago ALCM de A, de Oliveira LF, de Souza CAF, Déniel F, Dima B, Dong G, Edwards J, Félix CR, Fournier J, Gibertoni TB, Hosaka K, Iturriaga T, Jadan M, Jany J-L, Jurjević Ž, Kolařík M, Kušan I, Landell MF, Leite Cordeiro TR, Lima DX, Loizides M, Luo S, Machado AR, Madrid H, Magalhães OMC, Marinho P, Matočec N, Mešić A, Miller AN, Morozova OV, Neves RP, Nonaka K, Nováková A, Oberlies NH, Oliveira-Filho JRC, Oliveira TGL, Papp V, Pereira OL, Perrone G, Peterson SW, Pham THG, Raja HA. 2018. Fungal Planet description sheets: 716–784. – Persoonia 40: 240–393.

2017

Marin-Felix Y, Groenewald JZ, Cai L, Chen Q, Marincowitz S, Barnes I, Bensch K, Braun U, Camporesi E, Damm U, de Beer ZW, Dissanayake A, Edwards J, Giraldo A, Hernández-Restrepo M, Hyde KD, Jayawardena RS, Lombard L, Luangsa-ard J, McTaggart AR, Rossman AY, Sandoval-Denis M, Shen M, Shivas RG, Tan YP, van der Linde EJ, Wingfield MJ, Wood AR, Zhang JQ, Zhang Y, Crous PW. 2017. Genera of phytopathogenic fungi: GOPHY 1. – Studies in Mycology 86: 99–216.

2016

Bragança CAD, Damm U, Baroncelli R, Massola Júnior NS, Crous PW. 2016. Species of the Colletotrichum acutatum complex associated with anthracnose diseases of fruit in Brazil. – Fungal Biology 120: 547–561.

Hacquard S, Kracher B, Hiruma K, Münch PC, Garrido-Oter R, Thon MR, Weimann A, Damm U, Dallery J-F, Hainaut M, Henrissat B, Lespinet O, Sacristán S, Ver Loren van Themaat E, Kemen E, McHardy AC, Schulze-Lefert P, O’Connell RJ. 2016. Survival trade-offs in plant roots during colonization by closely related beneficial and pathogenic fungi. – Nature Communications 7: 11362. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11362

Jayawardena RS, Hyde KD, Damm U, Cai L, Liu M, Li XH, Zhang W, Zhao WS, Yan JY. 2016. Notes on currently accepted species of Colletotrichum. – Mycosphere 7: 1192–1260.

Liu F, Wang M, Damm U, Crous PW, Cai L. 2016. Species boundaries in plant pathogenic fungi: a Colletotrichum case study. – BMC Evolutionary Biology 16:81. DOI: 10.1186/s12862-016-0649-5

Mostert L, Damm U, Cloete M, Havenga M, Halleen F, Crous PW and Fourie PH. 2016.  Kern- en steenvrugtebome huisves wingerd stamsiekte patogene. Winelands October: 70–75/ Pome and stone fruit trees harbour grapevine trunk disease pathogens. – Winetech Technical Yearbook 2016: 90–95.

Wesche K, Otte V, Boyle H, Damm U, Gebauer P, Ritz CM, Wesenberg J. 2016. Die botanisch-mykologischen Sammlungen in Görlitz – zentrale Anlaufstellen für die haupt- und nebenberufliche Pflanzen- und Pilzkunde in der Oberlausitz (The botanical and mycological collections in Görlitz: a central hub for the professional and amateur study of plants and fungi in Oberlausitz). – Berichte der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft der Oberlausitz 24: 37–50.

Wood AR, Damm U, van der Linde EJ, Groenewald JZ, Cheewangkoon R, Crous PW. 2016 (published online 2015). Finding the missing link: Resolving the Coryneliomycetidae within Eurotiomycetes. – Persoonia 37: 27–56.

2015

Alizadeh A, Javan-Nikkhah M, Zare R, Fotouhifar KB, Damm U, Stukenbrock EH. 2015 (published online 2016). New records of Colletotrichum species for the mycobiota of Iran. – Mycologia Iranica 2(2): 94–108.

Atghia O, Alizadeh A, Fotouhifar KB, Damm U, Stukenbrock EH, Javan-Nikkhah M. 2015 (published online 2016). First report of Colletotrichum fructicola as the causal agent of anthracnose on common bean and cowpea. – Mycologia Iranica 2(2): 135–136.

Groenewald JZ, van Raak M, Damm U, Bonats PJM, Edema M, Crous PW. 2015. Barcoding quarantine fungi: lessions from the European QBOL project and Q-bank database.  Suplemento de la Revista Mexicana de Fitopatología 33: S15–S19.

Liu F, Weir BS, Damm U, Crous PW, Wang Y, Liu B, Wang M, Zhang M, Cai L. 2015. Unravelling Colletotrichum species associated with Camellia: employing ApMat and GS loci to resolve species in the C. gloeosporioides complex. – Persoonia 35: 63–86.

Stielow JB, Lévesque CA, Seifert KA, Meyer W, Irinyi L, Smits D, Renfurm R, Verkley GJM, Groenewald M, Chaduli D, Lomascolo A, Welti S, Lesage-Meessen L, Favel A, Al-Hatmi AMS, Damm U, Yilmaz N, Houbraken J, Lombard L, Quaedvlieg W, Binder M, Vaas LAI, Vu D, Yurkov A, Begerow D, Roehl O, Guerreiro M, Fonseca A, Samerpitak K, van Diepeningen AM, Dolatabadi S, Moreno L, Casaregola S, Mallet S, Jacques N, Roscini L, Egidi E, Bizet C, Garcia-Hermoso D, Martín MP, Deng S, Groenewald JZ, Boekhout T, de Beer ZW, Barnes I, Duong T, Wingfield M, de Hoog GS, Crous PW, Lewis CT, Hambleton S, Moussa TAA, Al-Zahrani HS, Almaghrabi OA, Louis-Seize G, Assabgui R, McCormick W, Omer G, Dukik K, Cardinali G, Eberhardt U, de Vries M, Robert V. 2015. One fungus, which genes? Development and assessment of universal primers for potential secondary fungal DNA barcodes. – Persoonia 35: 242–263.

2014

Damm U, O’Connell RJ, Crous PW, Groenewald JZ. 2014. The Colletotrichum destructivum species complex – hemibiotrophic pathogens of forage and field crops. – Studies in Mycology 79: 49–84.

Liu F, Cai L, Crous PW, Damm U. 2014. The Colletotrichum gigasporum species complex. – Persoonia 33: 83–97.

Crous PW, Wingfield MJ, Schumacher RK, Summerell BA, Giraldo A, Gené J, Guarro J, Wanasinghe DN, Hyde KD, Camporesi E, Gareth Jones EB, Thambugala KM, Malysheva EF, Malysheva VF, Acharya K, Álvarez J, Alvarado P, Assefa A, Barnes CW, Bartlett JS, Blanchette RA, Burgess TI, Carlavilla JR, Coetzee MPA, Damm U, Decock CA, den Breeÿen A, de Vries B, Dutta AK, Holdom DG, Rooney Latham S, Manjón JL, Marincowitz S, Mirabolfathy M, Moreno G, Nakashima C, Papizadeh M, Shahzadeh Fazeli SA, Amoozegar MA, Romberg MK, Shivas RG, Stalpers JA, Stielow B, Stukely MJC, Swart WJ, Tan YP, van der Bank M, Wood AR, Zhang Y, Groenewald JZ. 2014. Fungal Planet description sheets: 281–319. – Persoonia 33: 212–289.

Crous PW, Giraldo A, Hawksworth DL, Robert V, Kirk PM, Guarro J, Robbertse B, Schoch CL, Damm U, Trakunyingcharoen T, Groenewald JZ. 2014. The genera of fungi: fixing the application of type species of generic names. – IMA Fungus 5: 141–160.

Schoch CL, Robbertse B, Robert V, Vu D, Cardinali G, Irinyi L, Meyer W, Nilsson RH, Hughes K, Miller AN, Kirk PM, Abarenkov K, Aime MC, Ariyawansa HA, Bidartondo M, Boekhout T, Buyck B, Cai Q, Chen J, Crespo A, Crous PW, Damm U, De Beer ZW, Dentinger BTM, Divakar PK, Duenas M, Feau N, Fliegerova K, García MA, Ge ZW, Griffith GW, Groenewald JZ, Groenewald M, Grube M, Gryzenhout M, Gueidan C, Guo L, Hambleton S, Hamelin R, Hansen K, Hofstetter V, Hong SB, Houbraken J, Hyde KD, Inderbitzin P, Johnston PR, Karunarathna SC, Kõljalg U, Kovács GM, Kraichak E, Krizsan K, Kurtzman CP, Larsson KH, Leavitt S, Letcher PM, Liimatainen K, Liu JK, Lodge DJ, Luangsaard JJ, Lumbsch HT, Maharachchikumbura SSN, Manamgoda D, Martín MP, Minnis AM, Moncalvo JM, Mulé G, Nakasone KK, Niskanen T, Olariaga I, Papp T, Petkovits T, Pino-Bodas R, Powell MJ, Raja HA, Redecker D, Sarmiento-Ramirez JM, Seifert KA, Shrestha B, Stenroos S, Stielow B, Suh SO, Tanaka K, Tedersoo L, Telleria MT, Udayanga D, Untereiner WA, Diéguez Uribeondo J, Subbarao KV, Vágvölgyi C, Visagie C, Voigt K, Walker DM, Weir BS, Weiss M, Wijayawardene NN, Wingfield MJ, Xu JP, Yang ZL, Zhang N, Zhuang WY, Federhen S. 2014. Finding needles in haystacks: linking scientific names, reference specimens and molecular data for Fungi. – Database 2014. Doi: 10.1093/database/bau061

2013

Damm U, Cannon PF, Liu F, RW Barreto, E Guatimosim, Crous PW. 2013. The Colletotrichum orbiculare species complex: important plant pathogens and mycoherbicides. – Fungal Diversity 61: 29–59.

Damm U, Liu F, Cannon PF, Crous PW. 2013. Unraveling legume anthracnose pathogens. – Phytopathology 103 (Suppl. 2): S2.33.

Liu F, Cai L, Crous PW, Damm U. 2013. Circumscription of the anthracnose pathogens Colletotrichum lindemuthianum and C. nigrum. – Mycologia 105: 844–860.

Liu F, Damm U, Cai L, Crous PW. 2013. Species of the Colletotrichum gloeosporioides complex associated with anthracnose diseases of Proteaceae. – Fungal Diversity 61: 89–105.

Crous PW, Wingfield MJ, Guarro J, Cheewangkoon R, Bank M van der, Swart WJ, Stchigel AM, Cano-Lira JF, Roux J, Madrid H, Damm U, Wood AR, Shuttleworth LA, Hodges CS, Munster M, Jesús Yáñez-Morales M de, Zúñiga-Estrada L, Cruywagen, Hoog GS de, Silvera C, Najafzadeh J, Davison EM, Davison PJN, Barrett MD, Barrett RL, Manamgoda DS, Minnis AM, Kleczewski NM, Luke Flory S, Castlebury LA, Clay K, Hyde KD, Maússe-Sitoe SND, Shuaifei Chen, Lechat C, Hairaud M, Lesage-Meessen L, Pawłowska J, Wilk M, Śliwińska-Wyrzychowska A, Mętrak M, Wrzosek M, Pavlic-Zupanc D, Maleme HM, Slippers B, Mac Cormack WP, Archuvy DI, Grünwald NJ, Teresa Tellería M, Dueñas M, Martín MP, Marincowitz S, Beer ZW de, Perez C, Gené J, Marín-Felix Y, Groenewald JZ. 2013. Fungal Planet description sheets: 154–213. – Persoonia 31, 2013: 188–295.

2012

Damm U, Cannon PF, Crous PW (eds.). 2012. Colletotrichum: complex species or species complexes? – Studies in Mycology 73: 1–217.

Damm U, Cannon PF, Woudenberg JHC, Johnston PR, Weir B, Tan YP, Shivas RG, Crous PW. 2012. The Colletotrichum boninense species complex. – Studies in Mycology 73: 1–36.

Damm U, Cannon PF, Woudenberg JHC, Crous PW. 2012. The Colletotrichum acutatum species complex. – Studies in Mycology 73: 37–113.

Weir B, Damm U, Johnston PR. 2012. The Colletotrichum gloeosporioides species complex. – Studies in Mycology 73: 115–213.

Cannon PF, Damm U, Johnston PR, Weir B. 2012. Colletotrichum – current status and future directions. – Studies in Mycology 73: 181–213.

O’Connell RJ, Thon MR, Hacquard S, Amyotte SG, Kleemann J, Torres MF, Damm U, Buiate EA, Epstein L, Alkan N, Altmüller J, Alvarado-Balderrama L, Bauser CA, Becker C, Birren BW, Chen Z, Choi J, Crouch JA, Duvick JP, Farman MA, Gan P, Heiman D, Henrissat B, Howard RJ, Kabbage M, Koch C, Kracher B, Kubo Y, Law AD, Lebrun M-H, Lee Y-H, Miyara I, Moore N, Neumann U, Nordström K, Panaccione DG, Panstruga R, Place M, Proctor RH, Prusky D, Rech G, Reinhardt R, Rollins JA, Rounsley S, Schardl CL, Schwartz DC, Shenoy N, Shirasu K, Sikhakolli UR, Stüber K, Sukno SA, Sweigard JA, Takano Y, Takahara H, Trail F, Does HC van der, Voll LM, Will I, Young S, Zeng Q, Zhang J, Zhou S, Dickman MB, Schulze-Lefert P, Ver Loren van Themaat E, Ma L-J, Vaillancourt LJ. 2012. Life-style transitions in plant pathogenic Colletotrichum fungi deciphered by genome and transcriptome analyses. – Nature Genetics 44: 1060–1065.

Schoch CL, Seifert KA, Huhndorf S, Robert V, Spouge JL, Levesque CA, Chen W and Fungal Barcoding Consortium. 2012. Nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region as a universal DNA barcode marker for fungi. – PNAS 109: 6241–6246.

Gramaje D, Agustí-Brisach C, Pérez-Sierra A, Moralejo E, Olmo D, Mostert L, Damm U, Armengol J. 2012. Fungal trunk pathogens associated with wood decay of almond trees on Mallorca (Spain). – Persoonia 28: 1–13.

2011

Cloete M, Fourie PH, Damm U, Crous PW, Mostert L. 2011. Fungi associated with die-back symptoms of apple and pear trees, a possible inoculum source of grapevine trunk disease pathogens. – Phytopathogia Mediterranea 50, supplement: 176–190.

Hawksworth DL, Crous PW, Redhead SA, Reynolds DR, Samson RA, Seifert KA, Taylor JW, Wingfield MJ, Abaci Ö, Aime C, Asan A, Bai F-Y, de Beer ZW, Begerow D, Berikten D, Boekhout T, Buchanan PK, Burgess T,Buzina W, Cai L, Cannon PF, Crane JL, Damm U, Daniel H-M, van Diepeningen AD, Druzhinina I, Dyer PS, Eberhardt U, Fell JW, Frisvad JC, Geiser DM, Geml J,Glienke C, Gräfenhan T, Groenewald JZ, Groenewald M, de Gruyter J, Guého-Kellermann E, Guo L-D, Hibbett DS, Hong S-B, de Hoog GS, Houbraken J,Huhndorf SM, Hyde KD, Ismail A, Johnston PR, Kadaifciler DG, Kirk PM, Kõljalg U, Kurtzman CP, Lagneau P-E, Lévesque CA, Liu X, Lombard L, Meyer W, Miller A, Minter DW, Najafzadeh MJ, Norvell L, Ozerskaya SM, Öziç R, Pennycook SR, Peterson SW, Pettersson OV, Quaedvlieg W, Robert VA, Ruibal C, Schnürer J, Schroers H-J, Shivas R, Slippers B, Spierenburg H, Takashima M, Tas¸kın E, Thines M, Thrane U, Uztan AH, van Raak, M, Varga J, Vasco A, Verkley G, Videira SIR, de Vries RP,Weir BS, Yilmaz N, Yurkov A,  Zhang N. 2011. The Amsterdam Declaration on Fungal Nomenclature. – IMA Fungus 2: 105–112; Mycotaxon 116: 491­–500.

2010

Damm U, Fourie PH, Crous PW. 2010. Coniochaeta (Lecythophora), Collophora gen. nov. and Phaeomoniella species associated with wood necroses of Prunus trees. – Persoonia 24: 60–80.

Damm U, Barroncelli R, Cai L, Kubo Y, O’Connell R, Weir B, Yoshino K, Cannon PF. 2010. Colletotrichum: species ecology and interactions. – IMA Fungus 1: 161–165.

Hyde KD, Chomnunti P, Crous PW, Groenewald JZ, Damm U, Ko Ko TW, Shivas RG, Summerell BA, Tan YP. 2010. A case for re-inventory of Australia’s plant pathogens. – Persoonia 25: 50–60.

2009

Damm U, Woudenberg JHC, Cannon PF, Crous PW. 2009. Colletotrichum species with curved conidia from herbaceous hosts. – Fungal Diversity 39: 45–87.

Hyde KD, Cai L, Cannon PF, Crouch JA, Crous PW, Damm U, Goodwin PH, Chen H, Johnston PR, Jones EBG, Liu ZY, McKenzie EHC, Moriwaki J, Noireung P, Pennycook SR, Pfenning LH, Prihastuti H, Sato T, Shivas RG, Tan YP, Taylor PWJ, Weir BS, Yang YL, Zhang JZ. 2009. Colletotrichum – names in current use. – Fungal Diversity 39: 147–182.

2008

Damm U, Mostert L, Crous PW, Fourie PH. 2008. Novel Phaeoacremonium species associated with necrotic wood of Prunus trees. – Persoonia 20: 87–102.

Damm U, Crous PW, Fourie PH. 2008. A fissitunicate ascus mechanism in the Calosphaeriaceae, with novel species of Jattaea and Calosphaeria on Prunus wood. – Persoonia 20: 39–52.

Damm U, Verkley GJM, Crous PW, Fourie PH, Haegi A, Riccioni L. 2008. Paraconiothyrium species on stone fruit trees and other woody hosts, including P. variabile and P. africanum spp. nov. – Persoonia 20: 9–17.

2007

Damm U, Crous PW, Fourie PH. 2007. Botryosphaeriaceae as potential pathogens of Prunus species in South Africa, with descriptions of Diplodia africana and Lasiodiplodia plurivora spp. nov. – Mycologia 99(5): 664–680.

Damm U, Fourie PH, Crous PW. 2007. Aplosporella prunicola, a novel species of anamorphic Botryosphaeriaceae. – Fungal Diversity 27: 35–43.

2005

Damm U, Fourie PH. 2005. A cost-effective protocol for molecular detection of fungal pathogens in soil. – South African Journal of Science 101: 135–139.

Retief E, Damm U, van Niekerk JM, McLeod A, Fourie PH.  2005. A protocol for molecular detection of Phaeomoniella chlamydospora in grapevine wood. – South African Journal of Science 101: 139–142.

before 2005

Retief E, Damm U, van Niekerk JM, Fourie PH.  2004. Molecular detection of Phaeomoniella chlamydospora in grapevine wood. – Wynboer – November 2004.

Damm U, Brune A, Mendgen K. 2003. In vivo observation of conidial germination at the oxic-anoxic interface and infection of submerged reed roots by Microdochium bolleyi. – FEMS Microbiological Ecology 45: 293–299.

Damm U. 2000. Bodenmykoflora in unterschiedlichen Bewirtschaftungssystemen des Weizens mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Fusarium-Arten (Soil mycoflora of different cultivation systems of wheat with special emphasis on Fusarium species). – Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science 45: 509–521.

Herbert Boyle
Volunteer
former Head of Section Mycology (ret.)

2009–2014
Curator of Mycology, Herbarium Senckenbergianum, Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz

1996–2008 
Curator of Mycology, State Museum of Natural History Görlitz

1995–1996 
Assistant Scientist at the fungal herbarium of the State Museum of Natural History Görlitz

 

 

Wesche K, Otte V, Boyle H, Damm U, Gebauer P, Ritz CM, Wesenberg J. 2016. Die botanisch-mykologischen Sammlungen in Görlitz – zentrale Anlaufstellen für die haupt- und nebenberufliche Pflanzen- und Pilzkunde in der Oberlausitz (The botanical and mycological collections in Görlitz: a central hub for the professional and amateur study of plants and fungi in Oberlausitz). – Berichte der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft der Oberlausitz 24: 37–50.

Vesterholt J, Gryta H, Marmeisse R, Beker H, Eberhardt U, Grilli E, Boyle H. 2009. Proposal 1899: to conserve the name Hebeloma cylindrosporum against Hebeloma angustispermum (Basidiomycota). – Mycotaxon 110: 501–502.

Boyle H, Zimdars B, Renker C, Buscot F. 2006. A molecular phylogeny of Hebeloma species from Europe. – Mycological Research 110: 369–380.

Boyle H, Klenke F, Richter U. 2006. Rediscovery of Erysiphe clandestina on elm (Ulmus) in Germany. – Plant Pathology 55: 296.

Braun U, Takamatsu S, Heluta V, Limkaisang S, Divarangkoon R, Cook R, Boyle H. 2006. Phylogeny and taxonomy of powdery mildew fungi of Erysiphe sect. Uncinula on Carpinus species. – Mycological Progress 5:139–153.

Pritsch K, Boyle H, Munch JC, Buscot F. 1997. Characterization and identification of black alder ectomycorrhizas by PCR/ RFLP analysesof the rDNA internal transcribed spacer (ITS). – New Phytologist 137: 357–369.

Dr. Christine Boyle
Volunteer
Steffen Hoeflich
Volunteer

Former co-workers

PhD Steffen Bien
former scentific staff

Bien, S., Damm, U. 2020. Arboricolonus simplex gen. et sp. nov. and
novelties in Cadophora, Minutiella and Proliferodiscus from Prunus wood in
Germany. – MycoKeys, 63, 119–161.

Bien, S., Damm, U. 2020. Prunus trees in Germany – a hideout of unknown
fungi? – Mycological Progress, 19, 667–690.

Bien, S., Kraus, C., Damm, U. 2020. Novel collophorina-like genera and
species from Prunus trees and vineyards in Germany. – Persoonia, 45, 46–67.

Kraus, C., Damm, U., Bien, S., Voegele, R. T., Fischer, M. 2020. New
species of Phaeomoniellales from a German vineyard and their potential threatm to grapevine (Vitis vinifera) health. – Fungal Systematics and Evolution, 6, 139–155.

Nasr, S., Bien, S., Soudi, M. R., Alimadadi, N., Fazeli, S. A. S., Damm, U.
2018. Novel Collophorina and Coniochaeta species from Euphorbia
polycaulis, an endemic plant in Iran. – Mycological Progress, 17(6), 755–771.

Braun, U., Bien, S., Hönig, L., Heuchert, B. 2015. Periconiella
liquidambaricola sp. nov.–a new Chinese hyphomycete. – Mycotaxon, 130(1),
253–258.

Braun, U., Bien, S., Hantsch, L., Heuchert, B. 2014. Tubakia chinensis sp.
nov. and a key to the species of the genus Tubakia. – Schlechtendalia, 28, 23–
28.

Hantsch, L., Bien, S., Radatz, S., Braun, U., Auge, H., Bruelheide, H. 2014.
Tree diversity and the role of non‐host neighbour tree species in reducing
fungal pathogen infestation. – Journal of Ecology, 102(6), 1673–1687.