**About the Editors**

**Anna Poli** and **Valeria Prigione** are currently working at the Mycotheca Universitatis Taurinensis, the Fungal Culture Collection of the Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Torino. Their main research interests focus on the fungal biodiversity associated with biotic and abiotic marine substrates, mainly in the Mediterranean Sea, on the description of new marine fungal lineages, and on the investigation of the biotechnological potential of these organisms.
