**About the Editors**

#### **Anush Kosakyan**

Anush Kosakyan's research interests span three different (yet very interconnected) topics: mycology, protistology and microbial parasitology (myxozoan parasites). She gained her first PhD from University of Haifa, Israel, focusing on the taxonomy and systematics of *Agaricomycota*, and her second PhD from University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, focusing on testate amoeba diversity, evolution and ecology. Currently, she is a postdoctoral researcher at Institute of Parasitology at the Biology Center of Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic), where she studies gene expression and host–parasite interactions in microbial eukaryotes (*Myxozoa*).

#### **Rodica Catana**

Catana Rodica Daniela is a senior researcher at the Institute of Biology Bucharest of Romanian Academy. Between 2004 and 2005, she enrolled in the post-university course "Horticulture Genetics and Biotechnology", at Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, Crete. In 2009, she obtained a Ph.D. in the field of biology from the Romanian Academy. She has taken part in numerous research projects in the field of plant conservation, plant micropropagation, in vitro techniques, secondary metabolites, pollution, and urban lakes. She has been the author and co-author of more than 45 peer-reviewed publications and 2 book chapters. She acts as a reviewer for different journals.

#### **Alona Yu. Biketova**

Alona Yu. Biketova's research interests cover mycology, molecular and synthetic biology. She gained her PhD from the University of Haifa (Israel) focusing on the taxonomy, distribution, molecular phylogeny of *Boletales* in Israel, with special attention paid to the former *Boletus* sect. *Luridi* as well as xerocomoid genera *Hortiboletus* and *Xerocomellus*. Her current occupation is Fungal DNA Curator in Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (UK). Most of her ongoing research projects are focused on the systematics, diversity, phylogeny, evolution, and species conservation of *Agaricomycotina*, especially the family *Boletaceaee*.
