Professor Stefan Olsson. In Copenhagen I have continued my interest in the fungal mycelium as a coordinated organism although my research has mainly been on biological control of fungi and fungal secondary metabolites. The different forms of programmed cell death as possible mechanisms for fungi to reuse resources has been in focus since these processes were first described in detail in animals and yeast. We described fungal apoptotic type metacaspase activity as well as a fungal PARP in 2002 and last year we finally got a grant for studying autophagy in a filamentous fungus.

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