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Dr. Wendy A. Untereiner is a Professor in the Department of Biology at Brandon University. She holds a PhD in Botany/Mycology from the University of Toronto and has held prestigious postdoctoral fellowships including the A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Duke University. Her research focuses on fungal systematics, particularly the ecology and phylogeny of ascomycetes like Herpotrichiellaceae, Onygenales, and Chaetomiaceae. She investigates topics such as fungal biodiversity in northern environments and keratin-degradation mechanisms.
Dr. Untereiner has received numerous awards including the BU Senate Award for Excellence in Research (2013) and the Mycological Society of America’s C.J. Alexopoulos Prize (2006). She has secured funding through NSERC Discovery Grants, the Canada Research Chairs Program, and the Canada Foundation for Innovation. Her lab collaborates internationally with institutions like the University of Toronto and the Czech Republic’s mycological researchers.
Her teaching includes courses on Biodiversity, Medical Mycology, and Microbiology. She actively supervises graduate students and has mentored numerous MSc candidates and undergraduate researchers through NSERC programs.
- Awards: BU Senate Award, C.J. Alexopoulos Prize, Canada Research Chair Tier II
- Funding: NSERC grants (2003–2018), CFI/Manitoba Funds (2000, 2005, 2013)
- Lab Collaborators: James Scott (U Toronto), Martina Réblová (Czech Republic)
Her research emphasizes fungal diversity in extreme environments and contributes to global fungal taxonomy databases through projects like the Tree of Life Web Project.
