Sybren De Hoog MD

Prof Sybren de Hoog has written over 400 refereed papers. Co-organiser and co-editor of editing of symposia on yeasts, yeast-like and medical fungi, leading to books and special issues. He was program chairman of the TIFI/ECMM congress in Amsterdam (2003). His teaching activities involve the international CBS Course on Medical Mycology for medical microbiologists, mycologists and laboratory technologists, and courses for biomedical students of the Universities of Amsterdam and Beijing. He established a privately financed fund for support of medical mycology in Africa and another for workers from developing countries. His current focus is in area of interest is the taxonomy, ecology and evolution of black yeast-like fungi, with emphasis on possible lines of adaptation to the human host and applications in bioremediation. In general patterns of phylogeny of extremotolerance are analyzed in the light of remarkable physiological abilities of black yeasts.