The project was proposed by the following Principal Investigators and Collaborators and during the project, further collaborations will be developed to increase the consortium.

Principal Investigators

• Laura Selbmann (University of Tuscia, Italy)

• Jason E. Stajich (University of California, Riverside, USA)

• Sybren de Hoog (Center of Expertise in Mycology of Radboudumc, Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, NL) 

• Anna Gorbushina (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) 

• Nina Gunde-Cimerman (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) 

• Lucia Muggia (University of Trieste, Italy)

• Katja Sterflinger (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria)

• Giovanna C. Varese (University of Turin, Italy) 

Collaborators

• Claudio Donati (Edmund Mach Foundation, Italy)

• Irina Druzhinina (Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China)

• Cassie L. Ettinger (Integrative Genetics and Genomics, UC Davis, CA, USA)

• Amy S. Gladfelter (University of North Carolina, NC, USA)

• Martin Grube (University of Graz, Austria)

• István Pócsi  (University of Debrecen, Hungary)

• Meritxell Riquelme (Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Ensenada, Mexico)

• Nicola Segata (University of Trento, Italy)

• Jana U’Ren (University of Arizona, USA)

• Vania Vicente (Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil)

• Allison Walker (Acadia University, Canada)

Culture Collections

• Culture Collection of Fungi From Extreme Environments (CCFEE)

• Mycotheca Universitatis Taurinensis (MUT)

• ACBR Fungal Collection

• Culture Collection of Extremophilic Fungi Ex (EXF)