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G. Sybren de Hoog

Research areas: Medicine · Infectious Diseases · Fungal Infections and Studies · Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases · Antifungal resistance and susceptibility

ORCID iD 0000-0002-5344-257X
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Sybren de Hoog (1948) studied biology at the State University of Utrecht. From 1971 onwards he is researcher in phylogenetic and ecological mycology at the Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre at Baarn, since 2000 in Utrecht. He is also appointed as professor of mycology at the Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics of the University of Amsterdam, at the Research Center for Medical Mycology, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China, at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, the Shanghai Institute of Medical Mycology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China, the Basic Pathology Department, Federal University of Paraná State, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, and the King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. In 1974 he obtained his PhD (promotor: Prof. Dr. K. Verhoeff) with a thesis entitled 'Revision of some genera of imperfect fungi'. 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. He has written over 750 scientific papers, in addition to the editing of symposia on yeasts, yeast-like and medical fungi in Amersfoort (1987), Atlanta (1992), Adelaide (1993) and Veldhoven (1996) and co-editing of the symposium on black yeasts at Vancouver (1994). Numerous special issues of journals were prepared, ao. of Studies in Mycology, Fungal Biolology, Medical Mycology, Mycoses, Fungal Diversity and Persoonia. He was program chairman of the TIFI/ECMM congress in Amsterdam (2003). He has prepared an Atlas of Clinical Fungi (with J. Guarro, Reus, Spain), for which electronic versions with molecular data have appeared. Chinese and Russian translations of this book are being prepared. Forteen chapters on filamentous yeasts were written for the book "The Yeasts" (eds C.P. Kurtzman et al.). He worked several months as a guest professor at the Research Center for Pathogenic Fungi in Chiba, Japan. He has been managing editor of the journals 'Antonie van Leeuwenhoek' and presently of 'Mycoses' and is member of the editorial boards of Mycopathologia, Mycological Progress and of the PubMed facility Faculty of 1000. He is scientific secretary of the Netherlands Society for Human and Veterinary Mycology, former member of the International Committee on Yeasts. Currently he is past-President of the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology (ISHAM). In this function he assisted in the organization of ISHAM and satellite congress in Tokyo and Beijng in 2009, and he is program chairman of the ISHAM Congress in Amsterdam, 2018. His teaching activities comprise the International Course Medical Mycology for hospital personnel, with editions in China and Brazil. Currently he works parttime and Westerdijk Institute in Utrecht and the Center of Expertise in Mycology of Radboudumc / Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Presently he co-guides several PhD students and postdocs.

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