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Vincent Robert is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, medicine, and agricultural and biological sciences. Their research work encompasses a wide range of subfields, including molecular biology, cell biology, plant science, infectious diseases, and epidemiology.

The main topics addressed in Vincent Robert's research involve plant pathogens and fungal diseases, mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions, yeasts and rust fungi studies, antifungal resistance and susceptibility, fungal infections, fermentation and sensory analysis, as well as the use of environmental DNA in biodiversity studies.

Some of the notable recent papers by Vincent Robert include:

  • Unambiguous identification of fungi: where do we stand and how accurate and precise is fungal DNA barcoding? (2020, IMA Fungus)
  • Fusarium: more than a node or a foot-shaped basal cell (2021, Studies in Mycology)
  • Fungal taxonomy and sequence-based nomenclature (2021, Nature Microbiology)
  • Environmental Candida auris and the Global Warming Emergence Hypothesis (2021, mBio)
  • Trends in yeast diversity discovery (2021, Fungal Diversity)

Vincent Robert frequently collaborates with a group of authors, including Gianluigi Cardinali, Wieland Meyer, Andrey Yurkov, Debora Casagrande Pierantoni, and Laura Corte. These collaborations have contributed to various publications across different venues.

The scientist's frequent publication venues reflect the concentration of their work and include Microorganisms, IMA Fungus, Studies in Mycology, Nature Microbiology, and mBio.

Best Publications

  • Nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region as a universal DNA barcode marker for Fungi

    Conrad L. Schoch;Keith A. Seifert;Sabine Huhndorf;Vincent Robert

  • Large-scale generation and analysis of filamentous fungal DNA barcodes boosts coverage for kingdom fungi and reveals thresholds for fungal species and higher taxon delimitation.

    D Vu;Marizeth Groenewald;M de Vries;T Gehrmann

  • Methods for isolation, phenotypic characterization and maintenance of yeasts

    Cletus P. Kurtzman;Jack W. Fell;Teun Boekhout;Vincent Robert

  • MycoBank: an online initiative to launch mycology into the 21st century

    Pedro W. Crous;Walter Gams;Joost A. Stalpers;Vincent Robert

  • Internet-Accessible DNA Sequence Database for Identifying Fusaria from Human and Animal Infections

    Kerry O'Donnell;Deanna A. Sutton;Michael G. Rinaldi;Brice A.J. Sarver

  • One fungus, which genes? Development and assessment of universal primers for potential secondary fungal DNA barcodes.

    J.B. Stielow;C.A. Lévesque;K.A. Seifert;W. Meyer

  • Comparative genomics reveals high biological diversity and specific adaptations in the industrially and medically important fungal genus Aspergillus

    Ronald P. de Vries;Robert Riley;Ad Wiebenga;Guillermo Aguilar-Osorio

  • The Amsterdam Declaration on Fungal Nomenclature

    David L. Hawksworth;David L. Hawksworth;Pedro W. Crous;Scott A. Redhead;Don R. Reynolds

  • Unambiguous identification of fungi: where do we stand and how accurate and precise is fungal DNA barcoding?

    Robert Lücking;M. Catherine Aime;Barbara Robbertse;Andrew N. Miller

  • Phylogenetic analyses of RPB1 and RPB2 support a middle Cretaceous origin for a clade comprising all agriculturally and medically important fusaria

    Kerry O’Donnell;Alejandro P. Rooney;Robert H. Proctor;Daren W. Brown

  • Finding needles in haystacks: Linking scientific names, reference specimens and molecular data for Fungi

    Conrad L. Schoch;Barbara Robbertse;Vincent Robert;Duong Vu

  • On the Emergence of Candida auris: Climate Change, Azoles, Swamps, and Birds.

    Arturo Casadevall;Dimitrios P. Kontoyiannis;Vincent Robert

  • International Society of Human and Animal Mycology (ISHAM)-ITS reference DNA barcoding database--the quality controlled standard tool for routine identification of human and animal pathogenic fungi.

    Laszlo Irinyi;Carolina Serena;Dea Garcia-Hermoso;Michael Arabatzis

  • DNA sequence-based identification of Fusarium : Current status and future directions

    Kerry O’Donnell;Todd J. Ward;Vincent A. R. G. Robert;Pedro W. Crous

  • Fusarium: more than a node or a foot-shaped basal cell.

    P.W. Crous;P.W. Crous;L. Lombard;M. Sandoval-Denis;K.A. Seifert

  • DNA barcoding analysis of more than 9 000 yeast isolates contributes to quantitative thresholds for yeast species and genera delimitation.

    D Vu;M Groenewald;S Szöke;G Cardinali

  • One Fungus, One Name: Defining the Genus Fusarium in a Scientifically Robust Way That Preserves Longstanding Use

    David M. Geiser;Takayuki Aoki;Charles W. Bacon;Scott E. Baker

  • Vertebrate Endothermy Restricts Most Fungi as Potential Pathogens

    Vincent A. Robert;Arturo Casadevall

  • Filling gaps in biodiversity knowledge for macrofungi: contributions and assessment of an herbarium collection DNA barcode sequencing project.

    Todd W. Osmundson;Vincent A. Robert;Conrad L. Schoch;Lydia J. Baker

  • Additional file 8: of Comparative genomics reveals high biological diversity and specific adaptations in the industrially and medically important fungal genus Aspergillus

    Ronald de Vries;Robert Riley;Ad Wiebenga;Guillermo Aguilar-Osorio

Frequent Co-Authors

Pedro W. Crous
Pedro W. Crous Utrecht University
Teun Boekhout
Teun Boekhout University of Amsterdam
Jos Houbraken
Jos Houbraken Utrecht University
Wieland Meyer
Wieland Meyer Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute
Jens Christian Frisvad
Jens Christian Frisvad Technical University of Denmark
Ronald P. de Vries
Ronald P. de Vries Utrecht University
Marizeth Groenewald
Marizeth Groenewald Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute
Bernard Henrissat
Bernard Henrissat Technical University of Denmark
Alla Lapidus
Alla Lapidus Saint Petersburg State University
Igor V. Grigoriev
Igor V. Grigoriev Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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