The Bradshaw lab focuses on culturing fungi from a range of understudied biomes, including diseased plants, wastewater, mosquitoes, and marine organisms. Using high-throughput culturing approaches, we have established a fungal culture collection of over 5,500 isolates, which continues to expand. Out of our isolates, there are approximately 230 putative novel species. This collection represents a valuable mycological resource and is being further explored for antifungal, antibacterial, and bioremediation potential.

A: Sclerostagonospora rosae. B: Epicoccum sp. C: Nothophoma sp. D: Sporobolomyces ruberrimus. E: Phragmocamarosporium sp. F: Magnibotryascoma sp. G: Penicillium chrysogenum. H: Fusarium sp. I: Papiliotrema flavescens. J: Sclerostagonospora rosae K: Setoarthopyrenia chromolaenae. L: Penicillium scabrosum. M: Paraconiothyrium sp. N: Pestalotiopsis sp. O: Paraphaeosphaeria neglecta. P: Filobasidium magnum. Q: Vishniacozyma pyri R: Rhodosporidiobolus colostri. Image by Bailey Pelt (Valenzo et al., 2025)