The Fungi Man of India

Belle Damodara Shenoy Ph.D. Principal Scientist CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography Regional Centre, Visakhapatnam 176, Lawson's Bay Colony, Visakhapatnam  Andhra Pradesh, India, PIN - 530017 Website: www.nio.org Email: belleshenoy@nio.org , shenoynio@gmail.com Cofounder & Managing Editor MycoAsia Journal of modern mycology Website: www.mycoasia.org Email: contact@mycoasia.org Dr. Belle Damodara Shenoy is a fungal taxonomist by training. After completing his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from India, he pursued his Ph.D. in fungal taxonomy at the University of Hong Kong under the guidance of Prof. Kevin Hyde and Dr. Rajesh Jeewon. His Ph.D. thesis titled “Multigene phylogeny of selected anamorphic ascomycetes” dealt with the evolutionary relationships of asexual genera such as Sporidesmium complex and provided insights into the implications of their polyphyly in the fungal taxonomy.  Dr. Shenoy, for a brief period of time, worked as a post-doctoral fellow with Dr. Ke...