Contact Details :

Academic Position :

Research Interest :

Education :

Professional experience :

Training or workshop :

• Bijzonder Onderzoeksfonds Gent University” (BOF), Ghent University

Training or workshop :

• 6th International Russulales workshop, Jaca, Spain, 2-8 October 2022

• Russula workshop on microscopy “Quest for a globally comprehensible Russula language” at Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, February 2018.

• Transferable skill training at Ghent University, Belgium: meeting skill, February 2015

• Transferable skill training at Ghent University, Belgium: project management, December 2014

• Transferable skill training at Ghent University, Belgium: presentation skill in English, October 2014

• Russulales workshop 2014, Slovakia: September 2014

• Basidiomycetes and Myxomycetes workshop at mushroom research center, Thailand: June-July 2010

• Internship in food chemistry at national center for genetic engineering and biotechnology, Thailand: February-May 2004

Fieldworks :

• August – October 2023: Khao Yai National Park, Thailand

• June - August 2020: southern Thailand

• June - August 2019: eastern, northeastern Thailand

• June - August 2017: South Korea

• September 2014: Slovakia

• 2010-2013: northern Thailand

• June 2010: Vietnam

Professional academic participation :

• Invited speaker in the 2nd International Symposium on Plant Taxonomy, Ethno-Botany and Botanic Gardens (BSI ISPTEBG – 2023) at Kolkata, India, 13-14 February 2023.

• Section editor of Basidiomycota for journal Phytotaxa (September 2022 – Present)

• Guest editor in special issue of Journal of Fungi entitled “Fungal Diversity and Systematics in the Digital Era” (September 2022 – December 2023)

• Invited lecturer in Mycology (SCBT308) at Mahidol University: September- October 2018, September-October 2019, September-October 2020, September 2021

• Invited lecturer in Mycology (05656023) at King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang: April 2019, March 2020

• Sporadically being as reviewer for international journals such as Phytotaxa, Mycosphere, Current Research in Environmental and Applied Mycology, Studies in Fungi, Cryptogamie Mycologie, Journal of Fungi, Persoonia

Scientific publication :

A1 publication (internationally peer-reviewed) :

• Hyde K.D., Abdel-Wahab M.A., Abdollahzadeh J. et al. (2023). Global consortium for the classification of fungi and fungus-like taxa. Mycosphere 14(1): 1960-2012. Doi10.5943/mycosphere/14/1/23.

• Das K., Ghosh A., Chakraborty D., Dutta S., Bera I., Layola M.R.R., Banu F., Vizzini A., Wisitrassameewong K. (2023). Four novel species and two new records of Boletes from India. Journal of Fungi 9(7): 754. http://doi.org/10.3390/jof9070754.

• Tang S.M., Wisitrassameewong K., Yu F.M., Ye L., Gao L., Xia L. (2022). Lactarius pseudoaurantiozonatus (Russulales), A new species of Lactarius subgenus Lactariusfrom China. Chiang Mai Journal of Sciences 49(5): 1307- 1316.

• Wisitrassameewong K., Manz C., Hampe F., Looney B.P., Boonprateung T., Verbeken A., Thammarukchareon T., Apichitnaranon T., Pobkwamsuk M., Caboň M., Adamčík S. (2022). Two new species of Russula subsection Amoeninae described from dry dipterocarp forest in Thailand suggest niche specialization to this habitat type. Scientific Report 12: 2826. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-06836-x.

• Lee H., Wisitrassameewong K., Park M.S., Fong J.J., Verbeken A., Kim C., Lim Y.W. (2021). Taxonomic revision of the genus Lactifluus (Russulales, Basidiomycota) of South Korea. Mycobiology. DOI:10.1080/12298093.2021.1943812.

• Wisitrassameewong K., Park M.S., Lee H., Ghosh A., Das K., Buyck B., Looney B.P. Caboň, Adamčík S., Kim C., Kim C.S., Lim Y.W. (2020). Taxonomic revision of Russula subsection Amoeninae from South Korea. Mycokeys 75: 1-29.

• Cho H.J., Lee H., Park M.S., Kim C., Wisitrassameewong K., Lupala A., Park K.H., Kim M.J., Fong J.J., Lim Y.W (2019). Macroleiota in Korea: new records and a new species. Mycobiology https://doi.org/10.1080/12298093.2019.1663122.

• Adamcik S., Looney B., Caboň M., Jančovičová S., Adamčíková K., Avis P.G., Barajas M., Bhatt R.P., Corrales A., Das K., Hampe F., Ghosh A., Gates G., Kälviäinen V., Khalid A.N., Kiran M., De Lange R., Lee H., Lim Y.W., Kong A., Manz C., Ovrebo C., Saba M., Taipale T., Verbeken A., Wisitrassameewong K., Buyck B (2019). Quest for a globally comprehensible Russula language. Fungal Diversity 99: 369-449.

• Dierickx G., Froyen M., Halling R., Wisitrassameewong K., Delgat L., De Crop E., Verbeken A. (2019). Updated taxonomy of Lactifluus section Luteoli: L. russulisporus from Australia and L. caliendrifer from Thailand. Mycokeys 56: 13-32.

• Lee H., Wisitrassameewong K., Park M.S., Verbeken A., Eimes J., Lim Y.W. Taxonomic revision of the genus Lactarius (Russulales, Basidiomycota) in Korea (2019). Fungal Diversity 95(1): 275-335.

• Hyde K.D., Norphanphoun C, Chen J., Dissanayake A.J., Wanasinghe D.N., Doilom M., Hongsanan S., Jayawardena R.S., Jeewon R., Perera R.H., Thongbai B., Wanasinghe D.N., Wisitrassameewong K., Tibpromma S., Stadler M. (2018). Thailand’s amazing diversity – an estimated 55-96% of fungi in northern Thailand are novel. Fungal Diversity 93: 215-239.

• De Crop E., Hampe F., Wisitrassameewong K., Stubbe D., Nuytinck J., Verbeken A. (2018). Southeast Asia reveals new diversity in Lactifluus section Gerardii: five new species with pleurotoid or small agaricoid basidiocarps. Mycologia 21: 1-23.

• Lee H., Park J.Y., Wisitrassameewong K., Kim M.J., Park M.S., Lim Y.W. (2018). First report of eight milkcap species belonging to Lactarius and Latifluus in Korea. Mycobiology 46(1): 1-12.

• Hyde K.D., Norphanphoun C., Abreu V.P., Bazzicalupo A., Chethana K.W.T., Clericuzio M., Dayarathne M.C., Dissanayake A.J., Ekanayaka A.H., He M.Q., et al. (2017). Fungal diversity notes 603-708: taxonomic and phylogenetic notes on genera and species. Fungal Diversity 87: 1-235.

• Chen J., Callac P., Parra L.A., Karunarathna S.C., He M.Q., Moinard M., De Kesel A., Raspé O., Wisitrassameewong K., Hyde K.D., Zhao R.L. (2017). Study in Agaricus subgenus Minores and allied clades reveals a new American subgenus and contrasting phylogenetic patterns in Europe and Greater Mekong Subregion. Persoonia 38: 170-196.

• De Crop E., Nuytinck J., Van de Putte K., Wisitrassameewong K., Hackel J., Stubbe D., Hyde K.D., Roy M., Halling R.E., Moreau P.-A., Eberhardt U., Verbeken A. (2017). A multi-gene phylogeny of Lactifluus (Basidiomycetes, Russulales) translated into a new infrageneric classification of the genus. Persoonia 38: 58-80.

• Wisitrassameewong K., Looney B.P., Le H.T., De Crop E., Das K., Van de Putte K., Eberhardt U., Jiayu G., Stubbe D., Hyde K.D., Verbeken A., Nuytinck J. (2016). Lactarius subgenus Russularia (Basidiomycota, Russulales): novel Asian species, worldwide phylogeny and evolutionary relationships. Fungal Biology 120(12): 1554-1581.

• Liu J.K., Hyde K.D., Jone E.B.G., Ariyawansa H.A., Bhat D.J., Boonmee S., Maharachchikumbura S.S.N., Mckenzie E.H.C., Phookamsak R., Phukhamsakda C. et al. (2015). Fungal diversity notes 1-110: taxonomic and phylogenetic contribution to fungal species. Fungal diversity 72(1): 1- 197.

• Wisitrassameewong K., Nuytinck J., Le H.T., De Crop E., Hampe F., Hyde K.D., Verbeken A. (2015). Lactarius subgenus Russularia (Russulaceae) in South-East Asia: 3. new diversity in Thailand and Vietnam. Phytotaxa 207(3): 215-241.

• Verbeken A., Hampe F., Wisitrassameewong K., Hyde K.D., Eberhardt U., Nuytinck J. (2014). A new angiocarpous Lactarius species from Thailand. Phytotaxa 181 (3): 163-170.

• Wisitrassameewong K., Nuytinck J., Hampe F., Hyde K.D., Verbeken A. 2014. Lactarius subgenus Russularia (Russulaceae) in South-East Asia: 2. Species with remarkably small basidiocarps. Phytotaxa 188(4): 181-197.

• Wisitrassameewong K., Nuytinck J., Hyde K.D., Verbeken A. (2014). Lactarius subgenus Russularia (Russulaceae) in Southeast Asia: 1. Species with very distant gills. Phytotaxa 158(1): 23-42.

• Wisitrassameewong K., Karunarathna S.C., Thongklang N., Zhao R., Callac P., Moukla S., Férandon C., Chukeatirote E., Hyde K.D. (2012). Agaricus subrufescens: a review. Saudi Journal of Biological Science 19: 131-146.

• Wisitrassameewong K., Karunarathna S.C., Thongklang N., Zhao R., Callac P., Chukeatirote E., Bahkali A.H., Hyde K.D. (2012). Agaricus subrufescens: new to Thailand. Chiang Mai Journal of Science 39(2): 281-291.

A2 publication (nationally peer-reviewed) :

• Wisitrassameewong K., Jongmahasavat J., Lumyong S., Chukeatirote E. (2009). Towards understanding in molecular taxonomy using an In silico approach: a case study in lactic acid bacteria. Suranaree journal of science and technology 16(1): 53-62

• Chukeatirote E., Wisitrassameewong K., Jongmahasavat J. (2008). In silico PCR-RFLP of Bacillus species: problem-based case of teaching bioinformatics. Kasetsart journal: Natural Science 42: 693-700

Conferences :

• Wisitrassameewong K., Gbadamassi D.G.O., Thongklang N., Hyde K.D., Harrison R.D. (oral presentation). Rubber agroforestry systems in Thailand. Sustainable rubber conference 2016, China, October 2016.

• Nuytinck J., Wisitrassameewong K., Eberhardt U., Verbeken A. (oral presentation). Towards a new subgeneric classification in Lactarius. Russulales workshop 2014, Slovakia, September 2014.

• Wisitrassameewong K., Nuytinck J., Hyde K.D., Verbeken A. (poster presentation). Southeast Asia reveals new diversity of Lactarius subgenus Russularia. The 10th international mycological congress (IMC10), Thailand, August 2014.

• Wisitrassameewong K., Nuytinck J., Hyde K.D., Verbeken A. (oral presentation). Lactarius subgenus Russularia in Southeast Asia: the presence of four newly striking species. International conference on fungal biodiversity and biotechnology, Mae Fah Luang University, Thailand, Jan 2014.

• Wisitrassameewong K., Nuytinck J., Hyde K.D., Verbeken A. (oral presentation). Lactarius subgenus Russularia and its new species in Southeast Asia: 2nd Malaysia- Thailand graduate forum in life sciences, food science and agriculture (MTGF) 2013, Malaysia, December 2013.

• Wisitrassameewong K., Hyde K.D. (oral presentation). Basidiomycota: distribution and new records from northern Thailand. Southeast Asia conference on education, research, science and technology (SAC-ERST), Thailand, February 2011.

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