Introduction to Domain Archaea and Domain Bacteria. Overview of prokaryotic diversity of Domain Archaea and Domain Bacteria.

Introduction to Fungal diversity. 

Discussion of the paper: Pan-genome analyses of model fungal species

Introduction to Fungal diversity. The characteristic features of Fungi. Fungi – somatic organization and asexual reproduction. Life cycles of different phyla.

Introduction to Microbial diversity. Species “concept”/”definition” in prokaryotes. Discussion of two papers:

1) Shifting the genomic gold standard for the prokaryotic species definition;

2) Prokaryotic taxonomy and nomenclature in the age of big sequence data.

Introduction to Microbial diversity. Species “concept”/”definition” in prokaryotes. The species Pangenome.

Introduction to Fungal diversity. The characteristic features of Fungi. Fungi – somatic organization and asexual reproduction