Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute facility
- Type
- Innovation facility
- Location
- Utrecht, Netherlands
- Industries
- Food safety & quality, Pathogen detection, Food analyses, Alternative proteins, Soil health, Crop / plant science, Protein fermentation, Plant-based, Animal feed, Bio-energy & biomaterials, Biomaterials & biochemicals, Biofuels, Plant microbiome, Food ingredients & products, Food ingredients, Semi finished products, Food reformulation, Clean label, Quality detection, New food processing techniques, Waste efficiency, Food surplus, Circular economy, Upcycled ingredients / valorisation
- Domains
- Fungi- bacteria and yeast, Ingredients, Plant based primary products, Fungi, Enzymes, Prebiotics & probiotics, Feed, Feed additives & premixes
- Technologies
- Biotechnology & sustainable inputs, Enzyme technology, Microbial biotechnology, Fermentation, Biorefining, Molecular farming, Measurement & sensing, Biometrics
About Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute facility
The Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute performs highly innovative mycological research that contributes to the discovery and understanding of fungi and its biodiversity and potential solutions to societal challenges. The Westerdijk Institute has an encompassing and high-quality collection of living fungi and related meta data that is highly utilized by public and private parties.
The main focus of the Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute is and will continue to be to explore, study and preserve our fungal collection. We recognize the enormous potential of fungi in the application of solving the world’s biggest challenges. We therefore enhance our partnering with the scientific community, both in the academic, medical, agricultural and industrial field for fundamental and applied research. We also built a new wing to our institute, dedicated to novel product discovery. The Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute is part of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and is situated in Utrecht. We maintain a world-renowned microbial biologicial resource centre of living filamentous fungi, yeasts and bacteria. The institute's research programs principally focus on the taxonomy and evolution of fungi as well as on functional aspects of fungal biology and ecology, increasingly making use of molecular and genomics approaches.