Boris Assyov

Personal information

Contacts

1113 Sofia, Acad. G. Bonchev Str., bl. 23
e-mail: contact@boletales.com
personal web-site: http://boletales.com

Curriculum vitae

Birth date: 10.12.1975

Education:

PhD. 2002-2004 Mycology, Institute of Botany, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Thesis: „Taxonomy, economic importance and conservation of the representatives of the genus Boletus in Bulgaria”

MSc. 1997-2001 Botany, Faculty of Biology, University of Sofia

Employment:

2001-2002 Biologist at Institute of Botany, Mycology Section
2002-2004 PhD-student at Institute of Botany, Mycology Section
2005-2010 Biologist at Institute of Botany, Mycology Section
2010-2011 Assistant at Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Mycology Section
2012-2019 Chief assistant at Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Mycology Section
2019-present Associate professor at Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Mycology Section

Research interests

Taxonomy and nomenclature of fungi (Basidiomycetes, especially Boletales; Ascomycetes), Evaluation and conservation of the fungal diversity, Ecology of fungi, Sustainable use of fungal resources, Productivity of commercial species of wild edible fungi

Publications

(Selected)
Assyov, B., Bozok, F., Slavova, M. & Taşkın, H. 2023. Rediscovery and ITS-barcoding of Entonaema cinnabarinum (Xylariales, Ascomycota) from Bulgaria. Historia Naturalis Bulgarica 45(8): 197-210.
Assyov, B., Bozok, F., Yarar, M. & Taşkın, H. 2023. Fungal Planet 1505: Amanita abscondita sp. nov. In: Crous et al. Fungal Planet Description Sheets: 1478–1549. Persoonia 50: 158–310.
Assyov, B. & Slavova, M. 2023. Macrofungi in stands of the endemic pine Pinus peuce as inferred from morphological and molecular data. Proceedings of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 76(5): 707-715.
Bozok, F., Assyov, B., Yarar, M. & Taşkın, H. 2023. A contribution to the knowledge of Amanita coryli (Amanitaceae, Agaricales). Botanica Serbica 47(1): 9-18.
Loizides, M., Bellanger, J.-M., Vizzini, A., Assyov, B., Contu, M., Hanss, J.-M., Moreau, P.-A., Rinaldi, A.C. & Tulloss, R.E. 2023. In Response to “Acute Renal Failure after Amanita ovoidea Eating”. Indian Journal of Nephrology 33(2): 155-156.
Moreau, P.-A., Hanss, J.-M., Assyov, B., Bellanger, J.-M., Borovička, J., Consiglio, G., Contu, M., Courtecuisse, R., Kibby, G., Loizides, M., Sevcíková, H., Tulloss, R.E. & Yang, Z. L. 2023. (2940–2941) Proposals to conserve the name Amanita fulva with a conserved type against Agaricus badius and Agaricus trilobus, and the name Amanita spadicea with a conserved type (Basidiomycota). Taxon 72(2): 425-427.
Slavova, M., Leonardi, M., Iotti, M., Paz-Conde, A., Assyov, B. & Pacioni, G. 2023. Nomenclatural novelties: Tuber thracicum sp. nov. Index Fungorum 556: 1.
Vidal, J. M., Cseh, P., Merényi, Z., Bóna, L., Rudnóy, S., Bratek, Z., Paz, A., Mleczko, P., Kozak, M., Chachula, P., Assyov, B., Slavova, M., Kaounas, V., Konstantinidis, G., Rodriguez, F., Cabero, J., Garcia-Verdugo, F., Garcia-Alonso, F., Mahiques, R., Fantini, P. & States, J.S. 2023. The genus Gautieria (Gomphales) in Europe and the Mediterranean Basin: a morphological and phylogenetic taxonomic revision. Persoonia 50: 48-122.
Assyov, B. 2022. Barcoding and morphological characterization of Mycena cupressina (Agaricales, Fungi), a little-known and controversially treated member of section Supinae. Proceedings of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 75(11): 1595-1603.
Assyov, B. 2022. Pholiota gallica (Fungi, Strophariaceae), first Balkan collection of a little-known dark-spored agaric. Borziana 3: 027-032.
Assyov, B., Bozok, F. & Yarar, M. 2022. Amanita beckeri (Amanitaceae, Agaricales), a rare and little-known species - the first record in Bulgaria. Novosti Sistematiki Nizshih Rastenii 56: 287-300.
Slavova, M. & Assyov, B. 2022. First record of Therrya fuckelii (Rhytismatales, Ascomycota) in Bulgaria, with ecological remarks. Ecologia Balkanica 14(2): 195-198.

Affiliation

Department

Plant and Fungal Diversity and Resources

Division

Mycology

History

Member for

12 years 33 weeks