Summary

Abu Bakar Siddique is a bioinformatician and researcher with expertise in meta-genomics, metabarcoding, RNAseq, bioinformatics, environmental microbial ecology, plant-microbe/insect interaction, endophytic fungal community diversity, function, and evolution, plant pathology, mycovirus and fungal genomics, and plant ecology and evolution. He was born in Bangladesh in 1985 and obtained a PhD in molecular mycology and ecology from the University of Greifswald in Germany. He has worked as a postdoctoral researcher in fungal virology at the Czech Academy of Science and at Umeå University in Sweden. Currently, he works at the Swedish Agricultural University as a bioinformatician. He has conducted multiple research projects, including TanAsp (mycobiome and metabolites in European Aspen), Sweden Biodiversity in Time and Space (SweBITS) through meta-genomics, mycoviruses, leaf-inhabiting endophytes of European beech trees, and plant-fungi-insect interaction in Swedish Aspen.