Robert Joseph Bandoni

Robert Joseph Bandoni (11 November 1926 – 5 May 2009) was a mycologist who specialized on the taxonomy and morphology of the heterobasidiomycetes ("jelly fungi"). he wrote over 80 scientific publications as well as several books. He was awarded the title of professor emeritus in 1989.

Biography Robert "Bob" Joseph Bandoni was born November 9, 1926, in Weeks, Nevada, to Giuseppe and Albina Bandoni. He went to high school in Hawthorne, Nevada, and received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Nevada in 1953. In the 1980s Bandoni collaborated with Franz Oberwinkler and colleagues at the University of Tübingen to produce over 20 papers on the Jelly Fungi and allies. They described new species, genera, families and orders. They used TEM and SEM micrographs to investigate the significance of septal pore structures, began revising the classical phylogenetic classification and to demonstrate parasitism between Jelly Fungi and other fungi. Mycological Society of Japan Mycological Society of America

Eponymous taxa Bandonia Bandoniozyma