During my work on the taxonomy of cyanobacteria throughout the last couple of years I isolated some strains that appeared to be strange –...

Perhaps the hardiest assemblage of lichens, fungi and algae yet found has been hiding in plain sight in northern Chile’s Atacama Desert c...

My new research article is out as early view! Almost two years ago I went to the Atacama Desert and what caught my eye were these quartz ...

Welcome! My name is Patrick Jung, I'm a 28 years old botanist from Kaiserslautern, Germany. I started this homepage shortly after receivi...