{"id":9560,"date":"2026-07-22T11:38:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T09:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/?p=9560"},"modified":"2026-07-22T11:44:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T09:44:23","slug":"unlocking-the-hidden-potential-of-fungi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/unlocking-the-hidden-potential-of-fungi\/","title":{"rendered":"Unlocking the hidden potential of fungi"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"9560\" class=\"elementor elementor-9560\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7065470b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7065470b\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-76810221\" data-id=\"76810221\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2967da96 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2967da96\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n    <div style=\"display:flex; align-items:flex-start; gap:30px;\">\n\n        <div style=\"flex:1; padding:0; margin:0;\">\n\n            Westerdijk Institute bioinformatician Mao Peng was recently <a href=\"https:\/\/mailings.uu.nl\/i\/dNwa3YtgJrPIoZO-cniV_-uX-E9fmjgz\">featured by NWO<\/a> for his AiNed-funded research using AI to unlock the potential of fungi. By combining diverse biological datasets, his work helps identify proteins with applications in sustainable biotechnology, including biofuels, alternative proteins and other bio-based innovations. Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/mailings.uu.nl\/i\/mUGdTSFa4HAX74e49oEB7VQJCdIIV48K\">full interview<\/a> to learn more.\n\n            <p style=\"margin-top:15px; margin-bottom:0;\">\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/mailings.uu.nl\/i\/7ydzjnCWL9GZHVXNOyMqUp96EkBROOtp\"\n                   style=\"font-weight:bold;\">\n                    Read more\n                <\/a>\n            <\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n\n\n        <div style=\"width:250px; margin:0; padding:0;\">\n\n            <img decoding=\"async\" \n                src=\"https:\/\/mailings.uu.nl\/c\/hOmk1hd6Lhh3Pn-5nCovQA\/media\/UBC-Mao-Peng.png\"\n                alt=\"Unlocking the hidden potential of fungi\"\n                style=\"\n                    width:250px;\n                    max-width:100%;\n                    height:auto;\n                    display:block;\n                    margin:0;\n                \"\n            \/>\n\n        <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n    \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Westerdijk Institute bioinformatician Mao Peng was recently featured by NWO for his AiNed-funded research using AI to unlock the potential of fungi. By combining diverse biological datasets, his work helps identify proteins with applications in sustainable biotechnology, including biofuels, alternative proteins and other bio-based innovations. Read the full interview to learn more. Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":9533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"page_builder":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[408,396],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news_freestyle","category-people"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/UBC-Mao-Peng.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9560"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9601,"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9560\/revisions\/9601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubc.uu.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}