Mycology the classical authors. The start of the modern age of mycology begins with Pier Antonio Micheli's 1737 publication of "Nova plantarum genera". Published in Florence, this seminal work laid the foundations for the systematic classification of grasses, mosses and fungi. The term "mycology" and the complementary "mycologist" were first used in 1836 by M.J. Berkeley. For centuries, certain mushrooms have been documented as a folk medicine in China, Japan, and Russia. Although the use of mushrooms in folk medicine is centered largely on the Asian continent, people in other parts of the world like the Middle East, Poland, and Belarus
Institute of Marine Biology Institute of Marine Biology The Institute of Marine Biology is a research institute of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine, which located in Odessa, Ukraine. The institute is organized on the base of the Odessa Branch of the Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas. The institute was established in December 21, 1953 as the Odessa Biological Station of the Institute of hydrobiology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine by the resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR. When the Sevastopol Biological Station was reorganised in the Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas