GC Varese is a full professor at the University of Torino (Italy) and she is the Head of the Mycotheca Universitatis Taurinensis (MUT). She is a mycologist with a PhD in “Fungal Biology and Biotechnology”. Her research includes the management and valorization in different field of application of a fungal collection of about 7000 fungal strains (including many marine isolates). She is the coordinator of the Italian network of microbial culture collections MIRRI-IT (www.mirri-it.it) and of the project Sus-MIRRI.IT (https://sus-mirri.di.unito.it/)