Introduction

This website is an entirely personal photographic archive of Dr Nandkumar M. Kamat, independent researcher, Mapusa,Goa, India, built over decades of sustained fieldwork, laboratory research, and taxonomic investigation mainly into the actinobacteial, unicellular yeast, mycelial fungal and Myxomycete diversity of Goa and the Western Ghats. Every image here (and the aim is to have 50000 to one lakh images) — field photographs, laboratory photographs, colony photographs of pure cultures , photomicrographs, and electron micrographs — originates exclusively from my own research or from work carried out by my PGDEPCT, MSc and PhD students and research fellows under my direct supervision at ISOHE, Govt of Goa (1993-2001) and Goa University (1996-2022). A distinct segment of mushroom and Myxomycete photographs contributed by members of the Biodiversity Management Committees (BMCs) who collaborated in community-based biodiversity surveys is separately acknowledged where applicable.