Robert Joseph Bandoni (11 November 1926 – 5 May 2009) was a mycologist who specialized on the taxonomy and morphology of the heterobasidiomycetes (“jelly fungi”).

[1] That same year, he received the Gertrude S. Burlingham Fellowship at the New York Botanical Garden and became assistant professor of Botany at the University of Wichita.

His early publications were of a classical taxonomical nature, writing descriptions of the macro- and micro-morphology via the light microscope.

[2] He published a paper in the journal Science that explained how spores can travel upwards on a monolayer of water on a leaf surface.

[5] In the 1980s Bandoni collaborated with Franz Oberwinkler and colleagues at the University of Tübingen to produce over 20 papers on the Jelly Fungi and allies.