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Vol. 63(5)
October 2012
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Marine Mycologists
Marine mycology has come a long way since the discovery by
Barghoorn and Linder (1944) of a unique fungal community on
driftwood. Not only was the finding of fungi in the sea new, it was
rather the fascinating morphology of the ascomycetes that they encountered. Many of the fungi they described possessed appendaged ascospores, a feature that was somewhat novel at that
time.
Since 1944, an even wider range of morphological types have
been discovered, initially on driftwood in temperate waters, but
later in tropical habitats. Currently some 550 species of true marine fungi are documented (Jones et al. 2009) while the projected
number may be as high as 10,000 (Jones 2011). So who are the
mycologists that have unearthed these exciting fungi? Of course
marine fungi had been previously documented by workers such as
the Crouan brothers (1867), Patouillard (1886), Reed (1902), Cotton (1909), and in particular Sutherland (1915, 1916) in his papers
on fungi on cast seaweeds. To this day we know little of Sutherland, other than he worked from Southampton, southern England.
Sadly we have been unable to trace any of his collections and no
type material seems to have been deposited anywhere. In 1936
F.K. Sparrow recorded zoosporic fungi in Woods Hole waters,
which included chytrids and the type species of the Thraustochytriaceae, Thraustochytrium proliferum. The latter was a unique
group of organisms which in the 1990’s came into great prominence for their ability to produce omega-3 fatty acids. However,
none of this research seems to have triggered further studies of
marine fungi, and I have no idea how David Linder and Elsa
Barghoorn came to collect driftwood along the Massachusetts
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Editor — Donald O. Natvig
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University of New Mexico
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Fig. 1. Fred Sparrow (left).
coast. Barghoorn had
wide research interests, having worked
on the decay of wood,
while Linder was establishing a reputation for his studies of
helicoid fungi. Although Linder’s illustrations of marine ascomycetes lacked the
brilliance of later authors, they did prove
a catalyst for their
further study.
The early 1950’s
saw publications of
marine fungi on
Fig. 2. Jan Kohlmeyer.
wood, W. Höhnk in
Germany
(1951,
1954, 1955) and the meticulous drawings of Halophiobolus,
Ceriosporopsis and Lindra by I. M. Wilson at Aberystwyth,
Wales (1951, 1955, 1956). Irene Wilson supervised a number of students including J.M. Knoyle (Wilson and Knoyle
1961) reporting Leptosphaeria danica on Chondrus crispus
(triggered by the publications of Sutherland’s work?); L.S.
Lloyd on Halophilobolus medusa on Spartina (1962) and
F.C. Webber (1967) on Trailia ascophylli on Ascophyllum
nodosum (which remains largely unpublished). I was channeled into marine mycology by Wilson (although I wanted to
work on Gasteromycetes – but everything is known on
these!) with the words “look at marine fungi”. Thus 60 years
later one is still anchored to the group! My early studies were
on the colonization of submerged wood in the sea by fungi,
followed by a physiological investigation of the movement
and exchange of cations in the mycelium of marine fungi and
in particular Dendryphiella salina, an excellent experimental
species to work with and under the supervision D.H. Jennings. Little did either of us foresee that this was to become
a major line of research for him and his many students working on ion uptake with D. salina, yeasts and thraustochytrids
as model systems.
The 1950’s also saw S.P. Meyers recording a wide range
of marine fungi on wood and sea grasses (in particular Thalassia) in the Biscayne Bay area and focusing primarily on
their physiology (1953, 1954, 1957 etc). Meyers moved on to
study marine yeasts and food technology, but he never lost
his love of the filamentous marine fungi (Meyers 1996).
T.W. Johnson detailed a number of ascomycetes and hyphomycetes on wood and on Spartina (1956a, b), and went
on to co-author with F.K. Sparrow, the first book devoted to
marine fungi “Fungi in Oceans and Estuaries” (1961). An
early major contribution to marine mycology was made by
W. Höhnk at the Bremerhaven Laboratories in Germany
(1950, 1954, 1955) with his accounts of various ascomycetes
on wood and elegant drawings of their ascospores. He went
on to establish a very successful team to work not only fila2 Inoculum 63(5), October 2012
mentous fungi, but on chytrids and the fungal-like organism
Thraustochytrium (Gaertner, 1968, 1972; Ulken 1968;
Schaumann 1968). Höhnk’s other major contribution was in
starting the long running symposium “International Marine
Mycology Symposium” in 1966. Also publishing in the
1950’s was J.W. Cribb and her husband in Australia (1955,
1956) with early studies on fungi on marine algae. I recall
Joan Cribb visiting Aberystwyth in 1975 with her father Professor Herbert, when I was an undergraduate at the University! and starting out on my project on marine fungi and soft
rot decay of wood.
The mycologist that has done the most to highlight the
diversity of marine ascomycetes is undoubtedly J. Kohlmeyer, another 1950’s class! Jan commenced working at the
Berlin-Dahlem Laboratory working with Gunther Becker on
the breakdown of wood and cellulose (1956) and documenting the fungi found on wooden boats in India (1958). It is impossible to detail the immense contribution Jan has made to
marine mycology, his widespread collections, descriptions of
new genera and species, even new families and orders, and
his early studies of mangrove fungi. This culminated in the
book, with Erica, “Marine Mycology – The Higher Fungi”, a
much used and cited text (1979). His singular contribution
has been the documentation of the fungal diversity of the
sedge Juncus roemerianus with 136 species identified; many
were new genera/species, or new families (Lautosporaceae)
(Kohlmeyer and Volkmann-Kohlmeyer 2001).
As we moved into the 1960’s a number of other mycologists got interested in marine fungi. In Japan, K. Tubaki was
the first to document marine fungi (1961) on wood and went
on to nurture A. Nakagiri. Akira has studied a wide range of
taxa from the filamentous ascomycetes on algae, the fungallike organism Halophythphora, and sand and mangrove
Fig. 3. Group photo at IMFMS Vancouver meeting:
(front from left) David Jennings (2nd), Lilian Vrijmoed (3rd), Lata Raghukumar (4th), Karsten Schaumann (5th); (middle from left) Tina Farrant (3rd);
(back from left) Sam Meyers (1st), Gareth Jones
(2nd), Steve Moss (4th), Anna Marie Ulken (7th),
Peter Molitoris (8th).
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fungi. His defining contribution has been on the genera
Corollospora, Hispidicarpomyces and Retrostium, the latter
two genera on the red algae Galaxaura falcata and Amphiroa
zonata, respectively (Nakagiri and Ito 1997). Surely more
new species can be obtained by wider collections of marine
algae (Jones 2011). R.C. Cavaliere, a student of T.W. Johnson, contributed to our knowledge of the ascomatal development and structure of marine ascomycetes (1966), with a list
of fungi collected in Iceland and on fungi in sea shells. A
contemporary was G.C. Hughes, whose first contribution
was on the intertidal fungi found in Newfoundland (1969)
and who went on to comment on the geographical distribution of marine fungi (1974). Studies of marine yeasts in the
1960’s have been pioneered by D. Ahearn and F.J. Roth
(1962), J.W. Fell (1967) in US, and N. van Uden (1968) in
Portugal. Marine yeasts although widely distributed in the
world’s oceans have not attracted many marine mycologists!
The 1970’s also saw an increased interest in fungal-like
organisms (then regarded as fungi!) Thraustochytrium and
Labyrinthula: Alderman and Harrison at Portsmouth (1971,
1974); A. Gaertner (1974); and D. Porter and F. Perkins on
the ultrastructure of these organisms. At this time J. Koch
drew attention to the extreme diversity of fungi on wood in
contact or buried in sand (1974). The Jutland site proves a
great source of marine ascomycetes, with many new taxa, a
ready supply of material for our ultrastructure studies of ascospore appendage ontogeny and experimental spore attachment studies.
Marine mycology at Portsmouth University covered a
wide range of topics and attracted some excellent students
who went to make their mark in various positions in academia and industry: D.J. Alderman who initiated our studies of
thraustochytrids; D.J. Miller on lignicolous marine fungi;
K.D. Hyde for studies on the marine fungi of the Seychelles
and went on to establish extensive research groups on tropical fungi in Hong Kong and Thailand; R.G. Johnson, T. Farrant, Y. Musa and S.Y. Hsieh on marine ascomycete ultrastructure; G. Rees and Sundari undertook experimental
studies of spore dispersal, settlement and attachment to substrata; V. Cuomo on bioactive compounds from marine fungi
and the discovery, with Professor F. Pietra, of the wide spectrum of chemical structures produced by Dendryphiella salina; S.J. Read, D.W.T. Au and T. McKeown on the ultrastructure of bitunicate marine ascomycetes; S.A. Alias
documented the mangrove fungi of Malaysia; R.D. Bowles
looked at DHA production by marine thraustochytrids; J.
Campbell on molecular phylogeny of the genus Corollospora; S.T. Moss who was wooed away from his beloved Trichomycetes and came as a post-doc to look at the ultrastructure of thraustochytrid organisms, a collaboration that
extended over many years on the ultrastructure of ascomycetes, marine diatoms, and seaweeds and A.J.H. Chamberlain, another post-doc, for work on the histochemistry and
ultrastructure of thraustochytrids.
In my early days at Portsmouth we hosted a number of
researchers interested in marine fungi: Professor P. Thrower
from Hong Kong who in turn supervised L.L.P. Vrijmoed
(1968) in the study of the group; C.A. Shearer with her initial studies of fungi in the Chesapeake Bay (1972); M. Henningsson (1974) on marine fungi from the Baltic and west
coast of Sweden; and C.V. Subramanian who stimulated
Raghukumar to document the marine fungi of India (1973).
Hot spots of marine fungal research have included the
Bremerhaven Laboratory, Germany (Höhnk, Gaertner,
Ulken, Schaumann); Marine Laboratory, Goa, India with the
Lata and Seshagiri Raghukumar; K.D. Hyde in Hong Kong;
L.L.P. Vrijmoed in Hong Kong; C.A. Shearer at Illinois; M.
Barata in Portugal; and more recently Ka-Lai Pang in Taiwan. Likewise, certain geographical regions have proved to
be wonderful collecting sites: Friday Harbour (Washington
State); Jutland sand dunes and beaches, Denmark; Morib
mangrove Malaysia and Durban, South Africa.
In a brief review of this nature it has been impossible to
include every mycologist that studied marine fungi: G.
Doguet on marine basidiomycetes; J. Feldmann on fungi on
algae; R. Gessner on fungi on Spartina; P. Kirk whose contribution on ascospore wall structure was a valuable source
when we came to look at their ultrastructure; F. Uyenco
whose early studies paved the way to the study of Philippine
marine fungi; I. Schmit with descriptions of many new fungi
from East Germany (1969); T.K. Tan on the mangrove fungi
of Singapore; S. Newell who contributed to various fields of
marine mycology, to name but a few. All have contributed to
the wealth of information we have on this interesting group
of fungi.
This article is meant to be the appetizer to the International Marine And Freshwater Mycology Symposium
(IMFMS), Beijing International Convention Center, People
Republic of China, 14-19 August 2013.
Websites: http://www.amc2013.com/dct/page/65538 and
imfms.ntou.edu.tw
Contact
Ka-Lai Pang
Institute of Marine Biology
National Taiwan Ocean University
2 Pei-Ning Road
Keelung 202-24
Taiwan (R.O.C.)
Telephone no.: +852-2-24622192#5319
Fax no.: +852-2-24633152
Email address: klpang@ntou.edu.tw
Acknowledgments
I am grateful to Ka-Lai Pang for assistance with the illustrations and for comments on the manuscript.
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—E.B. Gareth Jones
Institute Ocean and Earth Sciences
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torperadgj@gmail.com
The U.S. Culture Collection Network Meets for the First Time
The U.S. Culture Collection Network (USCNN) is an
The issue of culture collections will be highlighted at a
NSF-funded Research Coordination Network charged with
symposium at the 2013 APS-MSA meeting in Austin, TX tiproviding a coordinated platform for the microbial collectled “Practice and Management of Microbial and Plant
tions community to take better advantage of funding opporGermplasm Collections.” The session will compare collectunities and to share best management practices to manage,
tions of plant pathogens to those of plant germplasm in issues
preserve, and distribute microorganisms. The USCNN had
of management, proper storage, handling, distribution, and
its first organizational meeting on September 6 – 7 at the
database requirements. Speakers will examine the curation of
Fungal Genetics Stock Center (FGSC), University of Misplant materials versus microbes and show how microbial colsouri – Kansas City. Curators from over 20 different colleclections could be integrated into the system already estabtions participated, including members of MSA, the American
lished for plant germplasm collections, including backing up
Phytopathological Society, the Ecological Society of Americollections, genotyping, and modifying the databases in the
ca, the Phycological Society of America, the American SociGenetic Resources Information Network (GRIN). Speakers
ety of Microbiology, the Geological Society of America, and
will include representatives from the National Plant
the Society of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology.
Germplasm System, the National Center for Genetic ReThe National Science Foundation, Federal Bureau of Invessources Preservation, the Fungal Genetics Stock Center, and
tigation, and U.S. Department of Agriculture were also repthe Centralbureau voor Schimmelcultures Fungal Biodiversiresented. A student outreach event for local high schools was
ty Centre.
presented prior to the meeting with great success. Over 60
More information about the U.S. Culture Collection
students from at least 6 schools participated. Nine students
Network is available at http://www.usccn.org. If you have
applied for internships at the FGSC, and three were selected
specific questions, please contact Steering Committee memto participate in a genetic research study based on collection
bers: Kevin McCluskey (mccluskeyk@umkc.edu), Jessie
materials.
Glaeser
(jglaeser@fs.fed.us)
or
David
Geiser
Teaching workshops are being developed to train stu(dmg17@psu.edu). You may also become a member of the
dents and collection managers in state-of-the-art techniques
USCCN Interest Group email list and stay abreast of USCCN
of culture preservation, including issues of biosecurity and
developments by completing the form available at:
regulatory requirements. These workshops will be offered as
http://www.usccn.org/contact/_layouts/usccn/contactus.aspx
stand-alone classes and will also be conducted in coordina.
—Jessie Glaeser
tion with professional scientific meetings. Additional goals
David Geiser
of the network include the development of internet-based
Kevin McCluskey
collection management tools that would be freely available
and to foster communication among
U.S. collections, international collections, and international collection
networks.
A topic of particular concern is
the fate of endangered collections.
Many of these collections are associated with individuals who may
have already retired or who are getting ready to retire and have no successors or institutional support to
maintain their collection. Many collections are currently lacking curatorial support, and some have even
been lost. The USCCN wishes to
find these endangered collections
and to help make recommendations
about their long-term storage.
Smaller collections – even those not
endangered - will also benefit from
expertise available from larger, established collections. The National
Center for Genetic Resources
Preservation may emerge as a key First meeting of the U.S. Culture Collection Network in Kansas City, MO, Sept.
resource for this effort.
6 – 7, 2012. Photo provided by Kevin McCluskey.
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Third Year of the Fungal Biodiversity Program in Thailand
The summer of 2012 marked the third and
final year of the National Science Foundation
funded program “Studies of Fungal Biodiversity
in Northern Thailand.” The project focused on
cataloguing species richness from mid-June to
mid-July in Chiang Mai Province in northern
Thailand. Each year four undergraduate and/or
graduate students from the United States have
been selected to participate. In 2012, the four students were Catherine (Cat) Creech (San Francisco State University), Todd Elliott (Warren Wilson College in North Carolina), Brian Looney
(University of Tennessee), and Steve Zelski
(University of Illinois). Steve Stephenson (University of Arkansas) has served as the program
coordinator, with Dennis Desjardin (San Francisco State University) and Steve Miller (University
of Wyoming) as co-directors (Fig. 1). Kevin
Hyde and Thida Win Ko Ko from southeast Asia,
Carlos Rojas (University of Costa Rica), and
Adam Rollins (Lincoln Memorial University in
Tennessee) also have been involved.
The overall goal of the program has been to
catalogue the biodiversity of fungi and funguslike organisms in the understudied tropical
forests of northern Thailand, but the program
Fig. 1. Faculty and student participants from the United States
also placed a strong emphasis on international
(left to right): Todd Elliott, Catherine Creech, Brian Looney, Steve
collaboration. Students from several countries Miller, Steve Stephenson and Steve Zelski.
gathered at the Mushroom Research Centre
(MRC), located 64 km north of the city of Chilections made the previous two years. These included small
ang Mai, to collect, identify, and deposit approximately
discomycetes, hypogeous fungi and leaf spots. Before the
1,000 collections in the Mae Fah Luang University Herbarigroup began collecting, Steve Stephenson led a foray around
um in Chiang Rai. MRC provided comfortable lodging, deliMRC grounds to give us an introduction to the microhabitats
cious meals, a friendly atmosphere, access to varied field colwhere one finds myxomycetes as well as fungi (Fig. 4). After
lection sites, and a very serviceable laboratory (Fig. 2).
the first humid hour or two in the forests around MRC, a
International students who participated in the 2012 field seathunderstorm set in. Then, a few alarmed shrieks of
son included Guo Jiayu, Gui Yang, Ye Lei, and Li Huili from
“LEECH!” and blood-blotched clothing indicated that we
China; Kritsana Jatuwong, Siriporn Luesuwan, Benjarong
would be learning about more than just fungal biodiversity.
Thongbai and Komsit Wisitrassameewong from Thailand;
In the second two weeks, Steve Miller introduced us to
and Sittie Aisha Macabago and Anthony Buaya from the
some of his mycological projects and passions, including an
Philippines (Fig. 3). The interests of the U.S. participants
in-depth Russula workshop, of his work on landscape scale
were spread across a variety of fungal groups. Cat concenfairy rings, and the latest data from his projects with the mytrated on mycenoid, mushroom-forming fungi, Todd focused
coheterotrophic plant Pterospora andromedea. The student
on collecting hypogeous and entomopathogenic fungi, Brian
group also got some teaching experience by assisting him
focused his efforts on mushroom-forming macrofungi, parwith a class on fungi at Chiang Mai University. We focused
ticularly the genus Russula, and Steve collected terrestrial ason helping the students at Chiang Mai University improve
comycetes. Each student culminated their research with a
their competency with fungal microscopy. Our hectic colpresentation at Mae Fah Luang University in Chiang Rai.
lecting schedule had by this time taken its toll, and it was
The first two weeks of the program were led by Steve
Steve Miller who popularized taking pictures of people who
Stephenson, with the help of Carlos Rojas, Adam Rollins and
fell asleep in the van. We visited some amazing locations and
Thida Win Ko Ko. Lectures covered topics such as the morhad a lot of fun along the way.
phology and taxonomy of myxomycetes, tropical mycoThe four weeks went by in a whirlwind of adventures.
forestry, global myxomycete diversity and the methods used
We collected in a beautiful array of sites and forest types,
for ecological analysis of field data. One major objective was
mostly in national parks. The sites differed in their forest
to collect groups of fungi that were underrepresented in colContinued on following page
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makeup due to many
variables including elevation, extent of human
disturbance, fire, and
moisture regime. The
group collected on
foggy
Himalayan
mountain peaks, at the
foot of stunning waterfalls, on the grounds of
ancient temples, the
edges of bubbling hot
springs, coffee plantations, sweltering valleys filled with rice
paddies, along the
banks of the Mekong
River, cloud forests,
and lowland rainforests. Many of the Fig. 2. The group at MRC during the first week of the 2012 program. Front row (left to
sites had a plethora of right): Thida Win Ko Ko, Li Huili, Kritsana Jatuwong, Benjarong Thongbai, Siriporn Luesuwan and Gui Yang. Back row (left to right): Anthony Buaya, Adam Rollins, Carlos
fungi, and the plant,
Rojas, Guo Jiayu, Ye Lei, Brian Looney, Todd Elliott, Steve Zelski and Catherine Creech.
reptile, and insect diversity was dazzling.
into a database and linked to the collections which are deThe majority of the native ectomycorrhizal trees from
posited in the Mae Fah Luang University herbarium in Chiwhich we collected associated fungi were Lithocarpus spp.,
ang Rai. As a result of the month of collecting, we preserved
Dipterocarpus spp., Castanopsis spp., Pinus latteri and Beapproximately 1,000 collections of fungi and myxomycetes.
tula ermanii. Betula and Pinus were encountered almost exBased on the field identifications, more than 130 genera were
clusively in the higher elevation sites. The Lithocarpus,
represented. Some notable collections include some veiled
Dipterocarpus, and Castanopsis forests were encountered at
Lactarius, Russula with a taste like peppermint, Mycena with
somewhat lower elevations. All of the collections were
a bioluminescent mycelium, multiple species of Tuber,
brought back to the MRC laboratory. Students wrote defreshwater ascomycetes and several species of myxomycetes
scriptions of specimens, conducted chemical tests, took samapparently new to southeast Asia.
ples for molecular analysis, set up spore prints, sketched, and
Not only did we have a very successful month collecting
photographed the specimens. All of these data were entered
in the field, we also had many enriching cultural experiences.
There was a great amount of cultural exchange between all
the students and professors. English was the language we
used to communicate, but we quickly learned words in many
languages, including Central Thai, Northern Thai, Chavacano (Philippine Creole Spanish), Chinese, Spanish, and
German. Many of the students made strong connections from
working together and enjoying extracurricular activities such
as singing karaoke, playing games, wandering night streetmarkets, sharing meals, visiting the Mesa Elephant Camp,
salsa dancing, eating scorpions (!), visiting the white temple,
riding motor bikes, getting tattoos, visiting a tea farm and orchid garden, and going to the Golden Triangle for a boat ride
up the Mekong River into Laos. We hope the friendships we
made will be long-lasting.
Near the end of the program, everyone in the group gave
a presentation of their individual work at an open forum at
Mae Fah Luang University. Many facets of mycology were
covered, including methods for collecting and describing
fungi, species richness of particular groups in Thailand, ecological roles of fungi in tropical ecosystems, and a categoFig. 3. Anthony Buaya (left) and Sittie Aisha Macabago
(right) working with myxomycetes in the laboratory.
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Fig. 4. Thida Win Ko Ko with a collection of a myxomycete.
rization of insects found in association with different fungi.
The U.S. students’ presentations were Cat Creech’s “Mycena of Northern Thailand”, Todd Elliott’s “Hypogeous Fungal
Evolution and Diversity”, Brian Looney’s “A Glimpse of the
Biodiversity of the Genus Russula in Thailand”, and Steve
Zelski’s “Ascomycetes of Northern Thailand.” Steve Miller
wrapped up the day’s talks by presenting his recent research
on the fairy rings of Wyoming, as well as a systematic comparison of the Russula of tropical South America with the
Russula of tropical Africa.
Programs that allow students to become more focused
on their fields of study by providing the opportunity for
hands-on experience are essential for educating and inspiring
young biologists early in their careers. Historically, there
were more opportunities for mycologists to meet at science
camps or retreats to discuss, debate, and collaborate in the
field; however, except for this program and a few other exceptions, these opportunities no longer exist. Meetings such
as that of the Mycological Society of America and others
provide great environments for discussing science and current research, but there are certain concepts and skills that
can be effectively learned only in the field. We are very
thankful for the opportunity to have met other scientists in
our field from all over the world, and it is our sincerest hope
that this program and similar programs in the future will continue to receive funding to provide this kind of invaluable
field experience for students.
—Catherine (Cat) Creech
Todd Elliott
Brian Looney
Steve Zelski
MSA AWARDS 2012
Distinguished Mycologist Award: Dr. Linda Kohn
Awarded annually to an individual who has established an outstanding mycological career, this is one of the highest awards bestowed by the MSA and marks a distinguished career. Nominees for
the award are evaluated on the basis of quality, originality, and
quantity of their published research, and on the basis of service to
the MSA or to the field of mycology in general.
As an artsy high school student, John Cage and Sylvia Plath
started me thinking about mushrooms. In 1970 I took an undergrad
course, “Man and Mushrooms” with Thomas Sproston at the University of Vermont. That was it – I loved keying mushrooms,
schmoozing with Tom, plus he enjoyed my puppy, the inimitable
mutt Raoul, and allowed him in class even though he had fleas and
wasn’t yet housebroken. Under Tom’s influence, I took two classes,
Higher Fungi and Lower Fungi, with Robert Shaffer at the University of Michigan Biological Station at Douglas Lake. Bob Shaffer
regularly laid out hundreds of named specimens, an example that I
have tried to follow on a modest scale in my own teaching. During
this summer I acquired the core of my mycological knowledge:
learned to find and identify a couple of hundred names, entered the
literature – including the works of Fred Sparrow and Alexander
Smith – and developed the discipline and skills that began to shape
me as a scientist. Kerry O’Donnell, my esteemed fellow Distinguished Mycologist, was a classmate and a friendly but fierce comContinued on following page
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petitor. I loved working for hours at the microscope until I
was coated with elder pith shavings and could cut a one-cell
thick section that I could interpret. I would sit keying backwards in Bob Shaffer’s key to learn the concepts until I was
dragged out by my band of gay male fellow students for juke
box dancing at Hoppy’s or the polka and Polish snacks at
Legs Inn. It seemed to me that there were huge opportunities
to make a research contribution in Mycology. Mycology offered other opportunities; I met my future husband and collaborator, Jim Anderson, at the University of Vermont.
Tom Sproston convinced me to go to the Department of
Plant Pathology at Cornell, his alma mater for graduate studies. Here, in 1974, I found my perfect mentor and life-long
friend, Richard P. Korf. Dick, then in his late 40’s, combined
encyclopedic knowledge of fungi and their nomenclature
with an unparalleled zest for life. Dick set an example and
showed us how to practice mycology, how to be an academic, how to write, how to lead, how to order in a Spanish
restaurant, and as I wrote in support of his Distinguished Mycologist award in 1991, how to be a not-too-grown-up
grownup. With my Ph.D. monograph of Sclerotinia, I commenced my life-long work towards understanding species
and speciation. With the support of a band of plant pathologists, George Abawi, Robert Lumsden and Peter Adams in
particular, I saw the species problem – one species or three –
through their eyes and their needs as users of names. This has
carried me through similar projects with species concepts of
plant pathogenic fungi, most recently in Magnaporthe.
After two years on faculty at Clemson University, marriage and a move to Toronto, I managed to keep working, notably with a National Geographic grant to study ascomycetes
and mycorrhizal fungi at Ellesmere Island, field work in Macaronesia with Dick Korf, and through a long collaboration with
Trond Schumacher at the University of Oslo. I secured a faculty position in 1985 at the University of Toronto Mississauga as
a NSERC University Research Fellow, essentially creating a
new mycology position through a government competition
open to young scientists. Since then, I have taught undergraduate Mycology continuously and worked with an amazing group
of graduate students (Shout-out to Lily Novak, Yatika Kohli,
Arne Holst-Jensen, Ignazio Carbone, Leah Cowen, Brett
Couch, Gabriela Malvarez, Megan Saunders, Marion Andrew
and Lucas Parreiras – plus postdocs,Deena Errampali and Jeremy Dettman) and undergraduate helpers. Together, we have
explored the population-species interface through retrospective, field-based studies and experimental evolution. I have also
had the pleasure to serve the MSA as Councilor, Secretary and
President; our greatest accomplishment was the make-over of
Mycologia, including electronic publishing. The mycological
life has been a rich one – full of friends, travel and finding out
(hopefully) innovative things about fungi.
Mycological Society Distinctions Committee: Alex Weir,
Chair; Walter Sundberg; Louise Glass; Francois Lutzoni;
Joey Spatafora, ex officio, Past Chair; Tom Bruns, ex officio,
Past President.
Distinguished Mycologist Award: Dr. Kerry O’Donnell
Awarded annually to an individual who has established an outstanding mycological career, this is
one of the highest awards bestowed
by the MSA and marks a distinguished career. Nominees for the
award are evaluated on the basis of
quality, originality, and quantity of
their published research, and on
the basis of service to the MSA or to
the field of mycology in general.
Kerry O’Donnell received a
B.S. in Botany from the University
of Tennessee, where he took Ron
Petersen’s “invertebrate” mycology
class, and a Ph.D. from in Botany
and Plant Pathology from Michigan
State University. He completed
post-graduate studies at ARSUSDA, Peoria (Mucorales), Michigan State University (Zygomycetes), the University of Minnesota (Ultrastructure of nuclear division in rusts and smuts),
Washington University in St. Louis (Medical mycology),
and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
(Molecular biology of the cell cycle) before settling at
NCAUR-ARS-USDA,
Peoria,
where he has studied Fusarium molecular systematics and evolution
for more than 20 years. He has published more than 160 scientific articles in diverse areas including cell
and molecular biology, molecular
systematics, phylogenetics, evolutionary genetics, and fungal genomics. Kerry has also served the
MSA as a Councilor in Systematics
and Evolution and as an Associate
Editor of Mycologia and is currently a member of the Program Committee. His research accomplishments have previously been
recognized by the MSA through his
receipt of the Alexopoulos Award
and more recently as an MSA Fellow.
Mycological Society Distinctions Committee: Alex Weir,
Chair; Walter Sundberg; Louise Glass; Francois Lutzoni;
Joey Spatafora, ex officio, Past Chair; Tom Bruns, ex officio,
Past President.
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Weston Award for Excellence in Teaching: Dr. Dave Rizzo
Awarded annually to an outstanding
teacher of mycology at the undergraduate
and/or graduate levels.
Dave Rizzo received a B.S. in Biology from James Madison University
(1983), a M.S. in Botany and Plant pathology from the University of New Hampshire (1986) and a Ph.D. in plant pathology from the University of Minnesota
(1993). He joined the faculty of the University of California-Davis, Department of
Plant Pathology and the Graduate Group
in Ecology in 1995. Research in his lab focuses on the ecology and management of
forest tree diseases, including diseases
caused by both native and introduced
pathogens. The primary research effort in
the lab is currently Phytophthora species
in California coastal forests, with an emphasis on Sudden
Oak Death. In conifer forests of the Sierra Nevada Moun-
tains, the lab studies a variety of diseases
and their relationship to past and present
forest management and conservation issues. In addition to research, Dave teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in
mycology as well as introductory biology.
Since 2004, he has been director of the
Science and Society program in the College of Agricultural and Environmental
Sciences. Science and Society is an academic program designed to offer students
the opportunity to discover the interdisciplinary connections that link the biological, physical and social sciences with societal issues and cultural discourses.
Mycological Society Distinctions Committee: Alex Weir, Chair; Walter Sundberg; Louise Glass; Francois Lutzoni;
Joey Spatafora, ex officio, Past Chair; Tom Bruns, ex officio,
Past President.
Alexopoulos Award: Dr. Anne Elizabeth Arnold
Awarded annually to an outstanding
mycologist early in their career. The
nominees are evaluated primarily on the
basis of quality, originality, and quantity
of their published work.
Betsy Arnold came to mycology
from a background in ecology and evolutionary biology, and now studies the
union of these disciplines with an enthusiastic focus on fungal endophytes. After
completing her B.S. in Biology with
Honors at Duke University (1995),
where she worked with Mark Rausher
and Janis Antonovics, she moved to the
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
in Panama to assist in a long-term study
of plant-herbivore and plant-pathogen
interactions in lowland tropical rainforest. With guidance from Lissy Coley,
Tom Kursar, and Greg Gilbert, she became intrigued by fungal endophytes and
their potential roles in plant ecology. She began her doctoral
work in 1996 with mentorship from Lucinda McDade at the
University of Arizona, where she focused on the diversity
and ecological roles of tropical endophytes and began to explore the ways in which systematics can inform large-scale
studies of fungal biodiversity. In 2003 she joined the lab of
François Lutzoni at Duke as a postdoc through the NSF Microbial Biology program. Under his mentorship and in collaboration with Jolanta Miadlikowska, she expanded her
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scope to encompass endophytes in multiple biomes, new tools in molecular
systematics and ecology, and a new
focus on endophyte-like fungi in
lichens.
Betsy joined the faculty in the
School of Plant Sciences and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology at the University of Arizona in
2005 and earned tenure in 2010. She
currently mentors four graduate students
(Mariana del Olmo Ruiz, Mary Jane
Epps, Ellen Martinson, and Dustin
Sandberg) and has graduated two Ph.D.
students thus far (Michele Hoffman and
Jana U’Ren). Together, she and her students address fundamental questions regarding the ecology, evolution, and systematics of endophytes in sites ranging
from tropical forests to Arctic tundra,
and apply these newly discovered fungi
to human sustainability. Current projects focus on capturing endophyte diversity in climatethreatened boreal forests, evaluating the evolutionary origins, genomic architecture, and ecological lability of
endophytes, applying fungi for crop plant enhancement, and
evaluating how endohyphal symbionts influence production
of fungal secondary metabolites. She is an award-winning
teacher, has published >50 papers, and has been recognized
internationally for her research, through which she involves
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citizen scientists, high school students, and international collaborators. She serves as Curator of the Robert L. Gilbertson
Mycological Herbarium, the southwest’s preeminent collection of fungal biodiversity; teaches actively at the graduate
and undergraduate levels in courses focusing on mycology,
plant biology, and microbial diversity; and has been an active
member of MSA, especially through her activities with the
Endowment Committee. She is an enthusiastic collaborator
on projects ranging from fungal genomics to the role of seed-
borne fungi in shaping tropical tree communities, and delights in sharing her excitement about endophytic fungi with
students and colleagues alike.
Mycological Society Distinctions Committee: Alex Weir,
Chair; Walter Sundberg; Louise Glass; Francois Lutzoni;
Joey Spatafora, ex officio, Past Chair; Tom Bruns, ex officio,
Past President.
MSA Fellow: Dr. M. Catherine Aime
MSA Fellows are selected from
members who have completed at least
11 years of service after their Ph.D.
They are members who are outstanding
mycologists on the basis of one or more
criteria: a solid record of mycological
research, and/or successful teaching
and development of teaching materials
for mycology, and/or significant service
to the Society. This is meant to recognize a core group of mid-career mycological achievers and outstanding MSA
volunteers.
Dr. Mary Catherine Aime (Cathie)
began her fungal career in under the
tutelage of the late, great Dr. Orson K. Miller, Jr., author of
Mushrooms of North America. At Virginia Tech she completed her dissertation in 2001 on the systematics of the
Crepidotaceae. Cathie then moved to England where she
completed her postdoctoral studies on the molecular genetics
of the pheromone response pathway in Coprinus cinereus at
the University of Oxford in the laboratory of Dr. Lorna Casselton. In 2003 Cathie returned to the States to work as a Research Molecular Geneticist at the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service in Beltsville, MD, in the Systematic Botany
and Mycology Laboratory, where she
began researching the systematics of
rust fungi, the largest (>7,000 species)
group of obligate plant pathogens. In
2007 Cathie moved to Baton Rouge as
Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology
at Louisiana State University, where
she continues her research on rusts and
other basidiomycete phytopathogens,
including those that threaten the production of cacao (chocolate) in Latin
America. Additionally, Cathie studies
the biodiversity of fungi in the tropics,
collecting and documenting fungi in
places such as Japan, Malaysia, Borneo,
Nigeria, Uganda, and throughout South
and Central America. For the last thirteen years she has been
conducting fungal diversity studies in an extremely remote
region in Guyana with Dr. Terry Henkel, together discovering hundreds of new species and genera of mushrooms and
other fleshy fungi. Cathie served three years as Secretary of
the Mycological Society of America and is currently an Associate Editor of Mycologia.
Honorary Awards Committee:, Gregory Mueller, Chair;
John Taylor; Mary Palm; Tim Baroni, ex officio, Past Chair
MSA Fellow: Dr. David M. Geiser
MSA Fellows are selected from members who have completed at least 11 years of service after their Ph.D. They are
members who are outstanding mycologists on the basis of
one or more criteria: a solid record of mycological research,
and/or successful teaching and development of teaching materials for mycology, and/or significant service to the Society. This is meant to recognize a core group of mid-career mycological achievers and outstanding MSA volunteers.
David Geiser received his PhD in Genetics from the
University of Georgia, where he worked with Bill Timberlake and Mike Arnold. Dave’s doctoral research was on the
molecular evolution of Aspergillus. At Georgia, he was prepared to work with Drosophila, but a rotation project in the
Timberlake lab and Charles Mims’ Introductory Mycology
drew him irretrievably to the fungi. Dave then moved to the
University of California, Berkeley for a postdoc in John Taylor’s lab, where he continued working on Aspergillus, now
focusing on using sequence data (which by that time had become easy and cheap to generate) and focusing at the interface between species and populations. This was an exciting
time, as methods for using molecular data to investigate
species boundaries were new and in development. In 1998,
Dave was hired as a faculty member in the Department of
Plant Pathology (now Plant Pathology and Environmental
Microbiology) at Penn State, where he is now a Professor
and also Directs the Fusarium Research Center. At Penn
State, Dave has worked on the systematics and evolution of
a variety of fungi, mostly Fusarium, which has involved extensive collaborations with 2012 Distinguished Mycologist
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Kerry O’Donnell. His current main interest is in the genomic basis of adaptation to
unusual and extreme environments, particularly Fusarium species that infect humans and inhabit indoor biofilms. Dave has advised or co-advised six PhD students
and four postdocs who have been passionate about fungi. He has taught Biology of
Fungi since 1998 and greatly enjoys introducing mycology to a fresh group of students every year. He was an MSA Graduate Fellow, a recipient of the Martin-Baker
Endowment Award, and received the Alexopoulos Prize in 2003. Dave has served
on MSA Council, as an Associate Editor for Mycologia, and as the local organizer
for the 2008 MSA meeting at Penn State, among several other committees and other
roles in MSA. While fungi are endlessly fascinating, he considers the mycological
community, particularly as it is embodied in MSA, to be the best thing about being
a mycologist.
Honorary Awards Committee:, Gregory Mueller, Chair; John Taylor; Mary Palm;
Tim Baroni, ex officio, Past Chair
MSA Fellow: Dr. Donald O. Natvig
MSA Fellows are selected from
members who have completed at
least 11 years of service after their
Ph.D. They are members who are
outstanding mycologists on the basis
of one or more criteria: a solid
record of mycological research,
and/or successful teaching and development of teaching materials for mycology, and/or significant service to
the Society. This is meant to recognize a core group of mid-career mycological achievers and outstanding
MSA volunteers.
Don Natvig received his doctoral
degree in Botany from the University
of California, Berkeley, where he
worked with Ralph Emerson as a
graduate student and John Taylor as a
post-doctoral researcher. His doctoral
research focused on the ecology and
respiratory physiology of flagellate
fungi from waters with low oxygen
concentrations. His post-doctoral research focused on molecular systematics in the genus Neurospora. He is honored to
have been Ralph Emerson’s last graduate student and John
Taylor’s first post-doctoral associate. His work with John
Taylor helped pioneer the application of molecular methods
to study evolution in fungi. Since 1983, Don has been on the
faculty of the Department of Biology at the University of
New Mexico (UNM). He spent most of the first two decades
of his career at UNM studying aspects of the molecular genetics and cell biology of species of Neurospora. He was one
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sulted in N. crassa being the first filamentous fungus to have its genome
sequenced. Don has had a long-term
interest in exploiting information derived from studies of model organisms to address questions in general
fungal biology. As a result, he has
been involved in research ranging
from fungal genomics to ecology. He
has benefited from the talents of thirteen graduate students, eight postdoctoral associates and a large number of undergraduate researchers,
many of whom have gone on to make
important contributions in genomics
and mycology. For the past nine
years, he has served as director of the
UNM Sevilleta Field Station at the
Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge in
central New Mexico, home of the
Sevilleta Long-term Ecological Research Program. This position has afforded an opportunity to study diverse aspects of fungal ecology and
evolution, including the ecology and reproductive genetics of
thermophilic fungi, his current passion. Don is an enthusiastic and dedicated member of MSA. He believes strongly that
it is important for young scientists engaged in fungal research to maintain ties with the Society. He served as Editorin-Chief of Mycologia from 2006-2009. He is the current Editor of Inoculum and chairs the MSA Editorial Advisory
Committee.
Honorary Awards Committee:, Gregory Mueller, Chair;
John Taylor; Mary Palm; Tim Baroni, ex officio, Past Chair
MSA Honorary Member: Dr. Pedro W. Crous
Honorary members are distinguished senior scientists with a long
record of significant contributions to
the science of fungal biology and
who reside in and work in countries
other than the U.S. and Canada.
Dr. Crous is Professor at the
University of Wageningen, the University of Utrecht, the University of
Stellenbosch and is an Extraordinary
Professor at the University of Pretoria. He is also Director of the Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures
in Utrecht.
Selections from his nomination
letters follow:
Over the past decade, Pedro
Crous has truly transformed the
largest and most important collection
of cultured fungi on our planet, the
CBS, into a dynamic mycological, research institute that now constitutes an
indispensible, global center for our
field. Outside support has grown from 0% to 50% of the CBS
budget. The collections have grown from 10,000 associated
with CBS in Baarn to more than 67,000. Living fungi are only
half the story; data on the fungi constitute the other half. Crous
and CBS started MycoBank, which links to the collection and
which has already become the central depository for fungal
systematics and nomenclature. Its’ existence helped change the
practice of fungal nomenclature through registration of new
names and helped convince the International Code of Botanical
Nomenclature to become the ICN for Algae, Fungi and Plants.
It gets 25,000 hits/day with a total of
9 million so far. Since coming to
CBS, Pedro, with the able help of Rob
Samson, has increased the impact of
Studies in Mycology, rescued Persoonia, and started a new journal, Fungus. He has also hosted many international meetings at the CBS, which
have helped advance the discipline of
mycology. Despite his heavy administrative load, Crous has maintained a
research program at the leading edge
of mycological systematics.
He has published more than 400
papers covering a broad range of
topics. His most cited publications
are on the taxonomy of Dothideomycetes, particularly Botryospheriaceae. I credit his recent publication on phylogenetic lineages in
the Botryospheriaceae (Crous et al.
2006. Studies in Mycology) with finally ending the Deuteromycota.
Pedro has also transformed the
International Mycological Association since becoming president in 2006. Pedro serves as a member of more than a
dozen European boards concerned with fungi, plant pathology and natural history, and is Chair of the European Consortium for the Barcode of Life. To sum up, there is a glaring
omission in our list of Honorary Members, that of Pedro
Crous, I urge you to add his name to our roll of honor.
Honorary Awards Committee:, Gregory Mueller, Chair;
John Taylor; Mary Palm; Tim Baroni, ex officio, Past Chair
MSA Honorary Member: Dr. Reinhard Agerer
Honorary members are distinguished senior scientists
with a long record of significant contributions to the science
of fungal biology and who reside in and work in countries
other than the U.S. and Canada.
Dr. Reinhard Agerer is a Professor in the Department of
Biology in Systematic Botany and Mycology at LudwigsMaximilians-University, Munich, Germany.
Dr. Agered has published over 115 journal articles and
several books, including the seminal Colour Atlas of Ectomycorrhizae and was lead editor on Frontiers in Basidiomycete
Mycology. He also developed the on-line system for identification of ectomycorrhizae (DEEMY) and was founding editor of
two journals, Descriptions of Ectomycorrhizae and Mycological Progress (the latter with Franz Oberwinkler).
Twelve students received their PhD under Dr. Agerer’s supervision. In addition to his various roles in the mycological community, he is Past President of the German Mycological Society.
Comments from Dr. Agerer’s nominating letters follow:
I highly recommend Dr. Rheinhard Agerer for an honorary MSA membership. He is the consummate mycologist….. Dr. Agerer’s Colour Atlas of Ectomycorrhizae is a
labor of love. He was involved with some of the earliest
work looking at the negative impacts of nitrogen deposition
on ectomycorrhizal fungi, among other projects. However,
the paper that has had the biggest impact in my estimation is
his 2001 publication, Exploration types of ectomycorrhizae.
His proposal to classify ectomycorrhizal mycelial systems according to their patterns of differentiation and putative ecological importance was published in Mycorrhiza. The
ideas put forward in that paper have guided my recent research effort as I contemplate if the variation in hyphal production by different fungal species indicates different impacts by the fungi in the ecology of forest soils.
Professor Dr. Reinhard Agerer is a pioneer in integrating
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structure/functional relationships for mycorrhizal fungi. His early work on morphological distinctiveness among different mycorrhizal fungi provided critical underpinnings for
studying mycorrhizal ecology in the field. His early “Studies on Ectomycorrhizae” series
was absolutely essential step in both identifying mycorrhizae in the field, and in formulating how different mycorrhizae behave in situ. As a community, we were now able to
identify who was present based on these morphologies, and thus begin to differentiate
niches of the different fungi. This was well before molecular technologies began to allow
us to, in many cases, validate work initiated using Agerer’s approach. His Colour Atlas
of Ectomycorrhizae, allowed for taking his approaches worldwide, a step essential for a
broader exploration of niche differentiation among ectomycorrhizal fungi. I suspect that
virtually every fungal ecologist working on mycorrhizae has consulted and depended
upon this volume. From this base, Professor Agerer then went on to develop studies on
ontology and functioning of different ectomycorrhizal fungi.
The importance of his work continues. Using Agerer’s Atlas, coupled with molecular analysis of individual tips, we are sometimes able to identify ectomycorrhizae, and
measure longevity and persistence. By measuring isotopic composition, we can return to
the exciting new work of Reinhardt and Erik Hobbie, to link the composition and range
of different mycorrhizae within ecosystems.
Honorary Awards Committee:, Gregory Mueller, Chair; John Taylor; Mary Palm; Tim
Baroni, ex officio, Past Chair
MSA Graduate Fellowships: Kathryn Picard and Rodrigo Olarte
Two MSA Graduate Fellowships are awarded annually
to promising graduate students in mycology. Applicants are
evaluated on the basis of their scholastic merit, research
ability and promise shown as a mycologist.
Kathryn Picard
received a B.S. in Biology and a B.A. in
Philosophy from the
University of Alabama (UA) in 2007.
She also received a
M.S. in Biology in
2009 from UA,
where she was under
the supervision of
Drs. Martha Powell
and Peter Letcher.
While at UA, Kathryn studied the phylogenetic diversity of
Scottish chytrids and began characterizing Rhizidium phycophilum, a chytrid that is capable of alternating between
saproby and facultative symbiotrophy with the Chlorophycean green alga, Bracteacoccus sp. A prevailing interest
in the evolution of early fungal-photoautotroph interactions
led her to Duke University, where she is a Ph.D. candidate in
the Department of Biology under the supervision of Dr.
François Lutzoni. In addition to her research, Kathryn is active in community outreach, developing interactive exhibits
on symbiosis for local museums. Her dissertation project is
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entitled Early evolution of Fungi and their interaction with
eukaryotic photoautotrophs: a case study using flagellated
Fungi.
Rodrigo Olarte is
a doctoral student in
the department of
Plant Pathology at
North Carolina State
University. He was
born in the Philippines, but grew up
near the San Francisco Bay Area (California). He received a
B.A. in Molecular
and Cell Biology with
an emphasis in Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of California at Berkeley, and later completed a Masters in Plant Pathology at Cornell University in upstate New
York. He is currently studying the ramifications of sex in regard to toxin heritability in experimental crosses of the fungus Aspergillus flavus and has a long-term goal of finding
more effective ways of controlling this fungus in nature. He
appreciates good food, art, music, honest company, and a
nice fitting pair of designer jeans!
Student Awards Committee: John McKemy, Chair; Imke
Schmitt; Antonio Izzo; Brian Perry, ex officio, Past Chair
NAMA Memorial Fellowship:
Dimitrious Floudas
The NAMA Memorial
Fellowship is awarded annually to promising graduate
students in mycology. Applicants are evaluated on the
basis of their scholastic merit,
research ability and promise
shown as a mycologist.
Student Awards Committee: John McKemy, Chair;
Imke Schmitt; Antonio Izzo;
Brian Perry, ex officio, Past
Chair
Backus Award:
Joshua Birkebak
The Backus Award is awarded annually to promising graduate students in mycology. Applicants are evaluated on the basis of their scholastic merit, research
ability and promise shown as a mycologist.
Joshua Birkebak is a doctoral student in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee.
Student Awards Committee: John McKemy, Chair;
Imke Schmitt; Antonio Izzo; Brian Perry, ex officio,
Past Chair
Student Presentation Awards
The student presentation awards are awarded annually
to the two best oral research papers and the two best posters
in mycology presented by graduate students at the annual
MSA meeting.
Best oral presentation awards: Alisha Owensby and
Kathryn Picard
Alisha Owensby
School: Oregon State University
Advisor: Joey Spatfora
Presentation: Comparative genomics reveals complex patterns of secondary metabolite evolution in the genus Elaphocordyceps.
Best poster awards: Kerri Kluting and Rachel Koch
Kerri Kluting
School: Middle Tennessee State University
Advisor: Sarah Bergmann
Presentation: Resolving the generic boundaries with the
Rhodocybe/Clitopilus clade (Agaricomycetes, Basidiomycota).
Kathryn Picard
School: Duke University
Advisor: Francois Lutzoni
Presentation: Investigating early-diverging fungi from marine and estuarine habitats in North America and Europe.
Student Awards Committee: John McKemy, Chair; Imke
Schmitt; Antonio Izzo; Brian Perry, ex officio, Past Chair
Rachel Koch
School: Louisiana State University
Advisor: Cathie Aime
Presentation: Resolving the phylogenetic relationship between Armillaria and the newly discovered genus Guyanagaster
The MSA Student Oral Presentations and Poster Presentations were judged by Cathie Aime, Lori Carris, Ryan Kepler,
John McKemy, Andy Methven, Drew Minnis, Conrad
Schoch, and Donny Walker. The judges evaluated more than
60 oral presentations and more than 60 poster presentations.
Mentor Travel Awards
The mentor awards are given in the names of some of
our famous mycological forbearers: C. J. Alexopoulos, A.
Barksdale, M. Barr-Bigelow, H. Bigelow, E. E. Butler, W. C.
Denison, H. M. Fitzpatrick, R, Gilbertson, R. P. Korf, E. S.
Luttrell, O.K. Miller Jr., J. R. Raper, H. D. Thiers, and J. M.
Trappe.
C. J. Alexopoulos Award: Angela Ratekin
School: University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
Supervisor: Tom Volk
Presentation: How bad is BAD1? Looking at the relationship
between Blastomyces dermatitidis virulence factor BAD1
and human neutrophils, the “infantry” of our initial immune
response
M. Barr-Bigelow Award: Hector Urbina
School: Louisiana State University
Supervisor: Meredith Blackwell
Presentation: Xylose-fermenting yeasts from the gut of passalid beetles: geographical distribution.
H. Bigelow Award: Nhu Nguyen
School: University of California, Berkeley
Supervisor: Tom Bruns
Presentation: Helvella vespertina and Helvella dryophila,
two new Helvella lacunosa look-alikes from western North
America.
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E. E. Butler Award: Richard Hung
School: Rutgers University
Supervisor: Joan Bennett
Presentation: Trichoderma viride volatile organic compound
profile: The effect of individual components on Arabidopsis
thaliana.
W. C. Denison Award: Sarah Hicks
School: University of New Mexico
Supervisor: Robert Sinsabaugh
Presentation: Effect of nitrogen pollution on root fungal endophyte communities from two co-dominant alpine tundra
plants at Niwot, LTER.
H. M. Fitzpatrick Award: Laura Quintanilla
School: Texas A & M University
Supervisor: Brian Shaw
Presentation: Actin dynamics in Aspergillus nidulans.
R. Gilbertson Award: Kathryn Picard
School: Duke University
Supervisor: Francois Lutzoni
Presentation: Investigating early-diverging fungi from marine and estuarine habitats in North America and Europe.
R. P. Korf Award: Tabitha Williams
School: Western Illinois University
Supervisor: Andre Porras-Alfaro
Presentation: Comparison of fungal communities associated
with different bat species in Southern Illinois.
Kramer Award: Farhana Runa
School: North Carolina State University
Supervisor: Ignazio Carbone
Presentation: Nuclear condition of Aspergillus flavus by Heterokaryosis and ploidy analysis.
E. S. Luttrell Award: Wesley Beaulieu
School: Indiana University
Supervisor: Keith Clay
Presentation: Molecular, chemical and morphological diversity of Periglandula, clavicipitaceous symbionts of Convolvulaceae (Morning Gloried).
O.K. Miller Award: Laszlo Nagy
School: Clark University
Supervisor: David Hibbett
Presentation: Does ECM induce a clean sweep of decay related genes in Agaricomycetes?
J. M. Trappe Award: Alisha Owensby
School: Oregon State University
Supervisor: Joey Spatafora
Presentation: Comparative genomics reveals complex patterns of secondary metabolite evolution in the genus Elaphocordyceps.
Mentor Travel Awards Committee: Todd Osmundson,
Chair; Heather Hallen-Adams; Melissa McCormick; Matias
Cafaro; Peter Kennedy, ex officio, Past Chair
Saloman Bartnicki-Garcia Award: Katarina Sweeney
The primary purpose of the Salomon BartnickiGarcia is to encourage continued participation in MSA
by young mycologists who are working in the areas of
biochemistry, genetics, and cell biology.
Katarina Sweeney grew up in Germany and lived in
Minneapolis for twelve years prior to moving to the Pacific Northwest. She became interested in fungi during
backcountry hikes and canoe trips through the Boundary
Waters Wilderness in northern Minnesota and Quetico
Provincial Park in Ontario. She received a B.S. in biology from the University of Minnesota where she worked
with Imke Schmitt on the lichen genus Pertusaria. This
was followed by studies on the challenging genus Cortinarius in Dave McLaughlin’s lab. After graduation she
worked with Jenny Juzwik on hickory decline until entering Oregon State University for graduate school.
Katarina is currently working with Jeff Stone on resistance reactions of white pines in response to infection by
the blister rust fungus Cronartium ribicola. Her thesis
work will involve analyses of the blister rust pathosystem as well as the genotyping and characterization of C.
ribicola strains in Oregon.
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Forest Fungal Ecology Research Award: Rachel Koch
This award supports ecological research by a graduate or undergraduate student, examining fungal interactions in old growth forests or other
unique or endangered ecosystems. Studies should address innovative approaches to examining fungal systems or interactions of individuals, or
groups of fungi, with hosts or substrates in old growth forest or other sensitive ecosystems.
Rachel Koch is a PhD student studying under Dr. M. Catherine Aime at
Louisiana State University. Originally from Minnesota, Rachel graduated
college from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana with a B.S. degree in
Biology. Interested in looking at questions from an evolutionary standpoint,
she snatched up the opportunity to work with Dr. Aime on a gastroid fungus
endemic to the remote forests in the Guiana Shield. Rachel’s dissertation
will focus on determining how this fungus, Guyanagaster necrorhiza, disperses its spores, which may be done as a result of termite feeding on the actual fruiting body. She survived her first month-long expedition in the
Guyanan jungle and is looking forward to the opportunity to go again. For
fun, Rachel enjoys long bicycle rides (but not too long), eating Nutella, collecting insects and creating glass art.
Research Awards Committee: Dennis Desjardin, Chair; Teresa Pawlowska; Ning Zhang; David Geiser; Betty Strack; Thorsten Lumbsch, ex officio,
Past Chair
Martin-Baker Research Award: Dr. Jaime E. Blair
The George W. Martin and Gladys E. Baker Research Award supports new or ongoing research in
mycology by a recent-Ph.D. mycologist (preferably
within 5 years of receiving the degree), who also has
significant teaching commitments.
Dr. Blair received her B.A. degree with Honors in
Biology from Ithaca College in New York. She completed her PhD in Biology and Astrobiology at Penn
State University under the direction of Dr. S. Blair
Hedges. Her dissertation focused on the use of comparative genomics and molecular clock methods to
study the evolution of eukaryotes. Dr. Blair began her
research on oomycetes as a post-doc in the Department of Plant Pathology at Penn State. She then spent
two years as an HHMI-funded teaching and research
post-doc at Amherst College in Massachusetts under
the guidance of Dr. Michael Hood. She is currently
Assistant Professor of Biology at Franklin & Marshall
College in Lancaster, PA, where she teaches courses
in genetics, pathogen biology, and bioinformatics. Together with her undergraduate students, Dr. Blair studies the evolution and ecology of oomycetes in soil and
aquatic environments, with a current project focusing
on the biodiversity of populations under agricultural
conditions.
Research Awards Committee: Dennis Desjardin,
Chair; Teresa Pawlowska; Ning Zhang; David Geiser;
Betty Strack; Thorsten Lumbsch, ex officio, Past Chair
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John. W. Rippon Research Award Winner: Lynnaun Johnson
This award supports graduate student research, which employs innovative approaches to studying medically
important fungi. Studies may be clinical in nature or may encompass various research areas, such as genetics,
systematics, genomics, ecology, distribution, epidemiology, mechanisms of
pathogenicity, life cycles, or other appropriate approaches to the study of
medically important fungi.
Lynnaun Johnson is a master’s student in the Department of Biological
Sciences at Western Illinois University. Advised by Dr. Andrea Porras-Alfaro, he is studying the
fungus Geomyces destructans, the causative agent of the bat
disease White Nose Syndrome. He has also researched the
fungal communities associated with different bat species in
Illinois. His first encounter with fungi was as an undergraduate student as part of the Orchid Recovery Program at Illinois College. While earning his B.S. under Dr. Lawrence
Zettler, he gained experience propagating the federally endangered Hawaiian
orchid Platanthera holochila using
asymbiotic germination and this work
was recently published in the European Journal of Environmental Sciences. As a master’s student he was
awarded several grants including
Graduate Student Research and Professional Development Fund (Western
Illinois University), Registration Fellowship (MSA) and the Illinois Mycological Association Scholarship. Lynnaun recently accepted a position at the
Missouri Department of Conservation.
Lynnaun is interested in continuing his education at the
Ph.D. level. One of his major interests includes the study of
orchid mycorrhizal fungi.
Research Awards Committee: Dennis Desjardin, Chair;
Teresa Pawlowska; Ning Zhang; David Geiser; Betty Strack;
Thorsten Lumbsch, ex officio, Past Chair
Rogerson Student Research Award: Catalina Salgado-Salazar
The Clark T. Rogerson Student Research Award supports student travel to
herbaria and/or field sites to conduct research. Grants are available to undergraduate or graduate students who are
members of the Mycological Society of
America
Catalina Salgado-Salazar received
her B.S (2002) and M.S. (2005) in Biology from Universidad del Cauca and
Universidad de los Andes in Colombia.
Since January 2009, she has been a PhD.
student in the Department of Plant Sciences and Landscape Architecture, University of Maryland-College Park under
the supervision of Priscila Chaverri and
Amy Rossman, Systematic Mycology &
Microbiology Laboratory, USDA. Her
area of research is Fungal Taxonomy
and Systematics and her PhD. Dissertation “Systematics of Neonectria and Thelonectria (Ascomycota, Hypocreales, Nectriaceae)” uses a synergistic
approach between traditional taxonomical techniques and
molecular tools to explore the diversity of these groups of
fungi. Thanks to the MSA’s Clark T. Rogerson Student Re-
search Award, a seven-day collecting
trip was taken to explore the diversity of
Nectriaceous fungi in several locations
in the states of Washington (Olympic
National Park) and Oregon. Studies suggest that temperate regions also harbor a
significantly high diversity of fungal
species and the temperate rain forest and
mountainous regions of the PNW represent unique and exceptional habitats especially for microorganisms such as
fungi. The Clark T. Rogerson Student
Research award also contributed significantly not only to the quality of her
doctoral dissertation by providing increased knowledge about these fungi
from a region that is anticipated to have
a high diversity, but also by helping improve herbarium and fungal collections
and the amount of data available for
analyses.
Research Awards Committee: Dennis Desjardin, Chair;
Teresa Pawlowska; Ning Zhang; David Geiser; Betty Strack;
Thorsten Lumbsch, ex officio, Past Chair
Award information was submitted by Andrew Methven, MSA Awards Coordinator 2011-2012.
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A. H. & H. V. Smith Research Award Winner: Vincent Hustad
The primary purpose of the Alexander H. and Helen V. Smith Research Award is to
encourage the study of specimens of fleshy Basidiomycetes and Ascomycetes collected by
Alexander H. Smith and his associates. The Fund distributes grants-in-aid to be used towards covering the expenses of visiting the Smith Collection at the University of Michigan Herbarium and of working with the collections and materials relating to them.
Vincent Hustad is a PhD candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
working under the supervision of Dr. Andrew Miller. Vince’s dissertation research is the
construction of a comprehensive, species-level phylogeny of the Geoglossomycetes, incorporating morphological, molecular, and ecological data. Vince earned a M.S. from
Eastern Illinois University in 2008 studying terrestrial macrofungi in old-growth prairie
groves under Dr. Andrew Methven. His research interests include forest fungal and lichen
ecology and Leotiomycete systematics. The award will allow Vince to visit the herbarium
and study the extensive collections of the University of Michigan, home to over 850 specimens of Geoglossomycetes, including nine type species and varieties.
Research Awards Committee: Dennis Desjardin, Chair; Teresa Pawlowska; Ning
Zhang; David Geiser; Betty Strack; Thorsten Lumbsch, ex officio, Past Chair
MSA BUSINESS
Executive Vice President’s Report
Greetings! This is my first column as
Important Announcement: StartMSA Executive Vice President. I want to
ing with the Spring 2013 elections, balexpress my appreciation to Jessie Glaeser
loting will be done electronically, and
for her dedicated work as secretary/execpaper ballots will only be sent out by
utive vice president for the past three
mail upon request to me by phone (509years, and for her kind assistance to me in
335-3733), email (carris@wsu.edu) or
this transition period. These first few
mail (P.O. Box 646430 Washington
months have been busy as I’ve been
State University, Pullman WA 99164“learning the ropes.”
6430). MSA bylaws mandate that hard
Council Business: There were three
copy ballots be made available to mememail polls conducted by Council in Aubers who do not have valid email adgust and September. One confirmed the
dresses, and we remain committed to
appointment of Brian Perry as an Associproviding this service to members. Howate Editor for Mycologia. The second poll
ever, in recent years, approximately 140
was on proposed bylaws changes; the
ballots have been mailed to members
proposal was modified based on discuswith invalid or no email addresses, and
sion presented by Council members. The
less than 5% of these ballots were reLori Carris,
third poll approved the revised proposed
turned. This represents a substantial cost
MSA Executive Vice President
bylaws changes.
to the Society. Council will consider a
New Members: I would like to exproposed change in the bylaws on the
tend a warm welcome to new or returning members. Their
2013 spring ballot to make voting exclusively electronic.
membership will be formally approved at the 2013 Annual
Reminder: Renewing your MSA membership is easy—
Business Meeting in Austin, TX.
just log in to the MSA website at http://www.msafungi.org
Canada – Roland G. Treu
and click on <Membership>. There is now an email reminder
Mexico – Ricardo Garcia Sandoval
system for those of us who forget our MSA user id or passNigeria – Bamidele Akinyele
word.
United States – Eduardo Campana, Alan Franck, Li-Jun
REMINDER: MSA Directory Update: Have you
Ma, Adriana Corrales Osorio, Maxwell Reitman, Sean
checked your information in the MSA directory recently?
McCotter, Benjamin A. Waitman, Jonathon Walton,
Now is a good time to make sure your address, phone and
email are up-to-date. The Society relies almost entirely on
George Woodbury
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email to bring you timely information on MSA news,
awards, elections, meetings and other activities. To ensure
that you receive Society blast emails and Inoculum, and so
your colleagues can keep in touch, please check the accuracy of your contact information in the online directory. This
can be accessed via our website (www.msa.org)—look for
the “Member Services” box in the bottom left corner of the
page. If you need assistance with updating your membership
information, please contact our Association Manager at
Allen Press, Kay Rose (krose@allenpress.com).
Please feel free to contact me about MSA business, or
any other questions you have about the Society. And don’t
forget to recommend MSA to your amateur and professional
colleagues, and particularly to students and postdoctoral associates who are interested in fungi. MSA members include
pathologists, geneticists, systematists, ecologists, and those
people who just want to know more about the fascinating
world of fungi.
—Lori Carris
(carris @wsu.edu)
MSA Executive Vice President
The Mycological Society of America 2012–2013 Official Roster
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
Mary Berbee, President (2012-2013)
berbee@mail.ubc.ca
Joey Spatafora, President Elect (2012-2013)
spatafoj@science.oregonstate.edu
EDITORIAL APPOINTMENTS
Anthony Glen (2011-2013)
anthony.glenn@ars.usda.gov
Mycologia
Jeffrey Stone, Editor-in-Chief (2009-2014)
stonej@science.oregonstate.edu
Bruce Horn (2010-2015)
bruce.horn@ars.usda.gov
D. Jean Lodge, Vice President (2012-2013)
djlodge@caribe.net
Karen Snetselaar, Managing Editor
(2009-2014)
ksnetsel@sju.edu
Lori Carris, Executive Vice President
(2012–2015)
carris@wsu.edu
John Donahue, Assistant Editor
jmdonahue2@cox.net
Marc Cubeta, Treasurer (2010-2013)
marc_cubeta@ncsu.edu
David Hibbett, Past President (2011-2012)
dhibbett@clarku.edu
GENERAL COUNCIL
(Includes Executive Council listed above)
Thomas D Bruns, Past President (20102011), pogon@berkeley.edu
Gerard Hebert, Assistant Editor
mycology@unm.edu
Inoculum
Don Natvig, Editor (2010-2013)
dnatvig@gmail.com
Robert Marra, Book Review Editor
robert.marra@ct.gov
Sabine Huhndorf (2011-2013)
shuhndorf@fieldmuseum.org
Tim James (2012-2014)
tyjames@umich.edu
Susan G. Kaminskyj (2009-2014)
susan.kaminskyj@usask.ca
Francois Lutzoni (2009-2014)
flutzoni@duke.edu
P. Brandon Matheny (2009-2014)
pmatheny@utk.edu
Steven L. Miller (2009-2014)
fungi@uwyo.edu
Editorial Advisory Committee
Don Natvig, Chair (2011–2016)
dnatvig@gmail.com
Brian Perry (2012-2014)
baperry@hawaii.edu
Roy Halling (2010-2015)
rhalling@nybg.org
Stephen Rehner (2010-2015)
Stephen.Rehner@ars.usda.gov
Thomas Volk (2010-2015)
volk.thom@uwlax.edu
David M. Rizzo (2009-2014)
dmrizzo@ucdavis.edu
Mary Palm (2010-2015)
Mary.Palm@aphis.usda.gov
Robert Roberson (2009-2014)
robby2@asu.edu
Louise Glass (2012-2016)
lglass@nature.berkeley.edu
Conrad Schoch (2009-2014)
schoch2@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Rick Kerrigan, ex officio, Past Chair
R. Paul Schreiner (2007-2012)
paul.schreiner@ars.usda.gov
Ignazio Carbone, Councilor
Genetics/Molecular Biology (2011-2013)
ignazio_carbone@ncsu.edu
Associate Editors
M. Catherine Aime (2010-2015)
maime@purdue.edu
Brian Shaw (2009-2014)
bdshaw@tamu.edu
Sarah Bergemann, Councilor
Genetics/Molecular Biology (2012–2014)
Sarah.Bergemann@mtsu.edu
Peter Avis (2011-2013)
pavis@fieldmuseum.org
Lee Taylor (2011-2013)
fflt@uaf.edu
Manfred Binder (2009-2014)
mbinder@clarku.edu
Frances Trail (2008-2013)
trail@msu.edu
Robert Blanchette, Councilor
Cell Biology/Physiology (2011-2013)
robertb@umn.edu
Rosa R. Mouriño Pérez, Councilor
Cell Biology/Physiology (2012–2014)
rmourino@cicese.mx
Terry Henkel, Councilor
Ecology/Pathology (2011-2013)
twh5@humboldt.edu
Peter Kennedy, Councilor
Ecology/Pathology (2012–2014)
pkennedy@lclark.edu
Ning Zhang, Councilor
Systematics/Evolution (2011-2013)
zhang@aesop.rutgers.edu
Andrew Methven, Councilor
Systematics/Evolution (2012–2014)
asmethven@eiu.edu
Ignazio Carbone (2012-2014)
ignazio_carbone@ncsu.edu
Lori M. Carris (2009-2014)
carris@wsu.edu
Wendy Untereiner (2011-2013)
untereiner@brandonu.ca
Else Vellinga (2010-2015)
ecvellinga@comcast.net
Bryn T.M. Dentinger (2011-2013)
b.dentinger@kew.org
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Allen Press
Hilary Edwards, Account Manager
hedwards@allenpress.com
Membership
Jose Herrera–Chair (2010-2014)
jherrera@truman.edu
Allen Marketing & Management
Claims & Membership Services
Kay Rose, Association Manager
krose@allenpress.com
Andy Wilson (2011-2013)
awilson@chicagobotanic.org
HighWire Press
Greg Brown, Mycologia Journal Manager
greg@highwire.stanford.edu
Mycologia Online Feedback / Support
http://www.mycologia.org/feedback
STANDING COMMITTEES
Education
Matthew Smith–Chair (2011 – 2015)
trufflesmith@gmail.com
Sarah Bergeman (2010 – 2013)
Sarah.Bergemann@mtsu.edu
Matt Keirle (2011-2014)
keirlem@scf.edu
Beth Frieders (2011-2014)
frieders@uwplatt.edu
Electronic Communication
& Web Page Management
Kathie T Hodge, Webmaster (2010-2014)
kh11@cornell.edu
Jason Stajich (2011-2015)
jason.stajich@ucr.edu
Tom Volk (2012-2015)
volk.thom@uwlax.edu
Antonio Izzo (2011-2013)
aizzo@elon.edu
Jeff Stone, ex officio, Mycologia EIC
Don Natvig, ex officio, Inoculum Editor
Lori Carris, ex officio, MSA Executive Vice
President
Kay Rose, ex officio, Allen Press
Julie Noblitt, ex officio, HighWire Press
Finance
Lisa Castlebury–Chair (2012-2015)
lcastlebury@gmail.com
Martha Powell (2009-2013)
mpowell@biology.as.ua.edu
Melissa McCormick (2010-2014)
mccormickm@si.edu
Matias Cafaro (2011-2015)
matcaf@gmail.com
Brian Perry (2012-2016)
baperry@hawaii.edu
Suzanne Joneson (2011-2015)
suzanne.joneson@gmail.com
Todd Osmundson, ex officio, Past Chair
Marin Talbot Brewer (2012-2016)
mtbrewer@uga.edu
Student Awards
Imke Schmitt–Chair (2009-2013)
imke.schmitt@senckenberg.de
D. Jean Lodge, ex officio, Past Chair
Nomenclature
Roy Halling–Chair (2010 – 2014)
rhalling@nybg.org
Antonio Izzo (2010-2014)
aizzo@elon.edu
Julia Kerrigan (2011-2015)
jkerrig@clemson.edu
Keith Seifert (2010-2014)
Keith.Seifert@agr.gc.ca
Tim James (2012-2016)
tyjames@umich.edu
Andrew Minnis (2009-2013)
dminnis1@hotmail.com
John McKemy, ex officio, Past Chair
ROTATING COMMITTEES – AWARDS
ROTATING COMMITTEES
– GENERAL SERVICE
Mycological Society Distinctions
Tom Bruns–Chair (2012-2014)
pogon@berkeley.edu
Endowment
Karen Hughes–Chair (2009-2013)
khughes@utk.edu
Alex Weir (2010–2013)
aweir@mailbox.syr.edu
Jessie Glaeser (2012-2014)
jessieglaeser@yahoo.com
Louise Glass (2010-2015)
lglass@nature.berkeley.edu
Don Hemmes (2011-2015)
hemmes@hawaii.edu
Francois Lutzoni (2011-2016)
flutzoni@duke.edu
Cathie Aime (2012-2016)
maime@purdue.edu
Christopher Schardl (2012-2017)
schardl@uky.edu
Marc Cubeta, ex officio, Treasurer
marc_cubeta@ncsu.edu
Alex Weir, Past Chair
Mary Berbee, ex officio, President
Mary Berbee, ex officio, President
Honorary Awards
John Taylor–Chair (2010 – 2013)
jtaylor@berkeley.edu
Karling Annual Lecture
Cameron Currie–Chair (2010-2013)
currie@bact.wisc.edu
Mary Palm (2011-2014)
mary.palm@aphis.usda.gov
Anne Pringle (2011-2014)
pringle@oeb.harvard.edu
Meredith Blackwell (2012-2015)
mblackwell@lsu.edu
Joe Heitman (2012-2015)
Heitm001@duke.edu
Greg Mueller, ex officio, Past Chair
Brian Shaw, ex officio, Past Chair
Jim Worrall (2012-2016)
coniophora@gmail.com
Marc Cubeta, Treasurer
marc_cubeta@ncsu.edu
Mary Berbee, ex officio, President
International
Kevin Hyde–Chair (2010-2014)
Kdhyde3@gmail.com
K.Martin Ryberg (2010-2014)
kryberg@utk.edu
Håvard Kaserud (2009-2013)
haavarka@bio.uio.no
Research Awards
Teresa Pawlowska–Chair (2008–2013)
Tep8@cornell.edu
Liaison with Amateur Mycological
Clubs & Societies
Andy Wilson–Chair (2010-2013)
awilson@chicagobotanic.org
Ning Zhang (2009-2014)
zhang@aesop.rutgers.edu
Nathan Wilson (2010-2013)
nwilson@eol.org
Betty Strack (2010-2015)
bstrack@fieldmuseum.org
(Amateur appointment)
Joe McFarland (2011-2014)
illinoismushrooms@intrnet.net
David Geiser (2011-2016)
dgeiser@psu.edu
Peter Kennedy (2012-2017)
pkennedy@lclark.edu
(Amateur appointment)
Bradley Kropp (2012-2015)
brad.kropp@usu.edu
Dennis Desjardin, ex officio, Past Chair
Maria Alice Neves (2011-2015)
maliceneves@gmail.com
Neale Bougher, ex officio, Past Chair
Else Vellinga, ex officio, Past Chair
Mentor Student Travel Awards
Heather Hallen-Adams–Chair (2009-2013)
hhallen-adams2@unl.edu
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Nominations
James B. Anderson–Chair (2009–2013)
janderso@utm.utoronto.ca
Environmental Health & Medical Mycology
Lauraine Hawkins–Chair (2008–2013)
Lkh1@psu.edu
Meredith Blackwell (2010-2014)
mblackwell@lsu.edu
Elliot Horner (2010-2014)
ehorner@aqs.com
Rytas Vilgalys (2011-2015)
fungi@duke.edu
Clement K.M. Tsui (2012-2016)
clementsui@gmail.com
Tom Bruns (2012-2016)
pogon@berkeley.edu
Charles Bacon (2012-2016)
Charles.Bacon@ars.usda.gov
Matthew D Greif, ex officio, Past Chair
Don E Hemmes, ex officio, Past Chair
Program
Kerry O’Donnell–Chair (2010-2013)
kerry.odonnell@ars.usda.gov
Sharon Cantrell (2011-2014)
scantrel@suagm.edu
Susan Kaminskyj (2012-2015)
susan.kaminskyj@usask.ca
Anne Pringle (2012-2013)
pringle@oeb.harvard.edu
D. Jean Lodge, ex officio, Past Chair
Joey Spatafora, ex officio, President-Elect
ROTATING COMMITTEES
– SPECIFIC EXPERTISE
Biodiversity
Cathy Cripps–Chair (2009–2013)
Ccripps@montana.edu
Kabir Peay (2010-2014)
kpeay@berkeley.edu
Juliano Baltazar (2011-2015)
Baltazar.jm@hotmail.com
Matt Smith (2012-2016)
trufflesmith@gmail.com
Genetics & Cell Biology
Myron Smith–Chair (2009-2013)
Myron_Smith@carleton.ca
Albert Torzilli (2010-2014)
atorzill@gmu.edu
Kevin McCluskey (2010-2014)
mccluskeyk@umkc.edu
Daniel Lindner (2011-2015)
dlindner@fs.fed.us
Andrew Miller (2012-2016)
amiller7@illinois.edu
Joseph F Bischoff, ex officio, Past Chair
Ecology
Andrea Porras-Alfaro–Chair (2009-2013)
porrasalfaro@gmail.com
American Type Culture Collection
Conrad L. Schoch
schoch2@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
International Mycological Association
Gerald Bills (2010 – 2014)
gerald.bills@medinaandalucia.es
International Union of Microbiological
Societies (US National Committee)
Scott Baker (2012-2015)
scott.baker@pnnl.gov
Natural Sciences Collections Alliance
Andrew Miller (2012-2015)
amiller7@illinois.edu
Li-Jun Ma (2012-2016)
lijun@psis.umass.edu
SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS
& APPOINTMENTS
Terry Hill, ex officio, Past Chair
Awards Coordinator
Andy Methven (2011-2013)
asmethven@eiu.edu
Phytopathology
Kelly Ivors–Chair (2009-2013)
kelly_ivors@ncsu.edu
Eric Boehm, Jr. (2010-2014)
eboehmjr@gmail.com
Andre Levesque (2011-2015)
Andre.Levesque@agr.gc.ca
Gretchen Kuldau (2012-2016)
Gak10@psu.edu
Historian
Ron Petersen (2012-2013)
repete@utk.edu
Liaison for Society Incorporation
Nor Faridah Dahlan (2012)
DAHLANNO@si.edu
Memorials Publications Committee
Ron Petersen, Chair, Historian
repete@utk.edu
James J Worrall, ex officio, Past Chair
Conservation
Gregory M Mueller–Chair (2008–2013)
gmueller@chicagobotanic.org
Else Vellinga (2009-2013)
ecvellinga@comcast.net
Todd Osmundson (2010-2014)
toddo@berkeley.edu
Jean Bérube (2012-2016)
Jean.Berube@RNCan-NRCan.gc.ca
Sharon A Cantrell, ex officio, Past Chair
ANNUAL MEETING COMMITTEES
MSA 2013 Local Arrangements
Brian Shaw, bdshaw@tamu.edu
MSA 2014 Local Arrangments
Frances Trail, trail@msu.edu
Nicole Hynson (2010-2014)
nhynson@uci.edu
Annual Foray Coordinator
Harold Keller Foray Coordinator 2013
haroldkeller@hotmail.com
Christopher Crabtree (2011-2015)
cdcrabtre@hotmail.com
AFFILIATES AND ASSIGNMENTS
REPRESENTATIVES
Anthony Amend (2012-2016)
amend@hawaii.edu, aamend@uci.edu
American Association for the Advancement of Science (Committee of Section G:
Biology)
Linda Kohn (2012–2015)
Linda.kohn@utoronto.ca
Harold Keller, ex officio, Past Chair
American Mushroom Institute
Richard W. Kerrigan
rwkres@windstream.net
Scott Baker (2011-2015)
scott.baker@pnl.gov
Maria Alice Neves, ex officio, Past Chair
Culture Collections
Gerard Adams–Chair (2009-2013)
gadams3@unl.edu
American Institute of Biological Sciences
Vacant
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Jeffrey Stone, Mycologia Editor-in-Chief
stonej@science.oregonstate.edu
Mary Berbee, President
berbee@mail.ubc.ca
Representative to the Collections Web
Research Coordination Network
Meredith Blackwell (2010-2013)
mblackwell@lsu.edu
Affiliated Mycological Societies - Regional
Boston Mycological Club (BMC)
Illinois Mycological Association (IMA)
Oregon Mycological Society (OMS)
Allied/Sister Mycological Societies – National & International
African Mycological Association
Australasian Mycological Society
British Mycological Society (BMS)
Latin American Mycological Society (ALM)
Mycological Society of China (MSC)
Mycological Society of Japan (MSJ)
North American Mycological Association
(NAMA)
Honorary Societies & Institutes
British Mycological Society
Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures
(CBS) 2004
Mycological Society of Japan 2005
MYCOLOGICAL NEWS
Lennart Holm 1921–2012
Carl Lennart Holm, long a fixture in mycology in Uppsala, Sweden, passed away in July at the age of 91. Lennart
was renowned in the taxonomy of Ascomycetes. Not only
did he occupy one of the rare professorships in botany in
Swden for many years, but contributed heavily to Fungi Exsiccati Suecici even in this year for fascicle 76. This exsiccate
series is often the best source for Friesian traditional interpretations of fungi of Sweden. Lennart’s first publication ap-
peared in 1946, but in addition to further scientific papers, he
served on the Special Committee for Fungi and Lichens of
the International Association for Plant Taxonomy in the
post-war years when many of the present nomenclatural codifications were formulated. Lennart’s warm hospitality and
learned experience will be missed. He is survived by his
wife, Kerstin.
—Ron Petersen
MSA Memorials Editor
Call for MSA Council Nominations
For the upcoming year the msa membership will elect
six new council members - vice president, treasurer, and four
councilors. Please contribute by nominating a colleague for
any or all of these positions (listed below) as soon as possible. The candidate for each office who receives the greatest
number of nominations from the membership will be contacted and, if willing to stand, placed on the spring ballot
along with a candidate selected by the MSA Nominating
Committee. The spring ballot will be available to all members at least three months prior to the society annual meeting
to be held in Austin, Texas from 10-14 August, 2013.
These nominations and elections are important to the
Society and you are strongly encouraged to participate.
Please refer to the MSA home page at www.msafungi.org for a list of past and present Councilors and Officers.
Officers
Vice-President
Treasurer
Four Councilors (all two year terms)
- Cell Biology/Physiology
- Genetics/Molecular Biology
- Systematics/Evolution
- Ecology/Pathology
Thank you for your participation! Please return your
nominations by February 15, 2013 to MSA Vice President
Jean Lodge by email, fax, or regular mail.
—D. Jean Lodge
MSA Vice President
USDA-Forest Service
PO Box 1377
Luquillo, PR 00773-1377
Phone: 787-888-3673
Email: djlodge@caribe.net
Call for Papers 31st New Phytologist Symposium
& 5th International Orchid Workshop
We are organizing a joint meeting in Rende, Italy next
May: the 31st New Phytologist Symposium (14-16 May
2013) on Orchid symbioses: models for evolutionary ecology (http://www.newphytologist.org/orchid/default.htm),
and the 5th International Orchid Workshop (17-19 May 2013)
on Orchid population dynamics (http://www.iow2013.it/).
These nearby meetings will offer the opportunity for the
audience to gain information about the widest possible spectrum of ongoing orchid research. The format of NPS is a two
full-day meeting, encompassing three sessions (Mycorrhizal Associations, Entomogamous Pollination and
Linking Above and Below-ground Mutualisms) with 16
invited speakers. See website for financial support to students. A short oral presentation will be offered for two posters chosen from among those authored by students or postdocs and reporting outstanding results. The format of the
IOW is also a two full-day meeting with contributed papers;
the main sessions are Management & Conservation, Flowering & Fruiting, Mycorrhizae & Seed Germination, Diversity & Distribution. The Scientific Committee will make
a final decision on submitted abstracts (talk or poster). During each congress there will be a poster session, a conference
dinner and a final field trip (16th and 19th of May).
To help young scientists and students to enjoy this full
week of immersion in orchid research, we have organized a
limited number of special-price weekly accommodations on
a first-come first-served base. We warmly invite you to submit a proposal for a presentation at these meetings.
Looking forward to meeting all of you in Italy, with our
best wishes,
—The Organizers
Inoculum 63(5), October 2012
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MSA Awards Announcement
For over 20 years the Mycological Society of America
has been celebrating excellence in research, teaching and
service among its membership by recognizing outstanding
students, distinguished teachers and accomplished researchers. This is a call for nominations and applications for
MSA Awards and Fellowships for 2012.
Be part of our celebration of mycology and mycologists! Apply or nominate a student, researcher or teacher by
February 15th 2013.
To find detailed, updated information on the awards offered by the Society, eligibility requirements, application
procedures and administering committees, please visit our
web site (http://msafungi.org/msa-awards).
A full announcement will also be published in the upcoming issue of Inoculum.
The MSA looks forward to receiving your nominations
and applications for the following awards:
MSA AWARDS
Distinguished Mycologist
Alexopoulos Prize
William H. Weston Award for Excellence in Teaching
MSA Fellows
MSA Honorary Members
MSA Graduate Fellowships
NAMA Memorial Fellowship
Backus Award
Salomon-Bartnicki-Garcia Award
Forest Fungal Ecology Research Award
Martin-Baker Award
John W. Rippon Research Award
Clark T. Rogerson Student Research Award
Alexander H. & Helen V. Smith Research Award
Mentor Student Travel Awards for Student travel to the Annual
Meeting
Best Oral Presentation by a Student at the Annual Meeting
Best Poster Presentation by a Student at the Annual Meeting
Results of the Fall 2012 MSA Ballot
The Fall 2012 ballot included four proposed changes to
the MSA By-laws relating to membership categories, electronic vs. print subscriptions, and dues. Email notice of electronic balloting was sent out September 10 and the polling
ended on October 10. Among 1112 eligible voters, 996 were
notified electronically via Survey Monkey. Paper ballots
were sent out to 116 members with invalid, blocked, or no
email addresses. At the end of the polling period, 389 members (39%) voted electronically, and 7 members (6%) returned paper ballots postmarked by Oct. 10. Members approved all four proposed changes to the by-laws. The results
of the ballot are summarized below.
(1) Addition of Postdoctoral Member to the membership category:
95.4% approved; 4.6 % disapproved
(2) Change from print to online access for membership:
90% approved; 10% disapproved
(3) Change in Emeritus category adding option for Emeritus
members to pay for optional online access to journal
92.8% approved; 7.2% disapproved
(4) Proposed changes to dues structure, lowering rates for
most categories and adding a postdoctoral associate category to the dues structure.
94.8 % approved; 5.2 % disapproved
REMINDER: MSA Directory Update
Is your information up-to-date in the MSA directory? The Society is relying more and more
on email to bring you the latest MSA news, awards announcements and other timely information, and our newsletter. To ensure that you receive Society blast emails and the Inoculum as
soon as it comes out, and so that your colleagues can keep in touch, please check the accuracy of your email address and contact information in the online directory. This can be accessed
via our web site at www.msafungi.org. If you need assistance with updating your membership
information, or help with your membership log-in ID and password, please contact Kay Rose,
Association Manager at Allen Press, at krose@allenpress.com.
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Set of Mycologia Free to Good Home
A beautiful set of Mycologia journals (volume 1 to
101) are free to a good home. Most are hard-bound, except for the last few years. This library belonged to Dr.
Lois Tiffany. It is preferable that the recipient pays for
the shipping costs.
Contact Jean Day at
jeantday@gmail.com
MYCOLOGICAL JOBS
Senior Researcher in Mycology, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
The Mycology Section at the Royal Botanic Gardens,
Kew invites applications for an appointment as a Senior Researcher in the team. The successful candidate will conduct
research on fungal systematics of Ascomycota or Basidiomycota. Candidates with research experience in molecular phylogenetics, molecular ecology, genomics, and areas related to
fungal conservation are particularly encouraged to apply. The
successful candidate will be expected to develop a strong, ex-
tramurally funded research programme investigating fungal
systematics, contribute to curation of the collections, disseminate research findings in high impact scientific journals and
at conferences, and provide expert taxonomic advice when
needed. CLOSING DATE: 7 December 2012, 12 noon.
Further details on the post and instructions on how to
apply can be found at http://www.kew.org/aboutkew/jobs/ref_Nov12_SeniorResearchMycology.htm
Assistant Professor, Cornell
The Department of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe
Biology at Cornell University invites applications for a
tenure-track, academic year appointment as Assistant Professor in Soil Microbiology/Vegetable Pathology, to be located
on the Geneva campus. The successful candidate will develop an internationally-recognized research (60%) and extension (40%) program focused on soil-borne plant pathogens,
including the effects of pathogen relationships with other
soil-borne microbes and edaphic factors on the development
and management of plant disease, with an emphasis on root
diseases of vegetable crops. The research program could
focus on areas such as soil health and sustainability, popula-
tion genetics/genomics of soil-borne pathogens, and innovative disease management strategies, among other areas. This
individual will also develop an extension program that focuses on soil-borne diseases of vegetable crops, to include applied and translational research and outreach efforts that will
positively impact vegetable production in New York.
Additional information and application details for this
position are available at
https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/2247.
Review of applications will begin Dec 15, 2012 and will
continue until the position is filled.
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Assistant Professor, Manitoba
The Department of Biological Sciences at the University
of Manitoba invites applications for a full-time probationary
(tenure-track) appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor
to begin July 1, 2013. This position includes responsibilities
for teaching, research and service. Applicants with expertise
in the biology of secondary compounds in plants, fungi or
algae are encouraged to apply. The ideal candidate will conduct research that complements the scope of expertise in
physiology, ecology, development, metabolomics/genomics,
and cell/molecular biology in many areas and systems in the
Department of Biological Sciences. The successful applicant
must hold a PhD and post-doctoral experience in a relevant
discipline. Applicants should have a publication record indicative of their ability to establish an active, independent research program. Teaching experience is a strong asset. The
successful candidate will be expected to establish a vigorous,
externally funded research program and to promote research
synergies within the department, the Faculty of Science and
across campus, and contribute to undergraduate and graduate
teaching. The position entails department-based instruction in
introductory biology and upper-level courses in areas appropriate to the candidate’s expertise.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and integrative Biological Sciences department. The department
has 37 faculty including 2 CRC Tier 2s, 70 graduate students
and over 200 Major and Honours students with research
strengths across the spectrum of biology and its sub-disciplines (www.umanitoba.ca/science/biologicalsciences).
The department is located on the Fort Garry campus of
the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, a city with a rich
cultural environment and abundant outdoor recreational venues (learn more about Winnipeg at http://www.winnipeg.ca).
The Faculty of Science offers excellent opportunities for research, collaboration and teaching in a broad range of biological systems, and access to outstanding resources comprising a comprehensive range of microscopy and imaging,
laser-capture microdissection, GC-MS, sequencing, culturing, and analytical, molecular and cell biology, and animal
and plant-rearing facilities.
Applications (ideally in pdf format) should include: a
covering letter outlining interest in the position, a CV, a research plan with short and long-term goals, a statement of
teaching experience and philosophy, and the name and contact information of 3 academic referees. Applications must be
sent electronically by January 7, 2013 to Dr. Judy Anderson,
Head, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Manitoba, at Judy_Anderson@umanitoba.ca. Please refer to position number: 15338.
Mycological Society of America — Gift Membership Form
Sponsoring a gift membership in MSA offers tangible support both for the recipient of the membership as
well as for mycology in general. Providing both Mycologia and Inoculum, a gift membership is an excellent way to further the efforts of our mycological colleagues, especially those who cannot afford an MSA
membership. In addition to a feeling of great satisfaction, you also will receive a convenient reminder
for renewal of the gift membership the following year.
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MYCOLOGY ON-LINE
Below is an alphabetical list of websites featured in Inoculum. Those wishing to add sites to this directory or to edit addresses should email
dnatvig@gmail.com. Unless otherwise notified, listings will be automatically deleted after one year (at the editors discretion).
A New Web Page About Tropical Fungi, Hongos Del Parque “El Haya” (58-5)
hongosdelhaya.blogspot.com/
Index of Fungi
www.indexfungorum.org/names/names.asp
ASCOFrance.com, a very useful site for illustrations of ascomycetes including anamorphs (accessible in both French and English)
ascofrance.com/?lang=us
Interactive Key to Hypocreales of Southeastern United States (57-2)
nt.ars-grin.gov/sbmlweb/fungi/keydata.cfm
ISHAM: the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology
www.isham.org
Ascomycota of Sweden
www.umu.se/myconet/asco/indexASCO.html
Basidiomycete Research Group (University of Helsinki, Finland) studies
systematics, ecology and evolution of fungi in forest environment.
www.basidio.fi
JSTOR (58-3)
jstor.org
Libri Fungorum Mycological Publications (58-3)
194.203.77.76/LibriFungorum/
Bibliography of Systematic Mycology
www.speciesfungorum.org/BSM/bsm.htm
Mold Testing and Identification Services (58-2)
www.pioneer.net/~microbe/abbeylab.html
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; Meetings & Courses Programs (58-2)
meetings.cshl.edu
McCrone Research Institute is an internationally recognized not-for-profit
institute specializing primarily in teaching applied microscopy. 59(4)
www.mcri.org
Collection of 800 Pictures of Macro- and Micro-fungi
www.mycolog.com
Cordyceps Website
www.mushtech.org
Cornell Mushroom Blog (58-1)
http://blog.mycology.cornell.edu/
Cortbase (58-2)
andromeda.botany.gu.se/cortbase.html
Corticoid Nomenclatural Database (56-2)
www.phyloinformatics.org/
The Cybertruffle internet server for mycology seeks to provide information about fungi from a global standpoint (59-3).
www.cybertruffle.org.uk
Cyberliber, a digital library for mycology (59-3).
www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cyberliber
Cybernome provides nomenclatural and taxonomic information about
fungi and their associated organisms, with access to over 548,000 records
of scientific names (59-3).
www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cybernome
Dictionary of The Fungi Classification
www.indexfungorum.org/names/fundic.asp
Distribution Maps of Caribbean Fungi (56-2)
www.biodiversity.ac.psiweb.com/carimaps/index.htm
Entomopathogenic Fungal Culture Collection (EFCC)
www.mushtech.org
Fungal Environmental Sampling and Informatics Network (58-2)
www.bio.utk.edu/fesin/
Fungi of Ecuador
www.mycokey.com/Ecuador.html
German Mycological Society DGfM
www.dgfm-ev.de
Glomeromycota PHYLOGENY
amf-phylogeny.com
MYCO-LICH facilitates mycology and lichenology studies in Iran.
www.myco-lich.com
Mycologia
mycologia.org
Humboldt Institute — Located on the eastern coast of Maine, the institute
is known for the extensive series of advanced and professional-level natural history seminars it has offered in Maine since 1987, along with ecological restoration seminars and expeditions to the neotropics. It publishes the Northeastern Naturalist and Southeastern Naturalist, two scholarly,
peer-reviewed, natural history science journals.
www.eaglehill.us
Website relating to the taxonomy of the Hysteriaceae & Mytilinidiaceae
(Pleosporomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Ascomycota) to facilitate species
identification using a set of updated and revised keys based on those first
published by Hans Zogg in 1962. 59(4)
www.eboehm.com/
Mountain Justice Summer (58-3)
www.MountainJusticeSummer.org
Mycology Education Mart where all relevant mycology courses can be
posted. www2.bio.ku.dk/mycology/courses/
MycoKey
www.mycokey.com
The Myconet Classification of the Ascomycota
www.fieldmuseum.org/myconet
New Electronic Journal about mushrooms from Southeast Mexico (61-4)
http://fungavera.blogspot.com
Northeast Mycological Federation (NEMF) foray database (58-2)
www.nemfdata.org
Pacific Northwest Fungi — A peer-reviewed online journal for information
on fungal natural history in Alaska, British Columbia, Idaho, Montana,
Oregon and Washington, including taxonomy, nomenclature, ecology,
and biogeography.
www.pnwfungi.org/
Pleurotus spp.
www.oystermushrooms.net
Rare, Endangered or Under-recorded Fungi in Ukraine (56-2)
www.cybertruffle.org.uk/redlists/index.htm
Registry of Mushrooms in Art
members.cox.net/mushroomsinart/
Robigalia provides information about field observations, published records
and reference collection specimens of fungi and their associated organisms, with access to over 685,000 records (59-3).
www.cybertruffle.org.uk/robigalia
Searchable database of culture collection of wood decay fungi (56-6)
www.fpl.fs.fed.us/rwu4501/index.html
Small Things Considered — A microbe blog on microbes in general, but
carries occasional pieces specifically on fungi.
schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/
Tree canopy biodiversity project University of Central Missouri (58-4)
faculty.cmsu.edu/myxo/
Trichomycete site includes monograph, interactive keys, a complete
database, world literature, etc. (61-4)
www.nhm.ku.edu/~fungi
The TRTC Fungarium (58-1)
bbc.botany.utoronto.ca/ROM/TRTCFungarium/home.php
U.S. National Fungus Collections (BPI)
Complete Mushroom Specimen Database (57-1)
www.ars.usda.gov/ba/psi/sbml
Valhalla provides information about past mycologists, with names, dates of
birth and death and, in some cases, biographies and/or portraits (59-3).
www.cybertruffle.org.uk/valhalla
Website for the mycological journal Mycena (56-2)
www.mycena.org/index.htm
Wild Mushrooms From Tokyo
www.ne.jp/asahi/mushroom/tokyo/
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
NOTE TO MEMBERS:
Those wishing to list upcoming mycological courses, workshops, conventions,
symposia, and forays in the Calendar of Events should include complete
postal/electronic addresses and submit to Inoculum editor Don Natvig at
dnatvig@gmail.com.
Dec. 13-16, 2012
NAMA Foray
Scotts Valley, CA
http://www.namyco.org/
March 12-17, 2013
The 27th Fungal Genetics Conference
Asilomar Conference Center
Pacific Grove, CA
http://www.fungalgenetics.org/2013/pages/program.shtml
May 14-19, 2013
31st New Phytologist Symposium (14-16 May 2013)
on Orchid symbioses: models for evolutionary ecology
5th International Orchid Workshop (17-19 May 2013)
on Orchid population dynamics
http://www.newphytologist.org/orchid/default.htm
http://www.iow2013.it/
Aug. 10-14, 2013
Mycological Society of America with the American
Phytopathological Society
Austin, TX
Aug. 14-19, 2013
International Marine and Freshwater Mycology Symposium
(IMFMS)
Beijing International Convention Center
People Republic of China
Aug. 25-31, 2013
10th International Congress of Plant Pathology
Beijing, China
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MSA Sustaining Members 2012
The Society is extremely grateful for the continuing support of its Sustaining
Members. Please patronize them and, whenever possible, let their representatives know of our appreciation.
Fungi Perfecti
Attn: Paul Stamets
PO Box 7634
Olympia, WA, 98507
(360)426-9292
info@fungi.com
Mycotaxon, Ltd.
Attn: Richard P. Korf
PO Box 264
Ithaca, NY, 14851-0264
(607) 273-0508
info@mycotaxon.com
Triarch, Inc.
Attn: P.L. Conant - President
PO Box 98
Ripon, WI, 54971
(920)748-5125
Sylvan, Inc.
Attn: Mark Wach
Research Dept Library
198 Nolte Drive
Kittanning, PA, 16201
(724)543-3948
mwach@sylvaninc.com
Syngenta Seeds, Inc.
Attn: Rita Kuznia
Dept Head, Plant Pathology
317 330th Street
Stanton, MN, 55018-4308
(507) 663-7631
rita.kuznia@syngenta.com
Genencor Internation, Inc.
Attn: Michael Ward
925 Page Mill Rd
Palo Alto, CA, 94304
(650)846-5850
mward@genencor.com
Novozymes, Inc.
Attn: Wendy Yoder
1445 Drew Ave
Davis, CA, 95618
(530) 757-8110
wty@novozymes.com
BCN Research Laboratories, Inc.
Attn: Emilia Rico
2491 Stock Creek Blvd
Rockford, TN, 37853
(865)558-6819
emirico@msn.com
You are encouraged to inform the Membership Committee (D. Jean Lodge,
Chair, djlodge@caribe.net) of firms or foundations that might be approached
about Sustaining Membership in the MSA. Sustaining members have all the
rights and privileges of individual members in the MSA and are listed as Sustaining Members in all issues of Mycologia and Inoculum.
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MSA Endowment Funds
Contributions
inoculum
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Supplement to Mycologia
Volume 63, No. 5
October 2012
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