Vol. 48(6) December 1997 ISSN 0541-4938 Newsletter of the Mycological Society of America
About This lssue The announcements and registration materials for the MSA Annual Meeting are coming to you in Inoculum this year. This issue repeats the general announce- ment and call for paperstabstract form. In addition the official registration form In This Issue and information about workshops, forays, and accommodations are printed in this issue. Copy the registration form and submit it to the conference manager by the Mycology Online ...... 1 May 15, 1998 deadline. 1998 MSA Annual Meeting This issue also ends my three-year term as editor of Inoculum. I have enjoyed A~~~~~~~~~~~ ...... 2 getting to know more MSA members and I want to thank all of you for your con- ~b~~~~~F~~ ...... 3 tributions to our Society's newsletter. Special thanks are due to Amy Rossman and ~~~i~~~~i~~...... 4 Mary Palm who assisted me by proofreading the issues I assembled. MSA Official Business Lorelei Norvell succeeds me as editor (
The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Mycological Society of America (MSA) will take place in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Organized in cooperation with the American Bryological and Lichenological Society, this meeting will give mycologists, lichenologists and bryologists an opportunity for scientific exchange in a small group setting. Regular contributed sessions will be held from Sat. June 13 to Tues. noon June 16 at the Condado Plaza Hotel and Casino. Located on the beach in the Condado region of the city, the hotel offers spectacular views of the ocean and the amactions of nearby historic Old San Juan. Forays and workshops will emphasize tropical fungal diversity. A pre-meeting foray will allow collecting in a tropical rain forest, in the Luquillo Mts. about 50 miles east of San Juan. For a more extensive exposure to tropical fungi, workshops lasting several days before and after the meeting will be offered near the Caribbean National Forest. Workshop topics include: tropical polypores and Corticiaceae; tropical ascomycetes; slime molds; and microfungi. We hope to have a meeting with a strong international flavor and we encourage scientists from Central America, South America, Mexico, and throughout the Caribbean to participate.
REGISTRATION AND RESERVATIONS: Forms for registration, social events, and field trips can be found in this issue of Inoculum. Housing information will be in the next Inoculum (see page 4).
ORAL AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS: On behalf of the MSA, we invite members who wish to present a paper or a poster, or who are participating in a symposium, to complete the ABSTRACT FORM for the 1998 meeting. Each contributed paper, poster or symposium presentation requires an abstract. Guidelines are below and on the Abstract Form; please follow them carefully. The same person should not be a first author on more than two abstracts. Print the abstract to fit within the rectangle on the ABSTRACT FORM on the facing page. Please submit your abstract on time to ensure its publication in Inoculum before the meeting.
1 Q Abstracts in all forms must be received on or before 28 January, 1998 6 Why so early? I The 62nd annual MSA meeting is scheduled in June rather than in August, as is usual, so that members also can attend the 6th International Mycological Congress in Jerusalem in August 1998. Hence the earlier abstract deadline.
To encourage early abstract submission, we will, where possible, schedule talks and sessions in the program in the order in which we receive the abstracts. If you are a graduate student competing for a prize, please be particularly careful that your abstract arrives on time so that we can schedule your presentation early enough for consideration.
1) Contributed papers will be 12 minutes in length with 3 minutes for questions. The length of symposium talks will be determined by the symposium organizer(s). Posters can be at least 122 x 122 cm (48 inches x 48 inches); check later bulletins for final details. 2) For oral presentations, slide projectors will be available for 2" x 2" 35 mm slides only. We will attempt to fulfill special requests for other types of projection equipment, but such requests must be received with the completed abstract form.
GRADUATE RESEARCH PRIZES: Graduate Research Prizes for best paper or poster presentation will be awarded to graduate students or recent Ph.D.s (within one year of graduation) who give mycological contributions most outstanding in content and in manner of presentation. Four prizes are available: two for oral presentations and two for poster presentations. Previous recipients are ineligible for a second award. Be sure to indicate on the ABSTRACT FORM if you would like either your oral or poster presentation (but not both) to be considered. Please see Inoculum 48(6): 9 for further details.
The planning committee for this meeting includes Hal Burdsall, local arrangements; Jean Lodge, foray and workshop chair; and Mary Palm, President and Council representative. For further information please contact Mary Berbee, program chair, by Phone: (604) 822-3780, Fax: (604) 822-6089, or e-mail: [email protected]. We believe that this first Caribbean MSNABLS meeting will be a truly memorable experience for all attendees.
Reserve the dates and meet with us in sunny Puerto Rico! 1998 MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA ABSTRACT FORM FOR THE 62nd ANNUAL MEETING June 11-16 1998 San Juan, Puerto Rico Type of Presentation (check one): CAREFULLY PRINT ABSTRACT HERE CI Oral Q Poster DEADLINE: JANUARY 28.1998 If neither box is checked, the presentation will be scheduled as a poster. E-mail address: If you are a graduate student, would you like to have this presentation considered for a graduate student prize? 0 Yes 0 No CLASSIFICATION: Check the most appropriate subject area from the list below. Sessions will be arranged and posters grouped by these subjects to the extent possible. Q Cell biology Q Ecology Q Genetics/Molecular Biology 0 Pathology Q Physiology O Systematics/Evolution ABSTRACT: Format for camera-ready publication. Please follow these instructions and note sample: 1. Before printing or typing on this form, make a practice copy on plain paper, composed to fit within 11.4 cm x 15.2 cm (4.5 x 6 inches). See sample abstract. 2. Begin without indentation. To help us enter the information in our database, please use commas to separate fields as shown in the sample abstract. CAPITALIZE NAMES of authors, giving last name first, first name, middle initial. Follow directly with affiliation(s), institution name(s), city, state or province, zip or postal code, country, and then the title. Capitalize only the first letter in the title. Place an asterisk (*) directly before the name of the person presenting the paper. 3. Skip one line, then start text of abstract on a new line without indentation. Use entire width of box. Do not type on or beyond the lines of the box. 4. Single space all typing. Use 12 pt font so that abstracts can withstand 75% reduction. Laser printed copy or clean typed copy will look best in the abstract. Dot matrix computer print is unacceptable. Send only perfect copy. 5. Please have two colleagues carefilly read your abstract before submission. Abstracts must be camera-ready and error-free because they will be printed as is in Inoculum. 6. E-mail one unformatted text copy to Mary Berbee, [email protected] 7. Mail two camera-ready copies to: FAYE MURRIN, DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY, MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND, ST. JOHN'S NF A 1B 3x9, CANADA SAMPLE ABSTRACT *CASTLEBURY, LISA A., PALM, MARY E., and ROSSMAN, AMY Y., Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory, USDA ARS, Beltsville MD 20705 USA, Morphometric characterization of teliospores of Tilletia indica and morphologically similar fungi. Tilletia indica, the causal agent of Karnal or partial bunt of wheat, produces large brown ornamented teliospores as do many ... Workshops and Forays Ascomycete and Corticiaceae Workshops: Two concurrent four-day workshops (Mon. -Thurs., plus Friday's foray, June 8-12) will be conducted preceding the annual meeting in Puerto Rico. Only one may be attended. These workshops are intended primarily as training for students. They will concentrate on the identification of Puerto Rican species of ascomycetes and Corticiaceae. Drs. J. Carranza, K-H. Larsson, K.K. Nakasone, P. Roberts, and L. Ryvarden will instruct in the Corticiaceae section. The ascomycete session will be taught by Drs. S. Cantrell, R. Hanlin, S. Huhndorf, D.J. Lodge, D. Pfister, J. Rogers, and G. Samuels. They will be held at Camp Yuquiyu, about 55 km from San Juan, near Luquillo and close to the tropical forests. The workshops will stress the identification, especially to genus, using macro- and microscopic characteristics. The registration fee includes instruction, room and board (lodging and food) beginning with dinner on June 7, and transportation. Housing will be in gender-segregated dormitories. More detailed information will follow in the next issue of the Inoculum. The fee will be lowered if a grant is obtained to subsidize the costs. Twenty-eight students can be accommodated in each workshop. If vacancies exist after all interested students are accommodated, established mycologists will be accepted in these workshops. Slime Mold Workshop: This two-day workshop will be held concurrently with the forays (Slime mold workshop participants will not be able to attend the forays). It will be led by Dr. Steven Stephenson, assisted by J. Cavender, J. Landolt, and F. Spiegel. This workshop will include a day of lectures at the hotel and a day collecting in the Luquillo Mts. There will also be an evening session during the meetings for study of collections and cultures. Twenty students can be accommodated. The fee pays for instruction, supplies, and necessary transportation. Food and lodging not included. "Taste of Puerto Rico" Foray: (Friday, June 12, 1998). This foray will depart the Condado Plaza Hotel at 7:30 by bus, traveling to the mountains and tropical rainforest for collecting. Included will be a stop for Puerto Rican pastries and coffee on the way up the mountains, a Puerto Rican lunch at a picnic area, and several other stops along the way at spectacular view points. Return to the Hotel by 17:OO. . "Tropical Fungi" Foray : (Thursday, June 1 1, 1998) This foray will depart the Condado Plaza Hotel at 7:30 by bus, traveling to the mountains and the tropical rainforest for a full day of collecting. Return to the Hotel by 17:OO. Lunch included. ABLS Forays: Two one-day forays are being planned. The specifics will be published in the next Inoculum.
Housing Information The Condado Plaza Hotel has made 25% of the rooms in the MSAIABLS block available at $99 per night 18% tax) for one or two people. These rooms will be available for up to four students in order to decrease their expenses. If these rooms are shared by 4 students (persons 3 & 4 @ $1 51night) it will cost each student ca. $38/night including tax. To assure that students obtain these rooms, student housing will be arranged through Hal Burdsall.
Others (postdocs, professors, spouses, etc.) will be charged at a rate of $1 IOlnight (plus 18% tax) for single or double, with the same $1 5 chargelperson for more than 2 people. These attendees must arrange housing directly through the hotel. Forms and instructions for housing will accompany the next Inoculum. If there are more than enough lower-priced rooms for the students in attendance, they will be available for other attendees on a first come, first served basis, after their release from student priority. For assistance in locating a room-mate, contact Hal Burdsall, indicating preferences for smdking, gender, and number of roommates. He will facilitate contacts among those interested.
Registration Waiver In order to attract as many students as possible, those who otherwise will not be able to attend the meeting may assist in meeting support (AV duties, general gofer, etc.) in exchange for a registration waiver. A letter from the student requesting such a waiver as well as a statement as to how this meeting will impact himlher is sufficient application. A letter signed by the major professor addressing this need must accompany the application. Decisions will be made by the registration committee on the basis of perceived need and awardees will be notified well before the early registration deadline. Mycological Society of America I PIM San Juan, American Bryological and Lichenological Society 1998 Annual Meeting REGISTRATION FORM Society Membership MSA ABLS (Circle) Last name First name Middle Initial Nick name or name you like to be called Department or Division University, Company, or Organization Street address1 Post Office Box City Zip or Postal Code State Country Phone Fax E-Mail
Registration Fees
Meeting (Full fee covers meeting attendance and ALL social functions) Student $130.00; before May 15,1998-$110.00 Non-student$240.00; before May 15,1998 $200.00 Spouse/SO (charges for social events only, does not cover meeting attendance) MSA or ABLS breakfast$22.00; before May 15,1998-$18.00 Mixer $30.00; before May 15,1998-$25.00 Social $35.00; before May 15, 1998-$32.00 Workshops Corticiaceae $256.00 Ascomycete $273.00 . Airport pickup for above-$25.00 Pillow, towel, bed sheets-$25.00 Slime Molds $100.00 Forays Tropical Fungi Foray (Thursday) $55.00; before May 15,1998-$48.00 Taste of P.R. Foray (Friday) $65.00; before May 15,1998-$58.00 ABLS Forays (2) Information not available at this time (See next Inoculum) Total (registration, forays, workshops, spouse) $ Make checks payable to MSMABLS Registration and send to Harold H. Burdsall, Jr. - MSA Conference Mgr. - 9350 Union Valley Rd. - Black Earth, WZ 53515 Phone: (days) 608-231-9234 (eves) 608-767-3930 Fax: 608-767-3920 E-mail: bur&all~acsfaflwisc.edu MSA Official Business
1998 Annual Meeting 3 1 October 1997 T-shirt Design Competition Dear MSA Members: Attention graphic artists, illustrators, etc. Get your pens out and create a t- I have just returned from the 6"' Mexican Mycological Congress in Tapachula, shirt designfor the 1998 MSA annual Chiapas where I had been invited, by organizer J6s6 Sanchez, to present a talk on meeting to be held June 13-16 in Sun "Systematics of Fungi: Emerging Diseases, Plant Quarantine, and Biodiversity." Juan Puerto Rico together with the With more than 500 in attendance at the Congress, many of whom were students, meeting of the American Liche- there were many interesting sessions and symposia on all aspects of mycology. It nological and Bryological Sociely. was very rewarding to attend this meeting, to be able to establish and strengthen bonds with both students and professionals active in Mycology in Mexico, and to The annual meeting t-shirt has become personally invite and encourage our colleagues from Mexico to attend and partici- a MSA tradition and is an important pate in the upcoming MSA meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico. source of income for the Society's endowment fund. In addition to the Prior to the Congress I attended a workshop on Fungi for Sustainable Forestry prestige of having your work pub- at the Mycological Facility in the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca organized by Ignacio lished on an article of clothing, and the Chapela. This was an opportunity for 20 mycologists from Mexico, the U.S. and satisfaction of contributing to the several other countries to work with the local ZapotecIChinantec communities that MSA endowment, you can actually are successfully developing and utilizing the economic potential of fungi, in order earn a commission of $75 plus one to sustainably manage their forests. It was delightful to see how these people value complimentary shirt bearing your de- their land, and are therefore using fungi to conserve yet utilize their natural re- sign and signed by MSA President sources. Mary Palm and as many other officers Regarding Society business, Hal Burdsall is working very hard at putting to- and councilors of the society as we can gether an affordable meeting in Puerto Rico. The registration costs are equal to last fmd, for submitting the selected de- year's but this year the registration fee also includes tickets to the Mixer, Social sign! Submitted designs will be re- and MSA breakfast. There will be some registration waivers for students with no viewed by members of the endowment funding, in exchange for less than a half day's logistical support (e.g. audiolvisual). committee, who will select one design for the 1998 shirts. For consideration, A committee to award travel grants to MSA members participating in IMC6 in designs must be submitted by March August in Jerusalem has been established with Faye Murrin (chair), Don Gardner, 1,1998. Please submit your ideas and and Michael Milgroom. MSA Council voted to award up to 10 grants of up to designs early. Multiple colors and $1,000.00 each for MSA members participating in IMC6. The committee currently tropical mycology themes should be is setting up further guidelines. You may contact Faye directly (Dept. Biology, included as design elements. Memorial Univ., St. John's, NF A 1B 3X9,709-737-80 18, fmur- [email protected]) or check the MSA Home Page in the near future for ap- plication information. Rick Kerrigan has offered his time to prepare an updated hardcopy of the MSA Correction Directory. As he has requested in this issue of Inoculum, please take a moment to Inoculum 48(5): 6 incorrectly listed go to the MSA Home Page and check the accuracy of your addresses and phone the affiliation of Graduate Research numbers. You can easily and immediately make any necessary changes. Thank Prize (Poster) recipient L.J. Ma as Syracuse University. L.J. Ma and advisor Dr. Scott 0. Rogers are at the As always, I want to express my appreciation and thanks to the many MSA State University of New York, College members who are actively moving the Society forward by furthering our knowl- of Environmental Science and For- edge of the fungi as well as by educating others about the importance of this excit- estry, Syracuse, New York. ing group of organisms.
MSA President 1998 MSA Awards Announcement and Call for Applications The MSA bestows awards on out- this honor. The Chairperson of the Awards uels, Margaret Silliker, and Joanne Ellzey standing mature scientists, "rookies" Committee will appoint ad hoc committee (see addresses at the end of this article). members in place of committee members and graduate students: Here is the NOTE: The award consists of a plaque and whose major professor may be nominated a monetary award derived from the annual roster of awards with details on how to for the awards. The committee may choose interest on the principal deposited in the apply. The addresses of members of to make more than one award in a given MSA Alexopoulos Fund. The recipient the Awards Committee are listed at year, if it is appropriate. Presentation of will be notified so that he or she can attend the award, a plaque, will take place at the the end of this article. the award presentation. awards ceremony at the annual meeting- of Note the application procedure for the MSA. The recipient will be notified so each award In some cases the appli- that he or she may plan to attend the pres- cations are received and reviewed by entation. The name of the winner of the William H. Weston Award a special committee. award will be published along with the for Excellence in Teaching announcement of the awards. The William H. Weston Award for Excel- lence in Teaching of Mycology is awarded Distinguished Mycologist Award annually by the MSA to a person selected Alexopoulos Prize Awarded annually to an individual who by the Teaching Committee. However, if has been outstanding in his or her myco- Awarded annually to an outstanding none of the nominees meets the standards logical career. Nominees for the award will "young" mycologist based on evaluation of excellence acceptable to the committee, be evaluated on the basis of quality, origi- of his or her research. The nominees will an award need not be made. nality, and quantity of their published be evaluated primarily on the basis of Application deadline: 16 March 1998. research and on the basis of service to the quality, originality, and quantity of their MSA or to mycologists in general. published mycological work. Requirements: Awardee preference should be given to active teachers of either gradu- Application deadline: 3 April 1998. Application deadline: 3 April 1998 ate or undergraduate courses in mycology. Requirements: (1) The nominee must be a Requirements: (1) The nominee must be a No preference should be made according current member of the MSA or eligible for member of the MSA. (2) Nominees are to to candidate's age, sex, or type of institu- emeritus membership. The nominee must have received their last degree within the tion (e.g., liberal arts college, agricultural also have been a member of MSA for at ten year period immediately preceding school, medical school, junior college). A least five years. (2) The nominee must January 1st of the year in which the award nominee's folder should be made up by a have received his or her terminal degree at is given. This will normally be an individ- responsible qualified person who knows least twenty years prior to the year in ual who received his or her degree 7-1 0 the nominee. The nominator or person which the award is given. Honorarv de- years previously. (3) An individual may designated by the MSA Teaching Com- grees shall not be considered in deteimin- receive the Alexopoulos Prize only once. mittee Chair (in consultation with the ing the time interval. (3) An individual (4) Nominees who are not chosen for the committee, the nominee, and the nomina- may receive the Distinguished Mycologist prize in the year they are nominated will tor) should prepare the nominee's folder. Award only once. (4) Self nomination is be reconsidered for up to two additional Documents required: The folder should not allowed; this is one of the highest years (within the 10-year limit). The contain: (1) Current curriculum vitae, in- awards bestowed by the MSA. (5) Nomi- Chairperson of the Awards Committee will cluding courses taught in mycology, plant nators must also be members of the MSA. request updates of the nominee's materials. pathology and related areas. (2) A list of Documents required: The nominator (5) Self nomination is not allowed; this is graduate students with research (thesis) should send the required nomination mate- one of the highest awards bestowed by the topics, degrees and dates, publications, and rials to each member of the Awards Com- MSA. current addresses. (3) A list of publications mittee. The nomination folder should in- Documents required: The nominator related to the teaching of mycology; text- clude: (1) A nominating letter, including a books; teaching seminars, symposia or detailed evaluation of the nominees out- should request that the nominee prepare four copies of the first two items and send workshops given by the nominee to either standing contributions to mycology. (2) A lay or academic groups; and national, re- curriculum vitae. (3) A list of the nomi- one to each of the four members of the Awards Committee: (1) a curriculum vitae gional, state or local committees, panels, nee's publications. (4) Up to five addi- etc., on teaching. (4) A statement from the tional letters of support. and (2) 7-10 reprints of the nominee's most significant papers. In addition, (3) A nominee on teaching philosophy, i.e., what Apply to: Prepare four copies of the com- letter from the nominator that states the the nominee personally believes it takes to pleted nomination folder and send one nominee's merits. (4) At the nominator's make an excellent teacher and what the copy to each of the four members of the discretion, up to five additional supporting candidate is tryiilg to accomplish in committee. Each copy of the completed letters may be sent to the Award Commit- teaching mycology and how various application must include all four types of tee Chairperson, who will collate and dis- teaching techniques and strategies help to information listed above. tribute them to committee members. accomplish this goal. (5) A list of previous awards or recognition for outstanding Note: Awards Committee members are not Apply to: The Awards Committee, Drs. teaching. (6) Evaluation of the nominee's eligible to nominate or be nominated for Daniel Wubah, David Hibbett, Gary Sam- teaching is to be completed by the folder compiler. This section should contain: Michigan Herbarium (or its successor as Martin-Baker Endowment Fund solicited and unsolicited letters from stu- custodian for Alex's specimens and mate- dents and colleagues who have taken or rials relating to them) to have the potential An award to a recent Ph.D. mycologist audited the nominee's courses; course recipient(s) work there must be obtained based on proposed research and past re- evaluation forms; and any other informa- before the grant is awarded. search record. tion documenting teaching excellence. Criteria for warding grants: Grants may Letters of evaluation should address the Funds available: $1000 (not necessarily to be made available to members of the My- nominee's interest in teaching, enthusiasm be awarded as a lump sum) cological Society of America who are for the subject, special attributes, innova- working actively on the taxonomy or Application deadline: 1 April, 1998 tive and special techniques, ability to pres- floristics of the fleshy fungi, with the main ent clearly ideas or concepts, capacity to Documents required: Four copies of (1) emphasis on supporting high quality re- motivate students, concern for students, curriculum vita, with publication list and search. Professional and trained "amateur" ability to relate to students, and the char- alternative support sources; and (2) re- (i.e. para-professional) mycologists are acteristic of going above and beyond nor- search proposal not to exceed three single- eligible and are encouraged to submit pro- mal teaching duties. The Chair of the MSA spaced pages. posals. The individual should be at a point Teaching Committee should contact a in their studies where having full access to Apply to: Send four copies of curriculum minimum of three former students, listed Alex's material would advance the appli- vita and research proposal to Dr. Kenneth by the nominee, requesting letters of cant's work. These grants are not intended Wells, 601 Indian Camp Creek Road, Hot evaluation. for preliminary studies of possible lines of Springs, NC 28743. Phone: 704-622-7273. Apply to: Send one copy of candidate's investigations.
At the close of this fiscal year revenues exceeded disbursements by over $38,000, raising our assets to more than $370,000. The strong financial condition of our society is due in large part to the efforts of the Finance and Endowment Committees, chaired respectively by Orson Miller and Jeff Stone. As of 31 July, 1997 membership totaled 1266 in the following categories: 858 regular, 162 student, 44 emeritus with journal and 58 without, 42 associate, 1 affiliate society, 13 family, 17 honorary, 53 life and 18 sustaining members. Geographically, our membership is comprised of 836 in the USA, 96 in Canada, 17 in Mexico and 317 elsewhere. Details of society finances appear in the following statements:
PUBLIC SUPPORT Contributions
REVENUE Membership dues, misc. income Fund raising Interest and dividend income Unrealized appreciation on investments TOTAL REVENUE
TOTAL PUBLIC SUPPORT AND REVENUE
EXPENSES Grants and awards Payments to the NY Botanical Garden Accounting Inoculum Travel Bank and brokerage fees Dues to affiliated societies Miscellaneous Business management services Fundraising Secretary expenses TOTAL EXPENSES
EXCESS OF PUBLIC SUPPORT AND REVENUE OVER EXPENSES
FUND BALANCE, beginning of year Items carried over1
FUND BALANCE, end of year
'Previous fiscal year items that cleared after 31/07/97 STATEMENT OF ASSETS, LIABILITIES, AND FUND BALANCES CASH BASIS - JULY 31,1997
ASSETS Checking Wheat First account
TOTAL ASSETS
LIABILITIES
FUND BALANCES Operational Fund Sustaining & Life Members Fund Endowment - General Fund (auction) Endowment - Named Funds (restricted)
TOTAL FUND BALANCES
Respectfully submitted -. 7
Richard J. Howard, ~rekurer 31 October 1997 Call for Applications: Travel Awards Sixth International Mycological Congress - IMC6 August 23-28, 1998, Jerusalem, Israel.
The Mycological Society has desig- 3. A detailed budget, including ad- line date. Awards will be determined nated $10,000 to be used in travel ditional sources of funding ob- and awardees notified by mid-April awards for MSA members who are tained or sought. 1998. participants in IMC6. Council ap- 4. Students should include a one- page description of their research Dr. Faye Murrin, Chair proved the awarding of up to 10 project and an explanation as to MSA Travel Awards Committee awards of $1000 each. Awards will be how this award will further their Department of Biology granted to speakers in contributed researchlstudy. Memorial University symposia and members presenting 5. Students should also attach a let- of Newfoundland posters. Applicants must be MSA ter of support from their major St. John's, NF, A 1B 3x9 members. professor, or have that letter sent Canada directly to the committee chair. Applications should include the fol- (The other committee members are lowing: Send applications in triplicate by Drs. Don Gardner and Mike Mil- groom.) 1. Title or abstract of symposium March 2, 1998 to the Chair of the paper or poster Travel Awards Committee. Applica- 2. Curriculum vitae tions should be received by the dead-
Reports of MSA Official Committees and Representatives [Editor's Note: Reports from MSA existing programs or commence new pro- grams with this goal in view. Total endowment 13 1,545.73 147,050.98 Representatives and Committee Chairs funds continued fiom previous issue.] Balances of the named funds as of June 30 1997 are: As always, there are many people to Report of the MSA 1996 1997 carryover balance thank for the continuing growth and pros- Endowment Committee Mentor Travel Funds perity of the MSA endowment. The gener- 1996-1 997 Alexopoulos ous support of the members who make Barksdale-Raper cash donations to the named funds is grate- A total of $15,505.25 was raised by the Bigelow endowment committee between July 1, Butler fully acknowledged. Individual donors to 1996 and June 30, 1997. This includes Denison the several endowment programs will be funds raised through the auction and t-shirt Fitzpatrick acknowledged in a forthcoming issue of Fuller Inoculum. Members whose contributions sales from the 1996 annual meeting and Korf contributions to the named funds within Luttrell of mycological memorabilia to the auction the MSA endowment. Combined auction Thiers help make this event an annual success are and t-shirt sales from the 1996 annual Uecker also gratefilly acknowledged. Special Wells thanks are due to members whose fund- meeting totaled $3,985.25. Donations to Total Mentor Mentor Travel funds for the past year to- Funds raising efforts have helped to focus atten- taled $4,135.00, combined donations to tion on individual endowment programs. research award funds was $6,960.00, and Graduate Research Funds June Wang, Harold Keller, and Arthur Backus Fund 9,800.00 an additional $100 was donated to the Welden deserve special appreciation for uncommitted endowment for various pur- Senior Research Funds their efforts in obtaining contributions to poses. Including the uncommitted endow- Martin-Baker 23,467.89 the Martin-Baker fund. The $5,530 do- ment, the balances of the named funds A. and H. Smith 23,921.62 nated to the Martin-Baker Fund this year reflects the response to their direct mailing now stands at approximately $147,050 Special Prize Funds exclusive of interest income. At our cur- Alexopoulos 8,999.83 aimed at adding to this fund. Meredith rent rate of growth, we should target a Prize Blackwell, as always, spent much effort to $200,000 endowment in two to three years help organize the annual auction and Uncommitted Funds t-shirt sales and the mycological geneol- and we should be prepared to augment our Uncommitted* 29,2 17.95 ogy for the 1996 Indianapolis meeting. the great demand for its goods and services program might come from regional univer- The photo display and sale organized by by industry and the medical field. Some of sities that have strong plant science pro- Don Hemmes and Fred Spiegel is now an the revenue from Cell Biology is used to grams. annual event that has enjoyed great success supplement the other Collections which Also discussed was the issue of in the past few years and continues to gain have high archival costs vs. low product whether journals, specifically Mycologia, popularity. We are hoping for a record sale demand. Recent concerns about the demise should require as a condition of publica- of photographs at this year's meeting. Faye of the Plant Virology Collection have been tion, the deposition in culture collections Munin has organized the production of allayed as the ATCC has now hired a new of "key" specimens/strains referenced in t-shirts this year with a very attractive virologist to assume responsibility for that research articles. Although the importance Lepiota design, and Karen Nakasone has collection. Total distribution is down for having research cultures readily avail- organized the sales of enameled mushroom somewhat from 1993 coinciding with a able to the scientific community was rec- pins for this year's meeting. Please join me recession in the biotechnology industry ognized, it was concluded that the ATCC in extending thanks to all these members during that time. Grants and contracts for did not have the resources available to whose contributions of their valuable time supporting ATCC's core activities, i.e. support the APAD activities required for and energy has gone into making our en- "APAD (acquisition, preservation, this massive effort. It was suggested that dowment fund prosper. authentication, and distribution), have Mycologia institute a policy on distribu- The Mentor travel funds in particular shown a steady decline from 75% funding tion by the authors and that the ATCC have been very successful during the past ten years ago to 16% today. Clearly, this is might implement a non-accession distri- few years. The amounts of the travel sti- not only a concern for the ATCC but for bution policy whereby material would be pends has been increased from $150 to all scientific societies that depend on this distributed for a fee as long as the demand $300, and 15 students received stipends to invaluable resource. existed. support their attendance at this year's Future goals and strategies of the It recently has come to the attention of meeting. This program is clearly effective ATCC include: 1) developing and seeking the ATCC that Dr. Robert Mortimer, cu- in promoting participation at the annual ownership of value-added products de- rator of the Yeast Genetic Stock Center at meetings by students early in their careers. rived from APAD activities; 2) building on the University of California, Berkeley, will This year the American Phytopathological its reputation for providing quality refer- be retiring in the very near future and is Society initiated a similar program mod- ence standards, for example, in the field of willing to transfer the entire collection of eled after the MSA's to promote student forensic science; 3) expanding collabora- over 1200 genetically defined strains of participation in meetings. As the MSA tions with George Mason University; 4) Saccharomyces cerevisiae to the ATCC. endowment continues its steady pace of increasing revenues from its educational At the request of the ATCC and as a mem- growth, our focus should be on the future and training programs by eliminating ber of the ATCC Mycology Advisory and how best to direct the earnings from poorly attended workshops, applying for Committee I have written a letter in sup- these funds for the long term benefit of grants from the Howard Hughes Founda- port of ATCC's acquisition of this valu- mycology and of the society. tion with possible matching funds from the able biological resource. This and other Respectfully submitted, Virginia Center for Innovative Technol- documents will be included in a proposal Jeffrey Stone ogy, and exploring the possibility for pri- for funding to support the accession and MSA Endowment Committee mary and secondary teacher training work- conservation of this collection. 10 July, 1997 shops; 5) improving the marketing of Respectively submitted, products, particularly in the area of mo- Albert P. Torzilli, ATCC Representative Report of the Representa- lecular biology; 6) establishing a differen- tive to the American Type tial pricing scale for archival vs. research Report Of The International vs. biotechnology applications; 7) in- Affairs Committee Culture Collection creasing research and grantsmanship by The International Affairs Committee was The ATCC Board of Scientific Directors staff scientists; 8) promoting the concept authorized by MSA Council at the 1996 convened for its Annual Meeting on De- of ATCC as a "global knowledge and meeting in Indianapolis. Subsequently, the cember 12, 1996. The various committee service company." following members were appointed to the and executive reports summarized the Within the context of increased indus- Committee by President Jim Ginns: Dick current status and future goals of the trial interest in molecular plant sciences, Hanlin, Chair; Joe Ammirati; Teresa Itur- ATCC. In terms of revenue, the Cell Biol- Dr. Peter Day summarized a proposal to riaga; Linda Kohn; D. Jean Lodge; and ogy Collection generated the most profit establish a Plant Sciences Division at the Orlando Petrini. The function of the (approximately 50% of revenues) with the ATCC where the ATCC would I) be a Committee is to serve as a liaison between Bacteriology Collection ranking second at source of plant DNA constructs, 2) main- MSA and other mycological societies, and 25% and the rest of the Collections tain reference lines of transgenic plants, 3) to improve communications between MSA (Mycology, Protistology, Virology, and house a national plant data base in the members in the U.S. and other countries. Molecular Biology) accounting for the public domain, 4) maintain plant cell cul- A column entitled "MSA Interna- remaining 25%. The Mycology Collection tures and special plant collections, 5) pro- tional" was initiated in Inoculum, with the essentially breaks even while some of the vide special services such as the detection purpose of presenting reports on interna- other collections lose money. Cell Biol- of pathogens in seed lots. Support of this ogy's robust performance is attributed to tional activities involving MSA members. Brief summaries of international myco- rial Fellowship. The winner has already representative would be welcome to sit in logical meetings and short profiles of my- been announced in their newsletter, The on some of the NAMA meetings, but that cological societies in other countries will Mycophile (Vol. 38,4, JulylAug. 1997), as designation of the precise label for such a also be included. The column is intended being Daniel Linder Czerdpiltz. Two ear- representative needed to be discussed at for inclusion in each issue of Inoculum, lier recipients were James Johnson in 1996 the next NAMA council meeting. As out- although this did not occur this year due to and Greg Saenz in 1995. NAMA is, of going chair of the MSA amateur liaison travels by the Committee Chair. Members course, interested in promoting the study committee I again suggest that MSA ap- are invited to submit items of interest for of macrofungi such as mushrooms, puff- prove funds to assist the chair of this the column. Our goal is to make USIMSA balls etc. as these are the groups most committee in attending the NAMA meet- members more aware of what is happening likely to be of interest to their member- ings on behalf of MSA. A suggested mycologically in other countries. ship. With this in mind, I am told, recipi- amount is $600 and is primarily intended The Committee will also serve as a ents should be students studying such to offset airfare and other travel costs. If a clearing house to facilitate contact between fungi in the field for at least part of the NAMA foray is held close to the chair's members who have journals they no longer reserirch period, or at least working on state or province a lesser amount will be want and those who can use these journals. macrofungi, rather than students conduct- needed. This show of good faith will help The Committee cannot receive andlor ship ing strictly laboratory-based projects or foster positive relations between the two journals due to lack of space and funds, strictly working on microfungi. Addition- groups. but a file of persons wanting to dispose of ally, NAMA has asked that the holders of Both the MSA Liaison Committee and or obtain journals will be established. In- their fellowship prepare an article for pub- the Society executive have been proactive dividual members of the Committee pro- lication in their society's journal, Mcll- in interacting with amateur societies this vided journals to Africa, Brazil and Korea vainea. Thus far they have not received past year. Among these interactions there during the past year. MSA members in any contributions but they also realize that was the participation of Jim Ginns at the other countries are encouraged to let the research projects span several years. It is Leni Schalkwijk foray held last September Committee know if journals are needed by here suggested that as a regular responsi- in Jasper, Alberta, where Jim presented a them or their institutions. bility of the MSA liaison committee, that letter of thanks on behalf of MSA to Mrs. Although activities have been modest reminders be sent to the winners to ensure Schalkwijk, author of Mushrooms of West- this first year, progress has been made and that there is follow through. ern Canada for her contributions to my- additional activities are anticipated for the This year the 1997 NAMA foray is cology. Lectures were given by several coming year. being held in Colorado. Its theme is other MSA members at this celebration of Respectfully submitted, "Colorado Mycology: A Symbiosis Be- an amateur who influenced mycology. Richard T. Hanlin, Chair tween Amateur and Professional Mycolo- These included Margaret Barr Bigelow, gists." Dr. Joe Ammirati is the chief my- Keith Egger, Scott Redhead, and the or- MSA Amateur Liaison cologist and other notable MSA members ganizer, Randy Currah. President Ginns Committee are contributing: Mike Castellano, Dennis also gave a lecture to the Toronto Myco- Desjardin, Roy Halling, Harold Keller, logical Society. Interaction between amateur mushroom Bryce Kendrick, Meinhard Moser, Ron Committee members participated in societies and the Mycological Society of Petersen, Rob Reinsvold, Emanuel Salz- other amateur-oriented functions. Talks America continues to develop and several man, Jack States, Walter Sundberg, Hany were given to the Oregon Mycological opportunities to improve the liaison are Thiers, Rod Tulloss and Nancy Weber. Society by Lorelei Nowell and Scott Red- now presenting themselves. Following the These MSA members are primarily at- head on separate occasions, while Lorelei last annual meeting of MSA, President Jim tending as expert identifiers or speakers Nowell entertained the Humboldt Bay Ginns and Past President Don Pfister at- and in most cases their registration fees Mycological Society, sewed on the faculty tended the joint North American Myco- and accommodation are waived, while of the 1996 Breitenbush Wild Mushroom logical Association (NAMA) and North- travel may also be covered for principal Conference, and acted as field trip leader eastern Mycological Foray, where they participants. None specifically represents to Mt. Hood for the Annual Meeting of the met with various representatives. MSA officially. Last year it was suggested North American Congress of Clinical As a result of these meetings NAMA de- to MSA council by the MSA liaison com- Toxicology. cided to increase their contribution to the mittee that MSA reciprocate the NAMA In combined roles as a professional NAMA Memorial Fellowship, from generosity (fellowship) by helping to fund agaricologist and as chair of the Amateur $1,000 to $2,000 US. This was in keeping participation by an official MSA repre- Liaison Committee I began a long series of with the increased amounts that MSA was sentative at NAMA annual meetings. Jim discussions with Betty Guttman, editor of awarding as fellowships. This is very gen- Ginns in discussion with the chair NAMA's journal Mcllvainea over the erous of an amateur-based society. (Redhead) agreed that a member of the quality of some recent contributions in an In the past there has been some confusion liaison committee might be the appropriate effort to correct misinformation. These over this fellowship, i.e. its intent, its des- representative. NAMA President Allein discussions are on-going. ignation, etc. NAMA would like to be able Stanley indicated by phone to me that she As indicated in the last report, two to designate who it is honouring each year believed that liaison between NAMA and committee members, Lorelei Norvell and I, by appending a name such as this year MSA could be improved and that an MSA initiated an amateurlprofessional ques- where it is the Rolf Singer NAMA Memo- tionlanswer column in the publication, Culture Collections Denis Desjardin will become Chair of the Mushroom, the Journal of Wild Mush- Committee Committee. The activity of the Committee rooming. Four articles have been pub- for 199611997 included: We have published one informational lished thus far with positive feedback from 1. Ad hoc advice on nomenclature by manuscript on culture collections and an- the amateur community (and a few gripes). members of the Committee to help with other is nearing completion. Published: Allein Stanley (NAMA President) indi- interpretation of the Code. Dugan, F.M., and G. Ma. 1997. Acces- cated that she felt these were beneficial 2. Publication of explanatory papers on sioning of fungi and yeasts at ATCC. In- articles in patching over some of the divi- nomenclature: A culture still cannot be a oculum 48: 1-2. In preparation: Dugan, sions between amateurs and professionals. nomenclatural type. Inoculum 47 (2): 1-2, F.M., and K. Nakasone. Mapping the mi- With the onset of molecular systematics, 1996. (Samuels, Lizon, Desjardin). Exer- crobial universe: the importance of collec- liaising is a much needed art form. cises in nomenclature I. Inoculum 47(2): tions for fungal systematics (provisional Finally it should be noted that an 3, 1996. (Lizon, Samuels, Desjardin). title). Richard Humber has reviewed the amateur mushroom club is helping to host Taxonomy and nomenclature defined. latter manuscript. Neither Karen Nakasone this year's AIBS/MSA meetings. Cercle Inoculum 48(4), 1997, submitted. (Lizon, nor Ali Ma are members of the committee, des mycologues de Montreal is conducting Samuels) but both work with culture collections and a preconference field trip, Fungi of Lorelei Nowell (with Scott Redhead, they agreed to coauthor the above manu- Ste-Ursule Falls, Que. former Chair of the Committee) helped to scripts. I thank the Mycological Society of make the nomenclature more understand- Frank Dugan, Chair America for the opportunity to serve on able to the amateurs in the journal Mush- this Committee and hopefully have as- room [14(4), 1996, 15(1), 1996, 15(3), sisted in the vromotion of mvcolo~~- -- be- Report of the MSA Advi- 19971. This is acknowledged here even tween the two groups represented by MSA SOry Committee on Nomen- though it was not a direct activity of our and various NAMA members. clature Committee. Respectfully submitted by, The Advisory Committee on Nomencla- The Committee did not meet in person Scott A. Redhead, Chair ture was composed of Pavel Lizon, Chair, but all members kept in touch by e-mail. Denis E. Desjardin and Lorelei L. Nowell. Respectfully submitted, Pavel Lizon will be retiring this year and Pavel Lizon, Chair
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