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85TH MEETING OF THE MSA July 16–19, 2017, ATHENS, GA / #MSA17 WIFI INFORMATION SENSITIVE INFORMATION HASHTAG Classic Center provides Please respect researchers’ wish #MSA17 complimentary WiFi: not to share certain sensitive data. If you see this icon on slides or a Classic Center Guest poster, please do not photograph or share on social media. BULLETIN BOARD FOR POSTING MESSAGES: FOUNDRY BUILDING NEAR REGISTRATION DESK TO VIEW ABSTRACTS goo.gl/TGS84K TO VIEW ONLINE PROGRAM goo.gl/xaU9D3 VISIT EXHIBITORS IN THE REGISTRATION LOBBY DURING THE MEETING. EXHIBITORS INCLUDE TAYLOR & FRANCIS, MARTIN MICROSCOPE COMPANY, AND FUNGIDB < ON THE COVER: Conference logo created by Chase G. Mayers, Iowa State University. 85TH MEETING OF THE MSA JULY 16–19, 2017, ATHENS, GA / #MSA17 TABLE OF CONTENTS SYMPOSIUM & UGA SPONSORS 2 MSA 2017 STUDENT & POSTDOC EVENTS 2 MSA OFFICERS, COUNCILORS & COMMITTEE MEMBERS 3 DISTINCTIONS AND AWARDS 4–7 MSA 2017 / KARLING LECTURE 8 PROGRAM 9–27 POSTER PRESENTATIONS 16–22 INDEX OF PRESENTING AUTHORS 28–30 CENTRAL ATHENS-CLARKE COUNTY MAP 31 UGA CAMPUS AND DOWNTOWN ATHENS MAP 32 CONFERENCE VENUE MAP 34–35 DOWNTOWN ATHENS RESTAURANT GUIDE 36 IMC11 2018 INTERNATIONAL MYCOLOGICAL CONGRESS INSIDE BACK COVER SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE BACK COVER JULY 16–19, 2017, ATHENS, GA / #MSA17 1 SYMPOSIUM SPONSORS Financial support for the two symposia is made possible through the generous funding by the following sponsors: · Mycological Society of America Sloan Foundation · We also thank an anonymous donor for a generous contribution in support of the symposia. UGA SPONSORS We thank the University of Georgia Office of Research, the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, and the Department of Plant Pathology for providing financial support and accommodations for the MSA 2017 workshops and foray. TAYLOR & FRANCIS We thank Taylor & Francis for their sponsorship of MSA 2017. Student & Postdoc events at MSA 2017: Sunday 16 July 2017 Student Section Board Meeting STUDENT & POSTDOC EVENTS5-6 PM SUNDAY 16 JULY 2017 Tuesday 18 July 2017 Career Luncheon 5:00–6:00 pm 12:45pm - 1:30pm STUDENT SECTION BOARD MEETING Student Section Poster Session Willow Room, Classic Center 5-6pm Student Section Social 7:30-9:30PM TUESDAY 18 JULY 2017 12:45 to 1:30 pm 4:30 to 6:00 pm 7:30 to 9:30 pm MSA STUDENT/CAREER VISIT THE STUDENT SECTION MSA STUDENT SOCIAL LUNCHEON POSTER (#13) Lobby of 130 Foundry Street/ Willow Room, Classic Center High Shoals Room 1 & 2, Classic Center Terrace, Classic Center 2 85TH MEETING OF THE MSA MSA OFFICERS Georgiana May, President (2016-2017) Tom Volk, President-Elect (2016-2017) Sharon A. Cantrell, Vice President (2016-2017) Sarah Bergemann, Executive Vice President (2015-2018) Chris Schardl, Treasurer (2016-2019) Kerry O’Donnell, Past President (2016-2017) D. Jean Lodge, Past-Past President (2016-2017) MSA COUNCILORS Terry Hill, Councilor, Cell Biology/Physiology (2015-2017) Heather Hallen-Adams, Councilor, Cell Biology/Physiology (2016-2018) Andrea Porras-Alfaro, Councilor, Ecology/Pathology (2015-2017) Todd Osmundson, Councilor, Ecology/Pathology (2016-2018) Kathryn Bushley, Councilor, Genetics/Molecular Biology (2015-2017) Lisa Grubisha, Councilor, Genetics/Molecular Biology (2016-2018) Nicole Hynson, Councilor, Systematics/Evolution (2015-2017) Else Vellinga, Councilor, Systematics/Evolution (2016-2018) MSA PROGRAM COMMITTEE 2017 David Geiser Clark Ovrebo Clark Ovrebo (Chair) Tony Glenn Kayla Pennerman Don Pfister Lisa Grubisha Don Pfister Lisa Grubisha Heather Hallen-Adams Andrea Porras-Alfaro Tony Glenn Hannah Halpern Robby Roberson Christopher Smyth Paris Hamm Chris Schardl Don Hemmes Conrad Schoch MSA VOLUNTEERS Tom Horton Keith Seifert Karen Hughes Brian Shaw Annakay Abrahams Tim James Jason Slot Cathie Aime Christina Jones Chris Smyth Charles Bacon Nicole Jozwiak Joey Spatafora Tim Baroni Earl Kang Jason Stajich Mary Berbee Jean Lodge Leilani Sumabat Sarah Bergemann John Ludwig Terry Torres Cruz Meredith Blackwell Georgiana May Else Vellinga Marin Brewer Tami McDonald Tom Volk Andi Bruce Alex Mela Allison Walker Megan Buland Andrew Methven Andy Wilson Kathryn Bushley Andy Miller Sharon Cantrell Michelle Momany MSA LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS Lori Carris Stephen Mondo COMMITTEE Cynthia Chan Geromy Moore Abigail Courtney Greg Mueller Marin Brewer, Chair Marc Cubeta Alija Mujic Cynthia Chan Bryn Dentinger Marina Nadal Anthony Glenn Ilkay Dörter Don Natvig Aileen Ferraro Kerry O’Donnell MSA FORAY COORDINATOR Hugo Gao Todd Osmundson Anthony Glenn JULY 16–19, 2017, ATHENS, GA / #MSA17 3 DISTINCTIONS AND AWARDS together agencies and stakeholders, colleagues and students, and synergistic groups of peers through her DISTINGUISHED MYCOLOGIST AWARDS many symposia and workshops throughout the Caribbean and the world at large. She has described over 100 fungal species new to science and eight new genera. Her work on The Distinguished Mycologist Award is one of the highest documenting fungal biodiversity has resulted in databases awards bestowed by the MSA, and it is designed to that reach across disciplinary and national boundaries, recognize individuals that have a truly distinguished career in greatly advancing the cause of mycology and role of the field of mycology in terms of either research or service. mycologists in conservation, ecology, and policy-making on a global scale. Her knowledge of fungal hybridization, plant-fungal associations, and the interface of fungal ecology and global processes such as climate change will have lasting impacts on all aspects of mycology. These broad impacts complement her engagement in personally welcoming, training, and supporting young scientists and the efforts of mycologists as a whole. A tremendous naturalist, tropical ecologist, and molecular biologist, Dr. Lodge is an incredible force in fungal biology, and truly an outstanding mycologist. DR. D. JEAN LODGE Dr. D. Jean Lodge earned her BS degree in Botany at Kent State University, her MS in Plant Pathology at North Carolina State University, and her Ph.D. in Botany and Ecology at North Carolina State University in 1985. Distinguished in her early academic studies by her diverse thesis projects, which ranged in focus from measuring species distributions of insects in temperate streams to evaluating genetic variation and epidemiology in pathogenic fungi affecting crops in the southeastern US, Dr. Lodge established herself as a fungal ecologist through her doctoral studies of mycorrhizal fungi affiliated with eastern cottonwood. Complementing her northern DR. ROY EDWARD HALLING experiences with engagement in Mexico, the Caribbean, Born in Iowa, Dr. Roy Edward Halling began his and Central America, Dr. Lodge soon stepped into mycological career at San Francisco State University, the mycological spotlight as a remarkably integrative, where he earned a Master’s degree in 1976 studying innovative, and creative mycologist with uncommon boletes under the tutelage of Distinguished Mycologist knowledge of tropical forest systems. After several years Harry Thiers. After meeting his future bride, Harry’s of experience with the Center for Energy and Environment daughter, Roy headed east to the University of Research at the University of Puerto Rico (PR), she Massachusetts, where he received a PhD in 1980 studying became a research scientist there in 1985, and since that the northeastern representatives of the genus Collybia time has developed a rich, diverse, and highly productive under the direction of Howard Bigelow. After receiving his career with the USDA-Forest Service Center for Forest doctorate, Roy post-doc’d at Harvard’s Farlow Herbarium Mycology Research and Forest Products Laboratory in San for three years and then in 1983 began work at the New Juan, PR. Recognized for her publications, mentorship, York Botanical Garden where he has been ever since, outreach, and impact by organizations such as the USDA, currently serving as Curator of Mycology. In addition, over the Puerto Rican Mycological Society, the Institute of the past 30+ years Roy has held adjunct professorships at Tropical Forestry, and others, Dr. Lodge was named a the City University of New York, Columbia University and Fellow of both the Mycological Society of America and the Fordham University where he has trained numerous PhD American Association for the Advancement of Sciences in mycology students. 2001. Throughout her professional life Dr. Lodge has had an exceptionally distinguished career at the forefront of Dr. Halling is a world-renowned expert on the systematics fungal ecology, systematics, and tropical biology, with over of agarics and boletes, that is, the charismatic megafungi. 150 publications that together reflect her energy, creativity, He has conducted extensive fieldwork throughout the engagement with the natural world, forward-thinking world, making significant contributions to knowledge research, top-quality collaborations, and exceptional of fungal diversity in North America, Central and South mentorship of junior scientists. She consistently brings 4 85TH MEETING OF THE MSA < DR. ROY EDWARD HALLING CONSTANTINE J. ALEXOPOULOS PRIZE America, Australia and Southeast Asia. Fieldwork does not come cheap Awarded annually to an outstanding mycologist early in their career. nor happen in isolation. Roy has been The nominees are evaluated primarily on the basis of quality, originality, well-supported with numerous grants and quantity of their published work. from the National Science Foundation and the National Geographic Society totaling over $2.2 million.