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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. Some highlights include surveying the diversity of Macrofungi of Costa Rica, Monographic studies of Collybia from South America, contributing to the Basidiomycetes of the Greater Antilles, the Macrofungi of Fraser Island, Australia, and Boletes in Queensland, Australia. During his travels, he has mentored many young professional mycologists, parataxonomists and DR. KABIR G. PEAY mushroom enthusiasts around the Dr. Kabir G. Peay received his B.A. from the University of California, globe. He is a prolific scholar and his Santa Barbara, M.E.Sc. from Yale University, and Ph.D. from the list of collaborators fills several pages. University of California, Berkeley in 2008. He was a postdoctoral If you work on fleshy fungi you have scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and then at Stanford probably co-published with Roy—he is University, before joining the University of Minnesota in 2011. In 2012 incredibly gracious with his time and he returned to Stanford University as an Assistant Professor. His expertise. He is currently spearheading publication and citation statistics are extremely impressive, indicative an international team of mycologists of his role as a pioneer in emerging approaches and concepts of studying the global diversity and fungal ecology. In particular, he has developed innovative techniques phylogeny of the Boletineae. to evaluate spatial structure of fungal communities, elucidated fungal dispersal patterns and limitations, and investigated functional diversity Roy has served the Mycological of fungal communities in the soil. He has landmark publications in Society of America with dedication numerous high-profile research journals including Ecology, Ecology and distinction. He was our first Letters, Molecular Ecology, New Phytologist, and Proceedings of the Webmaster, bringing the MSA into National Academy of Science. (Also, we cannot fail to mention his the modern world. This was followed coauthorship of Spongiforma squarepantsii, described in Mycologia.) by Vice President, then President His citation record is particularly impressive, highlighting the quality, in 2008–2009. He has contributed rigor, and disciplinary- and interdisciplinary excellence of his work. extensively to Mycologia as Managing Dr. Peay’s findings indicate structure in fungal communities that, Editor, Index Editor, Associate Editor, at larger geographical scales, strongly reflects limits to dispersal. Managing Editor of Mycologia Memoirs, His group’s investigations have also found extensive functional and as a member of the Editorial redundancies among geographically distinct fungal communities, such Advisory Committee. Our society that fungal consortia in soil exhibit similar metabolic functions in widely has benefited greatly from Roy’s hard separated locations. These findings are highly relevant to conservation work, insightfulness, collegiality and efforts, considering for example, the importance of many soil fungi international experience. as mycorrhizal symbionts. Dr. Peay has an exceptional ability to communicate his findings and their importance to the broad scientific Dr. Roy Halling has positively impacted community well beyond ecologists or mycologists alone. In the past the professional lives of all who are year he published two very high profile reviews, one in Nature Reviews currently studying the diversity and Microbiology and the other in Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution evolution of agarics and boletes. As and Systematics. To date he has ably advised seven Ph.D. students stated by Distinguished Mycologist and three postdocs. He is an Early Career Fellow of the Ecological Tim Baroni “he is just simply one of Society of America (ESA), and serves on editorial boards of Fungal the best scientists I know.” Ask any Ecology and FEMS Microbiology Ecology. He is highly sought after mushroom systematist in the world as a speaker at institutions and meetings worldwide, including ESA about Roy, and they will expound on his and Gordon conferences. In addition to his considerable research significant contributions to mycology accomplishments, he is also recognized for his excellent mentoring and and mycologists, confirming that he is teaching. Thus, through teaching and research he brings mycology to indeed a distinguished mycologist. the forefront of scientific and public interest in our living planet.

JULY 16–19, 2017, ATHENS, GA / #MSA17 5 THE GORDON AND TINA WASSON HONORARY AWARDS AWARD MSA FELLOWS The Gordon and Tina Wasson Award is designed to recognize people with non-traditional academic MSA Fellows are selected from members who backgrounds who have made outstanding contributions have completed at least 11 years of service after to the field of mycology, or who have widely transmitted their Ph.D. They are members who are outstanding significant scientific or aesthetic knowledge about fungi to mycologists on the basis of one or more criteria: the general public. Nominees for the award are judged on a solid record of mycological research, and/or the basis of the impact and quality of their contributions successful teaching and development of teaching and on their sustained commitment to the field of materials for mycology, and/or significant service mycology. to the Society. This is meant to recognize a core group of mid-career mycological achievers and outstanding MSA volunteers.

GARY LINCOFF DR. N. LOUISE GLASS If you haven’t had the chance to walk through the world Dr. Glass is Professor in the Plant and Microbial with Gary Lincoff, reading his nomination letters will leave Biology Department of the University of California, you jealous. According to these letters he’s a generator Berkeley, and Director of the Division of of “incessant, hilarous mycospeak, a guru of the myco- Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology, masses”, someone who can “identify a mushroom, give at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. a discourse on its scientific name, and dance to tribal She received a PhD from the University of drums while dressed as the Mad Hatter all in the space California, Davis, and has performed pioneering of five minutes”. Sure, there are serious accolades as research in molecular genetics of Neurospora, well. To appreciate Gary’s impact on mycology one writer including genetics of mating, non-self recognition, suggests “the six books that he has written or co-written mechanisms of cell-cell fusion, and lignocellulose and the four books that he has edited are a good place decomposition. She is the author of over 100 to start…”. Many of the letters mention his field guide research articles and 27 review papers. Dr. Glass “The Audobon Society Field Guide to North American has trained many young scientists; currently, her Mushrooms”. Gary is clearly a fantastically gifted group includes five postdoctoral fellows and five communicator, a passionate advocate for biodiversity and PhD students. Dr. Glass has served the MSA as an unstoppable guide to all things fungal. Still, if I had my a member of the Council, Awards Committee, choice between his book and a day with the man who and Editorial Board of Mycologia, and she has “throws out Latin like.. a priest on Sunday”, I know what also delivered the annual Karling Lecture. She I’d choose. Gary, congratulations. Thank you for bringing also performs extensive service for other journals your curiosity and creativity to our world. and organizations and has been recognized as a Fellow of the AAAS and the American Society of Microbiology (among other awards).

6 85TH MEETING OF THE MSA MSA FELLOWS MSA HONORARY MEMBER

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. BRENDA WINGFIELD DR. P. BRANDON MATHENY Dr. Wingfield is Professor of Genetics at the University Dr. Matheny is Associate Professor in the of Pretoria, South Africa. Her specialties include Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology fungal evolutionary genetics, with particular interests of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He has in systematics, population biology, and molecular particular interests in systematics of mushrooms, diagnostics of plant pathogenic fungi, as well as fungal including fieldwork and taxonomy, molecular viruses, genomics, and other subjects. Dr. Wingfield has phylogenetics, and comparative methods. He is a been a tremendously productive and influential researcher. world expert on the difficult genus Inocybe, and She has published over 350 peer-reviewed articles Agaricales in general. Dr. Matheny has published and thirteen chapters and conference proceedings. Dr. over 80 peer-reviewed articles, including work Wingfield has invested a tremendous amount of energy that helped establish RNA polymerase genes into mentoring graduate students and postdoctoral as major markers in fungal systematics. He has fellows. She has served in advisory capacity for about 46 received the MSA Graduate Fellowship, Graduate honors students, 52 Master’s students, 56 PhD students, Student Research Prize, and Martin-Baker Award. and 20 postdoctoral fellows. In recent years, she has Dr. Matheny has served the MSA as a member of served as Deputy Dean and Acting Dean of the Faculty the Education Committee, Biodiversity Committee, of Natural and Agricultural Sciences of the University and the Editorial Board of Mycologia. He received of Pretoria. In this capacity she has worked to provide two teaching awards during his doctoral work at training opportunities for South African students in the University of Washington and has continued diverse aspects of natural science. Dr. Wingfield received his excellence in mentoring at the University of a Master’s degree from the University of Minnesota and Tennessee, as documented by the numerous a PhD from the University Stellenbosch. She has been students seeking to join his lab. Dr. Matheny highly engaged with the MSA and the international is active in service and outreach, including mycological community ever since. She has been invited presentations to amateur mycology clubs and to give numerous lectures at international conferences consultation to poison centers. and she has received multiple awards, including the Christiaan Hendrik Persoon Medal from the Southern African Society for Plant Pathology. She is currently the Executive Secretary General of the International Society of Plant Pathology, and serves on the Editorial Board of Fungal Biology.

JULY 16–19, 2017, ATHENS, GA / #MSA17 7 MSA 2017 / KARLING LECTURE

CORE EFFECTORS IN SMUTH FUNGI: AN AMAZING TREASURE BOX

Dr. Regine Kahmann Max Planch Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology Marburg, Germany

Dr. Kahmann’s education and experience: studies in Microbiology, Universität Göttingen, 1967-1972; Diplom (Biology), Universität Göttingen, 1972; Dr. rer. nat (Biology), Freie Universität Berlin, 1972-1974; Postdoc and Junior Staff Member, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1974-1980; Research Associate, Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried, 1980-1982; Leader of an independent Research Group, Otto-Warburg Laboratory at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, 1982-1986; Leader of an independent Research Group at the Institute for Genebiological Research in Berlin, 1987-1992; Professor of Genetics, Institute for Genetics and Microbiology at the Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität München, 1992-2001; Director and Head of the Department of Organismic Interactions at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg, since 2000; Professor of Genetics, Philipps-Universität Marburg, since 4/2001; President, International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, since 2016.

The aim of Dr. Kahmann’s research is to understand how fungi manage to infect plants. Her research group focuses on a group of fungi that are pathogens of grasses and cereal crop plants and cause so-called smut diseases. The group’s prime model is the biotrophic fungus Ustilago maydis that induces tumors in infected corn plants. To establish itself in the plant tissue that needs to stay alive in order to support the infection, U. maydis secretes a battery of mostly completely novel effector proteins. These effectors are used to suppress plant immune responses and to reprogram the metabolism of the host to benefit fungal needs. The research goal is to determine where these effectors go after being secreted into the plant-fungus interface, what their molecular function is, how they have evolved in the arms-race between pathogen and host and how their expression is regulated.

TUESDAY, JULY 18 FROM 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

LOCATION: EMPIRE 1 & 2, CLASSIC CENTER

8 85TH MEETING OF THE MSA PROGRAM

SATURDAY, JULY 15

Teaching Zygomycetes Workshop 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Miller Plant Science Building, Room 2108, University of Georgia Campus

MSA Council Meeting 9:30 am – 4:00 pm Willow Room, Classic Center

SUNDAY, JULY 16

Foray to Unicoi State Park 8:00 am - 3:30 pm Helen, GA (Depart from Behind Classic Center)

Mycoflora 2.0 9:30 am - 3:30 pm Odum School, Glass Conference Room, University of Georgia Campus

Registration 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm Lobby of 130 Foundry Street, Classic Center

Student Section Board Meeting 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Willow Room, Classic Center

Registration 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Entrance to The Foundry, Graduate Athens

MSA Opening Reception 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm The Foundry, Graduate Athens

ORAL PRESENTATIONS Regular oral presentations are 15 minutes long (12 minute-talk and 3 minutes for questions). Symposium presentations are 30 minutes (25 minute-talk and 5 minutes for questions). Presenting authors are underlined.

Oral presentations must be created in Microsoft PowerPoint. PC computers running Microsoft Office 2010 will be provided. If you want to use your own PC or Mac because of complicated movies or other factors, please let the session organizer know before the start of the session, and be prepared to change computers on the fly (a mini DisplayPort (mDP) to VGA/DVI/HDMI converter will be provided). If you are using the provided PC, please load your presentation before the session or during the break using either a USB flash drive or CD-ROM. You are advised to bring your own laser pointer/slide remote.

JULY 16–19, 2017, ATHENS, GA / #MSA17 9 MONDAY, JULY 17

Registration 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Lobby of 130 Foundry Street, Classic Center

Presidential Address - Georgiana May 8:30 am - 9:30 am Empire 1 & 2, Classic Center MON 1 Lucky: A career in mycology 8:30 am Georgiana May

AM Break 9:30 am - 10:00 am Lobby of 130 Foundry St, Classic Center

Ecology & Conservation I 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Oconee River Room 1, Classic Center Chair: Terry Henkel MON 2 Thelephoralean ectomycorrhizal fungi may drive early seedling survival in a Neotropical 10:00 am monodominant tree Terry Henkel , Jordan Mayor , Carolyn Delevich , Matthew E. Smith , M. Catherine Aime MON 3 Community assembly of seedling-colonizing ectomycorrhizal fungi in a neotropical 10:15 am monodominant tree Carolyn Delevich , Rachel A. Koch , Bryn Dentinger , M. Catherine Aime , Matthew E. Smith , Terry Henkel MON 4 Development and decline dynamics of two ectomycorrhizal fungal mat communities in 10:30 am response to a reciprocal soil transfer experiment in old-growth Douglas-fir forests Jed Cappellazzi , Jane Smith , David Myrold MON 5 Ectomycorrhizal community dynamics of Pinaceae invasions in Patagonian Nothofagus 10:45 am forests Alija B. Mujic , Nahuel Policelli , Martin Nuñez , Camille Truong , Matthew E. Smith MON 6 Fungi and ecotourism: high macrofungi richness in tourism concession in the Peruvian 11:00 am Amazon Maria C. Rengifo , Malu I. Ore , Carlos A. Salvador-Montoya , César Arana MON 7 The chaos after the storm: fungal community composition shifts in response to 11:15 am simulated hurricane disturbance Sharon A. Cantrell , Kai Purnell , Krista McGuire MON 8 Survey of Geosmithia species in the southeast United States 11:30 am Yin-Tse Huang , Miroslav Kolarik , Matt Kasson , Jiri Hulcr MON 9 Quantifying temporal and spatial variability in fungivory by eastern chipmunks (Tamias 11:45 am striatus) Ryan Stephens , Erik Hobbie , Rebecca Rowe

10 85TH MEETING OF THE MSA Evolution I 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Oconee River Room 2, Classic Center Chair: Stephen Mondo MON 10 Fungal mating system transitions driven by chromosomal translocations involving 10:00 am intercentromeric recombination Sheng Sun , Vikas Yadav , R. Blake Billmyre , Christina A. Cuomo , Minou Nowrousian, Liuyang Wang , Jean-Luc Souciet , Teun Boekhout , Betina Porcel , Patrick Wincker , Joshua A. Granek , Kaustuv Sanyal , Joseph Heitman MON 11 Extensive copy number variation in fermentation-related genes among Saccharomyces 10:15 am cerevisiae wine strains Jacob Steenwyk, Antonis Rokas MON 12 Rewiring of the gene expression network controlled by a key regulator of fungal 10:30 am development impacts secondary metabolism Matthew Mead , Ming-Yueh Wu , Jae-Hyuk Yu , Antonis Rokas MON 13 Widespread adenine N6-methylation of active genes in fungi 10:45 am Stephen Mondo , Richard Dannebaum , Rita Kuo , Katherine Louie , Adam Bewick, Kurt LaButti , Sajeet Haridas , Alan Kuo , Asaf Salamov , Steven Ahrendt , Robert Schmitz, Andrii Gryganskyi , David Culley , Jon Magnuson , Timothy James , Michelle O’Malley , Jason Stajich , Joseph Spatafora , Axel Visel , Igor Grigoriev MON 14 Fungal gene clusters adapted to degrade plant secondary metabolites 11:00 am Emile Gluck-Thaler, Vinod Vijayakumar, Jason Slot MON 15 Comparative genomics of secondary metabolism in insect and nematode pathogens 11:15 am Rodrigo A. Olarte , Jon Menke , Ying Zhang , Steve Rehner , Joseph Spatafora , Kathryn Bushley MON 16 Evolutionary expansion of the cytoskeletal septin proteins predates diversification in 11:30 am fungal morphology Ben Auxier , Michelle Momany , Mary Berbee

Systematics & Biodiversity I 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Cypress Room 1, Classic Center Chair: Jason Stajich MON 17 Ultrastructural evidence of Rozella allomycis’ phagocytosis of host cytoplasm 10:00 am Martha Powell , Peter Letcher , Timothy James MON 18 Next-Generation sequencing of fungal viromes reveals cryptic mycoviral diversity 10:15 am Jillian Myers, Timothy James MON 19 Phylogenomic resolution of of early diverging fungal lineages 10:30 am Gerald L. Benny , Gregory Bonito , Derreck Carter-House , Nicolas Corradi , Alessandro Desiro , Timothy James , Andrii Gryganskyi , Kerry O’Donnell , Nicole Reynolds , Matthew E. Smith , Ying Chang , Joseph Spatafora , Natalie Vande Pol, Yan Wang , Jason Stajich MON 20 Phylogenomics of Zoopagomycota 10:45 am William J Davis, Kevin Amses, Timothy Y James MON 21 Molecular phylogenetic assessment of the miniature mycoparasite genus Piptocephalis 11:00 am (Zoopagomycota) Nicole Reynolds , Gerald L. Benny , Hsiao-Man Ho , Yu-Han Hou , Matthew E. Smith MON 22 Wrestling with the unculturable and the unsequenceable: Taxonomy and phylogeny of 11:15 am three genera of sporodochial hyphomycetes Keith Seifert, Jonathan Mack, Rafik Assabgui MON 23 What lies beneath? Fungal diversity at the bottom of the Great Lakes. 11:30 am Hannah E. Wahl , Tiffany S. Bone , Daniel B. Raudabaugh , Elizabeth M. Bach , Mark R. Luttenton , Robert H. Cichewicz , Andrew N. Miller MON 24 Do endophytic fungal OTUs equate with species? Does it matter? 11:45 am Mara DeMers, Georgiana May

JULY 16–19, 2017, ATHENS, GA / #MSA17 11 Lunch on Your Own 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Symposium 1: Fungal-Insect Symbioses - From Invasives to Biocontrol 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Empire 1 & 2, Classic Center Chair: Kathryn Bushley MON 25 Exploitation of an ancient fungal-insect symbiosis: Escovopsis, a pathogen of fungus- 2:00 pm growing ant agriculture Nicole Gerardo MON 26 Passalidae (Coleoptera): Beetles that eat decaying wood 2:30 pm Hector Urbina , Meredith Blackwell MON 27 Global diversity and fidelity of Fusarium symbionts among Euwallacea ambrosia beetles 3:00 pm Matt Kasson , Matt Berger , Angie Macias , Ellie Spahr , Teiya Kijimoto , Jiri Hulcr , Craig Bateman , James Skelton , Demian Gomez , You Li , Rabern Simmons , Jason Smith , Adam Black

PM Break 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm Lobby of 130 Foundry Street, Classic Center

Symposium 1: Fungal-Insect Symbioses - From Invasives to Biocontrol 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Empire 1 & 2, Classic Center Chair: Kathryn Bushley MON 28 The hunt for nefarious symbioses in a complex world - experimental, molecular, and 4:00 pm statistical perspectives of bark beetles and fungi James Skelton , Michelle A. Jusino , Paige S. Carlson , Katherine Smith , You Li , Craig Bateman , Mark T. Banik , Daniel L. Lindner , Jonathon M. Palmer , Pham Hong Thai , Jiri Hulcr MON 29 Ambrosia beetle-fungus symbiosis: Significance and opportunities in controlling invasive 4:30 pm Xylosandrus spp. Louela Castrillo, Michael Griggs, John Vandenberg MON 30 Evolutionary history of ambrosia beetle symbiosis in the Ceratocystidaceae 5:00 pm Chase G. Mayers, Thomas C. Harrington

Ecology & Conservation II 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Oconee River Room 1, Classic Center Chair: Todd Osmundson MON 31 Mortierella elongata root endophyte promotes flowering within the Calibrachoa 5:30 pm floriculture system. Lindsey Becker , Marc Cubeta , Rytas Vilgalys MON 32 Species composition and abundance of endorrhizal fungi in Carex pensylvanica 5:45 pm (Cyperaceae) from Wisconsin sand prairies Samuel David, Todd W. Osmundson, Elisabeth Paluch, Meredith Thomsen, Thomas Volk MON 33 Geographic distance and host influence grass root fungal endophytic distribution 6:00 pm Cedric Ndinga Muniania , Terry J. Torres-Cruz , Adeyemi Olanrewaju , Jennifer A. Rudgers , Ari Jumpponen , José Herrera , Andrea Porras-Alfaro MON 34 Endophytic fungi associated with Populus roots 6:15 pm J. Alejandro Rojas , Hui-Ling Liao , Yi-Hong Ke , Gregory Bonito , Khalid Hameed , Christopher Schadt , Jessy Labbé , Rytas Vilgalys MON 35 Effects of analytical parameter settings on estimating patterns in diversity of tropical 6:30 pm leaf-associated fungi Todd W. Osmundson , Amanda Bradley , Matteo Garbelotto MON 36 Community structure and diversity of foliar fungal endophytes along an ecological 6:45 pm staircase Ryoko Oono, Danielle Black, Eric Slessarev, Austen Apigo

12 85TH MEETING OF THE MSA Environmental Health & Medical Mycology 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Oconee River Room 2, Classic Center Chair: Heather E. Hallen-Adams MON 37 Fungal Pharmacy: Using Metarhizium and fungal extracts for honey bee health 5:30 pm Jennifer Han , Nicholas Naeger , Brandon Hopkins , Jay Evans , Paul Stamets , Walter Sheppard , Lori Carris MON 38 Arsenic hyperaccumulation in Cyanoboletus pulverulentus 5:45 pm Jan Borovicka , Simone Braeuer , Walter Goessler , Tereza Konvalinkova , Jan Kamenik MON 39 Genetic diversity of Candida in the healthy human gut, and interactions with a 6:00 pm foodborne yeast Heather E. Hallen-Adams, Nabaraj Banjara MON 40 The population genomics of copy number variation in the opportunistic fungal pathogen 6:15 pm Aspergillus fumigatus Shu Zhao, John Gibbons MON 41 Impacts of weatherization on indoor fungal communities 6:30 pm Roo Vandegrift , Ashkaan Fahimipour , Jeff Kline , Alejandro Manzo , Dale Northcutt , Jason Stenson , Hannah Wilson , Ryann Crowley , Erica Hartmann , Deborah Johnson- Shelton , G.Z. Brown , Jessica Green , Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg MON 42 Membrane damage-responsive biosensors for the discovery of antimicrobials from 6:45 pm Alberta environmental fungal isolates Steven Shideler , Shauna Reckseidler-Zenteno , Roland Treu , Azka Qasim , Shawn Lewenza

Mycoflora Session 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Cypress Room 1, Classic Center Chair: Tom Bruns & Bill Sheehan The session will describe Mycoflora 2.0 and encourage engagement by MSA members. The project will enlist mushroom enthusiasts and professional mycologists to voucher and sequence macrofungal specimens on a scale and at a rate unattainable by professionals working on their own. Mycoflora 2.0 aims to make online documentation, sequencing and conservation of collections in fungaria easy and inexpensive for serious amateurs working in coordination with professionals. The project is an outgrowth of the 2012 North American Mycoflora Project.

Dinner on Your Own 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Volunteer’s Social 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Galleria 2, Graduate Athens

Mycologia Editorial Board Meeting 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Willow Room, Classic Center

JULY 16–19, 2017, ATHENS, GA / #MSA17 13 TUESDAY, JULY 18

Registration 8:00 am - 12:00 pm Lobby of 130 Foundry Street, Classic Center

Karling Lecture - Regine Kahmann 8:30 am - 9:30 am Empire 1 & 2, Classic Center

AM Break 9:30 am - 10:00 am Lobby of 130 Foundry Street, Classic Center

Ecology & Conservation III 10:00 am - 11:45 am Oconee River Room 1, Classic Center Chair: Noah Youseff TUES 1 Fungal communities in soybean cyst nematode-infested soils 10:00 am Noah Strom , Weiming Hu , Deepak Rajendran , Senyu Chen , Kathryn Bushley TUES 2 Diversity and function of temperate bog and stream fungi 10:15 am Daniel B. Raudabaugh , Andrew N. Miller TUES 3 The roles of endolithic fungi in bioerosion and disease in marine ecosystems: general 10:30 am concepts and specific roles of Aspergillus sydowii in causing disease in reef corals Frank Gleason, Michael Gadd, John Pitt, Anthony Larkum TUES 4 Fungal diversity and biogeography in the forest soil of the Republic of Korea 10:45 am Seung-Yoon Oh , Myung Soo Park , Hyun Lee , John A. Eimes , Young Woon Lim TUES 5 The pan core, and dispensable genome of the Neocallimastigomycota 11:00 am Noha Youssef TUES 6 Seasonality drives arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity in Mexican dry seasonal 11:15 am tropical forests Benjamin Morgan , Louise Egerton-Warburton TUES 7 Intraspecific competition between amphibian-killing chytrid strains on a model 11:30 am frog host Thomas Jenkinson, Timothy James

Evolution II 10:00 am - 11:45 am Oconee River Room 2, Classic Center Chair: Brian P. Looney TUES 8 Unraveling the core mechanisms of Suillus-Pinus symbiosis using integrated omics 10:00 am Hui-Ling Liao , JM Talbot , TD Bruns , JW Taylor , KG Peay , S Branco , A Kuo , K Barry, Igor Grigoriev , DW Hoyt , CD Nicora , SO Purvine , D Velickovic , CR Anderton , R Chu , L Pasa-Tolic , R Vilgalys TUES 9 Mating system and mating gene evolution in Suillus brevipes 10:15 am Yi-Hong Ke , Sara Branco , Jorge Rojas-Flechas , Khalid Hameed , Igor Grigoriev , Alan Kuo , Kerrie Barry , Albert Senchenkov , Hui-Ling Liao , Nhu Nguyen , Peter Kennedy , Tom Bruns , Rytas Vilgalys TUES 10 You can’t hide your lichenize: Infidelity in the Leptogium cyanescens species complex 10:30 am and its associated Nostoc Barry Kaminsky , Stuart McDaniel , Matthew E. Smith

TUES 11 Decomposition gene loss patterns in the transition from saprotrophy to the 10:45 am ectomycorrhizal habit within the order Russulales Brian P. Looney , Marek J. Piatek , Peter Meidl , Piet Jones , Deborah Weighill , Daniel Jacobson , P. Brandon Matheny , Jessy Labbé

14 85TH MEETING OF THE MSA TUES 12 Testing the secotioid syndrome hypothesis across multiple environmental variables: a 11:00 am case study using a global-scale phylogeny of Cortinarius Emma Harrower , Matthew E. Smith , Alija B. Mujic , Camille Truong , Tuula Niskanen , Terry Henkel , M. Catherine Aime , Clark L. Ovrebo , Jean-Marc Moncalvo , P. Brandon Matheny TUES 13 Whole genome DNA-methylation (methylome) patterning changes during 11:15 am heterokaryosis in Agaricomycetes Rob Powers, Timothy Y. James TUES 14 Fungal terrestrialization: challenges, consequences and scenarios for the colonization 11:30 am of land Matthew Nelsen , C. Kevin Boyce

Cell Biology & Physiology I. Special session: Morphology: yeasts, hyphae, and communication 10:00 am - 11:45 am Cypress Room 1, Classic Center Chair: Michelle Momany TUES 15 Fungal morphology: Principles and problems 10:00 am Michelle Momany TUES 16 Investigation of fungal dimorphism in Ustilaginomycotina 10:15 am Teeratas Kijpornyongpan, M. Catherine Aime TUES 17 Hyphal Tip Characteristics of Conidiobolus coronatus (Zoopagomycota, 10:30 am Entomophthorales) Robby Roberson, Karen Fisher, Isobel Romberger, David Lowry, Phakade Shange TUES 18 Identifying endocytic cargo associated with hyphal growth in Aspergillus nidulans 10:45 am Blake Commer, Zachary Schultzhaus, Brian D. Shaw TUES 19 Understanding the role of septin AspD in the early vegetative growth of Aspergillus 11:00 am nidulans Ilkay Dorter, Michelle Momany TUES 20 Genomic editing of Neurospora crassa as a tool for studying circadian oscillator 11:15 am synchronization Brooke Hull , Jia Hwei Cheong , Michael Judge , Zhaojie Deng , Carmen Rodriguez , James Griffith , Leidong Mao , Jonathan Arnold

Lunch on Your Own 11:45 am - 1:30 pm

MSA Student Luncheon 12:45 am - 1:30 pm Willow Room, Classic Center

Symposium 2: Fungal-Plant Interactions: Exploring Translational Mycology in Agroecosystems 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm Empire 1 & 2, Classic Center Chair: Andrea Porras-Alfaro TUES 21 Diffuse symbioses: Competition, coevolution, and disease suppression in soil 1:30 pm microbiomes Linda Kinkel TUES 22 Harnessing fungi to improve agriculture 2:00 pm Jason Wallace TUES 23 The effects of root-associated fungi on range grass performance and community 2:30 pm stability Y. Anny Chung, Jennifer A. Rudgers TUES 24 What’s up with Monosporascus? 3:00 pm Aaron Robinson, Miriam Hutchinson, Donald Natvig

JULY 16–19, 2017, ATHENS, GA / #MSA17 15 TUES 25 Development and applications of the EntomopathogenID MLSA database for use in 3:30 pm agricultural systems. Christopher Dunlap TUES 26 Harnessing pathogen antagonists for crop improvement 4:00 pm Posy Busby , Shawn P. Brown , Maggie Wagner

POSTER PRESENTATIONS Posters will be displayed on free-standing, fabric-covered, 2-sided room dividers. Posters should be a maximum of 42 inches wide and 42 inches high. Means of attachment will be provided.

Posters will be only be on display during one day of the meeting, Tuesday, July 18. Posters can be put up beginning at 7:00 am that same morning. There will be two poster sessions on Tuesday evening, session 1 from 4:30–6:00 pm and session 2 from 6:00–7:30 pm. Each presenter (or a co-author) should be present at their poster during their assigned session to answer questions. Each space will be marked with the abstract number/code assigned to that poster. Posters must be removed at the end of the viewing session. Presenting authors are underlined.

Poster Session 4:30 pm - 7:30 pm High Shoals Rooms 1 & 2, Classic Center From 4:30 to 6:00 pm, presenters with odd-numbered posters should stand by their posters. From 6:00 to 7:30 pm, presenters with even-numbered posters should plan to stand by their posters MSA has approved 103 posters for display at this year’s conference. By category, the posters have been organized as follows: Posters 1 to 15 - Cell Biology/Physiology Posters 16 to 39 - Ecology/Conservation Posters 40 to 42 - Environmental Health & Medical Mycology Posters 43 to 49 - Evolution Posters 50 to 71 - Phytopathology Posters 72 to 103 - Systematics/Biodiversity Conservation POSTER 1 Volatile oxylipins alter growth and development of three Penicillium species 4:30 pm Kayla Pennerman , Johanny Gonzalez , Lydia Chenoweth , Guohua Yin , James White , Joan Bennett POSTER 2 Applied Mycology in the curriculum: Teaching the practice of idea ‘pitching’ with fungi 6:00 pm Jonathan Schilling POSTER 3 How can glycosyl hydrolases and Fenton reactions co-exist in early decay in brown-rot 4:30 pm fungi Jesus Castaño, Jiwei Zhang, Jonathan Schilling POSTER 4 Hyphal Network Formation in Neurospora crassa 6:00 pm Emily Krach , Zhaojie Deng , Alexander Bucksch , Leidong Mao , Jonathan Arnold POSTER 5 Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 in Neurospora crassa: The hunt for regulators of 4:30 pm repressive chromatin architecture Abigail Courtney, Zachary A. Lewis POSTER 6 Development of an RNA interference (RNAi) gene knockdown protocol in the 6:00 pm anaerobic gut fungus Pecoramyces ruminantium strain C1A. Shelby Calkins , Nicole Elledge , Stephen Marek , MB Couger , Mostafa Elshahed, Noha Youssef

16 85TH MEETING OF THE MSA POSTER 7 Differences of hypsiziprenol homologues in Hypsizygus marmoreus strains: 4:30 pm metabolomic approach Jeong-Gu Kim , Yu Jin Park , Eun Sung Jung , Da Eun Lee , Young Wook Lee , Choong Hwan Lee POSTER 8 Internuclear transport of histone H1 within cellular compartments 6:00 pm Alexander Mela, Michelle Momany POSTER 9 Review and revision of the nomenclature system for MAT genes in the Pezizomycotina 4:30 pm P. Markus Wilken , Emma Steenkamp , Mike Wingfield , Z. Wilhelm de Beer , Brenda Wingfield POSTER 10 Genome sequencing reveals a heterothallic mating system in the Eucalyptus 6:00 pm pathogen Chrysoporthe austroafricana Aquillah Kanzi , Brenda Wingfield , Emma Steenkamp , Albe van der Merwe POSTER 11 Putting the natural diversity of fire-adapted wood-degrading fungi to work in thermal 4:30 pm biomass conversion schemes Hunter Simpson, Jonathan Schilling, Jiwei Zhang POSTER 12 Systems biology of circadian clock synchronization in Neurospora crassa. 6:00 pm Michael Judge , Ricardo Borges , Brooke Hull , Yinwen Zhang , Yueze Yang , James Griffith , Arthur Edison , Jonathan Arnold POSTER 13 The Mycological Society of America Student Section 4:30 pm Andrea L. Bruce , Nora Dunkirk , Kristi Gdanetz , Brendan O’Brien , Virginia Poole, Mia Maltz , Christopher Smyth , Terry J Torres-Cruz , Jessie Uehling POSTER 14 Functional characterization of AMT and MEP proteins from the model slime mold 6:00 pm Dictyostelium discoideum Tami McDonald , Anke Reinders , John Ward POSTER 15 The domestication of humans by yeast 4:30 pm Aaron Kumlien, Thomas Volk POSTER 16 Field trial - estimating phosphorus uptake and translocation by arbuscular mycorrhizal 6:00 pm fungi in surface root mats Mareli Sanchez Julia , Deborah Jean Lodge POSTER 17 The cutaneous microbiome of North American salamanders affects pathogenicity of 4:30 pm chytrid fungi Aubree Hill, Gabrielle Russell, Fantasia Erdman, Jacob E. Leys, Donald M. Walker POSTER 18 Identification of probiotic bacteria with antifungal activity in the cutaneous microbiome 6:00 pm of endangered Tennessee bats Matthew Grisnik , John Munafo , Daniel Istvanko , Joshua Campbell , Chris Simpson , Dustin Thames , Cory Holliday , Donald M. Walker POSTER 19 Marine fungi and enzyme activity associated with sailfin sandfish egg masses in Korea 4:30 pm Myung Soo Park , Seung-Yoon Oh , Seobihn Lee , John A. Eimes , Young Woon Lim POSTER 20 Yeast diversity in an urban stream and its impact on mosquito populations 6:00 pm Terri Billingsley Tobias , Jason R. Hunt , Roger C. Viadero , Catherine Miller Hunt , Andrea Porras-Alfaro POSTER 21 Examining arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in Spartina patens and Spartina alterniflora in 4:30 pm the Minas Basin, Nova Scotia Tyler d’Entremont, Juan Carlos López, Allison K. Walker POSTER 22 Land management, mycorrhizal diversity, and soil carbon sequestration 6:00 pm Lucas Michelotti, Timothy James, Mark Hunter POSTER 23 Exploring the relationship between Morchella americana and tree roots in Pennsylvania 4:30 pm Gretchen Kuldau, Hunter Swisher, Nancy Wenner POSTER 24 Using reverse ecology to elucidate cryptic ecological niches 6:00 pm Nora Dunkirk, Denny Wang, Jacob Golan, Anne Pringle

JULY 16–19, 2017, ATHENS, GA / #MSA17 17 POSTER 25 Effect of novel endophytic fungal species on plant growth effect of novel endophytic 4:30 pm fungal species on plant growth Kayla Burnett, Cedric Ndinga Muniania, Terri Billingsley Tobias, Adeyemi Olanrewaju, Andrea Porras-Alfaro POSTER 26 Diversity and keratin degrading ability of fungi from Canadian High Arctic bird feathers 6:00 pm Allison K. Walker , Sarah J. Adams , Brent Robicheau , Jennifer Provencher , Gregory J. Robertson , Mark Mallory POSTER 27 Cultivable fungal communities associated to biological soil crusts in a fog oasis of the 4:30 pm Peruvian desert Xiomy Pinchi , César Arana , Pedro Castellanos POSTER 28 The role of rhizosphere and endophytic fungal volatiles on plant growth 6:00 pm Paris Hamm , Shruti Ojha , John Dunbar , Cheryl Kuske , Andrea Porras-Alfaro POSTER 29 Fungi of the Midwest Driftless Region 4:30 pm Sabrina Aspenson, Andy Hart, Dan Kinney, Jon Palmer, Thomas Volk POSTER 30 Migration versus mutualism: Can the small-ranged endemic plant Rhododendron 6:00 pm catawabiense form specialized ericoid mycorrhizae with soil fungi north of its native range? Elena Karlsen-Ayala, Jesse Bellemare POSTER 31 Seed associated fungi and their roles on plant growth in grasses 4:30 pm Matthew Gooch, Andrea Porras-Alfaro POSTER 32 Common cutaneous bacteria isolated from snake skin inhibit Ophidiomyces 6:00 pm ophiodiicola, the causitive agent of snake fungal disease Gabrielle Russell, Aubree Hill, Jacob E. Leys, Fantasia Erdman, Donald M. Walker POSTER 33 Assessment of mycobiome variation across geography in the predatory snail genus 4:30 pm Conus using museum preserved specimens. C. Alisha Quandt, Alexander Glasco, Timothy Y. James POSTER 34 Fungal and bacterial communities of individual rhizosphere aggregates across an 6:00 pm extreme soil chemistry gradient Glade Dlott, Kabir Peay POSTER 35 Selecting fungal indicator species in tropical soils 4:30 pm Sara Lopez , Donald Natvig POSTER 36 Ectomycorrhizal fungal communities associated with Oreomunnea mexicana show 6:00 pm high beta diversity at a regional scale in Central America Adriana Corrales , Roberto Garibay-Orijel , Cecilia Alfonso-Corrado , Guadalupe Williams-Linera , Clark L. Ovrebo , James W. Dalling , Ricardo Clark-Tapia , Alija B. Mujic , Matthew E. Smith POSTER 37 Seeking synergy: Co-inoculation of a brown and white rot fungus on diesel- 4:30 pm contaminated soil Andrea L. Bruce, Thomas Volk, Todd W. Osmundson POSTER 38 Conceptualizing gut fungi beyond their natural tract by seeking them along other 6:00 pm tracks Michael McCormick, Mathew Geisler, Merlin White POSTER 39 Friend or foe? Symbiotic fungi and a moss 4:30 pm Lidia Swanson, Daniel Stanton, Georgiana May POSTER 40 Acute and subacute toxcity of Detarium senegalensis seed oil extract on wistar 6:00 pm albino rat Olawumi Oyebanji POSTER 41 The potential of fungal mycelium in methane capture 4:30 pm Feng Jin Liew, Jonathan Schilling POSTER 42 Hidden in plain sight: Heterogeneity in asexual spores of Aspergillus fumigatus. 6:00 pm S. Earl Kang, Michelle Momany

18 85TH MEETING OF THE MSA POSTER 43 A phylogeographic study of species from Aspergillus section Flavi 4:30 pm Geromy G. Moore , Rodrigo A. Olarte , Bruce W. Horn , Jacalyn L. Elliott , Carolyn J. O’Neal , Ignazio Carbone POSTER 44 The mating-type locus of Phialocephala scopiformis DAOMC 229536 confirms 6:00 pm ancient homothallism both within the family Vibrisseaceae, and prior to the Phialocephala fortinii s.l. - Acephala applanata species complex division Brent Robicheau , Adèle Bunbury-Blanchette , Kurt LaButti , Igor Grigoriev , Allison K. Walker POSTER 45 Plant cell-wall decomposition mechanisms in litter-decomposing Agaricales inferred 4:30 pm from genome sequencing data. Dimitrios Floudas, Johan Bentzer, Dag Ahren, Tomas Johansson, Anders Tunlid POSTER 46 Contribution of multiple horizontal gene transfer to ectomycorrhizal niche transition in 6:00 pm Amanita Yen-Wen Wang , Jason Slot , Anne Pringle POSTER 47 Quantifying incidents of horizontal gene transfer within the genomes of the anaerobic 4:30 pm gut fungi (Neocallimastigomycota) Chelsea Murphy, Kristina Baker, Radwa Hanafy, MB Couger, Mostafa Elshahed, Noha Youssef POSTER 48 Phylogenomics and divergence time estimation of the anaerobic gut fungi 6:00 pm (Neocallimastigomycota) Yan Wang , M.B. Couger , Radwa Hanafy , Mostafa Elshahed , Noha Youssef , Jason Stajich POSTER 49 Population variation in post-harvest rot Rhizopus stolonifer 4:30 pm Sawyer R. Masonjones, Jason Stajich POSTER 50 Antimicrobial activity of Brassica rapa nectar lipid transfer protein 6:00 pm Andrew Sathoff , Deborah Samac , Catherine Holl , Tony Schmitt , Clay Carter POSTER 51 Understanding the biology and ecology of natural fungal antagonists of Soybean Cyst 4:30 pm Nematodes for biological control Deepak Rajendran , Kathryn Bushley , Senyu Chen POSTER 52 Species composition of root-feeding beetle associated Leptographium and 6:00 pm Grosmannia blue-stain fungi in loblolly pine stands in Georgia Megan Buland , Brittany Barnes , Kier Klepzig , Kamal Gandhi , Caterina Villari POSTER 53 The interaction between laurel wilt pathogen and the plant host in plant leaves 4:30 pm Junli Zhang, Jason Smith, Stephanie Adams POSTER 54 Development of a LAMP-based assay for rapid in-field detection of Raffaelea lauricola, 6:00 pm the causal agent of laurel wilt disease James Noah Workman , Stephen Fraedrich , Caterina Villari POSTER 55 Resistance response to Fusarium Head Scab in barley 4:30 pm Rebecca Shay , Lori Imboden , Drew Afton , Frances Trail POSTER 56 A preliminary assessment of potential Armillaria spp. distributions in western Oregon, 6:00 pm western Washington, and Alaska using bioclimatic modeling. John Hanna , Mee-Sook Kim , Amy Ramsey , Dan Omdal , Robin Mulvey , Betsy Goodrich , Brennan Ferguson , Josh Bronson , Kristen Chadwick , Jane Stewart , Helen Maffei , Geral McDonald , Eric Pitman , Marcus Warwell , Ned Klopfenstein POSTER 57 Combatting Fusarium Basal Rot of Onion in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia, 4:30 pm Canada Adèle Bunbury-Blanchette, Brent Robicheau, Rhys Winder, Madeleine Killacky, Allison K. Walker POSTER 58 Fungal disease protection in rice (Oryza sativa) seedlings by growth promoting seed- 6:00 pm associated endophytic bacteria from invasive Phragmites australis Satish Kumar Verma , Kathryn L Kingsley , Marshall Bergen , Kurt Kowalski , James White

JULY 16–19, 2017, ATHENS, GA / #MSA17 19 POSTER 59 Hyperparasites attacking rust fungi: Species and distribution 4:30 pm Paula A. Gomez Zapata , M. Catherine Aime POSTER 60 Evidence and consequence of a highly adapted clonal haplotype within the Australian 6:00 pm Ascochyta rabiei population Yasir Mehmood , Prabhakaran Sambasivam , Shannon Newerth , Sukhjiwan Kaur, Jenny Davidson , Audrey E Leo , Kristy Hobson , Celeste C Linde , Kevin Moore , Jeremy Brownlie , Rebecca Ford POSTER 61 Screening of Balansia epichloe-infected grass dpecies for in situ ergot alkaloids using 4:30 pm laser ablation electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry Dorothy Hinton, Trevor Mitchell, Charles Bacon POSTER 62 Haploid cells of Ustilago maydis form filaments on mature leaves that grow directional 6:00 pm towards and enter into stomatal openings. Lauren Lewis, Michael DiMuzio, Karen Snetselaar POSTER 63 Two novel strains of Bacillus with strong antifungal properties 4:30 pm Lafayette Frederick , Chinyere Knight , Richard Whittington , John Davidson , Ruel Mitchelin POSTER 64 Occurrence of Leaf Blotch on oats vaused by Drechslera avenae in Korea 6:00 pm Sung Kee Hong, Jung-Hye Choi, Soohyung Lee, Theresa Lee, Hyeonheui Ham, Hyo Won Choi POSTER 65 The decline of Araucaria humboldtensis, an iconic conifer from New Caledonia 4:30 pm Nicolas Anger , Adam Black , Bruno Fogliani , Jason Smith POSTER 66 Fungal colonization and Fusarium diversity across Vanilla cultivation systems 6:00 pm Terry J Torres-Cruz , Andrea Porras-Alfaro , Rogelio Carrillo-Gonzalez , Ma. del Carmen Gonzalez-Chavez POSTER 67 Cercospora community composition associated with Cercospora leaf blight changes 4:30 pm across developmental stages and is geographically dependent Zachary A. Carver , Trey Price , Vinson P. Doyle POSTER 68 Crop rotation shifts the microbial communities in the cysts of soybean cyst nematode 6:00 pm Weiming Hu , Senyu Chen , Kathryn Bushley POSTER 69 FvSTUA is a key regulator of development, fumonisin production, and virulence in 4:30 pm Fusarium verticillioides Nicole J. Crenshaw, Manisha Rath, Scott Gold POSTER 70 Diversity of ascomycete fungal pathogens on Theobroma cacao L. in Merida state, 6:00 pm Venezuela Sari Mohali Castillo , Jane Stewart POSTER 71 Examination of the fungal populations responsible for spoilage of processed tomatoes 4:30 pm in Indiana Hector Urbina, Shannon Newerth, M. Catherine Aime POSTER 72 Boletus rubricitrinus belongs in Pulchroboletus 6:00 pm Arian Farid, Alan Franck, James Garey POSTER 73 Laccaria in Southeast Asia: taxonomic and systematic diversity from a 4:30 pm biogeographically important region. Andrew W. Wilson , Dennis E. Desjardin , Todd W. Osmundson , Gregory M. Mueller POSTER 74 Thelephoraceae of the Andean forests in Patagonia. 6:00 pm Francisco Kuhar , Camille Truong , Rosanne Healy , Alija B. Mujic , Matthew E. Smith , Eduardo Nouhra POSTER 75 Two new species of Ruhlandiella (Pezizaceae) from Nothofagaceae forests in 4:30 pm Patagonia Nattapol Kraisit , Rosanne Healy , Donald H. Pfister , Matthew E. Smith POSTER 76 Fungal endophytes in bryophytes and pteridophytes 6:00 pm Daniel G. Wells , Daniel B. Raudabaugh , Andrew N. Miller

20 85TH MEETING OF THE MSA POSTER 77 Pathogenic fungi associated with Camellia sinensis and allied species 4:30 pm Fang Liu, Lei Cai POSTER 78 Post-fire fungi in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park 6:00 pm Maria Teresa Iturriaga , Daniel B. Raudabaugh , Daniel G. Wells , Andrew N. Miller , P. Brandon Matheny , Ronald H. Petersen , Karen W. Hughes POSTER 79 A new species of Tricholoma in the pardinum complex from the southern Rocky 4:30 pm Mountains Clark L. Ovrebo , Karen W. Hughes POSTER 80 Phylogenetic analyses and bioclimatic modeling provide insights into the invasive 6:00 pm brown root-rot pathogen, Phellinus noxius, in eastern Asia, Australia, and Pacific islands Jane Stewart , John Hanna , Phil Cannon , Ned Klopfenstein , Mee-Sook Kim POSTER 81 A comparison of ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity between monodominant forests in the 4:30 pm Neotropics and the Paleotropics Rachel A. Koch , Elena Karlsen-Ayala , Bryn Dentinger , Terry Henkel , M. Catherine Aime POSTER 82 Teaching Mycology abroad in Ireland 6:00 pm Emily Cantonwine , Sara Gremillion , Ashlee McCaskill POSTER 83 New tropical Amanita species from the Guiana Shield and Central Africa 4:30 pm Kennan Mighell , M. Catherine Aime , Bryn Dentinger , Terry Henkel POSTER 84 Accurate biological source information for data verification and re-use 6:00 pm Barbara Robbertse , Pooja Strope , Romina Gazis , Priscila Chaverri , Conrad Schoch POSTER 85 Phylogenetic analysis of white smut fungi (Entyloma) on Asteraceae 4:30 pm Kyryll Savchenko, Sylena Harper, Lori Carris POSTER 86 A new ectomycorrhizal Leotia species from Panamanian montane forest 6:00 pm Adriana Corrales , Donald H. Pfister , Clark L. Ovrebo , Jason M. Karakehian , Matthew E. Smith POSTER 87 The Canadian Collection of Fungal Cultures (CCFC): Technological advances and 4:30 pm future directions Benoit Goulet POSTER 88 Taxonomic revision in the Cystobasidiomycetes 6:00 pm Pedro P. Parra, M. Catherine Aime POSTER 89 Isolation and characterization of novel strains of anaerobic gut fungi 4:30 pm (Neocallimastiogmycota) from the feces and rumen of domesticated and wild ruminants Radwa Hanafy, Britny Johnson, Mostafa Elshahed, Noha Youssef POSTER 90 Octaviania purpurea is purple but is not an Octaviania 6:00 pm Alija B. Mujic , Todd F. Elliott , Jason Kristol , Matthew E. Smith POSTER 91 Exploring the biodiversity of Georgefischeriales in Guyana 4:30 pm Mary Claire Noble, Teeratas Kijpornyongpan, M. Catherine Aime POSTER 92 Diversity of Chytridiomycota in the sediment surface of three Brazilian reservoirs: 6:00 pm Morphological and phylogenetic analysis Gustavo Henrique Jerônimo, Carmen Lidia Amorim Pires Zottarelli POSTER 93 A preliminary survey of Lepiota sensu stricto of Indiana 4:30 pm Stephen Russell, M. Catherine Aime POSTER 94 Classification of Phyllosticta-like species from South Africa in Neophyllostictaceae 6:00 pm fam. nov. and Phyllostictaceae Qian Chen , George Carroll , Lei Cai POSTER 95 Overlooked and underfoot: Diversity of bryophilous fungi 4:30 pm Marie Davey

JULY 16–19, 2017, ATHENS, GA / #MSA17 21 POSTER 96 Recovery of species-rank OTUs of agarics (Agaricomycotina, fungi) in metagenomic 6:00 pm datasets based on various nrDNA amplicon lengths and positions Slavomir Adamcik , Brian P. Looney , Miroslav Kolarik , Marisol Sanchez-Garcia , Katarina Adamcikova , Miroslav Cabon , Gareth Griffith POSTER 97 Phylogenetic analysis of ITS and TEF-1 vs. SNP datasets in Lentinula 4:30 pm Sean Patev , Chaoqun Wang , Meriel Lamb , Noemia Ishikawa , Mitchell Nuhn , David Hibbett POSTER 98 Improved taxonomic and geographic circumscription for three agaric species of 6:00 pm conservation concern proposed for IUCN Red List inclusion Christian Montes, Todd W. Osmundson POSTER 99 Flying salt shakers of death: molecular studies of the cicada pathogen Massospora 4:30 pm Matt Kasson , William J. Davis , Matt Berger , Cameron Stauder , Angie Macias , Kristen Wickert , Gene Kritsky , Chris Simon , Ellie Spahr , Teiya Kijimoto , Nidia Arguedas , Rich Humber , Kathie Hodge , Dan Mozgai , Greg Boyce , Mark Szewc, Timothy Y. James

POSTER 100 An ultrastructural study of spore bodies in Orbiliomycetes 6:00 pm Rosanne Healy , Donald H. Pfister , Kathy Lobuglio , Valentina Rodriguez POSTER 101 Community structure of marine ascomycotan fungi in intertidal sandy beaches of two 4:30 pm Caribbean islands with contrasting tourism management: Implications for conservation. María C González , Patricia Vélez , Richard T Hanlin POSTER 102 Evolutionary relationships of North American and European species of Gyromitra. 6:00 pm Andrew Methven , Andrew N. Miller , Gro Gulden , Oyvind Stensrud POSTER 103 Culture free assessment of fungal diversity in Antarctic cryptoendolithic communities 4:30 pm Claudia Coleine , Nuttapon Pombubpa , Laura Selbmann , Silvano Onofri , Laura Zucconi , Jason Stajich

Dinner on Your Own 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

UGA Alumni Social 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm The Arch Room, South Kitchen + Bar

Student Social 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Lobby of 130 Foundry Street/Terrace, Classic Center

22 85TH MEETING OF THE MSA WEDNESDAY, JULY 19

Registration 8:00 am – 10:00 am Lobby of 130 Foundry Street, Classic Center

Business Meeting & Distinction Awards 8:00 pm - 9:30 am Empire 1 & 2, Classic Center

AM Break 9:30 am - 10:00 am Lobby of 130 Foundry Street, Classic Center

Ecology & Conservation IV 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Oconee River Room 1, Classic Center Chair: Gregory Bonito WED 1 The cutaneous snake microbiome correlates with Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola, the 10:00 am causative agent of snake fungal disease Jacob E. Leys , Danny L. Bryan , Vincent A. Cobb , Donald M. Walker WED 2 An herbivore’s delight: Guyanagaster necrorhizus basidiomes are a nitrogen-rich dietary 10:15 am supplement for their wood-feeding termite dispersal agents Rachel A. Koch, M. Catherine Aime WED 3 Symbiotic fungi associated with platypodine ambrosia beetles in the Southeastern USA 10:30 am You Li , Matt Kasson , Angie Macias , Yin-tse Huang , James Skelton , Paige S. Carlson , Jiri Hulcr WED 4 Elucidating the diversity and population structure of Fusarium species associated with 10:45 am mass mortalities in sea turtle nests Christopher Smyth , Julie Sarmiento-Ramírez , Dylan Short , Javier Diéguez-Uribeondo , David Geiser WED 5 Microbiome diversity of biological soil crusts from Joshua Tree National Park, Granite 11:00 am Mountain, and Kelso Dunes Nuttapon Pombubpa , Paul De Ley , Nicole Pietrasiak , Jason Stajich WED 6 Uncovering the diversity and function of fungi associated with the fungivorous millipede, 11:15 am Brachycybe lecontii Angie Macias , Cameron Stauder , Matt Berger , Kristen Wickert , Rita Rio , Paul Marek, Michael Brewer , Tappey Jones , Greg Boyce , Mark Szewc , Dan Panaccione , Dylan Short , Matt Kasson WED 7 Impact of plant genotype and soil origin on fungal-bacterial networks in the Populus 11:30 am rhizobiome Gregory Bonito , Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci , Khalid Hameed , Deborah Weighill , Piet Jones , Daniel Jacobson , Christopher Schadt , Rytas Vilgalys WED 8 Fungal microbiomes - understanding the taxonomy and function of bacteria and archaea 11:45 am on fungal sporocarps Joshua Herr

Phytopathology I 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Oconee River Room 2, Classic Center Chair: Scott Gold WED 9 Detection of diverse fungi metabolites in fish feeds from Nigeria 10:00 am Momodu Foluke Olorunfemi , Adegboyega Christopher Odebode WE D 10 DNA-barcoding the microcyclic rust species on Veroniceae (Plantaginaceae) 10:15 am Sarah Hambleton, Quinn Eggertson WED 11 Seeds of antagonism: An ABC transporter and its adjacent transcription factor in 10:30 am Fusarium verticillioides are required for pyrrocidine B tolerance Minglu Gao , Xi Gu , Anthony Glenn , Scott Gold

JULY 16–19, 2017, ATHENS, GA / #MSA17 23 WED 12 Super mycovirus donor strains of the chestnut blight fungus permit widespread 10:45 am mycovirus transmission and reduce canker expansion in American Chestnut Cameron Stauder , Donald Nuss , Amy Metheny , Mark Double , Bill MacDonald , Scott Campbell , Matt Kasson WED 13 The OSCAR method of gene deletion in fungi is an effective teaching tool 11:00 am Scott Gold WED 14 The effect of urea on perithecial development of pathogenic Colletotrichum spp. in 11:15 am North Carolina apple orchards Brianna Hoge, David Ritchie, Marc Cubeta WED 15 Evidence for sexual reproduction in Venturia effusa, causal agent of pecan scab 11:30 am Carolyn Young , Clive Bock , Nikki Charlton , Chakradhar Mattupalli , Mihwa Yi , Kim Plummer , Johanna Bowen , Matthew Templeton , Bruce Wood WED 16 The functional diversity of stilbene catabolism clusters in fungi 11:45 am Vinod Vijayakumar, Emile Gluck-Thaler, Jason Slot

Systematics & Biodiversity II 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Cypress Room 1, Classic Center Chair: Alfredo Justo WED 17 Diversity and community structure of Ectomycorrhizal fungi associated with Pinus 10:00 am roxburghii and P. wallichiana across the western Himalayan forests of Pakistan. Malka Saba , Abdul Nasir Khalid , Muhammad Sajjad Iqbal , Donald H. Pfister WED 18 Historical collections in modern perspective: a case study in Pluteus (Agaricales, 10:15 am Basidiomycota) Alfredo Justo WED 19 Distinguishing the Many “Faces” of ‘G. lucidum’ in the Eastern United States: a 10:30 am challenging taxonomic task Andrew Loyd , Robert Blanchette , Matthew E. Smith , Brantlee Richter , Jason Smith WED 20 The diversity of Russulaceae in Korea and fruiting pattern changes associated with 10:45 am climate change Hyun Lee , Myung Soo Park , Seung-Yoon Oh , John A. Eimes , Young Woon Lim WED 21 Taxonomic and genetic diversity are higher than expected in North American species of 11:00 am Hydnum (Cantharellales) Rachel Swenie, P. Brandon Matheny WED 22 Distribution of macrofungi and evidence for endemism of species in the Pacific 11:15 am Northwest Anna Bazzicalupo, Mary Berbee WED 23 Molecular phylogenetics coupled with morphological assessment of some mushroom 11:30 am forming fungi of the temperate habitats of Swat Valley Ishtiaq Ahmad , Donald H Pfister , Habib Ahmad , Abdur Rashid , Abdul Nasir Khalid WED 24 Bottoms Up! A distributed approach to assembling a North American Mycoflora 11:45 am Christian Schwarz

Lunch on Your Own 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Cell Biology & Physiology II. Special session: Fungal growth and interactions 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Oconee River Room 1, Classic Center Chair: Christopher Schardl WED 25 Growth yield and nutritional quality of two oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus pulmonarius 2:00 pm and P. ostreatus) on different substrates supplemented with wheat bran Clementina Adenipekun, Joy Obiaigwe

24 85TH MEETING OF THE MSA WED 26 Mitigating losses: H3K36me3 plays a compensatory role in heterochromatin-deficient 2:15 pm mutants of Neurospora crassa Aileen R. Ferraro, Zachary A. Lewis WED 27 FungiDB: An integrated functional genomics database for fungi and oomycetes 2:30 pm Evelina Basenko WED 28 A rice and maize N-acetylglucosamine transporter essential for early communication and 2:45 pm establishment in arbuscular mycorrhizal symbioses Marina Nadal , Ruairidh Sawers , Shamoon Naseem , Barbara Bassin , Corinna Kulicke, Abigail Sharman , Gynheung An , Kyungsook An , Kevin R. Ahern , Amanda Romag , Thomas P. Brutnell , Caroline Gutjahr , Niko Geldner , Christophe Roux , Enrico Martinoia, James B. Konopka , Uta Paszkowski WED 29 Comparative genomics reveals that swainsonine is produced by plant symbionts and 3:00 pm pathogens of plants, insects and mammals. Christopher Schardl , Daniel Cook , Bruno Donzelli , Rebecca Creamer , Deana Baucom, Dale Gardner WED 30 Unraveling immunity of early diverging fungi using a microbial bully 3:15 pm Derreck Carter-House, Jericho Ortanez, Joshua Chung, Justin Shen, Jason Stajich

Evolution III 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Oconee River Room 2, Classic Center Chair: Joey Spatafora WED 31 Analysis of the twelfth chromosome of a representative set of species within the 2:00 pm Fusarium fujikuroi species complex Lieschen De Vos , Magriet van der Nest , Stephanie van Wyk , Emma Steenkamp, Brenda Wingfield WED 32 Rhizoids point the way: Structure and function of actin during morphogenesis 2:15 pm in Chytriomyces hyalinus (Chytridiomycota) provide insight into the evolution of filamentous growth across fungi. Jaclyn M. Dee, Brandon R. Landry, Justin Jubinville-Mah, Mary Berbee WED 33 Viral hijacking and evolution of the fungal cell cycle control network: the animal-fungal 2:30 pm hybrid network of the zoosporic fungus Spizellomyces. Edgar M. Medina , Anne Marie Augustus , Jonathan Turner , Mónica Gutierrez , David M. MacAlpine , Jan M. Skotheim , Raluca Gordân , Nicolas E. Buchler WED 34 The Metagenomes of Endogone (Mucoromycota) Sporocarps 2:45 pm Ying Chang , Alessandro Desiro , Gregory Bonito , Alicia Clum , Anna Lipzen , Igor Grigoriev , Joseph Spatafora WED 35 Data dumpster diving in the fungal -omics era 3:00 pm Jessie Uehling , Lotus Lofgren , Sara Branco , J. Alejandro Rojas , Yi-Hong Ke , Gregory Bonito , Peter Kennedy , Rytas Vilgalys WED 36 Coevolutionary patterns in ambrosia fungi and beetles revealed from a global survey 3:15 pm Craig Bateman

Systematics & Biodiversity III 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Cypress Room 1, Classic Center Chair: Sarah Unruh WED 37 Origin of cave fungi as revealed by biodiversity assay and divergent time analyses 2:00 pm Zhi-Feng Zhang , Lei Cai WED 38 Marasas’ et al. 1984 toxigenic Fusarium species: Identity and mycotoxicology revisted 2:15 pm Kerry O’Donnell , Susan McCormick , Mark Busman , Robert Proctor , Gail Doehring , Todd Ward , John Rheeder , Hanneke Alberts WED 39 Genomics of the orchid mycorrhizal symbiosis 2:30 pm Sarah Unruh , Lawrence Zettler , Jason Stajich , Francis Martin , Gavin Conant , Corey Hudson , Silvia Perotto

JULY 16–19, 2017, ATHENS, GA / #MSA17 25 WED 40 Phylogenetic relationships of alpha-amanitin producing Galerina from British Columbia 2:45 pm Brandon R. Landry, Berni van der Meer, Mary Berbee WED 41 Phylogeny of the genus Crossopsora (Phakopsoraceae): a first approach. 3:00 pm Erica Souza, Danilo Batista-Pinho, Robert Miller, José Dianese

PM Break 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm Lobby of 130 Foundry Street, Classic Center

Ecology & Conservation V 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Oconee River Room 1, Classic Center Chair: Renee Johansen WED 42 Imaging and identifying adventitious fungal root associates in canopy soils of old-growth 4:00 pm Acer macrophyllum trees, located in the Olympic National Park Korena Mafune , Bruce Godfrey WED 43 Fungal communities as carbon conductors: fungi and the fate of carbon in soils 4:15 pm Renee Johansen , Deanna Lopez , Rebecca Mueller , Thomas Yoshida , John Dunbar WED 44 Characterizing the diversity of lignin-degrading fungi in a dry seasonal tropical forest 4:30 pm Jessica Ross , Louise Egerton-Warburton WED 45 Mercury content of lichens collected across Nova Scotia, Canada 4:45 pm Cardy H. Saunders , Robert Cameron , Nelson J. O’Driscoll , Allison K. Walker WED 46 Field inoculations of pecan (Carya illinoinensis) seedlings with the edible, native, truffle 5:00 pm Tuber lyonii Arthur Grupe , Tim Brenneman , Alija B Mujic , Camille Truong , Matthew E. Smith WED 47 Fungi in the wind: A decade-long study of the diversity of fungal spores captured while 5:15 pm air sampling the upper atmosphere in Hawai’i Laura Tipton , Geoffrey Zahn , Erin M. Datlof , Patrick Sheridan , Anthony S. Amend , Nicole A. Hynson WED 48 Post-fire soil fungal communities and ecosystem function in boreal forests 5:30 pm Nicola J. Day , Kari E. Dunfield , Xanthe J. Walker , Steve Cumming , Jill Johnstone , Michelle Mack , Merritt Turetsky , Jennifer L. Baltzer WED 49 Assessing the effects of bark and ambrosia beetle colonization: Exclosure experiment 5:45 pm reveals a radical alteration of fungal community assembly and the reduced decay of forest biomass Paige S. Carlson , James Skelton , Katherine Smith , Michelle A. Jusino , Mark T. Banik , Daniel L. Lindner , Jiri Hulcr

Phytopathology II 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Oconee River Room 2, Classic Center Chair: Romina Gazis WED 50 Evidence for climate as a driver of genetic divergence in native populations of the 4:00 pm Douglas-fir Swiss Needle Cast Fungus Phaeocryptopus gaeumannii Patrick Bennett, Jeff Stone WED 51 Diversity of Geosmithia in the Southeastern United States and their potential threat to 4:15 pm native forests stands Romina Gazis , Karandeep Chahal , Yin-Tse Huang , William Klingeman , Jiri Hulcr , Miroslav Kolarik , Mark Windham , Denita Hadziabdic WED 52 Emergence and distribution pattern of a new Xylaria parasite of Chlorocardium seeds 4:30 pm from Guyana. Dillon R. Husbands , M. Catherine Aime WED 53 Evaluation of Calonectria pseudonaviculata microsclerotia survival in compost 4:45 pm Robert Harvey, Donald Davis, John Pecchia WED 54 Population biology of the cacao pathogen Moniliophthora roreri 5:00 pm Jorge Ronny Díaz-Valderrama, M. Catherine Aime

26 85TH MEETING OF THE MSA WED 55 Host-specialized populations of Corynespora cassiicola are causing emerging target 5:15 pm spot epidemics in the southeastern U.S. Leilani Sumabat , Robert Kemerait , Marin Brewer WED 56 Using NGS with Koch’s Postulates to discern causal agent(s) of dieback on western 5:30 pm hemlock, Southeast Alaska Robin Mulvey , Loretta Winton , Gerard Adams

MSA Social and Auction/Student Awards 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm Athena Ballroom A - E, Classic Center

MSA 2019

Plan to attend the 2019 MSA meeting to be hosted by the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.

Check msafungi.org for finalized dates and more information.

JULY 16–19, 2017, ATHENS, GA / #MSA17 27 INDEX OF PRESENTING AUTHORS

A Davis, William J MON 20 Adamcik, Slavomir POSTER 96 Day, Nicola J. WED 48 Adams, Gerard WED 56 Dee, Jaclyn M. WED 32 Adams, Sarah J. POSTER 26 Delevich, Carolyn MON 3 Adenipekun, Clementina WED 25 DeMers, Mara MON 24 Ahmad, Ishtiaq WED 23 d’Entremont, Tyler POSTER 21 Anger, Nicolas POSTER 65 De Vos, Lieschen WED 31 Aspenson, Sabrina POSTER 29 Dianese, José WED 41 Auxier, Ben MON 16 Díaz-Valderrama, Jorge Ronny WED 54 Dlott, Glade POSTER 34 B Dorter, Ilkay TUES 19 Bacon, Charles POSTER 61 Dunkirk, Nora POSTER 24 Basenko, Evelina WED 27 Dunlap, Christopher TUES 25 Bateman, Craig WED 36 Bazzicalupo, Anna WED 22 F Becker, Lindsey MON 31 Farid, Arian POSTER 72 Bennett, Patrick WED 50 Ferraro, Aileen R. WED 26 Berger, Matt POSTER 99 Floudas, Dimitrios POSTER 45 Billingsley Tobias, Terri POSTER 20 Blackwell, Meredith MON 26 G Bonito, Gregory WED 7 Gao, Minglu WED 11 Borovicka, Jan MON 38 Gazis, Romina WED 51 Bruce, Andrea L. POSTER 37 Geisler, Mathew POSTER 38 Buland, Megan POSTER 52 Gerardo, Nicole MON 25 Bunbury-Blanchette, Adèle POSTER 57 Gleason, Frank TUES 3 Burnett, Kayla POSTER 25 Gluck-Thaler, Emile MON 14 Busby, Posy TUES 26 Gold, Scott WED 13 Bushley, Kathryn MON 15 Gomez Zapata, Paula A. POSTER 59 González, María C POSTER 101 C Gooch, Matthew POSTER 31 Cai, Lei WED 37 Goulet, Benoit POSTER 87 Calkins, Shelby POSTER 6 Grisnik, Matthew POSTER 18 Cantonwine, Emily POSTER 82 Grupe, Arthur WED 46 Cantrell, Sharon A. MON 7 Cappellazzi, Jed MON 4 H Carlson, Paige S. WED 49 Hallen-Adams, Heather E. MON 39 Carter-House, Derreck WED 30 Hambleton, Sarah WED 10 Carver, Zachary A. POSTER 67 Hamm, Paris POSTER 28 Castaño, Jesus POSTER 3 Hanafy, Radwa POSTER 89 Castrillo, Louela MON 29 Han, Jennifer MON 37 Chen, Qian POSTER 94 Hanna, John POSTER 56 Chung, Y. Anny TUES 23 Harrower, Emma TUES 12 Commer, Blake TUES 18 Harvey, Robert WED 53 Corrales, Adriana POSTER 36, POSTER 86 Healy, Rosanne POSTER 100 Courtney, Abigail POSTER 5 Henkel, Terry MON 2 Crenshaw, Nicole J. POSTER 69 Herr, Joshua WED 8 Hill, Aubree POSTER 17 D Hoge, Brianna WED 14 Davey, Marie POSTER 95 Hong, Sung Kee POSTER 64 David, Samuel MON 32 Huang, Yin-Tse MON 8

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Hughes, Karen W. POSTER 78 Mead, Matthew MON 12 Hull, Brooke TUES 20 Medina, Edgar M. WED 33 Husbands, Dillon R. WED 52 Mela, Alexander POSTER 8 Hu, Weiming POSTER 68 Methven, Andrew POSTER 102 Michelotti, Lucas POSTER 22 J Mighell, Kennan POSTER 83 Jenkinson, Thomas TUES 7 Miller, Andrew N. MON 23 Jerônimo, Gustavo Henrique POSTER 92 Momany, Michelle TUES 15 Johansen, Renee WED 43 Mondo, Stephen MON 13 Judge, Michael POSTER 12 Montes, Christian POSTER 98 Justo, Alfredo WED 18 Moore, Geromy G. POSTER 43 Morgan, Benjamin TUES 6 K Mujic, Alija B. MON 5 Kaminsky, Barry TUES 10 Murphy, Chelsea POSTER 47 Kang, S. Earl POSTER 42 Myers, Jillian MON 18 Karlsen-Ayala, Elena POSTER 30 Kasson, Matt MON 27 N Ke, Yi-Hong TUES 9 Nadal, Marina WED 28 Kijpornyongpan, Teeratas TUES 16 Natvig, Donald TUES 24 Kim, Jeong-Gu POSTER 7 Ndinga Muniania, Cedric MON 33 Kim, Mee-Sook POSTER 80 Nelsen, Matthew TUES 14 Kinkel, Linda TUES 21 Newerth, Shannon POSTER 60 Knight, Chinyere POSTER 63 Noble, Mary Claire POSTER 91 Koch, Rachel A. POSTER 81, WED 2 Krach, Emily POSTER 4 O Kraisit, Nattapol POSTER 75 O’Donnell, Kerry WED 38 Kuldau, Gretchen POSTER 23 Oh, Seung-Yoon TUES 4 Kumlien, Aaron POSTER 15 Olorunfemi, Momodu Foluke WED 9 Oono, Ryoko MON 36 L Osmundson, Todd W. MON 35 Landry, Brandon R. WED 40 Ovrebo, Clark L. POSTER 79 Lee, Hyun WED 20 Oyebanji, Olawumi POSTER 40 Lewis, Lauren POSTER 62 Leys, Jacob E. WED 1 P Liao, Hui-Ling TUES 8 Parra, Pedro P. POSTER 88 Liew, Feng Jin POSTER 41 Patev, Sean POSTER 97 Lim, Young Woon POSTER 19 Pennerman, Kayla POSTER 1 Liu, Fang POSTER 77 Pinchi, Xiomy POSTER 27 Li, You WED 3 Pombubpa, Nuttapon WED 5 Looney, Brian P. TUES 11 Powell, Martha MON 17 Lopez, Sara POSTER 35 Powers, Rob TUES 13 Loyd, Andrew WED 19 Q M Quandt, C. Alisha POSTER 33 Macias, Angie WED 6 Mafune, Korena WED 42 R Masonjones, Sawyer R. POSTER 49 Rajendran, Deepak POSTER 51 Mayers, Chase G. MON 30 Raudabaugh, Daniel B. TUES 2 May, Georgiana MON 1 Rengifo, Maria C. MON 6 McDonald, Tami POSTER 14 Reynolds, Nicole MON 21

JULY 16–19, 2017, ATHENS, GA / #MSA17 29 INDEX

Roberson, Robby TUES 17 W Rojas, J. Alejandro MON 34 Walker, Allison K. POSTER 44, WED 45 Ross, Jessica WED 44 Wallace, Jason TUES 22 Russell, Gabrielle POSTER 32 Wang, Yan POSTER 48 Russell, Stephen POSTER 93 Wang, Yen-Wen POSTER 46 Wells, Daniel G. POSTER 76 S Wilson, Andrew W. POSTER 73 Saba, Malka WED 17 Wingfield, Brenda POSTER 10, POSTER 9 Sanchez Julia, Mareli POSTER 16 Sathoff, Andrew POSTER 50 Y Savchenko, Kyryll POSTER 85 Young, Carolyn WED 15 Schardl, Christopher WED 29 Youssef, Noha TUES 5 Schilling, Jonathan POSTER 2 Schoch, Conrad POSTER 84 Z Schwarz, Christian WED 24 Zhang, Junli POSTER 53 Seifert, Keith MON 22 Zhao, Shu MON 40 Shay, Rebecca POSTER 55 Shideler, Steven MON 42 Simpson, Hunter POSTER 11 Skelton, James MON 28 Smith, Matthew E. POSTER 74, POSTER 90 Smyth, Christopher WED 4 Spatafora, Joseph WED 34 Stajich, Jason MON 19, POSTER 103 Stauder, Cameron WED 12 Steenwyk, Jacob MON 11 Stephens, Ryan MON 9 Stewart, Jane POSTER 70 Strom, Noah TUES 1 Sumabat, Leilani WED 55 Sun, Sheng MON 10 Swanson, Lidia POSTER 39 Swenie, Rachel WED 21

T Tipton, Laura WED 47 Torres-Cruz, Terry J POSTER 13, POSTER 66

U Uehling, Jessie WED 35 Unruh, Sarah WED 39 Urbina, Hector POSTER 71

V Vandegrift, Roo MON 41 Verma, Satish Kumar POSTER 58 Vijayakumar, Vinod WED 16 Villari, Caterina POSTER 54

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JULY 16–19, 2017, ATHENS, GA / #MSA17 33 CONFERENCE VENUE

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The Mycological Society of America, the Puerto Rican Mycological Society, the Ana G. Méndez University System invites all mycologists to participate of IMC 11 to be held in San Juan, Puerto Rico. We promise you a very exciting program. We have eight great speakers from around the world and 46 symposia. See you in Puerto Rico July 16–21, 2018.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER Dr. Paola Bonfante, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy Fungi, plants, bacteria: a network of dialogues and interactions

PLENARY SPEAKERS APPLICATIONS THEME Dr. Russell Cox FRSC, Professor in the Institute of Organic Chemistry, Leibniz Universität, Hannover, Germany Heterologous Expression of Secondary Metabolite Biosynthetic Gene Clusters as a Tool for Understanding and Engineering Fungal Natural Products

CELL BIOLOGY THEME Dr. Jesús Aguirre, Institute of Cellular Physiology, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México ROS Signaling and Fungal Development

ECOLOGY THEME Dr. Tom Bruns, Department of Plant and Microbial Ecology, University of California Berkeley, USA Experimental Fungal Communities: tools for testing theory and determining mechanisms

ENVIRONMENT THEME Dr. Matthew Fisher, Imperial College London, UK Big Data approaches to addressing Big Fungal Problems

EVOLUTION THEME Dr. Priscilla Chaverri, University of Maryland, USA and University of Costa Rica Evolution of protective mutualism in plant-fungal endosymbiosis

GENOMICS THEME Dr. Chengshu Wang, Director of the Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China From one to many: fungal genomics and the future of population genetics

PATHOLOGY THEME Dr. Anuradha Chowdhary, Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, University of Delhi, India Fungal human pathogens: from obscure significance to impending disasters

http://imc11.com SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE

TIME SATURDAY, JULY 15 SUNDAY, JULY 16 MONDAY, JULY 17 TUESDAY, JULY 18 WEDNESDAY, JULY 19 8:00-8:30 AM BUSINESS MEETING & DISTINCTION 8:30-9:00 AM PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS - GEORGIANA KARLING LECTURE - REGINE KAHMANN AWARDS 9:00-9:30 AM MAY

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10:00-10:30 AM EVOLUTION CELL ECOLOGY & BIOLOGY & SYSTEMATICS CONSERVATION II *10:00 SYSTEMATICS 10:30-11:00 AM PHYSIOLOGY I ECOLOGY & ECOLOGY & & III *10:00 AM - & AM - CONSERVATION PHYTOPATHOLOGY I CONSERVATION I EVOLUTION I BIODIVERSITY 11:45 AM *10:00 AM - 11:45 BIODIVERSITY 11:45 AM IV 11:00-11:30 AM FORAY TO I AM II UNICOI 11:30-12:00 AM STATE 12:00-12:30 PM PARK MSA MYCOFLORA 2.0 LUNCH ON YOUR OWN TEACHING 12:30-1:00 PM COUNCIL MSA STUDENT ZYGOMYCETES LUNCHEON WORKSHOP MEETING LUNCH ON YOUR OWN LUNCH ON YOUR OWN 1:00-1:30 PM *12:45 PM - 1:30 PM

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7:00-7:30 PM MSA OPENING RECEPTION 7:30-8:00 PM MYCOLOGIA DINNER ON VOLUNTEER’S MSA SOCIAL AND EDIT. BD. SOCIAL YOUR OWN MTG UGA AUCTION/STUDENT AWARDS 8:00-8:30 PM DINNER ON STUDENT ALUMNI YOUR OWN SOCIAL 8:30-9:00 PM SOCIAL 9:00-9:30 PM

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