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Virginia Laboratory Self-Taught Fungal Training Course 11800 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 300 “Molds and other Fungi in Air and on Building Materials” Reston, Virginia 20191 CD1 - Cladosporium; Ulocladium; Alternaria; Stemphylium (877) 648-9150 / Fax (703) 648-3919 E-mail: [email protected] This self paced course can be purchased on CD for $150.00 by calling 877.648-9150. Review its contents as often as necessary, then submit your written exam for your Completion Certificate and Continuing Education Points. Georgia Laboratory Corporate Forum Bryce Kendrick, PhD, DSC, FRSC, 4501 Circle 75 Parkway, Suite A1190 author of “The Fifth Kingdom”, has This series, “Mold and other Fungi Atlanta, GA 30339 designed this series of CDs for IAQ (770) 947-2828 / Fax (770) 947-2938 in Air and on Building Materials”, Professionals, IHs, CIHs, and Building E-mail: [email protected] consists of six CDs: - Construction Specialists. The intent is to foster and preserve high quality, educationally sound and widely Now Available Denver Laboratory accepted mold and bacterial education. CD1 - Cladosporium; Ulocladium; 13949 W. Colfax Ave, Ste 205 Individuals seeking to increase their Alternaria; Stemphylium Lakewood, CO 80401 knowledge of the commonly Coming Soon (303) 232.3746 referred to as Mold and will find CD2 - Wood Rot Fungi E-mail: [email protected] that this series of CDs will promote self- CD3 - Ascomycetes improvement, ensure academic quality CD4 - Basidiomycetes and aid in the quest for knowledge and CD5 - Phialidic Fungi – Penicillium/ excellence. Aspergillus Group CD6 - Molds, Fungi and other Taxa This educational series will deal with in Indoor Air Quality a number of the most common fungi found in the air spora and growing on Additional training information along various substrates in contaminated with Dr. Kendrick’s articles are buildings. Our aim is to present enough available at the Aerobiology website: information about many of the fungi to allow readers to identify each fungus, no matter how it presents itself to them, www.aerobiology.net and to understand something of the conditions under which it grows.

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that a Ph.D. is only the beginning of one’s I was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1979- professional education). Eventually, 80, was awarded a D.Sc. in 1980, I developed a strong aversion to the and was elected a Fellow of the Royal bureaucracy, and left the Government Society of Canada in 1981. I served as in 1965 to take up a teaching position Honourary Secretary of the Academy at the University of Waterloo. of Science of the Royal Society for This was certainly one of the best seven years. I have twice been a decisions I ever made. My interests member of the Natural Sciences and broadened, research support grew, and Engineering Research Council Plant I was made a Full Professor in 1971. Grant Selection Committee, For almost thirty years I reveled in the chairing it once, and also served on freedom and responsibility of the job, and the selection committee for the NSERC was involved in a ferment of teaching, “1967” scholarships, Canada’s most research, writing and environmental prestigious graduate awards. activism, and enjoyed busy sabbaticals In 1993, I was invited to give televised in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa lectures in the biennial Prestige Lecture Dr. Bryce Kendrick is the author of and the U.S. I took “early retirement” Day staged by the South African the Aerobiology Self Taught Fungal in 1994, partly to move to the beautiful Foundation for Research Development Training Courses. The following is a waterfront property we had found on in Pretoria. short biography that Dr. Kendrick wrote Vancouver Island, partly to expand my Following my “retirement” in 1994, I in 2004 when he joined Aerobiology activities in other areas, and to enjoy was made a Distinguished Professor Laboratory Associates, Inc. as our a new spectrum of living organisms. I Emeritus by the University of Waterloo. Technical Advisor am, however, also continuing to teach I was surprised and delighted to and to supervise graduate students. receive the 1995 Distinguished I was born in 1933 in Liverpool, England, Although I am in many ways a generalist, Mycologist Award of the Mycological and grew up and enjoyed an excellent with interests ranging from fungi to Society of America, and was made education in that grimy port city. My birds to coral reefs, my research has a Centenary Fellow of the British mother and father encouraged my been primarily concerned with the fungi Mycological Society in 1996. In 2001, interest in biology, and made financial we call moulds — their , I was awarded the Lawson Medal of sacrifices to further my education, for development, and . These the Canadian Botanical Association for which I will always be more than grateful. fungi are particularly involved in the lifetime achievement. I was an early beneficiary of the post- decomposition (recycling) of plant war Labour Government’s legislation debris. My micropublishing business opening higher education to students My laboratory produced over 300 “Mycologue Publications” keeps me from lower-income families. Indeed, mycological publications. This includes fairly busy, and is still producing new I may well be the first professional in 12 books, three of which are university mycological books, laboratory manuals, my family. I completed my Ph.D. in textbooks, and one a children’s book. databases and CD-ROMs (as can at the University of Liverpool My textbook, “The Fifth Kingdom,” has be seen on its web page: http://www. at the age of 24. Jobs being scarce in enjoyed a modest success, seventeen mycolog.com) Britain at that time, I sailed for Canada, thousand copies having been sold so where I had been awarded a Post- far, and it has been widely adopted In 2003, I became involved in a multi- Doctoral Fellowship of the National by universities in North America and year macrofungal inventory of Gwaii Research Council. other parts of the world. I have a Haanas National Park in the Queen While working on moulds in Ottawa, I deep commitment to communicate my Charlotte Islands. was offered a position by the Federal enthusiasm for fungi, and this has taken Government, and spent the next 6 me to lecture at universities in China, In 2004, I accepted the position of years at the Biosystematics Research Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Technical Advisor to Aerobiology Centre, on the Central Experimental Britain, France, South Africa, the Laboratory Associates, Inc. of Reston, Farm in Ottawa, picking the brains of U.S. and Canada, as well as to many Virginia. my senior colleagues and acquiring the schools and Natural History Societies rudiments of mycology (I soon learned in Canada and the U.S. www.aerobiology.net 1.877.648.9150