Supplement to Mycologia Vol. 49(4) August 1 998

Newsletter of the Mycological Society of America

In This Issue SAN JUAN: JAYUYA'S TAlNO SUN SHINES ON MSA Nieves-Rivera T-shirt ...... 1 -2 About this issue...... 2 Angel M. Nieves-Rivera Two Views from Camp Yuquiyi ..... 3-4 MSA Oficial Business The designer of the colorful 1998 MSA T-shirt explains the origins of the motifs found in his unique design. Angel Nieves-Rivera, formerly a resident 1998 MSA Awards ...... 5-1 1 biologist with the Puerto Rico Department of Natural & Environmental Re- Letter fkom the Past-President ...... 11 sources on Mona Island where he received his MS under the guidance of Dr. 1998-1999 MSA Council ...... 12 Carlos Betancourt, is now a doctoral student in the Department of Marine Letter from the President ...... 13 Sciences at the University of Puerto Rico (Mayaguez Campus). MSA Council minutes ...... 14-16 The annual MSA T-shirt is an important MSA tradition that pro- Annual Meeting minutes ...... 17 vides income to the Society by adding to the MSA Endowment Fund. Annual Reports The design for the 1998 T-shirt (and poster), pictured on the next Officers ...... 18 page, was a direct result of my 1996-1997 work at El Yunque Committees ...... 18-2 1 (Caribbean National Forest) with Drs. Lodge and Cantrell, who sug- Publications...... 22-23 gested I submit a design for the 1998 MSA meeting in San Juan. The Representatives ...... 23-25 final design was developed and elaborated from motifs used in an em- blem I previously made for Amonatura Inc., a Puerto Rican Natural Change of Address ...... 26 Historical Society (see figure below). Both emblem and T-shirt design Endowment & Contributions ...... 28 depict the Taino Sun and our popular tree frog, the Coqui. Gift Membership ...... 3 1 The twelve main motifs used in the MSA design are explained Sustaining Members ...... 34 more fully below (see the figure at the top of page 2). Society Membership ...... 36 Mycologistical Quiz ...... 17 (1) Jayuya's Taino Sun -- the famous Taino Indian petroglyph Mycologist's Bookshelf ...... 25-26 from the municipality of Jayuya. For some people, this petroglyph symbolizes the spiritual essence of the origins of our Puerto Rican MSA & Mycological News ...... 27-30 culture. For others, the symbol represents the Taino Indian shamanic Mycology On-Line ...... 3 1 view of the sun and the spirit of our beginnings. Mycological Classifieds...... :...... 32 (Positions, Mycological Goods & (2) Puerto Rican Tody (Todus mexicanus) -- a Puerto Rican bird Services, information wanted, Fungi species misnamed by Linnaeus, who was confksed as to its origin. I wanted, Publications wanted) selected this insect catcher (related to the kingfisher) instead of our Calendar of Events ...... 33 famous Puerto Rican Parrot because I Puerto Rico Montage...... 35 preferred to represent a less well r known but equally beautiful species found only in Puerto Rico. Important Dates (3) Stemonitaceae fstemonitis \,

August 3 1, 1998 - Deadline for next sp.) -- shown growing on the top Inoculum downed log. (I could not let myxo buddies down!) (4) Land Snail (Caracolus cara- a MSA Homepage: cola) -- an interesting inhabitant of , http://www.erin.utoronto.ca/-w3msal wetter areas of the Puerto Rican sub- I tropical rain forest, such as the higher elevations of El Yunque or AMONA 7 Tor0 Negro. The flattened snai 1, El rarno Sun prctogroph also shrnes m known to damage basidiocarps of Nreves-Rrvera '.T Amonatura logo Favolus brasiliensis when it feeds, is shown on a leaf of a species of 1 concluded on page 2 the Melastomataceae. (5) Strophariaceae (Psilocybe portoricensis) -- a new bluing species (described by Guzman, Tapia, Nieves-Rivera & Betan- court in Mycotmcon) from the montane region of our Island (found on soil). (6) Hygrophoraceae (Hygrocybe occidentalis var. scarletina) -- while there are chrome orange forms of this variety found in Puerto Rico and the Amazon, basidiocarps are typically colored lemon yellow (on soil). (7) Common Coqui (Eleutherodactylus coqui) -- this beloved endemic amphibian spe- cies of Puerto Rico symbolizes fertility in Taino Indian mythol- om.

(8) Sarcoscyphaceae (Cookeina tricholoma) -- an as- (12) Luquillo Mountains -- This range forms the back- comycete species common to the tropics and subtropics bone of the Caribbean National Forest, known to the locals found on dead wood and bark. as El Yunque. These mountains include several peaks (9) Orchid (Epidendrum sp.) -- like much of Puerto such as Tres Picachos, El Toro, Pico del Este, Pico del Rican flora and biological heritage, this orchid can be Oeste, El Cacique and El Yunque itself. Since pre- found south to the Lesser Antilles and South America and Columbian times this natural reserve was protected by a westward to the Greater Antilles and Central America. gelid mist of uncertainty. Today this natural legacy is Puerto Rico is an important stepping stone to understand- protected by law. ing modern biogeographical distribution. I would like to acknowledge many people without whose help I could not have created my design or writfen about it, in par- (10) Heliconia (Heliconia sp.) -- like the bromeliads, ticular Drs. D. Jean Lodge. Carlos Betancourt, Sharon A. Can- this typical plant of the tropics is a natural storehouse of trell, Ernest H. Williams, Jr., Steve Stephenson, John Landolr, rain water. Paul Bayman, Harold H. Burdsall Jr and Prof: Carlos J. Santos- (11) Xylariaceae (Camillea verruculospora) -- a Flores. I also wish to thank Dr. Lorelei L. Norvell, who encour- common ascomycete (described by Rogers, Laessoe & aged me to write this manuscript. Finally, I wish to dedicate this Lodge) found on trunks and branches of Miconia in the T-shirt and poster to my mom and my classmates, to whom I Luquillo Mountains and South America. always owe so much.

About This Issue

The Inoculum afier our annual meeting is list of all books received for review since Embarrassing Admissions, Corrections always the "workhorse" issue of the year, January. & Additions Department.. AAer perusing for it contains all the necessary informa- On page 17 -- for those unable to Inoculum 49-3, eagle-eyed Dick Korf tion -- new MSA council, minutes, annual visit San Juan -- we present an identifica- thoughtfully communicated, "Nothing reports, awards -- that will be needed tion contest of an entirely different sort. new to add, but (on page I 1) I learned that through the forthcoming year. This sum- As usual we include assorted myco- in 1988 Scott Rogers became a Depart- mer we are also including many photos logical news and reminders, classifieds, ment of Botany at the University of fiom the workshops, forays and Puerto calendar, and various and sundry sub- Washington. I'll bet he was surprized!" Rico meeting. With the photos we also scription forms. Also as usual we ask that Could it be Dick merely wanted to see present three student reports on the crea- members continue to submit hard copy and "his" mea culpa cartoon again? tion of the popular T-shirt design and the electronic submissions (MS Word 6.0 successful Ascomycete and Basidiomycete preferred). Hard copy (sent WELL before rain-forest workshops. the deadline on August 31) and high- Also included are the recent litera- resolution graphics files, preferably on ture citation style changes to be initiated floppy disc, are particularly welcome. by Mycologia, a critical book review and a 2 -- Lorelei Norvell TWO VIEWS FROM CAMP YUQUIYU

From our arrival on Sunday, June 7 at Camp Yuquiyti where we were welcomed by the song of a million rainforest coquis (and a disconcerting tendency for the heavens to open torren- tially upon foragerspoking among palms and vines) to an early Friday exodus on June 12 to join the rest of MSA for ourfifrh foray in as many days, the sixty or so students and instruc- tors found the MSA workshops in Puerto Rico to be a resounding success. Only someivhat nonplused by Camp Yuquiyu Rule 5 (Se permite oir musica hasta las 1200, per0 no bailar [Music is allowed until 1200 but no dancmng]) and English Rule 8 ("No lavicious or immoral acts'?, participants were suflciently charmed by coqui shower pets and bioluminescenr fireflies, click beetles and Dictyopanus to rise above the steamy humidity and evening micro- scope meditations. Below are views of the ~vorkshopsseen through the eyes of two students. (Photos by Lorelei Norvell)

Tropical Ascomycete Workshop Tropical Polypores @i[Corticiaceae

by Jamie Platt by Tracy Commock An Oregon State University PhD candidate and 1998 MSA A botanist with the Natural History Division of the Institute of Graduate Fellowship Awardee shares her views on studying rain- Jamaica in Kingston vividly recounts her experiences with conks forest Ascos with world-renowned ascomycetologists. and crusts in the more humid forests of Puerto Rico. As a participant in the 1998 MSA Ascomycete Work- When I left Jamaica destined for Puerto Rico I had no shop, I would once again like to thank Sharon Cantrell, idea that 1 would have had such a wonderful experience. I Jean Lodge, and all the other people who organized this was truly amazed with what I encountered. On arrival at fantastic event! 1 feel the workshop was one of the greatest Camp Yuqui*, I collected my gear and headed for my opportunities ever presented to the mycological commu- dormitory where I had a long nap. This proved to be a nity! Imagine, a gregarious cluster of professional my- good idea because I later needed all this energy in the field. cologists, wandering through the Puerto Rican rain forest There were about 15 persons in our dormitory and most of (and a "chicken farm") collecting generally inconspicuous us each had control over one set of bunk beds. fungi, which was only a small part of the workshop experi- On our first night at the camp we were welcomed by ence. Add to that image nearly ten experts sharing conta- Dr. Jean Lodge who among other things introduced us to gious enthusiasm on various groups the rules of the camp, dangerous rocks and Afticanized bees. She also explained that we were all guinea pigs as oflow, ascomycetes Sharon Cantrell, [Margaret Robert Barr Hanlin, Bige- they had never held two concurrent workshops before a Don Pfister, Jack Rogers, Amy MSA meeting. Rossman, Gary Samuels] and with vJ That night may have been restless for those unaccus- seemingly endless energy, patience, tomed to night noises, but I think the Puerto Rican Coqui '~ac~~Polyporaceae) mycologists. I am ex- and Peter Roberts from Kew in the UK ( Heterobasidiomy- tremely grateful to cetes). We also had excellent literature available to help MSA for providing this with identifications. opportunity and I hope On our first field trip we visited Angelito Trail in the they will consider Caribbean National Forest. I missed the bus that took all holding other work- R~COutperts conjo,,r,,r~hoiledplon~ain the other participants to the site, but luckily, I was able to shops in the future. 3 catch a ride and meet the group before they disappeared Cornmock, continued from page I My favorite field day was our trip to the Big Tree Trail. into the forest. We split into five groups and followed our The diversity of fungi on that trail was most spectacular for leaders. me. I saw species of Tinctoporellus, Hygrocybe, and On Angelito Trail I collected a fungus that I thought Nigroporus, but particularly remember almost a whole tree was a Ganoderma but which was identified as a Peren- trunk covered with Rigidoporus. The waterfall at the end niporia martinus which, according to our experts, had of the trail seemed like a pot of gold at the end of a rain- never before been collected in Puerto Rico. bow. Other fungi collected were Tremellajiusiformis(at El Verde) and ~arliellascabrosa, ~exa~oniahydnoides, Trametes villosa and Beenakia informis (in a small forest behind a chicken farm only two miles from Camp Yu- quiyu). Overall the workshop was a success. Participants were able to see fungi in the field and get tips from experts on important macroscopic and microscopic features used for identification. Although I live in the tropics, I had to admit that the climate at the camp was very hot and humid. However, I think I fared a little better than others who were not accus- tomed to the heat. The workshop organizers made sure fi,/i,re tlia t-nins cmne upon Tracy mdjlellow forayer^ at El VerdeLTER. that nobody suffered from dehydration by providing re- The Basidiomycete group unfortunately was the first freshment at all hours of the day. group to get soaking wet in the field when we encountered 1 had a terrific time in Puerto Rico. It is truly a beauti- torrential rain on our second day out in the El Verde ful country and we had the opportunity to see and examine LTER. We all arrived back at the camp looking dreadful, a lot of its natural treasures. I also had the opportunity to to find the asco group in the lab all clean and dry. (The interact with people from all over the world. Special tables did turn: they also got drenched two days later while thanks to Dr. Jean Lodge and her team who obviously put we uncharitably cheered at the microscopes). in a lot of work to ensure that we all had a great time.

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DISTINGUISHED MYCOLOGIST AWARD -- GEORGE L. BARRON

The Distinguished Mycologist Award, given annually ecological studies of fungi attacking soil microorganisms to an individual whose career has been outstanding on the such as nematodes, rotifers, tardigrades and amoebae. basis of published research and service to MSA, was George's work has both stimulated public interest and been awarded this year to Dr. George L. Barron. featured in such dissimilar publications as Natural Histoly and The National Enquirer. George Barron is truly a fungal biologist. His many and significant contributions to our understanding of biology, Letters of support, underscoring George's boundless genetics, ecology and taxonomy of fungi -- the existence enthusiasm for all things mycological, note that he is of many of them virtually unsuspected before George "indefatigable, energetic, ebullient, and --alas -- an early turned his eye to them -- have enriched Science. His pho- riser" and a "thoroughly entertaining and educational tographic illustrations of the known and poorly known traveling companion, world-class photographer, powerful fungi are standards to which all should aspire. educator, and delightful raconteur ...." "As lecturer he is without peer .... a man who can provoke appreciative audi- George Barron's two most tangible contributions to ences to wonder audibly why all lecturers are not similarly Mycology are the books Genera of Hyphomycetesfrom entertaining and elucidating." Soil (1 968) and The Nematode-Destroying Fungi ( 1977). Genera of Hyphomycetes was the first book to serve as an The qualities of this year's MSA Distinguished My- accessible, useful and comprehensive guide for identifying cologist are summed up in another letter: "I can think of conidial fungi. This book also has the distinction of having no more deserving a person for this award than George been the first to provide keys based on conidial develop- Barron. Three things together make him richly deserving ment, the subject of much "hot" research at the time at of this award: his distinguished research career, his more which it was written. The Nematode-Destroying Fungi than thirty years of distinguished undergraduate and summarized the literature of those fungi and included an graduate teaching of mycology for mycologists, botanists elegant photographic record of them. This work was a and plant pathologists, and his distinguished service to the springboard for George's many subsequent biological and mycological community."

The speech that never was... .

Dear Friends and Colleagues:

Those of you who were at the annual meeting of the MSA in Puerto Rico in June might have noticed I didn't attend this important event. This was not a deliberate at- tempt on my part to miss the occasion, although I confess to missing quite a few such meetings in my day. Unfortunately, this time I was scheduled to receive an award, and through an oversight, no one told me about it. Indeed, such was the secrecy that I was not even aware that I had been nominated. 1 would like to take this opportunity, therefore, to thank the thoughtful friends who nominated me, those kind enough to support the nomination and the awards committee for their decision to recognize me with the "Distinguished Mycologist " award for 1998. In all honesty this is the most satisfying award I have received in my life. There is no greater honour than to be recognized by your peers. I will cherish this thought and re- gret only that I was unable to be there in person. As I said to Mary Palm, however, it The distinguished Dr. ~eorieL. Barron was an Act of God and, knowing my feelings about annual meetings, He was appar- at the 1997 MSA Quebec Foray ently on my side. Rest assured, however, that had I known about this signal honour the society wished to bestow upon me, I would have bitten the bullet and been there in the flesh to receive it and to thank you for it. This I do now humbly and with sincerity -- within the limits, of course, of my ability to express these two emotions. George L. Barron, Professor Emeritus 1998 MSA Awards

WESTON TEACHING AWARD -- LARRY GRAND

The first recipient of the William H. Weston Award for Grand also conducts an active research program which has Excellence in Teaching is Dr. Larry Grand, Department resulted in over fifty publications. He has served on over of Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University. Dr. 65 graduate research committees, chairing or co-chairing Grand was nominated by Dr. Michael Benson, also from many of them. His excellence in teaching can best be NCSU, for his unexcelled proficiency in the classroom, his summed up by former students: innovative skills in developing teaching materials, and his "He was a continual source of encouragement. outgoing personality that reaches out to young people. He supported all the students in the department in Dr. Grand has made outstanding contributions to the their research endeavors. He was always elated teaching program in Plant Pathology at North Carolina when any student received accolades and willing to State University since 1967. A long time member of the help anyone 'if things were just not going too well. ' Academy of Outstanding Teachers, he has been recognized His support of students was not limited to academic many time for excellence in instruction. In 1972, he re- areas. He and Mrs. Grand were delightful attendees ceived the much coveted Alumni Outstanding Teacher at departmental and student social functions. It was Award, an all-university award made to fewer than a dozen almost like they had adopted all of us." -- Albert K. faculty at Commencement based on rigorous evaluations at Culbreath student, departmental, college, and university levels. "His enthusiasmfor all aspects of the subject Dr. Grand's courses have attracted many students, who brings out the best in his students, encouraging them consistently write excellent evaluations noting his ex- to put forward their best efforts. Dr. Grand's ap- tremely well organized courses, stimulating lectures, well- proach to teaching and to dealing with students is a planned laboratory exercises using the highest quality model for all educators. " -- Gary W; Moorman plants and fungi, his stress on the importance of mycology '211 of Dr. Grand's courses were exceptionally to plant disease, his well coordinated field collecting trips well organized and logically presented. This alone and -- most of all -- his understanding of, helpfilness to, made a very lasting impression on me. .... Dr. Grand and friendship with each student. Excerpts from the many placed a great deal of emphasis on source refer- favorable student evaluations include ences materials, so that students would know where --"Dr. Grand is one of the best professors to look when faced with a novel situation. These I've had while at N.C. State. He is fair, has a skills have been extremely valuable to me .... Even great personality, and knows how to get across though I thought Dr. Grand was a truly outstanding his ideas. His participation in the Forestry 304 teacher when I was in his class, I have come to ap- field trips was a bonus. He pointed out common preciate his teaching even more in the nearly twenty diseases and we got to see firsthand the range years since I had his class." -- Deborah R. Fravel of alternate hosts andprimary causes of dis- "Larry Grand's service to the fields of mycology ease. " and plant pathology go far beyond the contributions --"The form of teaching displayed by Dr. he has made to our knowledge of the ecology of ec- Grand (lecturing with slide showing and hands- tomycorrhizal fungi and plant-pathogenic fungi. He on demo in lab) kept the entire class interested. has provided academic guidance and personal sup- Dr. Grand's sense of humor also kept the port for a multitude of students, in and out of class- class's attention .. . . " rooms, at all levels for nearly three decades. His mark through classroom, advisory committee, or --"Dr. Grand taught the class very well. just one-on-one counsel is on successful mycologists He respected the students and encouraged us to and plant pathologists all over the world Truly come to class and learn. The general attitude outstanding teachers make this kind of mark and connection between Dr. Grand and the throughout their careers. After I5 years, I am class encouragedpeople to learn, participate, pleased to be one of the people who is still learning and do well. " fiom him and the example he sets." -- Steven R. --"Dr. Grand is an excellent teacher who Shafer puts a lot of time and effort into teaching a good course. Also, he is way cool!" Dr. Larry Grand epitomizes excellence in teaching, and the MSA Teaching Committee is honored to award him Although his principal assignment is teaching, Dr. the William H. Weston Award for Excellence in Teaching. 1 998 MSA Awards WESTON TEACHING AWARD -- DENNIS DES JARDIN The second William H. Weston Award for Excellence economical needs," Dr. Desjardin believes students should in Teaching goes to Dr. Dennis E. Desjardin, Department be treated as equals with the professorlstudent distance of Biology, San Francisco State University. Dr. Desjardin kept to a minimum. Nominator Kristin Peterson states, was nominated by a current SFSU graduate student, Kris- "You may be surprised at how closely his teaching phi- tin. Although Dennis has been employed as a college pro- losophy reflects others' perception of his teaching." fessor only since 1989, the six letters of support from cur- Excerpts from letters describing Dr. Desjardin's teach- rent or fmergraduate students and 28 letters from un- ing excellence in teaching include dergraduate students illustrate Dr. Desjardin's impact on his students. During his relatively short academic career at "Dr. Dennis Desjardin is a highly enthusiastic SFSU, he is a three-time winner of the Student Recogni- teacher with an incredible ability to outline the sub- tion of Excellent General Education Teaching Award, and ject clearly and to capture the audience. He is fun to in 1994 received the Presidential Award which is granted listen to and ... obviously enjoys teaching. He is to only six untenured faculty members campus-wide for friendly and very approachable... and has been ex- excellence in teaching and research. tremely hekful and supportive in advising me on specific research-related questions. His enthusiasm As Professor of Biology at SFSU, Dr. Desjardin is Cu- for mycology goes far beyond his duties in that he rator of the Harry D. Thiers Herbarium, Graduate Student reaches out to amateurs and is very active in the lo- Coordinator in Ecology and Systematic Biology and Con- cal mycological society." -- Annette Kretzer servation, graduate student major advisor (five currently and eight total thus far), researcher and teacher. "Among his professional colleagues, Dr. Des- jardin is a natural leader. I have been impressed on Dr. Desjardin's research has already led to over forty many occasions with the extent to which he com- publications and taken him to the Hawaiian Islands, Af- mands the respect of other mycologists because of his rica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia expertise and skill as a consultant. His personal and most recently, Indonesia. warmth, humor and eagerness to share his extensive He regularly teaches three mycology courses including knowledge aboutfungi-with both students andpro- the summer "Fungi of the Sierra Nevada", regularly cap- fessionals has made him ideally suited as the guiding tures wider audiences (and potential future mycology stu- forces of SFSU's mycological studies." -- Pamela dents) in two non-mycology courses, and has directed two Owings semester-long seminars on Fungal Symbioses and Recent "The enthusiasm which first impressed me carries Advances in Fungal Systematics. Because he is convinced into the courses he teaches. I audited his Biology of that teaching responsibilities also involve teaching the the Fungi class in the Fall of 1997 and found him to general public about mycological topics, Dr. Desjardin has be one of the most articulate and organized lecturers presented nearly 40 public lectures to amateur mycological I have ever come across, in mycology or otherwise. societies, poison centers, government regulatory agencies, He has the unique ability lo explain complex con- and universities and been interviewed by local newspapers cepts in simplified terms by using relevant analogies and television on many occasions. and drawings. Out of that class of 15, at least five His expressed teaching philosophy helps explain his students expressed their desire to look further into teaching success. While he admits that mastery of subject mycology as a career. This speak well for Dr. Des- matter and organizational skills are very important, Dr. jardin's motivational qualities. " -- Kelly Patrice Desjardin feels that "an enthusiastic interest and excite- Collins ment for fungi and for teaching mycology is readily per- ceived and appreciated by students.... Humor brings a lec- Finally, it is the overwhelming opinion of his students ture alive; inserting humor and enthusiasm makes and colleagues that Dr. Desjardin is an excellent teacher [students] perk up and listen, so that before they know it because, with his energetic, engaging style, he manages to they have learned something new." He believes that stu- get people involved. His passion for mycology is infectious dents learn best when the subject is topical and relevant, so and his enthusiasm for students and teaching is obvious. that if a local news program should feature allergenic molds or dry rot-infested homes in the Bay Area, a good Dr. Dennis Desjardin is a model of excellence in teacher would weave that subject into his next lecture. teaching, and the MSA Teaching Committee is pleased to Aware that "an excellent teacher must respect ... students award him the William H. Weston Award for Excellence and be sensitive to their intellectual, emotional, and socio- in Teaching. 1 998 MSA Awards

ALEXOPOULOS AWARD -- Dennis Desjardin The Alexoupolos, which recognizes "young" mycologists who have made outstand- ing and noteworthy mycological contributions within ten years of receiving their doc- torates, is bestowed this year on Dr. Dennis E. Desjardin. "There is no doubt that Dennis is a very rapidly rising star among MSA members and internationally" writes one of his nominators. Dennis, who has worked on marasmioid fungi since his undergraduate days has published 45 papers in refereed journals on the systematics of Marasmius as well as on many other agarics. As a result of his creativity and high quality work, he has received two major NSF Biotic Surveys and Inventories grants for biodiversity studies in Hawaii and Indonesia. After only nine years after receiving his doctorate from the University of Tennessee (where Dr. Ron Petersen served as his major advisor), Dennis has succeeded in achieving international stature as a top agaric systematist. He is also recognized as the foremost authority on agarics in Hawaii, where -- according to one of his nominators -- Dennis "will go down in history along with the ornithologists, entomologists and botanists who have worked in Hawaii and told us about the uniqueness of the flora and fauna of this island group." His appointment at San Francisco State University to re-

/'horn by lorclc, hhrwll place his mentor Dr. Harry Thiers was a bold move on the part of that university, par- Weston-Alexopoulos double-threat ticularly when one considers recent trends. From home-based celebrity to interna- Dennis Desjardin in San Juan tional scientific star, Dennis Desjardin -- who this year has become the first MSA member ever to be awarded simultaneously the Weston Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Alexopoulos -- represents the best and brightest the United States can offer and is one who will make the Society proud. It is an honor for MSA to include Dennis Desjardin among the awardees of this prestigious Alexopoulos prize. MARTIN-BAKER ENDOWMENT AWARD -- Chee-Jen Chen

The Martin-Baker is awarded to a recent PhD mycologist based on a submitted research proposal and past research record. This year's award is given to Dr. Chee-Jen Chen. Dr. Chen received his BS and MS degrees from National Chung-Hsing University in 1984 and 1986 respectively. In April, 1998, he received a PhD from Tiibingen University in April after completing a morphological and molecular investigation of the genus Tremella under the supervision of his major professor Prof. Dr. Franz Oberwinkler. He is presently employed at the Food Industry Research and Development Institute in Taiwan. Dr. Chen has co-authored several articles on the Dacrymycetales and Tremellales of Taiwan. He proposes to continue collect critical species in Taiwan from which he will select representatives for hrther ultrastructural and sequencing analyses. As very little is currently known about the Heterobasidiomyces of this region, Dr. Chen's studies should provide much information essential for future traditional and molecular systematics.

ALEXANDER H. SMITH e;r: HELEN V, SMITH AWARDS -- Victor Bandala e;r: Catherine Aime This year the Smith Award Committed selected two individuals wishing to study specimens of fleshy Basidiomycetes and As- comycetes collected by Alexander H. Smith and his associates and deposited at the University of Michigan Herbarium. Both researchers will visit the University of Michigan Herbarium to carry out a portion of their proposed work. The first is awarded to Victor M. Bandala, a PhD Candidate at University of Alcala, Spain, for his proposal "A. H. Smith's Crepidotus collections: a source of information for the revision of Crepidotus of Mexico". The second is bestowed upon M. Catherine Aime (Master's Degree Candidate at Virginia Polytechnic Institute) for her pro- posal to examine the infrageneric classification of North American species of Crepidotus using molecular techniques, includ- ing a survey of related genera in the Crepidotaceae. 8 1998 MSA Awards

MSA GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS

Scott Kroken received a BS degree in Horticulture from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1989, and he completed an MS degree in Botany @om the University of Wis- consin at Madison in 1993. He is currently a doctoral student in John Taylor's laboratory H' at UC Berkeley. His honors include an MSA Mentor Student Travel Award (1998); Out- .G-:,~' standing Graduate Student Instructor Award (1995-96); USDA Training Fellowship 1.. <.a (1993-97); Eldon Newcomb Award for Excellence as a Teaching Assistant (1992) and a College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Scholarship (1988-89). He has one publication. His research interest involves investigating the natural history of a lichen species pair: Lelharia columbiana and L. vulpina. He intends to use this lichen species pair as a model ,rb

to test the effects of sex or clonality on the population structure and phylogenetic history of O two species with similar natural histories. Congratulations, Scott! *&. Photo by lorelei NONBII

. Jamie Platt, who received her BS in Biology from the California State University at San Marcos in 1992, is currently a doctoral student in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University. Her faculty advisor is Joey Spatafora. Her honors include Friends of the Farlow Herbarium and Library Travel Fellowship (1998); an MSA Mentor Student Award (1997); NIH Graduate Training Grant in Molecular Biology (1995); US Forest Service Certificate of Merit and Cash Award (1991) and Dennis L. Bostick Memorial Scholarship (1989). She has published two papers and five abstracts. The title of her dissertation is "Evolution of the lichen symbiosis within the Leotiales: evidence from molecular data". She is using nucleotide sequence data, primarily from SSU and LSU rDNA in her studies. Congratulations, Jamie!

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HARRY LUBRECHT NAMA AWARD

John Paul Schmitt received his B. A. in Biology from Grinnell College in 1990, after which he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Bolivia from 1990-92. In 1995, he completed an MS degree in Evolutionary Biology fiom the University of Chicago. He is currently a doctoral student at the University of Chicago. His faculty advisor is Greg Mueller. His honors include a Field Museum of Natural History Graduate Fellowship (1998); NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (1996); MSA Mentor Student Award (1995 & 1996); Saugerman Grant (1994); NSF Graduate Fellowship (1994) and a Searle Fellowship (1993). He has two publi- cations. For his doctoral research, he is investigating the factors that influence competition and species diversity of macrofingi that decompose patchy resources. Congratulations, John!

BACKUS AWARD

Guillermo Pimentel received a BS in Industrial Microbiology from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez in 1993. In 1995, he completed an MS degree in Biology from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez. He is currently a doctoral student at Washington State University, where his faculty advisor is Lori Carris. His honors include Outstanding Graduate Student Initi- ate Award, Phi Kappa Phi (1997); WSU Graduate Student Travel Award (1996); and Alliance for Minority Participation Fel- lowship (1992-1993). He has published two abstracts. For his doctoral research, he is using RAPD analysis to study population variability in the wheat dwarf bunt species, Tilletia controversa and two varieties of the closely related wild Bromus-infecting species, 1: bromi. Congratulations, Guillermo! 1998 MSA Awards

MSA GRADUATE RESEARCH PRIZES

i%oro by Loreler Norvell Graduate Research Prize Winners (leji to right) Scott Kroken, Matthew Henn, Dennis McDaniel and Jason Dobranic Oral presentations Poster presentations Scott Kroken -- Kroken, Scott and John W. Taylor. A Jason Dobranic -- Dobranic, Jason K., and John C. Zak. multi-locus approach to reveal speciation and life Fungal functional diversity along an elevational gra- history changes in the genus Letharia. Dept. of Plant dient in the Chichuahuan desert. Ecology Program, and Microbial Biology, U. California, Berkeley Texas Tech University, Lubbock

Matthew Henn -- Henn, Matthew R., Laurie Osher, Tom Dennis MeDaniel-- McDaniel, Dennis and Robert W. Horton & Ignacio Chapela. Alteration of C process- Roberson. Localization of gamma-tubulin to the ing and fungal community structure by change in Spitzenkoerper ofAllomyces macrogynus. Dept. of Plant vegetation associated mycorrhizae in the Ecuadorian Biology, Arizona State University, Tempe. paramo. Ecosystems Sciences Division, ESPM, U. of California, Berkeley

MSA MENTOR TRAVEL AWARDS The entry for each award includes: Name of mentor award, winners name, affiliation, degree in progress, major ad- visor, andpaper/poster title. Awards are listed alphabetically by name of the mentor.

Special Travel Award: Scott H. Bigelow Award: Chang Chen, E. Butler Award: Ignazio Carbone, Bradley Kroken, Dept Plant & Dept Biology, Virginia Tech, MS, Dept Botany, University of To- Microbial Biology, Univ. of Orson Miller, advisor. Systematic ronto, PhD, Linda Kohn, advisor. California, Berkeley, PhD, John observations of Montagnea A strategy for designing primer Taylor, advisor. A multi-locus arenaria, a gastroid desert fun- sets for speciation studies. approach to reveal speciation and gus. W. C. Denison Award: Martin I. lye history changes in the genus H. Bigelow Award: Kristin R. Pe- Bidartondo, Dept Plant & Mi- Letharia. terson, Dept Biology, San Fran- crobial Biology, Univ. of Cali- C. J. Alexopoulos Award: Denise cisco State Univ., MA, Dennis fornia, Berkeley, PhD, Tom E. Binion, Marshall University Desjardin, advisor. Agaricaceae Bruns, advisor. Identity and spa- Graduate College, MS, Steven of Hawaii. tial distribution of the fungal as- Stephenson, advisor. Corticolous H. Bigelow Award: Elizabeth M. sociate of Sarcodes sanguinea. myxomycetes of the Luquillo Ex- Pine, Dept Plant & Microbial W. C. Denison Award: Jamie L. perimental Forest, Puerto Rico. Biology, Univ. of California, Ber- Platt, Dept Botany & Plant Pa- A. Barksdale/J. P. Raper Award: keley, PhD, John Taylor, advisor. thology, Oregon State, Univ., Donna L. Moore, Dept Biological Fungal diversity of two anoxic PhD, Joseph Spatafora, advisor. Sciences, Univ. of Arkansas, PhD, environments assessed by se- Lichens, earth tongues and endo- Fred Spiegel, advisor. Ecology of quencing of 18s rRNA from total phytes: Molecular phylogenetic protostelids in the Caribbean Na- environmental DNA. hypotheses of the Leotiales. tional Forest, Puerto Rico. 1998 MSA Awards

Mentor Travel Awards. Concluded

M. H. Fitzpatrick Award: John F. H. D. Thiers Award: Brian A. Walker, Dept Biology, Virginia R. KorfAward: Daniel L. Lindner Perry, Dept Biology, San Fran- Tech, MS, Orson Miller, advisor. Czederpiltz, Dept Plant Pathol- cisco State University, MA, Den- Ectomycorrhizal colonization of ogy, Univ of Wisconsin - Madi- nis Desjardin, advisor. Mycena canopy tree seedlings in Rhodo- son, MS, Glen Stanosz, advisor. californiensis resurrected. Species richness of wood- dendron maximum L. thickets of F.A. Uecker Award: Francisco J. inhabiting polyporoid and corti- the southern Appalachians. Camacho, Dept Botany & Plant cioidJizriting bodies in northern M. H. Fitzpatrick/R. Korf Award: hardwood stands with dzfering Pathology, Oregon State Univ., PhD, James Trappe, advisor. The Lijum Ma, Dept Environmental management histories. & Forest Biology, State Univ. mycorrhizae of pumice grape fern, E.S. LuttreN Award: Brian D. New York, PhD, Scott Rogers, Bottychium pumicola. Shaw, Dept Plant Pathology, advisor. Study of glacial ice---a K. Wells Award: Mary Catherine Cornell University, PhD, Harvey source of ancient fungi; Efects of Aime, Dept Biology, Virginia Hoch, advisor. Attachment and an orchid isolate of Phialocephala Tech, MS, Orson Miller, advisor. germination of Phyllosticta am- fortinii on conifers. A novel mode of basidiospore pelicida pycnidiospores. dormancy and germination in the genus ~je~idotus(Fr.) Staude. MSA Honorary Members We take pleasure in announcing that Dr. Roy Watling, associated with the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh, Scotland, and Dr. Ludmila Maranovii, curator of the Czech Collection of Microorganisms (Masaryk University) in Brno, Czech Re- public, were unanimously welcomed as new MSA Honorary Members on June 15 in San Juan at the annual business meeting. MSA BUSINESS

Letter from Outgoing MSA President

Dear MSA Members: It is hard to believe that the Puerto Rico meeting has come and gone. It was an excellent meeting. Many thanks to EVERYONE (Hal and Sandy Burdsall, Mary Berbee, Jean Lodge, Sharon Cantrell and many others) who helped make the meeting a success. I am very excited about and impressed with our students, a sentiment that was expressed by many. You are curious, creative and enthusiastic and contribute significantly to the vitality of the So- ciety. You bode well for the hture of mycology. There have been tremendous changes over the past decade in the man- agement and activities of the Society. Especially significant is the establish- ment of an endowment find, which has grown substantially allowing us to support student travel as well as an increased level of research awards for students and professionals. Having begun to establish a financial base for ourselves was instrumental in allowing us to make the decision to publish Mycologia on our own. As I said at the business meeting, we are like a young adult beginning a new stage in our life. I am confident that we will keep growing as a Society and will continue to succeed in our mission of promoting the study and understanding of the fungi. J'lr'lrotn ht lareler iVorvrN Mary Palm at the MSA Auction in Sun Juan I have thoroughly enjoyed serving as MSA President. Thank you very much for the opportunity. Sincerely, May E. Palm 1 I MSA BUSINESS

COUNCIL OF THE MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

George C. Carroll, President Albert P. Tonilli, Dept. Biology, University of Oregon Councilor Cell Biology/Physiology (1997-1999) Eugene, OR, USA 97403 Dept. Biology, George Mason Univ. Phone 503-346-4522; Fax 503-346-2364 Fairfax, VA, USA 22030 Email [email protected] Phone 703-993-1062; Fax 703-993- 1046 Email [email protected] Linda M. Kohn, President-Elect Dept. of Botany, Univ. of Toronto, Erindale Campus, Paul J. Szaniszlo, Mississauga, Ontario L5L 1C6, Canada Councilor Genetics/Molecular Biology (1997-1999) Phone 905-828-3997; Fax 905-828-3792 Dept. Microbiology, University of Texas Email [email protected] Austin, TX, USA 78712-1095 Phone 5 12-471-3384; Fax 5 12-471-7088 Orson K. Miller Jr., Vice President Email [email protected] Dept. Biology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA 24061 Carol H. Shearer, Phone 540-23 1-6765 Fax 540-23 1-9307 Councilor SystematicsLEvolution (1997-1999) Email [email protected] 265 Morrill Hall, 505 S Goodwin, Dept. Plant Biology, University of Illinois. Urbana, IL, USA 6 180 1 Maren A. Klich, Secretary Phone 2 17-333-2796; Fax 2 17-244-7246 USDA, ARS, SRRC, 1100 Robert E. Lee Blvd. Email [email protected] New Orleans, LA, USA 70 124 Phone 504-286-4361 ; Fax 504-286-44 19 David Porter, Councilor EcologyPathology (1998-2000) Email [email protected] Botany Department, University of Georgia Athens, GA, USA 30602 Jeffrey K. Stone, Treasurer Phone 706-542- 1782; Fax 706-542- 1805 Dept. Botany & Plant Pathology, Oregon State Univ. Email [email protected] Corvallis, OR, USA 9733 1-2902 Phone 503-737-5260; Fax 503-737-3573 Josephine Taylor, Email [email protected] Councilor Cell Biology/Physiology (1 998-2000) Biology Department, Stephen F. Austin State University Mary E. Palm, Nacogdoches, TX, USA 75962 Past President (1998) Phone 409-468-2268; Fax 409-468-2056 Rrn. 329, Bldg 01 la, BARC-West, Beltsville, MD 20705 Email [email protected] Phone 301-504-5327; Fax 301-504-58 10 Email [email protected] Christopher Schardl, Councilor Genetics/Molecular Biology (1998-2000) James H. Ginns, Dept Plant Pathology S-305 ASN, University of Kentucky Past President (1 99 7) Lexington, KY, USA 40546-009 1 Pacific Agriculture Research Centre, 4200 Highway 97 Phone 606-257-8758; Fax 606-323-1961 Summerland, British Columbia, Canada V2A 1ZO Email [email protected] Phone 250-494-771 1; Fax 250-494-0755 Email [email protected] Gary Samuels, Councilor SystematicsLEvolution (1 998-2000) Robert A. Blanchette, USDNARSISystematic Botany and Mycology Lab Councilor Ecology/Pathology (1997-1999) Rm 304, Boll A, BARC-West, 10300 Baltimore Ave. 495 Borlaug Hall, Dept. Plant Pathology Beltsville, MD, USA 20705-1 523 University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN,USA 55 108 Phone 301 -504-8279; Fax 301-504-58 10 Phone 61 2-625-0202; Fax 6 12-625-9728 Email [email protected] Email robertb@puccini .crl.umn.edu MSA BUSINESS

Letter from The President

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

It was a pleasure to see and talk with so many of you MSA council, after long and careful deliberation, at our annual meeting in San Juan in early June. I find voted to sever our ties with the New York Botanical Gar- myself musing repeatedly over the vivid images and den and negotiate a contract with Allen Press for the pub- amazing take-home messages from this occasion: Allomy- lication of Mycologia. In so doing we assume complete ces in Technicolor; a long line of mentor travel awardees; control over our journal. We can determine how many a mushroom sign in neon; Zamiapumila as a dense un- pages to publish, whether to use color photographs, how derstory in a dry tropical forest; a logical method for the text is to be formatted, and how much to charge. We handling gaps in DNA sequences; a Chytrid pathogenic to have taken this path only after two years' work by an ad frogs; monosporous phialides; increased chanterelle pro- hoc committee headed by Orson Miller, who deserves duction in harvested plots; cryptic speciation in lichens; thanks from us all for marshaling the data necessary for an gene clusters for aflatoxin production; Lasiosphaeria raci- informed decision. Members of council were especially borskii (an old friend) on a poster after 35 years - and on pleased that the New York Botanical Garden staff is will- and on. 1 could have attended the same meetings again, ing to negotiate an amicable separation, and in the future experienced a completely different set of presentations, and we hope to continue to maintain cordial relations with the come home with a completely different set of images and NYBG. insights. Our society devotes considerable resources, both human and monetary, to holding annual meetings. So it What does the future promise? Lots! I have reap- should. Annual meetings are the glue that holds us to- pointed an ad hoc committee to look at by-law revisions gether as professionals. They provide a mycological "fix" (Meredith Blackwell and Don Pfister) and am setting up a to get us through another year of challenging teaching ob- committee on Long-range Planning. Other committees, ligations, bureaucratic entanglements, and other onerous which have long finctioned as "special7' committees (e.g., duties, with enthusiasm for fungi and for science intact. Mentor Travel Awards) will be proposed as permanent Special thanks for this year's meetings go to Jean Lodge committees. Funds for a new Mentor travel award in (local arrangement chair and workshop coordinator), Mary honor of Jim Trappe are being solicited (and we hope you Berbee (program chair), Hal Burdsall (conference coordi- will contribute generously). Manuscripts for Mycologia nator and auctioneer) and Mary Palm (president). Memoirs continue to arrive, and interest has been ex- pressed in other kinds of publishing ventures (e.g., picture The meetings proved notable for other reasons. calendars) which might benefit the society. Committees on Workshops held prior to the meetings on tropical Ascomy- International Affairs and the Program committee continue cetes, Corticiaceae, and slime molds received rave reviews. to remind us of the need to involve members outside of US On the forays participants could forage for fungi in a tropi- and Canada in the programs and affairs of the society. cal rain forest. The auction and T-shirt sale once again These are interesting times for MSA, and in closing I wish brought in over $6,000, and a record-breaking closing bid to thank the MSA membership for the opportunity to serve of $650 was logged for "Mushrooms in their Natural as president during a period of creative ferment. Habitat" (generously donated by Emory Simmons). Spe- cial thanks go Jeff Stone (endowment chair) for organizing Cordially, the auction and T-shirt sale. Dennis Desjardin received George Carroll, both the Alexopoulos and Weston awards, the first time that a single person has garnered both of these prestigious 1998- 1999 President marks of MSA recognition in the same year. Congratula- Mycological Society of America tions are doubly in order. MSA BUSINESS

MINUTES OF THE 1998 MSA COUNCIL June 12, 1998 Laguna Room, Condado Plaza Hotel, Sun Juan, Puerto Rico

submitted the nominations of Ludmila investment of $48,7 19 in June of 1996 1. The Annual Meeting of the MSA Marvanova and Roy Watling for Honor- in the mutual fund (Income Fund of Council was called to order at 8:45 am ary Membership, which were unani- America, Inc., AMECX) has increased by President Palm. All but three vot- mously approved. in value to $70,003. This along with ing members were present. J. Ginns, P. 8. Treasurer Rick Howard presented a our bonds and interest fiom the money Szaniszlo and D. Desjardin sent regrets. preliminary report. Total current assets market has increased our estimated Also present were 0. K. Miller, S. are $377,650, with liabilities of 13,200 yearly income to $19,865. Frayman, G. Dresser, and G. Samuels. for Awards and $520 for the Union of 10. Endowment Committee Chair 2. Council unanimously approved the Microbiological Societies. A final re- Jefiey Stone reports that $12,27 1 was of the 1997 Council meeting port will be published in lnoculum at raised by the endowment committee (Inoculum 48(5): 8-1 2) and the 1998 the end of the fiscal year. This year, the between June I, 1997 and May 3 1, mid-year executive Committee Meeting books will be professionally audited as 1998. This sum includes funds raised (Inoculum 49(3): 3-4). is traditionally done at the end of the through the annual auction, photography treasurer's term. Results of the audit show and sale and T-shirt sales from the 3. President Palm presented highlights will be communicated to the Executive 1997 annual meeting and member con- of her report including the assignment Committee. tributions to the various funds within of 3 ad hoc committees: bylaws review. As of May 4, membership totaled the endowment. Total balance as of travel awards for IMC6 and reappoint- 1206 in the following categories: 809 May 31, 1998 was $159,321. ment of the ad hoc Mycologia Review regular, 15 1 student, 44 emeritus with Council unanimously passed a motion Committee. journal and 64 without, 37 associate, 1 charging the new president to work with 4. Vice President Kohn announced the affiliate society, 11 family, 18 honorary the endowment chair to develop initia- results of the 1998 MSA elections. and 16 sustaining members. Geo- tives on how to enhance the endowment Those elected were: for Vice President, graphically, our membership is com- contributions for the mentor travel finds Orson K. Miller; for Treasurer, Jeffrey prised of 790 in the USA, 90 in Canada, with a report to be presented at the mid- Stone; for Councilor, Cell Biol- 14 in Mexico and 3 1 1 elsewhere. year executive committee meeting. The ogy/Physiology, Josephine Taylor; for Treasurer Howard also pointed out income From many of these funds does Councilor EcologyIPathology, David that the letter of offer to the annual not cover the costs of the awards. Porter; for Councilor Systemat- lecturer must make it very clear that the 1 1. Mycologia ics/Evolution, Gary Samuels; for requirement for reimbursement is a Mycologia editor, David Griffin Councilor Genetics/Molecular Biology, paper for publication in Mycologia. Chris Schardl. submitted a preliminary report. During Understanding of this requirement from the year, 5 new associate editors were She felt that the slate of candidates the beginning will avoid confusion and approved: Lori Carris, systematics; Ste- was very strong, and thanked all who embarrassment later. ven Miller, ecology; Albert Torzilli and ran for their willingness to take on these 9. Finance Committee Chair, Orson Daniel Wubah, physiology and bio- responsibilities. There were 412 ballots Miller presented his report. Our new chemistry; and Kerry ODonnell for cast and they were counted first in financial advisor, Phyllis Albrighton molecular evolution and systematics. Beltsville and then in Toronto. All continues to manage our portfolio com- Rytas Vilgalys has resigned and Greg candidates were informed of the results petently as her former partner Richard Mueller is ending his term. Editor of the elections, and the new officers Bohlin, now retired. There are no plans Griffin requested that council reappoint and councilors were invited to attend to alter the current investment strategy Jeffrey Stone as associate editor and the council meeting in San Juan. which involves two ladders composed of appoint Thomas Bruns to the Advisory Vice President Kohn strongly sug- 5 year federal notes, one series for the Board. Council approved both requests. gested that the membership become endowment funds and one for the op- Of the 25 1 manuscripts received or more political and form nomination erating funds. carried over from last year, 1 10 have blocks so that there are clear choices for The past year has been good for us as been accepted or published, 2 provi- candidates. the long term bull market continues. As sionally accepted, 45 rejected, 16 with- 5. Secretary Klich presented her re- of March 3 1, our estimated portfolio drawn and 78 carried over. The time Po*. value was $357,562 including $228,094 ffom acceptance to publication has now 6. Four requests for emeritus member- in two bond ladders established for the increased to 5-7 months. This will be ship status, presented by Secretary endowment funds and operating funds. improved by increasing the number of Klich, were unanimously approved. In addition, our mutual find and the manuscripts per issue. He reports that Approved were, Drs. Christopher cash fund (held in a money market he is very pleased with the new com- Walker. Robert Gilbertson. Walter Kai- fund) currently used for journal ex- puter and software obtained this year. ser, and Michael Hampson. penses which is necessary for operating Allen Press is now publishing the Table and publishing the journal and other of Contents and Abstracts of Mycologia 7. David McLaughlin, Chair of the expenses, stands at $59.466. The initial on their web site. Committee on Honorary Members, Continued on next page MSA BUSINESS

MSA Council minutes, continued recommended that the committee look journal of the MSA. Chairman Miller into the feasibility of this and come to agreed to look into finalizing the legal Book Review Editor, John Zak, reports an agreement on a single set of reviews. aspects of this. Most of the potential that the number of books being re- The committee is satisfied with the problem areas have already been viewed continues to increase due to a publicity given Mycologia Memoirs by worked out to the satisfaction of both positive response by members to the APS. They feel that Mycologia may not the NYBG and MSA. To handle the new "Mycologist's Bookshelf' column be getting enough publicity due to lack financial aspects of publishing our own in Inoculum. To reduce the publication of marketing by the current publisher. journal, council passed a resolution to time of reviews. reviews of more fo- Council is aware of this, and marketing establish a standing committee to over- cused books will be published in Inocu- is one of the concerns that will be ad- see operations and fiscal management of lum. dressed as we take over publication of the society's journal. Because estab- Managing Editor, Susan Frayman our journal (see below). lishment of a new standing committee reported that Mycologia will run at a 14. Inoculum Editor Lorelei Norvell requires a change in the bylaws, this deficit of $6000 this year. The pro- reports that the editorial transition has committee will be ad hoc until the jected deficit for 1999 is $ 81,727. gone smoothly, thanks in great part to membership votes on the formation of a Frayman indicated that the NYBG pro- the help of former editor Ellen Farr. new standing committee in the spring. poses to fund the deficits for this year Deadlines for the remaining issues of With the understanding that MSA with a Mycologia endowment fund held Inoculum are August 3 1 for 49(5) and does not want to compromise the quality by the NYBG. She also proposed that if October 3 1 for 49(6). Editor Norvell of the printing of our journal. some cost- the MSA decided to terminate the con- requested and council approved pur- cutting possibilities for the journal were tract with NYBG, MSA give the NYBG chase of Pagemaker Pro. She also discussed with Guy Dresser. There are 95 copies of each issue to be used by the submitted an inquiry about the possibil- a variety of high-quality papers that we NYBG for library exchanges. The So- ity of producing lnoculum in color. could use. and Mr. Dresser agreed to ciety would receive the institutional Council felt this should be a long term send samples of these to all council subscription list for Mycologia, which goal, but felt it premature to investigate members for examination. Allen Press the NYBG has established over the this option at this time. Finally, she also has a variety of options available years. as well as any funds remaining in encourages all members of MSA to for marketing and publicizing Mycolo- the Mycologia fund held by the NYBG. consider putting items into Inoculum.. gia. President Palm thanked Susan Frayman for her willingness to work with the 15. Rick Kerrigan, coordinator of the 17. hrerto Rico Meeting -- MSA in reaching a mutually beneficial Membership Directory Update, re- A. Council thanked all those in- solution to the budgetary shortfalls. ported that the new directory should be volved in planning the meeting, espe- out soon. Currently. Dave Farr and Jean Lodge reports distribution of 4 cially Hal and Sandy Burdsall confer- Edith Negahban are working out differ- more sets of back issues of Mycologia. ence managerdconsultants, Mary Ber- ences in the two membership databases. As she has not been reimbursed for bee program chair and Jean Lodge personal money spent on shipping back 16. Mycologia Review Committee. local arrangements chair. issues, council approved reimbursing After reviewing the projected budget B. Mary Berbee reported receipt of her for money spent on this project. deficit for Mycologia at the mid-year 209 abstracts which were put into book executive committee meeting, President 12. Mycologia Memoirs board chair form by Faye Murrin. The symposium Palm asked committee chairman Orson committee chair, Al Torzilli reported Jean Lodge reported that Mycologia Miller to look into the costs of both Memoir No. 2 1 : Mycosphaerella spp. the meeting will have three symposia. publishing and managementlmarketing Local Arrangements chair Jean Lodge and their anamorphs -- Association with with Allen Press, and terminating our Leaf Spot Diseases of Eucalyptus by organized three workshops and two agreement with NYBG in a congenial forays. Pedro Crous was published by APS manner. Dr. Miller worked with Allen Press this spring. Another manuscript Press to develop a 3 year services C. Awards. The awards committee, is currently under review. agreement to be considered by the full chaired by Daniel Wubah selected the 13. hrblications Committee Chair Council. Guy Dresser from Allen Press following recipients for 1998: Distin- Pedro Crous reports that his committee attended the council meeting to answer guished Mycologist, George Barron; has been working on several issues. questions. All members of council re- Alexopoulos Prize, Dennis Desjardin; The committee feels that the scope and ceived copies of the agreement which MSA Graduate Fellowships, Jamie Platt aim of the Mycologia Memoir series included actual costs of various produo and Scott Kroken; Backus Award, needs to be clarified. Council recom- tion and management options. After Guillermo Pimentel; NAMA Award, mended that they work with the My- discussing the agreement within council John Schmitt. cologia Memoirs board to develop a and having the opportunity to pose our Kenneth Wells, reported that the description of the scope and aim of this many questions to Guy Dresser, the Martin-Baker Endowment Award went series and publish it in Inoculum. Al- council unanimously passed a resolution to Dr. Chee-Jen Chen of the Food Indus- though the new publication agreement to terminate our 1932 contractual try Research and Development Institute with APS Press has been good, the agreement (which began in 1933) with of Taiwan, R.O.C. He will continue his committee views the current 'double the New,York Botanical Garden and work on the heterobasidiomycetes of review' (one by the Mycologia Memoirs publish Mycologia as an independent Taiwan using ultrastructural and se- board and a second by APS) should be quencing analyses. combined into a single review. Council continued on next page MSA BUSlNESS

MSA Council minutes,concluded

Tim Baroni, chair of the A. H and H. Vice-President Linda Kohn will Homer, requested that the name of the V. Smith Research Awards Committee represent MSA at IMC 6 in Jerusalem, committee be changed to better reflect reported that his committee has selected August 23-28, 1998. MSA will co-host non-infective health effects of fungi and two recipients this year: Mr. Victor a reception with the British Mycological increase participation by mycologists Bandala for his proposal "A. H. Smith's Society. Faye Murrin, chair of the ad working with allergic reactions, hyper- Crepidotus collections: a source of in- hoc MSA-IMC6 Travel Awards Com- sensitivity diseases, mycotoxins, sick formation for the revision of Crepidotus mittee announced that three travel buildings, occupational exposures and of Mexico," and to Ms. M. Catherine awards will be given. Awardees are: ingestion of contaminated foodstuffs. Aime for her proposal "Examination of Dr. Csaba Vagvolgyi, Dr. Greg Thorne, Therefore council recommends that the the infiageneric classification of North and Dr. Rytas Vilgalys. name of the committee be changed to American species of Crepidotus using The IUMS Ninth International "Environmental Health and Medical molecular techniques, including a sur- Congress of Mycology will be held in Mycology Committee." This name vey of related genera in the Crepidota- Sydney Australia, August 16-20, 1999. change will require a change in the ceae." Symposium topics will cover the whole bylaws to be voted on by the member- ship in the spring. The teaching committee, chaired by gamut of mycological topics from Bo- Donald Ruch awarded the William H. letes to wine microbiology. A foray and Weston Award for Excellence in three mycology workshops will take 2 1. Membership Dues Increase. This Teaching to two candidates, Dr. Larry place in conjunction with the meeting. issue was discussed in detail by the Grand and Dr. Dennis Desjardin. Council approved allocation of $6000 council. We have not had a dues in- for travel grants of up to $1000 each to The Mentor Travel Awards Commit- crease since 1991, and inflation is hav- help defiay travel costs for MSA mem- tee, chaired by Josephine Taylor, re- ing an effect on our finances. In the bers wishing to attend this meeting. ceived 2 1 applications. Sixteen awards past few years more money has been were given. Awardees were Scott Vice-President Kohn presented a appropriated for such things as mentor Bradley Kroken, Denise E. Binion. variety of options for the locale of the travel awards than is actually covered Donna L. Moore, Chang Chen, Kristin MSA Annual Meeting in 2000. by the endowment (16 awards of $300 R. Peterson, Elizabeth M. Pine, Ignazio Council agreed that the meeting will be each this year). We are also funding Carbone, Martin 1. Bidartondo, Jamie L. held at the University of Vermont dur- symposia at our meetings ($3000). and Platt, John F. Walker, Lijum Ma, Dan- ing the first week in August. assuring MSA representation at inter- iel L. Lindner Czederpiltz, Brian D. President Palm reported that she national meetings through competitive Shaw,, Brian A. Perry, Francisco J. had received a letter from Clete Kurtz- travel grants. The cost of covering Camacho and Mary Catherine Aime. man, Chair of the U. S. National deficits in producing Mycologia must be met. An increase of up to $7 per mem- 18. Future Meetings. Committee for NMS, asking if MSA would work with that committee in ber may be necessary to cover costs no The 1999 MSA Annual Meeting matter who publishes the journal. To support of a proposal to host the 2005 will be held in conjunction with the XVI address all these needs, council recom- IUMS meeting in the US Several International Botanical Congress in St. mends an increase of membership dues questions were raised. Palm will con- Louis, August 1-7. IBC program to: $80 for regular membership, gift tact Kurtzman for more information so committee member Gregory Mueller membership and affiliated society that the Society can respond to this re- reports that there will be 20 symposia membership; $40 for student and asso- quest. with mycological themes. To help fund ciate members; and $80 (+ $40 for each these symposia, council passed a reso- 19. Donald Ruch, chair of the Teach- additional member) for family member- lution to allocate an additional $3000 to ing Committee reported that the ships. Sustaining membership and in- the symposium hnd of the program committee would like to make the dividual lifetime membership dues will committee (for a total of $6000) to be teaching slide collection available on- remain unchanged. This requires a administered by the 1998-99 program line on the MSA homepage. Council bylaws change and members will be committee (Faye Murrin, symposium heartily supports this endeavor, and asked to vote on it in the spring. requested that the committee determine coordinator). Since all of the contrib- 22. Council voted to increase the insti- uted papers will be in the form of post- costs and report back to the council tutional subscription rate for M-vcolo- ers, there will be no oral student papers. before proceeding. It was suggested that gia to $144. Therefore, council voted to give 4 the Teaching Committee work with awards for posters at the 1999 meeting, webpage manager Tom Volk on this and 23. The meeting was adjourned at 5:30 with a reminder that the awards com- that an updated list of slides be made p.m. mittee should be sensitive to the differ- available. Respecthlly submitted, ent areas of our discipline. Al Torzilli is 20. The Medical Mycology Committee Maren A. Klich, MSA Secretary Program Chair for this meeting, and made the startling discovery that there Johann Bruhn and Jeanne Mihail are the are very few medical mycologists serv- local arrangements contacts. ing on the committee. Chair Elliott WHO ARE THESE GLASSED MEN?

The picture at right suggests that there may be a statisti- cally significant correlation between mycology and beards, glasses & distinguished foreheads. You've all seen these Pillars of the Mycological Community at Society meetings -- but can you name them? What would MSA do without its past Secretary, Vice-President and President, two former Editors, two once and present Councillors, two Ascomycetologists, one Agari- cologist ... ? The names of the first five MSAers to correctly identify these learned mycologists will be published in the August-September Inoculurn. (Send names to [email protected]) MSA BUSlNESS

MINUTES OF THE 1 998 MSA BUSINESS MEETING June 1.5, 1998 Laguna Room, Royal Plaza Hotel, Sun Juan, Puerto Rico

1. The meeting was called to order by the donors of auction items and photos. lowships to Jamie Platt and Scott Kro- President Mary Palm at 9:00 am. The t-shirts for this year were sold out, ken, and the Backus Award to however, there will be a second print- Guillermo Pimentel. 2. President Palm expressed her thanks ing. Contact Jeff if you want to order a 14. Ni k Money, Teaching Committee to all those involved in planning, organ- t-shirt. izing and carrying out the meeting in member, presented the Weston Award Puerto Rico. She acknowledged the 9. President Palm announced that My- to Larry Grand (in absentia) and to corporate sponsors of the meeting and cologia will be breaking its ties with Dennis Desjardin. thanked them for their contributions. the New York Botanical Garden and be 15 President Palm announced that Those included Field and Forest Prod- published as an independentjournal of Martin-Baker Award is being given to ucts, Inc., Mycofaxon, Novartis Pioneer, the MSA. Orson Miller, Chair of the Chee-Jen Chen, and the A.H. and H.V. and Sylvan America, Inc. Mycologia Review Committee, gave a Smith Award will be given this year to brief synopsis of the events leading up 3. The minutes of the 1997 MSA Busi- Victor Bandala and Catherine Aime. to this decision and announced that the She presented the Alexopoulos Award ness Meeting (Inoculum 48(5):13) were society plans to sign a three year con- approved. . to Dennis Desjardin; and announced tract with Allen Press to publish our that this year's Distinguished Mycolo- 4. Vice President Kohn announced the journal and provide management and gist is George Barron. Dr. Barron was results of the election. Those elected marketing services. unable to attend the meeting but relayed were: Vice President, Orson Miller; 10. Greg Mueller presented a preview his deep honor in receiving this award Treasurer, Jeffrey Stone; Councilor Cell of the symposia and other events to take from the Society. Biology/Physiology, Josephine Taylor; place when MSA meets in conjunction 16. President Palm turned over the Councilor Ecology/Pathology, David with the International Botanical Con- Porter; Councilor Systemat- presidential gavel to George Carrol I, gress, August 1-7, 1999 in St. Louis. the 1998-1999 President. ics/Evolution.' Garv-/ Samuels: Councilor Genetics/Molecular Biology, Chris 1 I. Secretary Klich presented a brief 17. The meeting was adjourned at Schardl. synopsis of the highlights of the Council 10:30 am by President Carroll. meeting. 5. Secretary Maren Klich presented Respecthlly submitted, highlights of her report. 12. Josephine Taylor, chair of the Maren A. Klich, MSA Secretary. Mentor Travel Awards Committee, 6. All 1998 new members were presented the Mentor Travel Awards to Addendum: As all of the student papers unanimously approved as were two new the 16 recipients. had not been judged before the business honorary members. Ludmila Marva- meeting, the student paper and poster nova and Roy Watling. 13. Gary Samuels, Awards Committee awards were presented at the social. Win- member, presented the NAMA award ners in the oralpresentationcategory 7. Treasurer Rick Howard presented to John Schmitt, MSA Graduate Fel were Scott Kroken and Dennis McDaniel. the main points of his preliminary re- Winners in theposter category were Jason port. Dobranic and Matthew Hem. 8. Endowment Committee Chair. Jeff Stone presented his report and thanked MSA BUSINESS

1998 ANNUAL REPORTS -- OFFICERS

President-elect Attended the meeting in Beltsville, MD (February 7, 1898) and MSA prepared minutes for Inoculum. The oftice of president-elect has tra- 4. Polled council via email on a number of items including: ditionally been something of a sinecure in monetary advance to Hal Burdsall for the Puerto Rico meeting; our society. It has proved especially so purchase of a new computer for the editor of Mycologia and sale this year, since the term of ofice ran only of old computer; funding for a new printed membership directory; for 9 months and a site for MSA meetings a one-year only increase in funding for the Symposium Commit- two years hence had already been de- tee; Approval of new Mycologia editorial board members; fund- cided. Thus, this report will be brief and ing for an additional mentor travel award; a letter to President to the point. Clinton expressing MSA's support of increases in non-military The program for the 1999 meetings science spending. All items passed. with the International Botanical Congress in St. Louis is already 5. Worked with president Palm on developing a protocol for well into the planning stages. Because of the long lead-time email 'discussions' of items under consideration by Council. requested by the congress organizers for program planning, our 6. Received notice of the death of Hany Lubrecht program chair, Al Torzilli, is well on top of the situation even (November 13, 1997). before his term of office begins! Ample provision has been made for all of the usual MSA social events and society functions 7. Received 4 requests for emeritus status from: Dr. Christo- (breakfast, sociallauction, council meetings, committee social, pher Walker, retired from Northern Research Station Forestry annual lecture, presidential address). Symposia will held during Commission, Midlothian, Scotland and MSA member since the mornings, contributed poster sessions in the afternoons. 1975; Dr. Robert Gilbertson, retired From University of Arizona MSA and the British Mycological Society will co-sponsor a joint and former President of MSA (1978-9); Dr. Walter Kaiser, re- reception at MC6 in Jerusalem in August. Invitees will include tired from the USDNARS Regional Plant Introduction Station in official society representatives from mycological societies Pullman WA, and MSA member since 1965; and Dr. Michael worldwide and particularly Israeli sponsors who have worked to Hampson, retired 6om St. John's Research Centre, Ag. Canada, make the congress a success. Linda Kohn (president-elect, MSA) and MSA member since 1987. and David Moore (past president BMS) will act as official repre- 8. Sent welcome materials to 91 new MSA members. sentatives during the reception. 9. Distributed approximately 30 copies of Careers in Mycol- Respectfully submitted, ogy on request. George Carroll, President-Elect 10. Responded to requests for information on mycological questions, membership concerns etc. throughout the year. MSA Secretary 1 1. Arranged for call for nominations to be mailed with In- oculum. I. Sent list of 1997-8 MSA Council to ALBS, AAAS & 12. Mailed MSA ballots, directory update requests, endow- KJMS ment fund contribution forms & requests for auction itemslphotos 2. Sent job descriptions from Manual of Operations to all to all members. new committee chairs, representatives, liaisons and council 13. Sent request for annual reports and council meeting members. Continued to update the Manual as suggestions were agenda items to all council members, committee chairs, repre- proposed. sentatives and liaisons. 3. Sent request for agenda items for the mid-year executive Respectfully submitted, committee to the Council, committee chairs and representatives. Maren A. Klich, Secretary

1998 ANNUAL REPORTS -- COMMIlTEES

1997-1998 MSA Endowment Committee and a second printing of t-shirts generated additional income. Donations to Mentor Travel funds for the past year totaled A total of $1 2,271 was raised by the endowment committee be- $3,175.00; combined donations to the various named research tween June 1, 1996 and May 3 1, 1997. This sum includes funds award funds was $1,950.00, and an additional $600 was donated raised through the annual meeting auction, photography show to the unrestricted endowment finds for various purposes. In- and sale, and t-shirt sales From the 1997 annual meeting, and cluding the uncommitted endowment, the endowment base of the member contributions to the named and unrestricted funds within named and unrestricted funds now stands at approximately the MSA endowment. Gross proceeds from combined auction $159,321 exclusive of interest income. At our current rate of and t-shirt sales from the 1997 annual meeting totaled $6,247. growth, we should target a $200,000 base endowment in two to three years and we should be prepared to augment our existing Sales of t-shirts at the Montreal meeting were very successful 18 MSA BUSINESS

1998 MSA Annual Reports -- Committees, continued sales of enameled mushroom pins which were very popular at the programs or commence new programs with this goal in view. I Montreal meeting and are again being sold at this year's meeting. encourage MSA members to maintain their strong support of the Please join me in extending thanks to all these members whose endowment funds and to envision uses to which we should con- contributions of their valuable time and enera has gone into sider for investing our prosperity in the future. making our endowment fund prosper. Balances of the named funds as of May 3 1 1998 are: During the past three years the MSA Endowment Committee Mentor Travel Funds 1997 carryover 1998 balance has raised nearly $52,000. This is a very respectable rate of Alexopoulos 3,170 3,770 growth for a medium sized society such as the MSA. Our con- Barksdale-Raper 3,445 3,595 tinuing challenge is to maintain this rate of growth while at the Bigelow 7,350 8,525 same time preparing to put into place new programs and plans to Butler 3,164 3,264 further the aims and goals of the MSA. The Mentor Travel Denison 5,750 5,850 Funds have enjoyed very strong support during the past three Fitzpatrick 4.225 4,325 years. The amounts of the travel sti- Fuller 700 800 pends has been increased from $150 Korf 3.709 3,859 to $300, and 16 students of 2 1 appli- Luttrell 1,950 2, I50 cants received stipends to support Thiers 2,270 2,545 their attendance at this year's meet- Uecker 2,440 2,565 ing. During the past three years, do- Wells 2,100 2,200 nations to the Mentor Travel Funds Total Mentor Funds 40,273 43,448 has totaled over $16,000. This pro- Graduate Research Funds gram clearly has helped generate M. P. Backus Fund 10,300 10,400 member enthusiasm and has been an Senior Research Funds effective means to promote participa- Martin-Baker 28,997 30,85 1 tion at the annual meetings by stu- A. and H. Smith 24,85 1 24,798 dents early in their careers. A similar program has been initiated Special Prize Funds by the American Phytopathological Society modeled after the Alexopoulos Prize 9,324 9,874 MSA Mentor Travel Award Program to promote student partici- Uncommitted Funds pation in meetings. As the number and balances of the MSA Uncommitted* 33,303 39,950 Mentor Travel Funds continues to grow, our goal should be to provide full travel stipends to all students for the purpose of at- Total endowment funds 147,050 159,32 1 tending annual meetings. As always, there are many people to thank for the continuing growth and prosperity of the MSA endowment. The generous It is a pleasure to announce that a new mentor Travel award is being established in honor of Jim Trappe. This has been co- support of the members who make cash donations to the named funds is gratefully acknowledged. Individual donors to the sev- organized by Elwin Stewart, Amy Rossman, and Brad Kopp. If eral Endowment Fund programs will be acknowledged in a forth- you wish to make a contribution to the newly established Trappe Mentor Travel Fund, please use the donation form in this Inocu- coming issue of lnoculum. Members whose contributions of lum and make your check payable to the Mycological Society of items for sale to the auction help make this event an annual suc- America. I hope it will be possible to fund a student travel award cess are also gratefully acknowledged. The auction at the 1998 from the Trappe Fund for the 1999 annual meeting. Montreal meeting was an overwhelming success thanks to the very generous donations of valuable items by several individuals The Research Awards have similarly enjoyed strong growth and the assistance of many members in helping to transport, during the past three years. The Backus Award, the Martin store, and set up the numerous items donated for the Montreal Baker Award, and the Smith Award Funds have grown by more meeting auction. Special thanks are extended to Kris Pirozynski, than $17,000 during the past three years. I hope this steady pace who donated numerous drawings and photographs, Bob of growth will continue unslackened and enable us to expand and Blanchette and Lafayette Frederick, who both donated valuable increase both the number and the amount of our research fellow- historical photographs, Donald Barr, Bill Brandt, Elizabeth ships and awards. As the MSA Endowment continues to grow, Moore, Amy Rossman, and Bruce Cochrane, all of whom donated our focus should be on the future and how best to direct the numerous books, Kerry O'Donnell, Charles Bracker, Kathy earnings f?om these funds for the long term benefit of mycology LoBuglio, George Barron, and Joanne Ellzey, who all donated and of the society. miscellaneous items. The capable help of local organizer Paul Respectfully submitted, Widden is gratefully acknowledged for making the auction a Jeffrey Stone, Chair success. Special thanks are also due to Faye Murrin, who organ- ized the printing of last year's highly successful t-shirt design Finance Committee depicting a Lepiota. Faye also organized the sale of the original SUBJECT: Investment Portfolio for the Society (as of March t-shirt artwork, and managed a second printing and mailing of 31, 1998) additional t-shirts afler the original supply ran short of demand. Meredith Blackwell as always spent much effort to help obtain Our former financial advisor Richard Bohlin, who handled auction items for the MSA cause. The photo display and sale the MSA portfolio and our investments for a number of years, is organized by Don Hemmes and Fred Spiegel is now an annual now retired. We are, however, in very competent hands with his event that has enjoyed great success in the past few years and former partner Phyllis Albrighton. There are no plans to alter the continues to gain popularity. Karen Nakasone organized the 19 strategy of investing which involves two ladders composed of 5 MSA BUSINESS

1998 I\GA Anniral Reports -- Committees, continued five year federal notes one series for the endowment hnds and MSA is a NAMA member, he or she shall have the right to vote one for the operating funds. in NAMA's committee." The trustees. who had previously speci- The past year as has been good for us and is a continuation of fied that the 1998 NAMA Memorial Fellowship of $2000 be the long term bull market. As of the 3Ist of March our estimated awarded in memory of Dr. Helen V. Smith, voted that the 1999 portfolio value is: $357,562.43 this includes $228.094.15 in two and 2000 fellowships be awarded in honor of Harry Lubrecht and bond ladders established for endowment hnds and operating Chuck Barrows respectively. NAMA stipulated that henceforth funds. In addition, we have $70.002.59 in ourmutual find and the fellowship be granted to a student (MSA member) the cash hnd (held in a money marker hnd)which is necessary "...specializing in macrohngi" who is to submit a summary re- for operating and publishing the journal and other expenses search article to the NAMA Journal. Mcllvainea, requesting that stands at $59,465.69. Norvell convey its wishes to MSA Council. NAMA also asked that the MSA liaison committee supply copies of lnoculum to the The initial investment of $48.719 in June of 1996 in the NAMA Executive Secretary and continue to solicit papers for mutual fund (Income Fund of America Inc., AMECX) has in- Mcllvainea; since the meeting Norvell has sent two issues of creased to the present value of $70,002.59. This along with in- lnoculum and requested in return that NAMA publications be come from our bonds and interest from our money market fund sent to the MSA secretary and lnoculum editor. Other MSA has increased our estimated yearly income from investments to members present at the 1998 trustee meeting included Insitu- $19,865.00. tional trustees Orson Miller and Ron Petersen. past Liaison In each bond ladder a bond will be Committee chair Scott Redhead and NAMA Trustee Ben Woo. due in 5/1/98 and a second one in 6130198 and two new five year bonds The Thiers Foray was the first time that all Liaison Commit- will be purchased at auction. This will tee members have been present at a non-MSA sponsored hnc- renew the two five year ladders. Each tion, with Redhead in attendance and Jack Murphy, Norvell and year one bond in the endowment funds Elio Schaechter performing duties as guest mycologists. Murphy and one in the operating hnds comes continued his previous excellent work in the NAMA voucher due. project begun by him at the 1997 NAMA foray, Norvell served as /~a,rohr .S~,~,I/VHr,rd\oll Orson K. Miller, Jr., Chairman field-trip leader, speaker, and panel participant, and Schaechter served as guest speaker. President Allein Stanley appointed Nor- vell to the NAMA Editorial Board, also requesting that Norvell Liaison Committee with Amateur Societies and write a cover article on Thiers Foray activities for The Mycophile Clubs (39:3), the NAMA bimonthly newsletter (Norvell also wrote a separate report of MSA member participation for lnoculum As in the past. many MSA members continue individually to (49(2): 67-69). participate in and offer guidance to amateur mycological socie- MSA Liaison Committee members have been involved in ties, including the large North American Mycological Association other amateur-related activities. In 1998 Murphy, now teaching O\JAMA)and smaller regional1 local societies and mushroom at Deep Springs College (Dyer. NV). published an excellnt clubs. Last year, for example, chief mycologist Joe Ammirati and overview (The Mycophile 39(1) of the NAMA voucher program 14 other MSA members led forays, served as expert identifiers, that he helped set up when affiliated with the Field Museum and provided lectures and workshops in August 1997 at the Colo- (Chicago). Norvell organized, directed and lectured at the 1997 rado NAMA Foray ("Colorado mycology: a symbiosis between Annual Breitenbush Wild Mushroom Conference (Detroit. OR). amateur and professional mycologists") at which Dick Homola gave talks to the Daniel E. Stuntz Memorial Foundation (Seattle. received the Award for Contributions to Amateur Mycology and WA) and the Oregon Mycological Society (Portland). served as Bob Shaffer the NAMA President's Award for 20 years service identifier in mushroom poisoning cases for the Oregon Poison as chairman of the Contributions to Amateur Mycology Award Control, served on the Editorial Advisory Board of the quarterly Committee. In February 1998, chief mycologist Dennis Desjardin Mushroom. The Journal of Wild Mushroominn, and corre- and 18 other MSAers similarly served the Harry D. Thiers sponded with Kevin chisholm and NAMA Foray at Asilomar (California). Sam Droege regarding the long-term In the past three years, the MSA Committee for Liaison with Oregon Cantharellus productivity Amateur Mycological Societies and Clubs has also become more study (begun in 1986 by a consor- visibly involved with amateur organizations and individuals. tium of volunteers from the Oregon Chairman Lorelei Norvell's attendance at the 1998 NAMA trus- society, academia and the USDA tees meeting was facilitated by MSA's underwriting airfare and Forest Service). As chair she also one night's lodging. During the 8-hour meeting trustees ap- corresponded with various indi- proved Norvell's suggestion that NAMA formally acknowledge viduals and societylclub representa- the MSA liaison representative by amending its policy manual to tives regarding MSA activities, read "...The Inter-Society Liaison Committee shall consist of funding opportunities, and mycological careers. Redhead. who five members and be chaired by the Executive Secretary. The was asked to stay on the committee as Past Chair by MSA Presi- Mycological Society of America shall be invited annually to ap- dent Mary Palm, served on the Breitenbush faculty and Editorial point the chair of its own liaison committee concerned with Advisory Board of Mushroom, The Journal (for which he co- amateur mycology (or the chair's designee) to be one of the five authors a regular amateur-professional question-answer column members of NAMA's committee. If the person appointed by with Norvell). and corresponded with MSA Council and NAMA 20 MSA BUSINESS

1998 MSA Annual Reports -- Committees, continued regarding underwriting travel expenses for the official MSA liai- 5. The criteria used in judging were those outlined by the son partici-pation at annual NAMA trustee meetings. Schaechter, 1996 Mentor Travel Awards Committee chaired by Walter Sund- who in 1997 published the well-received In the Company of berg. Mushrooms -- A Biologist's Tale, also published two columns in 6. Two of the committee members had students in the com- Mushroom, The Journal and served on the Breitenbush faculty, petition. They omitted their students when ranking the candi- participated in the formation ofthe San Diego Mycological Soci- dates. The chair ranked all the applicants, and the chair's rank- ety, and spoke to numerous individual societies and clubs. ing was used in place of the committee member's for those stu- The chair would like to thank the Mycological Society of Amer- dents whose major advisor was a judge. ica for granting the opportunity to serve on an active committee 7. The committee ranking of the 20 applicants resulted in a that continues to foster good will and encourage open discussion tie for the 15th position. In consultation with President Palm, the among all mycologists. committee submitted a motion to the Council for approval of a Respecthlly submitted, 16th award, and approval was granted. Lorelei L. Norvell, Chair 8. Four students provided addresses for notification of the award so that they could secure matching funds. President Palm Medical Mycology Committee wrote letters verifying the award for each of these students. 9. The committee received a list of updated account balances Committee members and interested members of the society for all 12 mentor funds fiom Jeff Stone. In consultation with reviewed the current status of the committee. A proposal was Jeff, 16 awards were designated for this year's meeting, including discussed to expand the scope of the committee to include non- one combination award (FitzpatrickKorf) and one "special infectious health effects of fungi and to change the name of the award" using monies from several of the mentor hnds. Only the committee to the "Health Effects Committee". A specific pro- Fuller account lacked a sufficient balance to support at least one posal was submitted to the council requesting the name change. award; it was decided to omit this award for the 1998 meeting. This proposal is meant to increase participation by mycolo- 10. Mentor award assignments were made honoring the ma- gists working with fungi that cause health effects such as allergic jor professor's request if included in the letter of support, by reactions (asthmalhay fever), other hypersensitivity diseases such pairing research interests of the award winner with the mentor as hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP), and certain toxicoses. where possible, and by random assignment of any remaining These health effects can occur fiom exposure to fungi outdoors, awards. A list of the 16 winners of 1998 Mentor Travel Awards but also to exposure to fungi in contaminated buildings, occupa- is appended. tional exposures, and ingestion of contaminated foodstuffs. I I. Award winners were notified initially by E-mail, then No activities were planned for the Puerto Rico meeting, but letters were sent to all applicants and to their major professors ideas were suggested for symposia topics at the IBC (St Louis) in who wrote supporting letters. Award winners were encouraged 1999. These topics included "Progress in Fungal Allergen Char- to write letters of appreciation (appending a copy of their appli- acterization" and "Overview of Toxins Produced by Indoor cation) to mentors or their survivors (if Fungi." It is hoped that either of these would be followed by a known) as has been done in previous review article. years. Respecthlly submitted, 12. Award winners will be given W. Elliott Horner, Chair biographical sketches of their travel award mentors as they are recognized at Mentor Travel Awards Committee the Business Meeting. 13. Suggested text for the 1999 an- 1. The 1998 committee consisted of Josephine Taylor nouncement has been submitted to the (Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX) as Chair, secretary. Tom Bruns (University of California, Berkeley, CA), Jimmy Respectively submitted, Clark (University of Kentucky. Lexington, KY) and Scott Rogers -,- - Josephine Taylor, Chair (SUNY, Syracuse, NY). 2. Requests for applications were sent out through the MSA Phytopathology Committee Secretary's oftice and published in lnoculum 48(6) with other awardprize materials (Dec. 1997). An earlier application dead- The 1998 committee consists of Josephine Taylor (Chair). line (January 31, 1998) was set by the Council to aid students in Robert Blanchette (Past Chair), James Worrall, Harvey Hoch, securing matching hnds fiom their institutions. Awards were set and David Rizzo. by the Council at $300 per student. Meeting registration this The committee is preparing a list of phytopathology newslet- year included admission to the MSA Breakfast and Business ters to which MSA meeting information can be sent. Addresses meeting. to which submissions should be mailedE-mailed will be in- 3. A total of 21 applications were received by the committee cluded. Each year this information can be updated and passed to chair. One student withdrew his application through Mary Ber- the next committee chair. bee, Program Committee Chair. The committee is seeking additional ideas/suggestions that 4. President Mary Palm informed the committee that the will help to make it a more functional unit within the MSA. Council approved 15 awards for 1998, with the possibility of Respectfully submitted additional award($ for qualified applicants. Josephine Taylor. Chair MSA BUSINESS

1998 ANNUAL REPORTS -- PUBLICATIONS the North American Mycological Association Executive Secretary Inoculum Joe Miller. She also faxed copies of the hotel registration forms 1. Inoculum continues to be published by Allen Press six and Annual Meeting information to those who requested the times a year and mailed with Mycologia. The 199711998 edito- information but had not yet received their newsletter. rial transition appears to have proceeded smoothly, thanks to the 4. For the MarcWApril Inoculum 49(2) Allen Press offered a helpful advice and commiseration shown by previous Inoculum one-time only free use of "spot-color". Unfortunately the editor editor Ellen Fan. John Zak's popular "Mycologist's Bookshelf' was notified of the offer only AFTER she had submitted copy and is featured in each issue, along with MSA official news, MSA & BEFORE she had received her errant JanuaryRebruary Mycolo- mycological news, Web and Email addresses, mycological clas- gia 49(1) so that the blue Inoculum banner selected over the sifieds, mycological events calendar, sustaining members list, phone was not color-coordinated with the forest green 1998 My- forms (membership, endowment and contributions, change of cologia cover. Although it appears that the extra $45 for just a address), and the masthead containing Inoculum policy, submis- touch of color on the cover for every issue is not financially justi- sion information and addresses. The first three issues of 1998 fied, the editor strongly feels that it would be help flag the much additionally featured: used 'abstract' issue each year. Inoculum 49(1, January/Februarv) -- 16 pages. one illus- 5. Submission of features via Email -- either in the body of tration: "The germination of a mycologist" (Guillermo Pi- the text OR using MSWord attachments -- GREATLY facilitates mentel); 1998 meeting registration form and information in- the work of the editor, as long as all servers are working prop- sert (Hal Burdsall); Fungal biocontrol specialist directory erly. Faxes have also proved useful. Sending information well questionnaire. before deadline is a Virtue to be Rewarded. Inoculum 49(2. MarchiApril) -- 76 pages, 3 photos: 6. Request: The editor would like to request permission to "APHIS and APS initiate Prevalent Fungi list" (Karel Ja- purchase Adobe Pagemaker, a publishing application that would cobs & Frank Dugan); "Observing the dolipore with the GREATLY facilitate set-up. The current newsletter is produced light microscope" (Heinz CICmenwn); MSA and ABLS ab- using Microsoft Word 6.0 into which illustrative materials are stracts (prepared and sent to Allen Press by Faye Murrin); imported from Corel Photopaint, Adobe PhotoDeluxe, or Vision- Puerto Rico meeting information (Mary Berbee, Hal Burd- eer Paper Port & HP Scanner -- all personally owned applica- sall, Jean Lodge, Jeff Stone). President Mary Palm's new tions. However MSWord tends to sproing disconcertingly out of Gift Membership Form and suggestion that the MSA shape, usually just before hitting Save andor Print at 3 am two homepage address be placed on the kont cover were added days after deadline. A dependable predictable application would as new features to be included in each issue. With the be both restful and time-saving. MarcWApril 1998 issue, Inoculum is now officially desig- 7. Second Request: Some MSA members apparently yearn to nated as a "Supplement to Mycologia", thereby lowering receive a full color newsletter similar to The Mycophile mailing costs substantially. (published by the North American Mycological Association) or Inoculum 49(3, MayIJune) -- 16 pages. 8 drawings and the Mycologist (published by the British Mycological Society). photos: "New and future books on hgal diversity" (Amy The editor respectfully suggests that Someone (not her) might Rossman & Rod Tulloss); "Puerto Rico foray ecologies" wish to investigate the costs of producing such a publication and (Jean Lodge); cartoon sent by Dick Korf to be used to ac- then poll the membership to see if the higher cost would be ap- company the new editorial corrections column when needed; preciated. It should be noted that the primary MSA publication Executive Committee Meeting minutes (Maren Klich); and is, and of rights ought to be, Mycologia. the new "MSA Memoirs" (Nowell) containing excerpts 8. Ultimate Request: As the esteemed membership is quite &om old MSA newsletters (to appear whenever 'thin' issues likely to tire of 10-30 year old news items, Inoculum continues to need fleshing out). encourage more input kom all members, particularly brief arti- 2. DEADLINES for future 1998 issues are: 49(4) -- June 30; cles, technical notes, notes of fame and fortune in mycology, and 49(5) - August 3 1; 49(6) -- October 3 1. 1999 deadlines will fall most especially scientific illustrations, cartoons, andlor black- consistently two weeks earlier on the 15th (or preceding Friday and-white photographs. If esteemed members do not start sub- if the 15th falls on a Saturday or Sunday) of even-numbered mitting more photographs, the esteemed editor may begin pub- months (i.e. December, February, April, June, August, Octo- lishing family photos .... ber ...). Issues will be mailed by Allen Press on the fifteenth of More or less respectfully submitted, odd-numbered months. Lorelei L. Norvell, Editor Unfortunately due to a software conversion at Allen Press, approximately 200 members did not receive the JanuaryRebruary Mycologia until mid-March; through a mailroom oversight, In- Mycologia Memoirs oculum was not mailed with the journal but separately three to four weeks later. While Allen Press agreed to cover all extra This Spring, APS Press published Mycologia Memoir No. 21 : costs, it now appears that MSA members are well advised to Mycosphaerella spp. and their anamorphs -- Association with renew membership WELL before December, or risk late delivery. Leaf spot diseases of Eucalyptus by Pedro W. Crous. The My- 3. The editor has sent complimentary copies of Inoculum to cologia Memoirs board developed a new cover design that inte- feature authors (Pimentel, Dugan, Jacobs, and Cltmenqon) and to grates the green of the past covers and photos. We received and 22 reviewed a 500 page manuscript on Straminipilous fungi by Prof. MSA BUSINESS

MSA Annual Reports -- Publications, continued Dick. We will review the two critical substantive reviews by two people from outside the panel at the upcoming MSA meetings in San Volume 89. Numbers 1-6 published. Consisting of 1 15 pa- Juan. If we recommend publication, pers plus Indices, Instructions to Authors, and Notice in 996 pp. it will present a challenge to us be- This is an decrease of 6 manuscripts and 58 pp. over Vol. 88. cause its great length and small audi- The average paper length remained at 9 pp. ence may make it unattractive to Volume 90. Nos. 1-3 published, 4-6 in press, consisting of APS Press, in which case we will 129 papers plus indices, Instructions to Authors and Notice. Is- need to find another publisher. sues continue to be produced on time. The flow of manuscripts Respectfully, through the reviewing process continues to be excellent. I am about 4 weeks ahead of the production schedule. One bothersome D.Jean Lodge, Chair Ih~rohv ,%II& RI,~~V~,II point is that the time from acceptance to publication has now increased to 5-7 months, whereas it was 3-5 months when I took over this position in 1995. This will be improved by increasing Mycologia the number of manuscripts per issue. A new production schedule has been established for Vol 91 that moves the publication date This report covers the period July I, 1997-June 30, 1998 (Volumes 89, ahead two weeks to the 15th of odd numbered months. This has 901 been communicated to Lorelei Norvell, Editor of lnoculum by Associate Editors.-Five new Associate Editors have been Sharon Kindall at Allen Press. appointed, Lori Carris for systematics, Steven Miller for ecology, Albert Torzilli and Daniel Wubah for physiology and biochemis- Computer.-A new computer was purchased for the Editorial try, and Kerry O'Donnell for molecular evolution and systemat- Ofice. On recommendation of Council, I obtained a better com- ics. Jefiey Stone completed his first term and was reappointed. puter than originally sought. The new computer is a Digital Rytas Vilgalys has resigned and Greg Mueller is ending his term. Celebris GL Short Tower with Pentium Pro200 processor, 64 Their service is greatly appreciated. MB ram, 2.4 GB IDE harddrive, 16X CD ROM drive, ethernet, external Zip drive, Windows NT, and a 17" HD monitor. Cost Advisory Board.--James B. Anderson, John W. Taylor, and $2638.36. Jessica and I thank you very much as it works much John C. Zak are completing their terms on the Advisory Commit- better than the old one. Software updates installed so far include tee. Their service is much appreciated. Thomas Bruns was nomi- Wordperfect 8, Norton Antivirus 4 and Netscape 4. nated by the Editorial Board and approved by Council as the new member to serve fiom 1998--2003. This completes the reduction Internet access.- Allen Press is now publishing the Table of ofthe Advisory Committee to 5 members serving 5 year rotating Contents and Abstracts of Mycologia via their website. This is a terms. fiee service that relieves the Editorial Office of considerable work. Links to this site are provided flom the MSA homepage Manuscripts.- and the Mycologia homepage. Allen Press also provides links to Carried over fiom June 30, 1997 ...... 79 the MSA homepage and membership form from the Mycologia Received ...... page on their site. Total ...... 284 Editor-in-Chief--I am now half way through my term of of- Accepted or published ...... I35 fice. A new Editor-in-Chief must be selected by the summer of Provisionally accepted ...... 1 1999 in order to have a smooth transition to the next Editor. The Rejected ...... 53 change-over will occur in July, 2000. This continues to be a satis- Withdrawn ...... 17 fling, though time consuming job. Carried over ...... -78 Respecthlly submitted, Total ...... 284 David H. Grgjn, Editor-in-Chief

1 998 ANNUAL REPORTS -- REPRESENTATIVES

integrate topics from other diciplines) American Association for the 2. clarication of AAAS Fellows nomination process Advancement of Science (Biological Sciences section members were encouraged to nomi- nate notable colleagues and provide appropriate documentation. AAAS met for the 150th meeting in Philadelphia, PA. The The president of MSA works with me on this process. When this meeting was better attended than previous ones in which I had is successhl, announcements are made at the annual MSA participated. The main issues concerning the Biological Sci- meeting.) ences Section centered around: 3. promotion of the AAAS meeting in February, 1999, in 1. ideas for symposia for future meetings and the encourage- Anaheim, CA ment to societies to continue to think creatively about contempo- Diane Te Strake, MSA-AAAS Representative rary topics (There was much discussion about how we could MSA BUSINESS

1998 MSA Annual Reports -- Representatives, continued American Institute for the Biological Sciences plants," "Collections in the new millennium," and "Information systems, partnerships and virtual museums." On Tuesday there The AIBS Council met on November 23, 1997. Gregory An- will be a team presentation on the American Museum of Natural derson (Univ. Of Conn.) was announced as president-elect and History's new Hall of Biodiversity, and workshops on "Funding - Jane Brockman (Univ. of Fla.) as SecretaryITreasurer. The an- Systematics collections and conservation." The latter workshops nual meeting in Montreal was well attended with 1390 in atten- will deal with changes in NSF hnding for research collections, dance versus 1 100 in Seattle the year before. The meeting in the and the support and conservation of collections in natural history year 2000 will be considered the 50th anniversary. AlBS would museums by The Institute of Museum & Library Services. Any like to invite the entire membership to attend in Washington, DC MSA members dealing with collections should consider attend- ing these sessions. and would like MSA to discuss the possibility of attending.- The publication of Bioscience was recently ranked 5th by IS1 There were two articles in the December 1997 issue of the for citation. There has been a marked improvement in reducing ASC newsletter (vol. 25, no. 6) of relevance to mycologists. One the backlog of manuscripts. The acceptance rate for non-invited dealt with the concept, justification and participation in a Regis- publications is holding at 50%. The format is changing. More tration of Plant Names. The International Association for Plant color is continually being added and the binding is changing to Taxonomy has initiated a "Test and Trail Phase (1998-1999)." allow mailing without a wrap. This should reduce costs and This is related to a rule, subject to ratification at the XVI Inter- improve durability. As mentioned in last year's report, AlBS is national Botanical Congress (St Louis 1999), which will require willing to have membership forms and meeting announcements that all new names of plants and hngi be registered in order to published in Bioscience at no charge. A camera ready copy be validly published. Naturally, The International Mycological needs to be provided to the editor, Rebecca Chasan. Institute, Egam, U.K. will be the registration centre for fungi. It is important that systematists be familiar with this program and The financial status of AlBS remains good. There was a especially the method for registering names. surplus of $1 19,000 in 1997. AlBS only depends upon 20% of its operating expenses from dues and journal subscriptions. In- The second article deals with collections security, and is ti- creased revenue from meetings has added to this surplus. An tled "A Foiled Bwalary Attempt." Although it deals with a investment counselor has been chosen for handling available mounted specimen of the extinct Irish Elk, hnds. the insight into security and security sys- tems is widely applicable. Executive Director. Richard O'Grady. reported to the council a list of initiatives for the coming year. He proposes that in ad- I urge all MSA members to follow the dition to current focus areas for AIBS, new programs be added in program of ASC by reading its newsletter. the areas of: l)corporate/foundation memberships, sponsorships. The newsletter also contains usehl info and hnd-raising, 2) public relations and outreach, 3) K-16 edu- on hnding sources, positions available, cation, and 4) awards programs in research. education. and com- and opportunities for students. munication. Noel Eldridge has been appointed director of J. Ginns, SPARS. replacing Don Breem who retired. A new position of MSA-ASC representative Communications Representative has been filed by Jodi Kolber. She will deal with public relations. Starting in 1998, all AlBS members will receive discounts from select publishers. He also American Type Culture Collection report that five new societies have applied for membership. The AIBS Education committee has been reestablished, The ATCC Board of Scientific Directors convened for its keeping with the renewed emphasis on education. Gordon Uno Annual Meeting on November 13, 1997 in Rockville. MD. (Univ. Of OK.) has been named chair. Marshall Sundberg During his annual report, CEO Dr. Raymond Cypess unveiled the (Emporia St. Univ.) is a member. new ATTC corporate logo and quality seal which will label prod- In an attempt to increase communication with member socie- ucts as "ATCC authenticated". He announced that the ATCC ties, Richard O'Grady and AIBS President, Gary Barrett (Univ. had recently passed a financial audit and audits by the NSF, NIH. Of Ga), have indicated that they will start monthly communica- and an affirmative action review. In his financial report, Dr. tions with society presidents and representatives. Examples of Cypess noted that 82% of ATCC's annual income is derived from this is the recently mailed U.S. Congress Handbook and the fees, 10% from Federal grants, and 8% from patents. He also addition of information on the AlBS web site (www.aibs.org). announced that there probably will be a 3.5% price increase for 1998 which is the lowest in nine years. The Board of Scientific Bob R. Pohlad, Directors recommended that ATTC focus on persuading custom- MSA-AIBS representative ers that ATTC not only provides the scientific community with an extensive collection maintained with the highest level of Association of Svstematics Collections quality control (i.e. "ATCC authenticated"). but also has made access to the collection "user friendly" through the web page, catalogues, and new packaging techniques. In May the ASC announced that Roberta Faul-Zeitler was the new executive director. The annual meeting of ASC will be held A one-page publication policy statement is in development with AlBS from August 2-6 at the Baltimore Convention Center. which in effect will state that the ATCC strongly supports a re- The ASC program on Monday, Aug. 3 features speakers on a quirement for the documentation of all bioreagents and recom- variety of collections related topics, such as "New life for dead 24 mends similar documentation for grant proposals where appro- MSA BUSINESS

MSA Annual Reports -- Representatives, concluded priate. This would be in lieu of requiring that all research organ- across the street. A dedication ceremony for the new facility in isms be deposited in a culture collection, a logistical nightmare. conjunction with a science symposium is being planned with The Board passed a motion that the statement be further refined GMU for next November. and then provided to each society for approval. Finally, the Board noted that it would like more one-on-one As of March 1998, the ATCC's new address is 10801 Uni- contact with the Collection Scientists. Future meetings will be versity Boulevard, Manassas VA 201 10. In addition to their new planned to include a breakfast or lunch with the Collection Sci- facility which represents a 10-20% increase in Collection labora- entists. tory space, they also will share a new building, housing their Respectfully submitted, research institute, on the new George Mason University campus Albert P. Torzilli, MSA-ATCC Representative THE MYCOLOGIST'S BOOKSHELF

With this issue we will begin listing all books receivedfrom January onward for the current year. The status of the book review will be indicatedfor each entry. In addition, reviews of morefocused books, will now be published in the Inoculum rather then in Mycologia A review of "Fungi on Rhododendron: A World Reference" will begin this new phase in book reviewsfor the sociw. - John Zak Review Fungi on Rhododendron: A World Reference. 1996. D. nomenclaturally up-to-date and detailed fungus list by ge- F. Farr, H. Bartolome Esteban, and M. E. Palm. Parkway nus, with each fungus species and at least its major syno- Publishers, Inc., P. 0. Box 3678, Boone, NC 28607, 192 p. nyms given, their known distributions, critical notes, and Price: $45. Email [email protected] known host genera (in the U.S.) other than Rhododendron, taking 68 pages; and (6) a 16-page exceptionally useful fungus index by epithet. Five hundred forty literature ci- Here is a model of an indispensable reference work for tations complete this book. plant disease diagnosticians (and even for mycologists What a joy to handle such a volume, and to realize that collecting on dead plant parts) of any plants belonging to this is a great example of what is still required for most of the genus Rhododendron (Ericaceae). I compliment these the world's major genera of plants that are part of the hor- authors, all connected to the United States Department of ticultural and agricultural trade. There are few mycolo- Agriculture, for amassing an amazing wealth of informa- gists as able as these authors who can tind the time or have tion on the fungi, both pathogens and saprophytes, that the resources to prepare such data for other genera or might occur on any material of rhododendrons and azaleas families, a disheartening reality. This is, of course, not a essentially anywhere in the world. It is far more complete book for identification of fungi - its raison d'hre is to be an than any existing host index, and provides a fascinating index, a reference point. The diagnostician will still need breakdown of the data by arranging it in several formats: to know how to find descriptions of the hngi in the litera- (1) a 34-page host-fungus list that allows one to assess ture, or to have access to a herbarium with material for what is known arranged by host species and hybrids, with comparison, to identify their specimens. With this book at their major synonyms noted; (2) a host-fungus list by lo- hand, the scientist is half way there! cality, country, state (for the U.S.), and continent, 33 pages R. P. Kor- Plant Pathology Herbarium, in length; (3) a 22-page fungus-host list that gives for each Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853. fungus all known accepted hosts in the genus Rhododen- [email protected]. dron, keyed to literature citations; (4) a taxonomically and

New Books and Status of Books Received for Review

* Books received from April Microbial Response to Light and Mycenae paranaenses. 1997. R. A. through June 1998 Time. 1998. MX Caddick, S Baum- Maas Geesteranus and A. A. R. de berg, DA Hodgson. and MK Phillips- Meijer. Koninkli,jke Nederlandse Hifomicetes demaciaceos de Jones, Symposium 56. Society for Gen- Akademie van Wetenschappen. P.O. Cuba Enteroblasticos (Monografie era1 Microbiology. Cambridge Univer- Box 19 12 1. 1000 GC Amsterdam. the XXIII). 1997. AM Sierra, V Holubova- sity Press, The Edinburgh Building, Netherlands, 164 p. Price: NLG Jechova and JM Portales, Museo Re- Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK. 320 p. Price: 125.00. Email [email protected] gionale di Scienze Naturali Torino. No $1 1 5.00. Review needed. Review needed. price quoted. Review in progress. Mycologist's Bookshelf continued

*Books and Reports of Related The Work of Nature: How the British Lichen Society, CD No. 1. Interest Diversity of Life Sustains Us. 1997. Identification of Parmelia Ach. Brit- Y Baskin, Island Press, P.O. Box 7. ish Lichen Society, Penrnore. Per- Advances in Botanical Research Dept. 3NS, Covelo, CA 95428, 288p. ranuthnoe, Penzance, Cornwall, TR20 vol24. 1997. JH Andrews and IC Price: $25 (US) Hardwver, Email: ip- 9NF, UK. Cost: L12 for single users, L Tommerup (eds.), Academic Press [email protected]. 24 for multiple users at one site. E-mail Limited, 24-28 Oval Road, London inquires: jmgray@argonet. w.uk Re- NWI 7DX, UK, 466p. *Previously Listed Books and Re- view needed. The following chapters would be of ports from January 1998 Larger Fungi of South Australia. interest to mycologists: 1997, CA Grgurinovic. Send or- (1 )Contributions of Population Genetics to Anatomie der Hymenomyceten. derslinquires to: The Chief Botanist, Plant Disease Epidemology and Manage 1997. H CICmenwn, Fluck-Wirth, In- State Herbarium of South Australia, ment, M. G. Milgroom and W. E. Fry; ternationale Buchhandlung, CH-9053 North Terrace, Adelaide, South Austra- (2) A Molecular View Through the Looking Teufen, Switzerland. Price 80 Swiss Glass: The Pyrenopeziza brassicae Bras- lia, 5000.725~Price: $95.00 A & US - Frances ( 65 70 US). Review in prog- sica Interaction, A. M. Ashby; - plus $10.00 postage for Australia, and 3) The Balanace and Interplay Between Asex- ress. $25 A & US for overseas. E-mail: ual and Sexual Reproduction in Fungi, M. Atlas of Entomopathogenic Fungi [email protected] Review Chamberlain and D. S. Ingram; from Taiwan. 1997. SS Tzean, LS (4) The Role of Leucine-Rich Repeat Proteins in progress. Hsieh, and W. J. Wu. Order ffom: SS in Plant Defenses, D. A. Jones and J. D. G. Lipids of Fungi, 1997. R Prasad and Tzean, Department of Plant Pathology Jones; M Ghannocum (eds.), Pp. 291, CRC (5) Fungal Life-Styles and Ecosystem Dynam- & Entomology, National Taiwan Uni- Press, Boca Raton, FL. Cost: $159 US. ics: Biological Aspects of Plant Pathogens, versity, Taipei, Taiwan 10617, R.O.C. E-mail inquires: [email protected]. Plant Endophytes, and Saprophytes, R. J. 214 p. Price: $70 US by airmail, $60 Rodriguez and R. S. Redman; Review needed. (6) CelIular Interactions Between Plants and US by surface mail. Review in prog- Biotrophic Fungal Parasites, M. C. Heath ress. Mycosphaerella spp. and Their Anamorphs Associated with Leaf and D. Skalamera; Biology of the Fungi. 1995. JG (7) Symbiology of Mouse-Ear Cress Spot Diseases of Eucalyptus Vaidya, Satyajeet Prakashan, B-7 (Arabidopsis thaliano) and Oomycetes, E. B. (Mycologia Memoir No 21). 1998. PW Atharvaved, S. No. 29 18, Kothrud, Holub and J. L. Beynon; Crous, APS Press, 3340 Pilot Road, St. Pune-4 1 1029 India. Price: $ I00 US. (8) Use of Monoclonal Antibodies to Detect, Paul MN 55 12 1-2097, 170 p. Price: $42 Quantify, and Visualize Fungi in Soil, F. M. Review in progress. Dewey, C. R. Thorton, and C. A. Gilligan; US, $53 elsewhere. Email (US) (9) Function of Fungal Haustoria in Epiphytic CIC Monographique du Genera [email protected], (Europe) ap- and Endophytic Infections, P. T. N. Spencer- Inocybe, Tome XXVII, Documents [email protected] in Phillips; Mycologiques. 1997. Association d' progress. (10) Asexual Spomlation in the Oomycetes, A. Ewlogie et de Mywlogie, 59000 Lille, Protocols For An All Taxa Biodi- R. Hardham, and G. J. Hyde; (I I) Horizon- Station d' Etudes en Baie de Somme, tal Gene Transfer in the Rhizosphere: A versity Inventory of Fungi in a Costa 80230 Saint Valery Su Somme, France, Curiosity or a Driving Force in Evolution?, Rican Conservation Area. 1998. AY J. Wostemeyer, A. Wostemeyer, and K. 77 p, No Price Quoted. Review needed. Rossman, RE Tulloss, TE O'Dell, and Voigt; Ecology and Management of the (12) The Origins of Phytophthora Species RG Thorn (Eds.), Parkway Publishers. Attacking Legumes in Australia, J. A. G. Commercially Harvested American Inc. Box 3678, Boone, NC 28607,195 Irwin, A. R. Crawford, and A. Drenth. Matsutake Mushroom, 1997. D Hos- p. E-mail: [email protected], $35.00 Nature's Services: Societal De- ford, D Pilz, R Molina, and M Amaran- +S/H ($3.00). Review to be published thus. USDA Forest Service, Pacific in Nov-Dec issue of Mycologia. pendence on Natural Ecosystems. Northwest Research Station, General Tropical Mycology. 1997. KK 1997. GC Daily (ed), Island Press, PO Technical Report (PN W-GTR-4 12), Janardhanan, C Rajendran, N Natarajan, Box 7, Dept. 3NS, Covelo, CA 95428, U.U. Department of Agriculture, Pacific and DL Hawksworth (eds.), Science 4 16 p. Price: $50 (US) Hardcover, $25 Northwest Research Station, 333 S.W. Publishers, Inc., P. 0. Box, 699, En- (US) Paperback, Email: ip- First Ave, P.O. Box 3890, Portland, OR field, NH 03748, USA. No price 97208. quoted. Review in progress. Change of Address Send all corrections of directory information, including e-mail addresses, directly to Allen Press Mycological Society of America phone: 800-627-0629 (US and Canada) Attn.: Processing Department 9 13-843-1221 PO BOX1897 fax: 913-843-1274 Lawrence, KS 66044-8897 e-mail: [email protected] Note: A copy of the directory is on the MSA Home Page (see Page I). A form is included so members may submit directory corrections that will be forwarded to Allen Press. MSA News

MYCOLOG/A -- New LITERATURE CITED Style The Editorial Board and I have decided to simplitjl the Horgen PA, Carvalho D, Sonnenberg A, Li AM, Van Griensven LITERATURE CITED and in-text literature citations in order to JLD. 1996. Chromosomal abnormalities associated with bring Mycologia into better agreement with the recommendations strain degeneration in the cultivated mushroom, Agaricus of the Council of Biology Editors (SMC CBE 1994). In text cita- bisporus. Fungal Genet Biol 20:229-241. tions are simplified, for example, (Bennett and Lasure 1991, Lehnen I,P Jr. 1988. Development and cytochemistry of kine- Hetrick et al 1990). Note there is no punctuation within a citation tosome-associated organelles in Saprolegnia ferax PhD except when there are multiple citations by the same author Thesis]. Oxford, Ohio: Miami University. 171 p. (Palm 1987, 1988, 1993). We differ from CBE by retaining "et al" instead of their recommendation to use the English version [SMC CBE] Style Manual Committee Council of Biology Edi- "and others." The LITERATURE CITED section has much tors. 1994. Scientific style and format. 6th ed. Chicago, Illi- simplified punctuation; all authors are treated in the same way; nois: Council of Biology Editors. 825 p. italics are limited to Latin generic and species names; page num- Perkins DD. 1991. In praise of diversity. In: Bennett JW, Lasure bers for articles, book chapters and books all occur in the same LL, eds. More gene manipulations in fungi. New York: place, at the end. Several examples are given below. These Academic Press. p 3-26. changes will be effective with the publication of Vol 91, 1999. Ridgway R. 1912. Color standards and color nomenclature. LITERATURE CITED Washington, DC: Publ by author. 43 p 53 pl. Bennett JW, Lasure LL, eds. 1991. More gene manipulations in David H. GriiXn, fungi. San Diego, California: Academic Press. 470 p. Mycologia Editor-in-Chief Blackwell M, Malloch D. 1989. Pyxidiophora: life histories and arthropod association of two species. Canad J Bot 67:2552-- 2562. Trappe Mentor Award Heath IS. 1987. Fluorescent staining of fungal nuclei. In: Fuller MS, Jaworski A, eds. Zoosporic fungi in teaching and re- The Mycological Society of America is pleased search. Athens, Georgia: Southeastern Publishing Corp. p to announce a new Mentor Travel Award in honor of 169--171. Dr. James M. Trappe and his distinguished career Hetrick BAD, Wilson GWT, Todd TC. 1990. Differential re- studying mycorrhizae and hypogeous fungi. sponses of C3 and C4 grasses to mywrrhizal symbiosis, P fertilization, and soil microorganisms. Canad J Bot 68 (In Those wishing to contribute press). I please use the donation form in this issue of lnoculum Mycological News

Wanted: Dead or Alive.. . Where is it found? There are only Conditions of the $100 reward -- two species. One, Schenella simplex Specimens must be fully mature (not $100 Schenella Bounty What is a -- Macbride was found growing on a de- dried prematurely so that spores are Schenella? Some mycologists believe it caying pine log in Yosemite National agglutinated) and fresh (not in a is a myxomycete; others believe it is Park, California The second species, S. weather beaten state). Intact kuiting some kind of fungus. It has been a microspora Martin, was found growing bodies are more likely to be found in mystery ever since it was first diswv- on the fallen trunk of Sequoia sem- earlier stages of maturity. Specimens ered in 1903 and described in 191 1 by pervirens in Big Basin State Park, San should be carefully wrapped in tissue Thomas Macbride from the University Mateo County, California. Both of paper and packaged in a box so that the of Iowa. these species were only known from fruiting bodies will not be damaged in How will you know Schenella? It is their type localities until 1990 when a transient. large as myxomycetes go, up to 4 cm second collection of S. simplex was Mail to either Harold W. Keller, long and 2 cm wide, and about 0.5 cm gathered on dead leaves of angiosperms, 2228 Stafford Drive, Arlington, Texas thick. This fruiting body has a black, in Abies-Pinus forest.on the east slope 76012-4141 powdery spore mass that is covered by a of Malintzin volcano, 13 June 1990, at or Professor Thomas W. Gaither, delicate, dark, peridium (a cellular wall 3300 m. in the state of Tlaxcala , Ix- Dept Biology, 123 Vincent Science enclosing spores) that is easily shat- tenco Municipality, Mexico. It is likely Hall, Slippery Rock University, Slip- tered. The contents of threads and that this taxon occurs in many of the pery Rock, PA 16057-1 326. spores are united into columns extend- western United States and also Mexico. --Harold Keller ing !?om the base to the apex. Mycological News continued on page 29 1 inoculum MSA Endowment Funds The Newsletter Contributions of the

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Chair, MSA Endowment Committee 503-737-5260 pleted form and your Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Cordley 2082, Oregon State [email protected] contribution to: Universip, Corvallis, OR 97331 -2902 Past President: Mary E Palm I [email protected] Make checks payable lo the Mycological Society of America Mycological News continued continued from page 27 Hill for one year as the Congressional XVI IBC Tulloss Similarity Index -- -- Science Fellow for AIBS and the Saint Louis 1999 Emendation American Society of Limnology and -- Oceanography (ASLO), an AIBS Mem- The biggest event in the botanical In Mycology and Sustainable Develop- ber Society. Dr. Rodriguez received her community occurs every four years ment (Palm and Chapela, eds., 1997), 1 Ph.D. in Cell Biologv from Baylor Col- when 5,000-8,000 botanists from published a paper on Similarity Indices lege of Medicine in 1996, and her B.S. around the world come together for the in which I presented a new Similarity from Washington and Lee University in International Botanical Congress. Index that had advantages over other 1991. She presently works as Adminis- The next congress is set for 1-7 August indices in common use. A copy of the trative Director at Baylor Institute for 1999 in St Louis. Major goals of the small BASIC program used to compute lmmunolow- Research in Dallas. upcoming Congress are to integrate the the index was circulated. I've found that diverse disciplines covered by botany Already published in Genetics and and to foster active participation from there was a line of code in the program Cell, Dr. Rodriguez examined hepatic that does not execute with all BASIC alkaline phosphatase levels in chick scientists from around the world. As a result of this effort, there is a strong interpreters. I have revised the program embryos, a model system for Fetal AI- program that focuses on mycology, and it is available by email. Ifyou are who1 Syndrome, to investigate possible lichenology, and bryology. Below are interested, please advise me and I will correlation with previously observed some highlights of the program. While send the program by return mail. decreases in fetal bone ossification for the call for symposia is past, the dead- her senior honors thesis research. For The annotation within the program ex- line for submitting abstracts for poster her doctoral research, she designed a plains most of the information necessary presentations is I April 1999. to use it. The input tile must a format multi-faceted approach to study the role of the Male Specific Lethal-2 (MSL-2) Wednesday morning of the Congress like the following: will be dedicated to poster sessions, protein in Drosophila melanogasfer's n with no competing programs planned dosage compensation pathway. The m, P, 'I for that time. Also, the posters will stay strategy, which combined molecular, r, S, t up during the entire congress. so there biochemical, and genetic techniques, etc. will be ample time for viewing them. was designed to systematically charac- where n is the number of lines of data We encourage your submissions. triplets in the file. The data triplets are terize and manipulate the protein's explained in the source code. Essen- function. Mycological, Lichenological and Bry- ological highlights include tially the numbers represent the number In 1996 Dr. Rodriguez was the plat- of elements in set A and not in set B, form speaker at the ailo or College of the number in set B and not in set A, Medicine Graduate School Research and the number in the intersection of Symposium. In 1995 she won first place the sets. The order of the numbers is as Outstanding Speaker in Baylor's Cell given in the comments in the source Biology Research Awards, and in 1992 code. she won the Outstanding Teaching As- The program was written in the sim- sistant in Cell Biology award, also at plest BASIC possible in hopes of being Baylor. Her extensive university and easily portable. With the variability in conference teaching experience will BASIC interpreters, I should note that it serve her (and biologists and policy was tested with QBASIC. makers alike!) well on Capitol Hill, as Reference to the original publication will her wealth of community service, (cited above) will be useful in under- which includes volunteering in Ben standing the motivation and methodol- Taub Hospital's Newborn Nursery and ogy involved in the development of the as a Child Life Volunteer at Texas I'horo by /.orelei Nc~nvll index. Children's Hospital, and mentoring MSA 's Meredith Blackwell to deliver plenary lecture in St Louis --Rod Tulloss through the "Science by Mail" program Fungi the fly: assocations of fungi [email protected] at Children's Museum of Houston for with insects and the consequences elementary school children. (Plenary Lecture, Meredith Black- A1 BS Congressional Fellow -- AIBS and ASLO can look forward u10//1.".., 1998-1 999 to working with Dr. Rodriguez on proj- Plant-Animal interactions (Ignacio ects like the Biology Roundtable Series Chapela & Rodolfo Dirzo, organiz- The American Institute of Biological and Congressional Briefings and to her Sciences (AIBS) is pleased to announce ers, Keynote symposium) participation in annual meetings. Please Plant-microbe interactions (Sharon the selection of the 1998- 1999 contact me for more information about Long & AIas!air Fitter, organizers, AIBSIASLO Congressional Fellow, Dr. Rodriguez or the AIBS/ASLO Con- Keynote symposium); selected by a joint ATBSIASLO commit- gressional Fellowship. Phylogeny of life (2) (Huss & Mish- tee last month. Jodi F. Kolber, ler, Keynote symposium Beginning in September 1998, Dr. AIBS Communications Representative Laura Rodriguez will serve on Capitol 29 Mycological News

XVI IBC, continued from page 29 Ascomycete systematics: testing mor- XI1 CEM - phological-based hypotheses of phy- Madrid 1999 logeny (Shearer & Ericksson, organ- Vicariance biogeography revisited -- izers new perspectives from ferns, bryo- phytes, algae and hngi (Mueller, Dr. Gabriel Moreno, President of Cell biology of filamentous fungi: the Organising & Scientific Committee, morphogenesis and pathogenesis Entwisle & Vilgalys, organizers Evolutionary biology of the Bryop- has issued a first invitation to next (Howard & Read, organizers; year's European Congress. Recent advances in lichenology: mol- sida: a synthesis (I) (Gofflnet & Hed- cular approaches to solving issues derson, organizers) "As agreed at the last session of the related to species complexes, conser- Current concepts of phylogeny in XI1 Congress of European Mycologists held in Wageningen (Netherlands) in vation, genetics, and the evolution of liverworts, hornworts and takakio- 1995, we have the honour to announce life history features (Lutzoni & Cre- phytes (1) (Crandall-Stotler & Haze- to you the XI11 Congress of European spo, organizers; gwa) Mycologists to be held at the Campus Evolutionary relationships within the For additional information, contact: of the University of Alcala (Alcala de fungi: molecular perspectives on = http:Nwww.ibc99.org Henares, Madrid, Spain) ffom Tuesday morphological and ecological evolu- (Congress Web-site) to Saturday, September 2 1-25. 1999. tion (Bruns & Sugiyama, organizers) = btblacAunixl.sncc.lsu.edu Evolution in clonal fungi (Anderson (Meredith Blackwell) "We have the pleasure to invite you & Stenlid, organizers) [email protected] to participate in this important myco- (Greg Mueller) Bryophyte and lichen rarity: patterns, logical event. Be sure that we will do 3 [email protected] causes and conservation (Smith, our best to guarantee the success of the (Brent Mishler) Soderstrom & Vitt, organizers; Congress as well as to make your stay in Endophytic fungi: biodiversity, evo- Alcala de Henares pleasant, wmfort- able, and fruitful. lution and ecology (Stone & Schulz, organizers) "Looking forward to meeting you in Alcalh de Henares. Yours sincerely,

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