Supplement to Mycologia Vol. 58(6) November 2007

Newsletter of the Mycological Society of America

— In This Issue — Report of the Planning Workshop for All Fungi DNA Barcoding Report of the Planning Workshop for All Fungi by Amy Rossman DNA Barcoding ...... 1 The first meeting to the All Fungi Barcode Initiative (FBI) was MSA Business ...... 6 held on 13-15 May 2007 at Front Royal, Virginia. Thirty-seven invit - MSA Meet and Greet . . . . . 28 ed participants (see photograph) from twelve countries met for two days to discuss DNA barcoding of all true Fungi as well as the Oomy - Mycological News ...... 31 cota. The goals of the meeting were to arrive at a consensus on a stan - Mycologist’s Bookshelf . . . 36 dard gene region for barcoding fungi, brainstorm and prioritize proj - Take a Break ...... 41 ects, and establish a steering committee. The first day was devoted to reporting experiences with use of the CO1 gene as a barcode followed Mycological Classifieds . . . 44 by those who had used other genes. Although the CO1 gene works for Mycology On-Line ...... 46 the non-fungal group Oomycota and a few groups of true Fungi, it does not work well for most true Fungi. The consensus of the partic - Calendar of Events ...... 47 ipants was that the most appropriate gene known at present for DNA Sustaining Members . . . . . 49 barcoding of true Fungi is the ITS region of the nuclear rDNA. The next day researchers reported on fungal DNA barcoding projects al - ready in progress and brainstormed about possible big science proj - — Important Dates — ects that involved DNA barcoding. General topics such as vouchering November 12-16, 2007 specimens from DNA barcoding, obtaining DNA from herbarium and 5th Congresso culture collections, and standards for DNA barcodes were woven into Brasileiro de Micologia these discussions. The Workshop was organized by Mary Palm, Amy Receif, Pernambuco, Brasil Rossman, Jim White and a Steering Committee and was funded by the Sloan Foundation. December 1, 2007 With 90-99% of the fungi still unknown, it is expected that a great Deadline for Symposia Proposals MSA 2008 Meeting deal of diversity will be revealed through DNA barcoding, as demon - strated by studies using environmental sampling in which major new December 10, 2007 lineages have been revealed. Those most excited about the application Deadline Date for Submission of this technology are ecologists working with environmental samples to Inoculum 59(1) who would like to determine the role of fungi in, for example, below - ground systems associated with roots of forest trees. In addition, DNA February 15, 2008 barcoding of fungi would be extremely useful to biosecurity and agri - Deadline for MSA Awards 2008 cultural quarantine agencies around the world to prevent the spread of Please send the editor invasive fungi. DNA barcoding can be regarded as ‘horizontal ge - notices about upcoming nomics,’ i.e. determining one gene for all species instead of all genes important events. for one species, analogous to functional genomics in identifying “up and down regulated” species rather than genes in environmental sam - ples. Editor — Jinx Campbell Following is a summary of discussion at this workshop. A more Dept. of Coastal Sciences Gulf Coast Research Lab detailed report can be found at: http://www.allfungi.org/ University of Southern Mississippi 703 East Beach Drive Standard DNA Barcode for True Fungi Ocean Springs, MS 39564 Telephone: (228) 818-8878 Requirements for DNA barcode for true fungi - The problem of Fax: (228) 872-4264 selecting a barcoding locus was based on the realization that the locus Email: [email protected] needed to be multicopy, have robust primer sites, and vary between

MSA Homepage: msafungi.org Continued on following page species. The multicopy requirement was based on the sults from the unpredictable presence of multiple and need to obtain sequences from old and degraded speci - sometimes mobile introns of differing lengths, and the mens limiting our choices to rDNA repeat segments or presence of multiple copies of the gene including possi - mtDNA loci. The robust primer requirement was based ble nuclear copies. While the presence of multiple copies on the need to amplify from environmental samples with could be handled using reverse transcriptase PCR to unknown contents, and only rDNA segments meet this avoid introns and work only with copies that are tran - requirement. The need for interspecies variation is obvi - scribed, the attendant problems of handling RNA are less ous and it was acknowledged that no single locus would amenable to high throughput methods and not suitable for always meet this need. herbarium specimens. The occurrence of multiple copies Experience with CO1 for fungi - CO1 is the desig - of CO1 in strains of Fusarium and the Aspergillus niger nated standard for animals and there would be an obvious complex made it difficult to evaluate the resolution of the advantage to having one locus for all groups of organ - gene in these fungi. CO1 did not provide sufficient reso - isms. The main problem with CO1 is that in true Fungi lution between some taxa, such as the oyster mushroom the regions used for PCR priming evolve more rapidly fungi related to Pleurotus ostreatus . Cloning may be nec - than those used for rDNA. With large organisms, whether essary in order to successfully sequence some of the rusts in collections or in nature, this variation is not a problem but this is also true for sequencing ITS in many rust because biologists seeking to employ DNA barcoding fungi. It was noted that the variability in CO1 across true can select an appropriate pair of primers based on the Fungi was much greater than that represented by animals phenotype of the organism. However, with microbes in and that the mitochondrial genome evolves in a different the environment, this variation is a fatal flaw. For exam - way in true Fungi than in animals. Thus, it is not surpris - ple, different CO1 primer pairs are needed for different ing that, although CO1 works for the animals, it does not genera of fungi, so a mixture of primer pairs necessary to work well for the highly variable true Fungi. The Oomy - recover even a few known genera and unknown groups of cota, which do not appear to have introns in CO1, could fungi would be missed in environmental sampling. Al - be different case, but so far the sampling of Oomycota is though CO1 is valuable when examining known fungi in mostly limited to Pythium and Phytophthora spp. collections, e.g., Penicillium, or compact clades of Qualifications of ITS region of rDNA - Within the Oomycota, it will not be useful in environmental surveys true Fungi the ITS region varies from 527-700 bp and of fungi. thus is easy to sequence using high throughput tech - Problems with CO1 for fungi - There are additional niques. A huge database of ITS sequences already exists problems with CO1 in true Fungi involving amplification and this gene has been sequenced as part of the AFTOL because of extreme length variation in this gene observed project and the UNITE consortium (see Appendix 2). ITS in the mitochondrial genomes sequenced to date. This re - Continued on following page

Front L to R: Francois Lutzoni, Jean-Marc Moncalvo, Todd DeSantos, Conrad Schoch, Keith Seifert, Andre Levesque, Pedro Crous, Karen Hughes, Mary Palm, Barbara Robbertse with Alex. Back: Ursula Eberhardt, Rytas Vilgalys, Irina Druzhinina, Dirk Redecker, Barbara Paulus, Joe Bischoff, Sung-Oui Suh, Tom Bruns, Ten Boekhout, Gerald Bills, Dominik Bergerow, Martin Bitardondo, Mehrdad Hajibabaei, Andy Miller, Martha Powell, John Tay - lor, Emma Steenkemp, Richard Hamelin, Lisa Castlebury, Matteo Garboletto, Amy Rossman, David Hibbett, Cle - tus Kurtzman, Jim White. Missing: Urmas Koljalg and Juan McEwan

2 Inoculum 58(6), November 2007 has been sequenced for a sampling of all the major this longer region might be desirable in the future. With groups of true Fungi. In addition fungal-specific ITS so many fungi still not sequenced, the ITS often does not primers exist, have been widely applied, and are known place an unknown with even a close match and thus the to work well across the major groups of fungi. Partici - D1/D2 region works for placing unknown species espe - pants agreed that they could meet CBOL’s requirements cially when isolating fungi from the environment. for proposing a non-COI barcode region and they pre - Decision - After considerable discussion the decision pared preliminary responses to these requirements. A for - was made that the entire ITS region should serve as the mal proposal to make ITS the barcode region for fungi DNA barcoding locus for the true Fungi, but not neces - will be submitted to CBOL. In addition, the ITS has been sarily the Oomycota. The two other contenders for the almost universally used by mycologists in sequencing DNA barcoding locus were CO1 or the 5’ end of LSU. fungi as evidenced by the DNA barcoding projects listed below all of which have used the ITS region, although Potential Projects some also sequenced additional genes. Air spora. Sampling devices exist for sampling the The ITS region evolves rapidly because only a few air spora that are known to include many different kinds regions are constrained by the need for the ITS to be of fungi with some species known to travel many thou - spliced out of the rDNA transcript. The rest of the region sands of miles. DNA barcodes of these fungi would be can evolve without much selection, hence change is extremely useful to scientists such as ecologists tracking rapid. While useful at the species or close to species the distribution of fungi from habitats such as the Saha - level, alignment of the ITS region between major groups ran desert, plant quarantine officials tracking the move - of fungi and even within order and families is usually not ment of invasive fungi and plant pathogens such as soy - possible, thus a global ITS alignment cannot be present - bean rust, and physicians checking the distribution of ed here. Assuming the ITS sequences were alignable, the fungi that cause allergies. name of this gene as deposited in GenBank has varied Fungi associated with global trade. Knowledge and with the over 65,000 accessions as has the length of the rapid identification techniques for the fungi associated sequence submitted making extraction of all sequences of with agricultural and horticultural commodities are need - true Fungi difficult. ed to prevent the spread of invasive species. Initially this Problems with ITS region - Although the ITS region would be a USDA project to barcode fungi that are cur - of the rDNA appears to be the best of choice for a uni - rently being intercepted on imported plant products at the versal DNA barcode for true Fungi, there are some prob - US ports of entry. Many of these are interesting, unusual, lems with its use. In some groups of fungi the ITS is too and even unknown species in addition to being difficult variable to determine major group. Yeasts and AM fungi to identify. Cultures for sequencing would be obtained were mentioned in this regard and this problem was the from intercepted specimens; specimens would be de - main argument for LSU, either alone or in addition to posited at BPI with cultures at CBS. ITS. However, most participants viewed the ‘too-much- Fungi of boreal forests. As the climate changes, the variation’ problem as an issue that would be solved by in - boreal forests are likely to be impacted as already evi - creased sampling. In addition there were a number of denced by changes in fungal disease distribution. DNA good examples, especially from plant pathogenic as - barcoding of fungi in these forests would provide a base - comycetes , where ITS clearly does not separate distinct line for future changes to the organisms that depend on species. In addition, the ITS has paralogs as determined fungi especially the trees themselves that require mycor - for some Fusarium species and the Glomeromycota (AM rhizal fungi for survival. fungi). The solution suggested was to use ITS as the first Fungi of the National Parks of Canada and the US step or first key and a second gene for a precise identifi - and/or UNESCO Heritage sites. Knowledge of the fungi cation. This approach has been used successfully in the of these important preserved natural areas is critical for TrichoKey DNA barcoding system. For each group of monitoring changes that may occur over time. The proj - fungi this locus will need to be determined, although the ect on the Great Smoky Mt. National Park described in translation elongation factor 1-alpha (EF1a) and RPB2 Appendix 2 serves as a model for an expanded project in have been shown to be useful in several groups. which many groups of fungi are collected, identified and Other possible regions for fungi - ITS plus the vouchered over time with DNA barcodes obtained. DNA D1/D2 LSU rDNA region was also considered but reject - barcodes would be linked to biodiversity data. ed because, for most groups of fungi, the D1/D2 region Medically important fungi. Fungi cause a number of does not give sufficient signal at the species level. In ad - serious human diseases. The causal fungi belong to a dition, more than one primer in each direction is required, number of groups with the diversity of fungal pathogens thus it does not lend itself to high throughput. Consider - increasing especially for humans who are immunocom - ing that sequencing is becoming less expensive and the promised. While many of these fungi are relatively well- real cost is in the collection of the samples, sequencing Continued on following page

Inoculum 58(6), November 2007 3 known and commercial tests for some species exist to de - tion to align and make a tree with the unknown sequence. termine their identify, these tests are not standardized As yet, this database is not populated with ascomycetes. using different molecular approaches. A standard DNA International Subcommission on Trichoderma and barcode for human pathogenic fungi would be extremely Hypocrea (ISTH) – This Web site provides complete useful. DNA barcodes of all formally described and several po - Determine sequence variability among strains of tentially new Hypocrea/Trichoderma species (up to 200). species for proposed DNA barcoding genes. Barcoding is This system uses an automated barcode program based of little value unless extent of resolution is understood. on ITS1 and 2 ( TrichO KEY) and Tricho BLAST - multi - Diverse species known from multiple strains would be locusi sequence similarity search based on ITS1 and 2, selected and characterized using multigene analyses or two separate introns of tef1 , partial rpb2, and chi18-5 genetic crosses to verify that they are really conspecific. (former ech42 ). The TrichO KEY system includes meas - In this manner the resolution of these strains from the ures of reliability based on the known intraspecific vari - barcode gene would be tested. Such tests should be con - ability and discriminates between incomplete, poor, non- ducted across the groups of fungi as part of the basic sys - Trichoderma sequences, or sequences of new tematic knowledge upon which DNA barcoding is based. alleles/species. The resulting species is linked to a biodi - Development of gene chips for identification of versity profile and the most recent phylogeny of the fungi. As each of these projects is completed, they would genus. The whole database is linked to GenBank. result in the potential to develop microarrays, i.e. gene Yeast Fungi – Between Clete Kurtzman, USDA, chips, for detection and identification of fungi from envi - Jack Fell, RSMAS, University of Miami, and Vincent ronmental samples without the need for cultivation or Robert, CBS, all known species of yeast fungi have been PCR. The project being developed at present involves the DNA barcoded using the D1/D2 plus ITS gene regions. 1,200 species of ectomycorrhizal fungi that have been Most of these sequences are in GenBank and include barcoded as part of the UNITE project. both the ascomycetous and basidiomycetous yeasts. Bioinformatics tools for the application of barcode Herbarium Specimens of Macrofungi at K and sequences i.e. integrated barcode methods . Although the Venice – Using robotics for DNA extraction and purifi - planning workshop members selected ITS as the DNA cation, Martin Bitardondo sequenced two specimens for barcode for true Fungi, it is acknowledged that for many each species of two major groups of macrofungi at K. He groups of fungi this region does not result in an accurate determined that specimens collected within the last 30 species identification and that a second gene region is re - years yielded useful DNA without applying special quired. In addition, sequence similarity search like measures and that many matched “unknown” fungal BLAST has a number of pitfalls and should be applied DNA sequences in GenBank. Matteo Garboletto se - and interpreted carefully, mainly due to the presence of quenced 6000 recently deposited herbarium specimens of conserved sequence region 5.8S rRNA inside the barcode macrofungi from Venice with considerable success. locus and database population. Therefore it would be Macrofungi from the Great Smoky Mountains Na - useful to discuss methods of barcode identifications cur - tional Park All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory – Three NSF rently used in different groups of true Fungi and formu - projects have been funded for collection and ITS se - late some general recommendations valid for the majori - quencing of fungi in the Great Smoky Mountains Na - ty of fungi. The International Subcommission on tional Park: Agaricales (R. H. Petersen and K. W. Hugh - Trichoderma and Hypocrea (ISTH) DNA barcode sys - es), Pyrenomycetes (A. Miller), and Harpellales (B. tems exemplifies this problem and one solution to it. Lichtwardt and M. White). At least 1,500 ITS sequences Next Steps. At the workshop a lack of mycologists are available representing inter- and infraspecies varia - from Asia was noted. Although two were invited, they tion from these projects. ITS sequences do not always could not obtain visas in time to attend. A meeting of distinguish morphospecies in some cases but, in other Asian mycologists has been organized to take place in as - cases, clearly identify cryptic species. sociation with the Second International Barcode of Life Biodiversity and Prospecting – Gerald Bills (Merck) Meeting in Taipei, Taiwan, September 2007, initiated by reported that his company decided to focus its natural Amy Rossman and Jean-Marc Moncalvo. (See related ar - products group on the discovery of novel antibiotics ticle: Satellite Workshop, this issue) against bacterial and fungal pathogens of humans. Their group is cataloging and mapping the phylogeny of fungi DNA Barcoding Projects of Fungi with antibiotic properties. They use the map to determine Already in Progress, all use ITS metabolite-rich taxa, if an isolate is new, and to avoid re - UNITE – The project provides DNA barcodes for peatedly screening the same kinds of fungi. about 1200 species in 120 genera of ectomycorrhizal CBS Fungal Culture Collection – CBS is in the fungi from northern Europe. The on-line database of se - process of DNA barcoding all of their cultures. These in - quences has three options for searching including an op - Continued on following page

4 Inoculum 58(6), November 2007 clude many economically important fungi such as human The AFTol project successfully developing a bioinfor - pathogens and food-associated fungi. matics system called WASABI that will be considered Assembling the Fungal Tree of Life (AFToL) – This for use in a DNA barcoding initiative for fungi. project provides a comprehensive multigene phylogeny Ecbol.org – This is a list of scientists conducting for the true Fungi with representatives of all fungal fam - barcoding projects in Europe. ilies including over 1,000 species with documented spec - For more information, contact Amy Rossman, imens and well resolved placement. As part of this proj - [email protected]. ect the ITS has been sequenced as a DNA barcode gene. Satellite Workshop on DNA Barcoding of Fungi Held in Taipei, Taiwan

Following the All Fungi Barcode of Life Planning Work - shop that took place in May 2007 in Front Royal, Virginia, it was decided to organize a satel - lite workshop on barcoding fungi in conjunction with the Second International Barcode of Life Conference held in Taipei, Taiwan from 17-20 Sep - tember, 2007. Jean-Marc Mon - calvo and Amy Rossman were privileged to lead this session that was attended by 25 mycol - ogists from 13 countries (see photograph). Thirteen talks were present - ed showcasing the outstanding Satellite workshop attendees research on fungi taking place in Australasia. It was evident during the workshop that most Australasian fungal sys - The second part of the workshop was dedicated to tematists use ITS and the D1-D2 nLSU region for mo - identifying possible international projects that could in - lecular taxonomic purposes, with ITS currently being the clude Australasian mycologists. The following projects preferred molecule at the species level. Rajesh Jeewon were identified: (Hong Kong) noted that ITS does not always identify • Insect-associated fungi : This project could be fungal species and suggested a multigene approach. He linked with research conducted in the U.S. and definite - also added that Australasian mycologists have not been ly needs further consideration. Jennifer Luang-sa (Thai - especially innovative and use rDNA genes as markers land) mentioned that BIOTECH Thailand could serve as because primers and methods are readily available. a regional sequencing lab for this project. Kwang-Deuk An (Japan) presented insightful data indi - • Mycorrhizal fungi: Strong interest in the compre - cating that LYS2 could serve as a better species marker hensive barcoding of ectomycorrhizal fungi was ex - than ITS and suggested further investigation of this sin - pressed by Liang Yu and Zhu-Liang Yang (China) and gle copy nuclear gene. In the audience, Jesse Ausubel, Amin Uddin Mridha (Bangladesh). This links with the Sloan Foundation, mentioned that mycologists should Scandinavian UNITE database. not be tied by historical reasons if there are indeed 1.5 Because of the late notice of this fungal workshop, million fungal species to barcode. Given that the ITS se - many Australasian mycologists were unable to travel to quences currently available in Genbank represent only Taipei. As a consequence, Jean-Marc will hold an infor - ca. 11,000 species, these could eventually “just be dust mation session and round table at the Asian Mycological in the wind”. Jean-Marc and Amy replied that mycolo - Congress in Penang, Malaysia, in 2-6 December, 2007, gists would welcome a better species marker than ITS with the goal of developing an Asian Steering Commit - but, at the moment, this region provides a good starting tee for Fungal Barcoding Initiative (FBI). point for identifying environmental sampling and for ad - For more information, contact Jean-Marc Moncalvo at dressing fundamental questions in fungal diversity and [email protected] or Amy Rossman at ecology. [email protected]

Inoculum 58(6), November 2007 5 MSA BUSINESS From the President’s Corner . . .

Aloha from the Big Island of Hawai’i and there and as an educator had the idea with its flowing lava and gentle rains. of writing a field guide since there were The first late summer rains have arrived constant calls to the university about and the mushrooms are out everywhere. whether this or that mushroom was edi - Even after twenty years of collecting, ble or poisonous. My efforts at identify - new species I’ve never seen before pop ing the Hawaiian mushrooms were dis - out right in Bay Front in Hilo town. mal, most just weren’t in the books on There’s never a dull moment in mycolo - temperate mushrooms of the world and I gy and surely never an end to finding a started to realize I was sitting on a gold new mushroom or fungus to brighten the mine of discovery. Few mycologists, ex - day. cept plant pathologists, had ever de - For you that don’t know me well, I’ll scribed fungi from the evolutionary recount just a little of my past history as capitol of the world. a mycologist and hope to get to know With an idea of snagging a profes - everyone in the society a little bit better Don Hemmes, President sional taxonomist, I rounded up my pho - by the end of my presidency. I was tos and made a poster display at the an - raised on a farm in Iowa and met my first nual MSA meetings in San Antonio in mycologist as an undergraduate at Central College of 1991. I’ll never forget when Dennis Desjardin stopped Iowa where Don Huffman, past president of NAMA, by the display and the wheels started turning. In a was my advisor. After a summer of directed research short time an NSF proposal was generated and we set involving Dictyostelium and the search for the elusive up a collaboration to study the agaricales of the signaling compound acrasin, Don suggested I head to Hawaiian Islands that has spanned the past fifteen Hawai’i to work with Hans Hohl, a transplanted Swiss years and continues. Once mycologists heard we were who was studying ultrastructural aspects of cellulose working in Hawai’i, many collaborative efforts have deposition in cellular slime molds. I completed my been joined including those with Bob Gilbertson on M.S. and Ph.D. in microbiology in Honolulu and then wood-rooting fungi of Hawai’i, on Xylariaceous fungi followed Hans to Zürich when he took a position as with Jack Rogers, on mycetazoans with Fred Spiegel head of the Cytology Institute at the University of and his students, and now with Else Vellinga and Lep - Zürich. Now I was working on ultrastructural aspects iota . My shift in research areas and collaborations over of hyphal tip growth and spore germination in Phy - the years has allowed me to meet many mycologists, tophthora and was a full fledged experimental mycol - from cell biologists to those in ecology, systematics, ogist. After a two-year stint in Zürich, I spent a post- and evolutionary studies, over the years. doctoral appointment with Bartnicki-Garcia in UC I have a hard act to follow since Greg Mueller has Riverside and then took a position at the University of done such a fine job this past year, but I hope to repre - Hawai’i at Hilo where I’ve remained for the past 35 sent the MSA well and keep our society on a steady years. course into the future in supporting young mycolo - I continued to work on ultrastructural aspects of gists, remaining fiscally solid, and promoting knowl - spore germination in Phytophthora in Hilo, but edge abut fungi. yearned to get out of the laboratory a little and into the With Aloha, rain forests of Hawai’i. I would see mushrooms here Don Hemmes

6 Inoculum 58(6), November 2007 MSA BUSINESS MSA Secretary’s Email Express

MSA Council has completed three retiring members who have at least 15 years email polls since my last report, approving good standing with the Society. the following: • MSA Exec Council poll 2007b-01: Deaths : I am deeply saddened to report the Moved by President Hemmes to approve recent death of Dr. Gladys E. Baker (1932- a one time allocation of <$1,000 to cover 2007). Dr. Baker was a renowned teacher of expenses incurred by MSA Webmaster mycology, and one of the namesakes of the Kathie Hodge to move the MSA website MSA Martin-Baker Award, which is award - and set up a new interface . ed annually to support research for a recent • MSA Full Council poll 2007b-02: Edi - Ph.D. mycologist. Dr. Baker taught at Vas - tor-in-Chief Donald Natvig nominates sar College from 1941-1961 and at the Uni - Lori Winton to serve as Mycologia As - versity of Hawaii at Manoa from 1961-1973, sociate Editor for the term 2008-2010. and was a fellow of A.A.A.S. • MSA Full Council poll 2007b-03: Edi - tor-in-Chief Donald Natvig nominates REMINDER: MSA Directory Update : Is Frances Trail to serve as Mycologia As - Cathie Aime your information up-to-date in the MSA di - sociate Editor for the term 2008-2010. rectory? The Society is relying more and more on email to bring you the latest MSA New Members: It is my pleasure to extend a warm welcome news, awards announcements and other timely information, to the following new (or returning) members. New member - and our newsletter. To ensure that you receive Society blast ships will be formally approved by the Society at the Annu - emails and the Inoculum as soon as it comes out, and so that al Business Meeting at Penn State in 2008. your colleagues can keep in touch, please check the accura - • Germany: Andreas Beck cy of your email address and contact information in the on - line directory. This can be accessed via our web site at United States • : Andrew Ewing, Karen Garrison, Daniel www.msafungi.org . If you need assistance with updating Herman, Cesar S. Herrera, Donald Johnston, Matthew your membership information, or help with your member - T. Kasson, Shawn Christopher Kenaley, John Edgar Linz, Michael R. McGinnis, Samuel Andrew Miller, ship log-in ID and password, please contact our Association Linley J. Smith, Heriberto Velez, Nathan Wilson, and Manager at Allen Press, the always-helpful Kay Rose at Wenying Wu [email protected]. —Cathie Aime Emeritus candidates : There have been no applications for MSA Secretary [email protected] emeritus status. Emeritus status is conferred upon retired or Mycological Society of America 2007-2008 Official Roster

Executive Council Ecology/Pathology (2006-2008) Editorial Appointments Don E Hemmes, President (2007-2008) [email protected] Mycologia [email protected] H Corby Kistler, Councilor Donald Natvig, Editor-in-Chief (2004 -2009) Roy E Halling, President-Elect (2007-2008) Genetics/Molecular Biology (2006-2008) dn [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Jeffrey Stone, Managing Editor (2004-2009) Rytas Vilgalys, Vice President (2007-2008) Sharon A Cantrell, Councilor [email protected] [email protected] Systematics/Evolution (2006-2008) John Donahue, Assistant Editor M Catherine Aime, Secretary (2006-2009) scantrel @suagm .edu [email protected] [email protected] Susan Kaminskyj, Councilor Gerard Hebert, Assistant Editor Sabine Huhndorf, Treasurer (2007-2010) Cell Biology/Physiology (2007-2009) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Inoculum Gregory M Mueller, Past President (2006-2007) A Elizabeth Arnold, Councilor Jinx Campbell, Editor (2007-2010) [email protected] Ecology/Pathology (2007-2009) [email protected] [email protected] Amy Rossman, Book Review Editor General Council Annette Kretzer, Councilor [email protected] (Includes Executive Council listed above) Genetics/Molecular Biology (2007-2009) Editorial Advisory Committee James B Anderson, Past President (2005-2006) [email protected] [email protected] Kathie T Hodge, Councilor Lori Carris, Chair (2004-2009) Nicholas P Money, Councilor Systematics/Evolution (2007-2009) [email protected] Cell Biology/Physiology (2006 -2008) [email protected] Christopher Schardl (2004-2009) [email protected] [email protected] Marc A Cubeta, Councilor Continued on following page

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Rick Kerrigan (2005-2010) Kathy Jacobson (2006-2010) James B. Anderson (2007-2010) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Kerry OʼDonnell (2006-2011) Electronic Communication Carol A Shearer, ex officia, Past Chair [email protected] & Web Page Management [email protected] Mary Berbee, ex officia, Past Cha ir Kathie T Hodge, Webmaster (2006-2010) Mentor Travel Awards [email protected] [email protected] Elizabeth Frieders, Chair (2004-2008) Associate Editors David Geiser, Abstract Submission [email protected] (terms coincide with calendar year) Site Manager (2002-2007) József Geml (2005-2009) Philippe Callac (2006-2008) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Donald Natvig, ex officio, Mycologia EIC Juan L Mata (2006-2010) Randy Currah (2004-2008) Jinx Campbell, ex officio, Inoculum Editor [email protected] [email protected] M Catherine Aime, ex officia , MSA Secretary Peter Kennedy (2007-2011) David M Geiser (2005-2007) Kay Rose , ex officia, Allen Press [email protected] [email protected] Julie Noblitt, ex officia, HighWire Press StevenHarris, ex officio, Past Chair Steven D Harris (2006-2008) Endowment [email protected] [email protected] A. Elizabeth Arnold, Chair (2006-2010) Mycological Society Distinctions Julia Kerrigan (2007-2009) [email protected] Mary Berbee, Chair (2003-2008) [email protected] Don Hemmes (2004-2008) [email protected] Richard W Kerrigan (2002-2007) [email protected] James Kimbrough (2004-2009) [email protected] Fred Spiegel (2005-2009) [email protected] Maren Klich (2004-2009) [email protected] Nick Read (2005-2010) [email protected] Karen Hughes (2007-2011) [email protected] Scott Kroken (2006-2008) [email protected] Joseph W Spatafora (2006-2011) [email protected] Tomas Harrington, ex officio, Past Chair [email protected] Peter M Letcher (2007-2009) [email protected] Walter Sundberg (2007-2012) [email protected] Sabine Huhndorf, ex officia , Treasurer [email protected] Nicholas P Money (2001-2007) Georgiana May, ex officia , Past Chair [email protected] Finance [email protected] Kerry OʼDonnell (2001-2007) Jeff Stone , Chair (2004-2008) [email protected] [email protected] Research Awards Mary Palm (2005-2007) Timothy J Baroni (2006 -2010) Terry Hill, Chair (2004-2008) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Robert W Roberson (2005-2007) Karen Snetselaar (2007-2011) Gary Warren (2004-2009) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Ian K Ross (2006-2008) Sabine Huhndorf, ex officia , Treasurer Michelle Seidl (2005-2010) [email protected] Don E Hemmes , ex officio, President [email protected] R Paul Schreiner (2007-2009) International Thorsten Lumbsch (2006-2011) [email protected] Joanne Taylor, Chair (2004-2008) [email protected] Margaret Silliker (2006-2008) [email protected] Dennis Desjardin (2007-2012) [email protected] Julietta Carranza (2004-2008) [email protected] Steven L Stephenson (2003-2007) [email protected] Iris Charvat, ex officia , Past Chair [email protected] David Minter (2005-2009) [email protected] Lisa J Vaillancourt (2005-2007) [email protected] Student Awards [email protected] Omon Isikhuemhen (2006-2010) Jinx Campbell, Chair (2004-2008) Jim White (2002-2007) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Sharon Cantrell, ex officia, Past Chair Jean Marc Moncalvo, (2005-2008) Merlin M White (2006-2008) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Membership Andrew Methven (2006-2009) Allen Press Maren Klich, Chair (2007-2011) [email protected] Beverly Prescott, Account Manager [email protected] Kentaro Hosaka (2007-2010) [email protected] Charles W Bacon (2007-2009) [email protected] Brian Perry (2007-2011) Allen Marketing & Management [email protected] [email protected] Claims & Membership Services Lisa Vaillancourt (2007-2010) Lori M Carris, ex officia, Past Chair Kay Rose, [email protected] Association Manager [email protected] [email protected] Richard E. Baird (2007-2011) [email protected] HighWire Press Rotating Committees – General Service Julie Noblitt, Mycologia Journal Manager Nomenclature Karling Annual Lecture [email protected] Lorelei Norvell, Chair (2007-2010) Meritxell Riquelme, Chair (2005-2008) Mycologia Online Feedback / Support LLNorvell@pnw-ms .com [email protected] www.mycologia.org/ Wendy Untereiner (2007-2010) Greg W Douhan (2006-2009) [email protected] [email protected] Standing Committees Scott Redhead (2007-2010) Dirk Redecker, ex officio , Past Chair Education [email protected] [email protected] Thomas Volk, Chair (2007-2011) Rotating Committees – Awards Liaison with Amateur Mycological [email protected] Clubs & Societies Honorary Awards Charles Beard (2004-2008) David P Lewis, Chair (2006-2009) Dave McLaughlin, Chair (2005-2008) [email protected] [email protected] Seanna Annis (2005-2009) [email protected] [email protected] Martha J Powell (2006-2009) [email protected] Continued on following page

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Walter Sundberg (2007-2010) John Shane (2006-2010) Affiliated Mycological Societies - Regional [email protected] [email protected] Boston Mycological Club (BMC) Cathy Cripps (2007-2011) Ira Salkin, ex officio, Past Chair Illinois Mycological Association (IMA) [email protected] [email protected] Oregon Mycological Society (OMS) Coleman McCleneghan, ex officia, Past Chair Genetics & Cell Biology Allied / Sister Mycological Societies – [email protected] Brian Shaw, Chair (2004-2008) National & International Nominations [email protected] African Mycological Association Carol A Shearer, Chair (2004-2008) Robert Roberson (2004-2008) Australasian Mycological Society [email protected] [email protected] British Mycological Society (BMS) John Taylor (2005-2009) David Jacobsen (2004-2008) Latin American Mycological Society (ALM) [email protected] [email protected] Mycological Society of China (MSC) David J McLaughlin (2006-2010) Steven Harris, ex officio, Past Chair Mycological Society of Japan (MSJ) [email protected] [email protected] North American Mycological Association Gregory M Mueller (2007-2011) Phytopathology (NAMA) [email protected] Greg Douhan, Chair (2004-2008) Honorary Societies & Institutes Linda Kohn, ex officia, Past Chair [email protected] British Mycological Society [email protected] Carol Stiles (2005-2009) Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures Program [email protected] (CBS) 2004 Josephine Taylor (2004-2008) Bradley R Kropp (2006-2010) Mycological Society of Japan 2005 [email protected] [email protected] Marc Cubeta (2005-2009) Loretta Winton (2007-2011) Special Assignments & Appointments [email protected] [email protected] Awards Coordinator Thomas R Horton (2006-2010) Weidong Chen, ex-officio , Past-Chair Faye Murrin [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Fred Spiegel (2007-2011) Historian [email protected] Annual Meeting Committees Donald Pfister Gerard Adams, ex officio , Past Chair MSA 2008 Local Arrangements [email protected] [email protected] David Geiser Roy Halling, ex officio , President-Elect dgeiser @psu .edu Joint Commission on Common Names Rotating Committees – Specific Expertise MSA 2009 Local Arrangements (msa+nama = JOINT appointments; msa = Bradley R Kropp MSA only; nama = NAMA only) Biodiversity [email protected] Scott Redhead, Chair msa+nama Dan Czederpiltz, Chair (2004-2008) MSA 2010 Local Arrangements [email protected] [email protected] Lorelei Norvell msa+nama Terry Henkel (2005-2008) Lisa J Vaillancourt [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Judy Roger msa+nama Andrew Miller (2005-2009) Foray Coordinator [email protected] [email protected] Donald Ruch (2007-2008), Walt Sundberg msa Robert Lücking (2006-2010) Annual Foray Coordinator [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Tom Volk msa Sharon Cantrell, ex officia , Past Chair [email protected] [email protected] Affiliates and Assignments Carol Dreiling nama Culture Collections Representatives [email protected] Lynne Sigler, Chair (2004-2008) American Association George Riner nama [email protected] for the Advancement of Science [email protected] Johann Bruhn (2005-2009) Joseph F Bischoff (2006-2009) Liaison for Society Incorporation [email protected] [email protected] Lafayette Frederick Sabine Huhndorf (2006-2010) American Institute of Biological Sciences [email protected] [email protected] Stephen A Rehner (2006-2009) Memorials Publications Committee David Padgett, ex officio , Past Chair [email protected] [email protected] Donald Pfister, Chair, Historian Priscila Chaverri, ex officio, ATTC American Mushroom Institute [email protected] [email protected] Richard W Kerrigan (2006-2009) Donald Natvig, Mycologia Editor-in-Chief [email protected] [email protected] Ecology American Type Culture Collection Don E Hemmes, President John Paul Schmit, Chair (2004-2008) [email protected] [email protected] Priscila Chaverri (2006-2009) [email protected] Jinx Campbell, ex officio, Inoculum Editor Ari Jumpponen (2005-2009) [email protected] [email protected] International Mycological Association M Catherine Aime, ex officia, Secretary Teresa Lebel (2006-2010) John Taylor (2004-2007) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Jon Polishook, ex officio, Past Chair [email protected] International Union of Microbiological Societies (US National Committee) Environmental Health & Medical Mycology Linda Kohn, ex officia Jianping Xu, Chair (2004-2008) [email protected] Natural Sciences Collections Alliance Mike Rinaldi (2005-2009) Gerard Adams (2006-2009) [email protected] [email protected]

Inoculum 58(6), November 2007 9 MSA BUSINESS Minutes of the MSA 2007 Annual Council Meeting

Saturday, August 4, 2007 and meeting registration processes were large - Kohn and to all nominees who agreed to stand Life Sciences Building, LSU ly accomplished due to the efforts of Mike Mc - for election. Approximately 215 ballots were Baton Rouge, LA Cann, Karen Snetselaar, and David Geiser. In cast, with only 15 of these being cast as paper the long run, these improvements will save the ballots. All three Society bylaw amendments CALL TO ORDER Society both time and money. President were overwhelmingly passed, which were, in AND APPROVAL OF MINUTES Mueller emphasized that this has been a great brief: Amendment 1—clarification of the en - year for Mycologia . Highlights include the dowment section of the Society by-laws; (1) The 2007 MSA Annual Council meeting was publication of the long-anticipated Deep Amendment 2—formation of a new Member - called to order by President Gregory Mueller th Hypha issue of Mycologia , the completion of ship Committee; and, Amendment 3—change at 8:30 am, Saturday, August 4 , in Room 28 the project to make all back content of Mycolo - in the Mycological Memoirs Committee from of the Life Sciences Building of Louisiana gia available on-line through JSTOR, and standing to ad hoc . Officers elected for 2007- State University in Baton Rouge. Present were progress in making Mycologia more accessible 2008 were: Rytas Vilgalys, Vice President ; President Mueller , President-Elect Don to international colleagues through CYBER - Sabine Huhndorf, Treasurer ; Susan Kamin - Hemmes , Vice President Roy Halling , Secre - LIBER. He heartily thanked Don Natvig and skyj , Councilor for Cell Biology/Physiology ; tary Cathie Aime , Treasurer Karen Snetselaar , Jeff Stone for their continuing efforts to keep Betsy Arnold , Councilor for Ecolo - Past President David McLaughlin (2004- Mycologia as the preeminent mycology jour - gy/Pathology ; Annette Kretzer , Councilor for 2005), Councilors Sharon Cantrell and Lisa nal. Other improvements include the successful Genetics/Molecular Biology ; Kathie Hodge , Castlebury , and invited Society members: My - transitioning of Inoculum to an all-electronic Councilor for Systematics/Evolution . Vice cologia Editor-in-Chief Donald Natvig , My - format, thanks to the work of Inoculum Editor President Halling notified nominees of the cologia Managing Editor Jeffrey Stone , incom - Jinx Campbell , and improvements to the MSA election results, invited the newly elected offi - ing Vice President Rytas Vilgalys , incoming website being spearheaded by Kathie Hodge. cers to this year’s Council Meeting, and in - Treasurer Sabine Huhndorf , Webmaster Lastly he noted that one of the serious chal - formed them that their official start date will be Kathie Hodge , 2007 Program Committee lenges facing the Society is the slow but steady immediately after the Business Meeting on Au - Chair Gerald Adams , and 2008 Local decline of the membership and the need to gust 8 th , 2007. Finally, Vice President Halling Arrangements Committee Chair David Geiser . identify and recruit new members as well as has been in contact with Lisa Vaillancourt, Apologies were received from Past President reach out to members not traditionally served 2010 Local Arrangements Committee Chair, Jim Anderson (2005-2006) and Councilors by the Society. President Mueller reported that regarding the 2010 meeting that will be held in Steven Harris, Greg Thorn, Barbara Valent, the new Membership Committee, creation of Lexington, Kentucky. Nicholas Money, Marc Cubeta and Corby which was approved by the membership in the Kistler . (5) Secretary Aime presented her report [ Inoculum 2007 Spring Ballot, has been formed and will 58(6)] summarizing Council activities over the Secretary Aime distributed hard copies of the be chaired by Maren Klich . This committee has past year. annual meeting packet that had been supplied already been charged with several tasks that in electronic format to Council and guests prior were discussed during the 2007 Mid-year Motion 2 : (approved unanimously) Moved by to the meeting. The annual meeting packet in - meeting, one of which will be the creation of Awards Coordinator Faye Murrin and second - cluded the meeting agenda, MSA 2007 Annual new recruitment materials. ed by Secretary Aime that Council acknowl - edge Dr. Gilbertson’s extraordinary dedication Reports, minutes of the 2006 Annual Council (3) President-Elect Hemmes presented his report Meeting held in Quebec, Canada [ Inoculum in having awards plaques made on behalf of the [Inoculum 58(6)] and gave an update of his ac - Society for the last 25 years. 57(5)], minutes of the 2007 Executive Council tivities. In preparation for the MSA 75 th an - Meeting held in Chicago, IL [ Inoculum 58(3)], niversary President-Elect Hemmes acquired Background : Plaques are an important part of MSA 2006-2007 Official Roster, and a copy of and framed photographs of every MSA past the MSA Awards process and are given for our the Society Constitution and Bylaws. president, to be displayed during the annual most prestigious awards. A high degree of my - Motion 1: (approved unanimously) Moved by meting. He has also created an exciting MSA cological angst goes into ensuring that the Secretary Aime and seconded by President photo contest for this meeting and has been plaques are made, accurately inscribed and Mueller that the minutes of the MSA 2006 An - collaborating with Endowment Committee available at the appropriate time each year. The nual Council Meeting be accepted as published Chair Betsy Arnold to solicit and prepare an MOP states that Bob Gilbertson has been re - in Inoculum 57(5) 2006. abundance of items for this year’s auction. sponsible for having the plaques made for sev - President-Elect Hemmes updated council on eral years. It came to our attention this year the possibility of holding the 2011 annual however that Dr. Gilbertson has actually been OFFICER’S REPORTS th meeting, slated for Fairbanks, Alaska, in con - doing this for 24 years . 2008 will be his 25 (excluding financial) junction with American Bryological and year. He has done this without fuss, and with much efficiency and good grace. Next year, on (2) President Mueller presented his report [ Inocu - Lichenological Society. He has been busy fill - th lum 58(6)]. He thanked Council and all MSA ing nearly 40 positions for the 2007-2008 MSA the 25 year of his service in this capacity, members for their help and willingness to vol - Roster, including, among others, the addition would be an appropriate time to recognize his unteer for the Society, proving that MSA is a of Karen Snetselaar to the Finance Committee, service. vital organization. He noted that his tenure as the appointment of Jim Anderson to the Hon - Action Item: Secretary Aime to have an ap - President was dominated by three major orary Awards Committee and of Walt Sund - propriate plaque made. themes: the annual meeting, publications, and berg to the Mycological Society Distinctions Committee and solicited suggestions from Society membership. The 2007 Annual Meet - FINANCIAL REPORTS ing marks the Society’s 75 th anniversary and council for potential MSA volunteers to fill President Mueller acknowledged the efforts of other vacancies. Finally, President-Elect (6) Treasurer Snetselaar presented her report, Don Hemmes and Don Pfister in putting to - Hemmes briefly asked for suggestions for providing Council with several hand outs. For gether special exhibits and presentations to meeting sites for the 2008 Mid-Year Council the benefit of both Council and Treasurer-in- highlight this anniversary. Efforts were also Meeting and it was agreed that this would waiting Huhndorf , she provided a brief back - made this year to attract colleagues from Latin probably be best held on the West Coast. ground to the varied duties that are performed America to the Annual Meeting, which were a (4) Vice President Halling presented his report by the Treasurer, and promised to discuss the success. Additionally, efforts to streamline the [Inoculum 58(6)] which included the results of MSA budget in more detail later in the after - meeting planning process for the future, espe - the Spring Ballot. He expressed his thanks to noon. Treasurer Snetselaar defined various fi - cially in improving on-line abstract submission the Nominations Committee, chaired by Linda Continued on following page

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nancial terms (for example, a cash vs. an ac - Treasurer Snetselaar then provided an moving that profit into a conservative place. crual system) and detailed how they related to overview of other major expenses. These in - Chair Stone finished by welcoming newly ap - MSA business, and explained our system of ac - clude management expenses, including back pointed Karen Snetselaar to the committee. counts. Half of all incoming MSA money is issue fees, author billing, renewal notices, and from institutional subscriptions, and these insti - enhanced online services, and other Allen PUBLICATIONS AND tutional subscriptions are actually subsidizing Press expenses. And, lastly, our other main ex - WEB MANAGEMENT our membership subscriptions – specifically, a penses are those for annual meetings. Since regular membership costs the society about there are a range of meeting types these may (9) The Report of Mycologia Editor-in-Chief $150, of which we only recoup $98 in mem - vary widely, for instance, if a conference cen - (EIC) was presented by EIC Natvig . The spe - bership fees. Compared to other societies, the ter is involved, they will need to make money cial Deep Hypha issue of Mycologia came out amount of our income generated from sub - and that has to be taken into consideration. this spring. This issue is an important one for scriptions is low and Treasurer Snetselaar However, typically recurring expenses include the journal and the effort from those involved urges that more of our income should come in the cost of MSA symposia (~$3K), compli - needs to be recognized, especially Meredith through subscriptions. Most of the society’s ex - mentary registrations, program book (~$1-3K), Blackwell and Joey Spatafora , who served as penses, or roughly 75%, are generated by My - reception for committee members, and auction editors on all 24 Deep Hypha papers except the cologia . It is not known how this compares refreshments. The bottom line is that we tend to ones that they were authors on, in which case with other societies. However, the bottom line make a profit on stand-alone meetings and we Karen Hughes served as editor, and ME Jeff is that our membership and subscription fees lose money on joint meetings. This year’s Stone , who worked tremendously hard on this together pay for Mycologia ; this is why we meeting at Baton Rouge should make money; issue and went through the final proof line by need to make money on annual meetings, since it us uncertain whether we will make money at line with Joey Spatafora . EIC Natvig reported we do not currently generate any extra money Penn State next year; we should plan on spend - the following statistics regarding journal work - from memberships. Treasurer Snetselaar ing money at the joint MSA/BSA meeting in load for the fiscal year: between 1 July – 31 noted that membership fees have not changed Snowbird, UT. December, 2006, 74 manuscripts were posted, for a long time and that subscription rates have Action Item: Secretary Aime to task the Mem - of which 71 were accepted, however, many of also stayed relatively constant for longer than bership Committee with determining how to these were invited Deep Hypha manuscripts, so they should have – costs of publishing went up poll non-renewing institutional subscribers and this is not representative of our average accept - but subscription rates didn’t keep up. Manag - members to ascertain why they are dropping ance rate. As of the end of June 2007, we have ing Editor Stone has implemented a schedule to subscriptions/memberships. received 111 manuscripts of which 44 were ac - address this, which he will discuss during his cepted, which gives us a more realistic accept - report. Basically, subscription rates for My - Action Item : Some money could be saved by ance rate of approximately 50%. The average cologia are still under-priced compared to sending the first renewal notice via email rather number of manuscripts per issue this year is 17, other journals and we need to increase this by than paper mail. Secretary Aime will make this which is down from what it was a couple of about 15% over the next three years. The num - change with Allen Press. years ago with our eventual target being rough - ber of subscribers is slowly declining, with the Action Item : It was suggested by EIC Natvig ly 18 papers per issue. The journal is still run - loss of roughly 200 subscribers over the last 10 that the MOP be updated for the key positions ning late this year, largely because of Deep years being noted. She recommended to coun - of EIC, ME, and Treasurer as institutional Hypha, but we should be caught up by the end cil that MSA begin surveying non-renewing memory is often lacking. Secretary Aime will of the year. Issue 99(4) just went to production subscribers to ascertain why they have dropped ensure that outgoing officers update their por - and Allen Press typically needs close to three MSA. As far as individual memberships, the tion of the Manual. months to produce an issue after it is sent to MSA does pick up a lot of new members an - them. At present the editorial staff is copyedit - Treasurer Snetselaar Endow - nually, but many of these do not appear to be (7) presented the ing the papers for the September/October issue ment Report Betsy Arnold renewing. for Chair, , explain - of Mycologia and papers are still being accept - ing that there are two types of endowment, re - ed for the November/December issue. EIC Treasurer Snetselaar noted that the newsletter, stricted and unrestricted. Restricted funds are Inoculum, is now saving money compared to Natvig anticipates that the Novem - named, only the interest from these may be ber/December issue will not come out until the previous years. Although Inoculum has in - spent, and the money may only be used for its curred additional expense over prior years in beginning of 2008, but that we will be back on stated use. At present we have 15 named stu - schedule thereafter. Some discussion ensued the form of layout support for Editor Camp - dent travel awards and these funds are doing bell , it has also been switched to an on-line for - regarding whether it would be beneficial to well in terms of contributions. Unrestricted post manuscript proofs online as soon as they mat, with hard copies being printed and mailed funds may be used in different ways, or even for only the approximately 120 members who are ready, rather than waiting for the print issue used as a reserve. For example, all expenses for to come out. Other areas discussed included ef - do not have an email address, thus, overall the the annual Karling Lecture now come out of newsletter is now cheaper to produce. She also forts to simplify the submission process, the the Unrestricted. One main source of money rising number of international submissions to notes that we have not had any complaints for these is the annual auction. This year the from membership regarding this change in for - Mycologia , and finished by noting that My - contributions to the unrestricted endowment cologia is not as strong in the areas of cell bi - mat. She reiterated that our largest expense is were lower than usual and Council was urged Mycologia and that, although it is difficult to ology and genomics/genetics as we would like to think of other ways to market contributions to be and urged that our councilors from these calculate given the fluctuations of late, it ap - to the Unrestricted endowment. pears that the cost of production per page has disciplines, none of whom were able to attend risen slightly over the last few years. Some dis - (8) The Finance Committee Report was present - the meeting, advise us on how best to attract cussion ensued regarding the costs of produc - ed by Finance Chair Stone [Inoculum 58(6)], papers from these areas. tion now versus when the New York Botanical beginning with thanks to the other members of Action item : ME Stone will investigate the re - Tim Baroni David Gardens was printing the journal, and whether the Finance Committee, , quirements/steps necessary for posting proofs Geiser Karen Snetselaar ex officia Greg we can sustain a target of 200 pages per issue. , ( ), and online in advance of print publication. Treasurer Snetselaar Mueller (ex officio ). Chair Stone noted that the Finally, pointed out that (10) The Report of Mycologia Managing Editor some measures to save money on Mycologia value of our accounts is improving, a legacy, he noted, that derives from the efforts of late (ME), was presented by ME Stone [Inoculum had been successfully implemented, such as 58(6)], beginning with an update on JSTOR. cutting back on color plates and eliminating the Chair, Orson K. Miller, Jr. Another legacy was the investment in conservative mutual funds Via JSTOR every issue of Mycologia (includ - year-end index. Council was enthusiastic in ing the earlier Journal of Mycology ) since its EIC Natvig ME that dividend the same as CDs – these have voicing their gratitude to , inception is now available online; this is the Stone , and Treasurer Snetselaar for their ef - been doing fantastically well and our strategy now will be to optimize current income by re - forts to keep Mycologia costs down. Continued on following page

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first time that Mycologia content prior to 2002 is some dissatisfaction with AllenTrack from on finding ways to fund future symposia. Two has been available digitally and it is a major ac - the point of view of authors, reviewers and ed - possibilities would be to earmark some income complishment. However, not everybody has itors. Detailed discussion of both the positive from operating funds for symposia, or to ear - access to JSTOR since this service is expen - and negative aspects of the current system were mark some portion of dues from sustaining sive. Therefore, ME Stone made a deal with discussed by Council as were ideas for further members for symposia. Neither of these meas - HighWire whereby now all members of MSA assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the ures, however, would preclude the necessity can use their membership to log in through system and ideas for improvement. EIC Natvig for program coordinators to bring in outside JSTOR and obtain full access to all Mycologia reminded Council at he is now in the fourth funds for symposia. content. ME Stone praised the IT people at year of his five-year term, and that he views Action item : Treasurer Snetselaar to draft a JSTOR and HighWire and encouraged every - fixing the AllenTrack system as his final lega - motion that would allocate a portion of our op - one to spread the word to the membership cy for the journal. erating funds for supporting symposia. about this service. Because all back content of Action item : It was agreed that Vice President (15) David Geiser, Chair of the 2008 Local Or - Mycologia is now available online print copies Halling should continue to work with the Edi - have become a liability, causing us money to ganizing Committee , was on hand to present torial Advisory Committee and ME Stone in the report on MSA 2008 in College Station, store and ship. A deadline of December 2007 putting together a prioritized list of what needs has been set for liquidating most of our back PA [ Inoculum 58(6)]. Chair Geiser informed to be done to improve the manuscript submis - council that he was already working with next issue holdings, with a 10-year moving wall, sion process. This should be completed before and announcements to this effect have been year’s Program Chair, Jo Taylor , to plan the we begin negotiating the renewal of our Allen schedule and that Penn State will probably cost placed in Inoculum . ME Stone also noted that Press contract. Vice President Halling will pro - an additional 300-400 copies of the Deep more than the 2007 meeting because we will be vide an update to Council at the 2008 Mid- using the services of their conference center. Hypha issue were ordered, but that these are in Year meeting. no immediate danger of liquidation. ME Stone Thus far the meeting is set for three full days, then updated Council on efforts to increase au - (11) Webmaster Hodge was present to give her Re - with the Social to be held on Wednesday thor compliance with page charges. The Deep port of the Webmaster [Inoculum 58(6)]. evening and the Council meeting on Saturday. Hypha issue was good for Mycologia because Webmaster Hodge showed sample pages of a Chair Geiser then solicited Council on where editors Meredith Blackwell and Joey Spatafora new look she is designing for MSA and asked to cut back meeting costs and ideas such as paid all page charges. However, at present, a Council for feedback on layout as well as con - having student travel awardees provide the AV typical issue has about half the pages covered tent. She updated us on the plans to switch both and using a copy service such as Kinko’s to by page charges and about half are gratis. ME hosting services and servers over the next few produce the program book were discussed. Ad - Stone believes this is within industry standards months and suggested a new feature, the MSA ditionally, the need to continue the practice of and is probably about as good as we can expect Newsfeed. Council was enthusiastic about her printing an abstract book for annual meetings to get. The current strategy is to emphasize in - progress and efforts to improve the internet was discussed and agreed upon by those pres - creasing subscription charges, rather than en - face of MSA. ent and the MOP should be revised to this ef - forcement of page charges. Currently it costs (12) Abstract Manager Geiser was present to give fect. between $100-200 to print a page of Mycolo - his Report of the Abstract Submission Site (16) The report on MSA/BSA 2009 in Snowbird, gia , whereas we are only charging $70 per Manager [Inoculum 58(6)]. A new and more UT was presented by Past President McLaugh - page in page charges. There followed some de - stable version of the abstract database was im - lin who noted that we should be ready to make tailed discussion of impact factors and how plemented this year and Abstract Manager an official agreement with BSA this year. BSA Mycologia can best increase its impact factor Geiser is still working on other improvements, meetings are very large and should provide a by focusing on attracting good papers by good including adding better instructions for italiciz - good opportunity for MSA to attract members. authors. ME Stone emphasized that Mycolo - ing and making the entire database download - The need for interesting symposia that would gia ’s half-life is about 10 years compared to able as an editable document for the use of the educate BSA about fungi etc. was emphasized other journals that are closer to 3-5 years. ME Program Chair for future meetings. and discussed and it was suggested that Plena - Stone informed Council that color costs for the ry sessions be planned such that there are no journal have improved greatly from last year, (13) President Mueller presented the Report of the Inoculum Editor for Editor Jinx Campbell competing symposia scheduled for the same by encouraging authors to print in grayscale in time. the journal with color images appearing online [Inoculum 58(6)] . Inoculum is now saving where possible and taking other measures to money and, due to the uncoupling of its mail - Action item : Secretary Aime to advise Marc ensure that we aren’t inadvertently printing ing from Mycologia , the newsletter is back on Cubeta , who will be Program Chair in 2009, of color where it is not needed. Council then dis - schedule. Editor Campbell is currently investi - Council’s recommendations. cussed our separation agreement with the New gating whether we can track how many times (17) The report on MSA 2010 in Lexington, KT York Botanical Gardens, which is due to expire an issue of Inoculum is read on line, as well as was presented by Vice President Halling [see in 2009. At present under this agreement we whether we should establish hard copy Annual Report of the Vice President, Inoculum are providing approximately 75 gratis copies of archives for the newsletter. 58(6)]. each issue of Mycologia to NYBG for their (18) The report on MSA 2011 in Fairbanks, AK journal exchange program. ANNUAL MEETINGS was presented by President-Elect Hemmes [see Action item : ME Stone will research the (14) Meredith Blackwell, Chair of the 2007 Local Annual Report of the President-Elect, Inocu - NYBG contract and the recipients of Mycolo - Organizing Committee , joined Council after lum 58(6)]. gia under the NYBG exchange program and lunch to present the report on MSA 2007 in follow up with Council. Baton Rouge, LA [ Inoculum 58(6)]. She noted OTHER CONSIDERATIONS The meeting broke for lunch from noon until 1:00pm. that some updates to the cost estimates still needed to be made. As of August 3 rd , approxi - (19) President Mueller presented the Report of the Vice President Halling then presented the re - mately 237 people had registered for the meet - Membership Committee [Inoculum 58(6)] on audit of the manuscript sub - sults from an ing from eight countries and 135 institutions. behalf of Chair Maren Klich. President mission process with which he was tasked at Discussions led by Local Organizing Commit - Mueller stressed that Council needs to provide the Mid-year meeting, and began by thanking tee Chair Blackwell and Program Chair this new committee with input, recommenda - ME Stone Editorial Ad - and the members of the Adams were held regarding encouraging more tions, and a budget that will allow them to com - visory Committee—Mary Berbee, David Geis - post-doc attendance at annual meetings and plete the tasks we are charging them with. er, Kerry O’Donnell, Rick Kerrigan, and Lori recognizing outstanding post-docs, attracting Some items for the Membership Committee to Carris— for providing input and guidance. In researchers from areas of genomics and cell bi - Mycologia short, is perceived as slow and there ology to our meetings, and detailed discussion Continued on following page

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take up would include: determining why we at - to those of holding the Mid-Year meeting, Action item : Secretary Aime to draft an tract new members but have a hard time getting which has been averaging about $5,000 a year. amendment. them to renew; improving the on-line renewal Allocated budgets for Secretary and President (22) Councilor Cantrell suggested that MSA con - process and consolidating the various user - expenses are almost never used and Council sider holding a joint meeting with the Latin names and passwords used by Allen Press into might consider adding a line item in the budg - American Society in either the Dominican Re - a single username and password for each mem - et to pay for training of new editorial staff or public or Puerto Rico in the near future, possi - ber; defining what the perks of being a member for management meetings instead. Finally, bly in 2012. should be and should members receive a print - Treasurer Snetselaar advised council that our ed membership card. contract renewal process with Allen Press will Action item : Councilor Cantrell to further in - Action item : Secretary Aime to forward the begin in November. Some items, such as En - vestigate potential Latin American dates and suggestions of Council to Chair Klich . hanced Online Services need to be clarified meeting locales for consideration. (for instance, this does not include online bal - Secretary Aime (20) Treasurer Snetselaar then led council through (23) read an item for consideration loting) and perhaps this can be dropped. Awards Coordinator Murrin a detailed discussion of our Budget . Online- brought forth by Lengthy discussion of how other societies are suggesting that in the future, the MSA should only memberships offer a savings to the Socie - managed and the best course of action ensued. ty over print memberships and should be en - announce the winners of major awards prior to couraged. The expenses of online publication Action item: Vice President-in-waiting Vil - the annual meeting itself. This could be done in and whether the Society should move toward galys will confer with other societies, in partic - the program, on the website, and even on having an online only journal at some point in ular with BSA and ESA, to determine how posters or by creating special name tags for the future, and how such a move would affect these handle their general management and honorees. This would allow for some PR op - things like the publication of new species, provide council with recommendations by the portunities for the Society, as well as provide a which under the current botanical code must be Mid-Year meeting at the latest. way to honor our most distinguished members done in print, were discussed. One of the strong throughout the meeting. Council was enthusi - Action item: Treasurer Snetselaar to draft a astic in its support for this item. suits of Mycologia is the high image quality. budget and send it to Council for a vote. We should expand on this by encouraging au - Action item : Secretary Aime and Awards Co - thors to publish online supplemental material ordinator Murrin to draft a motion calling for as well as videos and other specialty images ANY OTHER BUSINESS the early announcement of our Distinctions, that currently can’t find a home in print publi - (21) President Mueller led a discussion about the Honorary, and Research awards. The position cations. Editorial expenses were briefly dis - need to update the society bylaws to reflect of Awards Coordinator to be updated in the cussed with the observation that editorial changes in modern communication methods. MOP to reflect the need to coordinate with the salaries and expenses will probably hold steady Webmaster and Program Chair for timely re - for one more year. Meeting expenses were Motion 3 : (approved unanimously) Moved by lease of the names of winners. again discussed and especially the need to pro - Past President McLaughlin and seconded by Treasurer Snetselaar that an amendment to the vide more symposium support and to calculate ADJOURNMENT and inform the Program Chair, as far in ad - bylaws be drafted to clarify that email is a form vance as possible, of the amount of money that of mail and to state explicitly that the Secretary President Mueller adjourned the meeting at 5:10 pm. will be available for symposia during his term and Vice President may use an intermediary in —Cathie Aime as Chair. Officer expenses are mainly limited the form of a secure web site in the conduction MSA Secretary of Society ballots. Minutes of the MSA 2007 Annual Business Meeting

Wednesday, August 8 meetings, in promoting the Society’s journal Murrin , who helped ease the transition period Faculty Club, LSU and making available on-line access to the full between Secretaries . Baton Rouge, Louisiana back issue content of Mycologia as well as ef - (5) Secretary Aime presented the names of six forts to make the journal available to re - Emeritus candidates for approval by the mem - CALL TO ORDER searchers in developing countries, and in ad - bership: Mo-Mei Chen, Berkeley, CA ; David AND APPROVAL OF MINUTES dressing critical membership issues by the P. Lewis , Newton, TX ; David Porter , Brook - creation of a new Membership Committee. (1) The meeting was called to order at 8:50 am in lin, ME; Allan Snyder , Aliso Viejo, CA ; J.F. the Faculty Club by President Gregory (3) Vice President Roy Halling reported on the re - Stampfer, Santa Fe, NM ; and Arthur Mueller. President Mueller introduced the So - sults of the election of officers for 2007. The Welden , New Orleans, LA. The motion to ap - ciety Officers present and graciously thanked following new officers were elected for 2007 - prove these new Emeritus members was passed Council for their hard work during the year. 2008 and will start their terms after this year’s by a vote of the membership. Secretary Aime President Mueller acknowledged the tremen - business meeting in Baton Rouge: Rytas Vil - next presented one hundred and twenty-four dous job done by Meredith Blackwell, Gerry galys , Vice-President; Sabine Huhndorf , new or returning members for approval, the Adams, David Lewis, Pat Lewis, David Treasurer; Kathie Hodge , Councilor for Sys - motion for which was also approved by a vote Fuller, Mike McCann, and the other individ - tematics/ Evolution; Annette Kretzer , Coun - of the membership. uals involved in planning the 2007 meeting, cilor for Genetics/Molecular Biology; Betsy (6) Treasurer Karen Snetselaar presented the program, foray, and registration and congratu - Arnold , Councilor for Ecology/Pathology; and Treasurer’s interim report and briefly presented lated them on a job well done. President Susan Kaminskyj , Councilor for Cell Biolo - some highlights. Mueller then called for the approval of the gy/Physiology; Vice President Halling thanked Awards Presentations please see Inoculum minutes of the 2006 MSA Business Meeting all those who stood for election and gratefully (7) ( 58(5) for full details of 2007 MSA awards . held in Quebec City, Canada [Inoculum acknowledged their willingness to serve the ) 57(5):16-17]. The minutes were approved by Society. (a) President Mueller recognized those mem - the membership. (4) Secretary Cathie Aime referred to her annual bers in attendance who had previously re - (2) President Mueller presented the highlights of report [Inoculum 58(6)] and briefly reviewed ceived the following awards: Alexopoulos his annual report [Inoculum 58(6)], in particu - some the highlights of the Annual Council Award, MSA Fellow, MSA Honorary lar emphasizing the great strides made in over - Meeting [Inoculum 58(6)]. Secretary Aime Member, Weston Award for Excellence in seeing the improvement of our web-based reg - gratefully acknowledged the camaraderie and Teaching, Distinguished Mycologist, and hard work of council and Past Secretary Faye istration and abstract interface for future MSA Continued on following page

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those in attendance who had previously ident Mueller presented the 2006-2007 tional service: Tom Harrington , out- served as MSA President. MSA Fellow Awards to: Joey Spatafora, going Chair of the Endowment Commit - (b) On behalf of the Chair of the Honorary Faye Murrin, Karen Snetselaar, and tee, who was unable to receive his certifi - Awards Committee, Carol Shearer, Pres - Meredith Blackwell . Drs. Murrin, Snet - cate in person; Karen Snetselaar , who ident Mueller presented the name of the selaar, and Blackwell were on hand to re - finished her term as Treasurer at this meet - 2006-2007 Honorary Member to the ceive their awards. ing, and 2006-2007 MSA President Greg membership for approval. The motion to (e) The remaining 2006-2007 MSA Distinc - Mueller . approve Jan Stenlid as Honorary Mem - tions were announced by President (8) President Mueller recapped the locations and ber was enthusiastically approved. Presi - Mueller for Chair of Distinctions Commit - organizers of future MSA meetings including dent Mueller then welcomed last-year’s tee , Georgiana May . This year’s Weston 2008, which will be hosted by David Geiser at elected Honorary Member, Mike Wing - Award for Excellence in Teaching was Pennsylvania State University. field , who gave a brief address to the awarded to both Tom Bruns, and Randy (9) President Mueller then introduced the new membership. Currah , neither of whom was able to re - President of the Mycological Society of Amer - (c) On behalf of the Chair of Mycological So - ceive their awards in person. The Distin - ica for 2007 – 2008, Don Hemmes , who ciety Distinctions Committee, Georgiana guished Mycologist Award was present - thanked everyone for attending and adjourned May, President Mueller presented the ed to David McLaughlin who spoke the meeting at approximately 10:10 am with a Alexopoulos Prize to Teresa Pawlows - briefly of his appreciation to the Society. tap of the Presidential Gavel. ka, who was on hand to receive her award. (f) President-Elect Don Hemmes presented Certificates of Appreciation to three So - —Cathie Aime (d) On behalf of the Chair of the Honorary MSA Secretary Awards Committee, Carol Shearer , Pres - ciety Members in recognition of excep - MSA 2007 Annual Reports

Annual Report of the President Hypha issue of Mycologia was published! All Mycologia back content This report contains a summary of my activities as MSA presi - is now available as high quality, fully searchable digitized text in dent this past year (July 2006- July 2007). This time has gone by in - JSTOR. This includes the Journal of Mycology (1885-1908) and My - credibly quickly, but with the outstanding help of the Officers, Coun - cologia from Volume 1 (1909). We also increased access to Mycolo - cil and other MSA members, I believe that we tackled a number of key gia by decreasing the time before making issues available to non- issues. members via on-line journal stores and by participating in several The first task of the president is to recruit volunteers to partici - international initiatives ( AGORA , www.aginternetwork.org/ pate in the Society through committee activities. In my case, I had en/about.php and Cyberliber , www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cyberliber/) nearly 30 committee slots to fill – but the process was not as difficult making the content in Mycologia available to scientists in developing as I had feared due to our members’ willingness to serve the MSA. countries that can not afford subscriptions to MSA or to on-line jour - The MSA functions because of the hard work and dedication of out - nal stores like JSTOR. Thanks go out to everyone involved with these standing volunteers – my belief that the MSA is a vital society is con - important efforts to broaden Mycologia reach. Don Natvig (Editor-in- tinually reconfirmed by the enthusiasm of the membership. Chief) and his staff, and Jeff Stone (Managing Editor) have been in - There were three major themes that received the bulk of my at - strumental for keeping the quality of the journal at the highest level tention during the year: planning for the 2007 meeting in Baton and for making progress in getting publication back on time. While Rouge, publications ( Mycologia , Inoculum , and our website), and this has been a great year for Mycologia , problems dealing with author membership issues. submissions and the length of time from submission to publication re - The 2007 meeting is on track to be a great success thanks to the main. Thus, we need to focus attention on the user experience of sub - incredible hard work of local arrangements coordinator, Meredith mitters and reviewers as well as continue to push to get publication Blackwell, and the program committee chaired by Gerry Adams. This dates on track. Mycological Research and other journals are making a meeting coincides with the 75 th Anniversary of the MSA, and while concerted effort to attract authors, both by soliciting manuscripts and we want to recognize key aspects of our history, the focus of the meet - by improving the ease of the submission and review process. We need ing will be on where the MSA and mycology is going. Don Hemmes, to take advantage of the Deep Hypha issue to advertise Mycologia , Meredith Blackwell, and Don Pfister (MSA Historian), developed reach out to potential authors, and ensure a good user experience for some fascinating historical pieces to help recognize the 75 th Anniver - our members. Thus, I asked V.P. Roy Halling to work with the My - sary while symposia presentations will be presenting the latest myco - cologia Advisory Board to develop recommendations for improving logical results. Efforts were made to increase attendance by non-USA the submission and review process for Mycologia (see the appendix to and Canadian members. Executive Council agreed to waive the regis - his report for their recommendations). Treasurer Snetselaar and Man - tration fee for foreign members who present in symposia; registration aging Editor Stone continued to work with Allen Press on various is - for participating foreign non-members has been waived for a number sues. Our contract with Allen Press will be up for renewal soon, and it of years. A number of invitation letters were sent out to participants will be imperative that we negotiate a contract with them that enables who need assistance in obtaining Visas. As mentioned in my midyear us to continue to refine our procedures as technology and the market report, preparing for the meeting provided the impetuous to develop evolve. and refine some of the logistics that we needed for this year’s meeting Inoculum is in great hands with its new editor, Jinx Campbell and future meetings; an easy-to-use online meeting registration tool (see her report). Except for 121 people that have not provided email and a refined and greatly improved the abstract submission page. addresses, Inoculum is now distributed only via the MSA website. The As usual, Mycologia was an important topic of discussion and website will soon be redesigned and its technology updated thanks to focus of efforts on the part of the President, other members of the Ex - Webmaster Kathie Hodge’s efforts (see her report for details). ecutive Council, Editor-in-Chief, and Managing Editor. 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As has been mentioned on several occasions, a serious challenge The President Elect is contacting the membership to fill nearly 30 facing the MSA is to reverse the slow, but steady decline in member - committee positions needed for 2008 and beyond. The new appoint - ship that has been occurring over the last number of years. It is imper - ments will be announced at the business meeting in Baton Rouge. ative that we increase our membership to better represent and serve the —Don Hemmes broad community of scientists studying fungi throughout the world. Annual Report of the Vice President To accomplish this we need to identify and recruit new members, both from areas where we currently have strong membership representation I want to thank Linda Kohn , Chair of the MSA’s Nominations and from areas where many scientists keenly interested in fungal biol - Committee, for providing a list of potential candidates, and I extend ogy would benefit from belonging to the MSA but have not yet been many thanks to the membership for submitting their nominations for reached. We also have to ensure that we retain members by enhancing placement on the Annual 2007 Ballot. I am grateful to all candidates the services that we provide. To address these critical issues, I have ap - who agreed to stand for election. With 200 electronic and 15 paper pointed Maren Klich (Chair), Rich Baird, and Lisa Vaillancourt to the ballots cast for Officers and three proposed By-Laws amendments, the new Membership Committee (a 4 th member will be added to the com - results are as follows: mittee by incoming President Hemmes). The Committee has been All By-Laws amendments passed: Amendment 1: Enact changes charged with understanding our current membership demographics, to the Endowment section of the Society By-laws (Article IX, Section making new contacts, and recommending ways to attract and retain E) to better describe the differences between the Restricted and Gen - new members. I also have had several conversations with members eral Endowment funds. Amendment 2: Formation of a new member - who are in fields currently underrepresented in the MSA (e.g., soil ship committee that would replace the present Sustaining Membership ecology, symbiosis, molecular evolution) to ask for their advice and Committee and extend the mandate of the committee to all aspects of help in reaching members of their communities, and I am passing membership, in particular to increasing membership in the Society. these ideas on to the Membership Committee. Council will need to be This involved a re-wording of Article IV (F) of the By-Laws. Amend - receptive to the committee’s recommendations and be proactive in im - ment 3: Article IV (F) (6) , to be removed (composition and standing plementing initiatives to increase membership. All members of the of Mycologia Memoirs Committee ), AND Article IV (F) (7) renum - MSA can help in this important task by spreading the word, encour - bered to become Article IV (F) (6), AND Article IV (F) (8) renum - aging their students and colleagues to join, ensuring that their institu - bered to become Article IV (F) (7), AND Article IV (F) re-worded to tion maintains their subscription to Mycologia , and providing Officers reflect that the Mycological Memoirs Committee will exist as an ad and Council with suggestions on how the MSA can better serve its hoc committee to be re-constituted by the Editor-in-Chief of Mycolo - current members and reach out to new ones. gia as needs arise for the publication of lengthy manuscripts. In closing, I want to acknowledge and thank our outstanding Sec - Officers elected for 2007-08 were Rytas Vilgalys, Vice President; retary, Cathie Aime, and Treasurer, Karen Snetselaar, for the invalu - Sabine Huhndorf, Treasurer; Kathie Hodge, Councilor for Systemat - able service that they provided to me and the MSA this past year. While ics/Evolution; Annette Kretzer, Councilor for Genetics/Molecular Bi - this was Cathie’s first year as Secretary, her enthusiasm, dedication, ology; A. Elizabeth Arnold, Councilor for Ecology/Pathology; Susan hard work, and terrific personality enabled her to jump in without a Kaminskyj, Councilor for Cell Biology/Physiology . Terms will start at hitch to keep the Society moving forward. Being in her third year as the end of the MSA Business Meeting on August 8, 2007. Treasurer, Karen’s experience, knowledge, and dedication to the MSA At the MSA meeting in Québec City, Lisa Vaillancourt and Chris were extremely valuable. I addition to these two critical members of the Schardl informed the VP that they will host the MSA Annual Meeting MSA Executive Council, I need to recognize the important contribu - at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, during June 2010. tions made by President Elect Hemmes, V.P. Halling, Mycologia Man - At the mid-year Executive Council meeting in Chicago, the Vice aging Editor Jeff Stone, Mycologia Editor-In-Chief Don Natvig, and President was charged with overseeing an audit/review of functional - our new Webmaster and Inoculum editor, Kathie Hodge and Jinx ity of the current electronic manuscript submission system used for Campbell, respectively. Refer to their reports for additional information Mycologia . A summary of this report has been forwarded to the MSA on this past year’s MSA accomplishments and issues that we face. Last, Secretary as an agenda item for discussion at the Annual Council but not least, I want to acknowledge the efforts of everyone serving on Meeting to be held, 4 August in Baton Rouge, LA. Council and on MSA committees. My thanks go out to all of you! —Roy E. Halling It has been an interesting and fruitful year. It has been a great Annual Report of the Secretary honor and privilege to give back to the society that has meant so much to me throughout my career. I congratulate President Elect Don The Secretary’s Midyear report, published in Inoculum 58(3) Hemmes and look forward to assisting him as MSA President. summarizes my activities on behalf of the Society from August 2, —Gregory M. Mueller 2006 to February 26, 2007. Since that time I have: • Assisted President Greg Mueller at the midyear Executive Coun - Annual Report of the President-Elect cil meeting in Chicago, Illinois on March 3rd. Minutes of that meeting Photos of all the Past Presidents of the Mycological Society of were sent to Executive Council, Mycologia Editor-in-Chief Don Natvig, America were prepared for display at the meetings in Baton Rouge to and Mycologia Managing Editor Jeff Stone for review prior to publica - help celebrate the 75th anniversary of the society. tion in Inoculum . The midyear reports of Council and committees were Newly elected President of the American Bryological and also edited and sent for publication in Inoculum 55(3). Among items ap - Lichenological Society, Karen Renzaglia, was contacted concerning proved by Executive Council were: 1) the MSA 2006 Executive Coun - participation with the Mycological Society of America in 2011 at the cil minutes; 2) the motion of Webmaster Kathie Hodge to transition the annual meetings in Fairbanks, Alaska. Her response was very positive, Society’s WebPages to a new hosting service, Lunarpages and to use but she needs to discuss the idea with her membership before a formal Wordpress for streamlining the maintenance and management of web - agreement can be made. A follow up of the possibility of joint meet - page content; 3) to reduce back issue holdings of Mycologia . ings in 2011 will be made. Continued on following page

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• Moderated email correspondence with Full Council and Exec - didates as supplied monthly by Kay Rose of Allen Marketing and utive Council including five polls, which were summarized in Inocu - Management, and summaries of Council activities. Arranged to re-im - lum , along with numerous items of discussion. Council approved: 1) plement the sending of welcome letters to new members through Kay the authorization of HighWire to create a link to JSTOR via the My - Rose and ensured all new 2006-2007 members received a welcome cologia webpage at HighWire for an estimated $1500-2000, put for - letter. Mediated orders for rental of MSA membership list. ward by Mycologia Managing Editor Jeff Stone; 2) the authorization • Monitored and approved the sending of blast emails to the So - to provide $1800 toward support of three students and/or postdocs to ciety members through Kay Rose at Allen Marketing and Manage - participate in the First European Mycological Association Meeting ment. These included: 1) MSA Call for Council Nominations; 2) MSA being held in St. Petersburg, Russia 17-20 September 2007, put for - Awards 2007 – Call for Nominations and Applications; 3) MSA Call ward by MSA President Greg Mueller; 3) the nomination of Jan Sten - for Symposia Proposals; 4) MSA Awards Reminder - Nominations lid for the award of Honorary Member 2007 as put forward by the and Applications; 5) 2007 MSA Spring Ballot Vote; 6) MSA Annual MSA Honorary Awards Committee chaired by Carol Shearer, which Meeting; 7) Special Announcement – Fungal Photo Contest at LSU will be put to membership vote during the Annual Business Meeting MSA Meetings; 8) Reminder: MSA 2007 Annual Meeting: Early and Breakfast of the 2007 Annual Meeting; 4) and the nominations of Registration Deadline; 9) MSA Call for Auction Items; 10) Reminder Meredith Blackwell, Faye Murrin, Karen Snetselaar, and Joey Fungal Photo Contest. Spatafora for the award of MS Honorary Fellow as put forward by the • Prepared a list of Roster vacancies needing filling for President Honorary Awards Committee chaired by Carol Shearer. Elect Don Hemmes. • Assisted Vice President Roy Halling in issuing a call for nomi - • Responded to routine and sometimes not-so-routine correspon - nations for society officers, including publication in Inoculum and no - dence, both email and snail mail, on a wide variety of issues from tification of members by blast email; drafted three new by-laws Council, members, and non-Society members. In all, processed more amendments previously approved by council to be included on the than 1366 emails related to MSA business since my midyear report, Spring ballot, and assisted Vice President Roy Halling in preparing bringing the yearly total to 2186. and distributing the ballot. After vote of general membership, updated I have enjoyed my first year as MSA Secretary and working with the Society By-Laws and posted them on the webpage via Webmaster MSA Council, Editorial staff and Committee members. These are hard Hodge. working volunteers with whom it really is a pleasure to serve. While • With President Greg Mueller acted on the committee judging everyone has been gracious with their time and in answering questions International Travel Awards, which resulted in the following success - I’ve been very fortunate to have been able to draw on the expertise in ful applicants: Elizabeth Barron, Sara Mayer Branco, and Adam W. particular of three individuals: President Greg Mueller, Treasurer Rollins. These young graduate students will be awarded a total of $600 Karen Snetselaar and Past Secretary Faye Murrin. On a personal level, each in support of travel to the European Mycological Association in I owe these individuals a tremendous debt of gratitude for easing the St. Petersburg, Russia. transition between Secretaries and for their patience, generosity, and • Issued a call to all Society Officers, Councilors, committee camaraderie. chairs and Society representatives for Annual reports and agenda —M. Catherine Aime items in preparation for the Annual Council meeting in Baton Rouge, th Annual Report of the Managing Editor, Mycologia Louisiana on 4 August. Worked with President Greg Mueller to com - plete the Annual Meeting Agenda. Compiled and edited all received Production schedule: Mycologia is still struggling to get back on reports, along with the agenda, updated Society Roster, updated Con - its normal production schedule. Some progress has been made this stitution and By-Laws, Minutes of the previous midyear and annual year. Issue 98(6), the Deep Hypha issue was not released until April 19, meetings into the Council package for distribution electronically prior 2007 due to several problems that were not discovered until late in the to the meeting. Printed copies were prepared for the Council Meeting. production process. The first two issues of Volume 99 were released in Issued a call for MOP revisions and an invitation to all Society volun - relatively quick succession, June 8 and July 16, respectively. Issue teers including all Committee members and Society Representatives 99(3) will be distributed in mid-August, and 99(4) likely will mail in to the Reception for Committees to be held on August 5 th in Baton mid-October. It is possible that 99(5) could be sent before the end of Rouge. Issued an invitation to the Reception for Committees to local this year, but unlikely that 99 (6) will be completed before Feb, 2008. invitees of the Organizing Committee who assisted in preparations for Production of the journal should be back to a normal schedule in 2008. the annual meeting. It is essential that Mycologia get back to a normal production schedule • Assisted President Mueller in preparing the agenda for the An - as soon as possible because timely publication is one of the most im - nual Business Meeting to be held on August 8 th in Baton Rouge. Pre - portant factors authors consider in submitting their best papers. pared lists of 124 new or returning members and six members re - Volume 98 had a total of 1106 pages, which is somewhat fewer questing Emeritus Status for membership approval. The applications than the preceding two years. Volume 97 had 1381 pages and Vol. 96 for emeritus membership were received from: Mo-Mei Chen, Berke - had 1430. Volume 98 was nearer our target of 200 pages per issue and ley, CA; David P. Lewis , Newton, TX; David Porter , Brooklin, ME; has helped bring our publication costs down. Allan Snyder, Aliso Viejo, CA; J.F. Stampfer, Santa Fe, NM; and JSTOR: JSTOR completed the scanning of all back issues of Arthur Weldon, New Orleans, LA. Mycologia and added Mycologia to its Biological Sciences II collec - • Received with sadness reports of the deaths of the following tion in March, 2007. Fully searchable electronic text of all articles MSA members over the past year: Dr. George Baker Cummins, Pres - published in Mycologia , including the Journal of Mycology (from ident of the MSA 1946-47 and the oldest known living charter mem - 1885), can now be accessed through the JSTOR website [jstor.org] ber of the Society, on March 30 th and Dr. Tsuguo Hongo, long time through institutional libraries that are JSTOR members. Mycologia member of the MSA and Honorary Member since 2003, on April 1 st . began online publication with HighWire Press [mycologia.org] begin - • Prepared three Email Express columns for publication in In - ning with Volume 94 (2002), so online access to Mycologia content oculum . Columns included names of new members and emeritus can - Continued on following page

16 Inoculum 58(6), November 2007 MSA BUSINESS prior to Volume 94 is now available for the first time. Mycologia con - Subscription rates: Last year we implemented a plan to increase tent will be continually added to the JSTOR collection with a moving subscription rates to a target of $325/350 by Volume 101. This represents wall of three years (currently Volumes 94 and 95 are available through annual increases of about 15% and will bring the cost of institutional sub - both HighWire and JSTOR). scriptions for Mycologia more into line with the costs of production. This JSTOR and HighWire Press worked together to install a user - will inevitably result in some cancellations, but even at $350 a subscrip - name/password authentication system for MSA members to access the tion to Mycologia represents a value relative to similar journals. digital Mycologia back content in JSTOR through the Mycologia web - Impact factor 2006: Mycologia ’s 2006 ISI impact factor (based site at HighWire Press. MSA members who do not have access to on 2005 citations) increased from its 2005 IF (based on 2004 citations) JSTOR through their institutional libraries can now access Mycologia from 1.433 to 1.574, but still slipped somewhat in the rankings of My - back content by clicking the link on the Mycologia archive page and cology journals to ninth place, compared to sixth place for 2005. How - logging in using their MSA account number and password. Instruc - ever, this should not be cause for concern. Statistically, Mycologia still tions are given on the login page for members to activate their indi - compares very strongly with its competitors. For 2005, Mycologia had vidual Mycologia subscription or retrieve username and password. 84 articles and a total of 3561 citations tracked by ISI, similar to the Print back issues: The availability of all Mycologia back con - 3589 cites for Mycological Research, which had an impact factor of tent as digital files on JSTOR makes archiving of print back issues at 1.86 for 2005. Several things can be done to legitimately improve My - Allen Press unnecessary. Therefore, print back issues older than 10 cologia ’s impact factor. One would be to return to a regular produc - years will not be available for purchase from Allen Press after Dec. 31, tion schedule, and another would be to continue to do all that can be 2007. This will result in some savings to the society, as we are charged done to attract high quality papers. for storage of the inventory of back issues. The entire Mycologia print NYBG list: Under the terms of the 1999 agreement between the back inventory older than 10 years will be recycled. MSA and the New York Botanical Garden, by which the MSA took Page charges : Mycologia does require payment of page charges over ownership of Mycologia , the MSA agreed to provide 93 gratis sub - as a condition for acceptance of papers. Authors are still given the op - scriptions to the NYBG library exchange program for ten years. This tion of paying or not paying page charges. For Volume 98 (excluding provision of the separation agreement will expire in 2009. We will be issue 98(6)) and the first three issues of Vol. 99, roughly half of the negotiating terms for converting subscriptions in the exchange program pages published have been supported by page charges. Page charges with the NYBG to paid institutional subscriptions in the coming year. were paid in full for Volume 98 Issue 6, the Deep Hypha Issue, in - Color costs: Costs associated with publishing color figures in cluding all color plates, thanks to Meredith, Joey and NSF, therefore Mycologia have increased sharply over the past few years and we are this issue is not included in the chart below. Mycologia has come to working to bring them under control. There has been an almost im - increasingly rely on voluntary payment of page charges to cover its perceptible shift of computer software to create figures in color by de - publication costs. The trend appears to be fairly stable at about half of fault. If these are not manually converted to grayscale by authors, they all print pages being paid. This probably represents a reasonable com - can be unintentionally published in color, even when the color is not promise between making the journal available to authors regardless of necessary for information content. Since color printing is very expen - ability to pay full page charges and the economic necessities of recov - sive we have been working to alert authors and Associate Editors to ering page charges to offset publication costs. It has long been My - the need to identify unnecessary color figures. Costs of remaking color cologia ’s policy that page charges are not required as a condition of figures in grayscale are also costly, so these changes need to be made acceptance. Mycologia should continue to offer free publication to au - by authors before the proof stage. We also have been working with thors whose research is not supported by grants or who have limited Allen Press to ensure that color figures are approved for publication ability to pay publication costs. However it should be clarified that au - only if authors agree to pay the color publication fee ($800/color plate) thors are expected to pay page charges for reporting research (not in - or request the fee waiver under the MSA policy of providing one free vited reviews, obituaries, Presidential, or Karling lectures) that was color illustration per year to MSA members and color is used to con - supported by grants or conducted during the course of regular em - vey essential information in the figure. Additional options available to ployment. save on color costs are to offer authors the option of publishing figures in grayscale in print and online in color, at no charge. HighWire Pay per View: Mycologia has nearly met its $1500 reserve for pay per view articles downloaded from HighWire Press. As soon as the reserve is met, the MSA will begin to receive payments from HighWire Press for pay per view downloads. This will not be a great deal of income, but will be welcome anyway. —Jeff Stone Annual Report of the Inoculum Editor I took over as editor of Inoculum in December 2006. My first issue was 58(1) which came out January 1, 2007. Production contin - ues to be under the management of Production Manager, Robyn Hearn, and his team at MSU. Production. Production of Inoculum is currently $4000 a year and this is carried out at MSU. Inoculum went to on-line only format from issue 58(1). As such, printing is reduced from 1400 hard copies to ~120 copies for members who do not have web access. Printing and mailing has been uncoupled from Allen Press and is carried out by the produc -

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Inoculum 58(6), November 2007 17 MSA BUSINESS tion team at MSU at a cost of around $1,200 per annum, depending on Annual Report of the Abstract the page size of each edition. This is a great saving over the current cost Submission Site Manager of printing at Allen Press of $14,000 per annum. Additionally the un - We implemented a new version of the Abstract database this year. coupling of Inoculum from Mycologia means less delay in getting this It is more stable on different browsers than the previous version, but time sensitive material to its readers. Inoculum goes on-line around the there are still a couple of bugs in it (for example, for some reason it will first of the month (odd months) and is mailed around the middle of that indicate to the user that they registered a symposium presentation in - same month. The reason for that delay is so that any errors that make it stead of a poster; it does not appear as such in the database itself). One into the on-line version get corrected before it is printed. goal in the coming year is to make sure that the Program Chair can eas - Journal workload. Each issue of Inoculum averages 26 pages. It ily download the entire database as an editable document – I believe is produced bimonthly. Regular sections in each issue include MSA that utility is already in place, I just don’t know how to do it. Business, with a message from the President and the Secretary, and We have collected feedback from folks and can make improve - Mycologist’s Bookshelf, which contains reviews of newly published ments for a reasonable price. PSU’s bioinformatician Izabela books. Additionally Inoculum publishes news about upcoming sym - Makalowska put this together for us and charged us about $400, but posia, conferences and workshops, and circulates information on further tweaks tend to run $20 here and there. awards, nominations, endowments and honors. Presently, there is a —David Geiser feature article on the front page, but my intent is to encourage publi - cation of short articles in Inoculum . Annual Report of the Finance Committee Page Charges. We do not have page charges for submission to The total value of the MSA investment portfolio as of Aug 1, Inoculum . There are no plans to introduce these. 2007 was $704,749, including the Endowment Account with assets of Color Illustrations. Color illustrations are encouraged now that $491,246 and Operating Account with $213,503. One year ago, the we have an on-line only format. values of the two accounts were $453,906 and $141,489, respectively. Requested Changes to the Inoculum MOP. The strategy of the finance committee has been to invest MSA assets 4) Send files to the Publisher (currently Robyn Hearn at MSU) who in conservative fixed income securities (US Treasury notes and CDs) will format and prepare an electronic and print-ready copy using in combination with conservatively managed mutual funds to generate QuarkXPress. both current income and capital appreciation. For many years the 5) The Publisher will send electronic files of the completed newsletter MSA relied on a conservative investment approach with a staggered to the MSA Webmaster (currently Kathie Hodge) for posting on the bond ladder of five-year US Treasury notes. However, because long- MSA website. term yields of Treasury notes have been low relative to other types of 6) In consultation with the Allen Marketing & Management Association fixed income securities in recent years, the Finance Committee has Manager (Kay Rose in 2007), determine number of individual copies to been reinvesting the principal of Treasury notes as they mature in be printed and mailed each year (members without internet access). shorter-term CDs instead of five-year Treasury notes. Currently, high —Jinx Campbell quality CDs have higher rates of interest than Treasuries, and as inter - Annual Report of the Webmaster est rates have been rising incrementally, shorter-term investments allow more flexibility to take advantage of increasing interest rates. I took over management of the MSA web pages this year, and The continuing challenge is to maximize income from MSA invest - would like to seize the opportunity to thank Roy Halling for doing the ments sufficient to sustain MSA Endowment supported programs at job so well for so long. He made it very easy for me to take over, and their current levels. he has stepped in to pinch hit a couple of times when needed since Currently the total MSA portfolio managed by Wachovia Secu - then. It’s also been a pleasure working briefly with Rich Baird, and rities includes about $390,000 in fixed income securities, or about now with Jinx Campbell ( Inoculum Editor), and Kay Rose (Allen 55% of total assets. This includes $135,000 in US Treasury notes (av - Press). Dave Geiser handled abstracts smoothly again this year. erage yield 4.97%), $255,000 in 6 – 12 month CDs (average yield My proposal to the mid-year Council meeting to make some 5.08%), and $241,500 or about 34% of total assets, in three mutual changes in the website was approved, and I am now just a bit behind funds, comprising $109,104 (15.5% of total) invested in Income Fund schedule in developing a new site. In a nutshell, we’ll be transitioning of America, $67,868 (9% of total) in Capital Income Builder, and the site to a new web service provider, Lunarpages.com, that provides 65,000 (9% of total) in Fundamental Investors. Income Fund of Amer - more bang for the buck and will simplify maintenance of the domain ica currently pays a dividend of 3.62%, Capital Income Builder cur - name and the site in general. rently pays a dividend of 3.03%, and Fundamental Investors pays a Every Webmaster has to put their own stamp on things, so I am dividend of 1.33%. All three funds have also appreciated in value dur - also developing a new look for the website that I think will be well-re - ing the period we have owned shares. By investing in conservatively ceived. I’ll be using a content management system (Wordpress) to run managed mutual funds, the goal of the Finance Committee has been to the site. This helps ensure consistency among pages, and simplifies offset low interest rates on fixed income securities with combined eq - editing, which can now be swiftly done online instead of through uity growth and dividends. As the value of the mutual funds has in - stand-alone software like Dreamweaver. Another advantage is the creased, we have periodically sold shares to lock in capital gains and site’s built-in capability to serve newsfeeds, which function something to maintain the amount of MSA assets invested in mutual funds at less like the old MSA Bulletin Board for job ads and news. This will be than 40% of the total portfolio. The remaining $73,232 is kept as a ideal for job ads, for example—those who subscribe are notified of cash reserve for operating expenses and awards from the endowment. new posts immediately. New website flexibility will give Don Hemmes’ new Electronic Communication & Web Page Management Committee something to talk about. I expect the new site will launch in August or Sept. 2007, after a period of testing and tweaking. I’ll welcome your suggestions on new features and usability. —Kathie T. Hodge Continued on following page

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Summary of MSA investments as of August 1, 2007 mina and Phaeoisariopsis ); Chrysomyxa empetri, C. piperiana, and C. ledicola (all with teleomorph types); Poria cocos (against Daedalea ex - OPERATING ACCOUNT tensa ); Boletus applanatus (against B. lipsiensis ); Agaricus lepideus Mutual Funds Avg Yield Est. Annual Income (against A. suffrutescens ); Pleurotus japonicus (against A. guepiniformis Fundamental Investors 64,544 1.33 858 and P. harmandii ); Lyophyllum (with a conserved type); Hygrophorus Certificates of deposit 115,000 5.24 6,026 hudsonianus (against Endocarpon viride and Normandina davidis ); and Money Market 33,959 3.00 1,018 Lichen (Lecanora ) hagenii (with a conserved type). Additionally, the Total Account Value 213,503 7,902 CF voted to reject a change in type for Coprinus in a special Nov. 2006 ENDOWMENT ACCOUNT ballot. These recommendations will not become final until after the next Mutual Funds International Botanical Congress in Melbourne, Australia, in 2007. CF Capital Income Builder 67,868 3.03 2,056 members also discussed whether the phylum name Ascomycota Cava - Income Fund of America 109,105 3.62 3,950 lier-Smith (Biol. Rev. 73: 247, 1998) satisfies the requirements of Art. US Treasury Notes 32 sufficiently to meet the minimal standards for validation. With the (face value) 135,000 4.97 6,710 resignations of Gary Samuels and Harrie Sipman, CF membership re - Certificates of deposit turns to 15, including MSA members Lee Crane (USA), Vincent De - (face value) 140,000 4.94 6,916 moulin ( Chair, Belgium), Walter Gams (The Netherlands), David Money Market 39,273 3.00 1,178 Hawksworth (Spain), Teresa Iturriaga (Venezuela), Paul Kirk (UK), Lorelei Norvell ( Secretary, USA), and Scott Redhead (Canada). Those Total Account Value 491,246 20,810 interested may view on-going commentaries on proposals (with ballot —Jeffrey Stone, Chair percentages) at www.cbs.knaw.nl/nomenclature/index.htm . Those in - Annual Report of the MSA Membership Committee terested may direct questions to IAPT Nomenclature Committee for Fungi Secretary Norvell. This committee was formed this spring. Three of the four members The Special Committee on Names for Pleomorphic Fungi estab - have been assigned by Greg Mueller. We have divided up the work so lished in Vienna in 2005 is in the progress of evaluating the impact of that each of us is responsible for leading a different area. Rich Baird will modifications (or elimination of) the Code’s controversial Article 59. be addressing issues pertaining to sustaining members and institutional This Committee will forward its recommendations to the Nomencla - subscriptions. Lisa Vaillancourt is initiating efforts to recruit new mem - ture Committee for Fungi and General Committee for further input be - bers. Her plans include developing ways to make MSA more appealing fore deliberation by the Nomenclature Section at the 18 th Internation - and relevant to students and researchers in fungal genetics and molecu - al Botanical Congress in Melbourne in 2011. Society members lar biology. I will be working on membership renewal/retention. This wishing to voice their opinions may do so by contacting fellow MSA will include follow-ups on members who do not renew. members Joseph Bischoff (USA), Walter Gams (The Netherlands), Some current statistics: Current membership is about 1155, in - David Hawksworth (Spain), Paul Kirk (UK), Scott Redhead (Secre - cluding the 14 sustaining members. We have 159 emeritus members, 26 tary , Canada), Amy Rossman ( Chair, USA), or Keith Seifert (Cana - honorary members and 69 life members. There are 313 foreign mem - da). Please contact Secretary Scott Redhead for additional information bers (i.e., members not living in the US or Canada). The top five coun - on the Special Committee. tries are Japan (49 members), UK (27), Germany (26), Australia (17) The symposium “Getting fungal nomenclature into top gear” and Taiwan (13). There are 566 members who listed Systemat - (moderated by David Hawksworth at MSA Baton Rouge 2007 on Au - ics/Evolution for their major area of interest, 554 for Ecolo - gust 9) will provide presentations on fungi under the ICBN (Norvell), gy/Pathology, and 163 for each Genetics/ Molecular Biology and Cell the case for an International Code of Mycology (Pedro Crous, CBS), Biology. We have 124 members who joined before 1970; 86 who joined deposit of new fungal names in MycoBank (Vincent Robert, CBS), between 1970 and 1979; 127 who joined between 1980 and 1989; 223 Index Fungorum to Species Fungorum (Hawksworth), one generic who joined between 1990 and 1999; and 402 who have joined since name for monophyletic lineages (Rossman), and the Special Commit - 2000. (Note - there are no data for joining date for all members.) tee on names of pleomorphs (Redhead). We are asking the help of current members in several areas. First, Finally, Scott continues to review fungal proposals to conserve or tell others about MSA and encourage them to join. Word of mouth is reject names as Taxon column editor and Lorelei deals with nomen - our major recruiting tool. Second, please be sure that your library clatural issues on a daily basis as Editor-in-Chief of Mycotaxon (al - knows how important their institutional subscription to Mycologia is though the Nomenclature Editor and fellow CF member Shaun Pen - to you and your students/colleagues. Third, if you are interested in nycook bears the major burden there). helping develop recruitment tools (posters, brochures etc) or have in - Wendy, Scott, and Lorelei continue to encourage any MSA formation that may help us, please contact me. member (whether proposing a nomenclatural novelty or not) to con - —Maren Klich, Chair tact us for advice when confronting a nomenclatural conundrum. Annual Report of the Nomenclature Committee —Lorelei Norvell, Chair Although MSA Committee members answered only a few Annual Report of the Honorary Awards Committee nomenclatural requests by Society members during the past year, else - Council approved the following nominations from the Honorary where nomenclature has been busy. Awards Committee for 2006-2007: The IAPT Nomenclature Committee for Fungi resumed delibera - Honorary Member: Jan Stenlid; tions after a short post-Vienna Congress hiatus and voted to recommend Honorary Fellows: Meredith Blackwell, Faye Murrin, Joey Spatafora conserving the following names on its May ballot — Perenniporia and Karen Snetselaar. (against Physisporus ); Chroogomphus (against Brauniellula ); Spilomi - —Carol Shearer, Chair um graphideorum; Strigula schizospora (against S. gibberosa ); Lichenochora (against Paralaestadia ); Pseudocercospora (against Stig - Continued on following page

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Annual Report of the Mentor Student Travel Awards Pringle). Benjamin is studying the evolution of symbiosis in the genus The following awards were made this year: Cecile Gueidan, C.J. Amanita by examining its transition to the mycorrhizal habit and pat - Alexopoulos; Andrea Porras-Alfaro, E. Butler; Huzefa Raja, A. terns of host specialization. He plans to use the award to support ex - Barksdale-J.R. Raper; Maria Alice Neves, H. Bigelow; Hannah tensive collection trips from Maine to Minnesota and from Florida to Reynolds, W.C. Denison; Suzanne Joneson, F.A. Uecker; K. Lindsay Texas. Higgins, E.S. Luttrell; Paul Trusty, J.M. Trappe; Sara Branco, O.K. Alexander H. and Helen V. Smith Research Fund ($1,200). Miller, Jr.; Sandra Woolfolk, Barr-Bigelow; Craig Dunek, K. Wells. Gregory Bonito (Ph.D. candidate, Department of Biology, Duke Uni - —Steve Harris, Chair versity) (Ph.D. advisor, Dr. Rytas Vilgalys). Gregory will examine collections of Tuber at the University of Michigan Fungal Herbarium. Annual Report of the Mycological He plans to study the morphological and molecular characteristics of Society Distinctions Committee many taxa of Tuber from the Midwest geographic region, which are I thank the members of the committee for their careful reading of underrepresented in his present collection. applications and thoughtful, professional discussions. Serving as the Martin-Baker Endowment Fund ($2,000). Dr. Gabor M. Ko - Distinctions chair was a pleasure and I also thank Faye Murrin and the vacs (Postdoctoral/research associate, Department of Plant Anatomy, committee for their patience with my sometimes tardy communications. Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary). This award will allow The Distinctions Committee evaluates applications and decides Dr. Kovacs and his colleagues to examine the trophic strategy of the recipients for three awards; the Alexopoulos Award, Distinguished truffle Mattirolomyces terfezioides and to work on a taxonomical re - Mycologist Award and Weston Teaching Award. In the table below vision of closely related North American taxa. The taxonomic study of are shown the number of applications received and to whom the award North American Terfezia and Mattirolomyces species will be done was given. using anatomical and molecular methods. Award Number of Awardee —Iris Charvat, Chair Applications Annual Report of the Student Awards Committee Alexopoulos Award 3 Teresa Pawlowska Distinguished Mycologist 4 David McLaughlin This report covers the Student Awards Committee’s activities in Weston Teaching Award 4 Thomas Bruns, Randy Currah 2007 prior to the MSA meeting in Baton Rouge, LA. The report was prepared on 16 July, 2007. Committee members are Lori Carris The quality of applications and applicants’ recommendations (Chair), Jinx Campbell, Jean-Marc Moncalvo, and Andrew Methven. was very high and the decisions required careful thought and discus - The application deadline for MSA Graduate Fellowships was Febru - sion. The committee proceeded by consensus and decided to make ary 15, 2007. A total of twelve applications was received and reviewed two awards for the Weston Award because both recipients were high - by the committee. Merlin White kindly agreed to evaluate fellowship ly deserving. We could possibly increase the number of applicants for applications for Jean-Marc Moncalvo, who was not able to judge due awards by simplifying the application process. Several people had to a conflict of interest. The committee came up with a list of fellow - technical problems assembling all of the materials into a single file, ship award recipients, and awardees were notified on 30 March, 2007. such as a .pdf file. One application was provided in two formats, both Unsuccessful applicants were contacted by the committee chair and of which were not readable. While I appreciated receiving materials in encouraged to reapply next year. The MSA President and Treasurer a single document, it would be equally acceptable to receive materials were notified of the committee’s recommendation on April 2. The in a single file folder in a single compressed file, such as a zip file. For 2007 MSA Graduate Fellowships ($2000 each) were awarded to An - the hopelessly techno-challenged, an option might be allowed to send drea Porras-Alfaro (University of New Mexico, advisor Donald paper files but only if all materials were sent together to all the com - Natvig) and Cara Gibson (University of Arizona, advisor Martha mittee members by the due date (postmark). Lastly, to avoid hassles Hunter). The Backus Award ($1000) went to Teresita McLenon- for committee members and delays, the deadline should be strongly Porter (University of Toronto, advisor Jean-Marc Moncalvo), and the emphasized. As a committee, we did agree to review late applications Memorial NAMA Fellowship ($2000) was awarded to Todd Os - because it was not the fault of the nominee. However, I would leave mundson (Columbia University, advisor Roy Halling). The committee this point to the discretion of the chair and committee. It is an honor to chair will prepare brief biographical summaries of the four awardees make these awards to such deserving mycologists. to be used during the awards ceremony and to be sent to the Inoculum —Georgiana May, Chair Editor for publication in the post-meeting newsletter. Annual Report of the Research The Award Committee is preparing for judging student oral and Award Committee 2007 poster presentations at the upcoming meeting in Baton Rouge. Ac - The Research Award Committee made the following recommen - cording to the lists provided by Gerry Adams, Program Chair, there dations for awards: will be 30 oral presentations and 38 poster presentations in the student Forest Fungal Ecology Research Award ( $1,000) Jordan R. paper competition. Mayor (Ph.D. candidate, Botany Department, University of Florida) —Lori Carris, Chair (Ph.D. advisor, Dr. Edward Schuur). Jordan is studying climate-relat - Annual Report of the Karling ed controls over belowground carbon allocation to ectomycorrhizal Annual Lecture Committee fungi to help predict the fate of soil carbon pools in boreal spruce for - The Committee recommended Patrick Keeling (University of est. He will use isotope measurements to investigate the exchange of British Columbia) be invited to give the Karling Lecture in Baton carbon and nutrients between mycorrhizae and their plant hosts in nat - Rouge. This was approved by Council and Dr. Keeling accepted the in - ural ecosystems. vitation. We are looking forward to an interesting and inspiring lecture. Clark T. Rogerson Student Research Award ($1,000) Ben - —Dirk Redecker, Chair jamin E. Wolfe (Ph.D. candidate, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University) (Ph.D. advisor, Dr. Anne Continued on following page

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Annual Report of the Genetics Kane; 3) an update of “ The Encyclopedia of Life : A Web Site for and Cell Biology Committee Every Species” by James Edwards and Thomas Garnett; 4) a discus - Promotional material (bookmarks, membership applications, and sion of Workshops on Data Sharing in Ecology, Evolution, and Or - meeting announcements) was distributed at the Asilomar Fungal Ge - ganismal Biology by Clifford Duke and Samuel Scheiner; and 5) a netics Conference in April 2007. There appeared to be interest in NSF-led discussion “Preparing for the Future of Biology Undergrad - MSA, and I would encourage the council to continue to support this uate Education at NSF” by Daniel Udovic and Nancy Palaez. The type of promotional activity and Society members to distribute MSA May 16 Council session included: 1) a progress report from Judy Skog promotional materials at other conferences they may be attending that of the NSF-led Interagency Working Group on Scientific Collections; would have interest in MSA. 2) an AIBS proposal to work and share costs with member organiza - —Steve Harris, Chair tions to publish “State of Science” reports geared to inform the public on important contemporary public science issues; and 3) a discussion Annual Report of the AAAS Representative of how to promote 2009, targeted as an initiative of the 2006 AIBS The Section G (Biological Sciences Section) meeting of AAAS Council meeting as the “Year of Science 2009” was held on February 17, 2007. The first items of discussion were re - (www.yearofscience.org and www.copusproject.org ) and an invita - garding the 105 fellows from Section G that were inducted earlier that tion to AIBS member organizations to formally join the initiative (ap - same day and the procedures for nominating new candidates. Mem - plication forwarded to M.C. Aime, MSA secretary). bers of the Steering group nominate 80% of the fellows and up to 20% —Steve Rehner of the nominations are made by groups of three fellows as long as two of the three sponsors are not affiliated with the nominee’s institution. Annual Report of the AMI Representative In addition, the CEO of AAAS can make nominations. During the As AMI/MSA liaison I maintained contact with both organiza - meeting it was stressed that the accomplishments of the nominee reach tions. No issues requiring interaction between AMI and MSA arose beyond their home institution and that the sponsors must include those during the past year. accomplishment in the application form. Complete nomination in - —Richard Kerrigan structions and forms are available on the AAAS website. Annual Report of the MSA On February 16, 2007 the Section Officers met to discuss the 2007 Local Organizing Committee theme for the 2008 AAAS annual meeting, “Science and Technology from a Global Perspective.” Based on the theme and some examples The meeting arrangements have been completed with counts as of provided from the Section Officers Meeting, each section was asked the registration cut-off date 18 July. to provide potential symposia topics and report them to the Meeting FINAL ARRANGEMENTS Planning Meeting on February 18, 2007. The suggestions from Sec - Registration : Lobby of Life Sciences Building with adjacent au - th tion G for sponsored symposia included: ditorium for showing of the 75 MSA Anniversary slide show and 1) Systems Biology MSA quiz (Don Pfister). Help from travel award-winning students, 2) Evolution and Genomics: genes to phenotypes BioGrads. 3) Biological Adaptation to a Changing Climate Foray: Will be held in the vicinity of St. Francisville Louisiana, 4) Impact of Nanotechnology on Biological Systems 5 August 2007 [Arranged by David and Patricia Lewis, David Fuller 5) Depletion of Fisheries: impact of trade and commercialization (local contact), and Meredith Blackwell] on depletion of species Site 1) Ouida Plantation Two proposals for symposia from other sections were discussed Site 2) West Feliciana Sports Park and approved. They will be, “Truth or Consequences: Helping the Both sites have been collected by the Lewises and David Fuller, who Public Understand When Scientific Information is Valid” offered by think they are excellent. the Statistics Section and “Frontiers of Natural Science Symposia” Bus was booked through Gulf South Travel ( 225-293-9586): proposed by the Physics Section. The latter is a revival of a past sym - Round trip transportation from LSU to St. Francisville (LSU posium that focused on the most important and timely new discover - money) ies of recent years in all scientific disciplines. Depart LSU — 8:30am The Section G budget was reported by the treasurer and deter - Depart and return to LSU — 4:00pm mined to be sufficient to support travel expenses for speakers for three Three bids: major symposia and a reception for the 2007 Biological Sciences Fel - Dixieland 55-passenger $ 917.00 (BOOKED) lows. Hotard 55-passenger $1025.00 Bus Supply 55-passenger no buses available —Joseph F. Bischoff Calco 55-passenger $ 918.00 Annual Report of the AIBS Representative The foray filled up fast and ~ 40 people were on the waiting list, but because of parking at Ouida Plantation could not handle an extra The annual AIBS meeting was held May 14-16 at the Capitol bus. Hilton, Washington D.C. The meeting talks focused on human genet - Lunches $701 ics and evolution and the general discussion following talks empha - Drinks ~35 sized the need for increased efforts to educate the public on the im - Bus 917 portance of evolution as fundamental to scientific literacy. $3050 from 61 participants ($50 each) less $1653 expenses The Council meeting was held in two four-hour sessions May 15- –cleared $1397 (will buy about $300 beer and drinks for keying party). 16. The May 15 session included: 1) brief updates on AIBS programs Meeting rooms : Choppin Hall: second floor (elevator accessi - and operations (public policy, education, diversity affairs, science pro - ble), 2 rooms each with 130-seat capacity; one room on first floor with grams, finances); 2) a description and discussion of BioOne, a non - 300-seat capacity. The close proximity of the rooms will make it pos - profit e-journal publishing framework, led by Mark Kurtz and Lauren Continued on following page

Inoculum 58(6), November 2007 21 MSA BUSINESS sible to move between sessions and stay out of the heat/rain. Rooms 1.95 Creamy Spinach Dip with Party Crackers and AV equipment free. BioGrads and student travel winners to help 2.85 Chicken drummettes with AV. 3.95 Seafood jambalaya Poster sessions : Reilly Theatre (Swine Palace) 11:30 to 1:00 on 4.50 Assorted Finger Sandwiches (corned beef/cream cheese, 6, 7, 8, and 9 August. No rent, but wages for custodian while we are pineapple, raisins & nuts/tuna salad present. Borrowed poster boards will be set up on tables. Tables will 3.75 Fresh Fruit Platter with Curry Tropical Fruit Dip or gluten-free be moved free of charge by LSU Facilities Service. Poster boards will 35.10 / person be moved by BioGrads when another group finishes with them on Fri - day 3 August) so that posters can be set up starting at 7:30 Monday. About 185 — $35 paid per person = $6493.50 less $3 bar tickets X Poster presenters should have time to attend the plenary session. 185 =$555 $300 for Swine Palace custodian while we are present. $100 for Cash bar prices (2 free $3.00 max. tickets per person): Velcro strips. 2.50 beer Members were encouraged to buy the box lunch option 3.25 imported beer (BistroByronz catering) for lunch at the poster session. Because peo - 3.00 house wine ple were encouraged to buy the lunches we tried hard to get tasty 5.00 premium wine lunches and accommodate special diets. 3.75 call liquor 156 ordered lunches –we bought a few more (165) lunches. 4.00 premium liquor Lunches cost about $6000 for four days plus $640 for drinks = $6880 1.00 sodas We collected $6200 for lunches, so we will be almost even, es - free iced water pecially if we sell the extra lunches. free bartender – but with $250 purchases Exhibits: • Revised Compendium of Soil Fungi ads Food to supplement special diets: (foray and coffee breaks) $105 • Kevin Hyde sales Photocopying: LSU offset this cost, otherwise it would have been • Mycologia Deep Hypha issue much higher. $50 Party for committee members: To be held at my home so that Printing: Signage — $300 ; Program — $1399 we would not be required to buy the more expensive food and drink re - Tee shirts: $7.00 each/ paid $10, 96 ordered = $960 collected, $288 quired for campus venues. There also was not a really appropriate place profit before extras ordered, Total ordered plus extras -130 = 32 extras on campus. Drawback –1.3 mile walk or rides on a limited basis. $300 $64 – 402 profit Coffee Breaks : XXL - 03 M - 23 total $2796 (Union catering) XL - 30 S - 19 Monday 2 full setups for 200 ~$788.15 L - 53 XS - 02 Tuesday 2 full setups for 200 ~$788.15 Housing: Wednesday –afternoon only ~367.90 Faculty Club —3 rooms —self-booked Thursday ~ $439.91 –1 full, no cookies in afternoon Lod Cook Housing — self-booked Breakfast : 8 August 2007, 8-9:30 am, Faculty Club (Faculty Total Adults: 57 Club caterer). We did not get an exact count and assumed all would Total Children: 1 attend (a breakfast ticket to be given to all registrants in packet). We Total Number of Arrivals: 45 (= rooms?) chose the breakfast menu #1 for $8.25/person and added fresh fruit compote for $1.75/person = $10.00 X 239 = $2390 $42.50 night = $4897.50 collected, actual cost $45 = $5175. loss = $277.50 Fresh Orange or Apple Juice East Campus Apartments — 115 booked through MSA Eggs Creole (poached eggs with deep fried eggplant & Creole Sauce) BioGrads : $500 driving van around and helping to move posters, etc. Bacon Strips or Sausage Patties Outside funding: Breakfast Potatoes or Grits Symposia — Deep Hypha Grant (NSF) — What can transcriptional Biscuits, Toast or Muffins profiling tell us about fungal biology? (Louise Glass, organizer); Bar Preserves — Butter Coding in Fungi (John Taylor, organizer); Bausch & Lomb — Fungal Freshly Brewed Coffee or Hot Tea Evolutionary Genomics (David Geiser) Social and Auction : 9 August 2007, 6-10 pm, Faculty Club Other funding — $2000 College of Basic Sciences, Kevin Carman, (Faculty Club caterer); there will be Mardi Gras beads – maybe with Dean; $2000 Department of Biological Sciences, Terry Bricker, a band of musical mycologists for the first 1-2 hours of the social. Chairperson. In addition LSU contributed about $500 for construction of felt Menu (prices per person): covered poster boards. Cindy Henk, (former research associate of Mel 3.50 Platter of turkey and ham with rolls and condiments Fuller and mother of an MSA member) helped make them from her 2.50 Swedish meatballs design. The boards will be kept at LSU for future use. If other posters 2.10 Creole Smoked Sausage or Smoked Sausage with Mustard were available I never discovered them. Also, lots of incidental pho - Sauce tocopying, mailing, and small items were paid for by the department. 2.10 Miniature quiche Acknowledgements: It was a pleasure to work with MSA com - 3.25 Mushroom caps stuffed with crabmeat mittee members and officers, in particular Karen Snetselaar, Josephine 1.95 Fried zucchini with mustard sauce Taylor, Gerard Adams, and my new colleague M. Catherine Aime. 2.70 Stuffed deviled egg halves Continued on following page

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Cathie and Karen especially helped to make lots of last minute decisions. Annual Report of the MSA •Michael McCann, Saint Joseph’s University 2008 Local Organizing Committee •Cindy Henk, Socolofsky Microscopy Center, LSU A local arrangements committee met on March 29, 2007 and dis - •Kevin B. Carman, Dean, College of Basic Sciences, LSU cussed plans and details for the 2008 meeting at Penn State. The de - •Terry Bricker and Marsha Newcomer, successive chairpersons, tails are outlined in the meeting minutes provided. We also have an Department of Biological Sciences, LSU updated budget. •Jerry Bergeron, Department of Plant Pathology, LSU Our contact with Penn State Outreach is Nancy Eckard. We have •Michael S. Tick and Pat A. Acampora, Department of Theater been working with Lisa Clapper from Marketing, who put together the •Kim Gardiner, Facility Services, LSU poster displayed at this year’s annual meeting, as well as set up a web - •BioGrads, Department of Biological Sciences, LSU site that will go live in August 2007 (www.outreach.psu.edu/ pro - •Bausch & Lomb grams/mycology). •RCN: A phylogeny for Kingdom Fungi (Deep Hypha) We need to make some changes in the scheduling as outlined in the minutes. SUMMARY OF BUDGET TENTATIVE in expenses Points of discussion: total registration 45000 0 • Accommodation options: how many rooms of what types foray 3050 1653 should we reserve? beer 300 custodian in SP 300 • Scheduling – stay-over Th. Aug 14? Do we need four full days? lunches 6200 6880 may sell extra lunches • Forays, workshops? party 300 coffee breaks 2796 • Costs — balancing a nice meeting with keeping costs reason - breakfast 2390 able social/auction 6494 7048 special food 105 Preliminary schedule: photocopying 50 • Sat, Aug 9: Council Meeting printing/signs 300 printing/program 1399 • Sun, Aug 10: Forays. Possible Welcome Reception in evening. T-shirts 0 • Mon, Aug 11: Main Program. Reception for volunteers in East Campus Apts 4898 278 evening. BioGrads 500 BASC 2000 • Tue, Aug 12: Main Program. Business Meeting/Awards Break - Biol Sci 2000 fast. Registration 2400 TOTALS: 69642 26699 • Wed, Aug 13: Main Program. Social/Auction in evening. • Thu, Aug 14: Continuation of program in AM, if necessary. RECOMMENDATIONS • Start trying to raise money for the program soon – this year we —David Geiser were lucky. Report of the Historian and Chair • More people should be involved in choosing symposia with an of the Memorials Committee edge given to ideas with money. A few miscellaneous items were given over for incorporation in • Stick to deadlines more closely. The Blast email helped at op - the MSA archives, which are maintained at the New York Botanical portune times. Garden. The Historian prepared a retrospective slide show presenta - • Try to get the payment method fixed. Allen Press? tion for the Baton Rouge meeting celebrating the 75 th anniversary of • Fix the meeting abstract search year default to current year. the founding of the Society. Mycologia • Experience should be considered in selection of committee Memorials were published in volumes 98, 2006 and members. volume 99 to date for Jorge W. Wright (Silvia Lopez, Daniel Cabral, and Matías Cafaro, Mycologia 98: 518-520) and Henry C. Aldrich • Lunches and posters seem a good idea, but not everyone bought (Meredith Blackwell, Mycologia 99: 152-155). There are notices in. See how it works for future. If lunches are done again, get more information at the beginning in order to know exactly promised for William C. Dennison (George Carroll), Tsuguo Hongo what a “vegetarian” will eat. (coordinated by Scott Redhead), Orson Miller (Cathy Cripps) and George Cummins (Robert Gilbertson). It is appropriate to note in this, • Consider requiring registration payment before abstracts are ac - cepted. a major anniversary year for the Society, that Cummins seems to have been the last living Charter Member of the MSA. • Re-instigate the printing of abstract booklets. —Donald H. Pfister • Use smaller fonts in printing the Program and Abstracts to save printing costs. —Meredith Blackwell

Inoculum 58(6), November 2007 23 MSA BUSINESS MSA Awards 2008 Call for nominations and applications Distinguished Mycologist Award Deadline: Feb 15, 2008 Awarded annually to an individual who has established an outstanding Please also visit the MSA website at www.msafungi.org and fol - mycological career. This is one of the highest awards bestowed by the low the link to Awards MSA and marks a distinguished career. Nominees for the award will be For over 20 years the Mycological Society of America has been evaluated on the basis of quality, originality, and quantity of their pub - recognizing excellence in research, teaching and service among its lished research, and on the basis of service to the MSA or to the field of membership by celebrating Students , Teachers and Researchers. This is mycology in general. your chance to do something for that promising student or distinguished Requirements : mycologist. (1) The nominee must be a current member of MSA or eligible for emer - If you don’t nominate them, they will surely not receive an itus membership. award! (2) The nominee must have received his or her terminal degree at least MSA Awards Committees 2007-2008 twenty years prior to January 1 of the year in which the award is given. Mycological Society Distinctions Committee There is no requirement for a minimum age or impending or actual re - Awards administered: Distinguished Mycologist Award, Alexopoulos tirement. Honorary degrees shall not be considered in determining the Prize, Weston Award for Excellence in Teaching time interval. Chair: Mary Berbee , University of British Columbia, Dept of Botany, (3) An individual may receive the Distinguished Mycologist Award 6270 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada, Phone: (604) only once. 822-2019 Fax: (604) 822-6089, Email:[email protected]. Members : (4) Self nomination is not allowed. James Kimbrough, [email protected]; Nick Read, (5) Nominators must be members of the MSA. [email protected], Joseph W Spatafora, (6) Nominees who are not chosen for the award in the year in which they [email protected]; Walter Sund - are nominated will be reconsidered for up to two additional years. The berg, [email protected]; Georgiana May, ex officia, Past Distinctions Committee Chairperson will request updates of the nomi - Chair. nee’s materials. Honorary Awards Committee Documents required : Awards administered: MSA Fellows, Honorary Members (1) A nominating letter, including a detailed evaluation of the nominee’s Chair : Dave McLaughlin , University of Minnesota, 250 Bio Sci Cen - outstanding contributions to Mycology. ter, 1445 Gortner Ave, St. Paul, MN 55108, United States, Phone: (612) (2) A current curriculum vitae, including a list of the nominee’s publi - 625-5736, Fax : (612) 625-1738, Email: [email protected]. Members : cations. Martha J Powell, [email protected]; James B. Anderson, jan - (3) Up to five additional letters of support. [email protected]; Carol A Shearer, ex officia, Past Chair To Apply : The nominator should a) prepare a single electronic file, Student Awards Committee preferably in pdf format, containing all of the items listed above and Awards administered : MSA Graduate Fellowships , Memorial NAMA email it as an attachment; b) prepare as much as possible electronically Fellowship , Backus Award in one email with attachments followed by FAX or hard copy of the Chair : Jinx Campbell, Dept of Coastal Sciences, University of South - non-electronic portions or c) submit all documents by FAX or mail and ern Mississippi, 703 East Beach Drive, Ocean Springs, MS 39564, Unit - send all to the Chair of the MSA Distinctions Committee. ed States, Phone: (228) 818-8878, Fax: (228) 872-4264, Email: Note : The Chair of the Distinctions Committee will appoint ad hoc com - [email protected] . Members : Jean Marc Moncalvo, jean - mittee members in place of committee members whose major professor [email protected]; Andrew Methven, [email protected]; Kentaro may be nominated for the award. The committee may choose to make Hosaka, [email protected]; Brian Perry, brian_perry@ more than one award or no award in a given year, if it is appropriate. post.harvard.edu; Lori M Carris, ex officia, Past Chair Presentation of the award, a plaque, will take place at the awards cere - Mentor Travel Awards Committee mony at the annual meeting of the MSA. The recipient will be notified Awards administered: Mentor Travel Awards in time to plan to attend the presentation. The name of the winner of the Chair: Elizabeth Frieders , University of Wisconsin – Platteville, Dept award will be published in Inoculum . of Biology, 1 University Plaza, Platteville, WI 53818, United States, Alexopoulos Prize Phone(608) 342-1683, Fax: (608) 342-1088, Awarded annually to an outstanding mycologist early in their career. Email: [email protected]. Members : József Geml, The nominees will be evaluated primarily on the basis of quality, origi - [email protected]; Juan L Mata, [email protected]; Peter nality, and quantity of their published work. Kennedy, [email protected]; Steven Harris, ex-officio, Requirements : Past Chair (1) The nominee must be a current member of the MSA. Research Awards Committee (2) Nominees must have received their last degree within the ten year Awards administered: Martin-Baker Award, Clark T. Rogerson Student period immediately preceding January 1st of the year in which the Research Award, Forest Fungal Ecology Research Award, Alexander award is given. H. and Helen V. Smith Research Award (3) An individual may receive the Alexopoulos Award only once. Chair : Terry Hill , Rhodes College, Dept of Biology, 2000 North Pkwy, (4) Self nomination is not allowed. Memphis, TN 38112, United States, Phone: (901)843-3559 Fax : (901) (5) Nominators must be members of the MSA. 843-3565 Email: [email protected]; Members: Gary Warren, gwar - (6) Nominees who are not chosen for the prize in the year in which they [email protected]; Michelle Seidl [email protected]; Thorsten Lumb - are nominated will be reconsidered for up to two additional years (with - sch, [email protected]; Dennis Desjardin, [email protected]; Iris in the 10-year limit). The Distinctions Committee Chairperson will re - Charvat, ex officia, Past-Chair quest updates of the nominee’s materials. Continued on following page

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Documents required : terial should be mailed separately to each member of the Distinctions (1) A nominating letter, including a detailed evaluation of the nominee’s Committee contributions to Mycology. Note : The committee may choose to make no award in a given year, if (2) A current curriculum vitae, including a list of the nominee’s publi - it is appropriate. Presentation of the award, a plaque, will take place at cations. the awards ceremony at the annual meeting of the MSA. The recipient (3) Reprints of the nominee’s 5 most significant papers. will be notified in time to plan to attend the presentation. The name of (4) Up to five additional letters of support. the winner of the award will be published in Inoculum . Apply to : The nominator should a) prepare a single electronic file, MSA Fellows preferably in pdf format, containing all of the items listed above and Guidelines : email it as an attachment; or b) prepare as much as possible electroni - (1) MSA Fellows are to be selected from members who have complet - cally in one email with attachments followed by FAX or hard copy of ed at least 11 years of service after their Ph.D., with no upper limit. the non-electronic portions; and send all to the Chair of the MSA Dis - (2) MSA Fellows are members who are outstanding mycologists on the tinctions Committee. Reprints should be sent as separate attachments basis of one or more criteria: a solid record of mycological research, along with the pdf file or, if not available electronically, copies should and/or successful teaching and development of teaching materials for be mailed separately to each of the five member of the Distinctions mycology, and/or significant service to the Society. This is meant to rec - Committee . ognize a core group of mid-career mycological achievers and outstand - Note : The award consists of a plaque and a monetary award derived ing MSA volunteers. from the annual interest on the principle deposited in the MSA Alex - To nominate a deserving mycologist for this Award, please submit a opoulos Fund. The committee may choose to make no award in a given one-page overview preferably as a pdf email attachment to the Chair of year, if it is appropriate. Presentation of the award will take place at the the Honorary Awards Committee. awards ceremony at the annual meeting of the MSA. The recipient will MSA Honorary Members be notified in time to plan to attend the presentation. The name of the winner of the award will be published in Inoculum . Members of the MSA are encouraged to submit nominations for MSA William H. Weston Award Honorary Members to the Committee on Honorary Members. for Excellence in Teaching Guidelines : Awarded annually to an outstanding teacher of mycology at the under - (1) Honorary members are distinguished senior scientists with a long graduate and or graduate levels. record of significant contributions to the science of fungal biology and who reside in and work in countries other than the U.S. and Canada. Requirements : (2) To nominate a mycologist who resides outside of the U.S. and Cana - (1) The nominee must be a current member of the MSA. da for this Award, please submit a brief curriculum vitae and three let - (2) An individual may receive the Weston Award only once. ters of support, preferably in a single pdf file, to the Chair of the Hon - (3) Self nomination is not allowed. orary Awards Committee. (4) Nominators must be members of the MSA. MSA Graduate Fellowships (5) Nominees who are not chosen for the prize in the year in which they are nominated will be reconsidered for up to two additional years. The Graduate Fellowships: Two MSA Graduate Fellowships ($2,000 Distinctions Committee Chairperson will request updates of the nomi - each), the Memorial NAMA Fellowship ($2,000), and the Backus nee’s materials. Award ($1000) are awarded annually to promising graduate students in mycology. Applicants are evaluated on the basis of their scholastic Documents required : merit, research ability and promise shown as a mycologist. These fel - (1) A current curriculum vitae, including lists of a) courses taught in my - lowships are intended as supplementary grants and may be used by the cology, plant pathology or related areas, b) publications related to the recipients in any way to further their graduate studies. They are award - teaching of mycology, c) teaching seminars, symposia or workshops ed in addition to any fellowship or assistantship support from other given by the nominee to either lay or academic groups and, d) member - sources. ships on national, regional, state or local committees, panels, etc., on teaching. Funds available : One award of $1000 and three awards of $2,000 each. (2) A list of graduate students with thesis titles, degrees and dates, pub - Requirements for eligibility : Applicants must be (1) student members lications, and current addresses (where known), or explanation for the of the MSA, (2) candidates for the Ph.D. and (3) resident during the absence of such. tenure of the fellowship in a university in Canada or the United States. (3) A statement from the nominee on teaching philosophy, i.e., what the Previous recipients of these fellowships are not eligible to apply. The nominee personally believes it takes to make an excellent teacher, what NAMA Fellowship comes with the stipulation that the awardee prepare the nominee is trying to accomplish in teaching mycology, and how var - an article for McIlvainea . ious teaching techniques and strategies help to accomplish this goal. (4) A list of previous awards or recognition for outstanding teaching. Documents required: (5) Evaluation of the nominee’s teaching, including a) solicited and un - (1) A cover letter addressing your eligibility including a statement that solicited letters from students and colleagues who have taken or audited you have passed your qualifying exams (comprehensive, oral, prelimi - the nominee’s courses, or been supervised by the nominee, b) course nary, or their equivalent). evaluation forms (or numerical summaries thereof) and c) any other in - (2) A curriculum vitae that includes a paragraph describing your train - formation documenting teaching excellence. ing for the proposed work. (3) A detailed plan of study. [The text of this plan of study must be no Apply to : The nominator should a) prepare a single electronic file, longer than five pages including tables and figures, but not including ref - preferably in pdf format, containing all of the items listed above and erences. Applications that include proposals exceeding the 5-page limit email it as an attachment; or b) prepare as much as possible electroni - will not be considered. The text of this proposal should be single-spaced cally in one email with attachments followed by FAX or hard copy of and printed in a regular sized font (10 cpi or 12 point). Suggestions for the non-electronic portions; and send all to the Chair of the MSA Dis - tinctions Committee . If not available electronically, supplemental ma - Continued on following page

Inoculum 58(6), November 2007 25 MSA BUSINESS preparing this plan of study are provided below.] which Mentor(s) would be most appropriate for the student are welcome (4) Two letters of recommendation, one of which is from your supervi - but not required. sor or thesis advisor. Both referees must be members of MSA. We rec - To apply : Send your application as a single electronic file, preferably in ommend that your supervisor’s letter also address your eligibility based pdf format, containing all documents listed above to the Chair of the on candidacy. Mentor Travel Awards Committee. (5) Graduate school transcripts showing courses taken, grades received, Martin-Baker Award student Social Security number and Student ID number. Photocopies are acceptable if signed by your supervisor, but at least one must be an of - The award honors two respected teachers of mycology, both of whom ficial transcript obtained from your institution’s Registrar. had long and distinguished careers in mycology, and both of whom have faithfully served the Mycological Society of America in several capaci - Your plan of study should include the following: 1) a 200- or 250-word ties. Abstract; 2) an Introduction that explains what you want to do and why it is interesting or important; 3) a Methods section that convinces the George W. Martin (b. 1886- d. 1971) (M.S. Rutgers University, 1915; reader that the project is feasible and describes how the study will be Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1922) was associated with the Botany De - conducted; and 4) a Discussion section that explains preliminary results partment of the University of Iowa (Iowa City) from 1923 until his death of your study (if any) and their significance. Be concise. Use section in 1971. He served there as Professor, Head of the Department (1953 to headings and double spacing between paragraphs to make your propos - 1955), and Emeritus Professor. After retirement in 1955 he was Visiting al easier to read. Professor for two years at the University of Illinois (Urbana), but then returned to the University of Iowa. Dr. Martin was world-reknown for To apply : Send one copy of your completed application, including all his phylogenetic concepts of the fungi and related organisms and for his items listed above, in electronic format and preferably as a single pdf authoritative research and taxonomic treatments of the Myxomycetes file, to the Chair of the Student Awards Committee . Confidential let - and the Tremellales. He served as an officer of various scientific soci - ters of reference and transcripts that are not available electronically eties, was President of the Mycological Society of America (1944), was should be sent, in quadruplicate by regular mail to Chair of the Student Editor-In-Chief of Mycologia (1950-1957), and was among the initial Awards Committee. group honored by the Botanical Society of America with a Certificate of Note : The Chair will appoint an ad hoc member to replace any Com - Merit (1956). In 1970 he received the Henry Allan Gleason Award from mittee member who has a student applying for a fellowship or who oth - the New York Botanic Garden. Dr. Martin’s infectious enthusiasm in erwise feels a conflict of interest. The successful applicants will be no - teaching and research inspired students and colleagues alike. Of the 47 tified upon selection (usually within four weeks of the closing date for or more students who have received graduate degrees under his direc - nominations) so that they may plan to attend the awards presentation at tion, at least 30 have achieved their doctorates. As his students will un - the annual meeting. Those applicants not notified within this time were doubtedly attest, Dr. Martin was a scholar who remained a man of learn - not selected as awardees, but all applicants will be notified of their sta - ing, generosity, culture and a good friend. tus. The stipends are awarded following confirmation that the applicants Gladys E. Baker (b. 1932- d. 2007) (M.S. University of Iowa, 1932; meet the requirements for eligibility. Ph.D. Washington University, St. Louis, 1935) taught at Vassar College Mentor Travel Awards from 1941 to 1961, and served 13 years as Chair of the Plant Science The mentor awards are given in the names of some of our famous my - Department where she directed 3 graduate students. She offered the first cological forbearers: C. J. Alexopoulos, A. Barksdale, H. Bigelow, M. course in medical mycology at seven women’s colleges. She was a char - Bigelow, E. Butler, W. C. Denison, H. M. Fitzpatrick, M. S. Fuller, R. ter member of the Medical Mycological Society of the Americas and a P. Korf, E. S. Luttrell, O.K. Miller Jr., J. R. Raper, H. D. Thiers, F. A. fellow of A.A.A.S. From 1961 to 1973 she taught at the University of Uecker, and K. Wells. This year the award is for travel to the 2008 MSA Hawaii, Manoa. There she supervised 13 graduate students for advanced meeting at Penn State, August 9-14 2008. degrees in both general and medical mycology. Students remember her Requirements : as an effective and enthusiastic teacher, a scientist with the highest in - (1) Applicants must be MSA student members or past student members tegrity, and a warm and caring friend. Fellow mycologists still admire who have been awarded the degree within one year of the annual meet - her memorable work; the 21 illustrated plates in MacBride & Martin, ing and THE MYXOMYCETES (1934): the Antarctic Lichens (1938) with (2) must be presenting a paper or poster at the meeting. Previous recip - C.W. Dodge; the nuclear behavior and monographic studies of the ients may apply again; if applicant numbers are higher than the number genus Helicogloea ; and the cytology and ecology of microfungi. of awards available, preference will be given to those who have won the The Award: As an underlying philosophy, the initiators of this fund award less than two times. would give preference to: 1) support for good research by an individual Documents required (four copies) : in a small department, who, because of heavy teaching schedules, may (1) A cover letter requesting consideration for an MSA Mentor Student find it difficult to attract major grant support; 2) a recent (within the past Travel Award. Provide telephone number and, if available, fax and five years) PhD mycologist; and 3) research in areas of expertise relat - email addresses, and include information on any past Mentor Travel ed to the works of Drs. Martin and Baker and which includes a field Award(s). If matching funds are available from the applicant’s institu - component. tion, provide an address the committee can use to officially verify the re - Grants should not be given for indirect costs, but should be applied di - ceipt of an award. rectly to research needs. Funds are not to be awarded for travel to meet - (2) Abstract of paper or poster (note which). ings, although research related travel may be supported, if adequately (3) Curriculum vita. justified. This award is made directly to the individual and is not an in - (4) A one page description of the research project including an explana - stitutional award. tion of how this award will further the applicant’s research/study. Recipients of grant awards are expected to submit to the MSA Research (5) A letter of support from the applicant’s major professor addressing Awards Committee a report of their use of grant funds and the results of the student’s abilities and potential and briefly summarizing the stu - their research efforts. The latter may be in the form of a reprint of a pub - dent’s current research. To assist the judging committee in making Men - lished work. tor “assignments” to award winners, inclusion of comments regarding Continued on following page

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Funds available : approximately $2000 To apply : Send all items listed above in a single electronic file, prefer - Documents required : ably in pdf format to the Chair of the Research Awards Committee. (1) Cover letter. Confidential letters of reference may be submitted separately and di - (2) Curriculum vita, with publication list and alternative support sources. rectly from the referee to the Chair. A CD with the PDF file and a hard (3) Research proposal not to exceed three single-spaced pages. copy of the application would be appreciated as they may be useful in case there are problems with the electronic file. The application will be Apply to : Send all items listed above in a single electronic file, prefer - considered to have arrived once all electronic files have been received ably in pdf format, to the Chair of the MSA Research Awards Com - in working order by the Chair. mittee. A CD with the PDF file and a hard copy of the application Alexander H. and Helen V. Smith Research Award would be appreciated as they may be useful in case there are problems with the electronic file. The application will be considered to have ar - The primary purpose of the fund shall be to encourage the study of rived once all electronic files have been received in working order by the specimens of macrofungi, fleshy Basidiomycetes and Ascomycetes, Chair. collected by Alexander H. Smith and his associates. These collections, Clark T. Rogerson Student Research Award and materials relating to them, are currently deposited at the University of Michigan Herbarium. The Fund will distribute grants-in-aid to cov - The purpose of this award shall be to support student travel to herbaria erall or a significant part of the expense of visiting the Herbarium and and/or field sites to conduct research. Grants are available to undergrad - working with the collections and materials relating to them. uate or graduate students who are members of the Mycological Society of America. Award Amount: approximately $1000 Award Amount : $1000 Criteria for Awarding Grants : Grants may be made available to members of the Mycological Society of America who are working ac - Documents required : tively on the taxonomy or floristics of the fleshy fungi, with the main (1) Cover letter. emphasis on supporting high quality research. Professional and trained (2) Curriculum vitae. “amateur” (i.e. para-professional) mycologists are eligible and are en - (3) A description not to exceed three single-spaced pages of the research couraged to submit proposals. The individual should be at a point in project, including an explanation of how this award will further the ap - their studies where having full access to Alex’s material would advance plicant’s research. the applicant’s work. These grants are not intended for preliminary stud - (4) A letter of support from the applicant’s major professor or mentor ies of possible lines of investigations. addressing the student’s abilities and potential and briefly summarizing the student’s research and the appropriateness of the award. Documents required : (1) a proposal indicating how the study of Alex’s specimens and manu - To apply : Send all of the items listed above in a single electronic file, scripts would advance the applicant’s work. preferably in electronic format to the Chair of the Research Awards (2) an estimated budget to cover all or part of the anticipated expenses Committee. Confidential letters of reference may be submitted sepa - (e.g. travel, per diem, copying, etc.). rately and directly from the referee to the Chair. A CD with the PDF file (3) a current curriculum vitae. and a hard copy of the application would be appreciated as they may be useful in case there are problems with the electronic file. The applica - Recipients will be chosen by an awards committee designated by the tion will be considered to have arrived once all electronic files have been President of the Mycological Society of America. In addition, the agree - received in working order by the Chair. ment of the Director of the University of Michigan Herbarium (or its suc - Forest Fungal Ecology Research Award cessor as custodian for Alex’s specimens and materials relating to them) to have the potential recipient(s) work there must be obtained before the This award supports ecological studies of fungal interactions in old grant is awarded. In the event there are no suitable applications request - growth forests or other unique or endangered ecosystems. ing the utilization of Alex’s collections for floristic or monographic stud - Award Amount : $1000, approximately. ies, the Awards Committee, at its discretion, may award grants to support field work on the fleshy fungi of North America, or for other types of Proposals should address innovative approaches to examining fungal studies on the fleshy macrofungi of North America. If support for a field systems or interactions of individuals, or groups of fungi, with hosts or project is awarded to an applicant, duplicate/representative collections re - substrates in old growth forest or other sensitive ecosystems. Floristic sulting form the field work are to be deposited at the University of Michi - and systematic studies will not be considered. gan Herbarium. Prior arrangement should be made with the Director of Eligibility : Applicants must be students working on their Masters or the Herbarium. Recipients of these grants-in-aid are asked to provide the Ph.D. degrees or be recent recipients of a Ph.D. Honors theses for University of Michigan Herbarium with copies of any publications that BA/BS degree students may be considered. result from this support. A summary of activity should be forwarded to Documents required : the Awards Committee in a timely manner. In compliance with Internal (1) Cover letter Revenue Service Regulations, the grant recipient must submit all original (2) Proposal of not more than 6 single-spaced pages that includes the ra - receipts of expenditures of grant funds to the Treasurer of the MSA. The tionale for the study and the hypotheses to be tested, a detailed descrip - receipt of documented expenditures by the Treasurer may be necessary tion of the site to be studied, methodologies to be used, description of before complete funding of the proposal will be made. the study design, including specifics on the time line to complete the To apply : Send all items listed above in a single electronic file, prefer - proposal (generally one year), and a plan for dissemination of results. ably in pdf format to the Chair of the Research Awards Committee. (3) A letter of support from the major professor. A CD with the PDF file and a hard copy of the application would be ap - (4) Copy of the permit or letter requesting a permit if it is needed to work preciated as they may be useful in case there are problems with the elec - in a sensitive site. tronic file. The application will be considered to have arrived once all electronic files have been received in working order by the Chair.

Inoculum 58(6), November 2007 27 MSA MEET AND GREET MSA Foray to St. Francisville, Louisiana

Members of the Mycological Society of America held their annual meeting at LSU- Baton Rouge, and were treated to some south - ern hospitality. Tracey Banowetz, past presi - dent of the Louisiana Native Plant Society, and her husband David, allowed us access to their property, Ouida Plantation. Ouida is lo - cated within the botanically diverse Tunica Hills near St. Francisville, LA. An added treat was a tour of their 1860’s restored plantation home and lunch on the grounds. Collecting was excellent and many exotic tropical species were found there. After lunch, we proceeded to the St. Francisville City Park, and made more collections there. Forayers re - turned to the LSU biology building and processed the material. Interesting finds included Cymatoderma caperatum, Phillipsia rispate (a dark brown - ish cup described from Cuba and identified by Don Pfister), Diacanthodes novo-guineen - sis (a pantropical species known from one collection from Florida and identified by Tom Volk), and numerous other fungi and slime molds. —David P. Lewis [email protected]

Ouida Plantation house Three photos above: The MSA foray at Ouida Plantation (photo by Charles “Eddie” Beard) (photos by David Lewis)

28 Inoculum 58(6), November 2007 MSA MEET AND GREET

The foray group at West Feliciana Sports Park (photo by Dirk Redecker)

David Fuller and Ron Peterson at the foray Physarum stellatum , found by Harold Keller (photo by David Lewis) at Ouida Plantation (photo by Allison Walker)

Examining the foray bounty Greg Mueller and David Lewis enjoying the yeast (photo by Jinx Campbell) found at the foray! (photo by Pamela Lewis)

Inoculum 58(6), November 2007 29 MSA MEET AND GREET

Tom Volk and his students at the MSA social (photo by Jinx Campbell)

Greg Mueller (MSA President 2007/8) welcomes Mike Wingfield, last-year’s elected Honorary Member, who gave a brief address to the membership (photo by Tom Volk)

From left: Charles Mims, Dick Hanlin and Bob Lichtwardt at the MSA social (photo by María González)

30 Inoculum 58(6), November 2007 MYCOLOGICAL NEWS Truffling South of the Border

Most major lineages of fungi have and tissue was sampled from interesting evolved a hypogeous (truffle) fruiting taxa for DNA analysis. The expedition habit. Recently, thanks to support from team also visited the mycological an NSF grant, mycologists from the US herbaria and laboratories of collaborator and Mexico teamed up during Septem - institutions including Instituto de Ecolo - ber 14-25, 2007 for the first of three gia, Xalapa (host: Gaston Guzman) and Mexican truffle expeditions aimed at the Universidad Autonoma de Tlaxcala documenting the biodiversity of Tuber (host: Arturo Estrada). and other truffle species in Mexico. The pursuit of truffle diversity in ‘Team Truffle’ included students and Mexico will continue in 2008 with a researchers at Duke, Harvard, Oregon field trip to north central Mexico (Mon - State University, Universidad Autono - terrey, Nuevo Leon, Victoria, Tamauli - ma de Tlaxcala, Instituto de Ecologia, pas), followed by an excursion to the Xalapa and the Instituto Tecnologico de southwest (Oaxaca / Chiapas) in 2009. Ciudad Victoria . The group also plans to host at least one The mountainous forests east of workshop on truffle diversity at a future Mexico City are well known for their meeting. This project is funded by NSF high biodiversity, rich ethnological his - award # 0641297 ‘REVSYS: Phyloge - tory, and numerous scenic volcanoes. netic and Revisionary Systematics of This first expedition to the hills above North American Truffles (Tuber, As - Genea collected under Quercus Xalapa and Tlaxcala, Mexico visited comycota)’ awarded to R. Vilgalys at over 15 sites and made over 150 collec - Duke University. tions of hypogeous taxa from Oak Participants in the 2007 (Quercus ), Pine ( Pinus ), Douglas-Fir ( Pseudosuga ) and Fir US/Mexico truffle expedition included (from Mexico) Gaston (Abies ) habitats. Guzman, Arturo Estrada Torres, Jesus Garcia Jimenez, Gonzalo Hypogeous species of Ascomycete ( Tuber , Genea , Gilkeya , Guevara Guerrero, José Luis Martinez y Perez, Rosario Medel, Genabea, Hydnotyra , Pachyphloeus , Elaphomyces ), Zy - Flor Ramirez, Miguel Muños, Alejandro Luz Kong, Adriana Es - gomycete ( Endogone ), and Basidiomycete ( Gautieria , Hys - quivel Montoya, Gema Flores Galinda, Margarito Castillo, Fret terangium , Rhizopogon , Cystangium , Melanogaster, Leuco - Cervantez Diaz; (from USA) Jim Trappe, Matt Smith, Efren gaster , Sclerogaster, Trappea, Mycolevis , Macowanites ) fungi Cazares, Greg Bonito, Rytas Vilgalys, Liz Henderson. were collected, along with many epigeous species. Many of these —Gregory Bonito are likely to be new species, and will be described in publications [email protected] —Efren Cazares with collaborators. Collections were photographed, described

Truffle hounds – left to right - Flor Ramirez, Jim Trappe, Gue - vara Guerrero, Gaston Guzman, Jesus Garcia, Rosario Medel, and Efren Cazares. The three amigos Jim Trappe, Matt Smith, Greg Bonito strolling alongside oak/pine truf - fle habitat

Inoculum 58(6), November 2007 31 MYCOLOGICAL NEWS Macrofungal, Myxomycete and Floral Diversity in Ha Ha Tonka

The state of Missouri, located in central throughout the park. Some of the interesting North America, has a multitude of ecosys - finds include Tulostoma species collected in tems that support a great amount of diversi - different microhabitats in glade areas, and ty. Boreal species were pushed from the species of Elaphomyces that are abundant in north by glaciers, eastern and southeastern the hard-packed soils of the flatwoods in species came from across the Mississippi summer. River, western and southwestern species The sinks hold a variety of macrofungal, moved from the plains and southerly deserts, myxomycete and floral taxa not located else - all have found their niches within the state where else in the park. The difference in flo - (Nelson, 2005). New species are still being ral composition is apparent once you cross discovered or rediscovered in parts of Mis - the rim into the sinks. Fungi can be found souri. The Ozarks have numerous endemic fruiting in the sink bottoms when all the other species found nowhere else in the world and habitats are dry and void of mushrooms. The is a hotspot for diversity (Zollner et al 2005). sinks are lush habitats with a variety of fern One area in central Missouri that displays a species concealed under a heavy tree canopy. diversity of high quality natural communi - The rare and beautifully iridescent myx - ties is Ha Ha Tonka State Park. The park Christopher Crabtree with a omycete, Diachea spendens Peck, has been spans roughly 4,000 acres and contains a maturing Lycoperdon cyathi - collected in Red Sink and Black Sink, the formis (Photo by Glenda Car - collage of glades, open woodlands, closed- mack two main sink formations included in this canopy forests, flatwoods, caves, sinks, ) project, and nowhere else in the park. Many springs, and bluffs. The variety of habitats of the myxomycete species are new records provides ideal conditions to study plant and for the state of Missouri since there are no fungal diversity. published journal papers on the Myxomycetes of Missouri. This research project is the first published study that assess - On June 8-10, 2007 a foray was hosted with the Missouri es the macrofungal diversity and statistically analyzes macrofun - Mycological Society (MOMS) at Ha Ha Tonka State Park. All in gi with plant communities, soil types, and abiotic factors in cen - attendance found abundant mushrooms and dazzling wildflow - tral Missouri. This master’s degree thesis began in the late spring ers due to the recent heavy rainfall (Crabtree 2007). We were of 2006 and has resulted in the collection of a number of inter - joined by mycologist Walter Sundberg from Illinois and Jay Jus - esting fungal and floral species. Christopher D. Crabtree, a grad - tice from Arkansas to help with fungal identification for the uate student at the University of Central Missouri, working with weekend foray. Participants were enthusiastic about the foray research mentors Joseph S. Ely, Harold W. Keller, Jay Raveill, and plans for future forays at Ha Ha Tonka are in the works. The and Ken McCarty of the Missouri Department of Natural Re - park is operated by the Missouri Department of Natural Re - sources, chose this area because of the variable terrain and di - sources, Division of State Parks. verse habitats. Continued excitement about this research comes from the Study plots consisting of 1 m 2 quadrats within a 0.01 ha cir - vast amount of information in the form of species lists and eco - cle plots were established throughout five major community logical data that will be generated. The Missouri Department of types of the park to document the herbaceous and overstory veg - Natural Resources financially supports this research project etation, macrofungi, and myxomycetes. Soil samples were col - through a grant award to Joseph S. Ely and Harold W. Keller. lected for analysis and data loggers were used to record continu - Literature Cited ous environmental information, such as temperature, relative Crabtree CD. 2007. Earthstar Examiner: Ha Ha Tonka State Park brings in laughs and mushrooms. Missouri Mycological humidity and photosynthetic active radiation (Crabtree, Keller Society. Issue 89: 1-2. and Ely 2007). Fungal and myxomycete collections were also Crabtree CD, HW Keller and JS Ely. 2007. Fungi and Myx - made in other areas of the park for a more complete species list. omycete Species Assemblages among Natural Communities The community types monitored in this project ranged from and Microhabitats at Ha Ha Tonka State Park, Missouri. Southeastern Biology. Vol. 54 (3): 315. Abstract, Poster. dry and rocky glades to deep forests to sinks and other karst for - Nelson P. 2005. Terrestrial Natural Communities of Missouri. mations. Each community was represented by three separate Missouri Natural Areas Committee. Missouri Department of stands and were monitored as often as possible for eighteen Natural Resources. Jefferson City, Missouri. months. Two very contrasting summers, in terms of temperatures Zollner D, MH MacRoberts BR MacRoberts and D Ladd. 2005. Endemic vascular plants of the Interior Highlands. U.S.A. and rainfall amounts, have shown the necessity of moisture in Sida 21: 1781–1791. fungal fruiting body formation and also species richness. The running count of macrofungal species found to date is —Christopher D. Crabtree roughly 200, with specimens being processed constantly and Questions or comments should be sent to Christopher D. Crab - tree, University of Central Missouri, Department of Biology, War - more species being collected with each trip into the field. Ap - rensburg, Missouri 64093, [email protected] proximately 40 different myxomycete taxa have been collected

32 Inoculum 58(6), November 2007 MYCOLOGICAL NEWS Fossil Myxomycetes: Do They Really Exist?

The answer is yes. What prompted this question was myxomycete plasmodia and fruiting bodies includes exam - an oral platform presentation entitled “What is a Myx - ples of fossil myxomycetes, questionable myxomycete omycete Species” given at the 5 th International Congress plasmodia, and lichens (Keller and Everhart 2007). on Systematics and Ecology of Myxomycetes (ICSEM5) Literature Cited held at the Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Mexico, Domke, W. 1952. Der erste sichere Fund eines Myxomyceten im baltischen Berstein. ( Stemonitis August 8-13, 2005 (Keller 2005). Recent myxomycete splendens Rost. fa. succini fa. nov. foss.). Mitteilungen literature lacks any mention of fossilized plasmodia or aus dem Geologischen Staatsinst. im Hamburg. 21: 154- fruiting bodies, the life cycle stages most likely preserved 161. in amber (Keller and Braun 1999, Stephenson and Stem - Keller, H.W. 2005. What is a myxomycete species? In: Flo - res, G.G., S. Martinez, A.M.Montoya Esquivel, and A. pen 1994). Estrada-Torres (eds.), Fifth International Congress on The earliest published myxomycete in the fossil Systematics and Ecology of Myxomycetes. Abstracts of record was a species identified as Stemonitis splendens oral and poster presentations. Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala. 45. Rostaf. in Baltic amber from the Eocene Epoch approxi - Keller, H.W. and K.L. Braun. 1999. Myxomycetes of Ohio: mately 35 to 40 million years ago ( Domke 1952) . The Their Systematics, Biology, and Use in Teaching. Ohio Bi - preservation is remarkable and leaves no question that ological Survey Bulletin New Series Volume 13, Number this is a myxomycete species of Stemonitis . The fossil 2. Ohio Biological Survey. Columbus, Ohio. specimen is represented by several sporangia with long, Keller, H.W. and S.E. Everhart. 2007. Myxomycete species concepts, monotypic genera, the fossil record, and addi - black stalks that give rise to the columella attached to tional examples of good taxonomic practice. Revista Mex - capillitial threads that form a surface net, and an overall icana de Micologia. 24: (accepted for publication as part size range identical to extant specimens of S. splendens . of a special volume for the ICSEM5 ). Stephenson, S.L. and H. Stempen. 1994. Myxomycetes: A It is noteworthy that this myxomycete species has Handbook of Slime Molds. Timber Press, Inc. Portland, changed little in 40 million years. Oregon. Domke’s paper, to the best of our knowledge, has not —Harold W. Keller been cited in myxomycete monographs nor has a myx - —Sydney E. Everhart omycete taxonomist evaluated the taxonomic merit of pro - Questions or comments should be sent to the authors: Harold posed fossilized myxomycetes. There are other examples of W. Keller, University of Central Missouri, Department of Biolo - gy, Warrensburg, Missouri 64093, [email protected] , proposed new fossil myxomycete species in Baltic amber or Sydney E. Everhart, Department of Plant Pathology, Univer - that appear to be lichens. Thus, our taxonomic evaluation of sity of Georgia, Athens, Ga 30602-7274, [email protected].

Fungal Collection Preservation

A taxonomist can spent many frustrating hours trying to role moisture plays in fungal deterioration, one can surmise work out the morphological features of fungal specimens in the drier the better; thus, the method above may be found re - poor condition. In an effort to preserve my own collections liable and cost effective. during uncertain times, I began to package thoroughly dried —Ed Setliff [email protected] specimens into polyethylene bags that were then sealed with an impulse sealer (Fig. 1). Specimens that were collected in the tropics in 1991 and 1996 were sealed in this way and have remained in excellent condition. One exception was a large watery polypore that failed to dry properly before being packaged on the last day of the trip and became moldy. In an - other instance, insects attacked a small polypore in a packet that had been opened for examination and then not resealed. Especially for small collections that have little or no support for proper maintenance, plastic bags might be a useful way to preserve the integrity of specimens for the foreseeable fu - ture regardless of ambient conditions. Larger plastic bags can easily accommodate the standard size herbarium boxes. The preservation of our national heritage in the form of fungal collections deserves our careful consideration. Al - though additional research is needed to fully appreciate the Fig. 1. Impulse heat sealer

Inoculum 58(6), November 2007 33 MYCOLOGICAL NEWS Grant Awarded to University of Mexico Institute of Biology

The National Council for Science and Technology (CONACyT) and the Secretary of Public Education (SEP) of Mexico recently awarded an important grant to the Institute of Biology of the University of Mexico for the study of the diversity of freshwater ascomycetes in Mexico. The research will be under the direction of Dr. Maria C. Gonzalez and will include the description, preservation and uses of these fungi, in addition to teaching and training graduate students in this area. Despite their importance in fresh water ecosystems, the diversity of these fungi has been little studied in Mexico, and this grant will permit further development of this area of re - search which has been recently established in the country. CONACyT is the equivalent in Mexico of NSF. —María C. González [email protected] Institute of Biology of the University of Mexico

Pleomorphism in Conidial Fungi

Akihiko Tsuneda and Randy Currah recently wrote an diogenesis can bring about marked differences in the final article entitled “Toward a deeper understanding of the nature mode of conidiogenesis. Endoconidia are common in BMF, of pleomorphism in conidial fungi”. They believe that this and darkly pigmented, thick-walled phialides occur in Cap - article is useful for those mycologists and plant pathologists nobotryella renispora and Scleroconidioma sphagnicola . who deal with conidial fungi. Request for reprints should be Various intergrading forms of conidiogenous cells are ob - sent to Aki Tsuneda at [email protected] . Alternatively a served between this type of phialide and endoconidium- PDF of the paper is available at www.biology.ualberta.ca/ forming single cells. Our phylogenetic analyses of BMF faculty/randy_currah/?Page=4987 showed that endoconidial taxa are distributed among at least Tsuneda, A. and Currah, RS. 2006. Toward a deeper four orders in the Ascomycota; Chaetothyriales, Dothideales, understanding of the nature of pleomorphism in conidial Capnodiales, and Pleosporales. Conidium ontogeny is thus a fungi. Rep. Tottori Mycol. Inst. 44: 1-52. striking example of convergent evolution. Conidiogenesis We demonstrate that the major patterns of conidiogene - may vary with strain and cultural conditions, and different sis can be linked in a developmental continuum with various forms of conidiogenous cells often develop from hyphae in intergrading forms, using our own microscopic data from close proximity or even from different loci on the same three groups of conidial fungi, viz. beetle-gallery fungi, hypha or cell. Based on these observations and because all species of Eleutheromyces and their Hyphozyma the major modes of conidiogenesis are linked in a develop - synanamorphs, and those commonly called black yeasts or mental continuum, we consider that many conidial fungi black meristematic fungi (BMF). The majority of these fungi have acquired the ability to produce conidia through multiple are dimorphic and most patterns of conidiogenesis occurring modes of conidiogenesis and possess a mechanism control - on cells arising from hyphae also occur on yeast-like single ling the expression or suppression (with varying degrees of cells; a fact previously overlooked probably because of their strength depending on the fungus) of individual phenotypes. minute conidiogenous pegs. It appears that minor alterations —Aki Tsuneda in the balance of individual processes occurring during coni - [email protected]

Symposia Proposals for the MSA Meeting

Call for Symposia Proposals for the 2008 MSA Meeting at the entire list need not be filled at this point. In fact, we encour - Penn State (deadline Dec. 1, 2007). Planning for the 2008 MSA age you to save up to two slots to be filled in after reviewing ab - meeting at Penn State has started and we are soliciting propos - stracts submitted for the contributed talks. als for symposia. To propose a symposium, please provide: 1) a E-mail your proposals to the program committee: Jo Taylor title; 2) a very short summary of why this topic is particularly ([email protected] ), Marc Cubeta ( [email protected] ), timely or appropriate; 3) a tentative list of speakers. For the Tom Horton ( [email protected] ) and Fred Spiegel speaker list we assume that there will be a maximum of six, but ([email protected] ). The deadline is December 1, 2007.

34 Inoculum 58(6), November 2007 MYCOLOGICAL NEWS FESIN Activities

The Fungal Environmental Sampling and Informatics guities. For those who do not want their sequence data re - Network (FESIN) web site is up and running at leased, they can protect your data. All fungi are needed, www.bio.utk.edu/fesin. The FESIN blog site is pathogens, mycorrhizal, saprobes, airborne samples. www.fesin.blogspot.com/. From time to time, we will Identified fungi are especially welcome, but environmen - post materials and request comments. You may need a G- tal samples are also needed. Every attempt will be made mail account to post comments on the blog (go to Google to provide early access to the chip for donors for testing and set up an account), but the incentive is that Google purposes. Contact Meredith Blackwell at mblack - provides a large amount of storage space – a great place [email protected] for more information. to park your excess e-mails. Database of problem children My Ecology gene chip for fungal ID Urmas Koljalg and Karen Hughes are compiling two An exciting outcome of the first months of FESIN is lists: 1) Fungi for which an ITS sequence is appropriate the possibility of designing a microarray chip for fungal or inappropriate for species identification (DNA barcod - identification. Gary Andersen and Tod DeSantis at ing sensu stricto); 2) Fungi that are underrepresented in Lawrence Berkeley Labs are already working on an INSD (GenBank, EMBL, DDJB) sequences. They would Affymetrix gene chip intended for fungal identification, appreciate your help in identifying fungi in either of these based on ITS, 18S and LSU rDNA sequences. ITS, a categories. Please e-mail Karen at [email protected] or highly variable region in most fungi, will resolve at low Urmas at [email protected] taxonomic levels, but some level of recognition for most —Karen Hughes Ecology and Evolutionary Biology fungi can be reached using the other two regions. In order University of Tennessee to make this chip as usable as possible, they need unpub - [email protected] lished sequence data, preferably sequences without ambi - A Developing Method for Rapid Fungal Identification

A global effort is needed to obtain all unpublished of your sequences do not have to be made public fungal rDNA sequences to design a microarray chip — until after publication. My Ecology Chip — that will be used for detection of • Contact? Tom Bruns [email protected] or fungi in the environment. Meredith Blackwell [email protected] can supply • Chip design? Experts at Lawerence Berkeley Labo - additional information about the project. ratory are already at work, and although all appropri - • Incentive? Your fungi of interest, including environ - ate GenBank sequences will be used, more are need - mental clones, will be included on the chip. Every ef - ed so that the chip can be as complete as possible to fort will be made to provide contributors with early detect fungi over the globe. access to My Ecology chip . • Timing? Because the chip is already being devel - oped, the need is now. If you prefer the identification Fungi Wanted

My new graduate student, Jennifer McDonald, has with tiny, gregarious fruiting bodies having few, reduced bravely taken on the systematics of the cyphelloid species lamellae (e.g., Resupinatus kavinii ) would also be wel - of Resupinatus (formerly known as Stigmatolemma , cf. come. If you have any cultures or recent collections of Mycologia 97:1148-1149, 2005), using both micromor - this group, or if you come across these taxa in the field, phology and sequence data. In order for her project to we would greatly appreciate receiving them. Specimens succeed, she will need fresh collections and cultures of as would be returned after study, but please let us know many taxa as possible within this group. Basically, if it is whether you approve the use of a small portion of the ma - cyphelloid, gregarious (often on a felty or wispy subicu - terial for DNA extraction for molecular studies. Please lum), and gelatinous, with hyaline spores, we would be email prior to sending any material. Thanks! interested! Collections or cultures of Resupinatus taxa —Greg Thorn [email protected]

Inoculum 58(6), November 2007 35 MYCOLOGIST’S BOOKSHELF

Three books are reviewed in this issue. Ten new books are listed as new since the last Mycologist’s Bookshelf although not all of them have been received from the publisher. If you would like to review a book, let me know. I will send it to you, you write the review, and then you can keep the book. All re - quests for books to review should be sent to Amy Rossman at [email protected].

Insect-Fungal Associations: Ecology and Evolution

Insect-Fungal Associations: Ecology and Evolution. habitat association of the respective fungal genera. They 2005. F.E. Vega, M. Blackwell (eds). Oxford University, also highlight the cryptic diversity within morphospecies, Oxford, United Kingdom, www.oup.com/us, ISBN 0-19- now being explored using genetic markers. I was curious to 516652-3, 333 pp. Price: $49.50 (hardbound). read that both Beauveria and Metarhizium species have re - cently been associated with Cordyceps teleomorphs in Asia, The interest of many scientists, students and practition - which is, at least for Metarhizium , the suggested center of ers in fungi is often because of the association of fungal origin. groups with insects, and the role of fungi as biocontrol Chapter 3 is an intriguing, impressive and useful syn - agents against, or mutualistic symbionts of insects. The thesis of the interactions between entomopathogenic fungi topic of this book, insect-fungal associations, should thus at - and arthropod natural enemies (parasitoids and predators) of tract the interest of a broad and diverse audience. With its 11 herbivorous insects, relevant for those interested in the pop - chapters this volume exemplifies the diversity and complex - ulation ecology/dynamics and biological control of insects. ity of insect-fungal associations, dealing with a range of fun - When entomopathogenic fungi and parasitoids or predators gal groups and insect orders and covering both antagonistic use the same insect hosts, there are three possible outcomes, and mutualistic interactions. The chapters are generally namely exclusion of one of the natural enemies by the other well-researched and thorough reviews written by well- or co-existence between them. The interactions between en - known experts in their respective fields. While most chap - tomopathogenic fungi and parasitoids or predators are thor - ters are mixed in their contents, some have a focus on the oughly reviewed, both on the level of the individual insect taxonomy, phylogeny or population biology of fungal asso - (interactions of various natural enemies colonizing the same ciates of insects. Other chapters emphasize the evolution individual host) and the population level (interference be - and ecology of insect-fungal associations or the nature of the tween the population dynamics of competing natural ene - symbiotic interactions between fungal and insects partners. mies). Safe knowledge about these interactions is essential It is obvious from many chapters that the era of PCR and for developing effective and environmentally acceptable bi - molecular genetics brought a “revolution” in the under - ological pest control strategies. standing of insect-fungus associations, as in other fields of Chapter 4 presents an ecological overview about endo - the biological sciences. phytes of plants, with an emphasis on vertically transmitted, The editors describe the “stories”/case studies present - systemic, clavicipitaceous grass endophytes and horizontal - ed in the various chapters of the book as “Seven wonders of ly transmitted foliar endophytes of conifers and an - insect-fungus world”! Personally, I fully agree to view the giosperms. Moreover, addressing the general theme of the associations treated in the book as fascinating “wonders.” I book, the intriguing interference and roles of the various found much interesting, enriching and new information on types of endophytes in host-herbivorous insect interactions insect-fungal associations there and the various chapters are discussed. While many foliar endophytes are viewed as broadened and deepened my knowledge considerably. For mutualists, e.g. systemic grass endophytes, providing de - me, this book will clearly remain a valuable reference fense and protection to the host plant against insect herbi - source in the future! vores, their role is less clear and the source of debates in The book is divided into two parts: “Fungi acting other endophyte-plant systems, e.g. horizontally transmitted against insects,” consisting of six chapters; and “Fungi mu - foliar endophytes of angiosperms. Another part of this chap - tualistic with insects,” comprising the remaining five chap - ter focuses on the endophytic occurrence of perthotrophic ters. The first part on antagonists of insects starts with a entomopathogens, particularly Beauveria bassiana in maize chapter on the genus Beauveria and another one on the and other agricultural plants as well as weedy species, ap - genus Metarhizium , fungi of primary interest for biological parently offering potential for biological pest control. control of insect pests. Both chapters review the current A few years ago the microsporidia, obligate parasites of state of the art of the taxonomy, phylogeny, population ge - arthropods and other animals were, on the basis of molecu - netics, classical genetics, evolution and host specifity or Continued on following page

36 Inoculum 58(6), November 2007 MYCOLOGIST’S BOOKSHELF lar phylogenies, announced to be related to fungi. Conse - Thereafter, the roles of yeasts and yeast-like fungi for their quently, it was suggested to place them within the kingdom insect hosts are reviewed. They are particularly important Fungi. I guess it is safe to say that I am (or was, after hav - for insect nutrition, but are also involved in digestive and ing read the book) not the only mycologist, who is still not detoxification reactions. The authors finally discuss hy - considering microsporidia as fungi and who is little aware of potheses regarding the origin and evolution of endosymbiot - the research results and arguments that suggest a fungal root ic yeast-insect associations. Chapter 10 presents a study for the microsporidia. All the answers are found in chapter aiming at characterizing endosymbiotic yeasts in the gut of 5, which presents the fascinating story of the past and pres - beetles, mainly those feeding on fruiting bodies of higher ent placement of microsporidia within the eukaryotes. basidiomycetes. Yeasts were studied using DNA sequence Chapter 6 sheds light on biotrophic parasites of arthro - comparisons and phylogenetic analyses as well as yeast pods, particularly Laboulbeniomycetes, including also Pyx - standard descriptions. An unexpected high diversity of new idiophora species that are parasites of fungi and sometimes ascomycete yeasts, comprising about 150 taxa, was discov - mites. These ascomycetes are poorly known among mycol - ered. Impressively, they add 21% more species to the num - ogists and entomologists, because their morphology is sim - ber of yeasts previously known worldwide. As studies of ple, they are very small, often lack a thallus, have lost cer - yeast biodiversity in the gut of beetles will continue, they tain life-cycle states, and usually cannot be cultivated. will further contribute to the knowledge of overall fungal Classification of these organisms was difficult in the past, biodiversity! but in recent years DNA-based phylogenies and life-history Based on one of my major research interests, the asso - studies led to a deeper understanding of their taxonomy and ciation of ophiostomatoid fungi ( Ceratocystis , Ophiostoma , phylogenetic relationships. This chapter also discusses the Grosmannia and related genera) with phloem-feeding bark morphology, biology and ecology of Laboulbeniomycetes beetles, the last chapter of the book was most relevant and and other biotrophic parasites, thereby providing an excel - extremely interesting for me. This chapter starts with a gen - lent overview on these fungi. eral introduction to bark and ambrosia beetles and their re - The second part of the book on mutualistic associations lationships with fungi, before it focuses on mycophagy between insects and fungi starts with a rather philosophical amongst conifer bark beetles colonizing the phloem of trees. comparison of agriculture by attine (leaf-cutting) ants and The phloem is a nutrient-rich substrate, and there are only a humans (chapter 7). While I still doubt, whether the com - few known examples of phloeomycophagous bark beetles, parison of two such fundamental different systems is appro - mainly species in the genera Dendroctonus and Ips , using priate, I found the approach of the authors intriguing and associated fungi as a food source. These phloeomy - their treatment of the subject thought-provoking and well- cophagous bark beetles-fungus systems as well as the in - suited for a book chapter, which is the right format to pres - volved fungi, both ascomycetes (all Ophiostoma species or ent and discuss concepts and theories in an unusual way. close relatives) and basidiomycetes (mainly Entomocortici - This chapter gives valuable insights on attine ant fungal um spp.), are thoroughly described and discussed. This agriculture, while at the same time it also presents interest - chapter is clearly a very useful and valuable contribution to ing facts about human agriculture. The other important the discourse on bark beetle-fungus associations. group of eusocial insects cultivating basidiomycete fungi, I think that the authors and editors have delivered a very Old World termites in the subfamily Macrotermitidae living good and intriguing volume on insect-fungal associations. in an obligate mutualistic symbiosis with Termitomyces Overall, I found the book well-written, logically structured species, are the focus of chapter 8. It discusses the natural and carefully edited. Most chapters are nicely illustrated history and characteristics of the symbiosis between ter - with high quality black-and-white images, graphs and mites and their domesticated fungi, highlights recent re - schematic drawings. The target audience of the book is search that gave insights on the evolution of this symbiosis broad and diverse, as scientists and lecturers in many disci - and contrasts it with other fungus-cultivating insects, partic - plines are interested in insect-fungus interactions. The book ularly attine ants. Overall, chapters 7 and 8 together are in - should be very useful to lecturers and educators involved in triguing and useful accounts on the characteristics and evo - teaching insect-fungal associations to revise and update lution of insect-fungus associations in fungus-growing course topics and material. All in all, I highly recommend eusocial insects. this volume to all interested in insect-fungal associations The two following chapters deal with endosymbiontic and interactions. yeasts of insects, viewing them from different perspectives. —Thomas Kirisits Institute of Forest Entomology, Chapter 9 explores the role of yeasts as endosymbionts of Forest Pathology and Forest Protection (IFFF) insects. It first highlights examples of yeasts occurring intra- University of Natural Resources and and extracellularly in certain insects. A useful tabular Applied Life Sciences (BOKU) Vienna, Austria overview of yeasts isolated from internal parts of insects be - [email protected] longing to various orders and families is also presented. Inoculum 58(6), November 2007 37 MYCOLOGIST’S BOOKSHELF Phyllachoraceae of Australia

Phyllachoraceae of Australia. 2006. Ceridwen A. from intense herbarium work. Furthermore, five new species Pearce, Kevin D. Hyde. Fungal Diversity Research Series 17. and subspecies are included. The taxa are ordered by host Fungal Diversity Press, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China, family and then alphabetically, which makes it easy to find www.fungaldiversity.org/fdp/fdp.htm. ISBN 962 86765 04. the corresponding description. For a faster check, a host list 316 pp. Price: $80.00. facilitates a quick survey. Most of the species are presented with detailed descriptions and photomicrographs, while oth - The Phyllachoraceae is a worldwide family of plant par - ers are documented by their protologue. Frequently tables are asitic fungi that are still quite inhomogeneous and poorly un - used for comparison of related taxa, which provide a rough derstood. Because so few mycologists work on these fungi, it but helpful review of the similar species. For the first time, is a pleasure to see this new publication to gain a better un - distribution maps give an impression about their occurrence derstanding of this interesting and diverse group. in the country. Finally, the book closes with a contribution This book provides a valuable reflection on current about potentially endangered or vulnerable Australian phylla - knowledge of the Phyllachoraceae in general and from Aus - choraceous species, which leads to the authors implications tralia in particular. The authors review the historical develop - for future research: the need of more mycological studies ments of the family in detail and point out progress in myco - within the Phyllachoraceae. logical studies in Australia. An introductory overview of the This book is an excellent elaboration about phyllachora - general characteristics of the Phyllachoraceae is given and ceous fungi from Australia. Surely it will become an essential consequential problems of species delimitation are discussed. base, not only for further studies on this continent, but also as A user-friendly key leads to the genera of the family, which an important step towards the strongly required worldwide are presented by short abstracts about morphology, history taxonomic revision of the Phyllachoraceae. and mode of nutrition. Altogether, 84 species from nine gen - —Tanja Trampe Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Germany era are accepted from Australia. These results were not only [email protected] obtained from various collections of fresh material, but also Helicosporous Hyphomycetes from China

Helicosporous Hyphomycetes from China . 2007. G.Z. colony morphology, conidiophore characteristics, conidio - Zhao, X.Z. Liu, W.P. Wu. Fungal Diversity 26: 313-535. genesis, and type of conidial morphology. A checklist of he - Fungal Diversity Press, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China, licosporus hyphomycetes reported from China before the in - http://www.fungaldiversity.org/fdp/fdp.htm . ISSN 1560- ception of the book is provided. Teleomorph-anamorph 2745. Price: Unknown. Issued as part of journal; also avail - connections, molecular phylogenetic relationships and mo - able as a separate publication. lecular data available in GenBank on helicosporus fungi are provided. This information is well presented and will be help - Following the publication of the book “Sporidesmium, ful for anyone interested in working with helicosporus fungi. Endophragmiella and Related Genera from China ” in 2005, In this book, the authors have focused specifically on the the “ Helicosporous Hyphomycetes from China ” is another following genera of helicosporus fungi from China: Cirrena - fine piece of work on the mitosporic fungi by W.P. Wu and lia, Helicodendron, Helicoma, Helicomyces, Helicoön, Heli - colleagues from China. This book reports 14 genera and 71 cosporium and Xenosporium. Towards the end of the book species of helicosporus hyphomycetes from mainland China, the authors have provided keys, descriptions, and color and including nine new species. In addition, the authors have black and white illustrations for Candelabrum and made four new combinations and introduced a new name He - Spirosphaeria, two non-helical genera of aero-aquatic hy - licoma palmarum G. Z. Zhai, Xing Z. Liu & W. P. Wu based phomycetes that are often found on various substrata in moist on literature. The book consists of a total of 95 plates of areas as well as in lentic habitats such as swamps, ponds and which about 75 are color illustrations and 25 are either line lakes. drawings or black and white photographs. For Cirrenalia, Helicodendron, Helicoma, Helicomyces, In the introductory pages, the authors give a general his - Helicoön, Helicosporium and Xenosporium, the authors have tory and classification of the helicosporus fungi with a very provided a checklist of all the species reported in the litera - good review of the literature. The introduction consists of a ture with keys to species in the above genera from China. De - table with an alphabetical list of genera of all helicosporus scriptions and color and black and white illustrations of fungi reported in the literature. The authors discuss general species reported from China are provided with a table, which aspects of helicosporus fungi such as species concepts, Continued on following page

38 Inoculum 58(6), November 2007 MYCOLOGIST’S BOOKSHELF compares dimensions of conidiophore size, conidia width, This book is an excellent piece of work on the “fungi number of coils and width of the conidial coils. In addition, with a twist” (sensu Goos 1987) from mainland China and information on cultural characteristics, substratum, and geo - complements the excellent studies of Linder, Morgan and graphical distribution is provided. A notes section is also in - Goos that precede it. Helicosporous hyphomycetes from cluded, which distinguishes these species from other mor - China is an essential book for anyone who is interested in the phologically similar taxa. The species descriptions are taxonomy of the wonderful helical-spored hyphomycete concise, and the color images are of excellent quality and il - fungi. lustrate the taxa well. This is probably the first publication Goos, R.D. 1987. Fungi with a twist: The helicosporous where a large number of helicosporus fungi are illustrated in hyphomycetes. Mycologia 79:1–22. color. The color images are helpful, because they give an idea -Huzefa Raja of how the fungi look in nature. The compilation of articles University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign cited in the literature section at the end of the book is useful, [email protected] considering the scattered nature of the mycological literature. Recently Received Books

• Alternaria : An Identification Manual . 2007. Emory G. pp. Price: €149.00 plus postage. Requested from pub - Simmons. Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, P.O. lisher. Review needed. Box 85167, Utrecht, The Netherlands, • Field Guide to North American Truffles. 2007. Matt www.cbs.knaw.nl/publications/index.htm . CBS Biodi - Trappe, Frank Evans, James Trappe. Ten Speed Press, versity Series 6. 900+ pp. Price: €170.00. Soon to be www.tenspeed.com . ISBN: 978-1-58008-862-6. 136 pp. published. Review needed. Price: $16.95 . Review needed. • Biology of Plant-Microbe Interactions. Volume 5. • Fungal Families of the World. 2007. P.F. Cannon, P.M. 2006. F. Sánchez, C. Quinto, I.M. López-Lara, O. Geiger Kirk. CABI, www.cabi.org . ISBN: 978-0-8519-98275. (eds). APS Press, 3340 Pilot Knob Road, St. Paul, MN 456 pp. Price: $190.00. Requested from publisher. Re - 55121, www.shopapspress.org . ISBN 978-0-9654625-4- view needed. 9, 744 pp. Price: $89.00. Review needed. • Fungi of Cameroon. 2007. Clovis Douanla-Meli. Ge - • Compendium of Brassica Diseases . 2007. S. Roger brüder Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlunh, Berlin, Rimmer, Vernon I. Shattuck, Lone Buchwaldt. APS www.schweizerbart.de . Bibliotheca Mycologica vol. 202: Press, 3340 Pilot Knob Road, St. Paul, MN 55121, 1-410. ISBN: 978-3-443-59104-5. Price: €89.00. Re - www.shopapspress.org . ISBN 978-0-89054-344-3. 136 quested from publisher. Review needed. pp. Price: $59.00. Review needed. • Fungicolous Fungi of the Mid Atlantic States. 2007. • Compendium of Rose Diseases and Pests, Second Edi - Gary J. Samuels. USDA-ARS Systematic Mycology & tion. 2007. R. Kenneth Horst, Raymond Cloyd. APS Microbiology Laboratory, Beltsville, MD. 59 pp. Avail - Press, 3340 Pilot Knob Road, St. Paul, MN 55121, able free from the author [email protected] . www.shopapspress.org . ISBN 978-0-89054-355-9, 96 pp. Review needed. Price: $59.00. Review needed. • Identification Workshop on the Hypocreales. 2007. • Compendium of Soil Fungi, Second Edition. 2007. W. Gary J. Samuels. USDA-ARS Systematic Mycology & Gams (ed). IHW-Verlag & Verlagsbuchhandlung, Post - Microbiology Laboratory, Beltsville, MD. 104 pp. Avail - fach 1119, D-85378 Eching b. München, able free from the author [email protected] . [email protected]. ISBN 978-3-930167-69-2. 700 Review needed . Previously Listed Books

• Ecology and Management of Morels Harvested from the press.org . ISBN 0-89054-342-9. 338 pp. plus CD. Price: Forests of Western America . 2007. D. Pilz, R. McLain, S. $79.95. Review in progress. Alexander, L. Villarreal-Ruiz, S. Berch, T.L. Wurtz, C.G. • Exploitation of Fungi: Symposium of the British My - Parks, E. McFarlane, B. Baker, R. Molina and J.E. Smith. cological Society held at the University of Manchester Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-710. Portland, OR: US. Depart - September 2005. 2007. G.D. Robson, P. Van West, & ment of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Re - G.M. Gadd (eds). Cambridge University Press, search Station. 161 pp. Price: Unknown. Review in progress. www.cambridge.org . ISBN 978-0-521-85935-6-hard - • Essential Plant Pathology . 2006. Gail L. Schumann and back. 345 pp. Price: £80.00. Review needed. Cleora J. D’Arcy. APS Press, 3340 Pilot Knob Road, St. Paul, MN 55121, [email protected] , www.shopaps Continued on following page

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• Forest Pathology: From Genes to Landscapes. 2005. J.E. • Mycology. Vol. 1. Lower fungi and fungus-like organ - Lulndquvist and R.C. Hamelin (Eds.). APS Press, 3340 isms. DVD-ROM . 2007. John Webster with Roland W.S. Pilot Knob Road, St. Paul, MN 55121, [email protected] , Weber. APS Press, 3340 Pilot Knob Road, St. Paul, MN www.shopapspress.org . ISBN 0-89054-3334 (Softcover). 55121, [email protected] , www.shopapspress.org . ISBN 175 pp. Price: $69.00. Review needed. 978-3-88222-085-8. Price: $139.00. Review needed . • Fungi in the Environment. 2007. Geoff Gadd, Sarah C. • Mycology. Vol. 2. Higher fungi. DVD-ROM . 2007. Watkinson, and Paul Dyer (Eds.). Cambridge University John Webster with Roland W.S. Weber. APS Press, 3340 Press. ISBN 978-0-521-85029-1. 386 pp. Price: $150.00. Pilot Knob Road, St. Paul, MN 55121, [email protected] , Review in progress. www.shopapspress.org . ISBN 3-88222-086-4. Price: $139.00. Review needed . • Helicosporous Hyphomycetes from China. 2007. Zhao, G.Z., X.Z. Liu, & W.P. Wu. Fungal Diversity 26: 313-535. • Phyllachoraceae of Australia . 2006. Ceridwen A. Pearce Fungal Diversity Press, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, and Kevin D. Hyde. Fungal Diversity Research Series 17. China, www.fungaldiversity.org/fdp/fdp.htm . ISSN Fungal Diversity Press, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, 1560-2745. Price: Unknown. Issued as part of journal; also China, www.fungaldiversity.org/fdp/fdp.htm . ISBN 962 available as a separate publication. Reviewed in this issue. 86765 04. 308 pp. Price: $80.00 . Reviewed in this issue. • The Identification of Fungi: An Illustrated Introduc - • Ramaria of the Pacific Northwestern United States . tion with Keys, Glossary, and Guide to Literature. 2007. Ronald L. Exeter, Lorelei Norvell and Efrén 2006. Frank Dugan. APS Press, 3340 Pilot Knob Road, Cazares. Bureau of Land Management, Salem, OR. St. Paul, MN 55121, www.shopapspress.org . ISBN 0- Email: [email protected]. 157 p. plus 190 photos. Price: 89054-336-4, 182 pp. Price: $65.00. Review in progress . $27. Review in progress . • Insect-Fungal Associations: Ecology and Evolution. • The Triumph of the Fungi. A Rotten History. 2007. 2005. Fernando E. Vega and Meredith Blackwell (eds). Nicholas P. Money. Oxford University Press, 2001 Evans Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom, Road, Cary, NC 27513, www.oup.com . ISBN 13-978-0- www.oup.com/us . ISBN 0-19-516652-3, 333 pp. Price: 19-518971-1. 197 pp. Price: $29.95. Reviewed in Mar.- $49.50 (hardbound). Reviewed in this issue. Apr. 2007. • Introduction to Fungi. Third Edition. 2007. John Web - • Zizak. Revista de Micologia. No. 3. 2006. Includes a ster and Roland W.S. Weber. Cambridge University “Lista Roja de hongos y Conservación de la Naturaleza”. Press, Cambridge, www.cup.cam.ac.uk. ISBN 0-521- Published by the Sociedad Micrologica de Portulgalete, 80739-5. 841 p. Price: Hardbark $140, Paperback $75. Spain. Review needed . Review in progress. • MycoKey 2.1 DVD. Keys to 850 Genera of Asco- and Basidiomycota from Northern Europe . 2007. Thomas Laessoe and Jens H. Petersen. Available from www.mycokey.com . Review in progress.

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40 Inoculum 58(6), November 2007 TAKE A BREAK A Fundamentally Fungal Pileipellical Puzzle

Juliet Pendray is a member of the Vancouver Mycological Society (www.vanmyco.com). She writes fungal crossword puzzles, primarily for the amusement of herself and also as a tool for her own education. She hopes the Inoculum readership will enjoy the following crossword. If you have feed - back on this or past crosswords, please email Juliet at [email protected].

CLOCKWISE – 34. This beast and its distinctive neck hair, Around The Cap make up the common name of a popular macrofungus 1. Some mushroom lovers have tragically mis - taken deadly Amanitas for this popular Asian 36. Where forayers rarely look mushroom 37. You need a good one if you want to be a 6. Marasmius alliaceus fragrance successful morel hunter 9. (abbr.) Blood grouping system 38. (prefix) Botanical Greek meaning few 12. (abbr.) Broth used to produce submerged 39. This Drop uses the mechanics of surface conidia from e.g. Beauveria bassiana tension to propel a spore away from the sporo - carp 14. Having a volval “boot” snugly fitting the stipe Continued on following page 16. Mushroom cap cen - tre bump

17. Famous entheogenic mushroom researcher

20. Truffles are 40 – 90 % of this Australian rat- kangarooʼs diet 21. First word of com - mon name of both a Pisolithus and a Xylaria 24. Mushrooms often darken with ______25. (abbr.) Potassium hydroxide

26. (abbr.) First mating type 27. Inoculation media 28. Media dish 30. First word of com -

mon name for Psilocybe semilanceata 31. Mushroom growth type referring to fruiting bodies which stop inflat - ing once they reach a certain size Inoculum 58(6), November 2007 41 TAKE A BREAK

RADIAL – 10. Mushroom group bears spores in a spongy From Cap Edge To Centre layer 1. Pertaining to hyphal divisions 11. Employ 2. Twelve ounces equals one pound 12. Mushroom-obsessed Japanese anime character who carries an encyclopedia of all 3. Disintegration by fungus mushrooms with her. 4. Cell wall type (a saccharide diastereoisomer 13. Sticky protrusion used by Nematoctonus structure) for trapping nematodes 5. Patchy remnant of universal veil on an 15. First half of traditional term for poisonous Amanita cap mushrooms 6. (prefix) Pertaining to earth 17. A barrage line is the outcome of “______” 7. Opposite of trough between fungal individuals of incompatible mating types 8. ______bear is Orchil dye powder 18. (2 wds) Single lamella 9. (abbr.) Leccinum boreale is the official mushroom of this Canadian province 19. Non-woody plant 22. Auricularia to her friends 23. Some members of this ant group predate upon fungus-farming attine ants 27. Cellular pump that creates energy by breaking & restoring the phosphate bond 28. Wage 29. Pigletʼs response to Poohʼs Tao 30. Record 32. (prefix) True 33. (abbr.) North-east 35. (suffix) Follows a personʼs sur - name in a specific epithet

Except for personal use, this puzzle may not be reproduced without per - mission — Juliet Pendray ([email protected]).

42 Inoculum 58(6), November 2007 TAKE A BREAK Fantastic Photo Fiesta

This month’s photos were submitted by Donald Johnston , Clinton Community College , Plattsburgh, NY , donald. [email protected] .

Cookery Corner

Sausage-Stuffed Mushrooms

Prep Time: 15 Minutes Cook Time: 15 Minutes Ready In: 30 Minutes Yields: 8 servings

INGREDIENTS: 24 large fresh mushrooms 1 pound bulk Italian sausage 1 ⁄2 cup chopped green onions 1 cup spaghetti sauce 1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese Clathrus archerii taken in Murillo, Colombia with a dipteran insect on it; the fly’s foreleg is seen in contact with the gleba. DIRECTIONS: 1. Remove mushroom stems; set caps aside. 2. Chop stems; set aside. 3. In a skillet, cook sausage over medium heat until no longer pink; remove with a slotted spoon. 4. In the drippings, saute onions and mushroom stems. 5. Stir in spaghetti sauce and sausage. 6. Stuff into mushroom caps. 7. Sprinkle with cheese. Place in a greased 15-in. x 10-in. x 1-in. bak - ing pan. 8. Bake at 350 degrees F for 12-15 minutes or until cheese is melted.

-Jinx Campbell [email protected] Amanita flavoconia taken at Raquette Lake this summer during Tim Baroni’s field mycology course

Inoculum 58(6), November 2007 43 MYCOLOGICAL CLASSIFIEDS LSU Department Head: Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology

WORK LOCATION: Louisiana State University and/or teaching, warranting appointment to the rank of Agricultural Center, and Louisiana State University A&M full professor. Demonstrated leadership, management and College, Baton Rouge, Louisiana administrative skills as well as a national/international POSITION DESCRIPTION: The Department Head reputation in their professional discipline. has a 12-month appointment with joint responsibilities to SALARY AND BENEFITS: Salary will be com - the LSU Agricultural Center and the LSU A&M College mensurate with qualifications and experience. LSU has an of Agriculture. The primary duty of the department head attractive benefits package with a wide variety of benefit is to provide leadership for the development of excellence options. Benefits offered include retirement, multiple in research, extension and teaching in the Department of medical insurance options, supplemental insurances (den - Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology. The Department tal, life, long-term disability, accident, vision, long-term Head also provides leadership in: (1) recruiting, and fa - care, etc.), Tax Saver Flexible Benefits Plan (saves tax cilitating the professional development of, faculty, staff dollars on some child care and medical expenses), univer - and students; (2) developing short- and long-range goals sity holidays (14 per year, typically includes a week off at and strategic plans for the department; (3) developing Christmas), generous annual (vacation) and sick leave courses and curricula; (4) managing the department’s benefits, Employee Assistance Program, and possible ed - human, physical, and financial resources; (5) encouraging ucational leave and tuition exemption for coursework at faculty to seek external funding opportunities; (6) admin - campuses of the LSU System. Specific benefits depend on istering state, regional, national, and international pro - job category, percent effort and length of employment. grams of the department; (7) establishing a working rela - DATE AVAILABLE: Upon completion of the selec - tionship with directors at regional research and extension tion process centers to support research and extension programs; (8) APPLICATION DEADLINE: January 2, 2008 or evaluating the performance of the department’s faculty until a suitable candidate is identified and staff; (9) promoting individual and departmental ex - APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Application to in - cellence. The Department Head represents departmental clude a letter of application specifically addressing the candi - interests to the research, extension and teaching adminis - date’s qualifications, a one page administrative philosophy trators of LSU Agricultural Center and Louisiana State and vision statement, full resume, academic transcript for ter - University and A&M College; to governmental agencies; minal degree, and names, addresses and telephone numbers commodity groups, state, national and international of four references mailed to: Dr. Freddie Martin, Search groups involved in plant pathology and plant physiology; Committee Chair, School of Plant, Environmental and Soil the rural and urban communities and the general public. Sciences, LSU Agricultural Center, 104B M. B. Sturgis, QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: Ph.D. in LSU, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, Phone: (225) 578-1203, Fax: Plant Pathology, Plant Physiology or closely related field. (225) 578-1403, Email: [email protected] , Web Record of scholarly achievement in research, extension, sites: www.lsuagcenter.com , www.lsu.edu

M.Sc. or Ph.D Student in Fungal Systematics and Evoloution The Department of Biology at Howard University in and it includes stipend ($20,000/year) and tuition, plus Washington D.C. is seeking a M.Sc. or Ph.D. student to supplies and travel. start in the Fall 2008. The student will study the system - To apply, please send a complete Curriculum vita , atics and evolution of either Cosmospora or Neonectria contact information, names and contact information of 2- (Nectriaceae, Ascomycota). These genera are common 3 referees, and a one-page cover letter stating the appli - tropical and temperate fungi and some of them are impor - cant’s qualifications, background and reasons for apply - tant plant pathogens and potential agents of biocontrol. ing. Review of applications will start November 15 th , Fieldwork and laboratory work are important components 2007. The deadline to apply to Howard University is Feb - of this research. ruary 15 th 2008 and all the documents required by the The student will be supported by the prestigious University are detailed at http://www.gs.howard.edu/ NSF’s Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy under “Recruitment and Admissions.” program (PEET). The PEET project is entitled: “Mono - Mail the requested information to: Priscila Chaverri, graphic studies in the Nectriaceae, Hypocreales: Nectria, Department of Biology, Howard University, 415 College Neonectria , and Cosmospora .” The student will be sup - Street NW, Washington D.C., 20059 or by email to: ported for 2-3 years for a M.Sc. and 4-5 years for a Ph.D. [email protected]

44 Inoculum 58(6), November 2007 MYCOLOGICAL CLASSIFIEDS Assistant Professor: Fungal Evolution, Ecology and Systematics The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biolo - orientation, age, physical or mental disability, or covered gy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, seeks to fill veteran status. a tenure-track position in evolution, ecology and/or sys - Eligibility and other terms and conditions of employ - tematics of fungi at the Assistant Professor level, to start ment benefits at The University of Tennessee are gov - August 1, 2008. Areas of interest include fungal evolu - erned by laws and regulations of the State of Tennessee, tionary and/or ecological patterns and processes. Teach - and this non-discrimination statement is intended to be ing duties will include participation in both undergraduate consistent with those laws and regulations. and graduate courses with opportunity for development of In accordance with the requirements of Title VI of the a course in mycology. This position includes supervision Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education and continued development of the excellent UT fungal Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation herbarium. An earned Ph.D. and refereed publications in Act of 1973, and the Americans with Disabilities Act of a relevant field are required. For more information visit 1990, The University of Tennessee affirmatively states the department web site eeb.bio.utk.edu and the herbari - that it does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, or um web site tenn.bio.utk.edu/fungus/fungus.html. Candi - disability in its education programs and activities, and dates should apply to: Dr. this policy extends to employment by the University. Randall Small, Department of Ecology and Evolu - Inquiries and charges of violation of Title VI (race, tionary Biology, 569 Dabney Hall, University of Ten - color, national origin), Title IX (sex), Section 504 (dis - nessee, Knoxville, TN 37996. Applicants should send a ability), A.D.A. (disability), Age Discrimination in Em - curriculum vitae, statements of research and teaching ex - ployment Act (age), sexual orientation, or veteran status perience and goals, and arrange for three reference letters should be directed to the Office of Equity and Diversity to be submitted. Applications will be reviewed beginning (OED), 1840 Melrose Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37996- 8 October 2007 and will continue until the position is 3560, telephone (865) 974-2498 (V/TTY available) or filled. 974-2440. Requests for accommodation of a disability All qualified applicants will receive equal considera - should be directed to the ADA Coordinator at the Office tion for employment without regard to race, color, nation - of Equity and Diversity. al origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual

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Below is an alphabetical list of websites featured in Inoculum during the past 12 months. Those wishing to add sites to this directory or to edit addresses should email . Unless otherwise notified, listings will be automati - cally deleted after one year (at the editors discretion). A New Web Page About Tropical Fungi, Interactive Key to Hypocreales of Southeastern United States (57-2) Hongos Del Parque “El Haya” (58-5) nt.ars-grin.gov/sbmlweb/fungi/keydata.cfm hongosdelhaya.blogspot.com/ ISHAM: the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology Ascomycota of Sweden www.isham.org www.umu.se/myconet/asco/indexASCO.html JSTOR (58-3) Australasian Mycological Society Website (53-4) jstor.org bugs.bio.usyd.edu.au/AustMycolSoc/Home/ams.html Libri Fungorum Mycological Publications (58-3) Authors of Fungal Names (54-2) 194.203.77.76/LibriFungorum/ www.indexfungorum.org/AuthorsOfFungalNames.htm Mold Testing and Identification Services (58-2) Bibliography of Systematic Mycology www.pioneer.net/~microbe/abbeylab.html www.speciesfungorum.org/BSM/bsm.htm Mountain Justice Summer (58-3) British Mycological Society (54-1) www.MountainJusticeSummer.org www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/ Mycologia On-Line (53-3) Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; Meetings & Courses Programs (58-2) www.mycologia.org meetings.cshl.edu Mycological Progress (52-3) Collection of 800 Pictures of Macro- and Micro-fungi www.mycological-progress.com www.mycolog.com The Myconet Classification of the Ascomycota Cordyceps Website www.fieldmuseum.org/myconet www.mushtech.org Mycosearch web directory/search engine (51-5) Cornell Mushroom Blog (58-1) www.mycosearch.com hosts.cce.cornell.edu/mushroom_blog/ Mushroom World [new Ko re an/English site in 2001] (51-6) Cortbase (58-2) www.mushworld.com andromeda.botany.gu.se/cortbase.html NAMA Poison Case Registry (51-4) Corticoid Nomenclatural Database (56-2) www.sph.umich.edu/~kwcee/mpcr www.phyloinformatics.org/ Northeast Mycological Federation (NEMF) foray database (58-2) Coverage in Ukraine of Higher Fungal Ranks (56-2) www.nemfdata.org www.cybertruffle.org.uk/lists/index.htm Pacific Northwest Fungi Cyberliber Mycological Publications (57-4) A peer-reviewed online journal for information on fungal natural history www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cyberliber/index.htm in the Pacific Northwest (Alaska, British Columbia, Idaho, Montana, Ore - gon and Washington) , including taxonomy, nomenclature, ecology, and Cyberliber (58-3) biogeography. www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cyberliber/ www.pnwfungi.org/ Cybertruffle’s Fungal Valhalla (56-2) Pleurotus spp. www.cybertruffle.org.uk/valhalla/index.htm www.oystermushrooms.net Dictionary of The Fungi Classification Rare, Endangered or Under-recorded Fungi in Ukraine (56-2) www.indexfungorum.org/names/fundic.asp www.cybertruffle.org.uk/redlists/index.htm Distribution Maps of Caribbean Fungi (56-2) Registry of Mushrooms in Art www.biodiversity.ac.psiweb.com/carimaps/index.htm members.cox.net/mushroomsinart/ Distribution Maps of Georgian Fungi (56-2) Searchable database of culture collection of wood decay fungi (56-6) www.cybertruffle.org.uk/gruzmaps/index.htm www.fpl.fs.fed.us/rwu4501/index.html Distribution Maps of Ukrainian Fungi (56-2) Small Things Considered. www.cybertruffle.org.uk/ukramaps/index.htm A microbe blog on microbes in general, but carries occasional pieces Electronic Library for Mycology (56-2) specifically on fungi. www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cyberliber/index.htm schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/ Entomopathogenic Fungal Culture Collection (EFCC) Species of Glomeromycota Website (55-3) www.mushtech.org www.amf-phylogeny.com Fun Facts About Fungi (55-1) Systematics of the Saprolegniaceae (53-4) www.herbarium.usu.edu/fungi/funfacts/factindx.htm www.ilumina-dlib.org Funga Veracruzana (53-6) Tree canopy biodiversity project University of Central Missouri (58-4) www.uv.mx/institutos/forest/hongos/fungavera/index.html faculty.cmsu.edu/myxo/ Fungal Environmental Sampling and Informatics Network (58-2) Tripartite Similarity Calculator (55-1) www.bio.utk.edu/fesin/ www.amanitabear.com/similarity HighWire Press (58-3) The TRTC Fungarium (58-1) mycologia.org bbc.botany.utoronto.ca/ROM/TRTCFungarium/home.php Index of Fungi U.S. National Fungus Collections (BPI) www.indexfungorum.org/names/names.asp Complete Mushroom Specimen Database (57-1) www.ars.usda.gov/ba/psi/sbml ING (Index Nominum Genericorum) Database (52-5) ravenel.si.edu/botany/ing/ Website for the mycological journal Mycena (56-2) www.mycena.org/index.htm Interactive Key, Descriptions & Illustrations for Hypomyces (52-6) nt.ars-grin.gov/sbmlweb/fungi/keydata.cfm Wild Mushrooms From Tokyo www.ne.jp/asahi/mushroom/tokyo/

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