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MycologiaVol. 59(5)

September 2008

Newsletter of the Mycological Society of America

Fungal Art

This month’s piece of Fungal Art is a won-derful collection of fungi beautifully presentedby Marc Cubetta and students Faith Bartz andGeromy Moore. The collection was made duringthe MSA foray during this year’s meeting atPenn State (photo by Allison Walker).

— In This Issue —

Editor — Jinx CampbellDept. of Coastal Sciences, Gulf Coast Research LabUniversity of Southern Mississippi703 East Beach Drive, Ocean Springs, MS 39564Telephone: (228) 818-8878, Fax: (228) 872-4264Email: [email protected]

— Important Dates —

MSA BusinessPresident’s CornerSecretary’s Email ExpressEditor’s Note

MSA 2008 Award Winners

MSA Meeting 2008MSA Foray PhotosPhoto Competition WinnersOnline Photo Gallery

Mycological NewsEighth International Symposium on Arctic-Alpine MycologyCBS SymposiumSecond Annual Truffle Biotechnology WorkshopWorkshop on the Taxonomy and Biology of Microscopic

FungiArchiving Back Issues of Inoculum

Mycologist’s BookshelfThe genus Cladosporium and Similar DematiaceousHyphomycetes

Neotropical Hypocrella (Anamorph Aschersonia),Moelleriella, and Samuelsi

Ecology and Management of Morels Harvestedfrom the Forests of Western America

Fungi Europaei 1. Agaricus – Allopsalliota – Part IIndex of Fungi Inhabiting Woody Plants in Japan –Host, Distribution and Literature

Atlas of Invertebrate-Pathogenic Fungi of ThailandRamaria of the Pacific Northwestern United StatesRecently Received BooksPreviously Listed Books

Take a BreakM is for MushroomCookery Corner – Mushroom Stroganoff

Mycological JobsMarine Mycology Research on the Gulf of MexicoM.S. or Ph.D. Student in Fungal Systematics and EvolutionAssistant Professor of Biology, University of Hawai’i

Mycological ClassifiedsBook Sale to Benefit the MSAWanted: Cultures of Achlya AmbisexualisFungal Testing and Identification Services

Mycology On-LineCalendar of EventsSustaining Members

October 15, 2008Deadline for Submission to Inoculum 59(6)

September 19-21, 200855th Annual Charles Peck ForayAlbany, NY

November 13-14, 2008CBS Symposium: Fungi and HealthTrippenhuis, KNAW Amsterdam.

November 10-13, 2008VI Latin American Mycology Congress (ALM)Mar del Plata, ArgentinaNovember 17-21, 2008Second African Conference on Edible

and Medicinal Mushrooms (2nd ACEMM)Accra, Ghana

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MSA BUSINESS

As I make the long flights back toHawaii from Pennsylvania, I am reliving inmy mind the wonderful days at the annualmeeting of the MSA at Penn State Univer-sity in August. The foray was terrific, thevenue for the papers and symposia wassuper, the social and auction were great funas usual, and the food at all the events wasout of sight. Kudos are surely due to DavidGeiser and his staff for organizing thememorable meetings. Barrie Overton dida great job of selecting the site for the foraywith lots of trails through a beautiful forestwith a flat terrain covered with myriads ofmushrooms of every color and size imagi-nable. Jo Taylor and her committee pro-vided a diverse program for the three dayswith symposia and paper sessions for all our interests.Please drop these individuals an email and let them knowhow much we appreciated their efforts.

Our Karling lecturer, Nicholas Talbot from the Uni-versity of Exeter in England, gave a stimulating talk enti-tled “Investigating the biology of plant infection by therice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea using functional ge-nomics.” Dr. Talbot has investigated the development andpathogenesis of the fungus involved in this devastatingdisease from every angle, cell biology, biochemistry, andmolecular biology. Thanks are due here to MeritxellRiquelme and her committee for making such a goodchoice for our Karling lecturer.

The business meeting featured the awarding of theAlexopoulos Prize to Ignazio Carbone, the WestonAward for Teaching Excellence to Don Pfister and AlexWeir, and the Distinguished Mycologist Award to JohnTaylor. For the first time photos and summaries of eachawardee’s accomplishments were published in the meet-ing program. Two of our Latin-America colleagues, Gio-conda San Blas and Angela Restrepo, were selected ashonorary members.

Two transitions were announced. Meredith Black-well will take over as Chair of the Memorials committeefrom Don Pfizer. We thank Don for his considerablework in this capacity over the years and know that Mered-ith will keep us on track. We are fortunate to have thesetwo individuals who are the primary forces in keeping thecorporate history of our society. The second transition isthe appointment of Jeff Stone to replace Don Natvig asEditor in Chief of Mycologia. Don has done a great job for

the past four and a half years as Editor inChief and we want to thank him and wishhim all the best as he continues his researchand teaching. Jeff brings years of experi-ence as Managing Editor of Mycologia tohis new post and we know he will continuethe high standards that we appreciate withour signature publication. Please drop Dona line of thanks for his service to the socie-ty and Jeff a line of appreciation for takingover this important post.Karen Snetselaarhas agreed to add to her duties as Depart-ment Chair at St. Joseph’s to take over theManaging Editor position. Karen comes tothe position with a wealth of knowledge ofthe finances of the society and the work-ings of Mycologia. Congratulations to all.

And, oh what a social and auction we had. Could youbelieve the spread of food for the social? I believe I sam-pled a half dozen of those beautiful desserts. With theirusual wit and guile, David Geiser and John Taylor onceagain extracted large sums of money from eager bidders.A highlight was the singing (?) of a ditty to commemorateEmory Simmons’ new book on Alternaria. The biddingwas even more spirited when there was a promise of anautograph from the ever smiling Emory. Betsy Arnoldand her crew of graduate students did a great job of settingup the silent and live auction, and we thank all who do-nated books and mycological treasures to the auction. Dostart saving up for next year.

Future meetings were announced. Marc Cubeta isthe program chair for our meetings next year with theBotanical Society of America in Snow Bird, Utah. Pleaselet him know as soon as possible if you have an idea for asymposium. In 2010 we will meet in Lexington, Kentuckywith Lisa Vaillancourt in charge of local arrangements.And in 2011 we will meet in Fairbanks, Alaska. Lee Tay-lor and Gary Larsen promise us a memorable meetingthere.

The chestnut gavel has been turned over to RoyHalling, Curator of Mycology at the New York BotanicalGardens. Roy has been an integral part of the MSA foryears and has served the society in many capacities. Weare in good hands, and I know Roy will keep our societystrong. Thanks go to all of you for supporting me and theMSA Council this past year.

—Don HemmesPast President

From the President’s Corner . . .

Don Hemmes, President

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MSA Council has completed one emailpoll since my last report, approving thefollowing:

• MSA Full Council poll 2008-07:Council approved two nominees forMSA Honorary Member as presentedby the Honorary Awards Committee,Chaired by David McLaughlin. Hon-orary Members will be voted on bythe MSA membership during the an-nual breakfast and business meetingheld at the MSA Annual Meeting—this year’s will be at Penn State onAugust 13th.

New Members: It is my pleasure to ex-tend a warm welcome to the following new (or return-ing) members. New memberships will be formally ap-proved by the Society at the Annual Business Meetingat Penn State on August 13, 2008.

• Brazil: Anibal Alves Carvalho• Denmark: Thomas Laessoee• United States: Thomas Tipler Baldwin, Tessa A.

Bauman, Neil Dollinger, Daisy Louro, MariaMercader-Brand, Denise A. Otto, David Rizzo,Ian A Saltzman, Dennis E. Shevlin, Lisa M.Smith, Anethra L. Wilson, Malgorzata A. Wlo-

darska, Andrew W. Wynne, HyeYoung YunEmeritus candidates: I have received noapplications for emeritus status duringthis period. Emeritus status is conferredupon retired or retiring members whohave at least 15 years good standing withthe Society.

REMINDER: MSA Directory Update:Is your information up-to-date in theMSA directory? The Society is relyingmore and more on email to bring you thelatest MSA news, awards announcementsand other timely information, and ournewsletter. To ensure that you receiveSociety blast emails and the Inoculum as

soon as it comes out, and so that your colleagues cankeep in touch, please check the accuracy of your emailaddress and contact information in the online directory.This can be accessed via our web site atwww.msafungi.org. If you need assistance with updat-ing your membership information, or help with yourmembership log-in ID and password, please contact ourAssociation Manager at Allen Press, the always-helpfulKay Rose at [email protected].

—Cathie [email protected]

MSA Secretary’s Email Express

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What a great meeting we had at Penn State! Checkout the section on the MSA Meeting, which has the win-ners of the photo competition held during the Social,and also includes some photos from the foray. Also inthis edition are the 2008 Award Winners. The minutesof the Business Meeting will be published in the nextedition of Inoculum.

If you have any comments or suggestions to im-prove Inoculum or some content you wish to see added,please let me know. If you would like to submit an arti-cle or have any news or classifieds etc for Inoculum,please send your materials to me [email protected]. Do not send materials to KayRose at Allen Press. All submissions should be sent asattachments, preferably in Word. If you submit pictures,

these need to be sent as separate JPGS or GIFFS, notembedded in the word document. Please do not sendyour submission in the body of the email.

Inoculum is published in odd numbered months(January, March, May, July, September, November).The deadline for submitting is the 15th of even num-bered months: February, April, June, August, October,except December, which is the 10th.

If you would like to review a book or CD, pleasecontact Amy Rossman at [email protected] will send it to you, you write the review, and thenyou can keep the book. Titles for review can be found inthe Mycologist’s Bookshelf section.

—Jinx CampbellInoculum Editor

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Editor’s Note


MSA 2008 AWARD WINNERS

Awarded annually to an individ-ual who has established an outstand-ing mycological career. This is one ofthe highest awards bestowed by theMSA and marks a distinguished ca-reer. Nominees for the award will beevaluated on the basis of quality,originality, and quantity of their pub-lished research, and on the basis ofservice to the MSA or to the field ofmycology in general.

As the Miller Professor in theDepartment of Plant and MicrobialBiology at the University of Califor-nia, Berkeley, John W. Taylor hasbeen at the forefront of promotingmycology as an accessible, dynamicand exciting field. He reaches a wideaudience through his many invitedlectures. His exceptional teachinghas earned him the Weston Awardfrom MSA and a Distinguished Teaching Award from theCollege of Natural Resources in UC Berkeley. Numerousgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers have benefit-ed from his insightful guidance. In over 150 refereed re-

search papers in journals includingNature and Mycologia, John and hiscoauthors have applied creative andgroundbreaking genetic approachesto illuminate important biologicalprinciples in fungal evolutionary bi-ology. His has served as associate ed-itor for Fungal Genetics and Biology,Mycologia, and Mycological Re-search. He received the MSA Alex-opoulos Prize in 1986 and was elect-ed President of the MSA in 2003 andVice President of the InternationalMycological Association in 2006,with many other honors and awardsalong the way. By all counts, JohnTaylor truly deserves to be honoredas Distinguished Mycologist by theMycological Society of America.

Mycological SocietyDistinctions Committee: Mary

Berbee (Chair), James Kimbrough, Nick Read, Joseph WSpatafora, Walter Sundberg and Georgiana May, ex officia,Past Chair.

2008 Distinguished Mycologist Award Winner: John Taylor

John W. Taylor

Awarded annually to an outstanding mycologist early in their career. The nom-inees will be evaluated primarily on the basis of quality, originality, and quantityof their published work.

As a glowing letter of support put it, Ignazio Carbone is ‘one of the most cre-ative people in the field of fungal molecular biology.’ With his Ph.D. supervisorLinda Kohn, he wrote classic papers using nested clade analyses and coalescencetheory to make inferences about the life histories in Sclerotinia. Ignacio won schol-arships for his Ph.D. studies including a Mycological Society of America GraduateFellowship, Ontario Graduate Scholarships and fellowships from NSERC and Uni-versity of Toronto. Ignazio’s research honors also include an MSA poster awardand a Fulbright Award. Since 2002 Ignazio has been Assistant Professor in PlantPathology with a joint appointment in the Bioinformatics Research Center, NorthCarolina State University. His multidisciplinary strengths shine through in therange of his research accomplishments. He co-developed the free SNAP Work-bench software that helps population geneticists organize and analyze data. In hisexciting 2007 papers in BMC Evolutionary Biology, he and his co-author showedthat aflatoxin gene clusters in Aspergillus evolve by recombination among meta-bolic modules and strong selection. Carbone’s publication and research record areoutstanding for such a young researcher and make him a rising star in his field.

Mycological Society Distinctions Committee: Mary Berbee (Chair), JamesKimbrough, Nick Read, Joseph W Spatafora, Walter Sundberg and Georgiana May,ex officia, Past Chair.

C.J. Alexopoulos Prize Winner: Ignazio Carbone

Ignazio Carbone


Weston Award for Excellence in Teaching: Pfister and WeirAwarded annually to an outstanding teacher of mycol-

ogy at the undergraduate and or graduate levels.Donald H. Pfister’s exemplary teaching in the Depart-

ment of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at HarvardUniversity has benefited students of all ages from under-graduates to faculty. Don began his scientific career with anA.B. in Botany at Miami University and continued with hisdoctoral studies of ascomycete systematics at Cornell, underthe supervision of the legendary Richard Korf. Don beganhis professional career as an assistant professor at the Uni-versity of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, and in 1974 he accepteda position in the Department of Biology at Harvard Univer-sity where he presently holds the position of the Asa GrayProfessor of Systematic Botany. At Harvard, in addition toa full schedule of research, teaching, and committee work inaid of students, Don ably served the Mycological Society ofAmerica in positions as councilor, newsletter editor, andsecretary, and in 1995 was elected President of the society.His teaching has always extended beyond the classroom. Heserved large numbers of undergraduate students, includingthose under his care when he was co-Master of KirklandHouse for eighteen years and through numerous Harvardcommittees for the welfare of students. In the words of oneof his students, Don was lauded as “The very best—able totalk at any level to keep all students learning. It was a priv-ilege to have Don as an instructor.” He has cared for thephenomenal mycological resources under his stewardship asAsa Gray Professor of Systematic Botany, as Curator of the

Farlow Reference Library and Herbarium of CryptogamicBotany, and as Director of the Harvard University Herbaria,which will continue to benefit innumerable future studentsof mycology.

Alex Weir’s enthusiasm and dedication to students arerecurring themes in his letters of recommendation for theWeston Award. Alex’s contagious fascination with fungal-arthropod interactions is evident in the title of his 1997 Ph.D.thesis, ‘Comparative Biological and Taxonomic Studies onTropical and Temperate Laboulbeniales (Fungi, Ascomyco-ta),’ which he completed in the University of Newcastleupon Tyne, UK and the Natural History Museum, London.Following his tenure as a postdoctoral fellow with MeredithBlackwell, Alex accepted a faculty position in the Faculty ofEnvironmental and Forest Biology, at the State University ofNew York College (SUNY), Syracuse NY. At SUNY Alexhas established an active research lab, written successfulgrant proposals including an NSF PEET grant for Laboulbe-niales systematics, and taught approximately 14 differentcourses. His field courses at the Cranberry Lake BiologicalStation draw rave reviews from students and since 2005 hehas served as the station as its director. As one student wrotein support of Alex’s nomination for a Weston award ‘Whilethe class was extremely challenging, I am glad it was so. Ilearned so much in the span of one semester...’

Mycological Society Distinctions Committee: MaryBerbee (Chair), James Kimbrough, Nick Read, Joseph WSpatafora, Walter Sundberg and Georgiana May, ex officia,Past Chair.

Donald H. Pfister

Alex Weir


MSA Fellows are selected from members who havecompleted at least 11 years of service after their Ph.D.They are members who are outstanding mycologists onthe basis of one or more criteria: a solid record of myco-logical research, and/or successful teaching and devel-opment of teaching materials for mycology, and/or sig-nificant service to the Society. This is meant to recognizea core group of mid-career mycological achievers andoutstanding MSA volunteers.

Dr. Mary Berbeehas been nominatedfor the MSA FellowsAward based on hercontributions in bothresearch and service.She is a world-classevolutionary mycolo-gist and pioneer in thefield of molecularsystematics. As hernominator points out,there is nothing aboutfungi that Mary doesnot like. Her morethan 40 publicationsinclude mycologicalfirsts in phylogeneticstudies of meiosis, molecular phylogenetic studies ofmajor lineages in the Ascomycota, use of molecularclocks to date the origins of fungal lineages, molecularevolution of mating systems in Cochliobolus, diversity ofericoid mycorrhizae, and phylogenomics ofearly–diverging fungal lineages. Mary has trained manygraduates and undergraduates in mycology. She has pro-vided extensive service to MSA as program chair andCounsilor, and to other committees, as evidenced by thefact that she will present the next set of awards. Mary hasalso served on the Editorial Board of Mycologia andother mycological journals.

Dr. David Hibbett’s nomination for the MSA Fel-lows Award reflects his outstanding record as a re-searcher in systematic mycology, his contributions as ateacher, and his service to the society and to mycology ingeneral. David has been a leader in molecular systematicmycology. Among the 65 publications in peer-reviewedjournals are a number of seminal contributions to thefield, including his paper on the evolution of fruitingforms, his biogeographic work on Lentinula, and a com-plete revision of fungal classification published last yearin Mycological Research. This last paper reflects his out-standing contributions to the field as one of the PIs on theNSF Assembling the Fungal Tree of Life project. As hisnominator notes, “Key to its success was David’s spirit of

stewardship and highstandards of scholar-ship”. But we shouldalso note that it re-flects David’s talentas one of the world’stop mycologicaldiplomats in guiding afractious communityof systematic mycolo-gists to a harmoniousclassification. Davidis an important pres-ence on the editorialboards of several jour-nals and on the Coun-cil of the Society forSystematic Biologists.In the mycologicalrealm, he has served the MSA on the Awards and KarlingLecture committees, as Councilor, and as Associate Edi-tor of Mycologia. David is a committed teacher and aspart of the AFTOL project, he developed teaching work-shops for secondary educators.

Dr. Joyce Long-core is internationallyknown as the “moth-er” of Batrachochytri-um dendrobatidis anda frog’s best friend.Chytridiomycosis,caused by this chytrid,is now regarded as“the worst infectiousdisease ever recordedamong vertebrates interms of number ofspecies impacted andits propensity to drivethem to extinction”.The discovery of thisfungus has trans-formed how peoplelook at chytrids. Oncechytrids were largely ignored but now conferences arededicated to research on Batrachochytrium dendrobatidisalone. Joyce has pursued an unusual path in mycology.She began as a research technician to Dr. Fred Sparrow,the last monographer of the group, and it was from Spar-row that she learned the intricacies of collecting and cul-turing chytrids and oomycetes. Joyce did not pursue aPh.D. until after she was 50. She built a large collectionof chytrid cultures to document chytrid biodiversity and

MSA Fellows: Berbee, Hibbett, Longcore, and Volk

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Joyce Longcore(photo by Herb Swansonfor The New York Times)

David Hibbett(photo by Tom Volk)

Mary Berbee

study their development and ultrastructure. Those cul-tures now service the study of chytrids worldwide, in-cluding the first chytrid genome and several NSF proj-ects. As an Associate Research Scientist, Joyce does notteach formal university courses, but scientists and stu-dents are frequent visitors to her laboratory, and she isoften invited to give demonstrations and lectures on therecognition and culture of chytrids. She has mentoredthree graduate students and numerous undergraduates, aswell as helped train graduate students through the NSF-PEET program. Joyce has served the society as AssociateEditor of Mycologia and also has chaired the Biodiversi-ty Committee.

Dr. Thomas Volk is a pioneer mycologist on the In-ternet, and a renowned teacher, and he has given extraor-dinary service to the Mycological Society of America.His website “Tom Volk’s Fungi” is the most authoritativegeneral site about fungi. This website, together with hisservice to the North American Mycological Association,makes Tom an important bridge between amateur andprofessional, and it also reflects the high quality of histeaching for which he received the Society’s WestonAward. His research has covered various aspects ofmushroom biology and medical mycology and he is a

very knowledgeablefield mycologist. Heis much loved by hisstudents. His serviceto the MSA is exem-plary. He was the So-ciety’s first webmas-ter. He has beenCouncilor and servedon many MSA com-mittees, includingElectronic Communi-cations, Amateur My-cology, Long RangePlanning, MycologyTeaching and Educa-tion. And we all knowa MSA meeting with-out Tom’s camerawould not be an MSA meeting. And today we get to turnthe tables on Tom and take his picture for the Newsletterto honor his service to the Society.

Honorary Awards Committee: Dave McLaughlin(Chair), Martha J. Powell, James B. Anderson, Carol A.Shearer, ex officia, Past Chair


Honorary members are distinguished senior scientistswith a long record of significant contributions to the sci-ence of fungal biology and who reside in and work in coun-tries other than the U.S. and Canada.

Dr. Angela Restre-po of the Corporaciónpara Investigaciones Bi-ológicas, Medellín,Colombia, has been pro-posed as an HonoraryMember of the Mycolog-ical Society of America.Dr. Restrepo is as distin-guished a mycologist asyou are likely to findanywhere. She has devot-ed her career to LatinAmerican fungal diseasesand is the expert on para-coccidioidomycosis, theSouth American relativeof histoplasmosis and coccidioidomycosis. She has pub-lished more than 300 papers and 32 book chapters, includ-ing clinical studies, life history, ecology, and immunologystudies, and studies employing molecular methods. Afterobtaining her Ph.D. at Tulane University she returned toColumbia and a teaching position at the University of An-

tioquia. Faced with political instabilities in the country inthe 1970’s she had to leave the University. She then raisedthe money to start a private center, the Corporación paraInvestigaciones Biológicas, which is one of the premiermedical mycology research centers in Latin America. Atthe center, she has helped train a generation of mycologistsand medical researchers. More than 160 scientists havebeen trained at this institution and one of her colleaguesestimates that Dr. Restrepo personally trained at least 100of these scientists. Although she is retired, she still worksfull time at the Corporación para Investigaciones Biológi-cas. Dr. Restrepo has been recognized in her own country,including the Columbian Academy of Science, but also bythe Medical Mycology Society of the Americas, CanadianSociety of Mycology, International Society for Human andAnimal Mycology (ISHAM), Venezuelan Society forInfectious Diseases, VIII International Congress onParacoccidioidomycosis, and has even had an awardnamed for her. We are late to recognize her impact on my-cology and the infrastructure of mycology in Latin Ameri-ca, but we still have the chance to do so.

Dr. Gioconda San-Blas, of the Mycology Laboratoryin the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research and theSimón Bolívar University. Dr. San-Blas is synonymouswith Venezuelan mycology and is an expert on the agent ofthe Latin American systemic mycosis, paracoccidioidomy-

MSA Honorary Member: Angela Restrepo and Gioconda San-Blas

Angela Restrepo

Thomas Volk(photo by Scott Redhead)



cosis. Her work on Paracoc-cidioides brasiliensis andyeasts relies on a variety oftechniques including culturalwork, genetics, ultrastructure,biochemistry, and DNA se-quencing. Her internationalreputation is solidly based onover 100 refereed publica-tions, many in internationallycirculated journals and inbook chapters. She also hasedited three books on patho-genic fungi. She has been re-markable in continuing to do what she does under difficultpolitical conditions in her home country. Dr. San-Blas hasorganized, or helped to organize, many Paracoccidioidesmeetings in Latin America, and International Society forHuman and Animal Mycology scientific meetings, theLatin American Mycological Congress, and the 8th Inter-national Mycological Congress. She also is visionary, hav-ing organized Virtual Mycological Congresses usingposters on the web. Dr. San-Blas has provided leadershipfor mycology nationally and internationally. She has beenpresident of the Venezuelan Mycological Association, the

Latin American Mycological Association, and is currentlyVice-President of the International Society for Human andAnimal Mycology. She also has served as Secretary Gen-eral of the International Mycological Association. Dr. San-Blas is a dedicated instructor, teaching not only at herhome institution, Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Re-search, but also at the University of Venezuela, SimónBolívar University, and other universities throughoutSouth America and Mexico. In her career, she hasmentored the theses of 20 students.She is on the editorialboards of Mycopathology and Antonie van Leeuwenhoekand has been an associate editor of Medical Mycology for15 years. She is the first woman to become a member ofthe Venezuelan Academy of Sciences, and is also a mem-ber of the Latin American Academy of Sciences. Shealready is an honorary member of three other mycologicalgroups: Asociación Latinoamericana de Micología,Sociedad Argentina de Micología, and AsociaciónMexicana de Micología. One of her nominators wrote, “Iam confident that she will be more than an honorary mem-ber as we try to forge better ties with our colleagues southof the Equator.”

Honorary Awards Committee: Dave McLaughlin(Chair), Martha J. Powell, James B. Anderson, Carol A.Shearer, ex officia, Past Chair

Gioconda San-Blas

MSA Graduate Fellowships: Sara Branco and Tami McDonaldTwo MSA Graduate Fellowships are awarded annually

to promising graduate students in mycology. Applicants areevaluated on the basis of their scholastic merit, researchability and promise shown as a mycologist.

Sara Branco is a PhD candi-date from the Committee on Evo-lutionary Biology at the Universi-ty of Chicago. Sara received adegree in Biology from the Uni-versity of Lisbon (Portugal) in2001. She has been a fungal en-thusiast since she was 16 and con-ducted her first scientific study onfungi while finishing her under-graduate degree where she com-pared fungal communities fromdifferent forest types in Sintra-Cascais Natural Park (Portu-gal). Between 2001 and 2004 Sara was hired by the Mon-tesinho Natural Park (Braganca, Portugal) to study themacrofungal communities associated with Mediterraneanoak forests. Meanwhile she was also involved with teachingactivities at the School of Agriculture of Braganca (Portu-gal). Sara was then selected for the Fulbright CommissionAward and started her PhD at the University of Chicago. Sheis interested in the evolution of symbiotic fungi in extremeenvironments and studies the local adaptation of ectomycor-rhizal fungi to serpentine soils under the supervision of Dr

Gregory M. Mueller. Her study focusses on ectomycorrhizalfungi from serpentine and non-serpentine Mediterranean oakforests and uses a combination of field surveys, common gar-den experiments, and morphological and molecular tech-niques. Currently she spends most her time at the Field Mu-seum of Natural History.

Tami McDonald is a PhDcandidate in the Department of Bi-ology and the University Programin Genetics and Genomics at DukeUniversity under the supervisionof Dr. François Lutzoni. She re-ceived her Master’s degree fromthe Department of Plant Biologyat the University of Minnesotawhere she resolved a species com-plex in the lichen genus Stictawith Dr. Clifford Wetmore. Shehas also worked on secondary metabolism in Aspergillus inDr. Nancy Keller’s lab in the Department of Plant Pathologyat the University of Wisconsin. She is now investigating epi-genetic silencing in lichens using a variety of molecular ap-proaches.

Student Awards Committee: Jinx Campbell (Chair),Jean Marc Moncalvo, Andrew Methven, Kentaro Hosa-ka, Brian Perry, Lori M. Carris, ex officia, Past Chair

Sara Branco

Tami McDonald


The mentor awards are given in the names of some ofour famous mycological forbearers: C. J. Alexopoulos, A.Barksdale, M. Barr-Bigelow, H. Bigelow, E. E. Butler, W.C. Denison, H. M. Fitzpatrick, R. P. Korf, E. S. Luttrell,O.K. Miller Jr., J. R. Raper, H. D. Thiers, and J. M. Trappe.C. J. Alexopoulos Award: Brendan HodkinsonSchool: Duke UniversitySupervisor: François LutzoniPresentation: Lichen-associated non-photobiont bacteria:the third symbiont?A. Barksdale/J. R. Raper Award: D. Rabern SimmonsSchool: University of MaineSupervisor: Joyce LongcorePresentation: Diversity within the genus Powellomyces(Spizellomycetales, Chytridiomycota)

NAMA Memorial Fellowship: Jo Anne CrouchThe NAMA Memorial Fellowship is awarded annually to promising graduate students

in mycology. Applicants are evaluated on the basis of their scholastic merit, research abil-ity and promise shown as a mycologist.

Jo Anne Crouch is a recent graduate of the Ph.D. program in the Plant Biology andPathology department at Rutgers University, where she studied the evolution of grass-as-sociated Colletotrichum with Brad Hillman. Jo Anne’s dissertation research focused onColletotrichum that cause anthracnose disease in turfgrass and cereal crops, and contrast-ed these agronomic pathogens against endophytic populations of Colletotrichum in wildand cultivated grasses. In addition to her work with Colletotrichum, Jo Anne alsocontributed to studies of Cryphonectria parasitica transposons and repeat-induced pointmutation, the biogeography of the C. parasitica CHV1 virus in Asia and Europe, type IIIsecretion and mechanisms of pathogenicity in the bacterium Lysobacter enzymogenes, andthe systematics of the fungi comprising the cranberry fruit rot complex and is a participantin the genome sequencing projects of C. parasitica and L. enzymogenes.

Student Awards Committee: Jinx Campbell (Chair), Jean Marc Moncalvo, AndrewMethven, Kentaro Hosaka, Brian Perry, Lori M. Carris, ex officia, Past Chair

Jo Anne Crouch

Backus Award: Luis MejiaThe Backus Award is awarded annually to promising graduate students in mycology.

Applicants are evaluated on the basis of their scholastic merit, research ability and prom-ise shown as a mycologist.

Luis C. Mejia is a Ph.D. Candidate at Rutgers University working under supervisionof Jim White, Lisa Castlebury, and Amy Rossman. Luis’s interest in fungi began in his na-tive country Panama, where he worked on genetic diversity of Magnaporthe grisea, ecol-ogy of endophytic fungi, and biocontrol of fungal pathogens of the chocolate tree. His dis-sertation research is on systematics and evolution of wood-inhabiting fungi from thefamily Gnomoniaceae (Diaporthales). He is exploring the possibility of co-speciation be-tween some Gnomoniaceae and their hosts and as well as the emergence of pathogenictraits in this family.

Student Awards Committee: Jinx Campbell (Chair), Jean Marc Moncalvo, AndrewMethven, Kentaro Hosaka, Brian Perry, Lori M. Carris, ex officia, Past Chair Luis C. Mejia

Mentor Travel Award Winners

Mentor Travel Award winners(photo by Tom Volk)



The student presentation awards are awarded annuallyto the two best oral research papers and the two best postersin mycology presented by graduate students at the annualMSA meeting.

Best oral presentation awards:Kabir PeaySchool: UC BerkeleyAdvisor: Thomas BrunsPresentation: Is landscape scale dispersal an important determi-nant of fungal species richness and community composition?Brendan HodkinsonSchool: Duke UniversityAdvisor: François LutzoniPresentation: Lichen-associated non-photobiont bacteria: thethird symbiont?

Best poster awards:Donald WalkerSchool: Rutgers UniversityAdvisor: James F. WhitePresentation: Assessing the monophyly of Gnomoniopsis(Gnomoniaceae). A phylogeny based on morphological, cul-tural and ribosomal DNA sequences.Yun Luan CuiSchool: Miami University, Ohio

Advisor: Nicholas MoneyPresentation: Adaptations to the ballistospore dischargemechanism among Agaricomycetes

Student Awards Committee: Jinx Campbell (Chair),Jean Marc Moncalvo, Andrew Methven, Kentaro Hosa-ka, Brian Perry, Lori M. Carris, ex officia, Past Chair. Plusad hoc judges: Merlin White, Julia Kerrigan, Juan LuisMata and Greg Douhan.

Student Presentation Award Winners

Donald Walker (left), Yun Luan Cui, BrendanHodkinson, and Kabir Peay (photo by Tom Volk)

M. Barr-Bigelow Award: Marion AndrewSchool: University of TorontoSupervisor: Linda M. KohnPresentation: Molecular phylogeny of pathogenicity-relatedgenes and the evolution of necrotrophic parasitism in the Scle-rotiniaceaeH. Bigelow Award: Mary Jane (MJ) EppsSchool: University of ArizonaSupervisor: Betsy ArnoldPresentation: Patterns of Diversity and Host Visitation amongMushroom-Inhabiting BeetlesE. E. Butler Award: Geromy MooreSchool: North Carolina State UniversitySupervisor: Ignazio CarbonePresentation: Geographic-specific patterns of recombinationin the aflatoxin gene cluster of Aspergillus flavusW. C. Denison Award: Douglas EudySchool: Truman State UniversitySupervisor: José HerreraPresentation: Biogeographic Variation in the Dark Septate En-dophyte Communities of Blue Grama (Bouteloua gracilis)across Central North AmericaH. M. Fitzpatrick Award: Michelle HershSchool: Duke UniversitySupervisor: Rytas Vilgalys & James S. ClarkPresentation: Effects of fungal and oomycete pathogens onseedling recruitment in a temperate mixed hardwood forest

R. P. Korf Award: Jana U’RenSchool: University of ArizonaSupervisor: Betsy ArnoldPresentation: Evolutionary relationships of endophytic, en-dolichenic and saprotrophic fungi in the Chiricahua MountainsE. S. Luttrell Award: Tami McDonaldSchool: Duke UniversitySupervisor: François LutzoniPresentation: Epigenetics of the lichen symbiosisO. K. Miller Jr. Award: Christopher CrabtreeSchool: University of Central Missouri in WarrensburgSupervisor: Harold KellerPresentation: Association of macrofungal species and assem-blages with vascular plant communities at Ha Ha Tonka StatePark, MissouriH. D. Thiers: Todd OsmundsonSchool: Columbia University and New York Botanical GardenSupervisor: Roy HallingPresentation: Systematics of Tylopilus Karst. (Boletaceae):biogeographic and evolutionary insightsJ. M. Trappe: Megan SaundersSchool: University of TorontoSupervisor: Linda M. KohnPresentation: Elucidating biotic factors that influence assem-bly of fungal endophyte communities

Mentor Travel Awards Committee: Elizabeth Frieders(Chair), József Geml, Juan L Mata, Peter Kennedy, StevenHarris, ex-officio, Past Chair

Martin-Baker Research AwardThe George W. Martin and Gladys E. Baker Research

Award supports new or ongoing research in mycology by arecent-Ph.D. mycologist (preferably within 5 years of re-ceiving the degree), who also has significant teachingcommitments.

Dr. Peter Aviscompleted his Ph.D. de-gree in 2003 with DaveMcLaughlin and RisCharvat at the Universi-ty of Minnesota, fol-lowed by stints as a lec-turer at University ofWisconsin-Stout and apost-doc with GregMueller at the FieldMuseum in Chicago. In2007 he accepted hiscurrent position as As-sistant Professor in theBiology Department at Indiana University Northwest inGary, where he currently teaches introductory biology tomajors and non-majors. In the future Pete will also teachupper level courses focused on molecular, plant and fungalbiology. He says he has lots of fun sharing his research in-terests with some great IU Northwest undergrads! The sup-port from the Martin-Baker Fund will help Pete and his un-dergraduate students to pursue questions about how nitrogendeposition impacts ectomycorrhizal fungal communities.Specifically, this award will help in achieving his overallgoal of understanding how epidemic growth of mutualisticfungi may be triggered by increased nitrogen availabilityand what the consequences of this growth are to the plantsand terrestrial ecosystems in which it occurs. The specificobjectives of his proposal will be to assist in developing arobust phylogeny for the Russula amoenolens species com-plex, a systematically notorious but typically abundant andecologically important clade of mycorrhizal fungi that canhave epidemic growth with increased nitrogen.

Forest Fungal Ecology Research AwardThis award supports ecological research by a gradu-

ate or undergraduate student, examining fungal interac-tions in old growth forests or other unique or endangeredecosystems. Studies should address innovative approachesto examining fungal systems or interactions of individuals,or groups of fungi, with hosts or substrates in old growthforest or other sensitive ecosystems.

Mark Alexander earned his M.A. at the University ofTennessee at Chattanooga and is pursuing a Ph.D. with Dr.Richard Baird at Mississippi State University. Work on

American chestnutrestoration with Dr.Hill Craddock led Markto a broad interest inforest health and therole of fungi in ecosys-tem function on a land-scape scale. His currentresearch is an examina-tion of the root-inhabit-ing fungal associates ofold-growth Easternhemlock. This corner-stone Appalachian treespecies is currentlyunder threat from the in-vasive Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (HWA). Hemlockspecies are known to form extensive ectomycorrhizal asso-ciations which are critical to growth, establishment and re-generation. Loss of Eastern hemlock due to HWA willhave an unknown effect on fungal populations in the rhi-zosphere. In addition to developing baseline data on myc-orrhizal and plant-pathogenic fungal associates, Markplans to isolate and maintain ectomycorrhizal fungi in aculture repository. These native hemlock-associated fungalsymbionts will be preserved and made available for futureuse in efforts to restore the species. Mark adds, “Perhapswe can succeed in preserving these majestic trees by firstpreserving the tiny fungi upon which they depend.”

Clark T. RogersonStudent Research Award

The Clark T. Rogerson Student Research Award sup-ports student travel to herbaria and/or field sites to con-duct research. Grants are available to undergraduate orgraduate students who are members of the MycologicalSociety of America

Jana U’Ren, is asecond year Ph.D stu-dent and an IGERT fel-low in Genomics,studying with Dr. BetsyArnold at the Universityof Arizona Departmentof Plant Sciences. Shecompleted her B.A. inBiology in 2001, whileplaying Division I soft-ball at the University ofMissouri-Columbia.After graduation, sheworked for one year as a


MSA 2008 Research Awards

Peter Avis

Mark Alexander

Jana U’Ren



laboratory technician with Dr. Brandon Gaut at U. C.Irvine, focusing on molecular evolution of Zea mays ssp.mays. From 2003 to 2006, she served as research special-ist at the Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics atNorthern Arizona University with Dr. Paul Keim, workingon high-throughput molecular methods to study the popu-lation genetics, evolution, and ecology of bacterialpathogens such as Bacillus anthracis, Coxiella burnetiiand Burkholderia pseudomallei. Jana’s dissertation re-search investigates the evolutionary relationships and di-versity of fungal endophytes, saprotrophic fungi, and en-dolichenic fungi associated with diverse plant and lichenhosts. The Clark T. Rogerson Award will provide neededfunds for Jana to conduct field sampling near Fairbanksand Nome, Alaska. Sampling in these locations will com-plement Jana’s ongoing studies regarding the scale of fun-gal biodiversity and the broad latitudinal patterns that un-derlie fungal symbioses.

John W. RipponResearch Award

This award supports graduate student research, whichemploys innovative approaches to studying medically im-portant fungi. Studies may be clinical in nature or may en-compass various research areas, such as genetics, system-atics, genomics, ecology, distribution, epidemiology,mechanisms of pathogenicity, life cycles, or other appro-priate approaches to the study of medically importantfungi.

Carrie Lauer is currentlyworking toward her Master’sDegree in Biolo-gy/Microbiology at the Uni-versity of Wisconsin – LaCrosse, with an emphasis inMedical Mycology. Her BS isin Biology and Chemistry(2004) from the University ofWisconsin – Stevens Point.After working a year as astudy technician in a metabol-ic research unit, Carrie startedher master’s program with Dr.Tom Volk, whom she metwhile she was still an undergrad. She says she’s developeda real interest in the mechanisms of microbial pathogenic-ity and has found her niche in medical mycology. Herlong-term goal is a doctoral degree in human or veterinarymedicine. Along with her research, Carrie also assists Tomwith his course in Medical Mycology and has developed aseparate lecture series in fungal immunology. The goal ofher master’s research is to design PCR primers that ampli-fy Scedosporium apiospermum (teleomorph

Pseudallescheria boydii) from environmental samples. Todate, her primers have proven specific for S. apiospermumand selective against other members of the Microascaceae.Eventually she will analyze soil samples from commonpotted plants in hospitals and offices throughout the city ofLa Crosse, to gain insight into the reservoirs and transmis-sion mechanisms of this emerging fungal pathogen.

A.H. and H.V. Smith Research AwardThe primary purpose of the Alexander H. and Helen V.

Smith Research Award is to encourage the study of speci-mens of fleshy Basidiomycetes and Ascomycetes collectedby Alexander H. Smith and his associates. The Fund dis-tributes grants-in-aid to be used towards covering the ex-penses of visiting the Smith Collection at the University ofMichigan Herbarium and of working with the collectionsand materials relating to them.

Todd Osmundsonis a Ph.D. Candidate inthe Department of Ecol-ogy, Evolution, & Envi-ronmental Biology atColumbia University,working with Dr. RoyHalling. His work iscarried out at the Insti-tute of SystematicBotany and the LewisB. & Dorothy CullmanProgram for MolecularSystematics Studies,The New York Botani-cal Garden. Todd earneda B.A. degree in geology at Carleton College and a B.S. inbotany at the University of Montana, before moving on tocomplete an M.A. with Dr. Cathy Cripps at Montana StateUniversity. His dissertation research involves several areasrelevant to the conservation of fungi, including biogeogra-phy and dispersal, species discovery from understudied re-gions, and mycorrhizal ecology. A component of this re-search is a systematic study of the bolete genus Tylopilus,a putatively polyphyletic group whose improved circum-scription will improve the understanding of generic rela-tionships in the Boletaceae as a whole. Tylopilus was afocal genus in Smith and Thiers’ classic study The Boletesof Michigan, and Todd will use the funds provided by theaward to study Dr. Smith’s collections with the goal of fa-cilitating a modern systematic treatment of the NorthAmerican species.

Research Awards Committee: Terry Hill (Chair),Gary Warren, Michelle Seidl, Thorsten Lumbsch, DennisDesjardin, Iris Charvat, ex official, Past-Chair

Todd Osmundson

Carrie Lauer


MSA Foray PhotosThe MSA foray was held around Lock Haven

University’s Sieg Conference Center located along acreek nestled in a gap in Mount Nittany, and won-derfully arranged by Barrie Overton. Here are a few

photos from the foray. You can check out more athttp://www.flickr.com/photos/msafungi/, a site setup by Tom Volk and Kathie Hodge.

Group foray: The participants at the foray (photo by Scott Redhead)

Lock Haven University’s Sieg Conference Center(photo by Tom Volk)

Jinx Campbell, Merlin White and Chris Crabtree(photo by Tom Volk)

MSA MEETING 2008


The winners of the photo com-petition held at the MSA Socialand Auction are: Pat Okubara inthe People category; Martin Un-terseher in the Macro fungi cate-gory; and Randy Darrah in theMicro fungi

Photo Competition Winners

People category,photo by Pat Okubara

Heather Hallen-Adams getting up close to somemagnificent specimens of myxomycetes, jellyfungi and earth tongues (photo by Allison Walker)

Out collecting on the trails (photo by Jinx Campbell)Lunch time at the foray (photo by Tom Volk)

Faith Bartz, Geromy Moore and Marc Cubettadisplaying some of their splendid specimens(photo by Allison Walker)


Macro fungicategory,photobyMartinUnterseher

Micro fungi cate-gory, Diachaea

leucopodia,photo by Randy

Darrah

Online Photo GalleryA gallery of photos taken by Tom Volk at this

year’s Annual meeting and foray has been postedonline. Have a look! Do you have more meetingphotos? If you have only a few, feel free to emaildigital images to the MSA Webmaster, Kathie

Hodge <[email protected]>. If you have manyimages Kathie can send you the flickr passwordso you can upload them yourself.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/msafungi


Arctic-alpine mycologists from 10 countries came to-gether for the 8th International Symposium on Arctic-alpineMycology (ISAM VIII) in August. For logistical and collegialconsiderations, participation is limited to 25 invited partici-pants with a broad range of experience in arctic-alpine my-cology. The symposium consists of a series of field trips andpresentations designed to discover and discuss the world’sarctic-alpine Mycota. ISAM is held every four years at a fieldstation situated near an Arctic or alpine field site. The scien-tific workshop is devoted to the study of taxonomy, ecologyand physiology of fungi in cold-dominated environments.

ISAM VIII was based at the Yellowstone Bighorn Re-search Association Geology Field Camp near Red Lodge,Montana from Aug 2rd-10th 2008 and focused on the mycotaof the Beartooth Plateau. The Beartooth Plateau is part of theBeartooth-Absaroka mountain complex, which contains oneof the most extensive alpine areas in North America. It is oneof 12 alpine plateaus that comprise the Beartooth Mountainsand supports many high alpine lakes, peaks over 12,000 ft,persistent snowfields, and one of the richest floras of anymountain range in North America. Hosts for the workshopwere Cathy Cripps (current ISAM president), Egon Horak (apast ISAM president), and Bob Antibus (early researcher onthe Beartooth Plateau). The event was preceded by a presen-tation (Cripps) at the Red Lodge Museum for local residentsand a rain shower during the event portended good collectingfor the following ISAM week. It also resulted in a lightening-ignited wildfire near Red Lodge that was thankfully con-tained just before ISAM. The smoke-filled skies clearedupon the arrival of participants at the Billings InternationalAirport (a smaller airport than most mycologists expected).

The late snow pack on the plateau resulted from the

most significant winter snow accumulation in 32 years andthe cold spring weather delayed the fruiting season, but wemanaged to “thread the eye-of-the-needle” between snowand fire for one week of decent alpine collecting on theBeartooth Plateau. Typically the alpine collecting season onthe plateau runs from the 3rd week in August to mid-Septem-ber and the short season can be truncated by dry conditionsand/or early snow. This makes collecting conditions in thealpine much more “risky” than in relatively reliable arctichabitats. The alpine wild flowers were spectacular at theirpeak during the event due to the delayed season.

The YBRA Geology Field camp was selected as a basecamp because of its historical academic atmosphere (initiatedby Princeton University) and its convenient access to both theBeartooth Highway and the International Airport in Billings.There are few field stations in the lower US that offer easy ac-cess to alpine habitats. The geology field camp provided “rus-tic” cabins for participants, two large work rooms (up-gradedto accommodate us), and regular meals (thanks to our won-derful cook Jeanette!) that were announced by the ringing ofthe camp bell. Mycological highlights at the camp were Cal-vatia booniana (a giant specimen of the western puffballfruited near the cabins) and Cryptoporus volvatus on conifers,neither of which occurs in Europe. The wildlife of chip-munks, ground squirrels, deer, and at higher elevations mar-mots, pikas, and mountain goats were also of interest to ourvisitors. Grizzly and black bears are occasionally sighted nearRed Lodge but are not a problem in the alpine zone. The campis located in the montane zone and vans deposited us in thealpine zone in less than an hour for daily field trips. Collect-ing could initiate almost immediately on stepping from a ve-

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Fig 2. Arctic-alpine mycologists at ISAM 8 col-lecting fungi below a persistent snow bank.

Fig. 1. Panorama of the alpine habitat on theBeartooth Plateau, Rocky Mountains.


hicle, or with short walksthrough alpine terrain off thepaved highway. A few ofour participants comingfrom Arctic regions neededtime to adjust to the higherelevations above 10,000feet. The latitude of 450 Nwas the lowest many had en-countered alpine fungi, sincemost participants typicallycollect above the Arctic Cir-cle or in the Alps. Our(Cripps and Horak) fieldsites in the Rocky Moun-tains extend south to latitudeof 360 N, almost unheard ofin the Arctic-alpine myco-logical arena.

The habitat require-ments for ISAM locationsin addition to being situatedin the true alpine abovetreeline or within the ArcticCircle are the presence ofparticular vegetation types. A significant portion of the arc-tic-alpine mycota (over 50%) is associated with Salix, Betu-la, Dryas, and bryophytes, as mycorrhizal mutualists, para-sites, saprophytes, and basidiolichens. Therefore, alpineareas consisting exclusively of high grasslands, meadows,and turf are not sufficient for ISAM purposes. This necessi-tates including collecting areas of extensive dwarf (alpine)and shrub willows and mountain avens (Dryas) located inwetlands, cirques, below snow banks, and along water cours-es and not just on dry uplands. The Beartooth Plateau meetsthese requirements with extensive areas of dwarf and shrub-by willows, Dryas octopetala, and at least one birch shrub inwetland thickets. Granitic rock with intrusives is prevalent

on the plateau and the preferred wet limestone areas are rare.The fungi are adapted to the cold conditions and cold rain orlight snow during this time can stimulate fruiting.

Typical arctic-alpine Basidiomycota with circumpolardistributions were recorded at several sites, including: Rus-sula nana, R. norvegica, Lactarius nanus, L. salicis-reticu-latae, L. lanceolatus, Amanita nivalis, A. cf groenlandica,Entoloma alpicola, Cortinarius favrei, C. absarokensis, C.hinnuleus, Hebeloma alpinum, Inocybe subbrunnea, Galeri-na atkinsoniana, Omphalina rivulicola, Rickenella fibula,Arrhenia lobata, Mycena citrinomarginatum and Psilocybechionophila. Many of the macromycetes were discovered inexcellent willow habitat below a (thankfully) persistent snowbank many meters wide and high. A limited number of As-comycota were collected as well, some of the most interest-ing being those on the catkins or wet debris of willow ormosses, including Ciboria amentacea, Croicreas amenti andTapesia fusca (this requires slopping around in submergedvegetation). Rusts were collected on Salix (Melampsora spp)and on Polygonum, Caltha, Potentilla and Ranunculusspecies. Nivicolous myxomycetes recorded from the forayare Diderma alpinum, Didymium dubium and D. nivicolum.New gasteromycete records will also result from this work-shop, including some rather large specimens. In all, morethan 90 species (many more collections) were identified andabout half are new records for the area, which reflects boththe number of eyes searching for fungi (38), the expertise ofthose involved (19), and the reasonably favorable fruitingconditions. The week following the ISAM workshop was dryand fruiting conditions deteriorated rapidly.

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Fig. 4. Amanita cf gronlandica fruiting below asnowbank (photo by C. Cripps)

Fig. 3. ISAM VIII participants: back row left to right: Joanne & Bob Antibus(USA), Almut & Egon Horak (Austria), Henry Beker (UK/Belgium), HenningKnudsen (Denmark), Cathy Cripps (President, Montana State University,USA), Taiga Kasuya (Japan), Mikako Sasa (Denmark), Michal Ronikier(Poland); kneeling: Annu Ruotsalainin (Finland), Ellen Larsson (Sweden),Mariejke Nauta (The Netherlands), Esteri Ohenoya (Finland), Pierre More-au (France); in front Leo Jalink (The Netherlands) and Steen Elborne (Den-mark). Photo by Don Bachman (USA)


tion, identification, and preservation of specimens destinedfor herbaria world-wide. These sessions in the work roomsoften lasted late into the evening and beer was also consumedon more than one occasion which facilitated interactionamong the international mycologists. “Red Lodge” beer wasa requirement however “Moose Drool” was considered theoverall favorite.

At the Friday night business meeting led by Egon Horak,participants discussed and voted for the next ISAM (IX)venue. The arrangement when ISAM was initiated was thatthey should alternate between Arctic and Alpine regions andbetween continents. Past symposia were held in Barrow,Alaska (1980), Fetan, Switzerland (1984), Svalbard, Norway(1988), Lanslebourg, France (1992), Labytnangi, Russia(1996), Kangerlussuaq/Sisimut, Greenland (2000), andFinse, Norway (2005). At the Finse Field Station climaticconditions are a combination of those found in the Alpineand Arctic. North America was the next logical choice forISAM 8, and the Rocky Mountain region was selected for thehigh alpine elevations and continental climate. For ISAM 9,proposals were presented for Austria, Northern Italy, Fin-land, France, the Tatra Mountains and Japan. A majority se-lected the field station at Keivo, Finland for ISAM IX in2012. Esteri Ohenoya and Annu Ruotsalainen will negotiatethe logistics with additional Finnish mycologists. Congratu-lations to our Finnish Colleagues!

On Saturday, symposium participants presented formaltalks on arctic-alpine fungi which included: Arctic-alpineMycology study before 1900 (E. Horak), Observations onArctic-alpine Fungi (R. Antibus), Overviews of AA fungi inthe Rocky Mountains (C. Cripps), the Carpathians (A.Ronikier), the Canadian Arctic (E. Ohenoya), Finse, Norway(P.A. Moreau), plus phylogenies of circumboreal species (M.Ronikier) and more specialized data on AA Inocybe (E. Lars-son), AA Hebeloma (H. Beker), AA Gasteromycetes (T. Ka-suya), AA mycorrhizae (A. Ruotsalainen), and AA enzymes(M. Sasa). Also attending were mycologists H. Knudsen, S.Elborne, M. Nauta and L. Jalink. Additional logistical help

was received from D. Bachman, A. Horak, J. Antibus and P.Trusty. According to the by laws, all ISAM participants arerequired to make a written contribution to the proceedingsand ISAM VIII’s will be published as a special issue ofNorth American Fungi. Past proceedings are Arctic-AlpineMycology 1-7, 1982-2008, published in book format or as aspecial issue of various journals (see references).

The final meals on Saturday included elk and bisonsausage and well-walked beefsteak for a “cook-out” at theLodge; this was geared to match the fare of previous ISAMswhich offered muskox, seal, whale, reindeer, goat, roe, andrabbit. A healthy portion of Mission Mountain (Montana)wine and American sour mash whiskey was also enjoyedduring the evening festivities which included a final rain-storm complete with thunder and lightening that blocked outthe awaited Perseids meteor shower.

The importance of Arctic-alpine mushrooms in the larg-er scheme of things

“Arctic-alpine mushrooms” constitute a particular groupof fungi adapted to cold climates. ISAM mycologists focus pri-marily on Northern Hemisphere fungi, but several of our mem-bers have made visits to Antarctica (few fungi), Chile, andother Arctic-alpine regions in the Southern hemisphere. Whilemuch is known of the Arctic-alpine fungi in Europe, Iceland,Greenland, Scandinavia, and to some extent Alaska and Cana-da, little was known about these fungi in the Rocky Mountainsbefore our (Cripps and Horak) alpine studies began with anNSF grant in 2000. Since then we have cataloged and pub-lished on almost 200 species from the Beartooth Plateau inMT/WY and the Front Range and San Juan Mountains in Col-orado. The fungi we are finding are primarily those that occurin other higher latitude Arctic-alpine habitats. It has been excit-ing to collect certain species on the high passes of Colorado andthen fly across the continent to Greenland and continue col-lecting the same fungi (although given the price of plane fares,one might question the necessity).

Arctic-Alpine fungi are important in terrestrial ecosys-tems as saprotrophs, parasites, and mutualists which include


Fig. 5. Russula norvegica (photo by P.A. Moreau)

Fig. 6. Omphalina rivulicola (photo by P.A.Moreau)


mycorrhizal fungi on roots and those in basidiolichens. Re-cently fungi have been considered as an interface betweengeological and biological process. Their ecosystem servicesinclude enhancement of nutrient uptake and drought toler-ance in plants, nutrient recycling (even in thin alpine soils),mobilization of N and P from organic polymers, breakdownof rock, release of nutrients from mineral rock, aggregationof soil, promotion of water-holding capacity in soil, and car-bon sequestration. These in turn can affect larger ecosystemprocesses such as erosion and water-shed dynamics. We nowknow that many of these fungi can even function below thesnow surface in winter and spring. Basic information on theirbiodiversity and cold-adapted enzymes is an important con-tribution to Arctic-alpine ecology and as a benefit to societyin terms of gaining knowledge on industrial enzymes thatfunction at low temperatures. A knowledge of the uniquemutualisms between plants and arctic-alpine fungi is alsouseful in high elevation reclamation, particularly in Europewhere slope stabilization is required such as at ski areas.Dwarf willow and Dryas mats (in some cases with their as-sociative fungi) are being used as model systems to monitorclimate in arctic situations.

—Cathy CrippsPresident of ISAM

Montana State [email protected]

ReferencesBoertmann, D. & H. Knudsen (eds). 2006. Arctic and Alpine Mycology VI,Meddelelser om Grøenland Bioscience 56. Pp 1-161.

Cripps, C.L. & L.E. Eddington 2005. Distribution of Mycorrhizal Types

among Alpine Vascular Plant Families on the Beartooth Plateau, RockyMountains, USA, in Reference to Large-scale Patterns in Arctic-AlpineHabitats. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research 37(2): 177-188.

Cripps, C.L. & E. Horak 2008. Checklist of Alpine Macromycetes, RockyMountains, USA: prepared for ISAM VIII, Beartooth Plateau, Mon-tana/Wyoming Aug 2nd-10th, Yellowstone Bighorn Research AssociationField Camp, Red Lodge, MT.

Cripps, C.L. & E. Horak 2008. Checklist and Ecology of the Agaricales,Russulales and Boletales in the alpine zone of the RockyMountains (Col-orado, Montana, Wyoming) at 3000-4000 m a.s.l. Sommerfeltia 31: 101-121.

Cripps, C.L. & E. Horak 2006. Ecology and world-wide distribution of Ar-rhenia auriscalpium: a true arctic-alpine fungus. [Arctic and Alpine Mycol-ogy VI, eds D. Boertmann & H. Knudsen] Meddelelser om GrøenlandBioscience 56: 17-24.

Cripps, C.L., Horak, E. and K. Mohatt. 2008. Ectomycorrhizal fungi atalpine treeline in the Rocky Mountains: Baseline data and a review in thecontext of climate change. MTNCLIME, June 9-12. Consortium for Inte-grated Climate Change Research in Western Mountains.

Høiland, K. & R.H. Økland (eds) 2008. Arctic-Alpine Mycology VII. Som-merfeltia 31. Pp. 1-214.

Laursen, G. A. & Ammirati, J. A. (eds). 1982a. Arctic and Alpine Mycolo-gy I, University of Washington Press, Seattle.

Laurson, G.A., Ammirati, J.F., & Redhead, S. A. (eds). 1987. Arctic andAlpine Mycology II. Plenum Press, New York.

Muhkin, V.A. and H. Knudsen (eds). 1998. Arctic and alpine Mycology V,Russian Academy of Sciences, Ural Division. Yekaterinburg Publishers,Yekaterinburg.

Osmundson, T.W., Cripps, C.L. & G.M. Mueller. 2005. Morphological andmolecular systematics of Rocky Mountain alpine Laccaria. Mycologia97(5): 949-972.

Petrini, O. & Laursen, G.A. (eds). 1993. Arctic and Alpine Mycology 3-4.Cramer. Berlin.

This year it will be two hundred years since King LouisNapoleon (brother of Napoleon Bonaparte) founded the RoyalInstitute of Science, Letters and Fine Arts, the forerunner of theRoyal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. The Acad-emy is celebrating this landmark year (KNAW 200) by organ-izing a wide variety of different events. One of these events isthat the Academy institutes will present their research in specialsymposia. The CBS Fungal Biodiversity Centre has chosenNovember 13 and 14 with the symposium “Fungi and Health”,which will consist of six sessions each with a special topic.

During the CBS symposium two special awards will bepresented: the Johanna Westerdijk Award for an individualwho has made an outstanding contribution to the culture collec-tion of the CBS Fungal Biodiversity Centre, marking a distin-guished career and the Josef Adolf von Arx Award for an in-dividual who has made an outstanding contribution totaxonomic research of fungal biodiversity, marking a distin-guished career.

Symposium programThursday November 13 2008.

Session 1. Fungi and our healthSpeakers: David Denning (Manchester), Paul Verweij (Nijmegen),Sybren de Hoog (CBS Utrecht), Jacques Guillot (Maisons-Alfort).

Session 2. Food safetySpeakers: GianCarlo Perrone (Bari), Manfred Gareis (Germany),Noel Van Peij (Delft), Johan Schnurer (Uppsala)

Session 3. Living in Healthy EnvironmentsSpeakers: Brian Flannigan (Edinburgh), Thomas Warscheid (Bre-men), Olaf Adan (Eindhoven/Delft), Robert A Samson (CBSUtrecht).Friday November 14 2008

Session 4. Culture collection, DNA Barcoding and biosecuritySpeakers: Erko Stackebrandt (Braunschweig), G. Cardinali (Peru-gia), F. Dromer (Paris) J. Stalpers (CBS Utrecht), U. Eberhardt(CBS Utrecht)

Session 5. Yeasts and healthSpeakers: Robin May (Birmingham) Arturo Casadevall (NewYork) Tom Dawson (Cincinnati). Piet de Groot (Amsterdam).

Session 6. Fungi and healthy plantsSpeakers: Keith Seifert (Canada), Peter Bonants (Wageningen),Ariena van Bruggen (Wageningen) and Bruce Fitt (Rothamsted).Venue: Trippenhuis, KNAW AmsterdamRegistration is free. Lunch € 12.50 per day.

Poster presentations are welcome. For a more detailed pro-gramme visit our website at www.cbs.knaw.nl.

—Rob [email protected]

CBS Symposium: Fungi and Health


The 2nd annual truffle biotechnologyworkshop hosted by Duke University andNorth Carolina Agriculture and Technol-ogy (A&T) took place from June 3-29,2008. This three-week course in molecu-lar mycology provided hands-on myco-logical and molecular training for under-graduate and masters level students,through an NSF-sponsored* collabora-tion between Duke and North CarolinaAgricultural and Technical Universities.

During the first week the course pre-sented students with an overview of cur-rent mycology of cultivated saprophyticand ectomycorrhizal fungi. Lecturesdemonstrated current and traditionalmethods, combined with field trips forcollecting, identifying and culturing offresh collections (mushrooms, rhi-zomorphs, soils, mycorrhiza). A varietyof fungi were successfully cultured, in-cluding Pleurotus ostreatus, Trametessp., bird’s nest fungi, and numerousanamorphic fungi. Fresh truffles (Tuberaestivum, imported from Europe for theoccasion) were also studied in detail

Over the following two weeks, stu-dents collected ectomycorrhizal rootsfrom pine, oak, hazelnut and birchspecies to get a firsthand glimpse andcomparison of these amazing symbiosesusing stereo- and compound mi-croscopy. Some students also experienced other elements ofnature for the first time (including yellow-jacket stings, poi-son ivy, and tick and chigger bites).

The highpoint of the course was a field trip to Chuckey,Tennessee where the class visited several truffle orchardswhich were planted by Dr. Tom Michaels. Tom’s orchardsare located on a mountainside that overlooks Davey Crock-ett’s birthplace, with breathtaking views of several peaks inthe southern Appalachian Mountains including Roane Moun-tain and Klingman’s Dome (in the Great Smoky Mountains).After a brief overview of the biology of truffles and the meth-ods used to inoculate and cultivate mycorrhizal fungi, theclass collected soil samples and mycorrhizas from severalproductive and non-productive sites where Tom had success-fully collected Tuber melanosporum. Later in the lab, stu-dents assessed the mycorrhizal status of Tom’s trees and usedmolecular systematics to identify the fungal community asso-ciated with Michaels’ truffiere. Ectomycorrhizae were mor-photyped and assessed using PCR and sequence-based meth-ods. Through this assessment, students became familiar withthe principles of PCR, gel electrophoresis, systematics, andbioinformatics with hands-on experience gathering and inter-preting gel and sequence data.

Students successfully recovered sequences from the ma-jority of roots which they collected. The majority of the classsamples confirmed that Tuber melanosporum can establishand perenate in North American soils. In addition to T.melanosporum, students also detected several endemic myc-orrhizal species (including other Tuber species). The fact thatTuber melanosporum mycorrhiza were found in both “pro-ductive” and “non-productive” sites nearby to each other sug-gests that ecological factors may be at play a role in fruiting.

This is the second year that we have run this workshopand it has been a big success. It has served both as a trainingground in biotechnology for minority students and provides aservice to agriculturists experimenting with alternative crops.It is exciting to explore these mycological frontiers with sucha diverse group of people. We hope to continue such work-shops in the future.

—Gregory Bonito—Rytas Vilgalys

—Omonanghe Isikhuemhen

*This workshop was funded by NSF award # 0641297‘REVSYS: Phylogenetic and Revisionary Systematics of NorthAmerican Truffles (Tuber, Ascomycota)’ awarded to R. Vilgalys atDuke University.

Second Annual Truffle Biotechnology Workshop

Participants of the 2008 Truffle Biotechnology Workshop in thefield after sampling mycorrhizae from hazelnut and oak orchardsthat have been inoculated with the black truffle species Tubermelanosporum. Top row (left to right): Sheriff Amusa, MorganKearse, Tom Michaels, Rytas Vilgalys, Maryna Didukh, Belgis E.Mansour, Omon Isikhuemhen. Bottom row (left to right): Mansu-ru Usif, Claudio M. Donoso, Greg Bonito and Richard Farris.


The back issues of Inoculum, from its first edition in 1950 up to2001 when Inoculum went on line, have been converted to PDF andmade available online at the MSA website for all MSA members tohave access to our rich mycological history. This project was under-taken by two interns; Jared Thomas, a junior at Ocean Springs HighSchool, MS, and Oliver Kuttner, an undergraduate student from theUniversity of Southern Mississippi. A few issues are currently miss-ing from these archives. These will be on line shortly. Thanks go toEmory Simmons who supplied hard copies of the missing volumes forarchiving.

—Jinx [email protected]

Archiving Back Issues of Inoculum

As part of the collaborative activities between the Insti-tute of Biology of the University of Mexico (IBUNAM) andthe Academic Division of Biological Sciences of the JuarezUniversity of Tabasco, the I Workshop on the Taxonomy andBiology of Microscopic Fungi was held June 2-5, 2008 to ad-vance the study of fungi in the State of Tabasco, Mexico. Theobjective of the course was to learn to cultivate and observethe main morphological characteristics as well as the mitoticand meiotic reproductive structures of some fungi of biolog-ical and ecological importance in the phyla Zygomycota, As-

comycota and Basidiomycota in the kingdom Fungi, with thegoal of being able to identify them and distinguish them fromthe filamentous bacteria. The instructors for the course wereDr Maria C. Gonzalez and her doctoral students, EdmundoRosique-Gil and Allan Chavarria of IBUNAM. The work-shop was conducted in the laboratory of Dr Silvia Capello-Garcia, mycologist at the Juarez University of Tabasco.

—María C. Gonzá[email protected]

—Richard T. [email protected]

Workshop on the Taxonomy and Biology of Microscopic Fungi


MYCOLOGIST’S BOOKSHELF

Seven books are reviewed in this issue—many thanks to our MSA reviewers! In addition, seven new books werereceived since the last Mycologist’s Bookshelf. You will notice the availability of a book after the notice. Ifyou would like to review a book, let me know. I will send it to you, you write the review, and then you can keepthe book. All requests for books to review should be sent to Amy Rossman at [email protected].

The genus Cladospori-um and similar dematia-ceous hyphomycetes. 2007.P.W. Crous, U. Braun, K.Schubert, J.Z. Groenewald.Centraalbureau voor Schim-melcultures, P.O. Box85167, Utrecht, The Nether-lands, www.cbs.knaw.nl/publications/index.htm.Studies in Mycology 58: 1-253. Price: €65.00.

Many mycologists mayfondly remember pagingthrough an Ellis book on dematiaceous hyphomycetes andmarveling at the illustrations of beautiful, diverse forms offungi. Looking at the concepts of Cladosporium in suchworks, it is often tempting to identify a particular isolate asone of several common species in spite of the lack of a de-finitive monograph and of the numerous described speciesnot discussed. This recent Studies in Mycology 58, anotherexcellent product from the CBS, highlights the mind bog-gling diversity of this group with abundant new data andtaxonomic interpretations in such a way that one feels thatthey have an entire Ellis-type book on Cladosporium-likefungi.

The publication itself is divided into nine separate arti-cles and a short preface. The latter honors the career of Ger-ard de Vries and asks the philosophical question: What isCladosporium? If you are like me, after examining this work,your answer will simply be, not what I thought it was.

The first article is a phylogenetic overview of My-cosphaerella based on nuclear LSU rRNA gene sequencedata. Previously considered monophyletic, Mycosphaerellais shown as polyphyletic. Several major clades are recog-nized that roughly correlate with families and genera. Akey to Mycosphaerella and similar genera is offered withthe recognition of Teratosphaeria as a distinct genus. Akey to several admittedly artificial anamorph genera in theTeratosphaeria clade follows with some additional keys tospecies of selected genera. Numerous nomenclatural novel-ties are offered. Frustratingly, several novelties introduced

by these authors in recent years are changed includingsome that are restored to previous names. At times, thismakes one wonder if nomenclatural updates are beingmade too quickly.

The second article uses morphological and moleculardata based on nuclear LSU rRNA gene sequences to sortout the Cladosporium-like genera that do not fit the strict,narrow definition of Cladosporium. Descriptions of sever-al taxonomic novelties follow including numerous newgenera. A key to Cladosporium and similar looking generais also provided. Perhaps the most interesting name is thegenus Stenella. It is not only a leaf mold, but also a genusof dolphins.

The third article is similar to the second but aims at adifferent target, the rachis-bearing genus, Ramichloridium.The genus is shown to be polyphyletic and many taxonom-ic novelties are presented. A generic rank key forRamichloridium and similar looking genera is offered.

The fourth article is a clean transfer of the etiologicalagent of Cladosporium leaf-blotch and stem rot of Paeoniaspp. to the new genus, Dichocladosporium.

The next two articles investigate the species complex-es around Cladosporium herbarum and C. sphaerosper-mum. Integrated in the articles are keys as well as descrip-tions including those for several new species.

The seventh article addresses human pathogens in theHerpotrichelliaceae including Cladophialophora and Ex-ophiala and plant pathogens in the Venturiaceae includingFusicladium, herein viewed as an older synonym ofPseudocladosporium. In the bevy of new taxonomic novel-ties, one somewhat disturbing taxon that could potentiallybe a human pathogen is described from fruit juices andsports drinks.

The eighth article takes a look at the important humanpathogen, Cladophialophora carrionii, which is recognizedas a species complex with the addition of one new species.One important observation is that not all cactus-inhabitingstrains seem to be as dangerous to humans as others.

The concluding article addresses the conspecificity ofthree fungi, specifically the anamorph of Amorphothecaresinae, the jet fuel and creosote fungus; Sorocybe resinae,

The Genus Cladosporium and Similar Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes



a synnema-former found on pine resin; and Seifertia aza-leae, a pathogen of azaleas and rhododendrons. In short,the three are separate species, but the complexities associ-ated with the nomenclature leave many unresolved issues,especially for the genus, Hormoconis.

Scattered throughout these articles are important typi-fications made to promote nomenclatural stability, stan-dardizations for cultural studies, and multitudinous illustra-tions including line drawings, light and SEM micrographs,and photos of colonies in vitro and in vivo. The quality ofthe illustrations is astounding as they make Cladosporiumsensu lato look good.

Users will no doubt be disheartened that a definitivemonograph remains an unrealized dream. However, this

book clearly lays a strong foundation for the future of thesefungi in terms of research and understanding. Workers in-terested in plant pathology, medical fields, indoor air qual-ity, and systematics of this group will find this work to beindispensible. The inquisitive mycologist probably will tooand readers of this book may be inspired to pick out one ofthe many neglected genera in an old Ellis book and producetheir own modern treatment of a group of dematiaceous hy-phomycetes.

— Drew MinnisSystematic Mycology & Microbiology Laboratory

10300 Baltimore Ave.Beltsville, MD 20705

[email protected]

Neotropical Hypocrella(anamorph Aschersonia),Moelleriella, and Samuelsia.2008. Priscila Chaverri, MiaoLiu, Kathie T. Hodge.Centraalbureau voorSchimmelcultures, P.O. Box85167, Utrecht, TheNetherlands, http://www.cbs.knaw.nl/publications/index.htm.Studies in Mycology 60: 1-66.Price: €40.00.

This monograph dealswith common tropical andsubtropical fungal ento-mopathogens, which are repeatedly collected in these re-gions, but, until now, impossible to identify except to thegenus level, being generally labeled as ‘Hypocrella’ sp. Thethree genera Hypocrella, Moelleriella and Samuelsia gen.nov. are recognized by Chaverri et al. by their brightly col-ored stromata that form on scale insects or whiteflies, sup-ported by molecular and morphological characters of teleo-morphs and their respective anamorphs. These genera areintroduced in a comprehensive manner with information re-garding their morphology and taxonomy, taxonomic back-ground, and geographical distribution. In addition ecologicalinformation, such as microclimatic and habitat characteris-tics, host specificity (plant-insect-fungus), co-evolution,adaptation, nutrition, production of secondary metaboliteswhen known, and their potential use as biological controlagents is given. For each genus, previously unknown life cy-cles are described and illustrated. Also, a table for teleo-morph-anamorph connections to accepted species is providedand the evolution of species is discussed.

Morphological studies were made of hundreds of spec-imens from all over the world deposited in various herbariaas well as from cultures. Those cultures were the basis for

multigene phylogenetic analyses of DNA sequences fromnuclear ribosomal large subunit (28S), translator elonga-tion factor 1-α (TEF 1- α), and RNA polymerase II subunit1 (RPB1) that resulted in three mayor clades, one that in-cluded species with non-disarticulating ascospores andfusiform conidia (i.e. Hypocrella), a second one with non-disarticulating ascospores and allantoid small conidia (i.e.Samuelsia), and a third one that includes species with dis-articulating ascospores and fusiform conidia (i.e. Moel-leriella).

Different useful types of keys are presented: a key tothe three genera; synoptic keys based on teleomorph andanamorph multiple morphological characters, culturalcharacteristics on PDA, and known geographical distribu-tion for 22 species in Moelleriella (anamorphs aschersonia-like), five species in Hypocrella (anamorph Aschersonia s.str.), five species in Samuelsia; and dichotomous keysbased on teleomorph and anamorph characters, two foreach of the three genera.

This thorough taxonomic revision proposes six newspecies and 16 new combinations under the genus Moel-leriella, two new species under the genus Hypocrella, andfive new species under the new genus Samuelsia. For eachtaxon, when available, the following information is provid-ed: complete synonymy, name of the anamorph, completemorphological description of teleomorph and anamorph,cultural characters, habitat, known distribution, and notes.Photographs of stroma containing ascomata or conidioma-ta as well as micrographs of the different structures arebeautifully presented. This high quality, complete, and wellorganized monograph will be useful for all of those inter-ested in tropical mycology, entomopathogens, plant pathol-ogists, and others seeking new biocontrol agents.

—Teresa IturriagaDepartamento Biologia de Organismos

Universidad Simon BolivarEdo. Miranda, Venezuela

[email protected]

Neotropical Hypocrella, Moelleriella, and Samuelsia


Ecology and Management of Morels Harvested fromthe Forests of Western America. 2007. D. Pilz, R. McLain,S. Alexander, L. Villarreal-Ruiz, S. Berch, T.L. Wurtz, C.G.Parks, E. McFarlane, B. Baker, R. Molina, J.E. Smith. Gen-eral Technical Report PNW-GTR-710. Portland, OR: U.S.Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific NorthwestResearch Station. 161 pp. Price: unknown.

This book provides a fascinating and broad-reaching ac-count of the current state of knowledge about the genusMorchella. It is designed to serve a wide audience includingforest managers, policymakers, and mushroom harvesters aswell as mycologists. Despite the fact that the book is intendedfor a general audience and focuses upon ecology and manage-ment, it includes a detailed review of the taxonomic literaturethat could prove a valuable addition to the mycological library.

Morels are one of the most valuable special forest prod-ucts in the western United States with annual sales from $5 to$10 million probably surpassing chanterelles and matsutakein value. Nevertheless, there is a surprising lack of informa-tion about their taxonomy, biology, and ecology in the re-gion. The authors provide a detailed synthesis of currentknowledge that is impressive in the breadth of topics ad-dressed. Mushroom hunters will be delighted to see accountsof distribution and timing of fruiting for each type of morel.Forest managers will find a detailed regional analysis ofmorel harvesting rates and patterns, tables of morel produc-tivity for various regions, and a review of current research oneffective management to promote morel harvest opportuni-ties. The book includes a discussion of the prospects of morelcultivation as well as a fascinating analysis of the culture of

domestic and commercial harvesting.Mycologists may be particularly interested in the sec-

tions on taxonomy and genetics. Pilz et al. argue that manydistinct western Morchella species exist that have beenmisidentified under the names of various European species,and that new names are required but have not yet been pub-lished. The authors use common names for the westernMorchella species, but include a table summarizing theseworking names and the corresponding scientific names thathave been applied to them. Citing the lack of consensus ontaxonomy within the genus, the authors decline to provide akey, but do provide detailed descriptions and notes on theecology of each of the putative species. The book includes atable containing over 70 common names applied to variousmorels throughout the world. It also includes a section sum-marizing the unique genetic features and complex life cycleof members of the genus. Morel hyphal cells are often het-erokaryotic i.e. having multiple different haploid nuclei in thesame cell and are thought to be capable of “haploid meiosis”in which identical haploid nuclei combine, then completemeiosis to produce ascospores.

This book is recommended as a handy reference synthe-sizing available information on all aspects of Morchella ecol-ogy, management, and biology, useful to forest managers,mushroom harvesters and all who love the elusive and com-plex morel.

—Erica ClineUniversity of Washington-Tacoma

Tacoma WA [email protected]

Ecology and Management of Morels . . .

Fungi Europaei 1. Agaricus – Allopsalliota – Part I.2008. Luis Alberto Parra Sánchez. Edizioni Candusso,Alassio, Italy. ISBN 88-901057-7-1. 824 pp. Price: €75.00.

Luis Parra has prepared an essential work on Agaricus inEurope. The breadth of the work is as would be hoped for,presenting not only each accepted species on the continent,but providing an exhaustive synonymy with meticulous argu-mentation, treating all of the European names and relevantextralimital ones. The depth of the work is also great; almost600 pages are devoted to describing, discussing, and illustrat-ing 35 accepted taxa, at the species level or below, in the fivesections covered in this first part of the work (Agaricus, Bive-lares, Chitonioides, Sanguinloenti, Spissicaules).

Each treatment is thorough, with respect to the status ofthe name and the assigned synonyms under the ICBN, factorsconsidered in the synonymy, description of all conventionalcharacters and of the natural history of the species or sub-sidiary taxon, material studied and variation observed, histor-ical notes, and additional commentary. Tables of spore sizedata from the literature and from the author’s own studies arepresented in a statistically defined format – so simple, so

valuable. And then there are the illustrations, a combinationof line drawings and photographs of microfeatures, contem-porary photographs of studied material, and – also valuably –reproductions of the classic and some less familiar publishedfigures of Agaricus from the historical European literature.

There are 396 full color, high quality photographs by Parraand colleagues of contemporary collections alone, mostly withtwo photos per 17 × 24 cm page, large enough so that featuresare clearly evident, with 37 more pages, most in color, of im-portant plates from the literature. Numerous black and whitefigures are interspersed throughout the text. An additional 65smaller color photos illustrate features of the basidiomata thatare discussed in one of the excellent introductory sections on themethods of study and characterization of Agaricus.

Of the many strengths of this work, I will stress one: theproposed synonymies have greatly simplified the taxonomyof Agaricus in Europe. Parra’s reasoning, based on all factorsincluding his own studies of the relevant types available forloan, is presented clearly in every case. His conclusions pro-vide sound, conservative and reasonable null hypotheses

Fungi Europaei 1. Agaricus – Allopsalliota – Part I



Index of Fungi Inhabiting Woody Plants in Japan –Host, Distribution and Literature. 2007. T. Kobayashi.Zenkoku- Noson-Kyoiku Kyokai, Publishing Co, Ltd.http://book.geocities.jp/indexfungi/ ISBN 978-4-88137-129-9. 1227 pp. Price: unknown.

This voluminous book is a comprehensive account of theoccurrence of wood-inhabiting fungi in Japan. Starting asearly as 1972, the author has compiled records of fungi onwoody plants up to the year 2000. Moreover, fungal namestreated in monographs since the year 2001 have also beenadded to the text. The taxonomic scope of the book is notclarified nor the number of taxa indexed. However, I noticedthat taxa recorded here are not ordered taxonomically, ratherall macromycetes and micromycetes on trees and shrubs areenumerated. I also started counting the number of taxa in1016 pages, and, as far as I could count, 4942 species, forms,varieties, and unidentified species are indexed.

The book is arranged in six sections. The first section isan alphabetical list of fungal species, each accompanied byreferences to the record, synonymy in the Japanese literature,anamorph-teleomorph where applicable, Japanese name, dis-ease name, host, distribution in Japan mainland and neigh-bouring islands, and additional notes. Varieties and forms are

included, and some fungal names have been kept in their oldsense. The taxa with the highest number of host plants areArmillaria mellea, Glomerella cingulata, and Rosellinianecatrix. Thereafter an index to the literature is cited. In sec-tion four the genera of host plants with their fungi are listed,and section five lists scientific and Japanese names of hostplants. Finally an index to English and Japanese names offungi is provided. In general, the quality of print and thiswell-arranged checklist is quite impressive.

This book will serve as a useful reference to anyone inter-ested in fungal diversity on woody substrates. For the mycolo-gists who have their focus in East Asia, this would be an in-valuable reference publication. Checklists like this are useful toa wide range of researchers. For example, mycologists studyingdifferent groups of fungi searching the host range or host pref-erence and distribution of a specific taxon in Japan will find thebook quite useful. It should also be mentioned that data on thesefungi and hosts can be retrieved via the SMML database at:http://server/fungaldatabases/fungushost/ fungushost.cfm.

—Masoomeh Ghobad-NejhadBotanical Museum, Finnish Museum of Natural History

P.O. Box 7FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland

[email protected]

Index of Fungi Inhabiting Woody Plants in Japan

against which new data from continuing modern inquiriesmay be evaluated. While Parra is fully aware of molecularwork on Agaricus, focused sequence-based studies of onlythree groups (Bivelares-an older synonym of Duploannulati,Xanthodermatei, and to some extent Chitonioides) had beenpublished prior to 2008. It should be further appreciated thatParra has made a principled and practical decision to base histaxonomy, including his infrageneric framework and theplacement of species, only upon published reports in con-junction with his own studies. The accumulating pre-publica-tion sequence data now being shared among collaborators in-cluding Parra presents a moving, incomplete phylogenetictarget at which he wisely, and correctly in my opinion, hasnot aimed. The author understands, as should the reader, thatnew data and new methods will likely alter his proposed tax-onomic framework and perhaps also some concepts of taxa.

It is not possible to list the strengths of this work con-cisely. The introductory 116 pages are mostly solid gold, cov-ering essentially everything someone ‘going into Agaricus’might wish or need to know. The taxonomic treatment beginson page 117 and the next 60 pages deal with a thorough treat-ment of taxa above the species level. A few new taxa are pro-posed, while more than a few are validated, typified or lecto-typified, and all are summarized on two convenient pages.

Shortcomings of the work are few, but should be noted bythe reader. There are some typographical errors, as might be ex-pected in a work of this scope. Most are minor or obvious. Inoted that the reagent o-tolidine, which consistently plaguescopyeditors with gremlins, has been mis-spelled in two lan-guages and a reader employing an incorrect reagent will not

achieve the conventionally expected results. Parra has extendedthe application of Schäffer’s reagents (aniline x HNO3) to in-clude violaceous reactions as a new category of positive results.I would have preferred a more holistic presentation of this newguidance, a clear delineation of the pattern of positives obtainedon fresh vs. dried material, and its impact on interpreting thestructure of Sanguinolenti, to have been provided in the intro-ductory section on macrochemical reactions. I will also notethat on occasion I had to read carefully to ascertain the author’sprecise meaning, and on those occasions I found the originalSpanish text to be more easily grasped than the English. The en-tire text is presented first in Spanish, then in English translation,with keys and a few other important sections are also providedin Italian. While this is a definite plus for accessibility, it helpsto explain the length of the text, and, frankly when I consult thisbook, I am aware of the considerable duplicated material. How-ever, those able to read Spanish will appreciate the text in theoriginal, which on occasion may be more easily grasped thanthe English translation.

None of the foregoing should dissuade anyone with aninterest in macrofungi from owning this work. I am informedthat errata are being collected, as diligently as the rest of theproject has evidently been conducted, no doubt, and will bedealt with in Part 2, which will cover the remaining sectionsof Agaricus plus Allopsalliota. I find this book to be of ines-timable value, and to anyone with the slightest serious inter-est in Agaricus, it will easily repay the price of 75 euros.

—Richard W. KerriganSylvan Research

Kittanning, PA [email protected]


Ramaria of the Pacific Northwestern United States.2007. Ronald L. Exeter, Lorelei Norvell, Efrén Cazares. Bu-reau of Land Management, Salem, OR. Email: [email protected]. 157 p. plus 190 photos. Price: $27.00.

This book is a valuable compilation of the available in-formation about members of the genus Ramaria including thesubgenera Echinoramaria, Lentoramaria, and Laeticolora.The book focuses upon the Pacific Northwestern UnitedStates as a center of species diversity for the genus, includingspecies from central California north to British Columbia andeast to the Rocky Mountains. Because 28 of the 80+ speciesand varieties of Ramaria known to occur in the Pacific North-west have been listed as potentially “rare” or “uncommon”under the 1994 Record of Decision for the northern spottedowl, this book will prove particularly valuable to land man-agers in the Bureau of Land Management and United StatesForest Service who have been directed to survey and managefor the 28 listed taxa.

The book provides a single morphological key for allknown Ramaria within the Pacific Northwest, which is an in-

valuable tool since this information has not appeared previ-ously in a single publication. It also provides a description ofa new species in the subgenus Laeticolora, Ramaria rasil-isporoides R.L. Exeter. The book begins with a brief intro-duction to the genus Ramaria and discussion of phylogeneticrelationships among the subgenera, including a summary ofrecent morphological and molecular studies and a discussionof the history of the genus Ramaria and the Ramariaceae. Allcoral fungi were once included in the genus Clavaria, until in1970 Corner erected the genus Ramaria to distinguish therough-spored clavarioid taxa from the smooth-spored can-tharelloid members of the genus. The taxonomic position ofthe subgenera Echinoramaria and Lentoramaria is describedas controversial, but the authors choose to continue to treatthese as subgenera within Ramaria. The authors include sev-eral helpful appendices and tables, including tables of theworldwide distribution of species within subgenus Ramariaand Laeticolora, detailed comparisons of difficult to distin-guish taxa, the Marr and Stuntz key from 1973 and the Pe-

Ramaria of the Pacific Northwestern United States

Atlas of Invertebrate-Pathogenic Fungi of Thailand.Volume 1. 2007. J.J. Luangsa-ard, K. Tasanathai, S.Mongkolsamrit, N. Hywel-Jones. National Center for Genet-ic Enginering and Biotecnology (BIOTEC) and the NationalScience and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA),113 Thailand Science Park, Phaholyothin Road, Khlong 1,Khlong Luang, Palthumthani 12120. [email protected]. 82 pp. Price $35.00.

This beautifully illustrated book constitutes the first vol-ume of this Atlas initiating a continuing series providing il-lustrations of ca. 30 taxa per year. This first volume includesspecies in each of the following teleomorph and anamorphgenera: three species in the genus Akanthomyces, eightspecies in the genus Aschersonia (A. calendulina is stated tobe a new species but is invalidly published since it lacks aLatin description and designation of an hotolotype), two inBeauveria, two in Gibellula, one in Hirsutella, two inHypocrella (though according to Liu et al. 2006, one of thetwo species treated here, Hypocrella raciborskii Zimm. be-longs to the genus Moelleriella and another H. calendulinasp. nov. cited as the teleomorph of A. calendulina sp. nov. isinvalid), five in the genus Isaria (I. javanica (Frieder. &Bally) Samson & Hywel-Jones is a new combination), two inMetarhizium, one in Nomuraea, four in Ophiocordyceps, andone in Paecilomyces.

The Atlas specifically states not that this is not an au-thoritative taxonomic treatment of these groups, though foreach species they provide full literature citations of basionymand synonyms. There are a few inconsistencies related to for-mat in citing the basionym for Isaria cicadae, I. javanica,

Metarhizium anisopliae, and Nomuraea atypicola. Literaturecitations are omitted in a few cases as in Isaria farinosa,Ophiocordyceps myrmecophila and O. sphecocephala. Aswell they provide generic or specific names for the teleo-morph and/or anamorph but in a few cases there are incon-sistencies in giving literature citations. Other information in-cludes habitat, complete morphological descriptions ofmacroscopic and microscopic characters except for N. atypi-cola for teleomorphs and anamorphs, information on hosts,habitat, distribution, literature references and in some casescultural characteristics.

Highlights of this Atlas are the beautifully arrangedplates for each of the species placed opposite its description,utmost quality of field photographs with fresh stroma con-taining ascomata and/or conidiomata, as well as micrographsof the different structures, and even useful photographs ofcultures. A practical glossary of 73 terms is provided.

This beautifully illustrated Atlas will be of interest tospecialists and amateurs interested in determining insect-as-sociated fungi in Thailand and the Old-World. The very highquality and clearly formatted photographs presented in thisAtlas will surely make the task of identifying insect fungi eas-ier for all. Together with Chaverri at al (2008) monograph onNeotropical Hypocrella, Moelleriella and Samuelsia, thecoverage of this group of fungi for the New and Old Worldhas moved a great step forward.

—Teresa IturriagaDepartamento Biologia de Organismos

Universidad Simon BolivarEdo. Miranda, Venezuela

[email protected]

Atlas of Invertebrate-Pathogenic Fungi of Thailand


• Agaricales of New Zealand. Volume 1. Pluteaceae (Pluteus,Volvariella), Entolomataceae (Claudopus, Clitopilus, Entolo-ma, Pouzarella, Rhodocybe, Richoniella). 2008. Egon Horak.Koeltz Scientific Books, https://www.koeltz.com/. 305 pp. pluseight colored plates and 120 figures. Price: €58.00. Requestedfrom publisher.

• The Aspergilli: Genomic, Medical Aspects, Biotechnology,and Research Methods. 2008. Gustavo H. Goldman, Stephen A.Osmani (eds.). CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 33487,http://www.crcpress.com. ISBN 13: 978-1-8493-9080-7. 551 pp.Price: £82.00. Reviewed in this issue.

• Atlas of Invertebrate-Pathogenic Fungi of Thailand. Volume1. 2007. J.J. Luangsa-ard, K. Tasanathai, S. Mongkosamrit, N.Hywel-Jones. National Center for Genetic Engineering andBiotechnology (BIOTEC), 113 Thailand Science Park, Pha-holyothin road, Khlong 1, Khlong Luang, Pathum Thani 12120,Thailand, [email protected]. ISBN 978-974-229-522-6. 82 pp.Price: $35.00. Review in progress.

• Compendium of Soil Fungi, Second Edition. 2007. W. Gams (ed).IHW-Verlag & Verlagsbuchhandlung, Postfach 1119, D-85378Eching b. München, [email protected]. ISBN 978-3-930167-69-2. 700 pp. Price: €149.00 plus postage. Review in progress.

• Conservation of Rare or Little-Known Species. Biological, So-cial, and Economic Considerations. 2007. M.G. Raphael, R.Molina. Island Press, 1718 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 300,Washington, DC 20009. ISBN 978-1-59726-166-1. 375 pp. Price:hardcover $90.00, softcover $45.00. Review in progress.

• Ecology and Management of Morels Harvested from theForests of Western America. 2007. D. Pilz, R. McLain, S.Alexander, L. Villarreal-Ruiz, S. Berch, T.L. Wurtz, C.G. Parks,E. McFarlane, B. Baker, R. Molina, J.E. Smith. General TechnicalReport PNW-GTR-710. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agri-culture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 161pp. Price: unknown. Reviewed in this issue.

• Forest Fungi of Central India. 2008. R.K. Verma, N. Sharma,K.K. Soni, Jamaluddin. International Book Distributing Co.,[email protected]. ISBN 81-8189-228-3. 418 pp. Price:Rs. 2100.00. Review needed.

• Fungal Pathogenesis in Plants and Crops. Molecular Biologyand Host Defense Mechanisms, 2nd Edition. 2008. P. Vid-hyasekaran. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 33487,http://www.crcpress.com. ISBN: 978-0-8493-9867-4. 509 pp.Price: $169.95. Review needed.


tersen and Scates key from 1988 to species of subgenusLaeticolora, and a glossary of taxonomic vocabulary.

The bulk of the book consists of keys to each subgenusand detailed descriptions of each taxon, compiled primarilyfrom the taxonomic literature. The text is organized in con-veniently color-coded sections corresponding to the subgen-era Ramaria, Echinoramaria, Lentoramaria, and Laeticolo-ra. The descriptions of each species or variety include noteson morphological characters of the stipe, stipe context reac-tions, branching, apices, basidia, spores, habitat, distribution,diagnostic characters, and references containing further in-formation. Nomenclatural changes and key taxonomic syn-onyms are noted in some cases, but the reader is referred toother references for detailed nomenclatural information. The

descriptions include high quality color photos, where avail-able, which should prove helpful in identification of taxa.

The book is paperback, composed of high quality glossypaper with attractive color photos. The authors have struck afine balance between the needs of taxonomists and the pro-fessionals charged with managing these species by packing inan impressive amount of detailed information in a carefullyorganized and usable format that should prove useful to ex-perts and generalists alike. As such, it is a valuable additionto the taxonomic literature while also serving land managersand other professionals.

—Erica ClineUniversity of Washington-Tacoma

Tacoma WA [email protected]


Previously Listed Books

• Compendium of Onion and Garlic Diseases and Pests, SecondEdition. 2008. Howard F. Schwartz, S. Krishna Mohan (eds.).APS Press, 3340 Pilot Knob Road, St. Paul, MN 55121,http://www.shopapspress.org. ISBN: 978-0-89054-357-3. 127pp. Price: $59.00. Review in progress.

• Fungi Europaei 1. Agaricus – Allopsalliota – Part I. 2008. LuisAlberto Parra Sánchez. Edizioni Candusso, Alassio, Italy.ISBN88-901057-7-1. 824 pp. Price: €75.00. Reviewed in thisissue.

• Lichen Biology, Second Edition. 2008. Thomas H. Nash III(ed.). Cambridge University Press, The Edinburgh Building, Cam-bridge CB2 8RU, www.cambridge.org. ISBN: 978-0-521-87162-4. 486 pp. Price: hardback $140.00; paperback $70.00. Reviewneeded.

• A Manual and Source Book on the Boletes and their Allies.2008. Roy Watling. Fungiflora, P.O. Box 95, Blindern, N-0314,Oslo, Norway, [email protected]. Synopsis Fungorum

24. ISBN: 978-82-90724-36-3. Price: NOK300 plus postage. Re-view in progress.

• Microfungi occurring on Proteaceae in the Fynbos. 2008.Seonju Marincowitz, Pedro W. Crous, Johannes Z. Groenewald,Michael J. Wingfield. Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures,P.O. Box 85167, Utrecht, The Netherlands, http://www.cbs.knaw.nl/publications/index.htm. Biodiversity Series 7. ISBN: 978-90-70351-71-7. 166 pp. Price: €50.00. Review in progress.

• Phycology, Fourth Edition. 2008. Robert Edward Lee. Cam-bridge University Press, The Edinburgh Building, CambridgeCB2 8RU, www.cambridge.org. ISBN: 978-0-521-86408-4. 547pp. Price: hardback $160.00, softback $70.00. Review needed.

• Phytophthora: Identifying Species by Morphology and DNAFingerprints. 2008. Mannon E. Gallegly, Chuanxue Hong. APSPress, 3340 Pilot Knob Road, St. Paul, MN 55121,http://www.shopapspress.org. ISBN: 978-0-89-54-364-1. 168 pp.plus 130 b&w images. Price: $79.00. Review needed.

Recently Received Books


• Fungi of Australia: Smut Fungi. 2008. K. Vanky, R.G. Shivas.CSIRO Publishing, http://www.publish.csir.au/nid/18/pid/5729/htm. 276 pp. plus CD. Price: 130 AU$. Review in progress.

• Fungi in the Ancient World: How Mushrooms, Mildews,Molds, and Yeast Shaped the Early Civilization of Europe, theMediterranean, and the Near East. 2008. Frank Dugan. APSPress, 3340 Pilot Knob Road, St. Paul, MN 55121,http://www.shopapspress.org. ISBN: 978-0-89054-361-0. 152pp. Price: $60.00. Review in progress.

• Fungi of Cameroon. 2007. Clovis Douanla-Meli. Gebrüder Born-traeger Verlagsbuchhandlunh, Berlin, http://www.schweizer-bart.de. ISBN: 978-3-4435-91045. Bibliotheca Mycologica 202:1-410. Price: €89.00. Review in progress.

• The genus Cladosporium and similar dematiaceous hy-phomycetes. 2007. P.W. Crous, U. Braun, K. Schubert, J.Z. Groe-newald. Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, P.O. Box 85167,Utrecht, The Netherlands, http://www.cbs.knaw.nl/publica-tions/index.htm. Studies in Mycology 58: 1-253. Price: €65.00.Reviewed in this issue.

• Index of Fungi Inhabiting Woody Plants in Japan – Host, Dis-tribution and Literature. 2007. T. Kobayashi. Zenkoku-Noson-Kyoiku Kyokai, Publishing Co, Ltd. http://book.geocities.jp/in-dexfungi/ ISBN 978-4-88137-129-9. 1227 pp. Price: unknown.Reviewed in this issue.

• Indian Sarcoscyphaceous Fungi. 2008. D.C. Pant, V. Prasad.Scientific Publishers (India), P.O. Box 91, Jodphur – 342 001,India, www.scientificpub.com, ISBN: 978-81-7233-525-0. Price:$55.00. Requested from publisher.

• Plant Pathology. Concepts and Laboratory Exercises, SecondEdition. 2008. Robert N. Trigiano, Mark T. Windham, Alan S.Windham (eds.). CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 33487,http://www.crcpress.com. ISBN 13:978-1-4200-4669-4. 558 pp.plus CD. Price: £42.99. Review in progress.

• Ramaria of the Pacific Northwestern United States. 2007.Ronald L. Exeter, Lorelei Norvell, Efrén Cazares. Bureau of LandManagement, Salem, OR. Email: [email protected]. 157 pp. plus190 photos. Price: $27.00. Reviewed in this issue.

• Trees, Truffles, and Beasts. How Forests Function. 2008. ChrisMaser, Andrew W. Claridge, James M. Trappe. Rutgers Universi-ty, 100 Joyce Kilmer Ave., Piscataway, NJ 08854-8099,http://rugerserspress.rutgers.edu. ISBN: 978-0-8135-4225-6. 280pp. Price: $26.95. Reviewed Jul-Aug 2008.

• An update on the genus Chaetomium with descriptions of somecoprophilous species, new to Italy. Aggiornamento sul genereChaetomium con descrizione di alcune specie coprofile, nuoveper l’Italia. 2008. Francesco Doveri. Bresadola Mycological As-sociation, Segreteria Nazionale AMB, via Volta 36, -38100, Tren-to, Italia, [email protected]. Pagne de Micologia 29: 1-159.Price: €20.00 plus €10 shipping charges. Review needed.

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Words start with M(3) Space station was inhabited by fungi –

4X(3) Fungal rocket fuel(3) Organization which awards the C.J.

Alexopoulos prize(4) Common agar ingredient for culturing

molds(4) Armenian fermented milk drink(4) Mushroom makes video game charac-

ter Mario huge(4) Neither medium nor hot(4) Japanese fermented paste or soup(4) An Acarine. Somemembers engage in

mutualism with Ophiostoma fungi(4) To become covered in fuzzy fungus(4) Member of mushroom trinity in the 10

Koopmandments in Mario games(4) Gyromitra rocket fuel prefix(4) Crumbly humus soil type(4) Swollen Sordariales wall pore(4) Condition or smell of being moldy or

stale(5) Larger than micro(5) “Funny” mushrooms(5) Biblical food(5) Mushroom-loving video game charac-

ter(5) Harvesters’ short name for Tricholoma

magnivelare(5) A Japanese rice wine condiment – 2X(5) Burn site mushroom(5) Common mold genus(5) Traditional Australian Aboriginal food

bolete named for Acacia wood-lands–2X

(6) Hobbit Farmer who grows mushroomson Bamfurlong farm in the Shire

(6) Turkish for mushroom(6) Cap edge(6) Dr. Jinx Campbell specializes in these

fungi(6) Mycologist George Edward, First Pres-

ident of the British Mycological Socie-ty 1896

(6) Swahili for mushrooms(6) Erysiphales(6) Chinese for Auricularia polytricha (2

wds)

(6) Small white-spored genus less wellknown for producing “foxfire”

(7) Protective dark pigment found in fungiand other organisms

(8) The group in society which would usefungi in warfare eg. T-2 toxin or AgentGreen

(9) Giant beech “rooster” polypore genus(9) Morel genus

Words contain M(3) Dead ___, a grape disease caused by

Phomopsis or Eutypa – 2X(3) “Dutch” Ophiostoma victim

(3) Fermented molasses drink – 3X(4) Tagalog for fungus – 2X(4) Non-Paris AM(4) Grass stem(4) Lacking in Physaroid myxomycete

capillitium tubules (but great in a Co-rona?)

(4) Mellow-textured rich soil type, of sand,silt and clay

(4) Organization which hosts the Orson K.Miller Foray

(4) Fungal pornography?


TAKE A BREAK

Words run forwards, backwards, vertically, horizontally, diagonally, and letters may appear inmore than one word. Number of letters in each word is shown in ellipses. Numbers with an “x” in-dicate the number of times the word appears in the puzzle. Please note that many words in thispuzzle are “buried” - all their letters are used in other words. Shuffle the 9 unused letters (inshaded boxes) to spell another mmmmmycological word __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

—Juliet [email protected]

Vancouver Mycological Society

M is for Mmmmmmushroommmmmm



(4) Historical ritual drink, possibly from A.muscaria

(4) Stipe(4) Cap nipple(5) Bitter Pertusaria species(5) Aseptate asexual “Saccardo” spore

type; short with short or absent orna-mentation

(5) Acid molecule for building proteins(5) Birch broom, sometimes smeared with

flying ointment(5) Stonewashed in Trichoderma en-

zymes(5) An asexual propagule(5) A dematiaceous filamentous anamor-

phic plant blight genus, rarely a humanpathogen

(5) Robigus propitiator – 2X(5) Fifth taste sense, associated with

MSG, seaweed and Shiitake(5) Casual term for eg. boletes filled with

writhing critters(6) Leaf undersurface Rust cup(6) Prince smell(6) Vulgar (name used instead of the Latin)(6) Typical AM genus(6) Commercial Pholiota edible(6) Pseudoparenchymal tissue(7) Lichen cyanobacteria photobionts con-

vert nitrogen into this N compound(7) Oak-loving Phytophthora species

Mushroom Stroganoff — This is a rich and meaty vegetarianstroganoff made with Portobello mushrooms and served over eggnoodles. It is quick to make and tastes delicious.

—Jinx [email protected]

INGREDIENTS:3 tbls butter1 large onion, chopped3/4 lb portobello mushrooms, sliced1 ½ cups vegetable broth1 ½ cups sour cream3 tbls all-purpose flour¼ cup chopped fresh parsley8 oz dried egg noodles

DIRECTIONS:1. Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add egg noodles, and cook until al dente, about 7 minutes. Remove from heat,drain, and set aside.

2. At the same time, melt butter in a large heavy skillet over medium heat. Add onion, and cook, stirring until softened. Turn the heatup to medium-high, and add sliced mushrooms. Cook until the mushrooms are limp and browned. Remove to a bowl, and setaside.

3. In the same skillet, stir in vegetable broth, being sure to stir in any browned bits off the bottom of the pan. Bring to a boil, andcook until the mixture has reduced by one third. Reduce heat to low, and return the mushrooms and onion to the skillet.

4. Remove pan from heat, stir together the sour cream and flour; add the cooked mushrooms and stir. Return skillet to the heat,and continue cooking over low heat, just until the sauce thickens. Stir in the parsley and season to taste with salt and pepper.Serve over cooked egg noodles.

Prep Time: 10 MinutesCook Time: 20 MinutesReady In: 30 MinutesYields: 4 servings

Cookery Corner


MYCOLOGICAL JOBS

The Department of Coastal Sciences(http://www.usm.edu/gcrl/coastal_sciences/) at the Universi-ty of Southern Mississippi (http://www.usm.edu) is request-ing applications from highly qualified students for its MS orPhD program in coastal sciences with a focus in marine my-cology. The Department of Coastal Sciences is located at theGulf Coast Research Laboratory (http://www.usm.edu/gcrl)in Ocean Springs, MS (http://www.oceanspringschamber.com/) on the Gulf of Mexico.

Current research in marine mycology at GCRL includesthe biodiversity of marine fungi in the Gulf of Mexico; tax-onomy and systematics of marine fungi; diversity of sapro-phytic marine fungi in natural and created saltmarshes; ma-rine fungi as indicators of human impact on Gulf Coast

beaches; improving saltmarsh restoration using symbioticfungal associations; fungal infections of captive and wild-stranded bottlenose dolphins; colonization and species suc-cession of artificial reefs.

Successful applicants will be provided a 12-month Re-search Assistantship with a tuition waiver. Candidates shouldpossess a relevant BS degree (GPA >= 3.0), and MS (GPA>= 3.5) if applying for the PhD program. Interested individu-als should contact:

Dr Jinx Campbell, Asst Professor Marine Mycology, De-partment of Coastal Sciences, University of Southern Missis-sippi, Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, 703 East BeachDrive, Ocean Springs, MS 39564. Tel: (228) 818-8878. E-mail: [email protected].

Marine Mycology Research on the Gulf of Mexico

The Department of Plant Sciences and Landscape Archi-tecture, University of Maryland, College Park, is seeking aM.Sc. or Ph.D. student to start in the Fall 2009. The studentwill study the systematics and evolution of either Cosmospo-ra or Neonectria (Nectriaceae, Ascomycota). These generaare common tropical and temperate fungi and some of themare important plant pathogens and potential agents of biocon-trol. Fieldwork and laboratory work are important compo-nents of this research.

The student will be supported by the prestigious NSF’sPartnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy program(PEET). The PEET project is entitled: “Monographic studiesin the Nectriaceae, Hypocreales: Nectria, Neonectria, andCosmospora.” Drs. Priscila Chaverri (UMD), Amy Y. Ross-man (ARS-USDA), and Gary J. Samuels (ARS-USDA) arethe Principal Investigators in this project. The student will be

supported for two years for a M.Sc. and 3-4 years for a Ph.D.and it includes stipend (about $20,000/year) and tuition, plussupplies and domestic and international travel.

To apply, please send a complete Curriculum vita, con-tact information, names and contact information of 2-3 refer-ees, and a one-page cover letter stating the applicant’s quali-fications, background and reasons for applying. Review ofapplications will start September 30th, 2008. The deadline toapply to University of Maryland is February 1st, 2009 and allthe admission requirements are detailed atwww.gradschool.umd.edu.

Mail the requested information to: Priscila Chaverri,Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Sciences and Land-scape Architecture, 2112 Plant Sciences Building, Universityof Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742 or by email to:[email protected].

M.S. or Ph.D. Student in Fungal Systematics and Evolution

Assistant Professor of Biology (position # 82909) Uni-versity of Hawai’i at Hilo, College of Arts & Sciences: full-time, nine-month, tenure-track appointment to begin in 2009,general funds, pending position clearance and funding. Du-ties: Teach undergraduate courses in Introductory biology(including botany), teach and participate in the Tropical Con-servation Biology and Environmental Science graduate pro-gram, develop an independent research program in area ofexpertise that is supported by extramural funding; advise stu-dents; participate in departmental governance and relatedUniversity and community service. Minimum Qualifica-tions: Ph.D. from an accredited college or university in a bi-ological science discipline appropriate to the position, teach-ing experience in biological sciences, and researchexperience in area of expertise. The ability to work with stu-dents from diverse cultural backgrounds is essential. Desir-

able Qualifications: Demonstrated teaching experience atthe college or university level in botanical sciences. A re-search program in some area of mycology such as systemat-ics/evolutionary biology of fungi, ecological roles of endo-phytic or mycorrhizal fungi, or cellular/moleculardevelopment of fungi. The ability to develop a research pro-gram in the Hawaiian or Pacific region with the potential toobtain extramural funding. Pay Range: I3 Salary commen-surate with qualifications and experience.

Applications: Submit a cover letter indicating the posi-tion title and position number and how you satisfy the mini-mum and desirable qualifications, a curriculum vitae, aca-demic transcripts (copies are acceptable, however officialtranscripts will be required prior to employment), and state-

Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of Hawaii



ments of research and teaching interests. In addition have 3letters of recommendation mailed directly by the referees. In-quiries and application materials should be directed to: Dr.Rebecca Ostertag, Biology Department, University ofHawai‘i at Hilo, 200 W. Kāwili St., Hilo, Hawai‘i. [email protected]. Continuous recruitment: Review of ap-plications will begin on September 1, 2008 and will continueuntil the position is filled.Inquires: Dr. Susan Jarvi, Chair, Bi-ology Department, University of Hawai‘i at Hilo, 200 W.Kāwili St., Hilo, Hawai‘i. [email protected]

The University of Hawaii is an equal opportuni-

ty/affirmative action institution and is committed to a policyof nondiscrimination on the basis of race, sex, age, religion,color, national origin, ancestry, disability, marital status, sex-ual orientation, status as a protected veteran, National Guardparticipation, breastfeeding, and arrest/court record (exceptas permissible under State law). Employment is contingenton satisfying employment eligibility verification require-ments of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986;reference checks of previous employers; and for certain posi-tions, criminal history record checks.

MYCOLOGICAL CLASSIFIEDS

Dr. Charles L. Kramer (professor emeritus, Kansas StateUniversity), student of A.J. Mix, and MSA member since1954, has recently retired and would like to auction his li-brary of books to benefit the MSA. We are looking for goodhomes for several hundred books, and in the process, makesome money for MSA. The list of books for sale is availableat: http://microfungi.truman.edu/Kramer-library.asp

Many of the reprints and a few of the older books in thelist were bequeathed by the late Dr. A.J. Mix. We have in-cluded these and other older works for those who might havean interest in topics from an historical point of view.

The majority of the books on the list are concerned withthe taxonomy of special groups of fungi. Among those arelarge format books treating the mushrooms. There are alsobooks, such as those by C.T. Ingold, that are concerned withfungal spore discharge and dispersal, and aerobiology in gen-eral. Although not included in the present list, but will be in-cluded later in a separate list, are a large number of books onplant pathology.

We are currently working to develop an effi-cient mechanism that is fair and equitable, and would allowother mycologists to buy these books by bidding on them

through the website. We hope to have the website open forbidding by early September and have bidding closed by earlyDecember, just in time for holidays.

Special thanks should go to Lou Ann Claassen, Dr.Kramer’s daughter, who has given a great deal of time and ef-fort to make this project possible.

The Mechanics of the auction: These are still beingworked out but we hope to have a system akin to eBay whereyou will be asked to enter your bid after you register. Thechecks would then be made out to MSA. Additional informa-tion about when this auction will take place is forthcoming onthe website, and some details need to be worked out with theMycological Society of America. Please distribute this web-site to whomever you think may be looking for mycologicaltitles.

—Jose HerreraDr Kramer’s former (and last) graduate student

Department of BiologyTruman State University

100 E. NormalKirksville, MO 63501

660-785-4616E-mail: [email protected]

Book Sale to Benefit the MSA

We would like to obtain Achlya ambisexualis strains E87(strong male) and 734 (strong female), which are well suitedfor teaching laboratory demonstrations of pheromonal com-munication during sexual reproduction in oomycetes. Thesestrains are no longer maintained by ATCC. Please contact ei-

ther Terry Hill ([email protected]) or Shelley Brunt([email protected]).

—Terry W. [email protected]

—Shelley [email protected]

Wanted: Cultures of Achlya Ambisexualis Strains E87 ♂ and 734 ♀

Identification of fungi for indoor air quality, includinghome and building mold test kits. Fungal identification forfood technology, spawn technology, plant diseases and insec-taries. Specializing in identification of parasitic watermoldsfor research in fish and amphibian biology. ASTM & Mil-Spec testing for aerospace and environmental engineering.

10% discount for regular and sustaining MSA members.Email [email protected]; Surface mail Abbey Lane Lab-oratory, LLC, PO Box 1665, Philomath, OR 97370 USA.Web page: www.abbeylab.com

—Steven E. [email protected]

Fungal Testing and Identification Services


A New Web Page About Tropical Fungi,Hongos Del Parque “El Haya” (58-5)hongosdelhaya.blogspot.com/

Ascomycota of Swedenwww.umu.se/myconet/asco/indexASCO.html

Bibliography of Systematic Mycologywww.speciesfungorum.org/BSM/bsm.htm

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; Meetings & Courses Programs (58-2)meetings.cshl.edu

Collection of 800 Pictures of Macro- and Micro-fungiwww.mycolog.com

Cordyceps Websitewww.mushtech.org

Cornell Mushroom Blog (58-1)hosts.cce.cornell.edu/mushroom_blog/

Cortbase (58-2)andromeda.botany.gu.se/cortbase.html

Corticoid Nomenclatural Database (56-2)www.phyloinformatics.org/

The Cybertruffle internet server for mycology seeks to provide informa-tion about fungi from a global standpoint (59-3).www.cybertruffle.org.uk

Cyberliber, a digital library for mycology (59-3).www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cyberliber

Cybernome provides nomenclatural and taxonomic information aboutfungi and their associated organisms, with access to over 548,000 recordsof scientific names (59-3).www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cybernome

Dictionary of The Fungi Classificationwww.indexfungorum.org/names/fundic.asp

Distribution Maps of Caribbean Fungi (56-2)www.biodiversity.ac.psiweb.com/carimaps/index.htm

Entomopathogenic Fungal Culture Collection (EFCC)www.mushtech.org

Fun Facts About Fungi (55-1)www.herbarium.usu.edu/fungi/funfacts/factindx.htm

Fungal Environmental Sampling and Informatics Network (58-2)www.bio.utk.edu/fesin/

German Mycological Society DGfMwww.dgfm-ev.de

HighWire Press (58-3)mycologia.org

Humboldt Institute — Located on the eastern coast of Maine, the instituteis known for the extensive series of advanced and professional-level nat-ural history science seminars it has offered in Maine since 1987, alongwith ecological restoration seminars and expeditions to the neotropics. Itpublishes the Northeastern Naturalist and Southeastern Naturalist, twoscholarly, peer-reviewed, natural history science journals which providean integrated publishing and research resource for eastern North Ameri-ca, including eastern Canada. 59(4)www.eaglehill.uswww.eaglehill.us/programs/nhs/natural-history-semi-nars.shtmlwww.eaglehill.us/nenawww.eaglehill.us/senawww.eaglehill.us/jona

Hysteriaceae & Mytilinidiaceae — Website relating to the taxonomy of theHysteriaceae & Mytilinidiaceae (Pleosporomycetidae, Dothideomycetes,Ascomycota) to facilitate species identification using a set of updated andrevised keys based on those first published by Hans Zogg in 1962. 59(4)http://www.eboehm.com/

Index of Fungiwww.indexfungorum.org/names/names.asp

Interactive Key to Hypocreales of Southeastern United States (57-2)nt.ars-grin.gov/sbmlweb/fungi/keydata.cfm

ISHAM: the International Society for Human and Animal Mycologywww.isham.org

JSTOR (58-3)jstor.org

Libri Fungorum Mycological Publications (58-3)194.203.77.76/LibriFungorum/

Mold Testing and Identification Services (58-2)www.pioneer.net/~microbe/abbeylab.html

McCrone Research Institute (McRI) is an internationally recognized not-for-profit educational institute specializing primarily in teaching appliedmicroscopy. 59(4)www.mcri.org

Mountain Justice Summer (58-3)www.MountainJusticeSummer.org

Mycology Education Mart where all relevant mycology courses can beposted. www2.bio.ku.dk/mycology/courses/

The Myconet Classification of the Ascomycotawww.fieldmuseum.org/myconet

Northeast Mycological Federation (NEMF) foray database (58-2)www.nemfdata.org

Pacific Northwest Fungi — A peer-reviewed online journal for informationon fungal natural history in the Pacific Northwest (Alaska, British Colum-bia, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington), including taxonomy,nomenclature, ecology, and biogeography.www.pnwfungi.org/

Pleurotus spp.www.oystermushrooms.net

Rare, Endangered or Under-recorded Fungi in Ukraine (56-2)www.cybertruffle.org.uk/redlists/index.htm

Registry of Mushrooms in Artmembers.cox.net/mushroomsinart/

Robigalia provides information about field observations, published recordsand reference collection specimens of fungi and their associated organ-isms, with access to over 685,000 records (59-3).www.cybertruffle.org.uk/robigalia

Searchable database of culture collection of wood decay fungi (56-6)www.fpl.fs.fed.us/rwu4501/index.html

Small Things Considered.A microbe blog on microbes in general, but carries occasional piecesspecifically on fungi.schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/

Species of Glomeromycota Website (55-3)www.amf-phylogeny.com

Tree canopy biodiversity project University of Central Missouri (58-4)faculty.cmsu.edu/myxo/

Tripartite Similarity Calculator (55-1)www.amanitabear.com/similarity

The TRTC Fungarium (58-1)bbc.botany.utoronto.ca/ROM/TRTCFungarium/home.php

U.S. National Fungus Collections (BPI)Complete Mushroom Specimen Database (57-1)www.ars.usda.gov/ba/psi/sbml

Valhalla provides information about mycologists of the past, with names,dates of birth and death and, in some cases, biographies and/or portraits(59-3).www.cybertruffle.org.uk/valhalla

Website for the mycological journal Mycena (56-2)www.mycena.org/index.htm

Wild Mushrooms From Tokyowww.ne.jp/asahi/mushroom/tokyo/

MYCOLOGY ON-LINEBelow is an alphabetical list of websites featured in Inoculum. Those wishing to add sites to this directory or to edit address-es should email <[email protected]>. Unless otherwise notified, listings will be automatically deleted after one year(at the editors discretion).


REMINDER: MSA Directory UpdateIs your information up-to-date in the MSA directory? The Society is relying more and more

on email to bring you the latest MSA news, awards announcements and other timely informa-tion, and our newsletter. To ensure that you receive Society blast emails and the Inoculum assoon as it comes out, and so that your colleagues can keep in touch, please check the accura-cy of your email address and contact information in the online directory. This can be accessedvia our web site at www.msafungi.org. If you need assistance with updating your membershipinformation, or help with your membership log-in ID and password, please contact Kay Rose,Association Manager at Allen Press, at [email protected].

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

NOTE TO MEMBERS:Those wishing to list upcoming mycological courses, workshops, conventions, symposia, and for-ays in the Calendar of Events should include complete postal/electronic addresses and submit toInoculum editor Jinx Campbell at [email protected].

September 19-21, 200855th Annual Charles Peck Foray

Brauer Field Station of SUNY Cortland,near Albany, NY.

http://www.plantpath.cornell.edu/CUPpages/Peck.html

November 13-14, 2008CBS Symposium: Fungi and Health

Trippenhuis, KNAW Amsterdam.www.cbs.knaw.nl

November 10-13, 2008VI Latin American Mycology CongressAsociacion Latinoamericanade MicologiaMar del Plata, Argentina

November 17-21, 2008Second African Conference on Edibleand Medicinal Mushrooms

Accra, Ghana

May 31-June 4, 200914th International Sclerotinia Workshop

Department of Plant Pathology,North Carolina State University,Wilmington, NC

July 25-30, 2009MSA Meetingwith Botanical Society of America

Snowbird, UT

2010 MSA MeetingUniversity of KentuckyLexington, KY, USA

2011 MSA MeetingUniversity of AlaskaFairbanks, AK, USA


inoculumThe Newsletter

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Society of AmericaSupplement to Mycologia

Volume 59, No. 5September 2008

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