I have a student working on a project at the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory in collaboration with the Thad Cochran Aquaculture Center to study the single cell protein capabilities of fungi as fish food. Does anyone have cultures that they would be willing to send me of Candida utilis, Candida krusei, Geotrichum candidum and Pichia anomala?
Jinx Campbell
The University of Southern Mississippi
Gulf Coast Research Laboratory
703 East Beach Drive
Ocean Springs
MS 39564
jinx.campbell@usm.edu
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Posted in news on Apr 7th, 2008 Comments Off
MSA member Dr. Maren Klich and Shannon Beltz (USDA) will be teaching a Texas workshop on Aspergillus identification and impacts, March 25-27, 2008. Participants earn 15 hours of continuing education credit through ASCLS.
Registration is due before March 7 2008, and the workshop is limited to 16 participants. Further information is available here.
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Posted in news on Feb 14th, 2008 Comments Off
A University of Central Missouri research team from the Department of Biology will be featured on the PBS program “Wild Chronicles.” The episode will feature student mycologists and their tree climbing adventures in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The scenic views from the treetops and Purchase Knob are breathtaking!! The episode will be broadcast on or around Feb. 22 2008, as Episode #318 on PBS television stations nationwide. Further information here.
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Posted in news on Feb 14th, 2008 Comments Off
There will be a T-Shirt design competition for next year’s MSA meeting at Penn State. Everyone is eligible to enter. Deadline for submission is February 28th 2008. Send your design to the Inoculum Editor, Jinx Campbell, at jinx.campbell@usm.edu. The T Shirt Design Committee members are:
Jinx Campbell, Betsy Arnold, Meredith Blackwell, David Geiser.
Rules
In no particular order:
(1) Please send proposed T-Shirt designs to jinx.campbell@usm.edu.
(2) To be considered, designs must be received as actual graphic files, not merely textual descriptions of proposed designs. Acceptable formats are PowerPoint, Adobe, GIF, JPG, TIFF, EPS. If you have another format check with Jinx Campbell prior to submission.
(3) Some tips: one or two colors of ink are probably best. You are not limited to white shirts. Favor will be given to designs that are geographically personalized to the hosting institution, including portraits of mycologists from that region.
(4) The design must be free of copyright, and therefore may not include any copyrighted materials.
(5) The deadline for submission is February 28th 2008. No entries will be accepted after this date.
(6) The Committee will judge the entries after February 28th 2008.
(7) The Committee will select one design as the winner.
(8) The Committee reserves the right to modify the design if it sees fit.
(9) The winner of the Competition will be notified by email and will receive a free T shirt.
(10) The winning design will be posted on the MSA website and in Inoculum.
(11) The entrants retain all copyright to their submissions, but grant MSA a non-exclusive right to display the submissions and to print t-shirts using them.
Contest first posted in Inoculum 59(1), December 20 2007.
Posted in news on Dec 20th, 2007 Comments Off
My new graduate student, Jennifer McDonald, has bravely taken on the systematics of the cyphelloid species of Resupinatus (formerly known as Stigmatolemma, cf. Mycologia 97:1148-1149, 2005), using both micromorphology and sequence data. In order for her project to succeed, she will need fresh collections and cultures of as many taxa as possible within this group. Basically, if it is cyphelloid, gregarious (often on a felty or wispy subiculum), and gelatinous, with hyaline spores, we would be interested!
Collections or cultures of Resupinatus taxa with tiny, gregarious fruiting bodies having few, reduced lamellae (e.g., Resupinatus kavinii) would also be welcome. If you have any cultures or recent collections of this group, or if you come across these taxa in the field, we would greatly appreciate receiving them. Specimens would be returned after study, but please let us know whether you approve the use of a small portion of the material for DNA extraction for molecular studies. Please email prior to sending any material.
Thanks!
Greg Thorn
Posted in news on Nov 20th, 2007 Comments Off
Dear MSA Members:
Planning for the 2008 MSA meeting at Penn State has started and we are soliciting proposals for symposia. To propose a symposium, please provide: 1) a title; 2) a very short summary of why this topic is particularly timely or appropriate; 3) a tentative list of speakers. For the speaker list we assume that there will be a maximum of six, but the entire list need not be filled at this point. In fact, we encourage you to save up to two slots to be filled in after reviewing abstracts submitted for the contributed talks.
E-mail your proposals to the program committee: Jo Taylor (jtaylor@sfasu.edu), Marc Cubeta (marc_cubeta@ncsu.edu), Tom Horton (trhorton@esf.edu) and Fred Spiegel (fspiegel@uark.edu).
The deadline is December 1, 2007.
Posted in news on Oct 20th, 2007 Comments Off
It’s not too late to buy your own copy of the Deep Hypha issue (vol. 98, no. 6) of Mycologia.
Posted in news on Jul 15th, 2007 Comments Off
