Millipedes and Mealworms and Mucoromycota. Oh my! Submitted by: Angie Macias, PhD Student Brian Lovett, Post-doc Matt Kasson, Associate Professor In the Kasson Lab at West Virginia University, we are trying to understand how millipedes and fungi interact. Fungivorous millipedes are a wonderful (and understudied) system for investigating fungal biodiversity, Read more…
Searching for a Subtle Seed-borne Systemic Symbiosis Submitted by: Christopher Schardl In 1985 I came to Lexington, Kentucky, to take a junior faculty position in the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Kentucky (UK). I was soon to be followed by my wife, Kuey, eight-months pregnant. (She put Read more…
The MSA Archive: What, When, Where? Submitted by: Meredith Blackwell and Ronald H. Petersen The Mycological Society of America (MSA) archive languishes, piled on top of cabinets in a climate-controlled room at the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG). The archive is a collection of memorabilia: portraits, written records of the Society Read more…
Submitted by: Bill Sheehan and D. Jean Lodge The North American Mycoflora Project is changing. In August 2020, we will announce a new name and logo, a new DNA sequencing partner with new protocols, as well as a more expansive and inclusive vision of engaging citizen scientists and professional mycologists. Read more…
Mycology During the Quarantine: News from Bogota, Colombia Submitted by: Adriana Corrales In 2018, I moved to Bogota, Colombia, to start my own lab at Universidad del Rosario. In 2019, I started an undergraduate research group focusing on studying the ecology, function, and interactions of tropical fungi. We named our Read more…
Submitted by: Harold W. Keller Left: Close-up of myxomycete Licea iridescens sporangium showing black, apical, thickened patch of debris and smoother iridescent sides with bluish, reddish sparkles This study concentrated on myxomycete biodiversity on the tree trunk bark sampled from living American elm trees located in nature parks in the Read more…