MASMC Registration Open! Updated March 11, 2020: The Middle Atlantic States Mycology Conference scheduled for April 17-19 is cancelled on account of COVID-19 pandemic. Please share this update with anyone who was planning to attend. The Middle Atlantic States Mycology Conference & morel foray are hosted by Duke University in Read more…
President’s Corner From Inoculum, February 2020: Dear Mycologists, Greetings! I hope your New Year is off to a fabulous start. In Wisconsin the semester’s in full swing and I’m feeling by turns crushed and excited by experiments, teaching, ongoing faculty searches, and service as your President! I’m writing very specifically Read more…
Bessette, A.E., A.R. Bessette. D.P. Lewis. 2019. Mushrooms of the Gulf Coast States: A Field Guide to Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. University of Texas Press. $39.95 In 2011 I moved to the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, to start a job as an assistant professor in fungal Read more…
Intriguing Inscriptions Submitted by Ron Petersen, University of Tennessee, Knoxville A few days ago, rummaging around in my library, I came upon a small book, very fragile now: Cooke, MC & L Quelet. 1878. Clavis synoptica Hymenomycetum Europæorum. Hardwicke & Bogue, London. 240 pp. + catalogue of books by Hardwicke Read more…
Tricholomas of North America. A Mushroom Field Guide. 2013. Alan E. Bessette, Arlene R. Bessette, William C. Roody, Steven A. Trudell. University of Texas Press, Austin,TX. http://utpress.utexas.edu/. ISBN: 978-0-292-74233-8 (pbk . : alk. paper). Printed in China. 208 pp. Price (Paper) $29.95. The name Tricholoma was proposed by Elias Fries, Read more…
Book Review: Agaricus of North America Agaricus of North America Richard W. Kerrigan. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden, Volume 114, 2016. xviii + 573 p. NYBG Press, Bronx, NY. ISBN 978-0-89327-536-5. ISSN 0077-8931 $127.99, member price $115.19 In my opinion, publication of Agaricus of North America represents a Read more…
Botany Collections Manager in Mycology or Lichenology – Milwaukee Public Museum As posted by Julia Colby on NHColl: “This Collection Manager position will be filled at the Assistant level (the first of 3 possible ranks) and will be responsible for direct care and management of the approximately 200,000 specimens (~10% cryptogams) Read more…
Assistant Professor; Fungal Biology; tenure track, academic year appointment (9-month) at The School of Integrative Plant Science at Cornell University For the original pdf, please click here. The School of Integrative Plant Science at Cornell University (https://sips.cals.cornell.edu) invites applications for a tenure track position at the Assistant Professor level in Read more…
Extended Deadline for the Call for Proposals: Symposia & Workshops for MSA 2020 The deadline to submit a proposal has been extended to Monday, October 21, 2019. The Mycological Society of America is now accepting proposals for symposia and workshops to be held at the annual meeting at the University Read more…
Call for Proposals – MSA Symposia and Workshops for the 2020 Meeting The Mycological Society of America is now accepting proposals for symposia and workshops to be held at the annual meeting at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL (July 20-24, 2020). We invite symposia in all areas of Read more…