45th New Phytologist Symposium: Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences of Plant–Fungal Invasions Campinas, Brazil | 20–23 June 2020 Registration is now open for the 45th New Phytologist Symposium: Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences of Plant–Fungal Invasions! Travel grants for early career researchers are available. The 45th New Phytologist Symposium will explore how 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…
Santa Cruz Mycoflora Foray Clear your calendars for the fourth annual Santa Cruz Mycoflora Foray, to be held at the Mission Springs Conference Center in Scotts Valley, CA. See more details.
Announcing the 3rd Wild Plant Pathosystems Conference near Frankfurt, Germany, September 16-20, 2019. Last Date for Registration: June 30, 2019. Click the image of the flyer below for the full pdf and information. Please see www.wpp3.de for more information as well.
An informal study of growing fruticose lichens in greenhouses Carly R. Anderson Stewart1 1University of Colorado at Boulder, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, Boulder, CO, 80309 ABSTRACT – Two species of wild-collected lichens, Usnea lapponica (from Colorado) and Ramalina menziesii (California) were placed into wet and dry greenhouses at the Read more…
Video showing Bitunicate (or, jack-in-the-box) ascus dehiscence in Lindgomyces carolinensis, a freshwater Dothideomycete fungus Submitted by Huzefa A. Raja, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 27402, United States The Dothideomycetes are distinguished from the other Ascomycota (ascus bearing fungi), mainly based on morphological Read more…
Are fungi hidden drivers of plant distributions and population persistence? An article written by Aaron S. David (recipient of MSA’s 2017 Forest Fungal Ecology Grant Award), Research Ecologist, USDA-ARS Invasive Plant Research Laboratory, Fort Lauderdale, FL By now it’s become a well-worn phrase, but the fungal communities that inhabit soils Read more…
The American Institute of Biological Sciences Awards MSA Graduate Student, Brian Lovett, with an Emerging Public Policy Leadership Award The AIBS describes the award and Brian: “The American Institute of Biological Sciences annually recognizes, with the Emerging Public Policy Leadership Award, one or two graduate students in the biological sciences Read more…