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The Future is Fungi Award
The deadline to apply for the Future is Fungi Award is Sunday, November 5th. Click on the icon to view more information.
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Advanced Study Institute Workshop: Invasions and Ecosystems
Advanced Study Institute Workshop: Invasions and Ecosystems An Advanced Study Institute workshop on Invasions and Ecosystems, will be hosted next May 2023 at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment (Univ. of Western Sydney), in Richmond, NSW, Australia, and will focus on the ecosystem functional consequences of plant & fungal invasions, Read more…
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Election for a Vice President and New Board Members of the International Mycorrhiza Society
Election for a Vice President and New Board Members of the International Mycorrhiza Society The IMS is looking for nominations for Vice President and Director (focus social media and website communication). Candidates can be suggested by members of the mycorrhizal community (including self-nominations) by contacting Prof. Jonathan M. Plett (J.Plett@westernsydney.edu.au) Read more…
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Change to International Botanical Congress Meeting
The International Botanical Congress meeting, which was going to be held in Brazil in 2023 will now be postponed and held in Madrid, Spain in July of 2024. This decision was in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Proposals to amend the Code from the previous congress submission process will be Read more…
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Four New Solicitations from the NSF
There are four new NSF solicitations that may be of interest to the MSA community. Virtual office hours are available for all. The first, NSF 22-508: Biodiversity on a Changing Planet has virtual office hours on Monday, 8 November 2021 at 1:00 PM Eastern Time. For additional information see the full Read more…
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Call for Submissions: ALL NEW National Audubon Society Master Guide to Mushrooms
Call for Submissions: ALL NEW National Audubon Society Master Guide to Mushrooms Fieldstone Publishing, together with publishing partners Knopf/Penguin Random House, are soliciting short-form articles for inclusion in the newly designed National Audubon Society Master Guide to Mushrooms, slated for publication in 2022. Each article should be approximately 500-750 words in Read more…
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Book Review: Mushrooms of the Gulf States
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…
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In Memoriam: J.S. Barr
September 18, 1937 – November 20, 2018 Written by Jim Ginns, January 27, 2019. Donald Barr died suddenly at home in Yetminister, England, United Kingdom. He had been President of the Mycological Society of America in 1990-1991. His Presidential address is the lead article in Mycologia’s volume 84. Concurrently he was Read more…
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Dear MSA Membership
Dear MSA Membership, We write with exciting news. As many of you have experienced, our Society is struggling to manage our growing pains. After much thought and after an extensive search, we have decided to transition management of our Society away from Allen Press and to The Rees Group. The Read more…
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Smith Foray Report
Smith Foray Report: 44th Annual A.H. Smith Lake States Mycological Foray The 44th Annual A.H. Smith Lake States Mycological Foray occurred October 4 – 7, 2018, near Mazomanie, Wisconsin. The Smith Foray was attended by nearly 70 mycologists, budding to mature, with interest in a broad spectrum of fungi and Read more…