MSA Supports Statement Opposing ICE Guidance on Foreign Students in United States MSA has signed a statement that opposes new ICE guidance on foreign students in the United States and calls for it to be rescinded immediately. The American Institute of Biological Sciences invites member societies and organizations to endorse Read more…
Microbiologist/Plant Pathologist/Entomologist/Molecular Biologist (Insect Mycologist) Position at the Department of Agriculture Closing Date: 04/09/2020 Location: Ithaca, NY “This position is located in Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Emerging Pests and Pathogens Research Unit, in Ithaca, NY. The incumbent serves as Curator of ASEF collection and leverages collection for fundamental, translational, and Read more…
The deadline for early career researchers to apply for a grant for the 45th New Phytologist Symposium in Campinas, Brazil is quickly approaching. All applications are due by Thursday, March 19, 2020. Successful applicants will receive free registration and travel assistance. For additional information, see the event page.
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…
Assistant Professor and Fungal Biologist / Plant Pathologist Click here for the full job posting at the University of Minnesota.
Department of Agriculture – Biologist (Computational/Bioinformatics) Peoria, IL Duties Summary This position is located in the Mycotoxin Prevention & Applied Microbiology Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), in Peoria, IL. The incumbent is responsible for working in collaboration with laboratory scientist and other computation biologist to lead, design, Read more…