Extension Plant Pathologist – Tenure Track Faculty The Department of Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology has 28 tenure track faculty including plant pathologists, plant breeders, plant physiologists, horticulturalists, entomologists, cereal chemists, and plant molecular biologists. The Department has state-of-the-art laboratory and plant growth facilities. Field research facilities are available both Read more…
Research Museum Collection Manager – Fungi Note, considerations due to the current COVID-19 pandemic We realize that due to the current outbreak of COVID-19 that travel to and from Ann Arbor may be a limitation. We will utilize virtual interviews when necessary and will be closely monitoring the situation to Read more…
Postdoctoral Fellow Position Available: The Noble Research Institute, LLC Overview The Noble Research Institute, LLC is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow to research the evolutionary genetics of fungal attack initiated by spores. The research will include generation of expression data from germination of Epichloë spores, generating gene knockouts and phenotyping transformants. Research 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…
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…
Department of Agriculture – Research Microbiologist Summary The incumbent serves as a Research Microbiologist in the Mycotoxin Prevention and Applied Microbiology (MPM) Research Unit, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research (NCAUR), Peoria, Illinois. MPM scientists conduct research in genetics, microbiology, chemistry and plant biology to produce information and technologies needed Read more…