Recap of the 2019 MSA Annual Meeting!
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2019 MSA Award Winners
Each year MSA gives out a large number of awards to recognize scholarly achievement and service. Please click the button below to view this year's award winners, their photos, and biographies.
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Thank You!
Thanks to our generous members, our Annual Meeting successfully raised an impressive amount for the Diversity Fund and during the Annual Auction.
Auction Earnings:
$11,965.71
Diversity Fund Donations:
$2,180 (raised through t-shirt sales at the Conference)
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The 2019 Annual Meeting of the Mycological Society of America was held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 10 –14. Highlights of the meeting included two workshops, focused on the developing North American Mycoflora and bioinformatics pipelines found in deCIFR, the Foray (with a slight "bus disaster"), a volunteer reception at the new Bell Museum of Natural History, and as always, a fun and interesting Auction and Social, which closed out the Meeting on August 14. Local organizer Georgiana May (U. Minnesota) thanks the many, many volunteers who made this meeting possible and enjoyable. To name just a few; Marin Brewer (EVP) and the MSA Council provided feedback and organization throughout, Nhu Nugyen led the Foray, Corby Kistler put together a fantastic history of science display for the Bell Museum event, and Mary Berbee (Endowments Chair) took on the Herculean task of organizing the t-shirt sales and over 300 auction items (with assistance from many graduate student volunteers). Dave Gieser, ably assisted by Cathy Aime, served as live auctioneer, enabling a rich return on select items.
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Start Preparing For MSA 2020
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'Mycology in the Swamp'
MSA 2020
at the University of Florida in Gainesville, July 20-24, 2020
for MSA 2020 Symposia and Workshops! Proposals are due
October, 15 2019
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Review submitted by
Nathan Smith
, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Fungi in Polar Regions.
2019. Masaharu Tsuji and Tamotsu Hoshino (eds.). CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 6000 Broken Sound Parkway NW, Suite 300, Boca Raton, FL 33487-2742,
https://www.crcpress.com/
. ISBN:978-1-138-08970-9. 146 PP. Price: $151.96
Mycology is often characterised as a neglected discipline. For extreme areas, such as the polar regions, this is particularly true; where specialist techniques and harsh, inaccessible environments limit the amateur involvement on which much of mycology depends (for a historical perspective, see Watling, 1998). As such, the release of any new book on the subject is an applaudable....
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Review submitted by
Jim Trappe
, USFS Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Corvallis, Oregon.
Ascomycete Fungi of North America.
A Mushroom Reference Guide.
2014. Michael W. Beug, Alan E. Bessette, Arlene R. Bessette. University of Texas Press, Austin,TX.
http://utpress.utexas.edu/
. ISBN: 978-0-292-75452-2 (cloth:alk. paper). Printed in China. 488 pp. Price (hard cover) $85.
The authors of this “reference guide” to the Ascomycetes, particularly the macro species, bring fine credentials to the task. Mike (as he is widely called) Beug comes recently retired from a distinguished career as professor of botany and specialist in mycology at Evergreen State College at Olympia, Washington, and has long been active with mycological societies as a participant and teacher. Alan and....
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As
Inoculum
went to press, the editors learned of Cardy Raper’s death. We include a few short sentences from Nancy Keller (Robert L. Metzenberg and Kenneth B. Raper Professor of Mycology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison) about Cardy: ”Carlene "Cardy" Raper, a beloved and renown mycologist, passed at age 94 on 5 Sept 2019. Cardy, one of the first female mycologists, spanned a career from classical Mendelian genetics to the molecular characterization of
Schizophyllum commune
mating types. Her scientific contributions, social acumen, and love for life are also brilliantly portrayed in her 2013 book, "A Woman of Science: An Extraordinary Journey of Love, Discovery, and the Sex Life of Mushrooms”.
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In Memoriam: Charles L. "Bud" Kramer
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April 4, 1928 - June 26, 2019
Written by Jose Herrera, August 11, 2019
Charles L. Kramer, known to his friends as “Bud,” died in Manhattan, Kansas, on June, 26, 2019. Born in Leavenworth, Kansas, Bud worked at Western Illinois University for one year before being hired by Kansas State University, where he spent his entire career characterizing the seasonality and vertical distribution of airspora, with particular interest in wheat rust fungi in the Great Plains. Bud earned his Ph.D. in 1957 at the University of Kansas under the tutelage of A.J. Mix while working with the order Taphrinales. Bud retired from KSU as Professor emeritus in 1998. Toward the end of his career, Bud established the Charles L. Kramer Mentor Student Travel Award within the Mycological Society of America—an award that continues to defray the travel expenses of early-career mycology students. Additionally, and since 1963, Bud and his family also were passionately involved in dog agility and dog training. In 1988, he and his wife, Vel, established the first organized dog agility program in the United States as well as establishing Rally Obedience in 2000, a novel way to integrate multiple breeds into dog agility. The sport allowed for multiple dog breeds to participate in the sport of dog agility. Throughout his career, Bud had over 20 graduate students who are now contributing in various academic and non-academic settings, and he will be remembered as a kind, generous, wise, and patient mentor.
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Executive Vice President's Report
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Greetings fellow MSA members! We recently wrapped up a great Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with 364 attendees. We look forward to the meeting next year in Gainesville, Florida (July 20-24, see meeting announcements
https://msafungi.org/future-meetings/
). Proposals for MSA 2020 symposia and workshops are due by October 15, 2019. You can find more information here:
https://msafungi.org/2020-call-symposia-workshop/
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Council Business
: The MSA Council Meeting was recently held August 10, 2019, at The Graduate in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The MSA Business Meeting was held Wednesday morning, August 14, 2019, at The Graduate in Minneapolis. The minutes are available here:
https://msafungi.org/msa-meeting-minutes-and-reports/
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Two email polls were approved by the MSA Council since my last column.
MSA Poll 2019-12:
Council approved the request from Roy Halling for Emeritus Member Status.
MSA Poll 2019-13
: Council approved the nomination of Matthew Kasson as Associate Editor for
Mycologia
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New Members
: I would like to extend a warm welcome to the following new members who joined MSA shortly before or since the last Annual Meeting. Their membership will be formally approved at the 2020 Annual Business Meeting in Gainesville, Florida:
Canada:
Jonathan Mack, Mika Miyamoto
Sweden:
Louis Mielke
United States:
Ashish Adhikari, Laura Barth, Kevin Chung, Spencer Cragun, Samira Fatemi, Joe Gagne, Shuhua Ge, Matthew Gordon, Kirsten Gotting, John Hall, Paige Hansen, Erik Jones, Lee Kurtz, Nicholas LeBlanc, Ashlynn Morin, Sean O'Mara, Nick Rajtar, Cara Santelli, Kensuke Seto, Maryam Shahrtash, Yeidymar Sierra Moya, Sofia Simeto, Daniel Stanton, Cristina Toapanta, Soleil Young
Country not listed:
Vanina Castroagudin
2020 Membership Renewal:
Look for renewal notices this fall. Membership dues will remain the same as for 2019, with an early renewal discount for those members who renew before December 31. We now have autorenewal and multiyear renewal options available. Please contact me with any suggestions, complaints, or feedback on the membership renewal process.
To increase membership and involvement in the MSA, it is important to recommend the Society to amateur and professional colleagues, and particularly to students and postdoctoral associates who are interested in fungi. MSA members include pathologists, geneticists, systematists, ecologists, and those people who just want to know more about the fascinating world of fungi.
Please help us get the word out! Signing up is easy by following the links on the membership page (
https://msafungi.org/join-or-renew/
). Please feel free to contact our MSA Membership Coordinator, Cori VanGalder, at
msafungi@reesgroupinc.com
if you have questions about renewing or new memberships.
REMINDER — MSA Directory Update
: Have you checked your information in the MSA directory recently? Now is a good time to make sure your address, phone, and email are current. The MSA relies almost entirely on email to bring you timely information on MSA news, awards, elections, meetings, and other activities. To ensure that you receive MSA blast emails and
Inoculum
, and so your colleagues can keep in touch, please check the accuracy of your contact information in the online directory. This can be accessed via our website (
https://msafungi.org/
). Look for the membership menu option and drop down to “Member Login”. Once you log in, you will see your profile with options such as “edit profile”, “my directory profile”, and “email subscriptions”. If you need assistance with updating your membership information, please contact our MSA Membership Coordinator, Cori VanGalder, at
msafungi@reesgroupinc.com
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Please feel free to contact me about MSA business or with any other questions you have about the Society.
Respectfully submitted,
Marin Brewer
(mtbrewer@uga.edu)
MSA Executive Vice President
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We Want to See Your Fungal Photos!
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Your fungal photo could be featured as the header for the next issue of
Inoculum!
MSA is calling for your photos! Chosen photos will appear in future issues of
Inoculum
. Submit your photos along with your name and any text you'd like to accompany the image (optional) using the button on the left!
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The header for this issue of
Inoclum
was submitted by Sara Getson, an MSA graduate student member currently at Michigan State University studying plant pathology. The photo is of Schizophyllum commune.
Thank you for submitting your photo, Sara!
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Note:
The
Inoculum
interim editors are Anne Pringle (
apringle2@wisc.edu
) and Don Natvig (
dnatvig@gmail.com
). Please feel free to contact us with comments or articles for future issues.
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