Mycology Committee


Mission Statement

The Mycology subject committee of APS provides members with information and guidance on fungi and current issues in mycology. Through discussion sessions, symposia, workshops, articles, electronic communication, letters, and personal contacts the committee provides APS members with a mycology resource sensitive to the needs of plant pathologists yet in touch with the current activities of specialist mycologists. Furthermore, the Mycology Committee acts as an informal link between APS and the Mycological Society of America (MSA). The specific aims of the APS Mycology Committee are to foster communication between plant pathologists and mycologists and to provide APS members with the best information and guidance possible on mycological issues, including current taxonomy, genetics, and economic and regulatory issues involving fungal plant pathogens.

Annual Reports

2002   2003   2004   2005   2007   2008  

Proposed Sessions for APS Annual Meeting

Symposia co-sponsored or sponsored by the Mycology Committee at the 2008 meeting: “Deep Hypha: Assembling the Fungal Tree of Life”. Carol Stiles, organizer. Diagnostics will co-sponsor. Diagnostics Committee co-sponsor: “Detection, Diagnostics, and Identification: Advancing the Science One Sample at a Time”. Culture Collection Committee co-sponsor: Evolving the culture collection system to fill more than research needs.

Current and Past APS Annual Sessions

The Mycology Committee sponsored/co-sponsored sessions at the 2007 meeting: Plant germplasm collections and the Biology and Management of Dollar Spot (co-sponsored the Turfgrass Committee symposium). The Mycology Committee sponsored and co-sponsored sessions at the 2006 meeting: Cercospora leaf blight on sugarbeet, Cacao diseases, Culture collections in the genomics age, and the centennial session the Role of Fungi in Science and Human Affairs. 2001 meeting in Salt Lake City: Each event was well attended and comments from the participants were very positive. The Mycology committee sponsored and organized a symposium on Mechanisms of fungal specialtion, with co-sponsorship from Genetics Committee, during the 2003 Annual Meetings. Mycology Committee also co-sponsored two sympsoia: Risks and impacts of emerging mycotoxin problems with Mycotoxicology Committee, and Oak diseases worldwide with Forest Pathology and Diagnostics Committees in the 2003 annual meeting. Symposium: (Organizers T. Peever and S. Goodwin, joint sponsorship with Genetics Committee and MSA, “What is a Fungal Species”. Workshop: (Organizer D. Chalkley, joint sponsorship with Professionalism, Outreach, Service Committee and MSA, “Fungi and Indoor Air Quality”. Discussion session: (Organizer, C. Stiles, joint sponsorship with Professionalism, Outreach, Service Committee and MSA, “Teaching Mycology in a Plant Pathology Curriculum”. Sympsoium: (Organizers, Steve Goodwin and Lisa Vaillancort, joint sponsorship with Genetics Committee) "Mechanisms of Fungal Speciation". The Committee sponsored symposia on Co-Evolution of Fungi and Plants organized by Dean Glawe and Karel Jacobs, and one on Fungal Melanins: Biology and Pathogenesis organized by Weidong Chen and Carol Stiles at the 2004 annual meetings in Anaheim. Both were extremely well attended with standing room only and brought in numerous speakers who do not ordinarily attend APS meetings for fresh perspectives on these topics.


Committee Officers

Chair

Amanda J. Gevens
Univ of Wisconsin
Plant Pathology Dept
1630 Linden Dr - Rm 689
Madison, WI  53706-1598
Phone:  (608) 890-3072
FAX:  (608) 263-2626
Email:  gevens@wisc.edu
Term:  08/06/2009 - 08/11/2010


Immediate Past Chair

Mary E. Palm-Hernandez
USDA APHIS PPQ
B-580, BARC-East
Powder Mill Road
Beltsville, MD  20705
Phone:  (301) 504-5700
FAX:  (301) 504-6124
Email:  mary.palm@aphis.usda.gov
Term:  08/06/2009 - 08/11/2010


Vice Chair

Thomas E. Chase
South Dakota State Univ
Plant Science Dept
117 Plant Science Bldg - Box 2108
Brookings, SD  57007
Phone:  (605) 688-5550
FAX:  (605) 688-4024
Email:  thomas_chase@sdstate.edu
Term:  08/06/2009 - 08/11/2010


Member

Gloria Z. Abad
USDA APHIS PPQ PSPI MDL
Bldg 580 BARC-East
Powder Mill Road
Beltsville, MD  20705
Phone:  (301) 313-9340
FAX:  (301) 313-9226
Email:  gloria.abad@aphis.usda.gov
Term:  07/31/2008 - 08/10/2011


Member

Maritza Abril
Louisiana State University
Biological Sciences Dept
202 Life Sciences Bldg
Baton Rouge, LA  70803
Phone:  (225) 578-8562
FAX:  (225) 578-2597
Email:  maritza@lsu.edu
Term:  08/02/2007 - 08/11/2010


Member

Graciela Avila Quezada
Centro de Invest En Alimen Y Desarrollo
Ave 4 Sur No 3820
Delicias Chihuahua,   33089
MEXICO
Phone:  52 639 474 8704
FAX:  52 639 474 8400
Email:  gavilaq@ciad.mx
Term:  08/02/2007 - 08/11/2010


Member

Ravindra G. Bhat
Univ of California
Plant Pathology Dept
1 Shields Ave - 370A Hutchison Hall
Davis, CA  95616
Phone:  (530) 752-8679
FAX:  (530) 752-5674
Email:  rgbhat@ucdavis.edu
Term:  08/06/2009 - 08/08/2012


Member

Kirk D. Broders
Univ of Guelph
Environmental Biology, Ontario Ag
Guelph, ON  N1G 2W1
CANADA
Phone:  (519) 824-4120x54458
FAX:  (519) 837-0442
Email:  kbroders@yahoo.com
Term:  07/31/2008 - 08/10/2011


Member

William L. Bruckart, III
USDA ARS FDWSRU
1301 Ditto Ave
Fort Detrick, MD  21702-5023
Phone:  (301) 619-2846
FAX:  (301) 619-2880
Email:  william.bruckart@fdwsr.ars.usda.gov
Term:  08/06/2009 - 08/08/2012


Member

Maria Luisa Burgos
Penn State
933 W Aaron Dr
State College, PA  16803
Phone:  (814) 865-3562
Email:  mlb483@psu.edu
Term:  08/02/2007 - 08/11/2010


Member

Mo-Mei Chen
Univ of California
Univ and Jepson Herbaria
1001 Valley Life Sciences Bldg
Berkeley, CA  94720
Phone:  (510) 642-6019
FAX:  (510) 643-5390
Email:  mmchen@nature.berkeley.edu
Term:  07/31/2008 - 08/10/2011


Member

Jose C. Dianese
Univ de Brasilia de Brasilia
Dept de Fitopatologia
Campus Univ, ASA NORTE
Brasilia,   
BRAZIL
Phone:  55 61 31072917
FAX:  55 61 31072917
Email:  jcarmine@unb.br
Term:  08/05/2004 - 08/11/2010


Member

Frank M. Dugan
USDA ARS WRPIS
Washington State Univ
59 Johnson Hall
Pullman, WA  99164-6402
Phone:  (509) 335-1783
FAX:  (509) 335-6654
Email:  fdugan@wsu.edu
Term:  08/06/2009 - 08/08/2012


Member

Darin M. Eastburn
Univ of Illinois
AW-101 Turner Hall
1102 S Goodwin Ave
Urbana, IL  61801-4730
Phone:  (217) 244-9632
FAX:  (217) 333-1289
Email:  eastburn@illinois.edu
Term:  08/06/2009 - 08/08/2012


Member

Margaret Lee Ellis
Ohio State Univ
Plant Pathology Dept
127 Selby Hall
Wooster, OH  44691
Phone:  (248) 225-9478
Email:  ellis.378@osu.edu
Term:  07/31/2008 - 08/10/2011


Member

Zaifeng Fan
China Agricultural Univ
Plant Pathology Dept
2 Yuanmingyuan West Road
Beijing,   100 094
PRC PEOPLES REP OF CHINA
Phone:  86 10 6289 2771
FAX:  86 10 6273 2771
Email:  fanzf@cau.edu.cn
Term:  08/06/2009 - 08/08/2012


Member

Deanna L. Funnell-Harris
USDA ARS
314 Biochemistry
Univ of Nebraska - East Campus
Lincoln, NE  68583-0937
Phone:  (402) 472-9099
FAX:  (402) 472-4020
Email:  deanna.funnell-harris@ars.usda.gov
Term:  08/03/2006 - 08/08/2012


Member

Dean A. Glawe
Univ of Washington
College of Forest Resources
Box 352100
Seattle, WA  98195
Phone:  (206) 616-9554
Email:  glawe@wsu.edu
Term:  08/03/2006 - 08/08/2012


Member

Li Guo
Apt J
903 West Aaron Drive
State College, PA  16803
Phone:  (814) 865-6986
Email:  lug126@psu.edu
Term:  07/31/2008 - 08/10/2011


Member

Patrik Inderbitzin
Univ of California
Plant Pathology Dept
1 Shields Ave
Davis, CA  95616
Phone:  (607) 262-6814
FAX:  (559) 646-6593
Email:  bhpatrik@gmail.com
Term:  07/31/2008 - 08/10/2011


Member

Stephen A. Jordan
Univ of Wisconsin
Plant Pathology Dept
1630 Linden Dr
Madision, WI  53706
Email:  sjordan3@wisc.edu
Term:  08/06/2009 - 08/08/2012


Member

Maruthachalam Karunakaran, PhD
Univ of California
Plant Pathology Dept
1636 E Alisal Street
Salinas, CA  93905
Phone:  (831) 755-2883
FAX:  (831) 755-2814
Email:  kkmaruthachalam@ucdavis.edu
Term:  08/06/2009 - 08/08/2012


Member

Harold Corby Kistler
Univ of Minnesota
USDA ARS - Cereal Disease Lab
1551 Lindig Street
St Paul, MN  55108
Phone:  (612) 626-7269
FAX:  (651) 649-5054
Email:  hckist@umn.edu
Website:  http://plpa.cfans.umn.edu/H_Corby_Kistler.html
Term:  08/06/2009 - 08/08/2012


Member

Dilip Kumar Lakshman
USDA ARS
Floral & Nursery Plants Research Unit
10300 Baltimore Ave, Bldg 010A
Beltsville, MD  20705
Phone:  (301) 504-6413
FAX:  (301) 504-5096
Email:  dilip.lakshman@ars.usda.gov
Term:  08/03/2006 - 08/08/2012


Member

Carrie Lapaire Harmon
Univ of Florida SPDN
1453 Fifield Hall
Hull Road
Gainesville, FL  32611
Phone:  (352) 392-3631x254
FAX:  (352) 392-6532
Email:  clharmon@ufl.edu
Website:  www.sepdn.org
Term:  08/02/2007 - 08/11/2010


Member

Shuxian Li
USDA ARS CGPRU
141 Experiment Station Road
Stoneville, MS  38776
Phone:  (662) 686-3131
FAX:  (662) 686-3757
Email:  shuxian.li@ars.usda.gov
Term:  08/02/2007 - 08/11/2010


Member

Sam Livingston
Univ of California
Plant Pathology, Rm # 253
Davis, CA  95616
Phone:  (530) 752-3831
Email:  slivingston@ucdavis.edu
Term:  07/31/2008 - 08/10/2011


Member

Mary L. McPherson
EMSL Analytical
905 Diamond Ave # D7
South Pasadena, CA  91030
Phone:  (330) 607-1242
Email:  marymoomcpherson@yahoo.com
Term:  08/02/2007 - 08/11/2010


Member

Juan Gonzalo Morales Osorio
Univ Nacl de Colombia
Carrera 32 Chapinero Via Candelaria
Ed Nuevo of 2070 - Fac de Agropecuarias
Palmira, Valle,   
COLOMBIA
Phone:  57 2 271 7000
FAX:  57 2 271 7055
Email:  jgmoraleso@palmira.unal.edu.co
Term:  07/31/2008 - 08/10/2011


Member

Salvatore Moricca
Univ of Firenze
Piazzale Delle Cascine 28
Firenze,   50144
ITALY
Phone:  39 055 328 8349
FAX:  39 055 328 8273
Email:  salvatore.moricca@unifi.it
Website:  http://www.unifi.it/dpbiag/CMpro-v-p-121.html
Term:  08/02/2007 - 08/11/2010


Member

Evans Nyaga Njambere
Washinton State Univ
USDA ARS, Grain Legume Genetics & Phys
Research Unit, 303 Johnson Hall
Pullman, WA  99184-6434
Phone:  (509) 335-4008
Email:  evans_njambere@wsu.edu
Term:  08/06/2009 - 08/08/2012


Member

Patricia Oyibo Obilo
Federal Univ of Technology
Federal Univ of Technology, (SAAT)
PMB 1526
Owerri, Imo State,   
NIGERIA
Phone:  234 80 5316 6399
Email:  patobilo@yahoo.com
Term:  08/02/2007 - 08/11/2010


Member

Maria Andrea Ortega
Ohio State Univ
Plant Pathology Dept
1680 Madison Ave
Wooster, OH  44691
Phone:  (330) 347-4222
FAX:  (330) 347-4222
Email:  ortega.23@osu.edu
Term:  07/31/2008 - 08/10/2011


Member

Barry M. Pryor
Univ of Arizona
Plant Sciences Dept
303 Forbes Bldg - PO Box 210036
Tucson, AZ  85721-0036
Phone:  (520) 626-5312
FAX:  (520) 621-7186
Email:  bmpryor@u.arizona.edu
Term:  08/06/2009 - 08/08/2012


Member

Kate Rappaport
USDA APHIS CPHST NPGBL
6746 Melrose Ave
Elkridge, MD  21075
Email:  kate.rappaport@verizon.net
Term:  08/06/2009 - 08/08/2012


Member

Runsheng Ren
Washington State Univ
1920 NE Terre View M215
Pullman, WA  
Phone:  (509) 335-1596
Email:  renrunsheng@gmail.com
Term:  08/06/2009 - 08/08/2012


Member

Lina Ma Rodriguez-Salamanca
Michigan State Univ
Plant Pathology Dept
140 Plant Biology Bldg
East Lansing, MI  48824
Phone:  (517) 355-4576
FAX:  (517) 353-9704
Email:  rodri408@msu.edu
Term:  07/31/2008 - 08/10/2011


Member

Luisa Ines Santamaria
Oregon State Univ
N Willamette Res Ext Ctr
15210 NE Miley Road
Aurora, OR  97002
Phone:  (503) 678-1264 Ext 112
FAX:  (503) 678-5986
Email:  luisa.santamaria@oregonstate.edu
Term:  07/31/2008 - 08/10/2011


Member

Mani Skaria
Texas A&M Univ
Kingsville Citrus Center
312 N International Blvd
Weslaco, TX  78596-9027
Phone:  (956) 968-2132
FAX:  (956) 969-0649
Email:  mskaria@ag.tamu.edu
Term:  08/06/2009 - 08/08/2012


Member

Tara L. Slaminko
Univ of Illinois
Crop Sciences Dept
1101 W Peabody
Urbana, IL  61801
Phone:  (217) 244-3197
FAX:  (217) 244-1707
Email:  tnlynch@uiuc.edu
Term:  08/02/2007 - 08/11/2010


Member

Carol M. Stiles
Georgia Military College
4201 N Forrest Street
Valdosta, GA  31605
Phone:  (229) 269-4841
Email:  carolmstiles@yahoo.com
Term:  08/06/2009 - 08/08/2012


Member

Anne M. Vitoreli
Univ of Florida
Plant Pathology Dept
Bldg 78 Mowry Road
Gainesville, FL  32611-083
Phone:  (352) 392-1795
Email:  abenner@ufl.edu
Term:  08/06/2009 - 08/08/2012


Member

Matthew W. Wallhead
OARDC
Plant Pathology Dept
303 E North Street
Wooster, OH  44691
Phone:  (330) 202-3555x2850
FAX:  (330) 263-3841
Email:  wallhead.3@osu.edu
Term:  07/31/2008 - 08/10/2011


Member

Anmin Wan
Washington State Univ
Plant Pathology Dept
PO Box 646430
Pullman, WA  99164-643
Phone:  (509) 335-4789
Email:  awan@wsu.edu
Term:  08/06/2009 - 08/08/2012


Member

Bo M. Wu
Oregon State Univ
Central Oregon Agric Research Ctr
850 NW Dogwood Lane
Madras, OR  97741
Phone:  (541) 475-7107
FAX:  (541) 475-63902814
Email:  bo-ming.wu@oregonstate.edu
Term:  07/31/2008 - 08/10/2011


Member

Jin-Rong Xu
Purdue Univ
Botany & Plant Pathology Dept
1155 Lilly Hall
West Lafayette, IN  47907-1155
Phone:  (765) 496-6918
FAX:  (765) 494-0363
Email:  jinrong@purdue.edu
Term:  08/06/2009 - 08/08/2012


Member

Heather M. Young
Univ of Florida
Apt #8
1212 SW 5th Ave
Gainesville, FL  32601
Phone:  (850) 875-7198
Email:  hmarieyoung@ufl.edu
Term:  08/06/2009 - 08/08/2012


Member

Shaobin Zhong, PhD
North Dakota State Univ
Plant Pathology Dept
NDSU Dept 7660 - PO Box 6050
Fargo, ND  58105-6050
Phone:  (701) 231-7427
FAX:  (701) 231-7851
Email:  shaobin.zhong@ndsu.edu
Term:  08/06/2009 - 08/08/2012



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