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WE THANK OUR SPONSORS 2-3

MSA OFFICERS, COUNCILORS & COMMITTEE MEMBERS 4

CODE OF CONDUCT FOR MSA EVENTS 5

REGISTRATION, GENERAL & VENUE INFORMATION 6

CONFERENCE ACTIVITES 7

DISTINCTIONS AND AWARDS 8-13

MSA 2019 KARLING LECTURE 14

ANNUAL MEETING PRESENTATION GUIDELINES 15

2019 PROGRAM 16-42

PRESENTING AUTHOR INDEX 43-45

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MSA PROGRAM COMMITTEE 2019 Tony Glenn, Chair (2015-2019)

Lisa Grubisha (2016-2020)Heather Hallen-Adams (2017-2021)

Frances Trail (2018-2022)Kristi Gdanetz MacCready, Student Rep (2018-2019)

MSA VOLUNTEERSMSA is a volunteer-run society and depends on a large number of individuals for the day-to-day operations of the

society, for organizing and hosting the annual meetings, and for publishing Mycologia. The Officers and Councilors wish to extend their gratitude to all of the volunteers. MSA has such a dedicated membership and is immeasurably grateful of

your time, energy, and service to the society.

MSA LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEEGeorgiana May (Dept. EEB, UMN, lead)

Bob Blanchette (Dept. Plant Pathology, UMN, UMN Alumni gathering)Jim Bradeen (Dept. Plant Pathology, UMN, Bell Museum event)

Kathryn Bushley (Dept. PMB, UMN, UMN Alumni gathering)Peter Kennedy (Dept. PMB, UMN, Foray)

Corby Kistler (USDA Cereal Disease Lab, Bell Museum event)Jonathon Shilling (Dept. PMB, UMN, workshop liaison)

UMycoClub student group (Bell Museum event, meeting liaisons)Monica Watson (EEB grad program, Auction organization)

MSA FORAY COORDINATORNhu Nguyen (U. Hawaii, Manoa; Foray leader)

MSA EVENT PLANNERS (CCAPS, UMN)Kady HagbergRhonda Layer

Abigayle O’Keefe

MSA OFFICERSSharon A. Cantrell, President (2018-2019) Anne Pringle, President-Elect (2018-2019) Marc Cubeta, Vice President (2018-2019)

Marin Brewer, Executive Vice President (2018-2021) Chris Schardl, Treasurer (2016-2019)

Tom Volk, Past-President (2018-2019) Georgiana May, Past-Past President (2018-2019)

MSA COUNCILORSRobby Roberson, Councilor, Cell Biology/Physiology (2017-2019)

Jason Stajich, Councilor, Cell Biology/Physiology (2018-2020) Sara Branco, Councilor, Ecology/Pathology (2017-2019) Nhu Nguyen, Councilor, Ecology/Pathology (2018-2020)

Don Natvig, Councilor, Genetics/Molecular Biology (2017-2019) Alisha Quandt, Councilor, Genetics/Molecular Biology (2018-2020)

Conrad Schoch, Councilor, Systematics/Evolution (2017-2019) Brandon Matheny, Councilor, Systematics/Evolution (2018-2020)


CODE OF CONDUCT FOR MSA EVENTS

MSA values the diversity of views, expertise, opinions, backgrounds, and experiences reflected among MSA members and the broader mycology community, and is committed to providing a safe, productive and welcoming environment for all participants of MSA meetings and events. MSA meetings and events can serve as an effective forum to consider and debate science- relevant viewpoints in an orderly, respectful, and fair manner. This Code of Conduct is important to promoting diversity and creating an inclusive, supportive, and collaborative environment for all peoples.

All MSA meetings and events participants – including, but not limited to, attendees, speakers, volunteers, exhibitors, MSA staff, members of the media, vendors, and service providers (hereinafter “participants”) – are expected to abide by this MSA Code of Conduct and by the MSA policy for harassment and discrimination (Appendix B of the MSA manual of operations). This Code of Conduct applies in all venues, including ancillary events and social gatherings, and on-line forums and discussions associated with the MSA.

Expected Behavior• Treat all participants with kindness, respect and

consideration, valuing a diversity of views and opinions (including those you may not share).

• Communicate openly, with respect for other participants, critiquing ideas rather than individuals.

• Refrain from demeaning, discriminatory, or harassing behavior and speech directed toward other participants.

• Be mindful of your surroundings and of your fellow participants. Alert MSA staff if you notice a dangerous situation or someone in distress.

• Respect the rules and policies of the meeting venue, hotels, MSA-contracted facility, or any other venue.

Unacceptable BehaviorHarassment, intimidation, or discrimination in any form. Harassment includes speech or behavior that is not welcome or is personally offensive. Behavior that is acceptable to one person may not be acceptable to another, so use discretion to be certain respect is communicated. Harassment intended in a joking manner still constitutes unacceptable behavior.

Examples of unacceptable behavior include, but are not limited to:

• Physical or verbal abuse of any participant• Unwelcome or offensive verbal comments or

exclusionary behavior related to age, appearance or body size, employment or military status, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, individual lifestyle, marital status, national origin, physical or cognitive ability, political affiliation, sexual orientation, race, or religion

• Inappropriate physical contact• Unwanted sexual attention• Use of sexual or discriminatory images in public spaces

or in presentations• Deliberate intimidation, stalking, or following• Harassing photography or recording, including taking

photographs or recording of another individual’s oral presentation or poster without the explicit permission of that individual and of MSA

• Sustained disruption of talks or other events• Bullying behavior• Retaliation for reporting unacceptable behavior

Immediate Serious Threat to Public SafetyAnyone experiencing or witnessing behavior that constitutes an immediate or serious threat to public safety at any time should contact local law enforcement (by calling 911) and immediately notifying facility security.

Reporting Unacceptable Behavior• If you are not in immediate danger but feel that you are

the subject of unacceptable behavior, have witnessed any such behavior, or have other concerns, please notify an MSA staff member (as soon as possible) who can work with appropriate MSA leadership to resolve the situation. All reports will be treated seriously and responded to promptly. I you are in immediate danger please call 911.

• To report incidents of any sort during or following an MSA event, please contact MSA at [email protected].

• Once MSA is notified staff will discuss the details first with the individual filing the complaint, then any witnesses who have been identified, and then the alleged offender before determining an appropriate course of action. Confidentiality will be maintained to the extent that it does not compromise the rights of others.

Consequences• Anyone requested to stop unacceptable behavior is

expected to comply immediately.• MSA staff (or their designee) or security may take any

immediate action deemed necessary and appropriate, including removal from the meeting or event without warning or refund.

• Further consequences may include prohibition from attending future meetings and events.


Registration DeskThe registration desk is located in the West Wing Lobby on the second floor of The Graduate Hotel, 615 Washington Ave SE, Minneapolis, on the East Bank of the University of Minnesota. Staff will help participants check-in to the conference, answer questions, and handle on-site registration during the following hours:

Sunday, August 11 15:00 - 18:00Monday, August 12 07:00 - 18:00Tuesday, August 13 07:00 - 17:00Wednesday, August 14 07:00 - 18:00

NametagsEach registered participant will receive a nametag upon check-in with the conference. The nametag grants access to all conference activities and should be worn at all times during conference activities.

Cell Phones, Mobile, Tablet DevicesPlease mute your cell phones, tablets, and mobile devices while in all meeting rooms. Also, please mute the sound on your laptops.

ParkingSelf-parking at The Graduate Hotel is available for $20/day. Self-parking is located directly behind the hotel in the flat parking lot. Overflow parking is available in the Washington Street ramp which is connected via skyway on the 3rd level—there are vehicle size restrictions. The daily rate for the Washington Ave Ramp is $12. Buses and Oversized Vehicles require special advance arrangements through the University of Minnesota. Valet parking available for $27/night.

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Safety/Medical InformationCampus Safety InformationUniversity Police (non-emergency) 612-624-2677Free campus escort service 612-624-9255

Call 612-624-9255 (WALK) 15-30 minutes prior to your desired departure time. A trained dispatcher from the 911 Public Safety Emergency Communication Center (PSECC) will ask for your first name, pick up location, destination, and a call back number in case we need to contact you for more information.

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MAP is available on the Twin Cities campus from 07:00 - 22:00, Monday - Friday. Service is not available on official University holidays.

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CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES

Refreshments & ReceptionsRefreshment breaks and receptions will be provided throughout the conference. These items are available in the second floor lobby area. The following receptions are open to all attendees:

MSA Opening ReceptionSunday, August 11, 18:00 - 21:00 p.m., onsite at the Graduate Hotel, Pinnacle BallroomAppetizers will be served.

MSA Social, Auction, & Student AwardsWednesday, August 14, 18:00 - 22:00, onsite at the Graduate Hotel, Meridian BallroomAppetizers will be served. *Attendees may bring guests to this event with a paid guest ticket.

Ticketed Receptions & EventsForaySunday, August 11, 08:00 - 16:00 at Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science ReserveLunch will be provided to attendees. Pre-registration is required for this event.

Science, History and Outreach Reception Tuesday, August 13, 18:00 - 22:00 p.m., at the Bell Museum of Natural HistoryAppetizers will be served.

Volunteers are free, otherwise, a pre-paid ticket is required to attend this event. Buses will depart from the lobby of the Graduate Hotel at 17:30.

Sponsor ExhibitsSponsors of the 2019 Mycological Society of America Meeting have exhibit booths set up in the second floor lobby. We encourage participants to visit the sponsors during breaks and open sessions throughout the conference.

Student GroupsThe Student Section will be set up in the second floor lobby, throughout the conference. We encourage participants to visit the student table during breaks, open sessions, and during the receptions.

STUDENT & POSTDOC EVENTSSUNDAY AUGUST 11, 2019 17:00 – 18:00Student Section MeetingLocation: Pathways Room

MONDAY AUGUST 12, 2019

TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 201909:15 - 12:30Symposium: “Oh, The Places You’ll Go - Career Opportunities in Mycology”Location: Meridian AB

19:00 – 21:00MSA Student SocialLocation: Pathways Room

17:30 - 19:00Visit the Student Section Poster (#A72)Location: Pre-Function Space



DR. DONALD PFISTERDr. Donald H. Pfister received his B.A. degree in Botany from Miami University in 1967. Soon afterwards he moved to the lab of Dr. Richard Korf at Cornell University to study the systematics and taxonomy of discomycetes. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell in 1971. Immediately upon

completing his degree, Don was hired as an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez. In 1974 he moved to Harvard University where he was hired as an Assistant Professor in Biology and also became the assistant curator of the Farlow Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany. Don received tenure at Harvard in 1980. In addition to serving as a professor and curator for the Farlow Herbarium, he has also served in a number of other important positions at Harvard over the years, including Dean of Kirkland House, Director of the Harvard University Herbaria, Dean of the Harvard Summer School, and Interim Dean for Harvard College. It is worth noting here that Don was popular enough as the Interim Dean for Harvard College that the students even started a Facebook fan page that was dedicated to him (https://www.facebook.com/pfisterpfans).

Don has been a true student of the Ascomycota throughout his career and he knows the discomycete fungi like few others. Don has a deep grasp of the taxonomic literature and the morphology of Pezizales and other apothecial ascomycetes that cannot be overstated. His papers range from historical overviews of a particular mycological topic or herbarium collection to type studies, phylogenetic analyses, and detailed monographs (e.g. Pulvinula in 1976, Wynnea in 1979, Cookeina in 2006). Don has published more than 150 papers in mycology, botany, and the history of these sciences. He is also the author of more than 80 taxonomic names, including a large number of taxa in the Pezizales such as the family Chorioactidaceae and the genera Adelphella, Chaetothiersia, Kallistoskypha, Kompsoscypha and

Scabropezia as well as a large number of new species across many other genera. Although much of Don’s early work focused on morphological taxonomy, he embraced the molecular era in the 1990’s and his MSA Presidential address from 1997 remains a classic paper (Pfister 1997. Castor, Pollux, and the life histories of fungi – Mycologia 89: 1–23). This work used molecular data from ITS and 18S to elucidate the phylogeny and life history of Orbiliales and this was the first work to make direct links between a large number of anamorphs and teliomorphs within the Orbiliales. In the 2000’s Don and his laboratory team generated critical data to expand our knowledge of the fungal tree of life. Their work focused mostly on the phylogenetic relationships in Pezizales, Orbiliales, and the Leotiomycetes (Pfister 1997, Hansen et al 2001, Zhong & Pfister 2004, Hansen et al. 2005, Hansen & Pfister 2006, James et al. 2006, Perry et al. 2007, Pfister et al 2008, Hansen et al 2013).

It is important to note that Don has managed the Farlow Herbarium as an important mycological resource since 1974. He has been the curator of this herbarium for 44 years – far longer than any previous steward. The Farlow is one of the preeminent mycological herbaria in the world and remains an important repository of some of the world’s most important historical fungi specimens. The collection houses approximately 1.4 million specimens, including approximately 75,000 types. Curating a collection of this size requires constant vigilance and itis an important job because collections like the Farlow are windows into the past and are critical for all future taxonomic efforts to understand fungal biodiversity.

Despite his extensive administrative duties at Harvard, Don has maintained a busy mycology and botany teaching schedule and has run a productive lab group throughout his career. He has had an impressive record of external grant funding that stretches back to 1972, including at least 15 different National Science Foundation grants that have supported either his systematics research or projects related to the management of herbarium collections at Harvard. Don has also mentored a large number of scientists over the course of his career, including at least 7 PhD students, 9 visiting graduate students, 14 Master’s students (as part of his participation in Harvard’s continuing education Master’s programs), and 7 undergraduates (all of whom

DISTINGUISHED MYCOLOGIST AWARD The Distinguished Mycologist Award is one of the highest

awards bestowed by the MSA, and it is designed to recognize individuals that have a truly distinguished career in the field

of mycology in terms of either research or service.

DISTINCTIONS AND AWARDS


DR. GREG BONITO Gregory Bonito is internationally recognized for his research on fungal ecology and evolution. In addition to being one of the world’s leading researchers on the ecology and systematics of truffles (Tuberaceae) Bonito is also recognized for his ground-breaking research on fungal interactions

with bacteria and plants, including the recent discovery of endobacteria in the early diverging fungus Mortierella. Many mycologists agree that Dr. Bonito is a rising star whose research is transforming how we study of fungal biology.

Greg possesses a unique background that spans many fields of mycology, microbial ecology, and sustainable agriculture. This breadth of training may be a clue to Greg’s natural ability to think “outside the box” during his Ph.D. studies and pursue several lines of study. Greg’s interest in mycology was already keen when he studied ecology and sustainable agriculture at Appalachian State University, from where he received his B.S. in 1998. By 2001, Greg had earned a master’s degree with David Coleman at UGA in soil ecology. Coleman is widely regarded as one of the world’s leaders in soil ecology. At Georgia, Greg worked on several mycological projects, including grassroots community activism through

shiitake cultivation (facilitated by UGA mycologist David Porter). After his MS, Greg worked as a research assistant for the Department of Energy at Las Cruces and Albuquerque, where he gained valuable experience in environmental sensing techniques used in ecological studies.

From 2003-2009, Greg entered the Ph.D. program in fungal ecology and systematics at Duke University where he quickly assumed lead role in many facets of the Vilgalys lab research on systematics, environmental genomics, and plant-fungal interactions. Greg’s Ph.D. research addressed the molecular ecology and systematics of North American truffles in the genus Tuber. Greg collaborated with truffle experts from around the world (including Jim Trappe, a.k.a. the godfather of truffle taxonomy) to describe the phylogeny of truffles using multiple loci, and to apply this information for assessing global diversity of this ecologically (and economically) important group of fungi. From the beginning, Greg also reached out to the truffle cultivation community to develop scientific insights into truffle ecology and biology. Through collaborations and workshops Greg has also helped train numerous students in the application of molecular ecology for understanding truffle mycorrhiza ecology and cultivation, and has even published a book (with A. Zambonelli) on biology and cultivation of edible mycorrhizal fungi (not just truffles). From 2010-2013, Bonito was a postdoc in the Vilgalys lab where he interacted with environmental scientists from Oak Ridge National Laboratories to study the mycobiome of cottonwood forests. Greg’s postdoc research featured several pioneering applications of soil-

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completed a senior thesis on a mycology topic) as well as innumerable visiting researchers who have come to the Farlow for varying lengths of time. Don has served as a research mentor to an impressive 16 postdoctoral researchers, including two of MSA’s Distinguished Mycologists (Dr. Tim Baroni and Dr. Roy Halling). Although Don’s main focus has always been on systematics of Ascomycota, the students, postdocs and visitors in the Pfister lab have also worked on a wide variety of other topics, such as lichens, insect-fungi interactions, plant pathogens, southern hemisphere biogeography and orchid mycorrhizal communities. Through his efforts with the Friends of the Farlow organization Don also helped to facilitate funding for more than 35 different scientists

to visit the Farlow Herbarium and conduct research and herbarium studies. Don’s teaching and mentorship were previously recognized by the MSA in 2008 when he received MSA’s Weston Teaching Award.

Last but certainly not least, Don has provided longstanding and tireless service for the Mycological Society of America over the course of his career. He has been a stalwart supporter of the MSA and has served a number of important roles, including MSA President (1995-1996), MSA Secretary (1988-1991), MSA historian (1998-2003), MSA newsletter editor (1979-1982, notably more challenging during the pre-digital era!), MSA Council Member (1977-1978) and the MSA program chair for the 2018 International Mycological Congress.

CONSTANTINE J. ALEXOPOULOS PRIZE Awarded annually to an outstanding mycologist early in their career. The nominees are evaluated primarily on the basis of quality, originality, and quantity of their published work.


metagenomics to identify keystone taxa from the root endophyte community as a prelude to fungal genome sequencing.

In 2013, Greg’s international fame led to a successful fellowship opportunity at the Melbourne Royal Botanic Garden where Greg helped to jump-start several new projects on Australian fungal diversity with Tom May and Teresa Lebel. That same year, Greg interviewed for and was offered his current position as assistant professor at Michigan State University. The rest is history!

One of the key measures of scientific success is the ability to write successful grant proposals and peer-reviewed articles. By this measure, Greg has been a prolific and ambitious scientific writer, with an impressive grant record that includes an NSF graduate fellowship, dissertation improvement grant, and a string of successful NSF grants to this day. As an assistant

professor at MSU, Bonito has continued this successful streak. Today, Bonito and his colleagues have published over 60 papers, in top tier journals such as Molecular Ecology, New Phytologist, Science, as well as the main mycology journals.

If there were an MSA Hall of fame, I suspect Greg would get in on the first round. I sense greatness in his scientific breadth, and in his eagerness to take new approaches for study of fungi. From the beginning, he has helped spread the gospel of fungal biology to every corner of the planet. Selflessly helpful to every student and younger scientists, Bonito continues to be an excellent role model and mentor for younger students. As a collaborator and as a colleague, Greg is one of the most well-rounded scientists I’ve ever worked with. He does science at a high level, gets results and publishes them in a timely fashion. For these reasons, we are all proud to recognize him for this year’s MSA Alexopolous prize.

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DR. IRIS “RIS” CHARVAT Dr. Charvat is a Professor Emerita at the University of Minnesota and a lifetime member of the Mycological Society of America. Through her devoted career as a scientist, advisor, mentor, and instructor in mycology and plant biology, she has supported the intellectual and professional growth and

development of undergraduate and graduate students, postdocs, diverse educators and environmental scientists. Dr. Charvat is recognized as a vital role model and ambassador for science, plant biology, mycology, and pedagogy, providing guidance through diverse professional programs for postdocs and junior faculty interested in teaching across many disciplines. Dr. Charvat earned her BS at the University of Illinois in 1963, her MS there a year later, and her PhD in 1973 at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She then moved to the University of Minnesota’s Department of Botany and later, Department of Plant Biology, where she flourished not only as a respected mycologist but as an outstanding and appreciated instructor and mentor. She co-directed training programs sponsored by the National Science Foundation, mentoring there and in

other capacities more than 60 undergraduate students, including members of groups under-represented in STEM. While leading teaching workshops for early-career professionals, she found time to write laboratory manuals for students and teaching assistants, serve the MSA as a councillor in cell biology and editor of our newsletter, and support the training of some of today’s most active and recognized mycologists, serving as MS or PhD advisor for more than 20 graduate students. Most strikingly, though, over a distinguished teaching career spanning nearly 30 years, Dr. Charvat’s exceptional role as an instructor stands out: through courses in plant biology, prairie reclamation, general biology, developmental biology, electron microscopy, and special seminars in mycology with a focus on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, Dr. Charvat reached thousands of students directly, bringing fungal biology to the fore with her artful and high-quality instruction. Her distinguished list of awards for teaching includes induction into the University of Minnesota Academy of Distinguished Teachers (1999), her recognition as the Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor, the Morse-Amoco All University Teaching Award, and many others, including formal certificates of appreciation for her activities in the classroom and laboratory. Dr. Charvat’s distinguished and long-term commitment to teaching are inspiring and demonstrate the potent effect an individual can have on the development, diversification, and growth of the vital scientific disciplines embodied by mycology.

W.H. WESTON AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHINGAwarded annually to an outstanding teacher of mycology at the undergraduate and or graduate levels.


PROF. DR. MEIKE PIEPENBRING Dr. Piepenbring began her academic studies at the University of Cologne, Germany, from which university she obtained a Master’s degree in biology in 1991. Prior to graduating she had spent a year at the University of Clermont-

Ferrand, France. She performed her PhD research at the University of Tübigen, Germany, receiving her PhD degree in 1994, and continued researching and teaching there until 2001, when she took up the position of professor of mycology and botany at the University of Frankfurt, Germany. She is a polyglot, and has used this talent to teach many past and current courses in several Latin American countries (Ecuador, Panama and Honduras), Benin and Finland.

To support her teaching in Latin America, Meike has written a textbook in Spanish – ‘Introduction to mycology in the tropics’. The book is also available in English. This book is far better than any of its predecessors since her examples are of tropical fungi, rather than from the northern hemisphere. It is copiously illustrated with high quality photographs and outstanding quality diagrams. She has made the

comprehensive set of diagrams freely available on the internet for anyone to use (http://species-id.net/openmedia/Mycological_teaching_diagrams_by_Meike_Piepenbring). She has also made available some useful animations on her teaching website (http://www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/61705419/Digital-Documents).

She is an ardent, exciting, innovative and inspirational educator, passing on her extensive fungal knowledge, and enthusiasm for fungi, to not only undergraduate and graduate students but also to children and the general public. One of her ways of engaging non-mycologist is her outreach talk based on the idea that she is being interviewed for the position of professor at Hogwarts (if this needs further explanation watch the films or read the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling!) – absolutely inspired. She was also a major driver in the concept and scientific content of a large exhibition at the Museum at Wiesbaden, Germany, which is fascinating for people at all levels of interest and understanding.

A few accolades from those who have benefited from her teaching further emphasise the great job that she is doing: “Tropical Mycology needs such highly motivated, enthusiastic, skilful and multitalented international mycologists to help setting up mycological research and training departments”

“Meike has an amazing ability to get the student’s interest no matter what their level of knowledge”

W.H. WESTON AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING


DR. ANTHONY (TONY) E. GLENN Dr. Glenn is a Research Plant Pathologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (USDA, ARS) in the Toxicology & Mycotoxin Research Unit located in the U.S. National Poultry Research Center in Athens, Georgia. Tony is also Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Plant

Pathology at the University of Georgia, where he had received his MS and PhD before joining ARS in 2001. Since that time he has worked with mycotoxigenic Fusarium species, primarily F. verticillioides that produces the fumonisin mycotoxins. As Lead Scientist, Tony directs a large project investigating the adaptive fitness of F. verticillioides. His research focuses on the physiology of these fungi, with a particular interest in

the molecular genetics, genomics, and evolution of the biochemical mechanisms controlling how the fungi cope with xenobiotic compounds and environmental stress, especially as it impacts mycotoxin production, virulence, and endophytism. Tony joined MSA as an undergraduate and has been a member for approximately 27 years. His service to the society includes: Councilor for Cell Biology/Physiology (2009-2011), Mycologia Associate Editor (2011-2016), Foray Coordinator for the 2017 annual meeting in Athens, and Program Committee (2015-present), including Program Chair for the 2019 meeting in Minneapolis. Tony has also served as Associate Editor of Phytopathology (2005-2007) and on the Joint Editorial Board for Journal of Applied Microbiology & Letters in Applied Microbiology (2008-2013). Further, he has served as (co-)major advisor for four MS students, five PhD students, and a member of approximately 20 graduate student advisory committees at various universities. Outside of the lab, Tony’s other passions are cycling and anything that expands his DIY skills.

DR. ROSA R. MOURIÑO-PEREZ Rosa R. Mouriño-Perez M.D. and Doctor of Science is a Research Professor in the Department of Microbiology at the Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Ensenada (CICESE) and was recently appointed Director of the Division of Experimental and Applied Biology. She is a

leader in the combined use of molecular biology and different fluorescence microscopy methods to study basic aspects of the fungal cytoskeleton and hyphal

morphogenesis. She has advanced our understanding of the structure and function of microtubules and actin and their associated proteins, as well as processes such as endocytosis during polarized growth of fungal cells. She also studies the diversity of Candida spp and risk factors in women and HIV/AIDS patients and antifungal drug resistance in Baja California. She is Associate Editor of Mycologia and has served the Mycological Society of America as member of the Genetics and Cell Biology Committee and as councilor for Cell Biology/Physiology. She is a member of the Biology Commission of CONACYT (the National Science Foundation of Mexico) and recognized (level II) in the National Researchers System of Mexico. She is currently member of the Neurospora Policy Committee and in 2018 became a co-recipient of the B. O. Dodge award for her contributions to the Neurospora research community.

MSA FELLOWMSA Fellows are selected from members who have completed at least 11 years of service after their Ph.D. They are members who are outstanding mycologists on the basis of one or more criteria: a solid record of mycological research, and/or successful teaching and development of teaching materials for mycology, and/or significant service to the Society. This is meant to recognize a core group of mid-career mycological achievers and outstanding MSA volunteers.

MSA FELLOW

HONORARY AWARDS


DR. MERITXELL RIQUELME With an MSc degree in Plant Pathology and a PhD in Microbiology from the University of California, Riverside plus a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Oxford, in 2004 Meritxell Riquelme joined the faculty of the Department of Microbiology at the Center for Scientific Research and Higher

Education of Ensenada (CICESE), Baja California, Mexico. Her research program combines advanced live microscopy techniques and molecular biology to study secretory routes of vesicles involved in the polar growth of hyphae of Neurospora crassa. She also studies the

ecological distribution of Coccidioides (Valley Fever pathogen) and fungal diversity in deep-sea sediments of the Gulf of Mexico. She teaches a graduate course on Biology and Taxonomy of Fungi and currently serves as head of the Department of Microbiology at CICESE. She is editor of Fungal Genetics and Biology, The Cell Surface, and Communications Biology. She has served in the Mycological Society of America as member of the Karling Lecture Committee, the Genetics and Cell Biology Committee and as councilor for Cell Biology/Physiology. In addition to MSA involvement, she was a member of the Neurospora Policy Committee, the Fungal Genetics Policy Committee, the International Fungal Biology Conference Steering Committee, and the Executive Committee of the International Mycological Association. She is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and in 2018 was a co-recipient of the B. O. Dodge award for her contributions to the Neurospora research community.

DR. ZHU L. YANGAfter receiving his Ph. D. from the Universität Tübingen under the supervision of Prof. Frans Oberwinkler in Germany in 1997, Prof. Zhu L. Yang has served as principal investigator for over 30 national or provincial projects during the past 20 years at the Kunming Institute of Botany

of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research group focuses on the taxonomy, molecular phylogeny, population genetics, evolution and biogeography of macrofungi (mushrooms). He has published over 200 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals and eight books alone or in collaboration. He is noted for his outstanding studies of the Amanitaceae, Boletaceae, Agaricaceae and Physalacriaceae, which have been widely cited by other mycologists. He and his team have collected over 50,000 fungal specimens in various parts of China and in many other parts of the world, which has made the mycological herbarium of the Kunming

Institute of Botany (abbreviated as HKAS) the second largest mycological herbarium in China. Using these invaluable collections, he has formally described 21 genera and over 260 species. Dr. Yang has supervised 40 doctoral candidates and postgraduate students. Currently 22 Ph.Ds. and five masters who were mentored by Dr. Yang are actively working at mycological institutions. He has chaired or co-chaired symposia on fungal phylogeny and systematics held at several national or international congresses. Currently, he has scientific collaborations with mycologists in Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, Thailand, and the US.

Based on his outstanding scientific achievements in the study of fungal diversity, his Ph.D. research was recognized as one of the best dissertations in 1997 by the University of Tübingen, Germany. During his tenure at the Kunming Institute of Botany, he received the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of the National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2005, the Hundred Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2010 and received the Tai Fung-Lan Award as a Distinguished Mycologist from the Mycological Society of China in 2017.

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MSA HONORARY MEMBER Honorary members are distinguished senior scientists with a long record of significant contributions to the science of fungal biology and who reside in and work in countries other than the U.S. and Canada.


Hanna Johannesson is a Professor in Evolutionary genetics at Uppsala University, Sweden. She was recruited as an Assistant professor at Uppsala University in 2005, after finishing a PhD degree at the Swedish Agricultural University and a post-doctoral stint at University of California, Berkeley. Hanna’s research interest lies in the interface between mycology and evolutionary biology. In particular, she is interested in using fungi as models to explore general evolutionary questions such as natural selection operating at multiple levels in the biological hierarchy, the causes and consequences of symbioses, and switches in reproductive mode.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 13 FROM 08:00 – 09:00 LOCATION: MERIDIAN ABCD

AbstractIn fungi, meiotic drive is observed as spore killing. In Neurospora, it is apparent from the abortion of four of eight spores in the ascus, while in the pseudohomothallic Podospora it is characterized by the abortion of two of the four spores. In our laboratory, we use a combination of genetics, genomics, and molecular evolution approaches to investigate the causes and consequences of spore killing in these two systems. We find that the genetic bases of spore killing vary from large multigene loci to single genes. We see that in Neurospora, only one spore killer is found in each species, while in Podospora multiple drive elements are found to coexist in the same population. In both Neurospora and Podospora, spore killer genes are being introgressed between species, and while the multigene loci have a significant impact on chromosome structure, the single gene drivers are dispersing by duplication within genomes.

MSA 2019 / KARLING LECTUREDr. Hanna JohannessonUpsalla University, Sweden

CONFLICT AS A MOTOR FOR EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE: INSIGHTS FROM THE FUNGAL GENOMES


ORAL PRESENTATIONSRegular oral presentations are 15 minutes long (12 minute-talk and 3 minutes for questions). Symposium presentations are 30 minutes (25 minute-talk and 5 minutes for questions), but special scheduling circumstances may require slightly shorter talks. Speakers will be notified by the symposium organizer if shorter talks are needed.

Oral presentations are preferred in Microsoft PowerPoint. Please notify the Program Chair (Tony Glenn, [email protected]) if you are unable to use PowerPoint.

PC computers running at least Microsoft Office 2016 will be provided. If you must use your own PC or Mac because of movie files, software demonstrations, or other situations that would prevent you from using the in-room PC, please let the Program Chair know before the start of the meeting. Be prepared to change computers quickly. Please note that connection time will be subtracted from your allotted speaking time. You must provide any needed converters or adapters.

If you are using the provided PC, please load your presentation before the start of the session using a USB flash drive. If you are presenting in the morning, you must load your talk prior to the start of the 8:00 AM morning special presentations or during the morning breaks. If you are presenting in the afternoon, you must load your talk during the lunch break. You are advised to bring your own laser pointer (and remote if using our own laptop).

POSTER PRESENTATIONSPosters will be displayed on free-standing, fabric-covered, 2-sided room dividers. Posters should be a maximum of 42 inches wide and 42 inches high. Means of attachment will be provided. Each space will be marked with the abstract number assigned to that poster.a

There will be two poster sessions at this meeting. Session A will be Monday, August 12, 2019 (17:30 to 19:00), and Session B will be Tuesday, August 13, 2019 (16:00 to 17:30). You will be notified of your poster number assignment. Take note of whether you are in Session A or B (for example, poster number A1 vs. B1). Posters will be on display only during the day of your assigned session. Posters can be put up beginning at 7:00 AM each morning. Posters must be removed at the end of the viewing session. Each presenter should be present at their poster during their assigned session to answer questions.

MSA 2019 ANNUAL MEETING PRESENTATION GUIDELINES


2019 PROGRAM

SATURDAY, AUGUST 1009:00 - 16:00 MSA COUNCIL MEETING Pathways Room

09:00 - 17:00 DECIFR WORKSHOP 56 Rapson Hall

SUNDAY, AUGUST 11

08:00 - 16:00 FORAY Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve

15:00 - 18:00 REGISTRATION Second Floor Foyer

16:30 - 18:00 MYCOFLORA WORKSHOP Think 4 Room

17:00 - 18:00 STUDENT SECTION MEETING Pathways Room

18:00 - 21:00 MSA OPENING RECEPTION Pinnacle Ballroom

MONDAY, AUGUST 1207:00 - 18:00 REGISTRATION Second Floor Foyer

08:00 - 09:00 MSA PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS Meridian ABCDMON 1 | A TROPICAL MYCOLOGICAL JOURNEYS. Cantrell, Department of Biology, Universidad Ana G. Méndez, Gurabo, Puerto Rico

09:00 - 09:15 AM BREAK Meridian Foyer & Summit Room

09:15 - 10:45 SYMPOSIUM 1: FIRE-CREATED LANDSCAPE MOSAICS AS A DRIVER OF FUNGAL DIVERSITY Meridian AB

Session Chair(s): Ben Sikes

09:15 - 09:45 MON 2 | PRESCRIBED FIRE INTERVALS IMPACT SOIL FUNGAL COMMUNITY TRAJECTORIES IN FLORIDA LONGLEAF PINE ECOSYSTEMSS. Fox, Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA

09:45 - 10:15MON 3 | WILDFIRE IMPACTS ON BELOW-GROUND COMMUNITIES DEPEND ON SOIL HORIZON, SITE LOCATION, AND BURN SEVERITY: TOWARD A FRAMEWORK OF ECOSYSTEM RECOVERYS. Brown, University of Memphis, Memphis, USA

10:15 - 10:45MON 4 | MYCORRHIZA OF PINE SEEDLINGS (PINUS PUNGENS) GERMINATING AFTER THE CHIMNEYS 2 FIRE IN THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARKK. Hughes, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA


09:15 - 10:45 SYMPOSIUM 2: NEW APPROACHES TO STUDYING MARINE FUNGAL DIVERSITY Meridian CDSession Chair(s): Allison Walker

09:15 - 09:45 MON 8 | CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA: UNDER-EXPLORED COMPONENTS OF MARINE FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY IN EXTREME ENVIRONMENTSB. Hassett, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

09:45 - 10:15MON 9 | LINKING FUNGAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITION WITH THE PROCESS OF WOOD DECAY IN TERRESTRIAL, FRESHWATER AND MARINE HABITATS IN THE TROPICAL EASTERN PACIFICA. Ferrer, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA

10:15 - 10:45 MON 10 | MARINE FUNGI RESEARCH IN THE EASTERN SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN OFF CHILEM. Gutiérrez, Departamento de Oceanografía, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile


11:00 - 12:30 SYMPOSIUM 1: FIRE-CREATED LANDSCAPE MOSAICS AS A DRIVER OF FUNGAL DIVERSITY Meridian AB

Session Chair(s): Ben Sikes

11:00 - 11:30 MON 5 | ECTOMYCORRHIZAL DYNAMICS OF WHITEBARK PINE SEEDLINGS IN WILDFIRE-IMPACTED SOIL: AND IMPLICATIONS FOR RESTORATIONC. Cripps, Montana State University, Bozeman, USA

11:30 - 12:00MON 6 | PRESCRIBED FIRE REORGANIZES FUNGAL COMMUNITIES AND ALTERS MICROBIAL DECOMPOSITION IN THE LONG-LEAF PINE SAVANNA OF NORTH AMERICAT. Semenova-Nelsen, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA

12:00 - 12:30 MON 7 | USING TRAITS TO PREDICT FUNGAL SUCCESSION AND ECOSYSTEM REGENERATION AFTER WILDFIRESS. Glassman, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, USA

11:00 - 12:30 SYMPOSIUM 2: NEW APPROACHES TO STUDYING MARINE FUNGAL DIVERSITY Meridian CDSession Chair(s): Allison Walker

11:00 - 11:30 MON 11 | INVESTIGATING THE TAXONOMY, DIVERSITY, AND ECOLOGY OF FUSARIUM SPECIES ASSOCIATED WITH MARINE ANIMALSC. Smyth, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, USA

11:30 - 12:00 MON 12 | GENERATING REFERENCE SEQUENCES AND DISTRIBUTION DATA FOR DARK MATTER FUNGI IN MARINE ENVIRONMENTSK. Picard, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA

12:00 - 12:30 MON 13 | DIVERSITY OF THE MYCOBIOTA OF DEEP-SEA SEDIMENTS FROM THE GULF OF MEXICOM. Riquelme, CICESE, Ensenada, Mexico

12:30 - 13:30 BUFFET LUNCH Pinnacle Ballroom

13:30 - 15:30 ECOLOGY, CONSERVATION, & CLIMATE CHANGE (I) Meridian ABSession Chair(s): Lee Taylor


13:30 - 13:45MON 14 | CENTIMETER-SCALE STRUCTURE AND MULTI-YEAR TEMPORAL PERSISTENCE OF ARBOREAL FUNGAL COMMUNITIES IN A COSTA RICAN RAINFORESTL. Taylor, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA

13:45 - 14:00 MON 15 | ENDOPHYTIC TRICHODERMA WITH FUNGICIDE TOLERANCEE. Escudero, Escuela de Biología y Centro de Investigaciones en Productos Naturales (CIPRONA), Universidad de Costa Rica, Apdo. 11501-2060, San José, Costa Rica

14:00 - 14:15 MON 16 | TESTING FOR ADAPTATION: NITROGEN METABOLISM BY FUNGI AFTER LONG TERM NITROGEN ADDITIONN. Duncritts, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

14:15 - 14:30MON 17 | ASSEMBLAGE STRUCTURE OF ECTOMYCORRHIZAL FUNGI ON QUERCUS ILICIFOLIA (SCRUB OAK) IN FIRE ADAPTED PINE BARRENS: RESULTS FROM FIELD-COLLECTED ROOTS AND LAB BIOASSAYSA. Hudon, SUNY-ESF, Syracuse, USA

14:30 - 14:45MON 18 | DRIVERS OF ENDOPHYTE COMMUNITIES OF THE INVASIVE PLANT KUDZU (PUERARIA MONTANA VAR. LOBATA): TOWARD A FRAMEWORK OF INTEGRATED INVASIVE PLANT MANAGEMENTM. Shahrtash, The University of Memphis, Memphis, USA

14:45 - 15:00 MON 19 | ORGANIC MATTER REMOVAL IMPACTS FOREST FUNGAL COMMUNITY AND TREE PHYSIOLOGYF. Maillard, INRA, Université de Lorraine, UMR 1136 IAM, Champenoux, France

15:00 - 15:15MON 20 | TALLGRASS PRAIRIE SOIL MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES ACROSS TWO ALTERNATE STATES: HOW DO FUNGI RESPOND TO FIRE AND WOODY ENCROACHMENT?L. Mino, Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA

15:15 - 15:30 MON 21 | FRUITING RESPONSE OF ECTOMYCORRHIZAL FUNGI TO NUTRIENT ADDITIONS IN BARTLETT EXPERIMENTAL FOREST, NEW HAMPSHIREC. Victoroff, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, USA

13:30 - 15:15 SYSTEMATICS & BIODIVERSITY (I) Pathways RoomSession Chair(s): Matthew Nelsen

13:30 - 13:45 MON 22 | PLANTS AS SUBSTRATES: THE EVOLUTIONARY ORIGINS OF EPIPHYTISM IN LICHENSM. Nelsen, The Field Museum, Chicago, USA

13:45 - 14:00 MON 23 | THE GENUS CLADOSTERIGMA: A MYCOLOGICAL ENIGMA FINALLY REVEALEDJ. Dianese, Universidade De Brasília, Brasília, Brazil

14:00 - 14:15 MON 24 | FUNGAL PATHOGENS ASSOCIATED WITH CULTIVATED RUBBER TREES IN SRI LANKAI. Herath, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Nugegoda 10250, Sri Lanka

14:15 - 14:30MON 25 | PHYLOGENETIC RESOLUTION OF ENTOMOPHTHORALEAN FUNGI THAT INFECT CICADAS INCLUDING A NEW GENUS THAT INFECTS SCRUB CICADAS (DICEROPROCTA SPP.)A. Macias, West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA

14:30 - 14:45 MON 26 | SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS OF RUSSULA IN THE NORTH AMERICAN ROCKY MOUNTAIN ALPINE ZONEC. Noffsinger, Montana State University, Bozeman, USA


14:45 - 15:00MON 28 | HIDDEN DIVERSITY OF CLAVULINA (CANTHARELLALES, BASIDIOMYCOTA) IN TROPICAL AND TEMPERATE MEXICO: A COMPREHENSIVE SYNTHESISE. Pérez-Pazos, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico

15:00 - 15:15 MON 29 | DIVERSITY OF AGARICS (DARK SPORED MUSHROOMS) OF PUNJAB, INDIAH. Kaur, Akal University, Talwandi Sabo Bathinda Punjab, India

13:30 - 15:15 METABOLISM, COMMUNICATION, & OTHER PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES (I) Think 4 RoomSession Chair(s): Monika Fischer

13:30 - 13:45 MON 30 | RISING FROM THE ASHES: SUCCESSION AND METABOLISM OF POST-FIRE FUNGIM. Fischer, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, USA

13:45 - 14:00MON 31 | A NOVEL XYLARIA SP. IS CAPABLE OF INFECTING SOYBEAN ROOTS AND PRODUCING SYSTEMIC SECONDARY METABOLITES RESPONSIBLE FOR FOLIAR SYMPTOMST. Garcia-Aroca, Department of Plant Pathology & Crop Physiology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA

14:00 - 14:15 MON 32 | TRANSPORT OF MINERAL CATIONS BY FUSARIUM CHLAMYDOSPORUM IN A MINERAL DOPED MICROMODEL SYSTEMC. Anderton, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, USA

14:15 - 14:30MON 33 | DETERMINATION FOR FEASIBLE PRODUCTION OF XANTHONE FROM ISOLATED ENDOPHYTIC FUNGI OF GARCINIA MANGOSTANA L. IN THE PHILIPPINESL. Alvarez, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines

14:30 - 14:45MON 34 | PREDICTION AND IDENTIFICATION OF SECONDARY METABOLISM PRODUCTION IN THE COSMOPOLITAN GUT-ASSOCIATED ZYGOMYCETE BASIDIOBOLUS (BASIDIOBOLACEAE, ZOOPAGOMYCOTA)J. Tabima, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA

14:45 - 15:00 MON 35 | CHEMICAL ECOLOGY OF THE INVASIVE DEATH CAP MUSHROOMC. Adams, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, USA

15:00 - 15:15 MON 36 | COLD-ADAPTED DENITRIFYING FUNGI ISOLATED FROM SOIL AND WOODCHIPSN. Aldossari, Dept. of Soil, Water and Climate, University of Minnesota, St.Paul, USA

13:30 - 15:30 FOOD & INDUSTRIAL MYCOLOGY Think 5 RoomSession Chair(s): John Pitt

13:30 - 13:45 MON 37 | A SHORT HISTORY OF FOOD MYCOLOGYJ. Pitt, CSIRO Food and Agriculture, North Ryde, NSW, Australia

13:45 - 14:00 MON 38 | THE SOURDOUGH BREAD MICROBIOME: DISTRIBUTION AND FUNCTION OF COUNTERTOP MICROBIAL ECOSYSTEMSE. Landis, Tufts University, Medford, USA

14:00 - 14:15 MON 39 | SUBSTRATE RECIPES USING CBD HEMP WASTE FOR MUSHROOM CULTIVATIONJ. Cerrato, Resting Point Farms, Asheville, USA

14:15 - 14:30MON 40 | CHOPPING UP LETTUCE: CHANGING FUNGAL COMMUNITIES IN RESPONSE TO MANAGEMENT TREATMENTS, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR HUMAN HEALTHD. Haelewaters, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA


14:30 - 14:45 MON 41 | SUCCESSION OF THE AIRBORNE FUNGAL COMMUNITY IN A NEWLY CONSTRUCTED CHEESE AGING ENVIRONMENTM. Biango-Daniels, Tufts University, Medford, USA

14:45 - 15:00MON 42 | THE FEASIBILITY OF UTILIZING COCONUT HUSK AND COPRA CAKE AS SUBSTRATESFOR OYSTER MUSHROOM (PLEUROTUS SAJOR-CAJU) CULTIVATIONV. Enriquez, Cooperative Research and Extension, College of the Marshall Islands, Majuro, Marshall Islands

15:00 - 15:15 MON 43 | REPRODUCTION AND DISPERSION OF THE CITRUS PATHOGEN PHYLLOSTICTA CITRICARPA IN FLORIDAH. Urbina, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville, USA

15:15 - 15:30MON 44 | ANTIFUNGAL EFFECTS OF LEAF EXTRACTS OF THREE PLANT SPECIES AGAINST COLLETOTRICUM MUSAE THE CAUSAL AGENT OF ANTHRACNOSE POSTHARVEST DISEASE OF BANANA FRUITM. Adebola, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria, Minna, Nigeria

15:30 - 16:00 PM BREAK Meridian Foyer & Summit Room

16:00 - 17:30 ECOLOGY, CONSERVATION, & CLIMATE CHANGE (II) Meridian ABSession Chair(s): Mara DeMers

16:00 - 16:15 MON 45 | POPULATION GENETICS OF ENDOPHYTIC ALTERNARIAM. DeMers, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, USA

16:15 - 16:30 MON 46 | ENVIRONMENTAL FILTERING STRUCTURES DIVERSE FUNGAL ENDOPHYTE COMMUNITIES IN TREE BARKP. Pellitier, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

16:30 - 16:45MON 47 | SEASONAL DYNAMICS OF MYCOBIOMES ASSOCIATED WITH THE GRASS PANICUM VIRGATUM GROWING UNDER CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE CONDITIONSA. Kazarina, Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA

16:45 - 17:00 MON 48 | PROFILING FUNGAL COMMUNITIES USING OXFORD’S MINION™ NANOPORE SEQUENCER: A MOCK COMMUNITY APPROACHK. Mafune, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

17:00 - 17:15MON 49 | ENDOPHYTE COMMUNITIES IN LEAVES OF TROPICAL ANGIOSPERMS: THE RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF FOLIAR DEFENSES, FOREST CHARACTERISTICS, HOST RELATIONSHIPS, AND CLIMATES. Oita, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

17:15 - 17:30 MON 50 | SOIL DEPTH, LAND USE LEGACY, AND HISTORICAL PRECIPITATION REGIME HIERARCHICALLY STRUCTURE FUNGAL COMMUNITIESP. Hansen, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA

16:00 - 17:30 SYSTEMATICS & BIODIVERSITY (II) Pathways RoomSession Chair(s): Ludovic Le Renard

16:00 - 16:15 MON 51 | NEW FOSSIL EVIDENCE OF THYRIOTHECIAL DOTHIDEOMYCETES FROM CRETACEOUS PLANT CUTICLESL. Le Renard, University Of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

16:15 - 16:30 MON 52 | NOVEL ENDOPHYTIC TAXA WITHIN THE PLEOSPORALES AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON PLANT GROWTHX. Pinchi-Davila, Department of Biological Sciences, Western Illinois University, Macomb, USA


16:30 - 16:45 MON 53 | MULTIGENE CHARACTERIZATION OF DARKSIDEA ISOLATES AND DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIESM. Romero-Jiménez, Western Illinois University, Macomb, USA

16:45 - 17:00 MON 54 | CANKER, DECAY, AND ENTOMOPATHOGENIC FUNGI ASSOCIATED WITH EMERALD ASH BORER GALLERIES.B. Held, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, USA

17:00 - 17:15 MON 55 | A TWENTY-YEAR MORPHOLOGICAL AND MOLECULAR STUDY OF MACROFUNGI IN THE DRIFTLESS AREA OF SOUTHWESTERN WISCONSIN, USAS. Aspenson, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, La Crosse, USA

17:15 - 17:30 MON 56 | 2019 CONTINENTAL MYCOBLITZ – A NEW MODEL FOR BIODIVERSITY SURVEYSS. Russell, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

16:00 - 17:30 METABOLISM, COMMUNICATION, & OTHER PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES (II) Think 4 RoomSession Chair(s): José Pérez-Jiménez

16:00 - 16:15 MON 57 | ISOLATION OF AIRBORNE HALOALKANE-DEGRADING FUNGI FROM PUERTO RICOY. Vega, Universidad Ana G. Méndez, Recinto de Gurabo, Gurabo, Puerto Rico

16:15 - 16:30MON 58 | METABOLOMIC ANALYSIS REVEALS NEW SECONDARY METABOLITES PRODUCED DURING INTERACTIONS BETWEEN STRAINS OF CRYPHONECTRIA PARASITICA, THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT TREE BLIGHT.T. Witte, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

16:30 - 16:45 MON 59 | UNRAVELING BROWN ROT DECAY MECHANISMS TO ENABLE THE USE OF A REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES (ROS) MECHANISMJ. Castano, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, USA

16:45 - 17:00 MON 60 | THE POTENTIAL ROLE OF ATOXIGENIC A. FLAVUS EXTROLITES IN BIOCONTROL EFFICACYG. Moore, USDA-ARS-SRRC, New Orleans, USA

17:00 - 17:15 MON 61 | REMEDIATION OF METALS BY MN-OXIDIZING FUNGI IN SOUDAN IRON MINET. Xu, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

17:15 - 17:30

MON 62 | ANTIOXIDANT AND ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY OF HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYSACCHARIDES AND LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT COMPOUND EXTRACTED FROM TRAMETES POLYZONA (PERS.) JUSTO COLLECTED FROM THE WILD IN NIGERIAE. Adongbede, Department of Botany, University of Lagos, Akoka, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria

16:00 - 17:30 MOLECULAR GENETICS & FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS Think 5 RoomSession Chair(s): Lene Lange

16:00 - 16:15 MON 63 | FUNGAL ENZYME EXO-PROTEOME IS AN IMPORTANT PART OF PHENOTYPE AND AN INTEGRATED PART OF SPECIATIONL. Lange, Bioeconomy, Research & Advisory, 2500 Valby, Denmark

16:15 - 16:30 MON 64 | DNA METHYLATION AND GENE EXPRESSION DURING HETEROKARYOSIS IN THE MUSHROOM FORMING BASIDIOMYCETESR. Powers, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

16:30 - 16:45 MON 65 | BROWN ROT FUNGI - EFFICIENT CARBOHYDRATE-CONVERTING MACHINERY WITH TARGETED ARSENALSJ. Zhang, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, USA


16:45 - 17:00 MON 66 | GENOMIC SIGNATURES OF HOST SPECIFICITY IN ECTOMYCORRHIZAL FUNGIL. Lofgren, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, USA

17:00 - 17:15 MON 67 | H2A.Z IS A MULTIFUNCTIONAL HISTONE VARIANT THAT DEFINES DISTINCT PROMOTER CLASSES IN EUKARYOTESA. Courtney, University of Georgia, Athens, USA

17:15 - 17:30 MON 68 | KARYON: A BIOINFORMATIC TOOLKIT FOR THE ANALYSIS OF PROBLEMATIC GENOME PROJECTSM. Naranjo-Ortiz, Clark University, Worcester, USA

17:30 - 19:00 POSTER SESSION A - SYSTEMATICS, BIODIVERSITY, & EVOLUTION Summit RoomPOSTER A1 | MOLECULAR AND ULTRASTRUCTURAL EVIDENCE THAT A PATHOGEN OF AN AGRICULTURALLY IMPORTANT GREEN ALGA BELONGS IN A NEW LINEAGE OF CHYTRIDIOMYCOTAJ. Longcore, University of Maine, Orono, USA POSTER A2 | THE COLLECTION OF ZOOSPORIC EUFUNGI AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (CZEUM): A NEW CULTURE COLLECTION RESOURCE UNIFYING 100 YEARS OF RESEARCHR. Simmons, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA POSTER A3 | LEVERAGING GENOME-WIDE SNPS TO UNDERSTAND THE GLOBAL EMERGENCE OF THE CLONAL PLANT PATHOGENIC FUNGUS CALONECTRIA PSEUDONAVICULATAN. LeBlanc, USDA ARS, Beltsville, USA POSTER A4 | WHAT’S FOR LUNCH? COMPARATIVE GENOMICS OF THE RHIZOPUS AND ALLIES TO TEST PARASITISM FROM SAPROTROPHIC BACKGROUNDS. Masonjones, University of California -Riverside, Riverside, USA POSTER A5 | COMPARATIVE GENOMICS OF THE ENTOMOPATHOGENIC GENUS BEAUVERIAD. Showalter, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, USA POSTER A6 | IDENTIFICATION AND COMPARISON OF GENE CLUSTERS IN A DIVERSE COLLECTION OF TRICHODERMA SPECIESK. Scott, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA POSTER A7 | DEVELOPMENT OF A MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY OF HYPOMYCES TO INVESTIGATE THE SPECIFICITY OF THE LOBSTER MUSHROOM (HYPOMYCES LACTIFLUORUM AND RUSSULA BREVIPES)E. Feliciano, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

POSTER A8 | DIVERSITY OF DOWNY MILDEWS PATHOGENS ON POACEAEW. Davis, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, USA POSTER A9 | THREE NEW SPECIES OF FLAG SMUT OF GRASSES FROM THE UNITED STATESK. Savchenko, Butler University, Indianapolis, USA POSTER A10 | DIGITAL IMAGING OF TYPE SPECIMENS OF RUSTS AND SMUTS AT THE U. S. NATIONAL FUNGUS COLLECTIONSJ. Hall, University of Maryland, College Park, USA POSTER A11 | FOMITOPSIS MOUNCEAE AND F. SCHRENKII— TWO NEW SPECIES FROM NORTH AMERICA IN THE F. PINICOLA COMPLEXJ. Glaeser, Center for Forest Mycology Research, Northern Research Station, U.S. Forest Service, Madison, USA


POSTER A12 | DETECTING POLYPLOIDY AND ITS ROLE IN DIVERSIFICATION ACROSS HYDNUM (CANTHARELLALES)R. Swenie, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA POSTER A13 | A NEW AND UNUSUAL SPECIES OF HERICIUM FROM THE DJA BIOSPHERE RESERVE, CAMEROONB. Jumbam, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA POSTER A14 | MANY TROPICAL RHIZOMORPHIC SPECIES OF MARASMIUS ARE NOT PAN-TROPICALS. Esquivel Benjamin, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

POSTER A15 | NEW SPECIES OF ENTOLOMATACEAE FROM CAMEROONT. Henkel, Humboldt State University, Arcata, USA POSTER A16 | HIGH DIVERSITY OF MILKCAPS (RUSSULACEAE, BASIDIOMYCOTA) ASSOCIATED WITH DICYMBE IN TROPICAL FORESTS OF GUYANAT. Henkel, Humboldt State University, Arcata, USA POSTER A17 | ECTOMYCORRHIZAL FUNGAL HYPERDIVERSITY REVEALED IN TROPICAL MONODOMINANT FORESTS OF CAMEROONM. Brann, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA POSTER A18 | NEW SPECIES AND EPITYPES OF AMANITA FROM CENTRAL AFRICAK. Mighell, Humboldt State University, Arcata, USA POSTER A19 | THE GREAT WHITE AMANITA: DECIPHERING THE AMANITA BISPORIGERA SPECIES COMPLEX THROUGH TOXIN PROFILING AND PHYLOGENETICSJ. Van Wyk, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA POSTER A20 | RICHER THAN GOLD: THE FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY OF A THREATENED ANDEAN CLOUD FOREST RESERVE.D. Newman, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

POSTER A21 | THE LAETIPORUS GENUS IN BRAZILC. Oliveira, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil

17:30 - 19:00 POSTER SESSION A - INTERACTIONS WITH OTHER ORGANISMS Summit RoomPOSTER A22 | BREAKING TIES TO ECTOMYCORRHIZAL FUNGI AT THE ARCTIC TREELINE: USING STABLE ISOTOPE FINGERPRINTING TO INFER MYCORRHIZAL DEPENDENCEM. Keller, University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, USA

POSTER A23 | HOW SPECIFIC IS ECTOMYCORRHIZAL HOST SPECIFICITY?A. Certano, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, USA POSTER A24 | THE ROLE OF COMPETITION IN ECTOMYCORRHIZAL FUNGI GENE EXPRESSION AND HOST PHENOTYPEK. Tremble, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA POSTER A25 | WILL THE HIGH ELEVATION DISTRIBUTION LIMITS OF ECTOMYCORRHIZAL FUNGI SHIFT IN RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE?S. Graham, University of Washington, Seattle, USA POSTER A26 | ECTOMYCORRHIZAL FUNGAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ON SEEDLINGS OF A NEOTROPICAL MONODOMINANT TREEC. Delevich, Humboldt State University, Arcata, USA POSTER A27 | LEGACY OF ROBINIA PSEUDOACACIA (BLACK LOCUST) INVASION AND USE OF ECTOMYCORRHIZAL FUNGI TO RESTORE PINUS RIGIDA (PITCH PINE) IN THE ALBANY PINE BUSH PRESERVE, NYT. Patterson, SUNY ESF, Syracuse, USA


POSTER A28 | FOLIAR ENDOPHYTIC FUNGI ALTER PLANT HOST CHEMISTRYN. Visser, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA POSTER A29 | DRIVERS OF ENDOPHYTE COMMUNITIES WITHIN PACIFIC NORTHWEST PRAIRIESG. Bailes, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA POSTER A30 | BARK BEETLE MYCOBIOME: AN INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION GROUP ADVANCING BARK BEETLE SYMBIOSIS RESEARCHR. Gazis, University of Florida, Homestead, USA POSTER A31 | LINKS BETWEEN ASH FUNGAL ENDOPHYTES AND EMERALD ASH BORER GUT COMMUNITIES?A. Faulkner, Univeristy of Minnesota, Saint Paul, USA POSTER A32 | FUNGAL ENDOPHYTES AND THEIR ROLE IN HERBIVORY DETERRENCE AGAINST AN INVASIVE SCALE INSECT IN THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER DELTAC. Bumby, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA POSTER A33 | HYBRID ASSEMBLY OF A NOVEL ZOMBIE ANT FUNGUS (OPHIOCORDYCEPS) GENOME AND DISCOVERY OF CANDIDATE MANIPULATION GENES IN THE TRANSCRIPTOMEI. Will, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA POSTER A34 | ARE CORDYCEPS SECONDARY METABOLITE GENE CLUSTERS INVOLVED IN INSECT BEHAVIOR MANIPULATION?G. Valero-David, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA POSTER A35 | INVESTIGATING ECOLOGICAL TRADE-OFFS IN ENDOPHYTIC INSECT PATHOGENIC FUNGIM. Branine, Montana State University, Bozeman, USA POSTER A36 | FROM FUNGUS TO FLOWER: PSEUDOFLOWER FORMATION ON XYRIS ASSOCIATED WITH A NOVEL FUSARIUM SPECIES FROM GUYANA, AND ITS POTENTIAL DISPERSAL BY INSECTST. Torres Cruz, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, USA POSTER A37 | WHY DID THE MUSHROOM BECOME MAGIC? – EFFECTS OF PSILOCYBE CUBENSIS ON POSSIBLY ANTAGONISTIC ORGANISMSM. Meyer, Whitman College, Walla Walla, USA POSTER A38 | PSILOCYBIN PRODUCTION BY TERMITE EGG-MIMICKING SYMBIONT, FIBULARHIZOCTONIA SP.Z. Konkel, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA POSTER A39 | EVOLUTION AND GENETICS OF SECONDARY METABOLITE PROFILES IN ANT-FARMED CORAL MUSHROOMSK. Autumn, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA

17:30 - 19:00 POSTER SESSION A - ECOLOGY, CONSERVATION, & CLIMATE CHANGE Summit RoomPOSTER A40 | EXPLORING THE IDENTITY AND FUNCTION OF FUNGAL SEED ENDOPHYTES IN COASTAL DOUGLAS-FIR (PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII VAR. MENZIESII)G. Bergmann, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA POSTER A41 | VERTICAL STRATIFICATION AND TEMPORAL DYNAMICS OF ENDOPHYTIC FUNGAL COMMUNITIES IN CANOPIES OF DOUGLAS-FIRK. Gervers, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA POSTER A42 | LIMITED EVIDENCE FOR ECOTYPIC ADAPTATION OF ASCOMYCETES TO DROUGHTK. Ismert, Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA


POSTER A43 | EFFECT OF PRECIPITATION, HOST SPECIES, AND TISSUE TYPE ON ENDOPHYTIC FUNGI COMMUNITY COMPOSITIONC. Ndinga Muniania, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, USA POSTER A44 | ENDOPHYTE COMMUNITY SHIFTS IN RESPONSE TO DROUGHT IN MONKEYFLOWERS (ERYTHRANTHE LACINIATA) GROWN IN NATIVE SOILJ. Shay, University of California, Merced, Merced, USA POSTER A45 | DO ENVIRONMENTALLY ADAPTED FUNGAL COMMUNITIES DIFFER IN THEIR TOLERANCE TO DROUGHT?A. Narayanan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA POSTER A46 | DROUGHT STRESS LEADS TO DIFFERENTIAL GENE EXPRESSION IN BOTH PLANT AND FUNGUS IN ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL SYMBIOSISM. Keller-Pearson, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA POSTER A47 | SOYBEAN MICROBIOME UNDER THREE AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AT THE KELLOGG BIOLOGICAL STATIONR. Longley, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA POSTER A48 | DOES PRAIRIE RESTORATION ALSO RESTORE FUNGAL COMMUNITIES? EXAMPLES FROM TWO TALLGRASS PRAIRIE SITESA. Jumpponen, Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA POSTER A49 | NATIVE PLANT RESPONSES TO MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI AND BIOCHAR FOR ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION OF A PACIFIC NORTHWEST SUPERFUNDA. Frewert, Washington State University, Richland, USA POSTER A50 | NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING ANALYSIS OF DEAD WOOD AS A METHOD TO STUDY DIVERSITY OF SAPROXYLIC FUNGI FOR BIODIVERSITY ASSESSMENTS. Blue, Kean University, Union, USA POSTER A51 | EVALUATION OF NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING TECHNIQUE AS A METHOD TO ASSESS SAPROXYLIC FUNGAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITIONY. Hernandez, Kean University, Union, USA POSTER A52 | COMPARATIVE STUDY OF MICROBIAL COMMUNITY DYNAMICS DURING WOOD DECOMPOSITION IN NATUREY. Zhang, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, USA POSTER A53 | FUNGAL SUCCESSION IN A CHRONOSEQUENCE OF POPULUS GRANDIDENTATAB. Castillo, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA POSTER A54 | EFFECT OF NITROGEN FERTILIZATION ON WHITE- AND BROWN-ROT DECAY OF ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA LITTER WITH VARIABLE LIGNIN CONTENTA. Gill, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, USA POSTER A55 | DYNAMICS OF MICROBIAL GROUPS IN RESPONSE TO SIMULATED HURRICANE AT EL YUNQUE RAIN FOREST IN PUERTO RICOK. Gonzalez-Rosario, Universidad Ana G. Méndez, Recinto de Gurabo, Gurabo, Puerto Rico POSTER A56 | A FUNGAL MECHANISM TO CONTROL CHAOS WHEN DEPLOYING OXYGEN RADICALS TO DECAY WOODC. Anderson, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, USA POSTER A57 | EFFECTS OF HURRICANE-FELLED TREE TRUNKS ON SOIL PHOSPHORUS IN A WET, TROPICAL FORESTM. Brown, University of Georgia, Odum School of Ecology, Athens, USA


POSTER A58 | SOIL FUNGAL AND BACTERIAL COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTIONS TO WETLAND CARBON STORAGER. Bledsoe, East Carolina University, Greenville, USA POSTER A59 | DO WOOD-INHABITING FUNGAL COMMUNITIES PREDICT TREE BREAK PATTERNS CAUSED BY HURRICANES?F. Maillard, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, USA POSTER A60 | CHARACTERIZATION OF PATHOGENIC FUNGI ASSOCIATED WITH NATIVE SPECIES AT “EL YUNQUE” NATIONAL RAIN FORESTN. Linares-Alamo, UAGM, Gurabo, Puerto Rico

17:30 - 19:00 POSTER SESSION A - FOOD & INDUSTRIAL MYCOLOGY Summit RoomPOSTER A61 | DNA BARCODING AND DOMESTICATION OF THREE LENTINUS SPECIES IN SRI LANKAD. Manamgoda, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka POSTER A62 | FUNGAL CANNIBALISM - ASSESSING FUNGAL DECOMPOSITION OF FUNGUS-BASED BIOMATERIALSM. Moran, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA POSTER A63 | INOCULATING MEDIA CONTAINING WOOD VINEGAR DILUTIONS WITH FUNGI SPECIESC. Marr, Resting Point Farms, Asheville, USA POSTER A64 | GENOMIC IDENTIFICATION OF SPECIES SOLD IN WILD MUSHROOM FOOD PRODUCTSD. Cutler, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA POSTER A65 | THE ACTIVITY OF PLEUROTUS OSTREATUS EXTRACTS AGAINST PATHOGENIC FUSARIA.M. Pasquali, University of Milan, Milan, Italy POSTER A66 | USING FILAMENTOUS ASCOMYCETES TO REMOVE SELENIUM FROM INDUSTRIAL AND MUNICIPAL WASTEWATERS IN MINNESOTAM. Sabuda, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA POSTER A67 | CRISPR-CAS9 TECHNOLOGY AS A TOOL FOR ENGINEERING LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY EVENTS IN SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAEA. Glasco, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

17:30 - 19:00 POSTER SESSION A - EDUCATION, SERVICE, & OUTREACH Pre-Function SpacePOSTER A69 | CONSTAX: A TOOL FOR IMPROVED TAXONOMIC RESOLUTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL FUNGAL ITS SEQUENCESK. Gdanetz, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA POSTER A70 | REFLECTIONS FROM THE IDENTIFICATION OF A NEW CLASS-LEVEL LINEAGE: A FEW METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS TO HELP ENABLE THE CONNECTION OF UNIDENTIFIED ENVIRONMENTAL DNA SEQUENCES TO THE UNKNOWN FUNGI THEY REPRESENTK. Kluting, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Evolutionary Biology, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. POSTER A71 | INTEGRATING THE NORTH AMERICAN MYCOFLORA PROJECT IN AN INTRODUCTORY BIOLOGY COURSEE. Cantonwine, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, USA

POSTER A72 | THE MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA STUDENT SECTIONR. Shay, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA


17:30 - 19:00 POSTER SESSION A - PLANT PATHOGENS, MOLECULAR GENETICS, & FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS Pre-Function Space

POSTER A73 | TAR SPOT OF CORN: DISTINGUISHING THE FUNGAL COMMUNITIES OF TAR SPOT AND FISH-EYE SYMPTOMS THROUGH AMPLICON SEQUENCINGR. Shay, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA POSTER A74 | BRINGING FUNGAL VIROLOGY OUT OF THE DARK AGES OF SEQUENCINGJ. Myers, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA POSTER A75 | IDENTIFICATION OF UNKNOWN FUNGUS SUSCEPTIBLE TO FUNGICIDE IN GLYCINE MAX ROOTSK. Orris, Department of Biological Sciences, Macomb, USA POSTER A76 | IDENTIFICATION OF MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE(MAPK) GENES IN ALTERNARIA OXYTROPISR. Nadathur, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA POSTER A77 | GENOME ANALYSIS OF NEONECTRIA SPECIES ASSOCIATED WITH BEECH BARK DISEASED. Skaltsas, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), Mycology and Nematology Genetic Diversity and Biology Laboratory, Beltsville, USA POSTER A78 | MUTATIONS ALTERING TRANSPORT FUNCTION RESULT IN DECREASED VIRULENCE AND DON ACCUMULATION IN FUSARIUM GRAMINEARUMS. O'Mara, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, USA POSTER A79 | POLYOL TRANSPORTERS FROM THE LICHENIZING FUNGUS PELTIGERA BRITANNICAT. McDonald, St. Catherine University, Minneapolis, USA POSTER A80 | ANALYZING THE PHYTOPHTHORA PATHOGEN ON TREE TOMATO (SOLANUM BETACEUM) IN ECUADORM. Ordoñez, Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador POSTER A81 | SORGHUM MYCOBIOME: STOCHASTICITY, SUCCESSION AND PARTNER SELECTIONJ. W. Taylor, University of California, Berkeley, USA

17:30 - 19:00 POSTER SESSION A - EDUCATION, SERVICE, & OUTREACH Bar AreaPOSTER 85 | AN ORAL HISTORY FOR MYCOLOGY #2M. Blackwell, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA D. H. Pfister, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

19:00 - 21:00 STUDENT SOCIAL Pathways Room

19:00 - 21:00 MYCOLOGIA EDITORS BOARD MEETING Think 3 Room

19:00 - 21:00 UMYCONET AND ALUMNI SOCIAL Think 4 Room


TUESDAY, AUGUST 13


08:00 - 09:00 KARLING LECTURE Meridian ABCDTUES 1 | CONFLICT AS A MOTOR FOR EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE: INSIGHTS FROM THE FUNGAL GENOMESH. Johannesson, Department of Forest Mycology and Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden


09:15 - 10:45 SYMPOSIUM 3: OH, THE PLACES YOU'LL GO -- CAREER OPPORTUNITIES IN MYCOLOGY Meridian AB

Session Chair(s): MSA Student Section

09:15 - 09:45 TUES 2 | MYCELIUM MATERIALS: DEVELOPING MYLOTM LEATHER AT BOLT THREADSA. Bruce, Bolt Threads, Emeryville, USA

09:45 - 10:15 TUES 3 | MYCOLOGY AT THE CDCA. Litvintseva , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA

10:15 - 10:45 TUES 4 | MYCOLOGY IN A MUSHROOM SPAWN COMPANYA. Gryganskyi, LF Lambert Spawn Co., Coatesville, USA

09:15 - 10:45 SYMPOSIUM 4: NOTHING IN MYCOLOGY MAKES SENSE......BUT JOHN TAYLOR HELPED EXPLAIN IT Meridian CD

Session Chair(s): Jason Stajich

09:15 - 09:45 TUES 7 | THINKING AGAIN ABOUT THE FITNESS OF FILAMENTOUS FUNGIA. Pringle, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA

09:45 - 10:15 TUES 8 | TEACHING WITH TAYLOR - A SHORT HISTORY OF TWO MYCOLOGY COURSES AND THE MENDOCINO FORAYT. Bruns, University of California, Berkeley, USA

10:15 - 10:45 TUES 9 | ON FUNGAL PATHOGENESIS: AN HOMAGE TO JOHN TAYLORJ. Heitman, Duke University, Durham, USA


11:00 - 12:00 SYMPOSIUM 3: OH, THE PLACES YOU'LL GO -- CAREER OPPORTUNITIES IN MYCOLOGY Meridian AB

Session Chair(s): MSA Student Section

11:00 - 11:30 TUES 5 | MYCOLOGY AT THE US FOREST SERVICED. Lindner, USDA Forest Service, Madison, USA

11:30 - 12:00 TUES 6 | MUSEUM MYCOLOGYB. Dentinger, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA

11:00 - 12:30 SYMPOSIUM 4: NOTHING IN MYCOLOGY MAKES SENSE......BUT JOHN TAYLOR HELPED EXPLAIN IT Meridian CD

Session Chair(s): Jason Stajich

11:00 - 11:30 TUES 10 | MISSING FOSSILS AND STRATEGIES TO FILL THE GREAT GAPS IN THE GEOLOGICAL RECORD OF FUNGIM. Berbee, Univ. British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada


11:30 - 12:00 TUES 11 | WHAT CAN WE LEARN ABOUT EVOLUTION OF SYMBIOSES FROM THE PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN FUNGI AND BACTERIA?T. Pawlowska, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

12:00 - 12:30TUES 12 | TWENTY YEARS OF GENEALOGICAL CONCORDANCE PHYLOGENETIC SPECIES RECOGNITION IN FUNGI: HOW DID WE GET HERE? AND WHERE ARE WE GOING?D. Geiser, Penn State University, University Park, USA

12:00 - 12:30 SYMPOSIUM 3: PANEL DISCUSSION Meridian ABSession Chair(s): MSA Student Section


13:30 - 15:30 ECOLOGY, CONSERVATION, & CLIMATE CHANGE (III) Meridian ABSession Chair(s): Bitty Roy

13:30 - 13:45 TUES 13 | OPENING THE “BLACK BOX” OF DEMOGRAPHY: WHAT IS KILLING SEEDS?B. Roy, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA

13:45 - 14:00 TUES 14 | ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS AFFECTING SELENITE REDUCTION MECHANISMS BY ASCOMYCETE FUNGIJ. Mejia, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

14:00 - 14:15 TUES 15 | HURRICANE DISTURBANCE AFFECTS FUNGAL COMMUNITIES AND MYCORRHIZAL NETWORK IN A NEOTROPICAL FORESTJ. Alvarez-Manjarrez, Instituto de Biología, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico

14:15 - 14:30TUES 16 | UNRAVELING THE ENDOPHYTIC DIVERSITY ASSOCIATED WITH RUBIACEAE TROPICAL PLANTS AND THE ECOLOGICAL FACTORS DRIVING COMMUNITY ASSEMBLAGEH. Castillo Gonzalez, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

14:30 - 14:45 TUES 17 | SOME LIKE IT COLD: SNOW ALGAL OCCURRENCE AND SNOW CHEMISTRY STRUCTURE FUNGAL COMMUNITIES IN ALPINE SNOWSA. Tucker, The University of Memphis, Memphis, USA

14:45 - 15:00TUES 18 | THE EFFECT OF NUTRIENT ADDITION AND HERBIVORE EXCLUSION ON FUNGAL ENDOPHYTE COMMUNITY DIVERSITY WITHIN ANDROPOGON GERARDII TISSUESM. Watson, University of Minnesota, St Paul, USA

15:00 - 15:15TUES 19 | COMPARISON OF LONG AND SHORT AMPLICON METABARCODING TO DETERMINATION OF FUNGAL SPECIES DIVERSITY AND SPATIAL TURNOVER IN AN ECTOMYCORRHIZAL WEST AFRICAN WOODLANDB. Furneaux, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

15:15 - 15:30 TUES 20 | LIFE IN THE LEAVES: DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTION IN FOLIAR FUNGAL ENDOPHYTESA. Apigo, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, USA

13:30 - 15:15 SYSTEMATICS & BIODIVERSITY (III) Pathways RoomSession Chair(s): Kerry O'Donnell

13:30 - 13:45 TUES 21 | A NOVEL FUSARIUM INDUCES PUTATIVE PSEUDOFLOWERS ON YELLOW-EYED GRASS (XYRIS SPP.) IN GUYANAK. O'Donnell, NCAUR-ARS-USDA, Peoria, USA


13:45 - 14:00 TUES 22 | MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY REVEALS NOVEL EVOLUTIONARY LINEAGES OF CURVULARIA FROM SRI LANKAD. Manamgoda, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka

14:00 - 14:15TUES 23 | ANCHORED HYBRID ENRICHMENT FOR SELECTIVE GENOME-LEVEL PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF FUNGARIA SAMPLES: THE TUBER RUFUM CLADE AS A CASE STUDYA. Grupe, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

14:15 - 14:30 TUES 24 | UNWRAPPING THE MUMMY: SOLVING THE PHYLOGENETIC MYSTERY OF THE ARTHROPOD-MUMMIFYING FUNGUSK. Amses, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

14:30 - 14:45 TUES 25 | SURVEYS OF THE EVERGLADES REVEAL NEW SPECIES TO THE MYCOFLORA OF THE UNITED STATESA. Farid, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA

14:45 - 15:00 TUES 26 | TAXONOMIC DIVERSITY OF THE GENUS AMANITA IN PAKISTANM. Kiran, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

15:00 - 15:15 TUES 27 | FIRST REPORT OF ALTERNARIA BLACK SPOT OF PECANS (CARYA ILLINOINENSIS) INDUCED BY ALTERNARIA SPECIES IN SOUTH AFRICAC. Achilonu, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa

13:30 - 15:30 INTERACTIONS WITH OTHER ORGANISMS (I) Think 4 RoomSession Chair(s): Paul Bayman

13:30 - 13:45 TUES 28 | FUSARIUM AND COLLETOTRICHUM ARE CAUSAL AGENTS OF COFFEE BERRY DISEASEP. Bayman, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico

13:45 - 14:00 TUES 29 | FUNGAL-BACTERIAL NETWORKS STRUCTURING BIOCRUST IN MOJAVE DESERT, USAN. Pombubpa, Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology and Institute of Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, USA

14:00 - 14:15 TUES 30 | FRESHWATER FUNGAL DIVERSITY AND ECOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS WITH MOSQUITOS AND PLANT COMMUNITIEST. Billingsley Tobias, Institute for Environmental Studies, Western Illinois University, Macomb, USA

14:15 - 14:30 TUES 31 | ELUCIDATING THE PHORETIC FUNGAL COMMUNITY OF ROOT-FEEDING BEETLES IN THE GEORGIA PIEDMONTM. Buland, D.B. Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, USA

14:30 - 14:45TUES 32 | DEVELOPING A MYCOINSECTICIDE FOR DENDROCTONUS RUFIPENNIS: PHENOTYPIC AND EXPERIMENTAL DIFFERENCES IN BEAUVERIA BASSIANA ISOLATES FROM THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGIONA. Mann, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA

14:45 - 15:00 TUES 33 | SOYBEAN (GLYCINE MAX) HOSTS NEMATICIDAL FUNGAL COMMUNITY IN SOYBEAN CYST NEMATODE-INFESTED FIELDSN. Strom, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, USA

15:00 - 15:15 TUES 34 | HIGH THROUGHPUT ITS IDENTIFICATION OF CULTURABLE SOYBEAN CYST NEMATODE CYST MYCOBIOME: A FUSARIUM STORYD. Haarith, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, USA

15:15 - 15:30 TUES 35 | CINNAMIC ACID AS AN INHIBITOR OF GROWTH,FLAVONOIDS EXUDATION AND ENDOPHYTIC FUNGUS COLONIZATION IN MAIZE ROOTA. Mehmood, Institute of Biological Sciences, Sarhad University of Science and InformationTecnology, Peshawar, Pakistan


13:30 - 15:00 CELLULAR & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY Think 5 RoomSession Chair(s): Dee Carter

13:30 - 13:45 TUES 37 | CELL PLASTICITY AND DISEASE MANIFESTATION IN CRYPTOCOCCUSD. Carter, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

13:45 - 14:00 TUES 38 | INTERACTION AND RUPTURE OF CANDIDA ALBICANS ON NANOSTRUCTURED SURFACE OF CICADA WINGN. Kollu, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, USA

14:00 - 14:15 TUES 39 | FURTHER ULTRASTRUCTURAL STUDIES ON THE SPORE BODIES OF ORBILIOMYCETESJ. Mitchell, Farlow Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

14:15 - 14:30 TUES 40 | ONTOGENY OF THE ENDOCYTIC COLLAR IN FILAMENTOUS FUNGIR. Mouriño-Pérez, CICESE, Ensenada, Mexico

14:30 - 14:45 TUES 41 | SURVEYING THE NPFXD MOTIF-CONTAINING PROTEINS IN ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS B. Commer, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

14:45 - 15:00 TUES 42 | REVERSE FOUNTAIN STREAMING: AN ANALYSIS OF HYPHAL CYTOPLASMIC FLOW IN THE ZYGOMYCETESP. Shinge, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA


16:00 - 17:30 POSTER SESSION B - MEDICAL MYCOLOGY Summit RoomPOSTER B2 | THE GENOME OF GLOEOSTEREUM INCARNATUM, PROVIDES INSIGHTS INTO THE GENETIC BASIS OF ITS MEDICINAL PROPERTIESX. Wang, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, ChilePOSTER B3 | ACROPHIARIN (ANTIBIOTIC S31794/F-1) FROM PENICILLIUM ARENICOLA SHARES BIOSYNTHETIC FEATURES WITH BOTH ASPERGILLUS- AND LEOTIOMYCETE-TYPE ECHINOCANDINSN. Lan, Texas Therapeutics Institute, The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, USA POSTER B4 | GLOBAL REGULATORS VEA, LAEA AND MCRA GOVERN SECONDARY METABOLISM AND MORPHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE ECHINOCANDIN-PRODUCING FUNGUS ASPERGILLUS PACHYCRISTATUSN. Lan, Texas Therapeutics Institute, The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, USA POSTER B5 | EXPANDING THE MOLECULAR DETECTION TOOLKIT FOR COCCIDIOIDES BY DOCUMENTING GENETIC VARIATION FROM PATIENTS TREATED IN NEW MEXICO AND TESTING ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLESP. Hamm, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA POSTER B6 | AN EX VIVO CORNEAL CULTURE MODEL TO ASSESS ANTIFUNGAL SENSITIVITY OF FUNGAL SPECIES ASSOCIATED WITH EQUINE FUNGAL KERATITISH. Cotter, Center for Integrated Fungal Research, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, NC State University, Raleigh, USA POSTER B7 | PREDICTING SPECIES BOUNDARIES AND BIODIVERSITY IN THE GENUS PNEUMOCYSTISS. Babb-Biernacki, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA

16:00 - 17:30 POSTER SESSION B - SYSTEMATICS & BIODIVERSITY (BASIDIOMYCETES) Summit Room


POSTER B8 | THE GENUS HEBELOMA IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN ALPINE ZONEH. Beker, Plantentuin Meise, Meise, BelgiumPOSTER B9 | SPECIES DISCOVERY AMONG BRITISH COLUMBIA’S FIBRE CAP MUSHROOMS THROUGH A PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF THE INOCYBE “PRAETERVISA” GROUPM. Miyamoto, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada POSTER B10 | A BIRD IN THE NEST IS WORTH HOW MANY IN THE FAMILY? SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION OF THE BIRD’S NEST FUNGI (NIDULARIACEAE, AGARICALES)N. Kraisitudomsook, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA POSTER B11 | UNCOVERING THE TRUE DIVERSITY OF CHANTERELLES IN INDIANAJ. Chittenden, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA POSTER B12 | SHIITAKE AND ITS RELATIVES, PROGRESS ON 30 NEW GENOMES IN THE GENUS LENTINULAS. Patev, Clark University, Worcester, USA

POSTER B13 | COLORADO TULOSTOMA: TOWARDS A GLOBAL PHYLOGENYA. Honan, Western Colorado University, Gunnison, USA POSTER B14 | MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS TO RESOLVE POLYPHYLY IN AN ORDER OF PUFFBALL MUSHROOMSN. Omiotek, Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, USA POSTER B15 | PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS OF ARMILLARIA GALLICA COMPLEXJ. Liang, Institute of Microbiology, Beijing, China

POSTER B16 | RHODOTUS PALMATUS DOES NOT OCCUR IN NORTH AMERICAJ. Liu, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA POSTER B17 | POPULATION GENOMIC STUDY OF AN INTRODUCED ECTOMYCORRHIZAL FUNGUS SUILLUS LUTEUSY. Ke, Duke University, Durham, USA POSTER B18 | PRESENCE OF THE INVASIVE “DEATH CAP” FUNGUS (AMANITA PHALLOIDES) ASSOCIATED WITH EUROPEAN HORNBEAM TREES IN KELOWNA, BRITISH COLUMBIAJ. Hume, The University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, Canada

16:00 - 17:30 POSTER SESSION B - METABOLISM & INTERACTIONS WITH OTHER ORGANISMS Summit Room

POSTER B19 | THE SUBTERRANEAN INTERNET OF FUNGI: COPPER INTEGRATED MELANINIZED MYCELIUM AS A CONDUCTIVE BIOWIRER. Jones, US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Soil Microbiology Lab, Hanover, USA POSTER B20 | EFFECTS OF PHOSPHORUS FERTILIZATION AND A COMPANION PLANT ON FORMATION OF ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL PROPAGULES AND COLONIZATION OF THE SHRUB ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATAM. Geisler, Boise State University, Boise, USA POSTER B21 | BIOREMEDIATION OF OIL POLLUTANTS BY FUNGI ASSOCIATED WITH COASTAL MANGROVES IN PUERTO RICOM. Cafaro, Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico


POSTER B22 | SIMPLE AND EFFICIENT MUTAGENESIS PROGRAMME TO IMPROVE THE ANTAGONISTIC POTENTIAL OF TRICHODERMA BIOCONTROL AGENTSA. Alfiky, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt POSTER B23 | USING MOESZIOMYCES APHIDIS AND ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI TO COMBAT THE NEOERYSIPHE GALEOPSIDIS (POWDERY MILDEW) ON AN ENDANGERED HAWAIIAN ENDEMIC PLANTJ. Koko, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, USA POSTER B24 | MYCOBIOME DIVERSITY IN FIELD AND GREENHOUSE POTATO CYST NEMATODE POPULATIONSB. Jumbam, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA POSTER B25 | INTERKINGDOM INTERACTIONS IN THE SOYBEAN ROOT MICROBIOME WITH DIFFERENT SOYBEAN SEED TREATMENTSZ. Noel, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA POSTER B26 | HITCHING A RIDE: FUNGAL DIVERSITY ASSOCIATED WITH BIRD POPULATIONS IN UTAHB. Alex, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA POSTER B27 | POPULATION GENOMIC ANALYSES REVEAL PANMIXIA, HUMAN-MEDIATED TRANSPORT AND AN UNDESCRIBED LOW-VIRULENCE SUB-POPULATION OF S. MUSIVA ACROSS POPLAR PLANTATIONS IN NORTH AMERICAJ. Tabima, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA POSTER B28 | ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAE IN NOVA SCOTIA SALTMARSHES: META-AMPLICON BARCODING AND TIDAL MESOCOSM GROWTH TRIALSA. Walker, Acadia University, Wolfville, Canada POSTER B29 | VARIATION IN TANNIN TOLERANCE AMONG ROOT ASSOCIATED FUNGIG. Kernaghan, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Canada POSTER B30 | DIFFERENTIAL COLONIZATION BY ECTO-, ARBUSCULAR AND ERICOID MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI IN FORESTED WETLAND PLANTSG. Kernaghan, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Canada POSTER B31 | IMPORTANCE OF PHOSPHORUS AND AM FUNGAL COMMUNITIES IN PERFORMANCE OF BLANKETFLOWER, GAILLARDIA ARISTATA, ACROSS THE NORTHERN TIERA. Long, North Dakota State University, Fargo, USA POSTER B32 | DECIPHERING THE ROLE OF CONTEXT DEPENDENCY IN THE COMMUNITY ASSEMBLY OF ROOT-ASSOCIATED FUNGIM. Mann, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA POSTER B33 | EFFECTS OF DARKSIDEA ON BOUTELOUA GRACILIS GERMINATION AND GROWTHJ. Nichols, Western Illinois University, Macomb, USA POSTER B35 | IDENTIFICATION OF DARK SEPTATE ENDOPHYTES IN ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA ROOTS AND THEIR INTERACTIONS WITH ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAEM. Geisler, Boise State University, Boise, USA POSTER B36 | DIFFERENTIAL PLANT GROWTH EFFECTS BY SOIL FUNGI IN THE MORTIERELLACEAEN. Vande Pol, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA


POSTER B37 | ARE MYCOHETEROTROPHS ACTUALLY PARASITES? INVESTIGATING THE MYCORRHIZAL ECOLOGY OF FOUR CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANT SPECIESC. Bivins, Fresno State University, Fresno, USA

16:00 - 17:30 POSTER SESSION B - ECOLOGY, CONSERVATION, & CLIMATE CHANGE Summit RoomPOSTER B38 | EFFECTS OF HIGH SEVERITY WILDFIRES ON PONDEROSA PINE ECTOMYCORRHIZAL FUNGAL COMMUNITIESM. Pulido-Chavez, University of California-Riverside, Riverside, USA POSTER B39 | SIXTY YEARS OF PRESCRIBED FIRE HAS NO EFFECT ON ECTOMYCORRHIZAL COMMUNITIES IN LONGLEAF PINE FORESTSA. Castro-Ross, Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA POSTER B40 | THE BIOLOGY AND DISTRIBUTION OF MORELS IN SOUTHERN CHILE: THE BALANCE BETWEEN FOREST SUSTAINABILITY WHILE SUPPORTING A MOREL–GATHERING ECONOMYK. LoBuglio, Harvard University, Farlow Herbarium, Cambridge, USA POSTER B41 | GENOMIC INSIGHTS INTO REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGIES AND SUCCESSIONAL PATTERNS OF FIRE-ASSOCIATED MORCHELLA A. Schauster, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, USA POSTER B42 | ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECT OF WILDFIRE ON FUNGAL AND BACTERIAL SOIL COMMUNITIES USING PRE- AND POST- FIRE SAMPLESD. Enright, University of California Riverside, Riverside, USA POSTER B43 | WHERE ARE THEY HIDING? TESTING THE BODY SNATCHER HYPOTHESIS IN PYROPHILOUS FUNGIT. Iturriaga, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

POSTER B44 | A NEW NEMATODE TRAPPING ORBILIA FROM PUERTO RICOT. Iturriaga, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA POSTER B45 | INVESTIGATING THE DEGRADATION OF THERMALLY-MODIFIED PLANT BIOMASS BY FIRE-ADAPTED FUNGIH. Simpson, University of Minnesota, St Paul, USA POSTER B46 | ARE SWEDEN’S FOREST CONSERVATION VALUES LINKED TO SOIL CARBON STOCK SIZE AND BELOWGROUND FUNGAL DIVERSITY?L. Mielke, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet, Uppsala, Sweden

POSTER B48 | HOW FUNGAL PATHOGENS SHAPE PRAIRIE PLANT DIVERSITYH. Burrill, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA POSTER B49 | ON THE ORIGIN OF FECES: INVESTIGATING TRUFFLE DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTION WITH METAGENOMIC AMPLICON SEQUENCING OF SCAT MATERIALA. Bradshaw, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA POSTER B50 | USING PHYLOGENETIC SPECIFICITY SYMMETRY TO COMPARE BIPARTITE NETWORKS OF LICHENS, ENDOPHYTES AND MYCORRHIZAEC. Pardo-De la Hoz, Duke University, Durham, USA

POSTER B51 | MICROBIOME OF THE CULTIVATED MOREL (MORCHELLA SPP.)G. Bonito, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA POSTER B52 | DO FUNGAL ENDOPHYTES FACILITATE COLONIZATION OF BACTERIAL ENDOPHYTES IN BRACHYPODIUM DISTACHYON?J. Liber, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA


16:00 - 17:30 POSTER SESSION B - SYSTEMATICS & BIODIVERSITY (ASCOMYCETES) Summit RoomPOSTER B53 | CURATING COLLETOTRICHUM SEQUENCE RECORDS – AN NCBI AND APHIS COLLABORATIONA. Kennedy, United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Plant Protection and Quarantine, Beltsville, USA POSTER B54 | NEW SPECIES OF LABOULBENIA (LABOULBENIALES, ASCOMYCOTA) ON TWO NEW HOST FAMILIES, GERRIDAE AND THYREOCORIDAE (HEMIPTERA, INSECTA)P. Kaishian, SUNY-ESF, Syracuse, USA POSTER B55 | PHYLOGENETIC PLACEMENT OF THE GEOGLOSSOMYCETES BASED ON WHOLE-GENOME DATAT. Jones, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA POSTER B56 | BLACK SPOT FUNGI ON ROSACEOUS HOSTS: DIPLOCARPON REPRESENTS A UNIQUE EVOLUTIONARY LINEAGE WITHIN LEOTIOMYCETESD. Udayanga, Department of Biosystems Technology, Faculty of Technology, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Nugegoda, Sri LankaPOSTER B57 | PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSES OF THE GENUS PLATISMATIA (PARMELIACEAE, LICHENIZED ASCOMYCETES) SHED NEW LIGHT ON SPECIES FROM NORTHEASTERN NORTH AMERICAO. Asher, Macaulay Honors College at Lehman College (CIty University of New York), New York, USA

16:00 - 17:30 POSTER SESSION B - SYSTEMATICS & BIODIVERSITY (EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS) Summit Room

POSTER B58 | SURVEY OF MARINE YEASTS ASSOCIATED WITH MANGROVES IN PUERTO RICOC. Colon Rosario, Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico POSTER B59 | OBSERVATIONS ON ASCOMYCOTA SAPROBIC COMMUNITY IN MARINE SANDY BEACHES OF SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC COAST OF MEXICOM. Gonzalez, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, MexicoPOSTER B60 | DIVERSITY OF MICROSCOPIC ASCOMYCOTA FROM SOME SANDY BEACHES OF THE MEXICAN PACIFIC COAST: AN INCURSION INTO BIOPRODUCT DEVELOPMENTM. Escarpita Gomez, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California Sur, La Paz, MexicoPOSTER B61 | DIVERSITY AND HALOTOLERANCE OF ENDOPHYTIC FUNGI ASSOCIATED WITH SEAGRASSES IN COSTA RICAA. Walker, Acadia University, Wolfville, Canada POSTER B62 | DIVERSITY OF FUNGI ISOLATED FROM MARINE WOOD FROM THE BAY OF FUNDY, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADAS. Adams, Acadia, Wolfville, Canada POSTER B63 | POLYEXTREMOTOLERANT FUNGI, TREBOUXIOID ALGAE, AND METHYLOBACTERIUM BACTERIA: A SYMBIOTIC TRIFECTA OF BIOLOGICAL SOIL CRUSTSE. Carr, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, USA POSTER B64 | JUST DESERTS? EXPLORING THE DIVERSITY OF MELANIZED FUNGI IN ROCKS AND BIOLOGICAL SOIL CRUSTST. Kurbessoian, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, USA


POSTER B65 | DIVERSITY ON THE CONTINENTAL EDGE: TAXONOMIC INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE POORLY STUDIED CORTICIOID FUNGI AT THE BOSTON HARBOR ISLANDS REVEAL UNDESCRIBED SPECIES AND NEW REPORTS FOR NORTH AMERICAA. Dirks, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA

16:00 - 17:30 POSTER SESSION B - EDUCATION, SERVICE, & OUTREACH Summit RoomPOSTER B66 | THE CANADIAN COLLECTION OF FUNGAL CULTURES (DAOMC) AND THE NATIONAL FUNGAL IDENTIFICATION SERVICE OF CANADA (NFIS): AT YOUR SERVICEB. Goulet, Agriculture and Agrifood Canada, Ottawa, Canada POSTER B67 | DEVELOPING MYCOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES FOR BIOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE TEACHERS AND STUDENTSM. Cubeta, Center for Integrated Fungal Research, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, NC State University, Raleigh, USA POSTER B68 | MYCOLOGY AT ITASCA - FUNGUS FORAYS FOR CREDIT, SINCE 1908J. Schilling, University of Minnesota, Itasca State Park, USA

16:00 - 17:30 POSTER SESSION B - MOLECULAR GENETICS, POPULATION BIOLOGY, & GENOMICS Pre-Function Space

POSTER B69 | LITTLE EVIDENCE OF ANTAGONISTIC SELECTION IN THE EVOLUTIONARY STRATA OF FUNGAL MATING-TYPE CHROMOSOMES (MICROBOTRYUM LYCHNIDIS-DIOICAE)A. Bazzicalupo, Montana State University, Bozeman, USA POSTER B70 | GENETIC DIVERSITY OF THE MATING-TYPE PHEROMONE RECEPTORS IN GENUS RHIZOPOGONA. Mujic, California State University, Fresno, Fresno, USA POSTER B71 | WHOLE-GENOME SEQUENCING AND ASSEMBLY TO DISCOVER CANDIDATE SSR LOCI FOR POPULATION GENETIC ANALYSIS OF THE SPRUCE BUD BLIGHT PATHOGEN GEMMAMYCES PICEAE (MELANOMMATACEAE)G. Adams, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, USA

POSTER B72 | EVOLUTION OF THE MATING TYPE LOCUS IN MUCOROMYCOTINAJ. Peña, University of California, Riverside, USA POSTER B73 | FORMATION OF NATURAL HYBRIDS BETWEEN PUCCINIA HORDEI AND UROMYCES SCILLARIUML. Szabo, Cereal Disease Laboratory, USDA-ARS, St. Paul, USA POSTER B74 | GENETIC STRUCTURE OF CONTEMPORARY POPULATIONS OF THE BOXWOOD BLIGHT PATHOGEN IN THE USAV. Castroagudin, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Mycology and Nematology Genetic Diversity and Biology Laboratory, Beltsville, USA POSTER B75 | POPULATION GENOMICS IN MACROPHOMINA PHASEOLINA REVEALS GEOGRAPHIC STRUCTURE AND POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE ADAPTATION AMONG THE US, PUERTO RICO, AND COLOMBIAV. Ortiz , Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA POSTER B76 | GENETIC DIVERSITY AND POPULATION STRUCTURE OF SPORISORIUM ELLISII(USTILAGINACEAE) WITHIN AND AMONG THREE POPULATIONS IN THE EASTERN UNITED STATES (NEW JERSEY, PENNSYLVANIA AND OHIO)D. Shevlin, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, USA


POSTER B77 | MEGAPHYLOGENY OF MUSHROOM-FORMING FUNGI HELPS TO UNDERSTAND EVOLUTIONARY PATTERNS OF COMPLEX MULTICELLULAR STRUCTUREST. Varga, Synthetic and Systems Biology Unit, Biological Research Centre, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary

16:00 - 17:30 POSTER SESSION B - EDUCATION, SERVICE, & OUTREACH Bar AreaPOSTER 85 | AN ORAL HISTORY FOR MYCOLOGY #2M. Blackwell, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USAD. H. Pfister, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

17:30 - 18:00 BUSES TO BELL MUSEUM The Graduate Main Lobby

18:00 - 22:00 SCIENCE, HISTORY, AND OUTREACH RECEPTION Bell Museum of Natural History


WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14


08:00 - 09:30 CHESTNUT GAVEL SESSION (DISTINCTION AWARDS & BUSINESS) Meridian ABCD


09:45 - 10:45 SYMPOSIUM 5: ANIMAL-ASSOCIATED FUNGI -- FROM PARASITISM TO MUTUALISM Meridian AB

Session Chair(s): Danny Haelewaters

09:45 - 10:15 WED 1 | PROBING THE MECHANISTIC BASIS OF BEHAVIOR MANIPULATION USING THE "ZOMBIE" ENTOMOPATHOGEN ENTOMOPHTHORA MUSCAEC. Elya, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

10:15 - 10:45 WED 2 | GENOMIC SIGNATURES OF NEMATODE PARASITISMK. Bushley, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, USA

09:45 - 10:45SYMPOSIUM 6: GENEALOGY OF LIFE -- FUNGAL BIOLOGY AT THE INTERSECTION OF SYSTEMATICS, GENOMICS, ECOLOGY, AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Meridian CD

Session Chair(s): Jana U'Ren & Jason Stajich

09:45 - 10:15 WED 13 | PHYLO-SECRETOMICS OF ZYGOMYCETE FUNGI: “FUNGI ARE WHAT THEY SECRETE”J. Spatafora, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA

10:15 - 10:45WED 14 | RESHAPING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF “RARE” FUNGI: PHYLOGENOMIC ANALYSES OF THE KICKXELLALES DEMONSTRATE ADDITIONAL DIVERSITYN. Reynolds, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA




11:00 - 11:30WED 3 | DRUGS, BUGS, AND FUNGAL PLUGS: PSYCHOACTIVE PLANT- AND MUSHROOM-ASSOCIATED ALKALOIDS FROM TWO BEHAVIOR MODIFYING CICADA PATHOGENSM. Kasson, West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA

11:30 - 12:00 WED 4 | WHAT MAKES A ZOMBIE ANT TICK? AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH TO UNDERSTAND FUNGUS-INDUCED BEHAVIORAL MANIPULATIONC. de Bekker, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA

12:00 - 12:30WED 5 | A DIFFERENT FUNGUS IN EVERY POCKET: UNEXPECTED SYMBIONT DIVERSITY AND MYCANGIUM DIVERSITY SUGGEST SYMBIONT SWITCHING IN THE AMBROSIA BEETLE TRIBE XYLOTERINIC. Mayers, Iowa State University, Ames, USA

11:00 - 12:30SYMPOSIUM 6: GENEALOGY OF LIFE -- FUNGAL BIOLOGY AT THE INTERSECTION OF SYSTEMATICS, GENOMICS, ECOLOGY, AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Meridian CD

Session Chair(s): Jana U'Ren & Jason Stajich


11:00 - 11:30 WED 15 | EVOLUTION AND COMPARATIVE GENOMICS OF ZYGOMYCETE FUNGIY. Wang, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, USA

11:30 - 12:00WED 16 | MACROEVOLUTIONARY ANALYSES OF FRUITING BODY FORMS AND NUTRITIONAL MODES IN AGARICOMYCETES BASED ON AN 8500-SPECIES PHYLOGENYM. Sánchez-García, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

12:00 - 12:30WED 17 | A GLOBAL APPROACH TO INFORMING THE PEZIZOMYCOTINA TREE OF LIFE VIA ENDOPHYTIC FUNGI: PHYLOGENETIC INTEGRATION OF GENOMIC, SYMBIOTIC, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND PHYSIOLOGICAL DATA LAYERSA. Arnold, School of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA




13:30 - 14:00 WED 6 | GENOMIC INSIGHTS INTO THE INSECT-FUNGUS INTERACTIONS, USING THE EXAMPLE OF DIPTERA GUT SYMBIONTS—HARPELLALESY. Wang, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, USA

14:00 - 14:30 WED 7 | POTENTIAL NEW RESERVOIR HOSTS: A STUDY WITH OPHIDIOMYCES OPHIODIICOLA AND NANNIZZIOPSIS GUARROIS. Gentry, Department of Botany, Univeristy of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

14:30 - 15:00 WED 8 | LOOKING FOR TRUFFLES: EXPLORING SYMBIOTIC MYCOPHAGY IN TWO BIRDS ENDEMIC TO PATAGONIAM. Caiafa, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

15:00 - 15:30 WED 9 | HEART ROT HOTEL 2: A SYNTHESIS OF THE SYMBIOSES BETWEEN FUNGI AND WOODPECKERS ACROSS NORTH AMERICAM. Jusino, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

13:30 - 15:15 ECOLOGY, CONSERVATION, & CLIMATE CHANGE (IV) Pathways RoomSession Chair(s): Mia Maltz

13:30 - 13:45WED 18 | SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIATION IN DUST-ASSOCIATED FUNGI AND BACTERIA ALONG AN ELEVATION GRADIENT IN CALIFORNIA’S SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINSM. Maltz, UC Riverside, Riverside, USA

13:45 - 14:00 WED 19 | HOW FIRE AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL DRIVERS INFLUENCE SOIL FUNGAL COMMUNITIES IN PRAIRIES OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWESTH. Soukup, Southern Nevada Environmental Inc., Las Vegas, USA

14:00 - 14:15WED 20 | MAPPING THE DISTRIBUTION OF EMERGING PATHOGEN COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS USING ONE HEALTH SURVEILLANCE IN WASHINGTON STATEA. Salamone, Washington State Department of Health, Tumwater, USA

14:15 - 14:30WED 22 | COMMUNITY COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE OF SUBMERGED DETRITUS INHABITING FUNGI ACROSS TEMPERATE PEATLAND AND STREAM HABITATSD. Raudabaugh, Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, USA

14:30 - 14:45 WED 23 | THE INFLUENCE OF LONG-TERM GLYPHOSATE USE ON FUNGAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITION AND DECOMPOSITION CAPABILITIESJ. Cappellazzi, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA


14:45 - 15:00 WED 24 | TROPHIC SKEW IN BELOWGROUND FUNGAL COMMUNITIES OF CULTIVATED COFFEE AND NATIVE RUBIACEAEL. Aldrich-Wolfe, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, USA

15:00 - 15:15 WED 25 | METAGENOMIC STUDY OF SOIL FUNGAL COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATED WITH SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE EXOTIC PINE FORESTSR. Vilgalys, Duke University, Durham, USA

13:30 - 15:15 SYSTEMATICS & BIODIVERSITY (IV) Think 4 RoomSession Chair(s): Ricardo Garcia-Sandoval

13:30 - 13:45 WED 26 | THE MYCOFLORA OF MEXICOR. Garcia-Sandoval, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico.

13:45 - 14:00 WED 27 | ALLODUS PROSTII COMB. NOV., CAUSAL AGENT OF TULIP RUSTS. Ullah, Hazara University, Mansehra, Pakistan

14:00 - 14:15 WED 28 | DEVELOPMENT OF A MACHINE LEARNING-BASED MUSHROOM APP FOR REAL-TIME IMAGE CLASSIFICATIONE. Bae, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

14:15 - 14:30 WED 29 | THE RICE BLAST FUNGUS AND ALLIED SPECIES: A MONOGRAPH OF THE FUNGAL ORDER MAGNAPORTHALESJ. Luo, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA

14:30 - 14:45WED 30 | TARGET CAPTURE OF ULTRACONSERVED ELEMENTS FROM FOUR CLASSES OF LICHENIZED ASCOMYCOTA – TARGETING THE FUNGAL SYMBIONTS FOR PHYLOGENOMIC INFERENCEV. Doyle, Louisiana State University AgCenter, Baton Rouge, USA

14:45 - 15:00 WED 31 | XYLARIALES OF THE BOSTON HARBOR ISLANDSR. Vandegrift, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA

15:00 - 15:15WED 32 | LEAFING OUT THE TREE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: MORPHOLOGICAL, TAXONOMIC AND PHYLOGENETIC INVESTIGATIONS OF INSECTIVOROUS OOMYCOTAW. Martin, Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, USA

13:30 - 15:15 POPULATION BIOLOGY, GENOMICS, & EVOLUTION (I) Think 5 RoomSession Chair(s): Marisol Sánchez-García

13:30 - 13:45 WED 33 | AN INSIGHT ON THE NUCLEAR DIVERSITY IN A SINGLE SPORE OF ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL FUNGIM. Sánchez-García, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

13:45 - 14:00 WED 34 | EXPLORING FOLIAR FUNGAL ENDOPHYTE ASSEMBLAGE, DIVERSITY, AND HOST SPECIALIZATION IN PINEJ. Sarver, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, USA

14:00 - 14:15WED 35 | POPULATION GENOMIC INSIGHTS INTO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF NON-NATIVE GOLDEN OYSTER MUSHROOMS (PLEUROTUS CITRINOPILEATUS) IN THE UNITED STATESA. Bruce, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, La Crosse, USA

14:15 - 14:30 WED 36 | POPULATION GENOMICS OF TOXINS BETWEEN INVASIVE AND NATIVE RANGES OF AMANITA PHALLOIDESS. Harrow, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA

14:30 - 14:45WED 37 | INVESTIGATING PATTERNS OF HD1 AND HD2 MATING GENE DIVERSITY THROUGH SPACE AND TIME: INSIGHTS ON HOW MATING SYSTEM INFLUENCES INVASION AND VICE VERSA IN AMANITA PHALLOIDESH. Elmore, Harvard University, Dept of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, USA


14:45 - 15:00 WED 38 | EVOLUTION OF HEAVY METAL TOLERANCE IN A MYCORRHIZAL FUNGUSA. Bazzicalupo, Montana State University, Bozeman, USA

15:00 - 15:15 WED 39 | SUPERGENE CONVERGENT EVOLUTION IN FUNGAL MATING-TYPE CHROMOSOMESS. Branco, Montana State University, Bozeman, USA




16:00 - 16:30 WED 10 | THE MYCOBIOME OF BATS: CRITICAL INFORMATION FOR UNDERSTANDING AND MANAGING WHITE-NOSE SYNDROMED. Lindner, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Center for Forest Mycology Research, Madison, USA

16:30 - 17:00 WED 11 | PHYLOGENETIC RECONSTRUCTION OF THE LABOULBENIOMYCETESD. Haelewaters, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

17:00 - 17:30WED 12 | THE ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION OF ANIMAL ASSOCIATIONS IN HYPOCREALES, A SYNTHESIS OF PHYLOGENETIC DATASETS ACROSS THE ORDERR. Kepler, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, USA

16:00 - 18:00 INTERACTIONS WITH OTHER ORGANISMS (II) Pathways RoomSession Chair(s): Brian Looney

16:00 - 16:15 WED 40 | RECONSTRUCTING THE CORE ECTOMYCORRHIZAL COMMUNITY OF POPULUS TRICHOCARPAB. Looney, Duke University, Durham, USA

16:15 - 16:30 WED 41 | EXOTIC DECAY FUNGUS INVADES QUIETLY ON THE WINGS OF TINY BEETLESJ. Skelton, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

16:30 - 16:45 WED 42 | EVIDENCE OF MULTIPLE EVOLUTIONARY ORIGINS OF BEETLE-FARMED DECAY FUNGIM. Jusino, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

16:45 - 17:00 WED 43 | TOURING WITH TRICHOMYCETES: A MAGICAL TIME TO MASTER MYCOLOGICAL MYSTERIES IN MOSQUITOESM. White, Boise State University, Boise, USA

17:00 - 17:15 WED 44 | SIGNALING FROM BELOW: RODENTS SELECT FOR DEEPER FRUITING TRUFFLES WITH STRONGER VOLATILE EMISSIONSR. Stephens, University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA

17:15 - 17:30 WED 45 | SURVEY OF FUNGAL PATHOGENS IN PATTOKI, HUB OF NURSERY FARMING IN PAKISTANA. Ishaq, University of veterinary and Animal Sciences-Lahore, Pattoki, Pakistan

17:30 - 17:45WED 46 | ENGAGING WITH THE DRY FARMING COLLABORATIVE TO ASSESS THE EFFICACY OF TRICHODERMA HARZIANUM FUNGAL ENDOPHYTES TO IMPROVE YIELD OF DIVERSE CROPS IN WATER-LIMITED FARMING SYSTEMSL. Nebert, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA

17:45 - 18:00 WED 47 | INFLUENCE OF HOST PHYLOGENY AND LEAF CHEMISTRY ON FOLIAR ENDOPHYTIC COMMUNITIES OF QUERCUSJ. U'Ren, The University of Arizona, Tucson, USA


16:00 - 17:45 SYSTEMATICS & BIODIVERSITY (V) Think 4 RoomSession Chair(s): Rachel A. Koch

16:00 - 16:15 WED 48 | PHYLOGENOMICS OF ECTOMYCORRHIZAL GENERA SUGGEST THAT SOME MAY HAVE A COMMON, ANCIENT ORIGIN IN NORTHERN GONDWANAR. Koch, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

16:15 - 16:30 WED 49 | PYROPHILOUS FUNGI: WIDESPREAD COMMUNITIES AND NOVEL LIFE STAGESP. Matheny, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

16:30 - 16:45 WED 50 | NEW ZEALAND RUST FUNGI: UPDATES AND RECENT ADDITIONSM. Padamsee, Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research, Auckland, New Zealand

16:45 - 17:00WED 51 | MULTILOCUS PHYLOGENIES AND MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSES REVEALED NEW AND PREVIOUSLY DESCRIBED GANODERMA SPECIES IN SOUTH AFRICAM. Coetzee, Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology (BGM), Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

17:00 - 17:15 WED 52 | THE MYCOPORTAL: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTUREA. Miller, Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, USA

17:15 - 17:30 WED 53 | TEACHING ON FUNGAL DIVERSITY IN THE TROPICSM. Piepenbring, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

17:30 - 17:45 WED 54 | MORPHOLOGY IN THE AGE OF MOLECULAR TECHNIQUESS. Adamcik, Plant Science and Biodiversity Centre, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia

16:00 - 17:30 POPULATION BIOLOGY, GENOMICS, & EVOLUTION (II) Think 5 RoomSession Chair(s): Catalina Salgado-Salazar

16:00 - 16:15 WED 55 | NOVEL SPECIES-SPECIFIC MARKERS FOR THE DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATION OF PSEUDONECTRIA BUXI AND P. FOLIICOLA FROM BOXWOODC. Salgado-Salazar, United States Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Research Service, Beltsville, USA

16:15 - 16:30 WED 56 | A GENOME ATLAS OF THE ECTOMYCORRHIZAL GENUS SUILLUS: A MODEL FOR FUNGUS-PLANT MUTUALISM BELOWGROUNDN. Nguyen, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, USA

16:30 - 16:45 WED 57 | GENETIC DIVERSITY OF ENDOPHYTES INFLUENCED BY HOST POPULATION STRUCTURE AND HISTORICAL CLIMATE REGIMESR. Oono, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, USA

16:45 - 17:00 WED 58 | PHYLOGENOMIC ANALYSES OF OLPIDIUM REVEAL HARD POLYTOMIES OF THE BACKBONE OF KINGDOM FUNGIY. Chang, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, College of Agricultural Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA

17:00 - 17:15 WED 59 | LICHEN MICROBIOMES: HOW MUCH DO WE KNOW AND WHAT’S NEXT?M. Dal Forno, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA

17:15 - 17:30 WED 60 | HUMAN MEDIATED SECONDARY CONTACT BETWEEN AMPHIBIAN-KILLING CHYTRID STRAINS PRODUCES AN F2 HYBRIDT. Jenkinson, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, USA

18:00 - 22:00 MSA SOCIAL, AUCTION, & STUDENT AWARDS Meridian Ballroom


AAchilonu, Conrad TUES 27Adamcik, Slavomir WED 54Adams, Catharine MON 35Adams, Gerard POSTER B71Adams, Sarah POSTER B62Adebola, Matthew Omoniyi MON 44Adongbede, Erute M. MON 62Aldossari, Nouf MON 36Aldrich-Wolfe, Laura WED 24Alex, Bryce POSTER B26Alfiky, Alsayed POSTER B22Alvarez, Lourdes MON 33Alvarez-Manjarrez, Julieta TUES 15Amses, Kevin TUES 24Anderson, Claire POSTER A56Anderton, Christopher MON 32Apigo, Austen TUES 20Arnold, A. Elizabeth WED 17Asher, Olivia POSTER B57Aspenson, Sabrina MON 55Autumn, Kendra POSTER A39

BBabb-Biernacki, Spenser POSTER B7Bae, Euiwon WED 28Bailes, Graham POSTER A29Bayman, Paul TUES 28Bazzicalupo, Anna POSTER B69, WED 38Beker, Henry POSTER B8Berbee, Mary TUES 10Bergmann, Gillian POSTER A40Biango-Daniels, Megan MON 41Billingsley Tobias, Terri TUES 30Bivins, Christopher POSTER B37Blackwell, Meredith POSTER 85Bledsoe, Regina A. POSTER A58Blue, Shazneka POSTER A50Bonito, Gregory POSTER B51Bradshaw, Alexander POSTER B49Branco, Sara WED 39Branine, Margaret POSTER A35Brann, Mia POSTER A17Brown, Marley POSTER A57Brown, Shawn MON 3Bruce, Andrea TUES 2, WED 35Bruns, Thomas TUES 8Buland, Megan TUES 31Bumby, Caitlin R. POSTER A32Burrill, Haley POSTER B48Bushley, Kathryn WED 2

CCafaro, Matias POSTER B21Caiafa, Marcos V WED 8Cantonwine, Emily POSTER A71Cantrell, Sharon A. MON 1Cappellazzi, Jed WED 23

Carr, Erin POSTER B63Carter, Dee TUES 37Castano, Jesus MON 59Castillo Gonzalez, Humberto TUES 16Castillo, Buck POSTER A53Castro-Ross, Ayanna POSTER B39Castroagudin, Vanina POSTER B74Cerrato, Jesse MON 39Certano, Amanda POSTER A23Chang, Ying WED 58Chittenden, Jairus POSTER B11Coetzee, Martin P.A. WED 51Colon Rosario, Carla POSTER B58Commer, Blake TUES 41Cotter, Henry Van T. POSTER B6Courtney, Abigail MON 67Cripps, Cathy MON 5Cubeta, Marc A. POSTER B67Cutler, Dalley POSTER A64

DDal Forno, Manuela WED 59Davis, William J POSTER A8de Bekker, Charissa WED 4Delevich, Carolyn POSTER A26DeMers, Mara MON 45Dentinger, Bryn T. M. TUES 6Dianese, Jose MON 23Dirks, Alden C. POSTER B65Doyle, Vinson P. WED 30Duncritts, Nora MON 16Dobsicek Trefna, Hana TUES 17, TUES 24Donlon, Padraig WED 37Dunne, Michael THUR 12

EElmore, Holly WED 37Elya, Carolyn WED 1Enright, Dylan POSTER B42Enriquez, Vincent MON 42Escarpita Gomez, Melissa POSTER B60Escudero, Efrain MON 15Esquivel Benjamin, Silenze POSTER A14

FFarid, Arian TUES 25Faulkner, Alexai POSTER A31Feliciano, Elizabeth POSTER A7Ferrer, Astrid MON 9Fischer, Monika MON 30Fox, Sam MON 2Frewert, Austin POSTER A49Furneaux, Brendan TUES 19

PRESENTING AUTHOR INDEX


GGarcia-Aroca, Teddy MON 31Garcia-Sandoval, Ricardo WED 26Gazis, Romina POSTER A30Gdanetz, Kristi POSTER A69Geiser, David TUES 12Geisler, Mathew POSTER B20, POSTER B35Gentry, Savannah WED 7Gervers, Kyle POSTER A41Gill, Allison POSTER A54Glaeser, Jessie A. POSTER A11Glasco, Alexander D POSTER A67Glassman, Sydney MON 7Gonzalez, Maria C POSTER B59Gonzalez-Rosario, Karleen POSTER A55Goulet, Benoit B. POSTER B66Graham, Stuart POSTER A25Grupe, Arthur TUES 23Gryganskyi, Andrii TUES 4Gutiérrez, Marcelo MON 10

HHaarith, Deepak TUES 34Haelewaters, Danny MON 40, WED 11Hall, John POSTER A10Hamm, Paris POSTER B5Hansen, Paige MON 50Harrow, Samantha WED 36Hassett, Brandon MON 8Heitman, Joseph TUES 9Held, Benjamin MON 54Henkel, Terry POSTER A15, POSTER A16Herath, Indunil MON 24Hernandez, Yassel POSTER A51Honan, Amy POSTER B13Hudon, Aimée MON 17Hughes, Karen MON 4Hume, John POSTER B18

IIshaq, Aamna WED 45Ismert, Kyle POSTER A42Iturriaga, Teresa POSTER B43, POSTER B44

JJenkinson, Thomas WED 60Johannesson, Hanna TUES 1Jones, Robert POSTER B19Jones, Tina POSTER B55Jumbam, Blaise POSTER A13, POSTER B24Jumpponen, Ari POSTER A48Jusino, Michelle WED 42, WED 9

KKaishian, Patricia POSTER B54Kasson, Matt WED 3Kaur, Harwinder MON 29Kazarina, Anna MON 47Ke, Yi-Hong POSTER B17Keller, Megan POSTER A22Keller-Pearson, Michelle POSTER A46

Kennedy, Aaron H. POSTER B53Kepler, Ryan WED 12Kernaghan, Gavin POSTER B29, POSTER B30Kiran, Munazza TUES 26Kluting, Kerri POSTER A70Koch, Rachel A. WED 48Koko, Jerry POSTER B23Kollu, Naga Venkatesh TUES 38Konkel, Zachary POSTER A38Kraisitudomsook, Nattapol POSTER B10Kurbessoian, Tania POSTER B64

LLan, Nan POSTER B3, POSTER B4Landis, Elizabeth MON 38Lange, Lene MON 63Le Renard, Ludovic MON 51LeBlanc, Nicholas POSTER A3Liang, Junmin POSTER B15Liber, Julian POSTER B52Linares-Alamo, Nanyrka M. POSTER A60Lindner, Daniel TUES 5, WED 10Litvintseva, Anastasia TUES 3Liu, Jingyu POSTER B16LoBuglio, Katherine POSTER B40Lofgren, Lotus MON 66Long, Alison POSTER B31Longcore, Joyce POSTER A1Longley, Reid POSTER A47Looney, Brian WED 40Luo, Jing WED 29

MMacias, Angie M. MON 25Mafune, Korena MON 48Maillard, François MON 19, POSTER A59Maltz, Mia WED 18Manamgoda, Dimuthu POSTER A61, TUES 22Mann, Andrew TUES 32Mann, Michael POSTER B32Marr, Christian POSTER A63Martin, W. Wallace WED 32Masonjones, Sawyer POSTER A4Matheny, Patrick WED 49Mayers, Chase WED 5McDonald, Tami POSTER A79Mehmood, Asif TUES 35Mejia, Jacqueline TUES 14Meyer, Matthew POSTER A37Mielke, Louis POSTER B46Mighell, Kennan POSTER A18Miller, Andrew N. WED 52Mino, Laura MON 20Mitchell, James TUES 39Miyamoto, Mika POSTER B9Moore, Geromy MON 60Moran, Molly POSTER A62Mouriño-Pérez, Rosa TUES 40Mujic, Alija POSTER B70Myers, Jillian POSTER A74


NNadathur, Ramanujam POSTER A76Naranjo-Ortiz, Miguel A. MON 68Narayanan, Achala POSTER A45Ndinga Muniania, Cedric POSTER A43Nebert, Lucas WED 46Nelsen, Matthew MON 22Newman, Danny POSTER A20Nguyen, Nhu WED 56Nichols, John POSTER B33Noel, Zachary POSTER B25Noffsinger, Chance MON 26

OO’Donnell, Kerry TUES 21O’Mara, Sean POSTER A78Oita, Shuzo MON 49Oliveira, Caue POSTER A21Omiotek, Nicolle POSTER B14Oono, Ryoko WED 57Ordoñez, Maria E. POSTER A80Orris, Kylie POSTER A75Ortiz, Viviana POSTER B75

PPadamsee, Mahajabeen WED 50Pardo-De la Hoz, Carlos J. POSTER B50Pasquali, Matias POSTER A65Patev, Sean POSTER B12Patterson, Taylor R. POSTER A27Pawlowska, Teresa TUES 11Pellitier, Peter MON 46Peña, Jesús F. POSTER B72Pfister, Donald H. POSTER 85Picard, Kathryn MON 12Piepenbring, Meike WED 53Pinchi-Davila, Xiomy-Janiria MON 52Pitt, John MON 37Pombubpa, Nuttapon TUES 29Powers, Rob MON 64Pringle, Anne TUES 7Pulido-Chavez, Martha POSTER B38Pérez-Pazos, Eduardo MON 28

RRaudabaugh, Daniel WED 22Reynolds, Nicole WED 14Riquelme, Meritxell MON 13Romero-Jiménez, María-José MON 53Roy, Bitty TUES 13Russell, Stephen MON 56

SSabuda, Mary POSTER A66Salamone, Amy WED 20Salgado-Salazar, Catalina WED 55Sarver, Jake WED 34Savchenko, Kyryll POSTER A9Schauster, Annie POSTER B41Schilling, Jonathan POSTER B68Scott, Kelsey POSTER A6

Semenova-Nelsen, Tatiana MON 6Shahrtash, Maryam MON 18Shay, Jackie POSTER A44Shay, Rebecca POSTER A72, POSTER A73Shevlin, Dennis POSTER B76Shinge, Phakade TUES 42Showalter, David POSTER A5Simmons, Rabern POSTER A2Simpson, Hunter POSTER B45Skaltsas, Demetra POSTER A77Skelton, James WED 41Smyth, Christopher MON 11Soukup, Hannah WED 19Spatafora, Joey WED 13Stephens, Ryan WED 44Strom, Noah TUES 33Swenie, Rachel POSTER A12Szabo, Les J. POSTER B73Sánchez-García, Marisol WED 16, WED 33

TTabima, Javier MON 34, POSTER B27Taylor, John W. POSTER A81Taylor, Lee MON 14Torres Cruz, Terry POSTER A36Tremble, Keaton POSTER A24Tucker, Avery TUES 17

UU’Ren, Jana M. WED 47Udayanga, Dhanushka POSTER B56Ullah, Sadiq WED 27Urbina, Hector MON 43

VValero-David, Guillermo POSTER A34Van Wyk, Judson POSTER A19Vande Pol, Natalie POSTER B36Vandegrift, Roo WED 31Varga, Torda POSTER B77Vega, Yaisha MON 57Victoroff, Claudia MON 21Vilgalys, Rytas WED 25Visser, Noelle POSTER A28

WWalker, Allison POSTER B28, POSTER B61Wang, Xinxin POSTER B2Wang, Yan WED 15, WED 6Watson, Monica TUES 18White, Merlin WED 43Will, Ian POSTER A33Witte, Thomas MON 58

XXu, Tingying MON 61

zZhang, Jiwei MON 65Zhang, Yanmei POSTER A52


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Those who have time between conference sessions will find a variety of fun and interesting things to see and do. Restaurants, for example: looking beyond hotdish, lutefisk, and food on a stick, you’ll find James Beard Award-winning chefs and locally owned restaurants that advocate and enact sustainable, local food production residing beside eateries that proudly refuse to do so. World-class museums and theaters including the Walker Art Center and Guthrie Theater compete with dozens of local art and performance venues such as the Minnesota Center for Book Arts and Jungle Theater. We also know how to get around: in 2010, Bicycling Magazine voted Minneapolis the country’s most bikeable city, which is not too shabby for a city that endures (celebrates) seven-month-long winters. We are also serious about our sports teams. In spring this means the Minnesota Twins, the Minnesota United FC, and the St. Paul Saints. Attendees joined by families will appreciate the Twin Cities’ many picturesque parks and canoe-friendly lakes, the Science Museum, the Bakken Museum (electricity!), the nearby Mill City Museum (flour!), and the Children’s Museum. And yes, we also have the Mall of America.

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TIME SATURDAY, AUGUST 10 SUNDAY, AUGUST 11 MONDAY, AUGUST 12

8:00-8:30

FORAY (CEDAR CREEK ECOSYSTEM

SCIENCE RESERVE)

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS SHARON CANTRELL(MERIDIAN BALLROOM)8:30-9:00

9:00-9:15

DECIFR WORKSHOP(56 RAPSON

HALL)

MSA COUNCIL MEETING

(PATHWAYS)

15-MINUTE AM BREAK (MERIDIAN FOYER)

9:15-9:45SYMPOSIUM 1: FIRE-CREATED

LANDSCAPE MOSAICS AS A DRIVER OF FUNGAL DIVERSITY

(MERIDIAN AB)

SYMPOSIUM 2: NEW APPROACHES TO STUDYING MARINE FUNGAL

DIVERSITY (MERIDIAN CD)

9:45-10:15

10:15-10:45

10:45-11:00 15-MINUTE AM BREAK (MERIDIAN FOYER)

11:00-11:30SYMPOSIUM 1: FIRE-CREATED

LANDSCAPE MOSAICS AS A DRIVER OF FUNGAL DIVERSITY

(MERIDIAN AB)

SYMPOSIUM 2: NEW APPROACHES TO STUDYING MARINE FUNGAL

DIVERSITY (MERIDIAN CD)

11:30-12:00

12:00-12:30

12:30-13:00BUFFET LUNCH (PINNACLE BALLROOM)

13:00-13:30

13:30-14:00

ECOLOGY, CONSERVATION,

& CLIMATE CHANGE (I)

(MERIDIAN AB)

SYSTEMATICS AND

BIODIVERSITY (I) (PATHWAYS)

METABOLISM, COMMUNICATION,

AND OTHER PHYSIOLOGICAL

ACTIVITIES (I) (THINK 4)

FOOD & INDUSTRIAL MYCOLOGY (THINK 5)

14:00-14:30

14:30-15:00

15:00-15:30

REGISTRATION OPEN

(THE GRADUATE, SECOND FLOOR

FOYER)

15:30-16:00 30-MINUTE PM BREAK (MERIDIAN FOYER)

16:00-16:30 ECOLOGY, CONSERVATION,

& CLIMATE CHANGE (II)

(MERIDIAN AB)

SYSTEMATICS AND

BIODIVERSITY (II) (PATHWAYS)

METABOLISM, COMMUNICATION,

AND OTHER PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES (II)

(THINK 4)

MOLECULAR GENETICS &

FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS (THINK 5)

16:30-17:00MYCOFLORA WORKSHOP

(THINK 4)17:00-17:30 STUDENT

SECTION MEETING

(PATHWAYS)17:30-18:00

POSTER SESSION A (GRADUATE)18:00-18:30

MSA OPENING RECEPTION(PINNACLE BALLOOM)

18:30-19:00

19:00-19:30

UMYCONET AND ALUMNI SOCIAL

(THINK 4)

MYCOLOGIA EDITORS BOARD

MEETING (THINK 3)

STUDENT SOCIAL (PATHWAYS)

19:30-20:00

20:00-20:30

20:30-21:00

21:00-21:30

21:30-22:00

SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE


SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE

TIME WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14

8:00-8:30

CHESTNUT GAVEL SESSION (DISTINCTION AWARDS & BUSINESS) (MERIDIAN BALLROOM)

8:30-9:00

9:00-9:30


9:45-10:15 SYMPOSIUM 5: ANIMAL -

ASSOCIATED FUNGI — FROM PARASITISM TO MUTUALISM

(MERIDIAN AB)

SYMPOSIUM 6: GENEALOGY OF LIFE — FUNGAL BIOLOGY AT THE INTERSECTION OF SYSTEMATICS,

GENOMICS, ECOLOGY, AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

(MERIDIAN CD)10:15-10:45


11:00-11:30 SYMPOSIUM 5: ANIMAL -

ASSOCIATED FUNGI — FROM PARASITISM TO MUTUALISM

(MERIDIAN AB)

SYMPOSIUM 6: GENEALOGY OF LIFE — FUNGAL BIOLOGY AT THE INTERSECTION OF SYSTEMATICS,

GENOMICS, ECOLOGY, AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

(MERIDIAN CD)

11:30-12:00

12:00-12:30


13:00-13:30

13:30-14:00SYMPOSIUM 5: ANIMAL-

ASSOCIATED FUNGI — FROM PARASITISM TO

MUTUALISM (MERIDIAN AB)

ECOLOGY, CONSERVATION,

& CLIMATE CHANGE (IV) (PATHWAYS)

SYSTEMATICS AND

BIODIVERSITY (IV)

(THINK 4)

POPULATION BIOLOGY,

GENOMICS, AND EVOLUTION (I)

(THINK 5)

14:00-14:30

14:30-15:00

15:00-15:30


16:00-16:30SYMPOSIUM 5: ANIMAL-

ASSOCIATED FUNGI — FROM PARASITISM TO

MUTUALISM (MERIDIAN AB)

INTERACTIONS WITH OTHER

ORGANISMS (II)(PATHWAYS)

SYSTEMATICS AND

BIODIVERSITY (V) (THINK 4)

POPULATION BIOLOGY,

GENOMICS, AND EVOLUTION (II)

(THINK 5)

16:30-17:00

17:00-17:30

17:30-18:00

18:00-18:30

MSA SOCIAL, AUCTION, & STUDENT AWARDS(MERIDIAN BALLROOM)

18:30-19:00

19:00-19:30

19:30-20:00

20:00-20:30

20:30-21:00

21:00-21:30

21:30-22:00

TIME TUESDAY, AUGUST 13

8:00-8:30KARLING LECTURE - HANNA JOHANNESSON

“CONFLICT AS A MOTOR FOR EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE: INSIGHTS FROM THE FUNGAL GENOMES”

(MERIDIAN BALLROOM)8:30-9:00


9:15-9:45SYMPOSIUM 3: OH, THE

PLACES YOU'LL GO – CAREER OPPORTUNITIES IN MYCOLOGY

(MERIDIAN AB)

SYMPOSIUM 4: NOTHING IN MYCOLOGY MAKES SENSE...BUT

JOHN TAYLOR HELPED EXPLAIN IT (MERIDIAN CD)

9:45-10:15

10:15-10:45


11:00-11:30SYMPOSIUM 3: OH, THE

PLACES YOU'LL GO – CAREER OPPORTUNITIES IN MYCOLOGY

(MERIDIAN AB)

SYMPOSIUM 4: NOTHING IN MYCOLOGY MAKES SENSE...BUT

JOHN TAYLOR HELPED EXPLAIN IT (MERIDIAN CD)

11:30-12:00

12:00-12:30


13:00-13:30

13:30-14:00ECOLOGY,

CONSERVATION, & CLIMATE

CHANGE (III) (MERIDIAN AB)

SYSTEMATICS AND

BIODIVERSITY (III)

(PATHWAYS)

INTERACTIONS WITH OTHER

ORGANISMS (I) (THINK 4)

CELLULAR & DEVELOPMENTAL

BIOLOGY (THINK 5)

14:00-14:30

14:30-15:00

15:00-15:30


16:00-16:30

POSTER SESSION B (GRADUATE)16:30-17:00

17:00-17:30

17:30-18:00 BUSES TO BELL MUSEUM

18:00-18:30

SCIENCE, HISTORY, AND OUTREACH RECEPTION (BELL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY)

18:30-19:00

19:00-19:30

19:30-20:00

20:00-20:30

20:30-21:00

21:00-21:30

21:30-22:00


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MSA 2020 will be held July 20-24 in Gainesville, FL at the Hilton Conference Center on the edge of the University of Florida campus.

Check msafungi.org for finalized dates and more information.


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