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Mycological Resources on the Internet: Directories
Agriculture Canada Eastern Cereals & Oilseeds Research Centre
         Ontario, Canada.
American Bryological and Lichenological Society
         A society devoted to the study of lichens and mosses.
American Phytopathological Society
         The web site of the American Phytopathological Society (APSnet) includes many resources of interest to plant pathologists, including abstracts of articles in APS journals, lists of APS publications, and an index of common names of plant diseases.
American Society of Plant Taxonomists
         This site includes the ASPT newsletter, and information about the ASPT journal Systematic Botany, and Systematic Botany Monographs.
Arizona Mushroom Club (USA)
         A mushroom club for the residents of Arizona, USA. The pages include Scott Bates' images of mushrooms from Nicaragua, morel information, and information on edible and poisonous Arizona mushrooms.
ARS Biocontrol of Plant Diseases Laboratory
         The web pages of the USDA-ARS Plant Disease Biocontrol Laboratory (Beltsville, MD, USA) provide answers to frequently asked questions on plant disease biocontrol, links to related sites, and information about staff and their programs.
ARS Cereal Disease Laboratory
         Information on diseases of cereals, especially rusts, as well as information on research and extension are provided for this USDA lab in Minnesota, USA. The site provides high-quality information on rust life cycles, rust resistance, the Puccinia pathway, and alternate hosts. The lab also provides access to its extensive literature databases on cereal rusts, karnal bunt, and Fusarium Head Blight (scab).
ARS Plant Protection Research Unit
         This unit of the USDA's Agricultural Research Service specializes in plant protection, with foci on insect biocontrol, virology, nematology, and plant metabolites. The pages include the catalogs of the ARSEF collections of entomopathogenic fungi (New York, USA).
Ascomycete Research group of Oslo
         Norway (ARON).
ASM: Medical Mycology Division
         A division of the American Society for Microbiology that focuses on fungi that are pathogens of humans.
Asociación Micolóxica Cogumelo (Spain)
         A society of mycophiles in Spain.
Associació Micològica Joaquim Codina (Spain)
         An association of mycologists in Spain.
Association of British Fungus Groups (U.K.)
         An umbrella organization for British fungal enthusiasts.
Associazione Micologica Bresadola (Italy)
         An Italian mycological society.
Australasian Mycological Society
         The web site of the AMS includes information on conferences, membership information, and a table of contents for their journal, Australasian Mycologist.
Australasian Plant Pathology Society
         Information on the APPS its newsletter, APPS News, and its journal, Australasian Plant Pathology.
Berbee's Fungal Evolution Lab
         Laboratory of Dr. Mary Berbee at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Berkshire Mycological Society (USA)
         A mycological society in Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA. Home of the blue Amanita.
Biology of Filamentous Fungi
         The program for the biology of filamentous fungi (PBOFF) is at Texas A & M University (USA).
Björn Nordén's web pages
         Göteborg University, Sweden
Boston Mycological Club (USA)
         Website of the Boston Mycological Club (Massachusetts, USA) and the BMS Bulletin.
British Columbia Ectomycorrhizal Research Network
         BCERN presents an online version of the 1996 book, Manual of Concise Descriptions of North American Ectomycorrhizae. The descriptions are augmented with photomicrographs to aid identification. The BCERN newsletter is also available.
British Lichen Society
         The British Lichen Society provides information on membership, as well as on lichens in churchyards and on manmade surfaces, a list of lichens of the British Isles, and a key to Parmelia species.
British Mycological Society0
         The BMS's web pages include meeting and foray information, and information on their fine journals: Mycological Research, The Mycologist, and Field Mycology.
British Society for Plant Pathology
         The BSPP Web page includes information on the Society, the BSPP Newsletter, and a host of other resources.
Bruns Lab web pages
         Laboratory of Dr. Tom D. Bruns, University of California at Berkeley, USA. Copies of many of Dr. Bruns' papers are available. A database of DNA sequences to facilitate identification of ectomycorrhizal fungi is available through these pages. The database was described by Bruns et al. in Molecular Ecology 7: 257-272 (1998) and has been recently updated.
CABI Bioscience Homepage
         CABI Bioscience (U.K) incorporates the former International Mycological Institute and the International Institute for Biological Control. CABI provides fabulously massive databases. These include the classification from the Dictionary of the Fungi, FunIndex and Species2000 (two global fungal taxonomy and nomenclature initiatives), and the CABI culture collection (IMI). Information is also provided on CABI's mycological publications.
Canadian Phytopathological Society
         The web pages of the Canadian Phytopathological Society include information on membership, meetings, back issues of the newsletter, and information on publications.
Candida albicans information
         This Candida albicans page has information on genetics, DNA sequences, biosynthetic pathways, the Candida News electronic newsletter, a directory of researchers' email addresses, and more.
Caribbean Mycorrhizal Research Net (CARIVAM)
        
Cascade Mycological Society (OR, USA)
         A society of mycophiles based in Eugene, OR (USA).
Central New York Mycological Society (USA)
         Website of the Central New York Mycological Society (USA), including its newsletter, the Fungal Gazette.
Cercle des Mycologues de Montréal (Canada)
         An association of mycologists in Québec, Canada.
Chapela Lab
         The laboratory of Iganacio Chapela at the University of California at Berkeley, USA.
Collection Managers Online
         An online directory of curators, herbarium and museum directors, and keepers of natural history collections.
Colorado Mycological Society (USA)
         Website of the CMS and its newsletter, Spores Afield.
Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection
         A research and education center in Australia.
Cornell Center for Fungal Biology
         The CCFB is building a database of fungal diversity at the Lindsay-Parsons Biodiversity Preserve in Central New York, including images. The Preserve is owned by the Finger Lakes Land Trust.
Danish Mycological Society
         This Danish society provides indices to the journals Svampe and Friesia, lists of taxa known from Denmark and a "red list" of rare fungi.
Danish Technical University Mycology lab
         Mycology at the Danish Technical University in Denmark.
David Largent's web pages
         Humboldt State University, California, USA.
David Porter's laboratory
         Website of Dr. David Porter's lab at the University of Georgia (USA).
David Sylvia's home page
         Soil microbiology at the University of Florida, USA. Dr. Sylvia provides an extensive literature database on mycorrhizal fungi, and a glossary of soil microbiology terms, among other useful things.
Dennis Desjardin's web pages
         Dennis Desjardin is a professor at San Francisco State University (California, USA). His web pages include links to his projects, classes, and
Dept. of Forest Mycology and Pathology, SLU, Uppsala, Sweden
        
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Mykologie e.V. (Germany)
         Web pages of the German Mycological Society.
Dr. Fungus
         Dr. Fungus provides a thorough introduction to fungi that impact human health. There is plentiful information on fungal pathogens of humans, diagnosis of the diseases they cause, and discussions of treatments and patient resources (this site was formerly called FungusWeb).
Duke University Mycology Research Unit (DUMRU)
         A group devoted to studying medically important fungi, in particular Cryptococcus neoformans, cause of cryptococcosis in humans.
Edible mycorrhizal mushrooms: directory of researchers
         A directory of researchers interested in edible mycorrhizal mushrooms.
Evgenia V. Bogomolova, personal homepage
        
Expert Center for Taxonomic Information (ETI)
         ETI develops information systems, and promotes knowledge in taxonomy and biodiversity. ETI maintains a directory of expert taxonomists across all disciplines (add your name!).
Fédération des associations mycologiques méditerranéennes (FAMM)
         A group of 23 mycological associations in Mediterranean Europe.
Forest Mycology and Mycorrhiza Research Team
         Corvallis, Oregon, USA
Forest Mycology and Mycorrhiza Research Team
         The home page of this US Forest Service unit in Corvallis, OR includes a searchable interface to their mycological herbarium, literature databases for sequestrate fungi and truffles, and information on edible forest mushrooms.
Forsburg Lab pombe pages
         Laboratory of Susan Forsburgh at the Salk Institute, USA, specializing in Schizosaccharomyces pombe genetics.
Fred Spiegel's web pages
         These pages describe Fred Spiegel's research on protostelids and slime molds. They includes a key to protostelid genera.
Fungal and Soil Ecology Lab
         Laboratory of John Klironomous at the University of Guelph, Canada.
Fungal Diversity Research Project
         Website of Dr. Kevin Hyde's research group in the department of Ecology and Biodiversity, Hong Kong University. Contact information is also provided for the culture collection HKUCC and the herbarium HKU(M).
Fungal Mitochondrial Genome Project
         Laboratory of B. Franz Lang at the University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Fungi to be with
         A club for mushroom-lovers that sponsors walks and gatherings near London, U.K. Their e-zine, Mycophile, is available by subscription.
Fusarium
         These pages include abstracts from the 8th International Fusarium Workshop (U.K.), news of the next workshop, and links of interest to Fusarium workers.
Gesellschaft für Mykologie und Lichenologie e.V., Sektion Mykologie der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft (Germany)
         A German association of mycologists and lichenologists.
Grampian Fungus Group (U.K.)
         A mycological association in North East Scotland, the United Kingdom.
Greg Thorn's web pages
         HoHome (web pages devoted to Hohenbuehelia, a cute pleurotoid mushroom), images of tropical fungi, and a description of Dr. Thorn's research on fungal biodiversity from his lab at the University of Western Ontario (Canada).
Grupo Micológico "Caesaraugusta" (Spain)
         Grupo Micológico "Caesaraugusta", de Zaragoza, Spain. The pages include some lovely photos of mushrooms, plus links, articles (including one on the moon and mushrooms), and information on the group's activities and library (in Spanish).
Gruppo Micologico G. Bresadola (Italy)
         This Italian society of mycophiles presents their beautifully illustrated newsletter, "Bollettino del Gruppo Micologico G. Bresadola - Nuova Serie" (see the special issues on Amanita and Xerocomus), and a lovely annotated image gallery of mushrooms that is a must-see.
Gruppo Micologico-Naturalistico (Italy)
         Italy.
Gulf States Mycological Society (USA)
         A group of mycophiles in the south-eastern US.
Herbaria Online
         A directory of plant and fungus herbaria including snail mail and email contact information. A search interface is also available.
Hynes-Davis Lab
         The Hynes-Davis lab (Australia) focuses on amdS regulation.
Igor Malcevski's Home Page
        
Inst. Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas (IVIC) Mycology Lab
         The web pages of the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (in English and Spanish) include a presentation on the study of medically important fungi in Latin America.
Institute of Microbiology
         Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Instituto de Genetica Forestal
         The fungi of Veracruz, Mexico are illustrated on this site. Technical descriptions of selected species form the series Funga Veracruziana (in Spanish. I particularly recommend the site for its images of stinkhorns (Phallales).
International Association for Plant Taxonomy
         The IAPT is an association of botanists, mycologists and lichenologists who collectively determine the rules by which plants and fungi are named. See also their journal, Taxon.
International Association of Lichenologists
         The IAL publishes a regular newsletter, and provides a directory of members.
International Mycological Association (IMA)
         On the web pages of the International Mycological Association can be found information about congresses and other meetings, as well as publications and biodiversity initiative information.
International Society for Human and Animal Mycology
         A society based in the United Kingdom and devoted to the study of medical and veterinary mycology.
International Society for Mushroom Science
         A nonprofit organization that promotes mushroom cultivation and research.
ISPP World Directory of Plant Pathologists
         A searchable directory of plant pathologists, worldwide.
John Taylor's lab
         The Laboratory of Dr. John Taylor at the University of California at Berkeley, USA.
Kanto Branch of the Mycological Society of Japan
        
Kaw Valley Mycological Society (USA)
         An association of mycophiles in Kansas, USA.
Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, Mycology
        
L'Association Mycologique de Toulouse (France)
         An association of mycophiles from Toulouse, France. Their website includes foray information, information on poisonings and membership.
Laboratory of Biochemistry of Wood-rotting Fungi
         Czech Republic.
Latin American Association for Mycology
         The homepage of the ALM (Asociación Latinoamericana de Micología) includes a directory of members.
Le Cercle de Mycologie de Mons (Belgium)
         An association of mycologists in Belgium. Their web pages include their bulletin, Miscellanea Mycologica.
Leif Ryvarden's homepage
         Leif Ryvarden's home page includes links to keys to polypores (in Norwegian).
Lichenologist Directory
         A directory of lichenologists maintained by the International Assocation of Lichenologists.
Lichenologists and Mycologists directory
         A directory of Lichenologists' and mycologists' e-mail addresses.
Linköpings Svampklubb (Sweden)
         Home page of the Linkoeping Mycological Club, Sweden.
Lisa Vaillancourt's lab
         Laboratory of Dr. Lisa Vaillancourt, specializing in Colletotrichum genetics at the University of Kentucky, USA.
Los Angeles Mycological Society (USA)
         The newsletter of the Los Angeles Mycological Society is called the Spore Print.
LUBILOSA
         Biological control of locusts and grasshoppers (Africa), and including information on GREEN MUSCLE, a biocontrol agent based on the fungus Metarhizium anisopliae.
Maine Mycological Association (USA)
         USA.
Marko Vitas' home page
         Ljubljana, Slovenia
Meredith Blackwell's home page
         Laboratory of Dr. Meredith Blackwell at Louisiana State University, USA.
Michael J. Wingfield's pages
         Laboratory of Dr. Michael Wingfield at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.
Michigan Mushroom Hunters' Club (USA)
         The State of Michigan (USA) is famous for its morels, but lots of other mushrooms grow there too. Recent issues of the MMHC newsletter "Spores Afield" are available through this page.
Mushroom Experiment Station
         The Mushroom Experiment Station in Horst (Netherlands) provides expertise on all areas of commercial mushroom cultivation. Their site provides descriptions of their research projects and services.
Mushroom Experimental Station
         The Netherlands.
Mushroomers Online
         Mushroomers Online is an informal, annotated directory of (mostly American) mushroom enthusiasts.
Mycological Association of Washington, D.C.
         A group of mycophiles in America's capital.
Mycological Society of America
         The web page of the Mycological Society of America includes information on activities and officers of the society, searchable abstracts of annual meetings, and membership information. Links are provided to the official MSA journal, Mycologia; the MSA newsletter, Inoculum; a directory of MSA members; and the MSA Bulletin board, MSAPOST.
Mycological Society of America Directory
         A directory of members of the Mycological Society of America. Also accessible through the MSA home page.
Mycological Society of San Francisco (USA)
         California, USA.
Mycological Society of Toronto (Canada)
         The website of this society in Ontario, Canada includes their newsletter, "Mycelium."
Mycologists Online
         A comprehensive international listing of email addresses for mycologists, collections, societies, maintained by Pavel Lizon and Erast Parmasto.
Mycology Research Group, Technical University of Denmark
         Mycology Research Group at the Department of Biotechnology, Technical University of Denmark.
Myconet Umeå
         University of Umeå, Sweden.
Mycorrhizae Research Group
         The University of The West Indies, Barbados.
MycorWeb
         Forest Microbiology and Ectomycorrhizae Lab (I.N.R.A.), France.
Mycotoxin homepage
         A unit of the US Dept. of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service that focuses on mycotoxin research. 3-dimensional molecular structures of a few mycotoxins produced by molds are available here.
Myxomycologists: world directory
         A directory of Myxomycologists (studiers of slime molds) worldwide.
National Morel Mushroom Hunters' Association (USA)
         A site devoted to morel hunting in the USA.
Natural History Museum of Fribourg
         Switzerland.
Natural Science Collections Alliance
         The Natural Science Collections Alliance (formerly the Association of Systematics Collections) provides information on their publications, meetings, and other data of interest to curators of herbaria and other collections.
Netherlands' Mycological Society (NMV)
         The web pages of the Nederlandse Mycologische Vereniging are available in English and in Dutch.
New Jersey Mycological Association (USA)
         A society of mushroom hunters in New Jersey, USA.
New Mexico Mycological Society (USA)
         A soceity of mycophiles in the state of New Mexico, USA.
New York Mycological Society (USA)
         The mycological society of New York City.
Norsk Soppforening (Norway)
         A mycological society in Norway.
North American Mycological Association
         NAMA is a great group for amateur mycologists. It provides a national mushroom poisoning registry, sponsors an annual foray, and publishes a fine annual journal, McIlvainea, and a bimonthly newsletter, The Mycophile. Also available through NAMA are suggestions for teaching K-12 students about fungi, and other tidbits.
North Idaho Mycological Association (USA)
         Website of NIMA and its newsletter, Spores and Stipes (USA).
North West Fungus Group (U.K.)
         Website of the North West Fungus Group (England), including their newsletter.
Northern Ireland Fungus Group (U.K.)
         A group of mycophiles in Northern Ireland provide these pages including Fascinating Fungus Facts, lists and forays for Irish fungi.
Ohio Mushroom Society (USA)
         THe Ohio Mushroom Society's website includes their newsletter, The Mushroom Log.
Oregon Mycological Society (USA)
         A society of mycophiles based in Portland, OR (USA).
Oresund Mycology School
         The Oresunds Mykologiskole is a collaboration of several Scandinavian universities.
Palouse Mycological Society (USA)
         An association of mycophiles in Washington state, USA.
Peter Febbroriello's pages
         Peter's pages include information on fungi in caves and on his methods for oyster mushroom cultivation.
Pfaffia rhodozyma page
         This site at the Universidad de Chile is devoted to the basidiomycetous yeast Pfaffia rhodozyma.
Phycomyces
         The Phycomyces web site provides information on phototropism and its genetic basis in the mucoralean fungus Phycomyces, as well as links to related sites and a directory of Phycomyces researchers.
Phylogenetic Mycology Group, Umeå University
         Web pages of Ove Eriksson's lab, Sweden.
Plant Taxonomists Online
         An online directory of plant taxonomists, including a few mycologists and lichenologists.
Puget Sound Mycological Society (USA)
         The Puget Sound Mycological Society (Washington, USA) publishes a newsletter called Spore Prints.
Puggehatten - Skånes Mykologiska Förening
         Puggehatten - Scanian Mycological Society.
Purbeck Fungus Group (U.K.)
         An association of mycophiles in the United Kingdom.
R. A. Chilton's Web page
        
Richard Summerbell's web pages
         Dr. Summerbell's pages include his publications on the detection and control of indoor molds that potentially cause indoor air problems and perhaps sick building syndrome. Publications dealing with identification of poisonous mushrooms are also included.
Root Biology and Mycorrhiza research group
         Laboratory of Dr. Larry Peterson at the University of Guelph, Canada.
Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
         The Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne Australia maintain a nice set of pages on fungi. Their catalog of Australian fungi, linked to specimen data and synonymy, complements FungiMap, a guide to species distributions. A series of fungal fact sheets is being developed.
Rytas Vilgalys' lab
         Laboratory of Dr. Rytas Vilgalys at Duke University, USA.
Safrinet
         A cooperative African effort to build resources in microbial systematics.
Scottish Crop Research Inst.: Fungal Plant Pathology
         Scotland.
Snohomish County Mycological Society (USA)
         A group of mycophiles in Washington, USA. Their newsletter, The Mushroomer is also online.
Société Mycologique de Strasbourg (France)
         An association of mycophiles from Strasbourg, in northeastern France. Their website includes foray information, tables of contents of their newsletter, and a useful introduction to microscopy (in French).
Societat Catalana de Micologia
         This website of a Catalan mycological club includes copious information about mushrooms.
Societe Mycologique de Baume-les-Dames (France)
         Website of the Societe Mycologique de Baume-les-Dames (France).
Society for Invertebrate Pathology
         Fungal diseases of insects and kin and biological control are among the subjects that unite the members of the Society for Invertebrate Pathology.
Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections
         An association devoted to the preservation and management of natural history collections.
Soil Ecology and Restoration Group
         SERG is directed of Dr. Leroy McClenaghan, San Diego State University, USA.
SOMA: Sonoma County Mycological Association (USA)
         An assocation of mycophiles in California, USA. Their site includes a substantial listing of literature of use in mushroom identification.
Steve Newell's web pages
         University of Georgia, USA.
Susquehanna Valley Mycological Society (USA)
         The SVMS is a group of mycophiles in south central New York (USA).
Swedish Mycological Society
         (Sveriges Mykologiska Föreing).
Taxonomic Resources and Expertise Directory
         TRED is a growing directory of American taxonomists that is searchable by field of expertise. It is maintained by the Association of Systematics Collections.
Teikyo University Institute of Medical Mycology
         The home pages of TIMM include images of human pathogens, and an abstract on PCR-mediated diagnosis of mycoses (Japan).
The Dictyostelium Virtual Library
         Those studying cellular slime molds like Dictyostelium and Polysphondylium spp. will find a home on the Dictyostelium Virtual Library. Services include a directory of email addresses, databases of DNA sequences, a literature database, and the Dicty News. European users might try the European mirror site.
The Edible Mycorrhizal Mushroom Research Group
         The research group of Eric Dannell at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences will be of interest to those studying Cantharellus (chanterelles), and other edibles.
Tom Harrington's Lab
         Dr. Harrington's lab at Iowa State University (USA) studies forest pathogens in various creative ways.
Tom Volk's web pages
         One stop shopping for mycology. These pages feature a "fungus of the month" column, with entertaining text and nice photos, in addition to a plethora of other information about fungi. Tom is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, USA.
Tree Pathology Cooperative Programme
         South Africa.
University of Tübingen: Botany and Mycology
         Research group of Dr. Franz Oberwinkler, Germany.
University of Tennessee Mycology Labs
         Drs. Ron Petersen and Karen Hughes maintain a nice set of web pages that include a primer on Botanical Nomenclature, a synopsis of molecular phylogenetic techniques. These pages also provide an important resources on color standards used by mycologists: a synopsis of Fries' color terminology, and a concordance of colors in the Ridgway and Methuen color handbooks. Lots of information is also provided on the projects of staff and students.
University of Toronto, St. George Campus: Mycology
         The Laboratory of Dr. David Malloch (and colleagues) at the University of Toronto, St. George Campus, Canada.
Uredinologists Worldwide
         A world directory of biologists who study rust fungi (Uredinales), including summaries of their research interests.
Vancouver Mycological Society (Canada)
         The website of this British Columbia, Canada mycological society includes excerpts from their newsletter, "Mycofile."
Verein für Pilzkunde Thurgau (Switzerland)
         A group of mycophiles in Switzerland.
Virginia Tech Mycology Lab
         Research on the ecology and taxonomy of basidiomycetous fungi in Orson K. Miller's laboratory, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA.
Vladimir Mikes' web pages
         Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Western Montana Mycological Association (USA): Fungal Jungal
         The Western Montana Mycological Association maintains this nice site. It includes photos of Montana mushrooms, recipes, an oyster mushroom cultivation project, a mushroom "trunk" for teachers, a morel information site, and information on the WMMA's current activities.
Willamette Valley Mushroom Society (USA)
         The website of this mushroomers society in Oregon (USA) includes their newsletter, The Puffball.
Yeast Researchers directory
         A directory of yeast researchers, worldwide.
Zolan Lab
         Coprinus genetics in Indiana, USA.
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