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Announcing the 2008 Annual Mycological Society of America Meeting 48 Inoculum 59(2), March 2008 10 – 13 August, 2008 State College, Pennsylvania MSA FORAY: Sunday, 10 August THREE FULL SESSION DAYS: Monday – Wednesday, 11-13 August SOCIAL AND AUCTION: Wednesday, 13 August For information on all aspects of the upcoming meeting please go to the MSA Website and follow the links: http://www.msafungi.org/ IMPORTANT DATES: Registration: Early deadline for registration is April 15, 2008. Abstract submission: The deadline for abstract submission is April 15, 2008, for contributed presentations and posters. We look forward to seeing you at Penn State. Please check the MSA website for continually updated meeting and foray information and for links to our meeting registration, housing, and abstract submission sites.
MNRC 2008 Award for Best Student Poster Christopher D. Crabtree from the University of Central Missouri received the MNRC 2008 Award for best student poster. The Missouri Natural Resources Conference (MNRC) was held at Tan-Tar-A Resort, Osage Beach, at Lake of the Ozarks, in central Missouri, January 30 to February 1, 2008. Graduate student Christopher D. Crabtree from the University of Central Missouri (UCM) was honored with the award for best student poster by the Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) Missouri Chapter. This award is given annually for the best student poster and is based upon biological/ecological significance and importance, experi- mental design, and poster aesthetics. This award carries with it a one year membership to SCB and a one year subscription to Conservation or Conservation Biology, SCB’s publications. Christopher also won the honor of best graduate student poster at the Central Scholars Symposium at UCM in April of 2007 for preliminary results of his research. His research and MNRC poster are entitled “Macrofungi and myxomycetes associated with specific community types of Ha Ha Tonka State Park, Missouri”. Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Spring Workshop in Mycology On behalf of the University of Toronto, I am pleased to invite you to attend the relaunched Great Lakes- St. Lawrence Spring Workshop in Mycology, to be held on April 26 and 27, 2008 at the University of Toronto, Chestnut Street Conference Centre in Toronto. The format we are planning for this meeting will follow that of its predecessors, with registration beginning Saturday morning at 8-10 AM followed by a program of 15 min oral presentations, lunch, and more oral presentations, concluding at 4 pm. We are planning an optional group dinner and keynote address on Saturday evening. The workshop will conclude with a final session of oral presentations from 9 am ending at noon on Sunday. Details including a preliminary program, registration information, accommodation options John W. Rippon Fellowship in Medical Mycology John W. Rippon is among the foremost medical mycologists of our time, having written seven books and more than 80 scientific publications on medical mycology. John was among the first mycologists to see the importance in fungi that infected people, and he also is an excellent field mycologist—a very rare combination of qualities. He was honored by the Mycological Society of America as a Distinguished Mycologist in 1996. John grew up in Toledo, Ohio and showed scientific promise at an early age, winning a Westinghouse Scholarship for Science. John received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1959. After teaching at Loyola University of Chicago for a few years, he became a professor at the University of Chicago Department of Medicine, where he researched from 1963-1989. Besides overseeing the mycology diagnostic lab there, he taught courses in medical mycology, medical microbiology, and dermatology. During that time, he was also a guest Professor at Hines VA Hospital in John W. Rippon —Harold W. Keller haroldkeller@hotmail.com will follow shortly. This is an excellent opportunity for you and your students to showcase new and interesting research within our local mycology community. In other words, please send us a couple of talk titles - we need you on our program! I recognize that April is not far off, but do hope that you will be able participate. I would greatly appreciate it if you could provide Agatha Blancas with confirmation of your planned attendance, and we will include you on the workshop mailing list (agatha.blancas@utoronto.ca, 416-978- 5883). Thank you very much. —James Scott james.scott@utoronto.ca Chicago, where he was an Infectious Disease faculty consultant. Dr. Rippon was much sought after throughout the world for his expertise, lecturing in a “couple dozen” countries on every inhabited continent, including almost every country in South America. Dr. Rippon’s recognition of the value in studying medically important fungi became very important in the early 1980’s because of the combination of several immunosuppressive issues: the AIDS epidemic became apparent, and various clinical therapies such as corticosteroid therapy and chemotherapy became available—thus the incidence of human fungal infection skyrocketed. During that time Dr. Rippon wrote the first major textbook on medically important fungi. By the time the third edition of “Medical Mycology: the pathogenic fungi and the pathogenic actinomycetes” was published in 1988, it had become the gold standard for medical mycology throughout the world, translated into Spanish and Polish (and Continued on following page Inoculum 59(2), March 2008 49
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