2006-2007 - The Field Museum

Maria Lucia Kawasaki
External: Manuscript reviewer, Brittonia; Manuscript reviewer, Neobiodiversity; Manuscript reviewer, Sida
Contributions to Botany; Member, Organization for Flora Neotropica Commission.
Patrick R. Leacock
Field Museum: Project Coordinator for Fungi, vPlants.org; Member, Chicago Wilderness Science Team.
External: Scientific Advisor, Illinois Mycological Association; Contact person for mushroom cases, Illinois
Poison Center; Coordinator, Voucher Collection Committee, North American Mycological Association;
Chair, Liaison with Amateur Mycological Clubs and Societies Committee, Mycological Society of America.
H. Thorsten Lumbsch
Field Museum: Head of Cryptogams; Member, Management Committee, The Pritzker Laboratory for
Molecular Systematics and Evolution; Member, Organizing Committee, Seminar Series.
Gregory M. Mueller
Field Museum: Academic Affairs Representative, Technology Subcommittee of Board of Trustees;
Member, C&R-IT Liaison Committee; Member, Academic Affairs-ECCo/Exhibitions-Education Liaison
Committee; Member, Award of Excellence Committee; Chair, SEM Committee; Chair, Museum Multiuser
Laboratory Committee; Member, Field Museum-Monsanto Environmental Education Initiative Steering
Committee; Chair, v-PlantPlus Coordinating Group, joint Field Museum, Morton Arboretum, and Chicago
Botanic Garden project; FM-U of C-CEB Liaison for training grants; Member, Member, joint FM-U of C
Biodiversity Science Center Planning Committee; Member FM-UIC Liaison Team; Member Planning
Team for Dunes Research Summit to be held in April 2007.
External: Editor, Mycological Research, Nova Hedwigia; Editorial Board, Anales del Jardin Botanico de
Madrid; Proposal Reviewer, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Norwegian Research Council;
Manuscript Reviewer, American Journal of Botany, Antarctic Science, Lichenologist, Molecular Biology
and Evolution, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Mycologia, Mycological Research, Nova Hedwigia.
Associate Chair, Committee on Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago; Head, GAANN Steering
Committee, University of Chicago; International Coordinator, National Fungal Inventory, National Institute
of Biodiversity (INBio), Costa Rica; Member (USA representative), Fungi Specialist Group, The World
Conservation Union (IUCN) Species Survival Commission; President-Elect (January-August), President
(August-December), Mycological Society of America; Mycological Society of America Chair, Voucher
Collection Committee, North American Mycological Association; Member, Science Advisory Committee,
Illinois Chapter of The Nature Conservancy; Contact for mushroom cases, Illinois Poison Control Center;
Scientific Advisor, Illinois Mycological Association; Member, Organization for Flora Neotropica
Commission.
Christine Niezgoda
Field Museum: Member, Pest Committee; Member, Common Ground.
Richard Ree
Field Museum: Member, Science Advisory Committee; Member, Pritzker Lab Management Group;
Member, Scholarship Committee; Chair, C&R-IT Liaison Committee.
External: Member, Graduate Admission Committee; Member, Committee on Evolutionary Biology;
Manuscript reviewer, International Journal of Plant Sciences; Manuscript Reviewer, Novon; Manuscript
reviewer, Plant Systematics and Evolution; Manuscript Reviewer, Jeffress Trust.
Gayle Tonkovich
Field Museum: Member, Common Ground Committee.
External: Director, Board for the Richardson Wildlife Sanctuary, Dune Acres, IN.
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