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CONSTANTINE JOHN ALEXOPOULOS


First job --Searching for peach yellows with the Illinois Natural History Survey, Circa 1932.	CJA (far right) and students at Austin, Texas. Left to right, Judy Tontz Elzey, Wallace M. Lestourgeon, Janet Winstead, Charles Mims, Robert Koehn, and Meredith Blackwell, Circa 1965.	Four editions and many translations (Spanish, German, Arabic, Chinese) of Introductory Mycology

Constantine John Alexopoulos (from his CURRICULUM VITAE 31 DECEMBER 1976 with additions from Web of Science)

Born: Chicago, Illinois, 17 March 1907, of Greek parents
Parents: John Constantine and Chrysoula (Panagopoulou)
Address: Department of Botany, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712 (work) 917 Calithea Road, Austin, Texas 78746, U.S.A. (home)
Citizenship: Dual citizenship: U.S.A., Greek
Height: 5 ft. 9 inch. (1.51 meters)
Weight: 194 lbs. (88+ kilograms)
Marital status: Married, Juliet Catherine Dowdy, August 26, 1939. No children.
Died: Austin, Texas, 15 May 1986

Elementary: Palladion School, Athens, Greece
Intermediate: First Hellenic School, Athens, Greece
High School: Second Gymnasium, Piraeus, Greece
Lane Technical High School, Chicago, Illinois. Diploma (June 1923)
University of Illinois – Urbana, B.S. in Agriculture (honors) (June 1927) (Major: Horticulture, Minor: Entomology)
University of Illinois – Urbana, M.S. in Horticulture (Pomology) (June 1928) Thesis: Cytological Studies in Certain Raspberry Crosses. (Major Professor: Maxwell J. Dorsey)
University of Illinois --Urbana , Ph.D. in Botany (Mycology) (June 1932) Thesis: A Comparative Study of Certain Pycnidial Fungi from Vitis. (Major Professor: Frank Lincoln Stevens)

1932-34     Part time teaching assistant, University of Illinois - Urbana
1934-35     Instructor in Botany, University of Illinois - Urbana
1935-36     Instructor in Biology, Kent State University
1936-40     Assistant Professor, Kent State University
1940-43     Associate Professor, Kent State University
1947-52     Professor of Botany, Michigan State University
1952-56     Professor of Botany, Michigan State University
1956-62     Professor of Botany, University of Iowa
1962-76     Professor of Botany, University of Texas at Austin
1967           (Summer) Visiting Professor, University of Virginia Biological Station, Mt. Lake, Virginia
1969           (Summer) Visiting Professor, University of Virginia Biological Station, Mt. Lake, Virginia
1970           (Summer) Visiting Professor, University of Washington

1938-39     Director, Phytopathological Laboratory, Institute of Chemistry and Agriculture “Nicolaos Canellopoulos”, Piraeus (Drapetsona), Greece
1946-47     Deputy Director, Division of Agriculture and Fisheries, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) – Greece Mission. Athens
1956-62     Head, Department of Botany, University of Iowa
1964-65     Acting Chairman, Department of Botany, University of Texas at Austin

1943-44 Field Technician, U.S. Government, Rubber Development Corporation, Amazon Valley, Brazil.
1944-46 Agricultural Rehabilitation Officer, UNRRA, Greece Mission.

University of Illinois   (1)
Kent State University    (1)
Michigan State University    (4)
University of Iowa    (4)
University of Texas at Austin    (6)

Michigan State University    (4)
University of Iowa    (6)
University of Texas at Austin    (18)

University of Texas at Austin (1)

Mycological Society of America (Life Member) [Secretary-Treasurer 1954-56, Vice President 1957, President-Elect 1958, President 1959, Councilor 1967-1968
Botanical Society of America [President 1963]
British Mycological Society 1953-
Mycological Society of Japan 1971-1976
International Mycological Association [President 1971-1977]
Mycological Society of India 1971-1976
Torrey Botanical Club 1941-1976
Sigma Xi 1927-1976 [President Iowa Chapter 1959]

Mycological Society of America Newsletter 1954-56 (Editor)
Britonnia, Editorial Board Member (1963-1966)
Lloydia, Editorial Board Member (1962-1970)

American Type Culture Collection, Member Board of Trustee (1966-1971)
American Type Culture Collection, Member Advisory Committee on Fungi (1966-1971)
National Research Council, Member (1966-1971)
Advisory Panel, Systematic Biology Program, National Science Foundation Member (1962-1964)

Alpha Zeta (agricultural honorary society), Member 1927
Sigma Xi, scientific honorary society, Associate Member, 1927; full member 1932.
Scholar in Horticulture, University of Illinois 1927-28.
Fellow in Botany, University of Illinois 1931-32
Fulbright Senior Research Fellow, University of Athens 1954-55.
Botanical Society of America Certificate of Merit 1967
Nineteenth Annual Lecturer, Mycological Society of America 1968
Fourth Annual Bessey Lecturer, Iowa State University 1971
Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1976

Who’s Who in America (Permanent Listing)
International Blue Book (1973-74)
American Men and Women of Science (since 1955)
Who’s Who in the World, 3rd Edition (1976-77)

1952, 1962   Alexopoulos, C.J. Introductory Mycology, ed. 1, 2. John Wiley & Sons, New York, London, New Delhi, Islamabad, Tokyo.
1952, 1962   Alexopoulos, C.J. and E. S. Beneke. Laboratory Manual for Introductory Mycology, ed. 1, 2. Burgess Publishing Co., Minneapolis.
1966 Spanish translation of Introductory Mycology by A. P. L. Digilio. Editorial Universitaria, Buenos Aires.
1966   German translation of Introductory Mycology (Einfürung in die Mykologie) by Marie L. Farr. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart.
1967    Alexopoulos, C. J. and H. C. Bold. Algae and Fungi. Macmillan Co., New York.
1968   Gray, W. D. and C. J. Alexopoulos. The Biology the Myxomycetes. Ronald Press, New York.
1969   Martin, G. W. and C. J. Alexopoulos. The Myxomycetes. University of Iowa Press, Iowa City.
1979    Alexopoulos, C. J. and C. W. Mims. Introductory Mycology, ed. 3.
1983    Martin, G. W., C. J. Alexopoulos and M. L. Farr. The Genera of the Myxomycetes.
1968   Arabic translation of Introductory Mycology by Mustapha Abdul Aziz and Shefie S. Kanen. Costa Tsumas, Cairo.
1973   Persian translation of Introductory Mycology by Ebrahim Behdad, University of Tehran Press, Tehran.

1934     Alexopoulos, C. J. and J. J. Drumond. Resistance of fungous spores to low temperatures. Transactions of the Illinois Academy of Sciences 26:23.
1935     Alexopoulos, C. J. Gloeosporium leaf spot, a serious disease of orchids. Phytopathology 25:435-437.
1938    Alexopoulos, C. J., R. Arnett, and A. V. McIntosh. Studies In antibiosis between bacteria and fungi. Ohio Journal of Science 38:221-235.
1940     Alexopoulos, C. J. Some fungi from Greece. Mycologia 32: 336-358.
1941     Alexopoulos, C. J. Studies in antibiosis between bacteria and fungi. II. Ohio Journal of Science 41:425-430.
1942     Alexopoulos, C. J. and J. A. Herrick. Studies in antibosis between bacteria and fungi III. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 69:257-261.
1942    Herrick, J. A. and C. J. Alexopoulos. A further note on the nitrogen metabolism of Stereum gausapatum. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 69:109-111.
1942     Herrick, J. A. and C. J. Alexopoulos. Thiamine production by Actinomyces viridochromogenous. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 69:569-572.
1943     Herrick, J. A. and C. J. Alexopoulos. A further note on the production of thiamine by Actinomyces. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 70:369-371.
1948     Alexopoulos, C. J., and Donald Cation. Stem-end rot of strawberries. Phytopathology 38:698-706.
1949     Alexopoulos, C. J. and E. E. Butler. Conidium-like structures in Plectania coccinea. Mycologia 41:180-182.
1950     Alexopoulos, C. J. and Sung H. Sun. A new species of Gelasinospora. Mycologia 42:723-734.
1952     Alexopoulos, C. J. and E. S. Beneke. New records of Myxomycetes from Michigan. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 38:3-7.
1952     Alexopoulos, C. J., and Donald Cation. Gnomonia fragariae in Michigan. Mycologia 44:221-223.
1953     Alexopoulos, C. J. Myxomycetes developed in moist chamber culture on bark from living Florida trees; with notes on an undescribed species of Comatricha. Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Science 16:254-262.
1954     Alexopoulos, C. J. and E. S. Beneke. A new species of Comatricha from Jamaica. Mycologia 46:245-247.
1954     Alexopoulos, C. J. and E. S. Beneke. Myxomycetes from Jamaica. Transactions of the British Mycological Society 37:306-313.
1954     Sun, Sung H., C. J. Alexopoulos, and G. B. Wilson. A cytotaxonomic study of three species of Gelasinospora. Cytologia 19:255-264.
1956     Wilson, G. B. and C. J. Alexopoulos. Spontaceous mutation in Gelasinospora calospora a homothallic fungus. Mycologia 48:685-689.
1958     Alexopoulos, C. J. Three new species of Myxomycetes from Greece. Mycologia 50:52-56.
1959     Alexopoulos, C. J. Myxomycetes from Greece. Brittonia 11:25-40.
1959     Alexopoulos, C. J. The laboratory cultivation of Stemonitis. American Journal of Botany 46:140-142.
1960     Alexopoulos, C. J. Morphology and laboratory cultivation of Echinostelium minutum. American Journal of Botany 47:37-43.

1960 Alexopoulos, C. J. Gross morphology of the plasmodium and its possible significance in the relationships among the Myxomycetes. With portrait of the author. Mycologia 52:1-20. (Presidential Address to the Mycological
Society of America).

1961     Alexopoulos, C. J. A new species of Echinostelium from Greece. American Midland Naturalist 66:391-394.
1962     Alexopoulos, C. J. and G. G. Zabka. Production of hybrids between physiological races of the true slime mold Didymium iridis. Nature 193:598-599.
1962     Alexopoulos, C. J., G. G. Zabka, and W. R. Lazo. Non-transfer of materials between plasmodia of different species of Myxomycetes. Mycopathologia et Mycologia Applicata 16:262-270.
1963     Alexopoulos, C. J. The Myxomycetes II. Botanical Review, 29:1-78. (Invitational paper)
1964     Alexopoulos, C. J. The rapid sporulation of some Myxomycetes in moist chamber culture.   Southwestern Naturalist 9:155-159.
1964     Wollman, Constance and C. J. Alexopoulos. Spore to spore cultivation in agar culture of three Myxomycetes: Comatricha laxa, Perichaena depressa, and Licea biforis. Southwestern Naturalist 9:160-165.
1964     Alexopoulos, C. J. The white form of Physarella oblonga. Mycologia 56:550-554.
1965    Alexopoulos, C. J.   First list of Myxomycetes form Texas, with notes on some rarely reported species. Southwestern Naturalist 10:221-226.
1967 Alexopoulos, C. J. Taxonomic studies in the Myxomycetes. I. The genus Macbrideola. Mycologia 59:103-116.
1967    Wolfman, Constance and C. J. Alexopoulos. The plasmodium of the myxomycete Licea biforis in agar culture. Mycologia 59:423-430.
1968    Alexopoulos, C. J. and Meredith Blackwell. Taxonomic studies in the Myxomycetes. II. Physarina. (Invitational contribution for the “Festschrift” for Dr. John N. Couch on his retirement). Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 84:48-51.
1968 Wollman, Constance, and C. J. Alexopoulos. Comatricha nodulifera a new myxomycete from Texas. Canadian Journal of Botany 46:157-159.
1969     Alexopoulos, C. J. The experimental approach to the taxonomy of the Myxomycetes. Mycologia 61:219-239. (Invitational Nineteenth Annual Lecture to the Mycological Society of America. Columbus, Ohio, September 5,
1968).
1969     Dillon, Mary Ann and C. J. Alexopoulos. Clavariaceous sporophores in agar culture. Mycologia 61:997-999.
1969     Storck, R.., C. J. Alexopoulos, and H. J. Phaff. Nucleotide composition of deoxyribonuleic acid of some species of Cryptococcus, Rhodotorula, and Sporobolomyces. Journal of Bacteriology 98:1069-1072.
1970     Alexopoulos, C.J. Correction. Mycologia 62:1218.
1970     Storck, R. and C. J. Alexopoulos. Deoxyribonucleic acid of fungi. Bacteriological Reviews 34:126-154.
1971     Storck, R., M. K. Nobles and C. J. Alexopoulos. The nucleotide composition of deoxyribonucleic acid of some species of Hymenochaetaceae and Polyporaceae. Mycologia 63:38-49.
1971    Reynolds, D.R. and C. J. Alexopoulos. Southeast Asian Myxomycetes. I. Thailand and Burma. Pacific Science 15:33-38.
1971    Alexopoulos, C. J. and T. E. Brooks. Taxonomic Studies in the Myxomycetes. III. Clastodermataceae: A new family of the Echinosteliales. Mycologia 63:925-928.
1971    Scheetz, R. W. and C. J. Alexopoulos. The spores of Badhamia gracilis (Myxomycetes). Transactions American Microscopical Society 90:473-475.
1971    Alexopoulos, C. J. and Mary R. Henney. Myxomycetes from Texas. II. Additions and corrections. Southwest Naturalist 16:143-150.
1973    Ellis, T. T., R. W. Scheetz and C. J. Alexopoulos. Ultrastructural observations on capillitial types in the Trichiales. Transactions American Microscopical Society 92:65-79.
1973 Ellis, T. T., D. R. Reynolds and C. J. Alexopoulos. Hülle cell development in Emericella nidulans. Mycologia 65:1028-1035.
1973    Raper, K. B. and C. J. Alexopoulos. A myxomycete with a singular myxamoebal encystment stage. Mycologia 65:1284-1295.
1975 Blackwell, M. and C. J. Alexopoulos. Taxonomic studies in the Myxomycetes. IV. Protophysarum phloiogenum, a new genus and species of Physaraceae. Mycologia 67:32-37.
1975    Alexopoulos, C. J. and J. A. Sáenz. The Myxomycetes of Costa Rica. Mycotaxon 2:223-271.
1976    Alexopoulos, C. J. Absence of capillitium as a taxonomic character in the Myxomycetes. Transactions of the British Mycological Society 66:329.
1976    Jackson, R. E. and C. J. Alexopoulos. Psilocybe cubensis (Agaricales): A comparison of Mexican and Texas types. Southwestern Naturalist 21:227-233.
1976    Scheetz, R. W. and C. J. Alexopoulos. Studies on the spores of Myxomycetes. II. Physarum straminipes. Mycotaxon 4:335-339.
1980    Henney, M.R., C.J. Alexopoulos and R.W. Scheetz 1980. Didymium atrichum, a new myxomycete from south central Texas. Mycotaxon 11:150-164.
1982    Nelson, R.K., R.W. Scheetz and C.J. Alexopoulos. 1982. Taxonomic studies in the Myxomycetes. 5. Significance of peridial and spore ornamentations in the genus Tubifera, with a revised key to the species. Mycologia 74: 541-548.

1966      Morphogenesis in the Myxomycetes in the Fungi (G. C. Ainsworth and A. S. Sussman, eds.) Vol. II, Chapt. 8, pp. 221-234. Academic Press, New York.
1970      Rain Forest Myxomycetes in A Tropical Rain Forest. (R. T. Odum, ed.) Chapter F-3: F-21-23.
1973      Myxomycetes in the Fungi (G. C. Ainsworth, F. K. Sparrow and A. S. Sussman, eds.) Vol. IV B, Chapt. 3, pp. 39-60. Academic Press, New York.
1974      Plasmodial Slime Molds in Mycology Handbook (R. B. Stevens, ed.) Chapt. 5, pp. 41-53. University of Washington. Press, Seattle.

1960 McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, Myxomycetes 8:687-688. Eurotiaceae 5:123. Eurotiales 5:123-124. Fungi 5:561-562.
1961, 1970 Encyclopedia of the Biological Sciences. editions 1, 2. The Fungi, pp. 413-416; 347-350. Myxomycetes, pp. 658-659; 591-592.
1967   Slime Molds. In Encyclopedia of Biochemistry. (R. J. Williams and E. M. Lansford, eds.) pp. 752-753.
1968   Fungi. In the 200th anniversary, 14th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. pp. 1017-1029. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., Chicago.
1974   Mycota. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15 ed. pp. 756-768. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., Chicago.

M. A. Sleigh, The Biology of Cilia and Flagella. Mycologia 56:469-470.
J. S. Karling, Synchytrium. Academic Press, New York, 1964; Mycopathologia et Mycologia Applicata 27:279-280.
A. Thompson and Gloria Lim, Laboratory Manual of Tropical Mycology and Elementary Bacteriology. University of Malaya Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1965; The Quarterly Review of Biology 41:337.
J. H. Burnett, Fundamentals of Mycology. St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1968; The Quarterly Review of Biology 41:337.
G. Turian, Différeciation Fongigue. Masson et Cie., Paris, 1969; Quarterly Review of Biology 45:201.
B. Deverall, Fungal Parasitism. St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1969; The Quarterly Review of Biology 45:407.
J. Webster, Introduction to the Fungi. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, 1970; The Quarterly Review of Biology 46:301-302.
W. H. Snell and E. A. Dick, A Glossary of Mycology. Revised Ed. Harvard University Press, Cambridge; The Quarterly Review of Biology 46:435.

1964 Alexopoulos, C. J. and J. L. Koevenig. Slime Molds and Research. American Institute of Biological Sciences, BSCS Pamphlet No. 13. 36pp.

1932     Alexopoulos, C. J. Thesis: A comparative study of certain pycnidial fungi from Vitis. (Summary) 1 p. University of Illinois, The Graduate School.
1964     Alexopoulos, C. J. Plasmodial Types. (Abstract) Xth International Botanical Congress Abstracts, No. 149.
1965     Collins, O. R., C. J. Alexopoulos, and Mary Henney. Heterothallism in three isolates of the slime mold Physarum pusillum. (Abstract) American Journal of Botany, 51:679.
1971     Alexopoulos, C. J. The Myxomycetes. (Abstract) First International Mycological Congress Abstracts, p. 5, Exeter, England.
1973     Alexopoulos, C. J. The evolution of the taxonomy of the Myxomycetes. (Abstract) International Symposium on Taxonomy of Fungi Abstracts, p. 1, Madras, India.

1939      Several non-technical articles on plant disease control. Agrotikos Tachydromos. Piraeus (In Greek).
1939      The fumigation of raisins in California. Chimika Chronika, Vol. 4, No. 4, 10 pp. (In Greek).
1954      Plant or Animal? Natural History 63:18-23.