Humboldt Field Research Institute and Eagle Hill Foundation
PO Box 9, 59 Eagle Hill Road
Steuben, ME 04680-0009 USA
Phone: 207-546-2821
FAX: 207-546-3042
office@eaglehill.us
Advanced Mycology: Fungi and their associates

August 26-31, 2003
Do you long for a field biology experience?

This seminar is designed for students who have a basic knowledge of fungi who wish to develop additional skills in identification, microscopic examination, and biology of fungi and their associates in a specialized habitat. While not exclusively devoted to dung as a habitat we will use dung samples extensively to study fungi and associates of fungi.  The seminar will allow the opportunity to study selected fungi in-depth in the field and in the lab. Students will develop a better understanding of fungal biology and systematics, the important roles fungi play in ecosystem dynamics, and the importance of detailed field studies. Taking advantage of field collected material, each student or group of students will work on an independent project starting the first class day. Inquirires regarding project ideas are welcomed ahead of time.

Instructors:
Donald H. Pfister, Asa Gray Professor of Systematic Botany at Harvard University, Director of the Harvard University Herbaria and Curator of the Farlow Reference Library and Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany. He teaches mycology and lichenology at Harvard.  He also has designed a course for non-science majors on the Biology of Trees and Forests. His research involves the systematics, phylogeny, and biology of a group of Ascomycota, the Discomycetes.

Meredith Blackwell, Boyd Professor at Louisiana State University.  She teaches courses in mycology and the biology of fungi. She has been interested in many different groups of fungi, primarily those associated with insects.  Current research in her laboratory involves the discovery and investigation of the basis for the associations of more than 200 undescribed species of yeasts that live in the gut of beetles. She coauthored with C.J. Alexopoulos and C.W. Mims the current edition of Introductory Mycology.
 
2002 checklist 2003 checklist
BASIDIOMYCOTA
BOLETES
Boletus badius
Boletus bicolor
Boletus edulis
Boletus luridus
Boletus subgrabripes
Boletus subvelutipes
Suillus neoalbidipes
Tylopilus chromatapes
Tylopilus fellius
AGARICALES
Agrocybe acericola
Amanita brunnescens
Amanita cecilia
Amanita frostiana
Amanita fulva
Amanita porphyria
Amanita rubescens
Amanita vaginata
Amantia muscaria
Cantharellus cibarius
Collybia dryophila
Collybia strictipes
Cortinarius evernius (?)
Crepidotus applanatus
Crepidotus mollis
Gomphus floccosus
Heboloma sp.
Hygrophorus cantharellus
Hygrophorus ceracea
Hygrophorus marginatus var. concolor
Hygrophorus parvula
Inocybe sp.
Lactarius camphoratus
Lactarius lignyotis
Marasmius rotula
Mycena leaiena
Nolanea conica
Panus stipticus
Pluteus seticeps
Rickenella fibula
Rozites caperata
Russula albonigra
Russula atropurpurea
Russula brevipes
Russula claroflava
Russula desifolia
Russula palidosa
Telamonia sp.
APHYLOPHORALES
Cerenea unicolor
Fomes applanatus
Fomes fomentarius
Fomes igniarius
Phaelous schweinitzii
Polyporus varius
Pycnoporus cinnabarinus
Sterrichium ochracea
Thelephora terrestris
Trametes hirsuta
Trichaptum biforme
GASTEROMYCETES
Lycoperdon sp.
Sphaerobolus stellata
JELLY FUNGI
Tremella sp.
Dacramyces sp.
CORAL FUNGI
ASCOMYCOTA
PYRENOMYCETES
Daldinia concentrica
Hypoxylon sp.
Podospora sp.
Xylaria sp.
DISCOMYCETES
Ciboria peckii
Hyalocypha intacta
Mollisia sp.
Orbilia delicatula
Pachyella babingtonii
Scutellinia scutellata
ASEXUAL ASCOMYCETES
Aureobasidium sp.
MYXOMYCOTA
OOMYCOTA
Saprolegnia sp.