Great Lakes - Saint Lawrence Mycology Workshop 2012

28-29 April 2012

Hosted by
Western University, Canada
Department of Biology

We are delighted to host the 2012 Great Lakes - Saint Lawrence Mycology Workshop. The Great Lakes - Saint Lawrence Mycology Workshop is a meeting of graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, and other mycological researchers from Ontario and region that has been held annually since 1981. It is an excellent forum for students to give their first conference talk, since the audience is small (50-125 registrants over the last few years), friendly, and all of the same general discipline (mycology - the study of fungi). The meetings last from noon Saturday until noon Sunday, with 15 minute talks in the afternoon and morning sessions and a Saturday evening banquet followed by a plenary lecture. We hosted this meeting here at Western last in 2002, and before that in 1994 (organized by Jim Traquair and Andre Lachance).
The meetings will be held in Western's Middlesex College Building (easily recognized by the tall pointed tower). Parking for registrants will be available at the rear of the building, off Perth Drive.

Program

Please register soon so that I can develop the program!

A haphazard selection of recent and historic presentations to GLSLMW:

• Actin functions to reinforce growing hyphal tips. Sandra L. Jackson, 1992
• Adaptation in long-term cultures of Schizophyllum commune. Travis Clark, 2002
• Assessing clonality in Penicillium spp. from household dust. James Scott, 1996
• Avian mycophagy: a brief survey of Ruffed Grouse in Northwestern Ontario. Joey Tanney, 2011
• Bacteria as food for fungi. Susan Madzia, 1992
• Biotic factors shaping endophyte communities in maize. Megan Saunders, 2008
• Characterization of a Verticillium dahliae hydrophobin. Anna Klimes, 2002
• Coincidence of Armillaria and Megacollybia in plots and resource units in the Adirondack Mountains. Deborah J. Springer, 2002
• Cultural control of fruit body formation in Laccaria bicolor associated with a host plant. Christian Godbout, 1991
• Do we need a Canadian Mycological Society? Keith Seifert, 2011
• Effects of nutrient nitrogen on growth and lignin degradation by wood rot fungi. David Boyle, 1991
• Flagellin-like filaments of Pythium aphanidermatum: function and phylogeny. Gregg Robideau, 2011
• Foliar endophytes of white spruce and spruce budworm. David Miller, 2008
• Genetic analysis of induced mutations in Ophiostoma ulmi. L. Bernier, 1987
• Identification of Basidiomycota isolated from New Brunswick Bats. Megan DeMille, 2011
• Miraculous Haptoglossa mirabilis! E. Jane Robb, 1987
• Mutation rate and loss of sex in Cryptococcus neoformans. Jianping Xu, 2002
• Plenary talk: A fungal lady of the night. Pedro Crous, 2008
• Plenary talk: Can nomenclature and taxonomy keep up with phylogenetics research? Scott Redhead, 2002
• Starvation-induced expression of the plant adhesin Mad2 of the entomopathogen Metarhizium robertsii. Larissa Barelli, 2011
• The effect of oxygen radical scavengers on the effect of elicitation by Cladosporium fulvum. Tobin Peever, 1987.
• The Hohenbuehelia connection. Greg Thorn, 1983.
• The Penicillium sclerotiorum complex. Karol Rivera, 2008

Foray

Yes - we will have a brief morning foray for those of you who will be coming in to London Friday night. It may be just a walk along Medway Creek, but you will be led in this walk by Greg Thorn and our plenary speaker Hal Burdsall, Jr. Meet at 9:00 am at the bridge over Medway Creek just south of Windermere Road on Glenmore Drive (one block west of Western Road; this is opposite the entrance to Western's Research Park and Windermere Manor). We will take a leisurely walk and arrive back at the registration area in time to get a bite to eat before the meetings. Map coming soon.