MASMC program (talks only)

Abbreviated Program (titles, talks only)
Middle-Atlantic States Mycology Conference
French Family Center, Duke University
April 20, 2024

8:00-9:00                       registration/check in (FFSC Atrium, 2^nd floor)
breakfast/coffee

Posters: Please put up posters outside auditorium and around FFSC atrium area.  Posters will be up all day (till 7).  Presenters:  please load your talks in FFSC auditorium before your session starts
All talks will take place in FFSC Auditorium

9:00-10:30                     session 1 (talks, abstracts 1-6)
        Introduction/Welcome: Rytas Vilgalys

1. Amanda Chandler (Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee Knoxville), Jessica Allen (Department of Biology, Eastern Washington University), and P. Brandon Matheny (Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee Knoxville)
   Trait-based risk assessment of cyanolichens
2. Xuefei Chen, Michael Hoy, Diessel Duan, Kalinka Koteva, Michaela Spitzer, Allison Guitor, Emily Puumala, Guanggan Hu, Nicole Robbins, Ray Truant, James Kronstad, Leah Cowen, Huilin Li, Joseph Heitman, Gerard D. Wright
   McMaster University, University of Toronto, and University of British Columbia
   Butyrolactol A is a novel phospholipid flippase inhibitor that potentiates the antifungal activity of caspofungin against intrinsically resistant Cryptococcus.
3. Judith O. Enemudo, Nathan Holt, Brandon G. Essick, Nkese S. Udombang, Melvin Mensah-Bonsu, Felicia N. Anike, Omon S. Isikhuemhen.
   North Carolina A&T State University.
   Effect of oak leave supplementation on fruit body yield in Ganoderma mbrekobenum.
4. Django Grootmyers, D. Jean Lodge, Timothy J. Baroni, Claudio Angelini, Daniel S. Newman, Kerri McCabe, Jacob Kalichman, P. Brandon Matheny
   University of Tennessee, University of Georgia, State University of New York, College at Cortland, Cortland, Jardin Botanico Nacional, Dominican Republic, Pordenone, Italy, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, Arkansas Mycological Society
   What on earth is Lactocollybia?
5. Andrii P. Gryganskyi, Victor Roman, Patrick B. Dennis, Blake W. Stamps, Melinda Ostendorf,
   Kristen Bruce, Amber Braddock, Nancy Kelley-Loughnane
   Mycelia customizable structural materials
6. Maria I. Higuita-Aguirre1,2, Clancy P. Larmour1, Benjamin D. Rose2, Christian Shaw1, Rytas Vilgalys3, Rachel L. Cook2, Kevin Garcia1
   North Carolina State University, Duke University
   Designing a synthetic community of ectomycorrhizal fungi for improving phosphorus uptake in Pinus taeda

10:30-11:00                    coffee break, group photo (in front of FFSC)

11:00-12:30                    session 2 (talks, abstracts 7-12)

7. Nathan Holt, Brandon G. Essick, Melvin Mensah-Bonsu, Felicia N. Anike, Raga Krishnakumar, Matthew Hirakawa, Omon S. Isikhuemhen. North Carolina A&T State University, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA.
   Domestication, Mating Behavior and Interspecies Compatibility between Pleurotus sp. From Africa and P. djamor
8. Abigail Ireland, Stephanie Kivlin, Karen Hughes
   University of Tennessee
   Characterizing the unknown diversity of Pseudogymnoascus in North American bat hibernacula: description of 15 new taxa
9. Darren Kirkendall, Michelle Jusino, Nicole Reynolds, James Skelton
   College of William and Mary, USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station, Cornell University

What’s the scoop on the mycoloop? Fungal parasites associated with increased zooplankton density in Chesapeake Bay

10. Joel Kwon, Nathan Holt, Felicia N. Anike, Omon S. Isikhuemhen. North Carolina A&T State University.
    Spore Germination in wild and commercial strains of Pleurotus ostreatus.
11. Abigail Leavitt LaBella, et al. UNC Charlotte.
    Genomic factors shape carbon and nitrogen metabolic niche breadth across Saccharomycotina yeasts
12. Kathryn N. Maley, M. Catherine Aime. Purdue University
    The relationship between local tree diversity and mycorrhizal type is temporally dynamic over 7 decades of Midwestern forest succession

12:30-2:30                     lunch & poster session (abstracts 21-50).
note: poster boards are not numbered, they are spread around FFSC atrium.

2:30-5:00                       session 3 (talks, abstracts 13-20).   FFSC Auditorium

13. Alison Munaylla-Bohorquez and Megan Romberg . Marymount University and USDA (APHIS), (NIS).
    Flight of fancy? Uredo calotropidis on the butterfly host Calotropis may be the common Uromyces asclepiadis after all.
14. Thien Nguyen, Min Li, Tao Wu, John P. Munafo Jr. University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    Characterization of Aroma Molecules in Dried, Rehydrated, and Cooked Lobster Mushrooms
15. Chance Noffsinger, Slavomír Adamčík, and Brandon Matheny. University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Slovakia Academy of Sciences.
    Atmospheric deposition threatens Russula diversity in an endangered spruce-fir ecosystem
16. Peintner, Ursula, Bianka Siewert, Lesley Huymann, Josefine Lange, Sophie Schwarzkopf, Götz Palfner, Maria Eugenia Salgado Salomon and Norbert Arnold. University Innsbruck, Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Universidad de Concepción, Chile, CIEFAP, Esquel, Argentina
    Shed light on it: taxonomic and chemical diversity of Cortinarius species with photobiologically active pigments from South America
17. Benjamin D. Rose, Marissa A. Dellinger, Clancy P. Larmour, Mira I. Polishook, Maria I. Higuita-Aguirre, Summi Dutta, Rachel L. Cook, Sabine D. Zimmermann, and Kevin Garcia. NC State University, IPSiM, University of Montpellier, CNRS, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France
    The ectomycorrhizal fungus Paxillus ammoniavirescens influences the effects of salinity on loblolly pine in response to potassium availability
18. Daniel J. Taratut, Joseph P. Calabrese, Amy L. Kutay, Brent J. Sewall, Barrie E. Overton. Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania, Temple University

Calcofluor White Staining Showed Natural Fungal Colonization of Lycorma delicatula Egg Masses and is a Novel Method to Study In Vitro Entomopathogen Treatment Efficacy

19. Nkese S. Udombang*, Brandon G. Essick, Nathan Holt, Melvin Mensah-Bonsu, Felicia N. Anike, Omon S. Isikhuemhen. North Carolina A&T State University.
    Real-Time PCR Analysis of Tuber lyonii Abundance in Truffle Soils Orchard
20. Roman Whitaker, Nathan Holt, Felicia N. Anike, Omon S. Isikhuemhen. North Carolina A&T State University.
    Effect of Temperature on mycelia growth in a tropical isolate of Pleurotus djamor.

4:30                              MASMC Business Meeting
5:00-7:00                       Happy hour with hor d’oevres

SUNDAY Morel Foray, April 21, 8:30-noon. We will meet the Duke Forest Rigsbee Picnic Shelter gate F located off of state route 751.Parking on site is limited, please be careful if parking along the roadside, and carpool if possible.