Category Archives: News
Aug 1-4, 2016: Sierra truffles and Suilli
This pre-conference field trip to the southern Sierra’s was a repeat performance of an earlier pre-meeting foray that took place in 1996 prior to the 1st International Conference on Mycorrhizae. That conference was hosted by Tom Bruns and his colleagues from UC Berkeley, … Continue reading
Summer 2016 – Fungi of Mountain Lake Biological Station
Just finished an excellent 3-week field mycology class at the Mountain Lake Biological Station (9-29 July, 2016). MLBS is operated by the University of Virginia Biology Department, and is located in a remote part of the southern Appalachian mountains near Pembroke, VA. … Continue reading
Postdoc position available: Mycorrhizal Genomics, Bioinformatics
The Vilgalys Lab at Duke University seeks a postdoctoral researcher in the area of fungal genomics, bioinformatics, and molecular evolution. The selected candidate will contribute to ongoing studies on comparative genomics of ectomycorrhizal fungi (Suillus spp.) and their symbiotic interaction with pines and … Continue reading
2016 ORNL, INRA and Duke fungal genomics meeting
May 24-25, 2016: We just finished hosting an excellent meeting with our Plant Microbial Interfaces research team, which includes scientists from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Francis Martin’s mycorrhizal genomics group from INRA. Two full days of research updates and discussion … Continue reading
April: visitors, morels, and MASMC
April is a beautiful time of year in North Carolina and a great time to visit Duke University. This month we hosted several visitors to our lab, and also attended MASMC Apr 14: Alija Mujic (Ph.D., Oregon State University, currently in … Continue reading
Highlights from the 13th European Conference on Fungal Genetics
April 1-6 – 13th European Conference on Fungal Genetics, Paris, France Just returned from a very stimulating meeting with 800 European fungal biologists at ECFG13. How can anyone refuse a chance to visit Paris and hear about the latest breaking advances … Continue reading
MASMC 2016 conference at Penn State University April 22-24, 2016
This year’s Middle Atlantic States Mycology Conference will be hosted by the Dave Geiser lab at Penn State University on April 22-24. MASMC is an annual gathering of mycologists from around Eastern North America (not just the Mid-Atlantic). It is … Continue reading
Feb 9: Genetics seminar by Jason Stajich
Just wanted to bring everyone’s attention to the following seminar by Jason Stajich. Jason is an asst professor at the Univ. of California at Riverside, did both his undergrad and PhD at Duke on comparative fungal genomics. “Genome evolution in early branching fungi: … Continue reading
Jan 26: Suilloposium!! combo visit by Nhu Nguyen and Peter Kennedy
In January, we hosted a visit by Peter Kennedy and Nhu Nguyen, who with Sunny Liao are coPIs on our recent NSF grant to assemble the first ever genome-based phylogeny for the genus Suillus (see Research Page for more details about the project). … Continue reading
MASMC is coming to Duke on April 10-12, 2015
Please mark your calendars NOW for April 10-12, 2015, the 35th meeting of the Middle Atlantic States Mycology Conference (MASMC). This year’s Middle Atlantic States Mycology Conference (masmc2015) and morel foray is hosted this year by your friends at Duke University. … Continue reading
