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ALFRED MUNOZ-RIVAS is spending 18 months in the laboratory of Robert C. Ullrich. From the
National University of Mexico in Mexico City, he is supported by an NIH International
Fellowship to study molecular genetics in Schizophyllum.
CLARK ROGERSON, ROY HALLING, JEAN BOISE and MACHIEL E. NOORDELOOS (from the Ri j ksherbari um)
all visited Tim Baroni's lab at SUNY-College at Cortland this past fall to collect fungi
in upstate New York.
Michael Wingfield's lab at the Plant Protection Institute in South Africa was visited by
LESTER BURGESS (University of Sydney) during July to collect Fusarium spp. and to assist
Dr. Madasas in holding a Fusarium workshop.
LUNG-CHI WU, Campbell Institute for Research and Technology, Campbell Soup Company, recently
returned from Hungary where he attended the International Symposium on Substrates for
Mushroom Growing and Cultivation of Pleurotus species. Dr. Wu visited the DUNA Agri-
cultural Cooperative, Vegetable Crops Research Institute, Agricultural Research Insti-
tute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. After the Symposium, he visited the Univer-
si ty of Bologna in northern Italy (the main Pleurotus producing area of Europe and
probably the world) and the Mushroom Experimental Station and Mushroom School in Holland.
Geraldine Kay notes the fol lowing recent visitors to the Far1 ow Herbari um: VERNON AHMADJIAN,
JOSIAH LOW, ABDULLA KHALIZL (from Saudi Arabia), M. N. V. PRASAD (from India), ELISABETH
FARWELL, and RONALD H. PETERSEN.
RICHARD A. HUMBER was in India and Sri Lanka from October 24 to November 17 to review grant
programs in Delhi and Bangalore, visit medical mycologists in Madras, and lecture at the
Commonwealth Institute of Biological Control in Bangalore. He collected and cultured
entomopathogens from sites where Tom Petch collected during the early part of the century.
GARY SAMUELS spent June, 1984 with J. D. Rogers at Washington State University identifying
and processing collections (of GJS) from Brazil and Venequela.
HARRY D. THIERS visited Ian Ross' laboratory at the University of California at Santa
Barbara and collected on Santa Cruz Island in January, 1984.
ARTHUR L. WELDEN visited INIREB for the month of July, 1984 to work in the herbarium and in
the field on Thelephoraceae of the area with Gaston Guzman.
At the invitation of the Instituto de Botanica, GASTON GUZMAN was in Sao Paulo, Brazil in
May of 1984 to continue studies on Brazilian fungi, especially the Agarics and
Gasteromycetes.
RICHARD T. HANLIN was in Venezuela during October to collect plant pathogenic ascomycetes
as part of a collaborative project sponsored jointly by NSF and CONICIT of Venezuela.
DONALD R. ROBERTS spent October and November in India and Sri Lanka (with Michael C. Romback
and in part with Richard A. Humber) collecting fungal pathogens of rice brown
pl anthopper.
Dick Hanlin reports that MARIA MENEZES (professor of plant pathology at the Universidade
Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazi 1 ) is spending a year as a visiting professor
in his laboratory. Well known for her research on diseases of crop plants in Brazil,
she recently assumed responsibility for the mycology program in her department and is
working on Col letotrichum isolates from tropical crops. Other recent visitors to Dick's
lab include JOHN I. PITT (Australia) and OMAR TORTOLERO (Universidad Centro Occidental,
Barquisimeto, Venezuela).
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