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PAPERS) SEMINARS) SYMPOSIA) AND WORKSHOPS
ROBERT A. BLANCHETTE and graduate student, PETER BEAKER, were invited to a joint U.S.-Japan
NSF sponsored seminar on the Pine Wood Nematode held at the East-West Center, Hawaii.
KARL L. BRAUN, JR. gave a slide presentation on "Myxomycetes of Mexico and Their Use in Re-
search" to students of Armando Lopez at the University of Veracruz in Mexico.
MICHAEL F. DOYLE made a presentation entitled "Hawaii an Mushrooms and Their Environments" to
participants at the Alexander H. Smith Lake States Foray on September 28, 1984.
DENNIS J. GRAY presented a paper entitled "In vitro Colonization and Resistance of Loblolly
Pine Embryos Infected with the Fusiform Rust Fungus" at the Symposium on Propagation of
Higher Plants Through Tissue Culture, I1 I, Development and Variation, in Knoxvi 11 e,
Tennessee on September 13, 1984.
C. W. HESSELTINE participated in the Symposium on the Diagnosis of Mycotoxicoses of Impor-
tance in the United States and Japan sponsored by the UJNR Toxic Micro-Organisms Panel
and the National Animal Disease Center, Ames, Iowa. The Proceedings will be published.
HAROLD W. KELLER served as guest Mycologist and conducted a workshop on Myxomycetes at the
Eighth Annual Texas Mycological Society Foray September 14-16, 1984. The foray was held
in the Big Thicket area of southeastern Texas near Lumberton.
PAUL M. KIRK lectured on the "Classification and Identification of the Fungi" at a Common-
wealth Science Counci 1 -UNESCO sponsored training workshop on the Culture and Conserva-
tion of Micro-organisms held at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, from January 9-20,
1984. After the workshop he visited the Mt. Kenya National Park to make collections of
microfungi. A British Council-Comnonwealth Foundation sponsored workshop on "Techniques
in the Identification of Microfungi of Agricultural Importance" was presented at the
Universi ti Pertanian Malaysia, Serdang, July 23-27, 1984. After the workshop, he visit-
ed the Forest Research Institute field station in Pasoh Forest and Kinabalu Park, Sabah,
to make collections of microfungi.
ANDREW S. METHVEN gave a lecture on Lactarius to Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Mycology students and guests on November 9, 1984.
ORSON K. MILLER, JR. presented the following: a lecture on "Pleurotus, Hohenbuehelia, and
Their A1 1 ies" to the Korean Mycological Society on October 23, 1984; a paper, "The
genus Hohenbuehelia in North America," to the Symposium on the Tricholomataceae,
Bogotaro, Italy , September 11-14; a semi nary "Mycorrhizal Mushrooms ; Ecology & Pro-
ductivity of Forest and Agricultural Systems ," at the University of Hawaii , Hi lo; and
a lecture, "Interesting Western Fungi ," to MSA Foray participants at Fort Collins, COY
on August 4, 1984.
PAUL SZANISZLO presented a paper "Aspects of Cell ular Development in the Black Yeast", and
co-authored a second paper presented by E. Cabib titled, "Regulation of the Biosynthesis
of Glucan, a Structural Component of the Fungal Cell Wall" at the Janssen Research
Foundation Workshop on Fungal Dimorphism, Corsendonk, Oud-Turnhout, Be1 gi um, June 1983.
HARRY D. THIERS served in August as Chief Mycologist for the Denver Mycological Society and
addressed the club on "Fungi of Australia. "
KENNETH WELLS gave a seminar, "Mating Tests as a Taxonomic Tool in Jelly Fungi," to the
graduate faculty and student body at the University of Nevada, Reno.
GERALDINE KAYE presented the invited paper "J. B. Ellis: His Life" to participants at the
Northeast Mycological Societies Foray in Glassboro, New Jersey on August 16, 1984.