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Farlow Herbarium<br> | Farlow Herbarium<br> | ||
Field Museum<br> | ''Thorsten Lumbsch'' – Field Museum<br> | ||
''Andrew Miller, Phil Anders, Eiizabeth Lippoldt, Alex Kuhn'' – Illinois Natural History Survey<br> | ''Andrew Miller, Phil Anders, Eiizabeth Lippoldt, Alex Kuhn'' – Illinois Natural History Survey<br> | ||
Iowa State University<br> | ''Deborah Lewis'' – Iowa State University<br> | ||
Louisiana State University<br> | Louisiana State University<br> | ||
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''Joey Spatafora'' – Oregon State University<br> | ''Joey Spatafora'' – Oregon State University<br> | ||
Purdue University<br> | ''Cathie Aime'' – Purdue University<br> | ||
Brian Geils – Rocky Mountain Research Station<br> | Brian Geils – Rocky Mountain Research Station<br> | ||
Rutgers University<br> | ''Jim White, Ning Zhang'' – Rutgers University<br> | ||
''Dennis Desjardin'' – San Francisco State University<br> | ''Dennis Desjardin'' – San Francisco State University<br> | ||
State University of New York<br> | State University of New York<br> | ||
U.S. National Fungus Collections<br> | U.S. National Fungus Collections<br> | ||
University of Alabama<br> | University of Alabama<br> | ||
University of Arkansas<br> | ''Steve Stephenson'' – University of Arkansas<br> | ||
University of Arizona<br> | ''Betsy Arnold'' – University of Arizona<br> | ||
''Brent Mishler, Andrew Doran'' – University of California, Berkeley<br> | ''Brent Mishler, Andrew Doran'' – University of California, Berkeley<br> | ||
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Revision as of 14:58, 15 October 2015
Digitization TCN: Creating The Microfungi Collections Consortium: A Networked Approach to Digitizing Small Fungi with Large Impacts on the Function and Health of Ecosystems
Project Summary
Microscopic fungi (microfungi) represent a diverse assemblage that is distributed worldwide and includes bread molds, plant pathogens, powdery mildews, rusts, slime molds, and water molds. A large percentage of these organisms are harmless or even beneficial, but some cause disease and death in animals, plants, and other fungi resulting in major economic loss and serious negative implications for human and ecosystem health. Despite their importance, little is known about their distribution, diversity, ecology, or host associations. This project is a collaborative effort involving 38 institutions in 31 states and aims to consolidate data from specimens housed in biodiversity collections for 2.3 million microfungi specimens and make these data available through online resources. The consolidation and increased accessibility of these data is critical to inform and promote new and innovative research, education and community engagement around this little-known but important group of organisms.
Specimen data generated by this project will be used to assess natural and human-induced environmental changes on microfungi distributions, and evaluate the impact of these changes on the function and health of ecosystems. This project fills a critical gap in the national digitization effort by contributing images, digitizing specimen label data, and linking associated ancillary data for over 1.2 million North American specimens of microfungi. Additionally, nomenclature and taxonomic information will be updated to reflect the newest practices as dictated by the International Codes for Nomenclature. These data will provide a foundation for making informed decisions by agribusinesses, educators, forest managers, government agencies, horticulturalists, policy makers, researchers, and the general public. The broader education goals of this project will be facilitated through the development and implementation of a teaching module for high school biology on the economic importance of microfungi. This award is made as part of the National Resource for Digitization of Biological Collections through the Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections program and all data resulting from this award will be available through the national resource (iDigBio.org).
Resources
Citizen Science and Outreach Projects
Current Research
Project Leadership
Project Sponsor:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Principal Investigators (PIs):
Andrew Miller (Principal Investigator)
Phil Anders (Biological Informatician)
Elizabeth Lippoldt (Project Manager)
Alex Kuhn (Digitizer)
NSF Award Number
Project Website
Project Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/microfungi.org
Project Instagram
Project Collaborators
Academy of Natural Sciences
Barbara Kennedy, Richard Pyle – Bishop Museum
Clemson University
Cornell University
Melissa Islam, Vera Evenson – Denver Botanic Garden
Farlow Herbarium
Thorsten Lumbsch – Field Museum
Andrew Miller, Phil Anders, Eiizabeth Lippoldt, Alex Kuhn – Illinois Natural History Survey
Deborah Lewis – Iowa State University
Louisiana State University
Miami University
Michigan State University
North Carolina State University
Roy Halling – New York Botanical Garden
Joey Spatafora – Oregon State University
Cathie Aime – Purdue University
Brian Geils – Rocky Mountain Research Station
Jim White, Ning Zhang – Rutgers University
Dennis Desjardin – San Francisco State University
State University of New York
U.S. National Fungus Collections
University of Alabama
Steve Stephenson – University of Arkansas
Betsy Arnold – University of Arizona
Brent Mishler, Andrew Doran – University of California, Berkeley
University of Florida
University of Georgia
Robert Lichtwardt – University of Kansas
Tim James, Matthew Foltz – University of Michigan
George Weiblen – University of Minnesota
Robert Kaul – University of Nebraska
University of North Carolina
University of Richmond
University of Tennessee
Mary Ann Feist, Sharon West – University of Wisconsin
Larry Schmidt – University of Wyoming
Mary Barkworth – Utah State University
Dean Glawe – Washington State University