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Presidential and vice-presidential profiles 1985
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gres International de Mycologie Exeter En reconnaissance particuliere de cette association si hautement prisee le Conseil de la Societe a resolu que le President de la Societe Mycologique de France sera un Vice-President Honoraire de la Societe Mycologique de la Grande-Bretagne pendant cette annee centenaire. Fait Londres le premier jour de Septembre 1984. G F Pegg HOW Eggins President Secretaire General
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PRESIDENTIAL AND VICE-PRESIDENTIAL PROFILES 1985 Brian Sutton was educated at Emanuel School, London and subsequently at Imperial College, London where he gained a l st class degree in Botany in 1959. While employed as an Assistant Mycologist at the Commonwealth Mycological ' Institute from 1959 to 1965 he enrolled as an external PhD student (London University) and was awarded his degree in 1965 for taxonomic studies on Colletotrichum graminicola, His main research interests and involvement in nomenclature date from this first period at CMI where he undertook identification of coelomycetes and helped with editing the Index of Fungi. In 1965 he was appointed Research Scientist in the Canada Department of Forestry, Winnipeg and there alternated between intensive collecting and survey work in Manitoba and Saskatchewan in the summers and preparing results for publication in the winters. His main interest during this period was basic floristic work on hyphomycetes from forest trees, culminating in an account of the hyphomycetes of that geographic area in 1973. In 1968 he was made an Honorary Professor of the University of Manitoba during his involvement in post-graduate teaching and research. His return to CMI in 1969 saw a resumption of research into coelomycetes with an added brief to maintain an overview of the deuteromycetes. He also edited the Index of Fungi. Much of his research is centred on material he has collected in Canada, America, India, Sri Lanka, Australia and the United Kingdom. He was appointed Chief Mycologist at CMI in 1976. Contributions have been made to The Atlas of Saskatchewan (1969), Taxonomy of the Fungi Imperfecti (1971), The Fungi IV A (1973), and he is a co-author of The Dictionary of Fungi (1983). In 1980 he produced The Coelomycetes, the first account of the group since 1935-37. He was awarded a DSc by the University of London in 1981. His involvement with the British Mycological Society started as a student in 1959. He was elected to Council in 1974 after having been appointed to the Editorial Board of the Transactions in 1971. He became Senior Editor in 1976, a position he has held to this date, and is a frequent contributor to the journal. Maurice Moss received his main education at Eltham College and subsequently graduated in chemistry at Imperial College, London in 1958. During this period he was introduced to the fungi by the mycologists of the Royal College of Science. He spent a further three years studying the physiology of perithecium formation in Chaetomium globosum for which he was awarded a PhD in 1961. After leaving Imperial College he spent three years at Beecham Research Laboratories, Brockham Park, followed by four years at the Tropical Products Institute in London. It was during this period that he developed a particular interest in fungal secondary metabolites, initially because of the antibiotic activities of many of them, and then because of their role as rnycotoxins in the poisoning of food and animal feeds. In both cases these interests centred primarily around the genera Aspergillus and Penicillium. The work at
16 TPI resulted in the elucidation of the structure of the rubratoxins produced by
Penicillium purpurogenum.
In 1968 he joined the University of Surrey as a lecturer in microbial ecology, physiology and applied microbiology. In 1974 he was appointed senior lecturer in microbiology and has maintained an active interest in mycotoxins within the broader context of the physiology of fungal secondary metabolism. Current research activities are concerned with the production of mycotoxins by species of Fusarium with particular emphasis on the influence of agricultural biocides on the production of trichothecenes. This interest in Fusarium was reflected in an involvement, with John Smith, in the organisation of the Society symposium on the Applied Mycology of Fusarium published in 1984. He joined the BMS in 1969 and soon appreciated the value of the Society forays for providing a marvellous diversity of material as subjects for water colour studies. For the past three years he has been a member of the Editorial Board of the Transactions and was elected to Council at the end of 1983. John Walker was born at North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, on 11 November 1930. His primary and secondary education was taken with the Jesuits at St Aloysius' College, Milson's Point. After obtaining a NSW Public Service Traineeship, he took a degree in Agricultural Science at the University of Sydney graduating early in 1952 with First Class Honours (in plant pathology). During his five years at University, the scientific work and philosophy of the late Professor W L Waterhouse in plant pathology was a major influence on him and his interest in mycology was greatly stimulated by the lectures of Professor N H White. After graduation he was appointed Assistant Plant Pathologist in the Biology Branch, Department of Agriculture NSW where he has worked ever since. From 1952 to 1960, he carried out routine diagnostic work on a wide range of crops, especially field and fodder crops, cereals and grasses, vegetables and ornamental plants. During this period, he was also able to develop his taxonomic work on plant parasitic fungi and in 1960 he was put in charge of the Biology Branch Herbarium, started in 1890 by N A Cobb. At that stage it contained about 7,000 collections of plant parasitic fungi. From 1960 to the present, he has worked increasingly on taxonomic problems in the fungi and on building up the herbarium (Herb. DAR) which now contains 69,000 collections and has an average annual rate of increase of about 2,500 specimens. His major interests at present are the Uredinales of Australia (a census is in preparation), Gaeumannomyces and related genera, pathogens in various fungal groups (but especially Ascomycotina and Deuteromycotina) parasitic on several families of Australian native plants, and completion of an annotated check list of plant diseases for New South Wales. He has been a member of the British Mycological Society since 1963 and has published several papers in the Transactions. The main aims of his work have been to study taxonomic and nomenclatural problems in plant pathogenic fungi in order to provide accurate information for plant pathologists and to try and provide a sound herbarium basis for the recording of plant diseases in Australia.
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gres International de Mycologie Exeter En reconnaissance particuliere de cette association si hautement prisee le Conseil de la Societe a resolu que le President de la Societe Mycologique de France sera un Vice-President Honoraire de la Societe Mycologique de la Grande-Bretagne pendant cette annee centenaire. Fait Londres le premier jour de Septembre 1984. G F Pegg HOW Eggins President Secretaire General
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PRESIDENTIAL AND VICE-PRESIDENTIAL PROFILES 1985 Brian Sutton was educated at Emanuel School, London and subsequently at Imperial College, London where he gained a l st class degree in Botany in 1959. While employed as an Assistant Mycologist at the Commonwealth Mycological ' Institute from 1959 to 1965 he enrolled as an external PhD student (London University) and was awarded his degree in 1965 for taxonomic studies on Colletotrichum graminicola, His main research interests and involvement in nomenclature date from this first period at CMI where he undertook identification of coelomycetes and helped with editing the Index of Fungi. In 1965 he was appointed Research Scientist in the Canada Department of Forestry, Winnipeg and there alternated between intensive collecting and survey work in Manitoba and Saskatchewan in the summers and preparing results for publication in the winters. His main interest during this period was basic floristic work on hyphomycetes from forest trees, culminating in an account of the hyphomycetes of that geographic area in 1973. In 1968 he was made an Honorary Professor of the University of Manitoba during his involvement in post-graduate teaching and research. His return to CMI in 1969 saw a resumption of research into coelomycetes with an added brief to maintain an overview of the deuteromycetes. He also edited the Index of Fungi. Much of his research is centred on material he has collected in Canada, America, India, Sri Lanka, Australia and the United Kingdom. He was appointed Chief Mycologist at CMI in 1976. Contributions have been made to The Atlas of Saskatchewan (1969), Taxonomy of the Fungi Imperfecti (1971), The Fungi IV A (1973), and he is a co-author of The Dictionary of Fungi (1983). In 1980 he produced The Coelomycetes, the first account of the group since 1935-37. He was awarded a DSc by the University of London in 1981. His involvement with the British Mycological Society started as a student in 1959. He was elected to Council in 1974 after having been appointed to the Editorial Board of the Transactions in 1971. He became Senior Editor in 1976, a position he has held to this date, and is a frequent contributor to the journal. Maurice Moss received his main education at Eltham College and subsequently graduated in chemistry at Imperial College, London in 1958. During this period he was introduced to the fungi by the mycologists of the Royal College of Science. He spent a further three years studying the physiology of perithecium formation in Chaetomium globosum for which he was awarded a PhD in 1961. After leaving Imperial College he spent three years at Beecham Research Laboratories, Brockham Park, followed by four years at the Tropical Products Institute in London. It was during this period that he developed a particular interest in fungal secondary metabolites, initially because of the antibiotic activities of many of them, and then because of their role as rnycotoxins in the poisoning of food and animal feeds. In both cases these interests centred primarily around the genera Aspergillus and Penicillium. The work at
16 TPI resulted in the elucidation of the structure of the rubratoxins produced by
Penicillium purpurogenum.
In 1968 he joined the University of Surrey as a lecturer in microbial ecology, physiology and applied microbiology. In 1974 he was appointed senior lecturer in microbiology and has maintained an active interest in mycotoxins within the broader context of the physiology of fungal secondary metabolism. Current research activities are concerned with the production of mycotoxins by species of Fusarium with particular emphasis on the influence of agricultural biocides on the production of trichothecenes. This interest in Fusarium was reflected in an involvement, with John Smith, in the organisation of the Society symposium on the Applied Mycology of Fusarium published in 1984. He joined the BMS in 1969 and soon appreciated the value of the Society forays for providing a marvellous diversity of material as subjects for water colour studies. For the past three years he has been a member of the Editorial Board of the Transactions and was elected to Council at the end of 1983. John Walker was born at North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, on 11 November 1930. His primary and secondary education was taken with the Jesuits at St Aloysius' College, Milson's Point. After obtaining a NSW Public Service Traineeship, he took a degree in Agricultural Science at the University of Sydney graduating early in 1952 with First Class Honours (in plant pathology). During his five years at University, the scientific work and philosophy of the late Professor W L Waterhouse in plant pathology was a major influence on him and his interest in mycology was greatly stimulated by the lectures of Professor N H White. After graduation he was appointed Assistant Plant Pathologist in the Biology Branch, Department of Agriculture NSW where he has worked ever since. From 1952 to 1960, he carried out routine diagnostic work on a wide range of crops, especially field and fodder crops, cereals and grasses, vegetables and ornamental plants. During this period, he was also able to develop his taxonomic work on plant parasitic fungi and in 1960 he was put in charge of the Biology Branch Herbarium, started in 1890 by N A Cobb. At that stage it contained about 7,000 collections of plant parasitic fungi. From 1960 to the present, he has worked increasingly on taxonomic problems in the fungi and on building up the herbarium (Herb. DAR) which now contains 69,000 collections and has an average annual rate of increase of about 2,500 specimens. His major interests at present are the Uredinales of Australia (a census is in preparation), Gaeumannomyces and related genera, pathogens in various fungal groups (but especially Ascomycotina and Deuteromycotina) parasitic on several families of Australian native plants, and completion of an annotated check list of plant diseases for New South Wales. He has been a member of the British Mycological Society since 1963 and has published several papers in the Transactions. The main aims of his work have been to study taxonomic and nomenclatural problems in plant pathogenic fungi in order to provide accurate information for plant pathologists and to try and provide a sound herbarium basis for the recording of plant diseases in Australia.