Please send in any resources we may have missed! This is a work in progress.
Useful Websites & Resources
Mycological Societies & their Publications
North American Mycological Association (NAMA) website - if you are a WMS member you are able to sign up for NAMA as a "member of an affiliate club" which is at a reduced rate. The NAMA site itself is full of interesting and useful information for members and nonmembers alike.
Check out their excellent Mycophile quarterly ... Read through articles in McIlvainea: Journal of American Amateur Mycology... Collect educational resources... And find culinary inspiration from the recipes page... These are just a few highlights! |
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Mycological Society of America (MSA) - this society is aimed at academic mycologists both amateur and professional - anyone is welcome to join but it will be of particular interest to students, anyone hoping to study or work in mycology and researchers
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The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Mycological Society of America will be in Wisconsin!
Learning about fungi!
MycoGuide by Dr. Patrick Leacock, based in Illinois - great resource full of useful information, links, and even worksheets on mycological topics. Patrick works at the Field Museum in Chigago, which has a fungarium along with its herbarium.
Wisconsin Mushrooms by Andrew Khitsun - Andrew is a regular at WMS forays and takes wonderful pictures. He also teaches us to slow down and appreciate the very, very smallest fungi, including the much-less noticed "crusts" aka corticoid fungi.
Tom Volk's Fungi by Dr. Tom Volk of UW La Crosse - this site is a joy, especially the extra colorful "mushroom of the month" features.
Weird and Wonderful Wild Mushrooms - blog by Jan Thornhill, special mention to this post on Resupinatus dealbatus that helped WMS member Andrew Khitsun identify this great find from our Mosquito Hill Nature Center foray in 2021 (see his observation on iNaturalist and on Mushroom Observer).
Gary Lincoff's Site - lots and lots to enjoy here, from fungi science to mushroom culture
Mushroom Expert by Michael Kuo, based in Ohio - explore this site! Good way to learn keys.
Mushroom Color Atlas - reference for mushroom-derived dyes/pigments
How to Identify Mushrooms to Genus III - Microscopic Features
Amanitaceae.org - the wonderful, colorful world of Amanitaceae family
North American Cortinarius Collections: An ongoing study - excellent resource for the family Cortinariaceae by Shannon Adams, https://nacorts.com/
The "Bolete Filter" by the Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club - useful for sorting boletes... though there are undescribed species out there, waiting to be found out.
Slides from Presentation on Psilocybin at WMS Fungi Fair 2022
Crust Fungi by Alden Dirks, currently in Michigan - speaking of the crusts... here's a whole site about them!!
Discomycetes.org - "is a website dedicated to the taxonomy and classification of discomycetes. The website focuses on providing an up-to-date outline of discomycetes with notes on orders, families, genera and species."
Ascomycete.org - reference site for Ascomycetes
Truffle-like Fungi of North Temperate Forests - a digital guide to the truffle-like fungi of North Temperate forests.
Tropical Lichens - a picture reference to the tropical lichen species
Society for Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN) - a new nonprofit project to explore, document and champion the mycelial diversity of our planet. These networks can show themselves in the form of their fruiting bodies (mushrooms) but they can also be visibly absent and yet very, very present. Some of the most myco-diverse soil samples processed so far appear to be mountain grasslands. Who knew!?
Wisconsin Mushrooms by Andrew Khitsun - Andrew is a regular at WMS forays and takes wonderful pictures. He also teaches us to slow down and appreciate the very, very smallest fungi, including the much-less noticed "crusts" aka corticoid fungi.
Tom Volk's Fungi by Dr. Tom Volk of UW La Crosse - this site is a joy, especially the extra colorful "mushroom of the month" features.
Weird and Wonderful Wild Mushrooms - blog by Jan Thornhill, special mention to this post on Resupinatus dealbatus that helped WMS member Andrew Khitsun identify this great find from our Mosquito Hill Nature Center foray in 2021 (see his observation on iNaturalist and on Mushroom Observer).
Gary Lincoff's Site - lots and lots to enjoy here, from fungi science to mushroom culture
Mushroom Expert by Michael Kuo, based in Ohio - explore this site! Good way to learn keys.
Mushroom Color Atlas - reference for mushroom-derived dyes/pigments
How to Identify Mushrooms to Genus III - Microscopic Features
Amanitaceae.org - the wonderful, colorful world of Amanitaceae family
North American Cortinarius Collections: An ongoing study - excellent resource for the family Cortinariaceae by Shannon Adams, https://nacorts.com/
The "Bolete Filter" by the Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club - useful for sorting boletes... though there are undescribed species out there, waiting to be found out.
Slides from Presentation on Psilocybin at WMS Fungi Fair 2022
Crust Fungi by Alden Dirks, currently in Michigan - speaking of the crusts... here's a whole site about them!!
Discomycetes.org - "is a website dedicated to the taxonomy and classification of discomycetes. The website focuses on providing an up-to-date outline of discomycetes with notes on orders, families, genera and species."
Ascomycete.org - reference site for Ascomycetes
Truffle-like Fungi of North Temperate Forests - a digital guide to the truffle-like fungi of North Temperate forests.
Tropical Lichens - a picture reference to the tropical lichen species
Society for Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN) - a new nonprofit project to explore, document and champion the mycelial diversity of our planet. These networks can show themselves in the form of their fruiting bodies (mushrooms) but they can also be visibly absent and yet very, very present. Some of the most myco-diverse soil samples processed so far appear to be mountain grasslands. Who knew!?
Help Finding Fungi Hotspots
National Weather Service rain map - precipitation tracking, good for finding out where to go to find most mushrooms.
Blog post on more map resources to use with foraging by Modern Forager - covers looking for 'disturbance morels' even east of the Rockies, where true burn morels aren't found.
Blog post on more map resources to use with foraging by Modern Forager - covers looking for 'disturbance morels' even east of the Rockies, where true burn morels aren't found.
Databases/Tools for Mycological Research
Index Fungorum - "contains names of fungi (including yeasts, lichens, chromistan fungal analogues, protozoan fungal analogues and fossil forms) at all ranks" - a database for taxonomy of fungi and friends
MycoBank - "MycoBank is an on-line database aimed as a service to the mycological and scientific community by documenting mycological nomenclatural novelties (new names and combinations) and associated data, for example descriptions and illustrations."
AlphaFold - protein folding database, you can search for organisms of interest (like "Fungi" or "Boletus" or "Neurospora crassa" and browse files for predicted and actual protein structures from those organisms.
Global Fungi Database (https://globalfungi.com/) - database of fungi from all over the world, with lists of key data related to every entry and links to any associated scientific research publications. "The idea behind this the GlobalFungi Database is to provide everyone the access to published data on fungal community composition obtained by high-throughput next-generation sequencing through a web-based interface that allows various queries of the database and visualization of the results. This idea was conceived by a group of researchers from the Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague – the GlobalFungi team."
Global Soil Mycobiome Consortium dataset (https://gsmc-fungi.github.io/) - database of fungi found in soils globally. "The Global Soil Mycobiome consortium (GSMc), led by researchers in the Mycology and Microbiology Center (MMC), University of Tartu was established in 2015". "The current dataset includes 3,200 composite samples (comprising a total of 127,263 sub-samples) collected from sites located across 108 different countries, making it the largest and most comprehensive collection of soil fungal distribution data acquired using standardized methods."
MycoBank - "MycoBank is an on-line database aimed as a service to the mycological and scientific community by documenting mycological nomenclatural novelties (new names and combinations) and associated data, for example descriptions and illustrations."
AlphaFold - protein folding database, you can search for organisms of interest (like "Fungi" or "Boletus" or "Neurospora crassa" and browse files for predicted and actual protein structures from those organisms.
Global Fungi Database (https://globalfungi.com/) - database of fungi from all over the world, with lists of key data related to every entry and links to any associated scientific research publications. "The idea behind this the GlobalFungi Database is to provide everyone the access to published data on fungal community composition obtained by high-throughput next-generation sequencing through a web-based interface that allows various queries of the database and visualization of the results. This idea was conceived by a group of researchers from the Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague – the GlobalFungi team."
Global Soil Mycobiome Consortium dataset (https://gsmc-fungi.github.io/) - database of fungi found in soils globally. "The Global Soil Mycobiome consortium (GSMc), led by researchers in the Mycology and Microbiology Center (MMC), University of Tartu was established in 2015". "The current dataset includes 3,200 composite samples (comprising a total of 127,263 sub-samples) collected from sites located across 108 different countries, making it the largest and most comprehensive collection of soil fungal distribution data acquired using standardized methods."
Mycology Research in Wisconsin
Selection of Mycology research from Wisconsin - click through to read more
The "Fungal Biology Supergroup" at the University of Wisconsin Madison
The "Fungal Biology Supergroup" at the University of Wisconsin Madison
