FunDiS Team
FunDiS Staff
Gabriela D'Elia - Director
Harte Singer - Sequencing Lead
Mandie Quark - Communications Lead
Christian Schwarz - CA FunDiS Collections Lead
Nicole Thysell - CA FunDiS Coordinator
CA FunDiS Field Collectors
Alan Rockefeller
Warren Cardimona
Mandy Hackney
Luca Hickey
Stu Pickell
Aaron Thompson
Michelle Torres-Grant
Bat Verdeh
Board of Directors
Board Member Bios
Adam DeMartino - President
Cofounder and Chief Innovations Officer for Smallhold
Lauryn Hart - Vice President
Viridis Graduate Institute
Ken Buegeleisen - Treasurer
Sonoma County (CA) Mycological Association (Treasurer)
Joan Kutcher - Secretary
Mycoflora of the Hudson Valley (NY)
Sigrid Jakob
New York Mycological Society (President)
Greg Mueller
Chicago Botanic Garden
IUCN SSC Fungus Conservation Committee
Rob Stevenson
University of Massachusetts-Boston
Emeritus Board Members
Bill Sheehan - Co-founder (2018-2022)
Northeast Georgia Funga
Joanne Schwartz (2019-2022)
Macrofungi of the Channel Islands (CA), Macrofungi of Orange County (CA)
Jean Lodge (2019-2021)
University of Georgia (adjunct)
Bitty Roy (2020-2021)
University of Oregon
Barbara Thiers (2019-2020)
New York Botanical Garden (ret.)
Stephen Russell - Co-founder (2018-2019)
Mycoflora of Indiana
Alija Mujic (2018-2019)
California State University-Fresno
Christian Schwarz (2018-2019)
Mushrooms of the Sky Islands (Southwest US)
FunDiS Volunteers
FunDiS Rare Fungi Challenges
West Coast
Christin Swearingen - North Alaska Environmental Center
Tiffany Theden - University of California, Santa Cruz
Jack Johnson - Northwest Mushroomers, Evergreen College
Grace Sommers - Minnesota
Mikhael Crystallah-Selk - Sonoma County Mycological Association
Else Vellinga - University of California, Berkeley
Northeast
Liam Nokes - Farlow Herbarium at Harvard
Rick Van de Poll - Northeast Mycological Federation, Ecosystem Management Consultants
Robbie Love - Cercle des mycologues de Montréal and McGill University
Sam Rogers - Foragers Supply, Vermont
Aaron Keaton - Keene State College
Tiffany Theden - Designer
Biodiversity Database
Justin Loucks (Sam Mitchel Herbarium of Fungi at Denver Botanic Gardens)
Mandy Hackney (Humboldt Bay Mycological Society)
Christy Horsley (Oregon Mycological Society, South Sound Mushroom Club)
DNA Sequencing
Harte Singer - Bay Area Applied Mycology (Treasurer), Brian Perry Lab Cal State East Bay
DNA Validators - Jean Lodge, Bitty Roy, Autumn Anglin, Danny Miller, Hayden Tyler Johnson,
Sarah DeLong-Duhon, Porter Reim, Jack Johnson, Sigrid Jakob, Sharon Squazzo,
Robin Rose, Igor Safanov, Dave Wasilewski
Project Registration
Gene Kremer - Paul Bunyan Mushroom Club, MN
Fungaria & Herbaria
Barbara Thiers - New York Botanical Garden (ret.)
Roo Vandergrift - USDA, Miama FL
Website
Andrew MacMillen - Kitsap Peninsula Mycological Society
Ken Buegeleisen - Sonoma County Mycological Association
Trey Richards - fundis.org creator
Academics
Cathie Aime, Purdue University
Danny Haelewaters, Ghent University, Belgium
Greg Mueller, Chicago Botanic Garden; Global Fungal Red List; FunDiS BOD
Bitty Roy, University of Oregon
Rob Stevenson, Univ. Massachusetts Boston & FunDiS BOD
Rick Van de Poll, Ecosystem Management Consultants
Roo Vandegrift, USDA, Miami
Else Vellinga, University of California, Berkeley
Community Scientists & Parataxonomists
Gabriela D'Elia, FunDiS Director
Ken Buegeleisen, FunDiS President & Treasurer, SOMA
Sigrid Jakob, FunDiS BOD
Liam Nokes, Dartmouth College
Lauren Ré, Evergreen College
Joanne Schwartz, FunDiS BOD
Bill Sheehan, FunDiS BOD
Christin Swearingen, Alaska
Mycological Society of America – Else Vellinga
North American Mycological Association – Mandie Quark
Univ. of Guelph - Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)
Legacy
Molecular Solutions LLC (Matt Gordon) - Portland OR
MycoMap.com - Stephen Russell
Purdue University - Cathie Aime Lab
U. Wisconsin La Crosse - Todd Osmundson Lab
Duke University - Rytas Vilgalys Lab
Thanks to Sigrid Jakob, Steve Ness, Alan Rockefeller, Christian Schwarz, Mandie Quark, Tom Bigelow, Bethany Teigen, George Pushkal, Jacob Kalichman, Adam Haritan and others for sharing photos or videos on this site.