FunDiS Team

Board Member Bios

Ken Buegeleisen, President & Treasurer
Sonoma County (CA) Mycological Association (Treasurer) 
Lauryn Hart
Viridis Graduate Institute
Sigrid Jakob
New York Mycological Society (President)
Joan Kutcher, Secretary
Mycoflora of the Hudson Valley (NY)
Greg Mueller
Chicago Botanic Garden
IUCN SSC Fungus Conservation Committee
Joanne Schwartz
Macrofungi of the Channel Islands (CA), Macrofungi of Orange County (CA)
Bill Sheehan, Co-founder
Northeast Georgia Funga
Rob Stevenson
University of Massachusetts-Boston
Gabriela D'Elia, Director - Ex Officio
Mushroom Society of Utah (Vice President)


Emeritus Board Members

Stephen Russell (2018-2019), Co-founder
Mycoflora of Indiana
Alija Mujic (2018-2019)
California State University-Fresno
Christian Schwarz (2018-2019)
Mushrooms of the Sky Islands (Southwest US)
Barbara Thiers (2019-2020)
New York Botanical Garden (ret.)
Jean Lodge (2019-2021)
University of Georgia (adjunct)
Bitty Roy (2020-2021)
University of Oregon

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
Alex Mayberry - Designer

Biodiversity Database
Layla Myers (University of California Santa Cruz)
Justin Loucks (Sam Mitchel Herbarium of Fungi at Denver Botanic Gardens)
Mandy Hackney (Humboldt Bay Mycological Society)
Christy Horlsey (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

Funga Decoded Newsletter
Michael Pace -  Editor, Arkansas
Tiffany Theden - Designer, Washington

Deep Funga Blog
Open - Editor 

Social Media
Justin Bazzano - Social Media Specialist, Maine
Twitter - Danny Haelewaters, Belgium

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
Aishwarya Veerabahu - Riverside, California
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