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 Vardeh

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