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Britt Bunyard
A photo of Britt Bunyard, the Editor-in-Chief of FUNGI Magazine.
Mycologist Britt Bunyard - Editor-in-Chief of FUNGI Magazine

Britt Bunyard

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Britt Bunyard (born August 5, 1966) is an American mycologist, author, and the Editor-in-Chief of FUNGI Magazine.[1][2][3][4] He is known for his contributions to the field of mycology and his efforts in public education about fungi. He has authored several books and has been a figure in both scientific and popular media.[5]

Early life and education

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He earned an MS degree in Plant Biochemistry from Clemson University in 1991, focusing on endophytic fungi and phytohormones.[6] He completed his Ph.D. in Plant Pathology at Penn State University in 1995, researching the evolution of macrofungi under Dr. Daniel J. Royse.[7][8] Following graduation, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the USDA-ARS at Ft. Detrick, Maryland.[9]

Career

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As an editor he served as Editor-in-Chief of the North American Mycological Association’s journal McIlvainea,[10] and as a subject editor for the Entomological Society of America’s journal Annals of the Entomological Society of America,[11] and the Mycological Society of America's journal Mycologia.[7] He founded the mycology journal Fungi in 2008, and has served as Editor-in-Chief until today.[1][12] Bunyard has published many academic and popular science papers[5] and has been featured on the NPR’s All Things Considered,[13] and Wisconsin Foodie[14] television programs; and interviewed or quoted in Discover Magazine, The Atlantic, Vox,[3] Vogue,[15] Saveur.[16] Since 2014, he has served as Executive Director of the Telluride Mushroom Festival, the largest wild mushroom festival in North America.[15]

Books

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  • The Little Book of Fungi (Little Books of Nature) (2024), Princeton University Press, ISBN 9780691259888[17]
  • The Lives of Fungi: A Natural History of Our Planet's Decomposers (The Lives of the Natural World, 2) (2024), Princeton University Press, ISBN 9780691259888[18]
  • The Beginner’s Guide to Mushrooms (2021), Britt Bunyard and Tavis Lynch, Quarry Books,[19] ISBN 9781631599118
  • Amanitas of North America (2020), Britt Bunyard and Jay Justice, The Fungi Press[20] ISBN 9780578675725

Awards

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In 2021 he was awarded the Gary Lincoff Award “For Contributions to Amateur Mycology,” by the North American Mycological Association—NAMA’s most prestigious honor for American mycologists.[21]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Britt Bunyard". Wisconsin Mycological Society. Archived from the original on 2024-03-02. Retrieved 2024-07-08.
  2. ^ Watson, Sarah (September 18, 2022). "In shadow of giant mountains, they explore vital world of mushrooms". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on October 1, 2022. Retrieved July 9, 2024.
  3. ^ a b Nguyen, Terry (Apr 9, 2021). "How mushrooms took over food, wellness, and (of course) drugs". VOX. Archived from the original on July 9, 2024. Retrieved July 9, 2024.
  4. ^ Rapp Learn, Joshua (December 11, 2020). "Magic Mushrooms Are Expanding Minds and Advancing an Emerging Field of Science". Discover Magazine. Archived from the original on June 9, 2024. Retrieved July 9, 2024.
  5. ^ a b "Britt Bunyard - Academia.edu". independent.academia.edu. Retrieved 2024-07-08.
  6. ^ Bunyard, Britt (August 1991). "Evidence for Elevated Phytohonnone Levels in Endophyte Infected Tall Fescue". Archived Theses. Archived from the original on July 10, 2024. Retrieved July 10, 2024.
  7. ^ a b Bunyard, Britt; Nicholson, Michael; Royse, Danie (August 29, 2018). "A systematic assessment of Morchella using RFLP analysis of the 28S ribosomal RNA gene". Mycologia. 84 (6): 762–772. doi:10.1080/00275514.1994.12026481. Archived from the original on July 10, 2024. Retrieved July 10, 2024.
  8. ^ Bunyard, Britt; Chaichuchote, Suvalux; Nicholson, Michael; Royse, Daniel (February 1996). "Ribosomal DNA analysis for resolution of genotypic classes of Pleurotus". Mycological Research. 100 (2): 143–150. doi:10.1016/S0953-7562(96)80112-2. Archived from the original on 2024-07-10. Retrieved 2024-07-10 – via Elsevier Science Direct.
  9. ^ Schneider, William; Damsteegt, Vernon; Stone, Andrew; Kuhlmann, Micki; Bunyard, Britt; Sherman, Diana; Graves, Michael; Smythers, Gary; Smith, Oney; Hatziloukas, Efstathios (March 30, 2011). "Molecular analysis of soybean dwarf virus isolates in the eastern United States confirms the presence of both D and Y strains and provides evidence of mixed infections and recombination". Virology. 412 (1): 46–54. doi:10.1016/j.virol.2011.01.001. PMID 21256532 – via Elsevier Science Direct.
  10. ^ Bunyard, Britt (2006). "From the Editor" (PDF). McIlvainea. 16 (1): 1. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2024-03-02. Retrieved 2024-07-08.
  11. ^ Ma, Zhanshan (Sam); Bechinski, Edward (March 1, 2008). "Developmental and Phenological Modeling of Russian Wheat Aphid (Hemiptera: Aphididae)". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 101 (2): 351–361. doi:10.1603/0013-8746(2008)101[351:DAPMOR]2.0.CO;2. We thank two anonymous reviewers and the subject editor, Britt Bunyard, whose comments and suggestions greatly improved the quality of the article.
  12. ^ "Britt Bunyard at Cambridge University". Princeton University Press. April 26, 2023. Archived from the original on July 10, 2024. Retrieved July 10, 2024.
  13. ^ Silverman, Lauren (October 9, 2011). "Caterpillar Fungus: The Viagra Of The Himalayas". NPR. Archived from the original on February 12, 2021. Retrieved July 10, 2024.
  14. ^ "Wisconsin Foodie - Morel Hunt". IMDB. January 5, 2011. Archived from the original on July 11, 2024. Retrieved July 8, 2024.
  15. ^ a b Riley-Adams, Ella (September 12, 2019). "The Place Where Mushrooms Get Their Own Parade". Vogue. Archived from the original on January 4, 2024. Retrieved July 8, 2024.
  16. ^ Kat, Craddock (July 13, 2017). "We Met Some Fungi in the Morel Capital of America: Wisconsin". Saveur. Archived from the original on July 8, 2024. Retrieved July 10, 2024.
  17. ^ Bunyard, Britt (2024). The Little Book of Fungi (Little Books of Nature). Princeton University Press (published 2024-10-22). ISBN 9780691259888.
  18. ^ Bunyard, Britt Allen (July 15, 2022). The Lives of Fungi: A Natural History of our Planet's Decomposers. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-22984-3. OCLC 1264721280.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  19. ^ Bunyard, Britt Allen; Lynch, Tavis (2021). The beginner's guide to mushrooms: everything you need to know, from foraging to cultivating. Beverly, MA: Quarry Books. ISBN 978-1-63159-911-8. OCLC 1197772139. Archived from the original on 2024-07-11. Retrieved 2024-07-08.
  20. ^ Bunyard, Britt; Justice, Jay (2020). Amanitas Of North America. The Fungi Press. ISBN 9780578675725.
  21. ^ Reed, Bruch. "Gary Lincoff Award for Contributions to Amateur Mycology". North American Mycological Association. Archived from the original on March 14, 2024. Retrieved July 8, 2024.
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