M. Catherine Aime
Assistant Professor

INVITED SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS

• Purdue University, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Invited Seminar, 14 November 2007, West Lafayette, IN: Biology and Systematics of Cacao Pathogens

• First Africa Conference on Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms, Plenary Session, 25 October 2006, Kampala, Uganda: Aime, MC and Isikhuemhen, O. From the field to the table: How to identify a good mushroom candidate for cultivation.

• University of Benin, Department of Botany, Invited Seminar, 16 October 2006, Benin City, Nigeria: Systematic Mycology

• United States Botanic Garden, Systematics Lecture Series, 7 September 2006, Washington, DC

• Exploring the lost world: In search of new species of fungi in remote rainforests of Guyana (general public--$8 admission fee).

• American Phytopathological Society/Mycological Society of America joint annual meeting, 29 July - 2 August 2006, Quebec City, Canada: New phylogenies: Revelations on cacao pathogens and the diseases they cause

• Penn State, Department of Plant Pathology, Invited Seminar, 24 April 2006, College Station, PA: Biology and systematics of New World cacao pathogens

• University of Southern Mississippi, Coastal Research Center, Invited Seminar, 2 March 2006, Ocean Springs, MS: What's eating chocolate: Biology and systematics of New World cacao pathogens

• Deep Hypha: A Phylogeny for the Kingdom Fungi 5th Annual Meeting, 24-26 February 2006, Baton Rouge, LA: An overview of the Urediniomycotina

• The Bean Improvement Cooperative 18th Biennial Meeting, 31 Oct - 3 Nov 2005, Newark DE: Molecular variability of bean rusts

• BARC-USDA-ARS World Cocoa Foundation Partnership Meeting/USDA Research Overview and Technology Transfer of Cacao Research: Current Status and Future Direction meeting, 12 Oct 2005 Beltsville, MD: Systematics of Cacao Pathogens

• BARC-USDA-ARS Cacao Endophyte Meeting, 26 Sept 2005 Beltsville, MD: Biology and Systematics of New World cacao pathogens

• Mycological Society of America/Mycological Society of Japan joint annual meeting, 31 July - 4 August 2005 Hilo, Hawaii: Molecular systematics of Uredinales

• Mycological Society of America/Mycological Society of Japan joint annual meeting, 31 July - 4 August 2005 Hilo, Hawaii: Aime, M.C. & T.W. Henkel. Strategies for bio-inventory: Lessons from Guyana

• Mycological Association of Washington, June 7 2005, Bethesda, MD: How to identify mushrooms 101

• Humboldt Bay Mycological Society, 20 April 2005, Arcata, CA: The Crepidotaceae: Common wood and litter decomposers

• University of New Mexico, Department of Biology, 16 Mar 2005, Las Cruces, NM: Ectomycorrhizal and saprotrophic fungal diversity in western Guyana.

• Moniliasis, Regional Breeding & Resistance Workshop, 21-25 Feb 2005, CATIE, Costa Rica: Nomenclature of Frosty Pod Rot Complex: Molecular analysis and impact on breeding.

• Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation Annual Meeting, July 12-16, 2004, Miami, FL: M.C. Aime, T. Henkel, and M. Chin. Ectomycorrhizal and saprotrophic fungal diversity in Western Guyana

• Southern Idaho Mycological Association, June 19, 2004, McCall, ID: Exploring Guyana: Fungi and Mycophagy in the Pakaraima Mountains

• Mycological Association of Washington, March 2, 2004, Glen Echo, MD: Exploring Guyana: fungi and mycophagy in the Pakaraima Mountains

• Mycological Association of Washington, Aug. 5, 2003, Chevy Chase, MD: Molecular systematics and the taxonomy of mushrooms

• University of Oxford, Department of Plant Sciences, June 2002, Oxford, UK: Exploring Guyana: searching for biodiversity in remote rainforests of the Pakaraima Mountains

• 8th European Conference on Fungal Genetics, Apr. 10, 2002, Pisa, Italy: M.C. Aime, and L.A. Casselton. hmg-1 encodes an Hmg-domain protein implicated in nuclear migration in Coprinus cinereus

• Osaka Institute for Fermentation, July 23, 1998, Osaka-ken, Japan: Molecular systematics in the Crepidotaceae

• Kyoto University Institute for Ecological Research, July 20, 1998, Kyoto-ken, Japan: Fungal molecular systematics

• Forest and Forest Products Research Institute, July 16, 1998, Tsukuba, Ibaraki-ken, Japan: Fungal molecular systematics

HONORS AND AWARDS

• 2006 - Awarded, as part of team, Beltsville Area's Technology Transfer Award for extraordinary assistance to APHIS/PPQ at ports in the U.S. and around the world

• 2001 - Awarded Virginia Tech Graduate Teaching Assistant of the Year Award for Excellence

• 2001 - Awarded Department of Biology Graduate Teaching Assistant of the Year, for excellence in teaching

• 2000 - Awarded Mycological Society of America's Graduate Research Award, for "An examination of phenotypic variance in Crepidotus"

• 1999 - Awarded Kosztarab Scholarship for Systematics, for graduate research in systematics

• 1998 - Awarded U.S. National Science Foundation and Monbusho (Japanese Ministry of Science and Education) Summer Fellowship for Foreign Researchers: Shiga University, Otsu, Japan.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

• 2008-present Mycology Advisory Committee, American Type Culture Collection, Manassas, VA

• 2007-present Academic Committee, The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation 2008 Annual Meeting, Paramaribo, Suriname

• 2006-present Secretary, Mycological Society of America

• 2005-2007 Mycological Society of America, Liaison with Amateur Mycological Clubs Committee

• 2004-2006 Mycological Society of America, Student Awards Committee

• 2004-2005 Mycological Association of Washington, DC, Education Chair

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS

• American Phytopathological Society

• Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation

• Mycological Society of America

• Society of Systematic Biologists

SIGNIFICANT FIELD RESEARCH AND COLLECTING

• North America: Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, Florida, Louisiana, Vermont, New York, Arizona, New Mexico, Idaho, California, Quebec, Ontario

• Neotropics: Guyana, Belize, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Barbados

• Europe: France, Great Britain, Romania, Norway, Germany, Croatia

• Asia/Pacific: Japan, Hawaii, Malaysia (Peninsular and Borneo)
  Africa: Nigeria, Uganda

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