Terry W. Henkel
Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt
Arcata, CA 95521 USA
Email: twh5@humboldt.edu
Website and Henkel CV
M. Catherine Aime
Professor
Dept. of Botany and Plant Pathology
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907 USA
Email: maime@purdue.edu
Website: aimelab.wixsite.com/aimelab
Bryn Dentinger
Associate Professor
Department of Biology
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT 84112 USA
Email: bryn.dentinger@utah.edu
Post-doctoral and Field Research Associates
Rachel A. Koch
Post-doctoral Associate
Dept. of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University.
Email: koch17@purdue.edu
Mei Lin Chin
Field Research Associate
All-around specimen collector, field logistics and data manager.
Olivier Sene
Field Research Associate
Cameroonian field botanist and logistics expert.
Blaise Jumbam
Field Research Associate
Cameroon National Herbarium & Purdue University. Field botany, mycology, and logistics.
Constantin Engoulou
Field Research Associate
University of Tschang, Cameroon. Field biologist and budding mycologist.
Noah Siegel
Field Research Associate
Systematics of macrofungi writ large. World class mushroom photographer.
Todd Elliott
Field Research Associate
University of New England, Australia. World class mushroom photographer and truffle taxonomist.
Jessie K. Uehling
Field Research Associate
University of California – Berkeley. Systematics of Clavulinaceae.
Collaborating Taxonomists
P. Brandon Matheny
University of Tennessee. Systematics of Inocybaceae.
Lab website
Bart Buyck
Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris. Systematics of Cantharellaceae and Russulaceae.
Michael A. Castellano
USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station. Systematics of sequestrate fungi.
Current Graduate Students
Kennan Mighell
Humboldt State University
MSc candidate (2016-). Thesis: Systematics of Amanita from the Guiana Shield and Guineo-Congolian Africa.
Carolyn Delevich
Humboldt State University
MSc candidate (2016-). Thesis: Seedling-colonizing ectomycorrhizal fungi in the tropics: identity, roles in survival, and implications for monodominance.
Local Parataxonomists
Alemane Gabriel a.k.a. “Sikiro”
Somalomo Village. Decades of field work in the Dja Biosphere Reserve.
Essambe Jean-Pierre a.k.a. “Papa Chef”
Somalomo area, Baka community. A lifetime in the Dja.