Update Nov. 20, 2023: We recently learned that our grant proposal to the National Science Foundation to support the Lentinus project has been approved! We’ll post more information about the project shortly. As part of this project, we will be hiring a postdoctoral fellow. The job ad is on the MSA jobs board (and elsewhere).
These pages are under construction! A new project site is being created as part of Thomas Roehl’s Fungus Fact Friday site. Eventually, project updates and other information will be on the new site.
The Hibbett lab at Clark University seeks specimens or spore prints of Lentinus tigrinus, aka the “tiger sawgill”. This species occurs in two distinct forms: a typical gilled form (i.e., an “agaric”) and a puffball-like “secotioid” form, in which the spore-producing structures are concealed under a persistent veil. We are interested in the genetics and evolution of the secotioid form, so we need live cultures. On these pages, we explain how to recognize L. tigrinus, where to find it, how to collect it, and how to get your collections to us. We also provide links to pages and publications with more information on this fascinating fungus.
Hibbett lab news 