Dijon Meeting
Meeting of the Minds
All of the systematists represented below were involved in this project. All except Sidney met in a conference room at INRA in Dijon, France for two days: April 20 and 21, 2012. Everyone naturally had their own strong views and opinions about various aspects of the topics that needed to be covered and addressed, but the discourse was civil and egos were subsumed to achieve a consensus. We all gained insights from each other, and best of all, we had fun!
Dirk Redecker
Dirkteaches and conducts research at the Université de Bourgogne and INRA in Dijon, France. He organized this two-day session. This was an appropriate setting, since Dirk now is curator of fungal stocks at INRA that are the core of the Bank of European Glomeromycota (BEG).
Herbert Stockinger
Herbert, who was working at the time of this meeting in Dirk’s lab. He was tasked with taking notes on everything that was being discussed—a daunting task given our collective talent for verbosity!
Arthur Schüßler
Arthur, who is teaching and conducting research at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany and has been instrumental in developing an rDNA gene phylogeny of Glomeromycota.
Christopher Walker
Christopher, who is the only retired member of the group, but who has been contributed substantively as a long-time colleague of Arthur and who has been working on Glomeromycotan fungi long before taxonomy was fashionable.
Joe Morton
Me (Joe Morton). I’m not represented in these photos because I was holding the camera. The photo here was taken by Janusz Blaszkowski on the first evening he hosted my visit to his lab. I looked a lot more comfortable here than I did at the meeting.
Sidney Stürmer
Sidney with his growing family (lovely wife Preta and new son Heitor) taken in his hometown during the Oktoberfest—the reason for the cute attire. He is a faculty member at Universidade Regional de Blumenau in southern Brazil and he also is curator of a relatively new culture collection, Coleção Internacional de Cultura de Glomeromycota or CICG. Sidney did not attend this meeting, but he contributed significantly to the manuscript that followed.
