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 phalcon005
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 Graduate programs in mycology 
#6175202 - 10/16/06 03:57 PM (6 years, 8 months ago) |
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I was jumping through posts and found in the middle of a commercial growing thread a bit about graduate programs in mycology. Here's the link.
In there it mentions a graduate program and it peaked my interest. After checking all over the webpage I found they have a 300 level and a 400 level medical mycology program and that is it. Is that what people were referring to as a graduate program????
On to my question then, are there any universities that have a graduate program covering mycology to anyone's recollection? Better yet, what was the bulk of the material covered? I would think the bulk of core mycological studies would be the pathogenic fungi, since I'm sure there is a ton of research money to prevent both human and agricultural fungal parasites. I was hoping to find a nice full upper level class focusing just on mycology that I could take sometime. Any light on the topic would be appreciated.
Better yet, does anyone here have an advanced degree in Mycology by chance? My first guess is no, or rather "Hell no, what were you thinking?!?"
Edited by phalcon005 (03/13/13 03:16 PM)
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Re: Graduate programs in mycology [Re: phalcon005]
#6175246 - 10/16/06 04:10 PM (6 years, 8 months ago) |
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Check Penn State. Also, look at Tom Volk's webpage. He's a professor of mycology at the University of Wisconsin. I've met Tom several times at various functions, and he's a great guy. Very knowledgeable.
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Re: Graduate programs in mycology [Re: RogerRabbit]
#6175352 - 10/16/06 04:34 PM (6 years, 8 months ago) |
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Sheesh, Tom Volk's page is the mother load! Tom seems to have the slideshow presentations for a bunch of mycology topics all at this page and a ton of more stuff, tomvolkfungi.net
I would highly recommend it to anyone else. Thanks RR!
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Re: Graduate programs in mycology [Re: phalcon005]
#6176261 - 10/16/06 09:19 PM (6 years, 8 months ago) |
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Good site!
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Re: Graduate programs in mycology [Re: tornup]
#6177839 - 10/17/06 10:57 AM (6 years, 7 months ago) |
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<<CSU's webpage I found they have a 300 level and a 400 level medical mycology program and that is it. Is that what people were referring to as a graduate program????>>
do you have a link to that? I'd like to know what they are teaching as mycomedicine? I thought most of those were reviews of the medicinal species, not practical applications?
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Re: Graduate programs in mycology [Re: curenado]
#6177992 - 10/17/06 12:01 PM (6 years, 7 months ago) |
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What avenues of mycology exist on a professional career level that would allow one to make a live-able income other than medicine?
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Re: Graduate programs in mycology [Re: phalcon005]
#6178103 - 10/17/06 12:49 PM (6 years, 7 months ago) |
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What I found at Chicago State (what kind of a name is that anyway?) is here. In short the 300 level is described as:
313 GENERAL MYCOLOGY LECTURE AND LABORATORY /6/ (4)
Prerequisite: BOT 205. Morphology, physiology, ultrastructure, ecology, economic importance, and classification of the fungi. Laboratory experimentation includes techniques for handling, identification, and isolation of parasitic and nonparasiticfungi.
and the 400 level class as:
414 MEDICAL MYCOLOGY(3)
Prerequisite: BIOL 240, 269; CHEM 251, and consent of the department.
Fundamental principles of the infectious disease process. Clinical techniques for isolation, identification and diagnosis of cutaneous and systemic mycoses; therapeutic control procedures. Credit will not be given for both BOT 314 and BOT 414.
Sorry Curenado, you're still the only person I know that practices mycomedicine, and they are just reviewing fungal pathogens for pre-meds.
Fraggin, I would think there would be a lot of research money out there if you had an advanced degree in mycology. Fungi cause billions of dollars of damage to the agriculture industry each year, and there are several pathogens that I assume are difficult to treat that are fungal. If you are into doing research for the department of agriculture I'm sure you could make a good living. There are also all the wineries and breweries as well, I'm still considering working part-time working as a QC tester for a brewery.
Edited by phalcon005 (03/13/13 03:19 PM)
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Re: Graduate programs in mycology [Re: phalcon005]
#6178362 - 10/17/06 02:16 PM (6 years, 7 months ago) |
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Awesome...
I have been working in the I.T. since I was 14. I fixed family and friends computers for spending money and worked for my school computer department and have been an IT professional since 98. I've been thinking about a career change lately. Once my wife starts up her own spa, I think I'll be able to afford to go back to school.
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Re: Graduate programs in mycology [Re: Fraggin]
#6178406 - 10/17/06 02:31 PM (6 years, 7 months ago) |
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Re: Graduate programs in mycology [Re: jlocke85]
#6181771 - 10/18/06 11:40 AM (6 years, 7 months ago) |
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<<Sorry Curenado, you're still the only person I know that practices mycomedicine>>
...and maybe Andrew Weil..
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Re: Graduate programs in mycology [Re: phalcon005]
#6568394 - 02/14/07 09:42 PM (6 years, 4 months ago) |
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On to my question then, are there any universities that have a graduate program covering mycology to anyone's recollection?
Even if a particular university doesn't offer an actual graduate programme in mycology, you could still essentially do graduate work in mycology.
Typically, if you're accepted into a science graduate programme, you have a choice of who you want to work with. You'll be working on their research project. You might techinically be enrolled as a graduate student in the faculty of chemistry, or biochemistry, or biology, but if you find a supervisor who does mycological research then your MSc thesis or PhD dissertation would be on mycology. Don't worry about whether or not you're "official" enrolled in a mycology programme per se.
If you're interested in doing mycological research, what you should do is search through the scientific literature for an area of mycology that you're interested in. If you find research that you think you'd like to be a part of then e-mail the principle investigator. Scientific publications will have contact details for the authors of the paper, so it's just a matter of finding out their e-mail address from the paper. Write them an e-mail explaining who you are, what your interest in their research is and ask whether or not they have any open spaces for new graduate students (or post-docs if you already have a PhD). You'll also have to find out what university they're at (obviously), check out their admission requirements and tuition fees, etc. and see if that works for you.
If you don't have an undergraduate degree in science yet, then what you also would want to do when you think of applying to universities is to check out the research pages for various professors and see if any of them interest you. If you find, for example, that someone at a certain university does research you're interested in and they're in the dept. of biology, then apply to major in biology at that university. Many BSc Hons. programmes will require that you complete a 4th year thesis project, which means that you'll have to ask a professor if you can work for them. This gives you a leg up on getting into a graduate programme with research that you're interested in doing.
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 Re: Graduate programs in mycology [Re: Xtals]
#6570999 - 02/15/07 04:36 PM (6 years, 4 months ago) |
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remember to call them a 'Principal' rather than 'principle' Investigator. they tend to be fairly anal academic types, allegedly. other than this tiny nitpick, i support the above advice 
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