DescriptionThis talk acts as an introduction to resinicolous fungi with a focus on species present in Northeastern North America. Interesting recently described and/or underreported exotic species will also be discussed. In particular I will discuss my recent taxonomic work on the recently-described class Sareomycetes and the discomycete Bisporella resinicola. The speakerI am a physics graduate student at Harvard University. Though I started my graduate research working on the development of the nervous system of Caenorhabditis elegans (the roundworm) several years ago engagement with the Boston Mycological Club piqued an interest in mycology that snowballed into a shift of my thesis research. In particular I have taken an interest in those fungi which dwell on the apparently inhospitable surface of solidified conifer resin.