The talk

Rosanne Healy will talk about travels and work to better understand the relationships ecology and life history of the group of fungi that we know as “the cup fungi”. These are the fungi that include the famous black perigord truffles delectable morels and iconic scarlet cups. They also include many lesser known but fascinating truffles and cup-shaped columniform and saddle-shaped fungi. Rosanne Healy has traveled and worked with Dr. Pfister and a team of truffle mycologists for twenty five years tracking down data to help fill in the natural history of truffles and cup fungi to better understand how they are related what their ecologies are and how their ancestors moved around to where they are now. Dr. Rosanne Healy received her advanced degrees from Iowa State University and the University of Minnesota. She did post doctoral work with Don Pfister at Harvard. Her research centers on Pezizomycete systematics with an emphasis on truffles. She has been working in the teaching program and as a fungarium manager and research scientist in Matthew Smith’s Lab at the University of Florida since 2015.