Joyce E. Longcore
U.S. mycologist
Joyce E. Longcore is a mycologist and an associate research professor at the University of Maine. She is most well known for first culturing and describing Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis which is a species of Chytridiomycota fungi that was the first to be known to attack vertebrates. She continues to collect and isolate Chytridiomycota cultures for other researches to use for their own studies.
Education
In 1960, Longcore received her B.S. in Biology from the University of Michigan. and then worked under Dr. Frederick K. Sparrow for a year as a postgraduate. Advised by Dr. Robert Johns, former PhD student of Sparrow, she then earned a M.A. from Indiana University in 1963. Longcore then went back to the University of Michigan to work for Sparrow before marrying and becoming a full-time mother to her two sons. Nearly 20 years later in 1984, Longcore entered graduate school at the University of Maine with Dr.
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