2011 Phycological Society of America Annual Meeting

Preliminary information about the 2011 PSA annual meeting in Seattle, Washington can be found here.

List of PSA Archive Items

Bruce Parker has compiled a list of items (pdf) stored at the PSA archives at Virginia Tech. The mailing address and phone number for the PSA archives is listed below:

Special Collections Library
University Libraries
Virginia Tech
P.O. Box 90001
Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001 U.S.A.
Phone: 1-540-231-6170

Mike Guiry is the recipient of the 2010 PSA Award of Excellence

Congratulations to Mike Guiry who was honored with the Phycological Society of America's Award of Excellence at the PSA annual meeting in East Lansing, Michigan for his lifetime achievements in algal research!

Jeff Morris Wins the Bold Award in 2010

Jeff Morris won the Harold C. Bold award for the best oral presentation by a student at the 2010 PSA annual meeting. His winning talk is entitled "Evolution towards dependency for a free-living organism: heterotrophic 'helpers' increase resistance of Prochlorococcus to ecologically relevant concentrations of hydrogen peroxide". Great work Jeff!

2010 Provasoli Award Winners Announced

Arne C. Materna, Sabine Sturm, Peter G. Kroth, and Johann Lavaud won the Luigi Provasoli Award given to the most outstanding paper published in the Journal of Phycology in the previous year. Their paper is entitled "First induced plastid genome mutations in an alga with secondary plastids: psbA mutations in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum (Bacillariophyceae) reveal consequences of the regulation of photosynthesis". Well deserved congratulations to all!

Thank You 2010 Meeting Volunteers!

The Phycological Society of America appreciates the efforts of following people for providing an enjoyable meeting at East Lansing, MI in 2010.

• T.J. Evens
• Rich Triemer
• Eric Linton
• Matthew Bennett
• Krystle Wiegert
• Donovan Watza
• Louise Harder

The 2010 PSA annual meeting program is available for download.

Membership Information Update

The 2010 PSA Officer Elections will be conducted soon and we need to make sure that our Membership Contact Information (email address, physical mail address & phone number) are correct in our database. Please follow these instructions and check your membership profile and correct any information that needs updating.

Thank you,
Roy L. Lehman
PSA Program Director