 1963) and the University of Chicago (M.S.1964, Ph.D. 1967), she was on the faculty of Tulane University for 35 years.She is a past president of the American Society for Microbiology (1990-1991) and of the Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (2001-2002), and past Editor in Chief of "Mycologia" (2000-2004).