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Research Project: Innovative Food and Feed Safety Research to Eliminate Mycotoxin Contamination in Corn and other Crops

Location: Mycotoxin Prevention and Applied Microbiology Research

Title: Donald Thomas Wicklow, 1940–2021: Distinguished Fungal Ecologist and Model Scientist

Author
item GLOER, JAMES - University Of Iowa
item Naumann, Todd
item O Donnell, Kerry

Submitted to: Mycologia
Publication Type: Other
Publication Acceptance Date: 7/25/2022
Publication Date: 8/31/2022
Citation: Gloer, J.B., Naumann, T.A., O'Donnell, K. 2022. Donald Thomas Wicklow, 1940–2021: Distinguished fungal ecologist and model scientist. Mycologia. https://doi.org/10.1080/00275514.2022.2108977.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00275514.2022.2108977

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: This brief note is a memorial for Donald T. Wicklow (1940 - 2021) who worked in what is now called the Mycotoxin Prevention and Applied Microbiology Research Unit at the National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, ARS-USDA, in Peoria, Illinois from 1964 to 2014. Don lives on in his great legacy of scholarly fungal ecological studies, represented by over 200 peer-reviewed publication, 24 book chapters, 3 books, and 12 patents, supported in large part by the ARS-USDA’s mycotoxin research program in Peoria, Illinois where he worked for 37 years (1977-2014), and by significant funding from the National Science Foundation (1973-1984; 1989-2013) and National Institutes of Health (2004-2008). After joining USDA-ARS in Peoria, filling the position vacated by Dorothy I. Fennell as curator of the Aspergilli and Penicilli in the ARS Culture Collection (NRRL), his research for the next 37 years focused on understanding the ecology of mycotoxin-producing fungi, with a goal of controlling toxin contamination of cereal crops. Interspecific competition among fungi and other organisms was constant theme throughout his career.