Laura Guzmán Dávalos

Laura Guzmán Dávalos (born 1961) is a Mexican mycologist, biologist and lichenologist. She has been the head of the Botany and Zoology Department at the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) from 1994–1998. From 2007 to 2014, she served as the general coordinator of the UdeG doctoral program in ecology, biosystematics, and natural and agricultural resources management.

Early life and education

Guzmán-Dávalos was born in Mexico City in 1961,[1] and is the daughter of the well-known mycologist and ethnomycologist, Gaston Guzmán (1932–2016)[2][3] who devoted his life and research to mushrooms of the genus Psilocybe, and the medicinal and divinatory uses of mushrooms by various Indigenous peoples of Mexico.[4]

Guzmán-Dávalos received a degree in biology from the National School of Biological Sciences at the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) in 1984, and her master's degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1994. She received her doctorate degree in 2004 from the same university.[5][6]

Research

Guzman-Davalos' mycological research[7] includes the genera Ganoderma, Psilocybe, Pluteus and Gymnopilus (Cortinariaceae). She has published over 120 papers in peer-reviewed journals,[8] seven book chapters and authored a book on lepiotaceous fungi.[9][10] She has conducted mycological and lichenological exploration and field work in Belgium, China, Colombia, Cuba, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, France, Guatemala, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom the United States and Venezuela.[6]

Honors
  • Sociedad Botánica de México.
  • Del Comité Ejecutivo de la International Mycological Association
  • International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT).
  • American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT).

References
  1. "Laura Guzmán-Dávalos (1961-)". International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
  2. Janikian, Michelle (2019). Psilocybin Mushroom Companion. Simon and Schuster, Ulysses Press. ISBN 9781612439624. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
  3. "Aclarando las relaciones evolutivas entre especies de hongos alucinógenos". NCTA: Amazings, Noticias de la Ciencia y la Tecnologia. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
  4. Viebrock, Susan (13 August 2022). "Telluride Mushroom Festival: Keynote Speaker Laura Guzman-Davalos". Telluride Inside. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
  5. "Laura Guzman Davalos". Telluride Institute. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
  6. "Guzmán-Dávalos, Laura (1961-)". Global Plants. Natural History Museum (BM). Retrieved 4 September 2022.
  7. "Laura Guzmán Dávalos AD Scientific Index 2022 Universidad de Guadalajara". AD Scientific Index. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
  8. "Laura Guzmán Dávalos, Universidad de Guadalajara". Google Scholar. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
  9. "Laura Guzman-Davalos". Universidad de Guadalajara. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
  10. Guzman-Davalos, Laura. "A Checklist of the Lepiotaceous Fungi (with Information on Its Synonyme, Distribution, Edibility, and Bibliography)". Google Books. Koeltz Scientific Books. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
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