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Bryce Kendrick, PhD, DSC, FRSC, author of “The Fifth Kingdom”, has designed this series of CDs for IAQ Professionals, IHs, CIHs, and Building - Construction Specialists. The intent is to foster and preserve high quality, educationally sound and widely accepted mold and bacterial education. Individuals seeking to increase their knowledge of the organisms commonly referred to as Mold and Bacteria will find that this series of CDs will promote self-improvement, ensure academic quality and aid in the quest for knowledge and excellence.

This educational series will deal with a number of the most common fungi found in the air spora and growing on various substrates in contaminated buildings. Our aim is to present enough information about many of the fungi to allow readers to identify each fungus, no matter how it presents itself to them, and to understand something of the conditions under which it grows.

This series, “Mold and other Fungi in Air and on Building Materials”, consists of six CDs:

Now AvailableCD1 - Cladosporium; Ulocladium; Alternaria; Stemphylium Coming SoonCD2 - Wood Rot FungiCD3 - AscomycetesCD4 - BasidiomycetesCD5 - Phialidic Fungi – Penicillium/ Aspergillus GroupCD6 - Molds, Fungi and other Taxa in Indoor Air Quality Additional training information along with Dr. Kendrick’s articles are available at the Aerobiology website:

www.aerobiology.net

Aerobiology Introduces Self Taught Fungal Training CDs

In This Issue

Aerobiology Fungal Training Course ........................................................ 1Meet Your Instructor ................................................................................. 2

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Self-Taught Fungal Training Course“Molds and other Fungi in Air and on Building Materials”

CD1 - Cladosporium; Ulocladium; Alternaria; Stemphylium

This self paced course can be purchased on CD for $150.00 by calling 877.648-9150. Review its contents as often as necessary, then submit your written exam for your Completion Certificate and Continuing Education Points.

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Mould MattersMeet Your Instructor

Mould Matters

I was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1979-80, was awarded a D.Sc. in 1980, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1981. I served as Honourary Secretary of the Academy of Science of the Royal Society for seven years. I have twice been a member of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Plant Biology Grant Selection Committee, chairing it once, and also served on the selection committee for the NSERC “1967” scholarships, Canada’s most prestigious graduate awards. In 1993, I was invited to give televised lectures in the biennial Prestige Lecture Day staged by the South African Foundation for Research Development in Pretoria. Following my “retirement” in 1994, I was made a Distinguished Professor Emeritus by the University of Waterloo. I was surprised and delighted to receive the 1995 Distinguished Mycologist Award of the Mycological Society of America, and was made a Centenary Fellow of the British Mycological Society in 1996. In 2001, I was awarded the Lawson Medal of the Canadian Botanical Association for lifetime achievement.

My micropublishing business “Mycologue Publications” keeps me fairly busy, and is still producing new mycological books, laboratory manuals, databases and CD-ROMs (as can be seen on its web page: http://www.mycolog.com)

In 2003, I became involved in a multi-year macrofungal inventory of Gwaii Haanas National Park in the Queen Charlotte Islands.

In 2004, I accepted the position of Technical Advisor to Aerobiology Laboratory Associates, Inc. of Reston, Virginia.

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Dr. Bryce Kendrick is the author of the Aerobiology Self Taught Fungal Training Courses. The following is a short biography that Dr. Kendrick wrote in 2004 when he joined Aerobiology Laboratory Associates, Inc. as our Technical Advisor

I was born in 1933 in Liverpool, England, and grew up and enjoyed an excellent education in that grimy port city. My mother and father encouraged my interest in biology, and made financial sacrifices to further my education, for which I will always be more than grateful. I was an early beneficiary of the post-war Labour Government’s legislation opening higher education to students from lower-income families. Indeed, I may well be the first professional in my family. I completed my Ph.D. in Mycology at the University of Liverpool at the age of 24. Jobs being scarce in Britain at that time, I sailed for Canada, where I had been awarded a Post-Doctoral Fellowship of the National Research Council. While working on moulds in Ottawa, I was offered a position by the Federal Government, and spent the next 6 years at the Biosystematics Research Centre, on the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa, picking the brains of my senior colleagues and acquiring the rudiments of mycology (I soon learned

that a Ph.D. is only the beginning of one’s professional education). Eventually, I developed a strong aversion to the bureaucracy, and left the Government in 1965 to take up a teaching position at the University of Waterloo. This was certainly one of the best decisions I ever made. My interests broadened, research support grew, and I was made a Full Professor in 1971. For almost thirty years I reveled in the freedom and responsibility of the job, and was involved in a ferment of teaching, research, writing and environmental activism, and enjoyed busy sabbaticals in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the U.S. I took “early retirement” in 1994, partly to move to the beautiful waterfront property we had found on Vancouver Island, partly to expand my activities in other areas, and to enjoy a new spectrum of living organisms. I am, however, also continuing to teach and to supervise graduate students. Although I am in many ways a generalist, with interests ranging from fungi to birds to coral reefs, my research has been primarily concerned with the fungi we call moulds — their systematics, development, and ecology. These fungi are particularly involved in the decomposition (recycling) of plant debris. My laboratory produced over 300 mycological publications. This includes 12 books, three of which are university textbooks, and one a children’s book. My textbook, “The Fifth Kingdom,” has enjoyed a modest success, seventeen thousand copies having been sold so far, and it has been widely adopted by universities in North America and other parts of the world. I have a deep commitment to communicate my enthusiasm for fungi, and this has taken me to lecture at universities in China, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Britain, France, South Africa, the U.S. and Canada, as well as to many schools and Natural History Societies in Canada and the U.S.

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