Identifying Fungi by Guy St. Germain and Richard Summerbell

I have used the lab reference book Identifying Fungi 2nd Edition by Guy St-Germain and Richard Summerbell as the text for a course on indoor air fungal identification taught at the University of Minnesota.  The students like the accessible format with both a textual and visual key at the beginning of the book.  Each organism has a line drawing to scale, a photo of the organism in culture and a photo of the organism under light microscopy. 

The glossary and suggestions media and stains are also helpful.  I have met both of the authors.  Guy St-Germain took a class with me in San Antonio, Texas with the National Laboratory Training Network.  Richard Summerbell taught a section of a fungal identification course in Ottawa, Canada. 

As we've trained staff in our department on fungal identification, this book and the first edition have been the one we've used to get them started to become competent at identifying some of the most common indoor molds on culture. 

Identifying filamentous fungi Glen Roberts - PhD - part one - 24 min. 

Monomorphic fungi Glen Roberts - PhD - part two - 26 min.

Monomorphic fungi Glen Roberts - PhD - part three - 16 min.