Genevieve M. Gates

Genevieve M. Gates is an Australian mycologist, ecologist, and taxonomist who is particularly focused on the fungal diversity of Tasmania.

Work and encouragement of citizen science Gates started to publish articles on the macrofungi of Tasmania in 2002 with her long-time collaborator David Ratkowsky, and finished her PhD in 2009. and was also a co-author in the laminated field booklet FungiFlip: A pictorial guide to Tasmanian fungi. a major study of the genus Entoloma in Tasmania.

She is an honorary associate at the University of Tasmania, and volunteers at the Herbarium of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. Gates is also called upon to provide advice to medical professionals, when a patient is suspected of ingesting poisonous fungi. Entoloma asprellopsis G.M.Gates and Noordel. Entoloma austroprunicolor G.M.Gates & Noordel. Entoloma melanophtalmum G.M.Gates and Noordel.

The specimens collected by Gates in Tasmania are held in herbarium collections around the world.This includes over 2,000 specimens held by the Tasmanian Herbarium, over 4,000 specimens held by the National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Outside of Australia, a smaller number are held by the Tartu University Herbarium, and elsewhere.

Honours, and awards Gates has the following species named after her: Lactarius genevieveae D. Stubbe & Verbeken (now Lactifluus genevieveae) Fomitiporia gatesiae Y.C. Dai & F. Wu [as 'gatesii '] Hydnellum gatesiae J.K. Douch, L.J. Vaughan & T.W. May

After joining the Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club in the 1990s, Gates was also awarded the Australian Natural History Medallion by the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria in 2022. In 2023, she was inducted into the Tasmanian Honour Roll of Women for service to education and training, the environment, and science and research.