Meredith Blackwell

Meredith May Blackwell (born 1940) is an American mycologist, known as one of the world's leading experts on fungi associated with arthropods.

Education and career Meredith Blackwell graduated in 1961 with B.S. in biology from the University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette and in 1963 with M.S. in biology from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. She graduated in 1973 with Ph.D. in botany from the University of Texas at Austin with thesis "A Developmental and Taxonomic Study of Protophysarum phloiogenum" under the supervision of C. J. Alexopoulos.

Eponyms Genera Blackwellomyces Meredithblackwellia (type of Fungi) - Mycologia Vol.105 (Issue 2) on page 490 in 2013. Meredithiella (type of Fungi) - Fungal Biology Vol.119 (Issue 11) on page 1086 in 2015.

Species Cadophora meredithiae Cordyceps blackwelliae Diphymyces blackwelliae Ganoderma meredithiae Kodamaea meredithiae Prolixandromyces blackwelliae Septobasidium meredithiae