Rosmarie Honegger

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Rosmarie Honegger
Born1947
Switzerland
NationalitySwiss
Alma mater University of Basel
Awards Acharius Medal
Linnean Medal
Scientific career
FieldsLichenology
Institutions University of California, Riverside
University of Zurich
Author abbrev. (botany) Honegger

Rosmarie Honegger (born 1947) is a Swiss lichenologist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Zurich.

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Academic career

Honegger was born in 1947 and grew up in Emmental, Switzerland. [1] She developed an early interest in plants, and was recommended to study lichens by a biology teacher. This led to a research project involving compiling a flora of her home town, which, in 1967, led to her earning a prize at an international science fair in San Francisco. The same year, she began studies at the University of Basel. [2]

Honegger earned her PhD in biology from the University of Basel in 1976. Her doctoral research examined the structure and function of the ascus (the spore-bearing structure) in the lichen genus Lecanora , using microscopic techniques. [2] In 1977 she accepted a postdoctoral research position in the Institute of Plant Biology at the University of Zurich. After a time working at the University of California, Riverside she returned to Switzerland as professor in the Institute of Plant Biology of the University of Zurich. [3] Honegger retired in 2009 [4] as Emeritus Professor. [5] From 2011 she worked with Dianne Edwards, a palaeobotanist at the Cardiff University on lichen fossils found on the Welsh borderland. [1] [6] [7]

Honegger was awarded the International Association for Lichenology's Acharius Medal for her lifetime work in lichenology in 2008 [8] and in 2015 she received the Linnean Medal recognising her contribution to the natural sciences. [9] She was one of the "Fifty influential lichenologists" discussed in Ingvar Kärnefelt's 2011 review of the scientific progress of lichenology and the scientists who study it. [2]

The standard author abbreviation Honegger is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. [10]

Among the lichens named in her honour is Xanthomendoza rosmarieae , described in 2011 by Sergey Kondratyuk and Kärnefelt. [11] [12]

Selected publications

References

  1. 1 2 "The Rhynie Chert – our earliest terrestrial ecosystem revisited". Royal Society. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 Kärnefelt, Ingvar (2009). "Fifty influential lichenologists". In Thell, Arne; Seaward, Mark R. D.; Feuerer, Tassilo (eds.). Diversity of Lichenology – Anniversary Volume. Bibliotheca Lichenologica. Vol. 100. Stuttgart: J. Kramer. pp. 283–368 [309–310]. ISBN   978-3-443-58079-7.
  3. ↑ Stofer, Silvia (18 July 2008). "Acharius Medallists: Rosmarie Honegger". International Association for Lichenology. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  4. ↑ "Rosmarie Honegger". BIO-PROTOCOL. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  5. ↑ "Prof. Rosmarie Honegger". University of Zurich. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  6. ↑ Rosmarie Honegger; Lindsey Axe; Dianne Edwards (30 May 2013). "Bacterial epibionts and endolichenic actinobacteria and fungi in the Lower Devonian lichen Chlorolichenomycites salopensis". Fungal Biology . 117 (7–8): 512–518. doi:10.1016/J.FUNBIO.2013.05.003. ISSN   1878-6146. PMID   23931116. Wikidata   Q34913287.
  7. ↑ Rosmarie Honegger; Dianne Edwards; Lindsey Axe (30 October 2012). "The earliest records of internally stratified cyanobacterial and algal lichens from the Lower Devonian of the Welsh Borderland". New Phytologist . 197 (1): 264–275. doi:10.1111/NPH.12009. ISSN   0028-646X. PMID   23110612. Wikidata   Q47818255.
  8. ↑ "Acharius Medallists". International Association for Lichenology. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  9. ↑ "Medal Winners". The Linnean Society. 15 June 2015. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  10. ↑ International Plant Names Index.  Honegger.
  11. ↑ "Names Record: Xanthomendoza rosmarieae S.Y. Kondr. & Kärnefelt, in Lumbsch et al., Phytotaxa 18: 114 (2011)". Index Fungorum. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  12. ↑ "Xanthomendoza rosmarieae". Mycobank Database. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
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