Alma Joslyn Whiffen-Barksdale, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alma Joslyn Whiffen-Barksdale

American mycologist

Date of Birth: 25-Oct-1916

Place of Birth: Hammonton, New Jersey, United States

Date of Death: 05-Jul-1981

Profession: botanist, mycologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Alma Joslyn Whiffen-Barksdale (October 25, 1916 – July 5, 1981) was a U.S.
mycologist who discovered cycloheximide.
She was born in Hammonton, New Jersey.
She received a bachelor's degree from Maryville College (1937).
Her Masters (botany, 1939) and Ph.D.
(botany and mycology, 1941) were earned at the University of North Carolina.
In 1941-42.
She was a Carnegie Fellow, and in 1951, she was a Guggenheim Fellow.
Barksdale worked at the Department of Antibiotic Research of the Upjohn Company of Kalamazoo, Michigan (1943–52) and at the New York Botanical Garden.
Barksdale became a foundational figure in the study of Achlya, a genus of aquatic fungi with a unique reproductive system, while working at the New York Botanical Garden; The Mycological Society of America[1] and the Achlya Newsletter, a publication of continuing research on Achlya, both published retrospectives on her life and work following her death in 1981.