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Marie-Agnès Letrouit-Galinou
Born (1931-12-14) December 14, 1931 (age 92)
Mayenne[1]
Alma materUniversity of Rennes
University of Paris
AwardsPrix Gandoger de Cryptogamie (1968)[1]
Acharius Medal (2004)[2]
Scientific career
FieldsLichenology
Mycology
Botany
InstitutionsCNRS
Thesis l'ontogénie et l'anatomie comparées de quelques Discolichens
Author abbrev. (botany)Letr.-Gal.[3]

Marie-Agnès Letrouit-Galinou (née Galinou, born 1931) is a French botanist, mycologist, and lichenologist, known for her contribution to revolutionizing the scientific understanding of ascomycete development and classification.[2]

Education and career

After secondary education at the Lycée de Jeunes Filles [fr] in Rennes, Marie-Agnès Galinou graduated in 1951 with her undergraduate degree from the Faculty des Sciences of the University of Rennes. She married in the mid-1950s and changed her surname to Letrouit-Galinou. She received in 1958 her doctorate from the University of Paris with a doctoral thesis on the comparative anatomy and ontogeny of discolichen ascomata, i.e. those lichenized ascomycetes in which the fruiting body has a rounded or oval shape like a disc.[1] Her doctoral supervisor was Marius Chadefaud. David L. Hawksworth refers her as one of Chadefaud's "gang of four" — consisting of her with André Bellèmere, Marie-Claude Janex-Favre, and Agnès Jarguey-Leduc. Under Chadefaud's influence, the four showed that "the then dominating Nannfeldt-Luttrell views of ascomycete development and classification were unsound."[2][4] By the mid-1970s electron microscopic studies confirmed their research.[2]

In the early part of her career she worked at Rennes with Henry Nicollon des Abbayes and was strongly influenced by him in her study of lichen systematics and ecology. She published in 1958 an outstanding monograph on the genus Laurera.[2][5] Later in her career she did research on the effects of air pollution on lichens and stimulated other French lichenologists to do such research.[2] She worked in Paris for the CNRS from 1958 to 1999.[1][2]

In 1976 she was one of the main founders of the Association Française de Lichénologie in 1976, served as the Association's first vice-president, and then served as the Association's second president from 1978 to 1980. In 1993 she worked closely with David L. Hawksworth in planning NATO's Advanced Research Workshop on "Ascomycete Systematics" held in Paris. The Workshop was a big success with 140 researchers from 24 countries. At the "Ascomycete Systematics" Workshop the lichenological "gang of four" presented a summary of their now famous results and the concepts introduced by Chadefaud.[2][6][7]

Letrouit-Galinou not only promoted lichenology in France, but also did her research with extremely limited financial resources. She and her collaborators had to work with quite inexpensive microscopes. The three women of the "gang of four" painted the walls of their laboratory because they had no funds to hire professional wall painters. When she retired in August 1999 from the CNRS, she donated her library to the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle.[2]

Selected publications

  • Chadefaud, M.; Galinou, M. A. (1953). "Sur l'aque des lichens du genre Pertusaria et son importance phylogénétique". Comptes Rendues des Seances de l'Académie des Sciences, Paris, Série D. 237: 1178–1180.
  • Galun, Margalith, ed. (1988). "Chapter 5 (part A). Asci, Ascospore, and Ascomata by André Bellemère and Marie Agnes Letrouit-Gallinou". CRC Handbook of Lichenology. Vol. vol. 2. CRC Press. pp. 161–180. ISBN 0-8493-3582-5. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)

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The standard author abbreviation Letr.-Gal. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[12]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Chadefaud, M. (2014). "Rapport pour l'attribution du Prix Gandoger de Cryptogamie à Madame Marie-Agnès Letrouit-Galinou en 1968". Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France. 115 (7–8): 609–612. doi:10.1080/00378941.1968.10838586. ISSN 0037-8941.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i Hawksworth, David L. "Marie-Agnès Letrouit-Galinou, Acharius Medallists". International Association for Lichenology (lichenology.org).
  3. ^ "Letrouit-Galinou". Fungal Name Author Details, Index Fungorum. 1957.
  4. ^ Luttrell, E. S. (1981). "The Pyrenomycete Centrum— Loculoascomycetes". Ascomycete Systematics. Springer Series in Microbiology. pp. 124–137. doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-5844-5_9. ISBN 978-1-4612-5846-9.
  5. ^ Letrouit-Galinou, MA (1957). "Revision monographique du genre Laurera (lichens, Trypéthéliacées)" (PDF). Rev. Bryol. Et Lichenol. 26 (3–4): 207–264.
  6. ^ Letrouit-Galinou, M.-A.; Parguey-Leduc, A.; Janex-Favre, M.-C. (1994). "Ascoma Structure and Ontogenesis in Ascomycete Systematics". Ascomycete Systematics. pp. 23–36. doi:10.1007/978-1-4757-9290-4_3. ISBN 978-1-4757-9292-8.
  7. ^ Parguey-Leduc, A.; Janex-Favre, M.-C.; Letrouit-Galinou, M.-A.; Bellemère, A. (1994). "M. Chadefaud and Ascomycete Systematics". Ascomycete Systematics. pp. 37–41. doi:10.1007/978-1-4757-9290-4_4. ISBN 978-1-4757-9292-8.
  8. ^ Cannon PF, Kirk PM. 2007. Fungal Families of the World. Wallingford: CABI. p. 17. ISBN 0-85199-827-5
  9. ^ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. 2008. Dictionary of the Fungi (10ª ed.) Wallingford: CABI. p. 374. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8
  10. ^ "Letrouitia, Géneros de Líquenes Tropicales, con Enfasis en Taxones Neotropicales". WaybackMachine. Archived from the original on 2016-03-18.
  11. ^ "Letrouitia Lichen". Encyclopedia of Life, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian.
  12. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Letr.-Gal.
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