Marie-Agnès Letrouit-Galinou

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Marie-Agnès Letrouit-Galinou
Born (1931-12-14) December 14, 1931 (age 92)
CNRS
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

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

CNRS for many years.[1][2]

In 1976 she was one of the main founders of the Association Française de Lichénologie, 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

Eponyms

Family

Genus
The standard author abbreviation Letr.-Gal. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[9]

References

  1. ^
    ISSN 0037-8941
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  2. ^
    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. ISBN 978-1-4612-5846-9
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  5. ^ Letrouit-Galinou, MA (1957). "Revision monographique du genre Laurera (lichens, Trypéthéliacées)" (PDF). Rev. Bryol. Et Lichenol. 26 (3–4): 207–264.
  6. ISBN 978-1-4757-9292-8
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  7. ISBN 978-1-4757-9292-8
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  8. ^ a b Hafellner, Josef; Bellemère, André (1981). "Elektronenoptische Untersuchungen an Arten der Flechtengattung Letrouitia gen. nov" [Electron-optical investigations on species of the lichen genus Letrouitia gen. nov.]. Nova Hedwigia (in German). 35: 282. Wir widmen diese Gattung Frau Prof. Dr. Marie-Agnes Letrout-Galinou (Paris), die sich um die lichenologische Feinstrukturforschung große Verdienste erworben hat. ("We dedicate this genus to Prof. Dr. Marie-Agnès Letrout-Galinou (Paris), who has made great contributions to lichenological fine structure research."
  9. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Letr.-Gal.

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