Background
Mueller, Gregory M. was born on June 22, 1953 in East St. Louis, Illinois, United States. Son of Raymond A. and Helen A. Mueller.
Botanist museum curator researcher
Mueller, Gregory M. was born on June 22, 1953 in East St. Louis, Illinois, United States. Son of Raymond A. and Helen A. Mueller.
Bachelor in Botany, Southern Illinois University, 1976. Master of Science in Botany, Southern Illinois University, 1979. Doctor of Philosophy in Botany, University Tennessee, 1982.
Visiting scientist with Professor Nils Fries, Institute Physiological Botany Uppsala U., Sweden, 1982-1983; postdoctoral fellow, Mountain Lake Biological Station, Pembroke, Virginia, 1983; postdoctoral research assistant, U. Tennessee, Knoxville, 1983; postdoctoral research associate with Doctor Joseph Ammirati, department botany, U. Washington, Seattle, 1984-1985; assistant curator, Mycology, Department Botany, Field Museum Natural History, Chicago, 1985-1992; associate curator, head cryptogams, Mycology, Department Botany, Field Museum Natural History, Chicago, since 1993. Lecturer committee evolutionary biology University of Chicago, since 1994.
Consultant Regional Poison Control Center, Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, other Chicago area hospitals, on call for mushroom poisoning cases, since 1985. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, Mycological Society of America (graduate research award 1981, 1st prize paper 1981, Alexopoulos prize 1992, chairman committee liaison Mycological Society of America and amateur mycological societies, 1987-1991, liaison conservation cultural resources since 1991, counselor systematics/evolution since 1993), North America Mycological Association (committee inter-society liaison since 1991, edition committee since 1990, chairman edition committee since 1991), Sociedad Mexicana de Micología, Illinois Academy of Sciences, Illinois Mycological Association (science advisor since 1985), Botanical Society of America, American Society Plant Taxonomists, Association Tropical Biological, Society Systematic Biologists.
Married Betty A. Strack, June 4, 1977.