Walter Gams

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Walter Gams (born August 9, 1934 in Zurich ; † April 9, 2017 in Bomarzo ) was an Austrian mycologist . He is the son of the biologist Helmut Gams (1893–1976). Its official botanical author abbreviation is " W. Gams ".

Life

Gams received his doctorate in 1960 from the University of Innsbruck . From 1961 to 1967 he worked at the branch of the Federal Biological Institute in Kiel- Kitzeberg under Klaus H. Domsch on the work “Mushrooms from Agricultural Soils” (G. Fischer, Stuttgart, 1970). He completed his habilitation in 1972 at RWTH Aachen University with the thesis "Cephalosporium-like molds (Hyphomycetes)" (G. Fischer, Stuttgart, 1971). From 1967 to 2008 he worked as a scientist at the Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures in Baarn, later Utrecht.

Walter Gams founded the non-profit study foundation for mycology in Cologne in 1995 to support the scientific work of young biologists, now the study foundation for mycological systematics and ecology in Munich. The Foundation primarily finances projects in the field of mycology with a focus on taxonomy, ecology and phytomedicine.

In 2012 Gams was awarded the Anton de Bary Medal of the German Phytomedical Society .

Act

As part of his doctoral thesis "The soil fungi in the central alpine raw humus" in 1957, Walter Gams discovered an unknown soil fungus in Obergurgl and recorded it in his dissertation under the temporary name Trichoderma inflatum . In 1971 Gams described the fungus as Tolypocladium inflatum . Under this name, the fungus went down in medical history as the " Cyclosporin A producer" for use in transplant surgery. Cyclosporin A is indispensable in transplant surgery today to reduce rejection reactions and is obtained from the fungus at least until 2000.

Fonts

  • 1967 - Microorganisms in the root region of wheat. Berlin. 77 pp.
  • 1971 - Cephalosporium-like molds (Hyphomycetes). Jena / Stuttgart. 262 pp.
  • 1973 - Fungi in agricultural soils (with Domsch, Klaus Heinz). London. 290 pp.
  • 1973 - Mushrooms from agricultural soils (with Domsch, Klaus Heinz). Jena / Stuttgart. 222 pp.
  • 1980 - Compendium of soil fungi (with Domsch, Klaus Heinz). Eching.
  • 1993 - Supplement and corrigendum to the Compendium of soil fungi. Eching. 27 pp.
  • 2007 - Compendium of Soil Fungi: Taxonomically revised 2nd edition by W. Gams (with Domsch, Klaus Heinz). Eching. 672 pp.
  • 2011 - The genera of Hyphomycetes (Keith Seifert, Gareth Morgan-Jones, Walter Gams, Bryce Kendrick). Utrecht, 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr Walter Gams passed away . Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, May 10, 2017. Accessed May 31, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Gams, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian mycologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 2017
Place of death Bomarzo