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Rosmarie Honegger (born 1947) is a Swiss lichenologist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Zurich.

Academic career

Honegger was born in 1947 and grew up in Emmental, Switzerland.[1] She graduated with a PhD in biology from the University of Basel in 1976. In 1977 she accepted a postdoctoral research position in the Institute of Plant Biology at the University of Zurich. After a time working at the University of California, Riverside she returned to Switzerland as professor in the Institute of Plant Biology of the University of Zurich.[2] Honegger retired in 2009[3] as Emeritus Professor.[4] From 2011 she worked with Dianne Edwards, a palaeobotanist at the Cardiff University on lichen fossils found on the Welsh borderland.[1][5][6]

Honegger was awarded the International Association for Lichenology's Acharius Medal for her lifetime work in lichenology in 2008[7] and in 2015 she received the Linnean Medal recognising her contribution to the natural sciences.[8]

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

Among the lichens named in her honour is Xanthomendoza rosmarieae, described in 2011 by Sergei Yakovlevich Kondratyuk and Ingvar Kärnefelt.[10][11]

Selected publications

References

  1. ^ a b "The Rhynie Chert – our earliest terrestrial ecosystem revisited". Royal Society. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  2. ^ Stofer, Silvia (18 July 2008). "Acharius Medallists: Rosmarie Honegger". International Association for Lichenology. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  3. ^ "Rosmarie Honegger". BIO-PROTOCOL. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  4. ^ "Prof. Rosmarie Honegger". University of Zurich. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  5. ^ Rosmarie Honegger; Lindsey Axe; Dianne Edwards (30 May 2013). "Bacterial epibionts and endolichenic actinobacteria and fungi in the Lower Devonian lichen Chlorolichenomycites salopensis". Fungal Biology. 117 (7–8): 512–518. doi:10.1016/J.FUNBIO.2013.05.003. ISSN 1878-6146. PMID 23931116. Wikidata Q34913287.
  6. ^ Rosmarie Honegger; Dianne Edwards; Lindsey Axe (30 October 2012). "The earliest records of internally stratified cyanobacterial and algal lichens from the Lower Devonian of the Welsh Borderland". New Phytologist. 197 (1): 264–275. doi:10.1111/NPH.12009. ISSN 0028-646X. PMID 23110612. Wikidata Q47818255.
  7. ^ "Acharius Medallists". International Association for Lichenology. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  8. ^ "Medal Winners". The Linnean Society. 15 June 2015. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  9. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Honegger.
  10. ^ "Names Record: Xanthomendoza rosmarieae S.Y. Kondr. & Kärnefelt, in Lumbsch et al., Phytotaxa 18: 114 (2011)". Index Fungorum. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  11. ^ "Xanthomendoza rosmarieae". Mycobank Database. Retrieved 3 February 2021.