Rosmarie Honegger

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

Rosmarie Honegger
Born	1947 Switzerland
Nationality	Swiss
Alma mater	University of Basel
Awards	Acharius Medal Linnean Medal
Scientific career
Fields	Lichenology
Institutions	University of California, Riverside University of Zurich
Author abbrev. (botany)	Honegger

Academic career

Honegger was born in 1947 and grew up in Emmental, Switzerland.^[1] She developed an early interest in plants, and was recommended to study lichens by a biology teacher. This led to a research project involving compiling a flora of her home town, which, in 1967, led to her earning a prize at an international science fair in San Francisco. The same year, she began studies at the University of Basel.^[2]

Honegger earned her PhD in biology from the University of Basel in 1976. Her doctoral research examined the structure and function of the ascus (the spore-bearing structure) in the lichen genus Lecanora, using microscopic techniques.^[2] 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.^[3] Honegger retired in 2009^[4] as Emeritus Professor.^[5] From 2011 she worked with Dianne Edwards, a palaeobotanist at the Cardiff University on lichen fossils found on the Welsh borderland.^[1][6][7]

Honegger was awarded the International Association for Lichenology's Acharius Medal for her lifetime work in lichenology in 2008^[8] and in 2015 she received the Linnean Medal recognising her contribution to the natural sciences.^[9] She was one of the "Fifty influential lichenologists" discussed in Ingvar Kärnefelt's 2011 review of the scientific progress of lichenology and the scientists who study it.^[2]

The standard author abbreviation Honegger is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.^[10]

Among the lichens named in her honour is Xanthomendoza rosmarieae, described in 2011 by Sergey Kondratyuk and Kärnefelt.^[11][12]

Selected publications

• Rosmarie Honegger (May 1998). "The Lichen Symbiosis—What is so Spectacular about it?". The Lichenologist. 30 (03): 193. doi:10.1017/S002428299200015X. ISSN 0024-2829. Wikidata Q55968022.
• Rosmarie Honegger (June 2000). "Simon Schwendener (1829–1919) and the Dual Hypothesis of Lichens". The Bryologist. 103 (2): 307–313. doi:10.1639/0007-2745(2000)103[0307:SSATDH]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0007-2745. Wikidata Q55879223.
• Martina Peter; François Ayer; Simon Egli; Rosmarie Honegger (October 2001). "Above- and below-ground community structure of ectomycorrhizal fungi in three Norway spruce (Picea abies) stands in Switzerland". Canadian Journal of Botany. 79 (10): 1134–1151. doi:10.1139/B01-092. ISSN 0008-4026. Wikidata Q59347057.
• 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.
• Shyam Nyati; Debashish Bhattacharya; Silke Werth; Rosmarie Honegger (1 December 2013). "Phylogenetic analysis of LSU and SSU rDNA group I introns of lichen photobionts associated with the genera Xanthoria and Xanthomendoza (Teloschistaceae, lichenized Ascomycetes)". Journal of Phycology. 49 (6). doi:10.1111/JPY.12126. ISSN 0022-3646. PMC 3885279. PMID 24415800. Wikidata Q37451353.
• Dianne Edwards; Rosmarie Honegger; Lindsey Axe; Jennifer L Morris (22 May 2018). "Anatomically preserved Silurian 'nematophytes' from the Welsh Borderland (UK)". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 187 (2): 272–291. doi:10.1093/BOTLINNEAN/BOY022. ISSN 0024-4074. Wikidata Q56520776.