Consultants:
Consultant and consulting services around the truffle industry
A&L Western Laboratories
A & L Western Agricultural Laboratories offers many consulting services. These services include field consultations and report interpretations.
Brian Allen
Brian Allen is a research specialist at the University of California Cooperative Extension office in Jackson, CA. He is developing a truffle genetic and microscopy testing service lab to meet industry demand with guidance from researchers and truffle growers.
Webinars and Presentations
https://trufflegrowers.com/resources/webinars/grower-survey-update/
Alpine Truffle
Alpine Truffle, LLC is a family company, proficient in truffle cultivation to improve truffle industry– locally, nationally, and globally.
Fran Angerer
Artistic Truffle Farmer
We are a family owned company in Sonoma County California that currently have producing orchards
Shannon Berch
Retired research scientist
Shannon Berch retired in 2019 from the British Columbia Ministry of Environment and a founding member of the Truffle Association of British Columbia.
Gregory Bonito
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor of Mycology, plant-fungal interactions, truffle ecology, & evolution of bacterial endosymbiosis in fungi.
Prof. Bonito studies ecology & evolution of plant-fungal-bacterial associations, with a particular interest in below ground root associated fungi including truffles, mushrooms & molds. These organisms provide important links between plants & soils & are functionally important to plant health & nutrition, nutrient cycles, & energy flows.…
Mark Coleman
Forestry Faculty
TRAPI project director. Fourteen years as Research Scientists with US Forest Service in Wisconsin and South Carolina. Forestry Faculty at University of Idaho for the past thirteen years.
Raúl Deoiz
RSCE Certified Dog Trainer
Founder and manager of Trufdog, a leading specialist in breeding and training exceptional truffle-hunting dogs and host of the Dog Training Workshop at the 2026 NATGA Congress Workshop
Christine Fischer
Forest Ecologist
Christine Fischer is a forest ecologist with a special focus on mycorrhizal fungi. During the past 25 years she has worked with a team of researchers on the ecology and cultivation of Black Truffles in Spain at the Forest Science Center of Catalonia (CTFC), where she led a program for the certification of truffle seedlings. She teaches workshops on microscopic and molecular techniques for the study of ectomycorrhizal fungi, and has participated in national and international projects and meetings, collaborating on more than 50 scientific and educational publications.
Garland Truffles, Inc.
Supplier of black Périgord and Burgundy truffle inoculated trees. We keep a substantial inventory. Trees are available year round. We also conduct truffle cultivation workshops.
Stephanie Jarvis
Mycologist, Owner
In 2010 Stephanie Jarvis began her consultation company, Pacific Truffle Growers (PTG) due to multiple requests to rehabilitate unproductive truffle orchards. She manages truffle orchards throughout Northern California and currently assists clients in Oregon, Washington and most recently – North Carolina.
Ben Lemmond
Ph.D. student
Ph.D. student at the University of Florida working on several projects related to the ecology and systematics of ascomycete truffle fungi.
Inga Meadows
Extension Plant Pathologist
Inga Meadows is an Extension Plant Pathologist for the North Carolina State University Vegetables (primarily tomato) & Herbaceous Ornamentals, Department of Entomology & Plant Pathology. She addresses disease issues for commercial vegetables & greenhouse growers by providing recommendations for disease prevention or suppression. Her program conducts research aimed at improving tools for managing disease.
MicoLab
MicoLab is a company based in Spain that provides worldwide services for truffle growers and nurseries in the lines of consultancy, analyses and technical trainings.
MICOLOGIA FORESTAL & APLICADA
We a are a biotechnology company that researches, develops and markets technologies and products for the cultivation of truffles.
Marcos Morcillo
Director
Marcos Morcillo is the founder and director of the Micrologia Forestal and Aplicada research center outside Barcelona.
The MF&A specializes in Truffles and truffles has been the focus of his career since graduating from the University of Barcelona in 1994. In 2007, Marcos and his partners established their own truffle orchard, of more than 4.000 trees, inoculated with Tuber melanosporum and Tuber borchii. The research center offers excellent courses on all aspects of growing truffles.
Claude Murat
Research Engineer
Dr. Murat is currently research engineer at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) in Nancy. Obtained a joint supervision PhD at the University of Nancy (France) and at the University of Turin (Italy) in 2004 defending a thesis on the truffle genetic diversity. He then spent four years at the University of Turin (2004-2008) with a post-doctoral fellowship working at a project focused on truffle phylogeny, evolution and barcoding.…
New World Truffieres
Supplying inoculated seedlings and professional assistance to North American truffle farmers. Please feel free to contact New World Truffieres or Dr. Lefevre for information on truffle cultivation in your area or to purchase inoculated trees.
Jaime Olaizola
Co-Founder, CEO
A leader in the field of truffle cultivation, where he has applied his extensive scientific knowledge to foster innovation in applied mycology.
Scott Onetto
Farm Advisor
Scott Oneto has been a farm advisor with the University of California Cooperative Extension for the past 22 years.
Nikki Roof
Manager
Nikki Roof specializes in integrating truffles into dairy products, particularly cheese, showcasing local agriculture and innovative food products.
Dwayne Tate
Regional Agronomist
Dwayne has been an Agronomist with the North Carolina Department of Agriculture for last 10 years and prior that has worked with the North Carolina University Soil Science Department for 25 years.
Rytas Vilgaly
Dr
Rytas Vilgaly’s lab group at Duke University uses molecular approaches to study natural history of fungi. He was one of the first to apply PCR-based methods for studying fungal systematics and was one of the lead investigators associated with the Fungal Tree of Life project which elucidated the evolutionary history of the Kingdom Fungi. Current research uses molecular approaches to study fungal diversity and function in forest environments.…