Current Lab Members
Apr 13th, 2012 by Rytas Vilgalys
- Lab group photos from recent years…
- Sunny Liao, postdoc (photo)
- Soledad Benitez
- Jessie Uehlig, UPGG grad student, fungal systematics, tropical mycology
- Connie Roberts, herbarium manager
- Gwendolyn Williams, grad student, Mycorrhizal Succession (photo)
- Dr. Andrii Grygansky postdoc, visiting scientist from Univ. Kiev, Entomophthoralean systematics (photo)
- Dr. Gregory Bonito, postdoc, truffle ecology and systematics, mycorrhizal ecology (photo)
- Dr. Rytas Vilgalys, Professor of Biology. Systematics, population biology and natural history of fungi. (photo)
- Dr. Khalid Hameed, Research Scientist, plant pathology, mycology, incl applied mycology (photo)
- Dr. Dennis Drehmel, adjunct professor, Fungal TWIG coordinator (Discover Life in America program). Molecular systematics ofAmanitaceae and Boletaceae. (photo)
Former Lab Personnel (gone, but not forgotten…)
- Dr. Hannah Reynolds, now postdoc at Ohio Univ., Phylogeography of Elaphomyces (photo),
- Dr. Matthew E. Smith, Assistant Professor, Univ. Florida, molecular ecology and systematics (photo)
- Dr. Brantlee Spakes Richter, Instructor, Univ. Florida (photo)
- Dr. Marianela Rodriguez-Carres, joint postdoc with Marc Cubeta (NCStateUniv), Rhizoctonia systematics, phylogenomics. (photo)
- Dr. Terri Porter, postdoc, Canadian Barcode Consortium, McMaster University, Chytrid molecular evolution, Phylogenomics (photo)
- Dr. Jason Jackson, Research Scientist, US Forest Service, soil microbial ecology (photo)
- Dr. Michelle Hersh, currently Postdoctoral Fellow, Cary Institute, NY, host-pathogen ecology (photo)
- Dr. Heath O’Brien is now a postdoc at the University of Toronto, Cyanolichen evolution, fungal environmental genomics (photo)
- Dr. Stephanie Diezmann is now a postdoc at the University of Toronto, yeast evolutionary genetics (photo)
- Dr. Timothy James, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan. Population genetics and mating type evolution in fungi. (photo)
- Dr. Jeri Parrent, is currently at University of Guelph. Molecular ecology of mycorrhizal fungi. (photo)
- Dr. “JP” Xu is an associate professor at McMaster University.
- Dr. Becky Yahr is at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland. Systematics and population biology of lichenized fungi. (photo)
- Dr. Annette Golonka is an assistant professor at theUniv. South Carolina at Lancaster. Ph.D.: Ecological genetics of nectar-inhabiting microorganisms.
- Dr. Ana Litvintseva is an assistant research professor in the Dept. of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center
- Dr. Valerie Hofstetter is currently working at the Paris Museum. Molecular systematics of the Lyophylleae. (photo)
- Dr. Daniel Henk, is a postdoc at Imperial College, London. Molecular systematics and ecology of Septobasidium. (photo)
- Dr. Austen Piwakawaka Ganley is an assistant professor at Massey University, New Zealand. Concerted evolution of ribosomal DNA in fungi. (photo)
- Jason Thacker, M.S. molecular evolution of laccase genes, systematics, computer programming (photo)
- Dr. Terry Henkel is an associate professor at the Univ. of California at Humboldt. Biodiversity of tropical fungi including ecology and systematics (photo)
- Dr. Bob Marra is an assistant agricultural scientist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven CT (photo)
- Dr. Jean-Marc Moncalvo is associate curator the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. Phylogenetic diversity of the Agaricales, alsoGanoderma. (photo)
- Dr. Anne Pringle is an assistant professor at Harvard University
- Dr. James L. Johnson is an assistant professor at University of Central Washington, Ellensburg
- Dr. David S. Hibbett is a professor at Clark University
- Dr. Francois Lutzoni is a professor at Duke University
- Dr. Joseph Spatafora is a professor at Oregon State University
- Dr. Dolores Gonzales is at the Instituto deEcologia, Xalapa, Vera Cruz, Mexico
- Dr. Jacqui Johnson is an instructor in the Biology Dept at Fordham University
- Dr. Peggy Schultz is a research scientist the Biology Dept., Indiana Univ.
- Dr. John Hopple is an assistant professor at the Biology department at Ithaca College
- Dr. Wendy Untereiner is a professor at Brandon University, Manitoba, Canada
- if you’re not on this list, we’re still working on it….