Sung-Oui Suh

Sung-Oui Suh studies yeasts from the bellies of beetles --now at ATCC

Sung-Oui Suh, Ph.D.
American Type Culture Collection (ATCC)
Mycology Collection
10801 University Blvd
Manassas, VA 20110 USA
Office Phone: (703) 365-2700
Fax : (703) 365-2770
Email: ssuh@atcc.org

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Education

Ph. D. (1993) Microbial Systematics, The University of Tokyo, Japan. Thesis: Phylogenetic studies on the teliospore forming yeasts and Filobasidiaceae in basidiomycetous yeasts.
M. S. (1990) Microbial Systematics, The University of Tokyo, Japan.
B. S. (1987) Microbiology, Kyung-Pook National University, South Korea.

Research and Professional Experience

Research Associate (1996-2007), Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University.
Researcher (1994-1995), Deep-sea Environment Exploration Program, Japan Marine Science and Technology Center.
Researcher (1993-1994), Japan Collection of Microorganisms (JCM), Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN).

Funding

Beetles and their yeast associates from basidiocarp habitats NSF Proposal DEB-0417180 (Biodiversity Surveys and Inventories). 2004-2008. $452,027. (CoPI with M. Blackwell and J. V. McHugh)

PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Publications

Suh, S. -O., Nguyen, N. H., Blackwell, M. 2008. Yeasts isolated from plant-associated beetles and other insects: seven novel Candida species near Candida albicans. FEMS Yeast Research 8:88–102.
Nguyen, N. H., S.-O. Suh, and Blackwell M. 2007. Five novel Candida species and the yeasts associated with neuropterous insects. Mycologia 8:88–102.
Fuentefria, A. M., Suh, S. -O., Landell, M. F., Faganello, J., Schrank, A., Vainstein, M. H., Blackwell, M. & Valente, P. 2007. Trichosporon insectorum sp. nov., a new anamorphic basidiomycetous killer yeast. Mycological Research, in press.
Suh, S. -O., Blackwell, M., Kurtzman, C. & Lachance, M.-A. 2006. Phylogenetics of Saccharomycetales, the ascomycete yeasts. Mycologia 98: 1006-1017.
Sugiyama, J., Hosaka, K. & Suh, S. -O. 2006. Early diverging Ascomycota: phylogenetic divergence and related evolutionary enigmas. Mycologia 98: 996-1005.
Suh, S.-O., N. H. Nguyen, and M. Blackwell. 2006. A yeast clade near Candida kruisii uncovered: nine novel Candida species associated with basidioma-feeding beetles. Mycological Research 110:1379-1394.
Nguyen, N. H., S.-O. Suh, C. J. Marshall, and M. Blackwell. 2006. Morphological and ecological similarities: wood-boring beetles associated with novel xylose-fermenting yeasts, Spathaspora passalidarum gen. nov., sp. nov. and Candida jeffriesii sp. nov. Mycological Research. 110: 1232-1241.
Nardi, J. B., C. M. Bee, L. A. Miller, N. H. Nguyen, S.-O. Suh, and M. Blackwell. 2006. Communities of microbes that inhabit the changing hind gut landscape of a subsocial beetle. Arthropod Structure and Development 35: 57-68.
Nguyen, N. H., S.-O. Suh, C. K. Erbil, and M. Blackwell. 2006. Metschnikowia noctiluminum sp. nov., Metschnikowia corniflorae sp. nov., and Candida chrysomelidarum sp. nov., isolated from green lacewings and beetles. Mycological Research 110: 346-356.
Suh, S.-O., and M. Blackwell. 2006. Three new asexual arthroconidial yeasts, Geotrichum carabidarum sp. nov., Geotrichum histeridarum sp. nov., and Geotrichum cucujoidarum sp. nov., isolated from the gut of insects. Mycological Research 110: 220-228.
Suh, S. -O., McHugh, J. V., Pollock, D. D. & Blackwell, M. 2005. The beetle gut: a hyperdiverse source of novel yeasts. Mycological Research 109: 261-265.
Suh, S.-O., Nguyen, N. H., Blackwell, M. 2005. Nine new Candida species near Candida membranifaciens isolated from insects. Mycological Research 109:1045-1056.
Suh, S.-O., Blackwell, M. 2005. Four new yeasts in the Candida mesenterica clade associated with basidiocarp-feeding beetles. Mycologia 97: 167-177. [Abstract]
Suh, S.-O., Blackwell, M. 2004. Three new beetle-associated yeasts in the Pichia guilliermondii clade. Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS) Yeast Research 5: 87-95. [Abstract]
Suh, S.-O., McHugh, J. V., Blackwell, M. 2004. Expansion of the Candida tanzawaensis clade: 16 new Candida species from basidiocarp-feeding beetles. International Journal of Systematics and Evolutionary Microbiology 54: 2409-2429. [Abstract]
Posada, F., Vega, F. E., Rehner, S. A., Blackwell, M., Weber, D., Suh, S.-O., Humber, R. A. 2004. Syspastospora parasitica on Beauveria bassiana attacking the Colorado potato beetle. Journal of Insect Science 4: 24. [Full paper]
Suh, S.-O., Gibson, C. M., Blackwell, M. 2004. Metschnikowia chrysoperlae sp. nov., Candida picachoensis sp. nov. and Candida pimensis sp. nov., isolated from the green lacewings Chrysoperla comanche and Chrysoperla carnea (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae). International Journal of Systematics and Evolutionary Microbiology 54: 1883-1890. [Abstract]
Suh, S.-O., White, M. M., Nguyen, N. H., Blackwell, M. 2004. The identification of Enteroramus dimorphus: a xylose-fermenting yeast attached to the gut of beetles. Mycologia 96:756-760. [Abstract]
Zhang, N., Suh, S.-O., Blackwell, M. 2003. Microorganisms in the gut of beetles: Evidence from molecular cloning. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 84: 226-233. [Abstract]
Suh, S.-O., Marshall, C., McHugh, J. V., Blackwell, M. 2003. Wood ingestion by passalid beetles in the presence of xylose-fermenting gut yeasts. Molecular Ecology 12:3137-3145. [Abstract]
Suh, S.-O., Noda, H., Blackwell, M. 2001. Insect symbiosis: derivation of yeast-like endosymbionts within an entomopathogenic filamentous lineage. Molecular Biology and Evolution 18: 995-1000. [Abstract]
Suh, S.-O., Kurtzman, C. P., Blackwell, M. 2001. The status of Endomyces scopularum --a filamentous fungus and two yeasts. Mycologia 93: 316-321. [Abstract]
Suh, S.-O., Jones, K. G., Blackwell, M. 1999. A Group I intron in nuclear small subunit rRNA gene of Cryptendoxyla hypophloia: Evidence for a new major class of Group I introns. Journal of Molecular Evolution 48: 493-500. [Abstract] [PDF]
Suh, S.-O., Blackwell, M. 1999. Molecular phylogeny of the cleistothecial fungi placed in Cephalothecaceae and Pseudeurotiaceae. Mycologia 91: 836-848. [Abstract]
Nakase, T., Suzuki, M., Sugita, T., Suh, S.-O., Komagata, K. 1999. Three new species of anamorphic yeasts phenotypically and phylogenetically related to Candida mesenterica: the description of Candida fungicola sp. nov., Candida sagamina sp. nov., and Candida fukazawae sp. nov isolated from fruit bodies of mushrooms. Mycoscience 40: 465-476. [Abstract]
Suzuki, M., Suh, S.-O., Sugita, T., Nakase, T. 1999. A phylogenetic study on galactose-containing Candida species based on 18S ribosomal DNA sequences. Journal of General and Applied Microbiology 45: 229-238. [Abstract]
Suh, S.-O., Spatafora, J. W., Ochiel, G. R. S., Evans, H. C., Blackwell, M. 1998. Molecular phylogenetic study of a termite pathogen Cordycepioideus bisporus. Mycologia 90: 611-617. [Abstract]
Suh, S.-O., Takashima, M., Nakase, T. 1996. Phylogenetic study of the anamorphic basidiomycetous yeasts Rhodotorula lactosa and R. minuta, and related taxa besed on 18S ribosomal DNA sequences. Journal of General and Applied Microbiology 42: 1-6. [Abstract]
Takashima, M., Suh, S.-O., Nakase, T. 1996. Group I introns found in nuclear small subunit ribosomal RNA genes of the ballistoconidiogenous anamorphic yeast Bensingtonia ciliata and Bensingtonia yamatoana. Journal of General and Applied Microbiology 42: 189-200. [Abstract]
Suh, S.-O., Takematsu, A., Takashima, M., Nakase, T. 1996. Molecular phylogenetic study on the stalked conidium-forming yeasts and related basidiomycetous yeast taxa based on 18S rDNA sequences. Microbiology & Culture Collection 12: 79-86. [Abstract]
Suh, S.-O., Takashima, M., Hamamoto, M., Nakase, T. 1996. Molecular phylogeny of the ballistoconidium-forming anamorphic yeast genus Bullera and related taxa based on small subunit ribosomal DNA sequences. Journal of General and Applied Microbiology 42: 501-509. [Abstract]
Lee, D. S., Suh, S.-O., Hwang, S. K., Kwon, T. K., Kim, T. H., Shin, W. C., Hong, S. D. 1996. Nucleotide sequence of 16S rRNA gene from Streptomyces melanosporofaciens 7489. Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology 6: 364-365. [Abstract]
Suh, S.-O., Nakase, T. 1995. Phylogenetic analysis of the ballistosporous anamorphic genera, Udeniomyces and Bullera, and related basidiomycetous yeasts, based on the 18S rDNA sequence. Microbiology 141: 901-906. [Abstract]
Takashima, M., Suh, S.-O., Nakase, T. 1995. Phylogenetic relationships among species of the genus Bensingtonia and related taxa based on the small subunit ribosomal DNA sequences. Journal of General and Applied Microbiology 41: 131-141. [Abstract]
Takashima, M., Suh, S.-O., Nakase, T. 1995.Bensingtonia musae sp. nov. isolated from a dead leaf of Musa paradisiaca and its phylogenetic relationship among basidiomycetous yeasts. Journal of General and Applied Microbiology 41: 143-151. [Abstract]
Nakase, T., Suh, S.-O., Hamamoto, M. 1995. Molecular systematics of ballistoconidium-forming yeasts. Studies in Mycology 38: 163-173. [Abstract]
Suh, S. -O., Sugiyama, J. 1994. Phylogenetic placement of the basidiomycetous yeasts Kondoa malvinella and Rhodosporidium dacryoidum, and the anamorphic yeast Sympodiomycopsis paphiopedili by means of 18S rRNA gene sequence analysis. Mycoscience 35: 367-375. [Abstract]
Suh, S.-O., Hirata, A., Sugiyama, J., Komagata, K. 1993. Septal ultrastructure of basidiomycetous yeasts and their taxonomic implications with observations on the ultrastructure for Erythrobasidium hasegawianum and Sympodiomycopsis paphiopedili. Mycologia 85: 30-37. [Abstract]
Sugiyama, J., Suh, S.-O. 1993. Phylogenetic analysis of basidiomycetous yeasts by means of 18S ribosomal RNA sequences: relationship of Erythrobasidium hasegawianum and other basidiomycetous yeast taxa. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 63: 201-209. [Abstract]
Suh, S.-O., Sugiyama, J. 1993. Phylogeny among the basidiomycetous yeasts inferred from small subunit ribosomal DNA sequence. Journal of General Microbiology 139: 1595-1598. [Abstract]
Suh, S.-O., Sugiyama, J. 1993. Septal pore ultrastructure of Leucosporidium lari-marini, a basidiomycetous yeast, and its taxonomic implications. Journal of General and Applied Microbiology 39: 257-260. [Abstract]
Suh, S.-O., Kuroiwa, T., Sugiyama, J. 1993. Quantitative differences of nuclear DNA contents and their taxonomic implications in Leucosporidium scottii, Rhodosporidium toruloides, and related basidiomycetous yeasts. Journal of General and Applied Microbiology 39: 295-302. [Abstract]
Sugiyama, J., Tokuoka, K., Suh, S.-O., Hirata, A., Komagata, K. 1991.Sympodiomycopsis: a new yeast-like anamorph genus with basidiomycetous nature from orchid nectar. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 59: 95-108. [Abstract]

Book Chapters & Reviews

Nguyen, N. H., S.-O.Suh and M. Blackwell. Spathaspora Nguyen, Suh & Blackwell. In: The Yeasts: A taxonomic guide. Eds. C. Kurtzman, J. Fell, and T. Boekhout. Elsevier, Amsterdam. In press.
Blackwell, M., Suh, S.-O., Nardi, J. B. Fungi in the Hidden Environment: The gut of beetles. In: British Mycological Symposia: Fungi in the Environment. Ed. Geoffrey Gadd. Cambridge University Press, UK. In press.
Suh, S.-O., Blackwell, M. 2005. Beetles as hosts for underscribed yeasts. In: Insect-fungal associations: Ecology and evolution. p. 244-256. Eds. F. E. Vega and Meredith Blackwell. Oxford University Press, UK.
Sugiyama, J., Suh, S.-O. 1998. Sympodiomycopsis Sugiyama, Tokuoka & Komagata. In: The Yeasts, a taxonomic study, 4th Ed. p. 846-847. Eds. C. P. Kurtzman & J. W. Fell. Elsevier Science Publishers B. V., Amsterdam.
Nakase, T., Suh, S.-O., Takashima, M. 1995. Significance of cellular xylose in the systematics of basidiomycetous yeasts. RIKEN Review 8:47-48.
Suh, S.-O., Sugiyama, J. 1994. Phylogeny among the basidiomycetous yeasts as inferred from molecular data. Journal of the JapaneseSociety of Bioscience and Biotechnological Agrochemistry 68: 67-71.
Sugiyama, J., Nishida, H., Suh, S.-O. 1993. The paradigm of fungal diagnoses and descriptions in the era of molecular systematics: Saitoella complicata Goto et al. as the example. In: The Fungal Holomorph: A Consideration of Mitotic, Meiotic and Pleomorphic Speciation. p. 261-269. Eds. D. R. Reynolds & J. W. Taylor. CAB International, Wallingford, United Kindom.
Nakase, T., Suh, S.-O., Takematsu, A., Takashima, M., Hamamoto, M. 1993. Polyphasic approaches to the systematics of ballistosporous anamorphic yeasts. In Recent Advances in Mycological Research, Proceedings of the First International Symposium of the Mycological Society of Japan, pp. 48-51.

Invited Presentations

Microbial communities in the gut of wood-ingesting beetles. International Mycological Congress 8, Cairns, Australia. August 2006.
Fungi in the hidden environment: the beetle gut. (with M. Blackwell & J. Nardi) British Mycological Society, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK, September 2004.
One hundred undescribed yeasts from the guts of beetles. (with M. Blackwell & J. V. McHugh) Entomological Society of America, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, November 2002.
Biodiversity of arthropod-associated fungi: What do we know? What can we predict? (With A. Weir, M. Hughes, M.M. White, M.J. Cafaro, & M. Blackwell), International Mycological Congress 7, Oslo, Norway, August 2002.

Contributed Papers/Posters

One to 42 taxa: Expansion of the Candida tanzawaensis yeast clade from basidiocarp-feeding beetles. (with M. Blackwell & J. V. McHugh) Mycological Society of America, Asilomar, CA, July 2003.
Effect of starvation of basidiocarp-feeding beetles on suspected yeast endosymbionts. (with N. Nguyen & M. Blackwell) Mycological Society of America, Asilomar, CA, July 2003.
Did yeasts accompany beetles as they radiated into wood? (with M. Blackwell, C. Marshall & J. V. McHugh) Mycological Society of America, Asilomar, CA, July 2003.
Yeasts from the gut of basidiocarp-feeding beetles. (with J. V. McHugh & M. Blackwell) Mycological Society of America, Corvallis, OR, June 2002.
Yeasts from the gut of Coleoptera: taxonomic characteristics and molecular phylogeny. (with J. V. McHugh and M. Blackwell. Mycological Society of America, Salt Lake City,UT, August-September 2001.
Molecular phylogenetic studies on Endomyces scopularum, a mushroom parasite. (with M. Blackwell) Mycological Society of America, Burlington, VT, July-August 2000.
Group I introns from fungal nuclear SSU rDNA: characterization of 16 additional introns. (with M. Blackwell) Mycological Society of America, Burlington, VT, July-August 2000.
Yeasts from the gut of Coleoptera: Isolation and molecular phylogeny. (with M. Blackwell) XVI International Botanical Congress, St. Louis, Missouri, August 1999.
Molecular phylogeny of Candida yeasts which have glucan-mannan type cell wall. (with Suzuki, M. & Nakase, T.) Ann. Jap. Soc. for Biosci. Biotech. Agr., Sapporo (Abstract), 1995.
Molecular phylogeny of basidiomycetous yeasts based on 18S rDNA sequences. (with Nakase, T. & Horikoshi, K.) Ann. Jap. Soc. for Biosci. Biotech. Agr., Sapporo (Abstract), 1995.
Systematics and molecular phylogeny of ballistosporous yeasts. (with Nakase, T., Hamamoto, M., Takashima, M., & Takematsu, A.) The 3rd China-Japan International Congress of Mycology, China, 1995.
Molecular phylogenetic position of a ballistoconidium-forming yeast genus Udeniomyces. (with Takematsu, A. & Nakase, T.) Ann. Jap. Soc. for Biosci. Biotech. Agr., Tokyo, 1994.
A taxonomic study on Bensingtonia sp. K-304, a ballistosporous yeast isolated from a plant in Thailand. (with Takashima, M. & Nakase, T.) Ann. Jap. Soc. for Biosci. Biotech. Agr., Tokyo, 1994.
Phylogenetic relationships among species of the genus Bensingtonia and related taxa based on the small subunit ribosomal RNA sequences. (with Takashima, M. & Nakase, T.) Nippon Seibutsu kougakukai, 1994.
Reclassification of Candida magnoliae, a chemotaxonimic Investigation. (with Nakase, T., Suzuki, M., & Takashima, M.) IUMS-1994, Prague, 1994.
Molecular systematics of ballistoconidium-forming yeasts. (with Nakase, T. & Hamamoto, M.) IMC-5, Vancouver, 1994.
Phylogeny of the basidiomycetous yeasts inferred from small subunit ribosomal DNA sequence. (with Sugiyama, J.) Ann. Jap. Soc. for Biosci. Biotech. Agr., Sendai,1993.
Molecular phylogeny of the basidiomycetous yeasts from 18S rRNA sequences. (with Sugiyama, J.) Ann. Mycol. Soc. Japan, Sendai, 1993.
Taxonomic study on Leucosporidium lari-marini Gimenez-Jurado & van Uden. (with Sugiyama, J.) Ann. Jap. Soc. for Biosci. Biotech. Agr., Tokyo, April 1992.
Phylogenetic analysis of basidiomycetous yeasts based on sequence comparisons of small subunit ribosomal DNA. (with Sugiyama, J.) Int. Con. Cul. Col.-VII, China, 1992.
Ultrastructure and its phylogenetic significance in basidiomycetous yeasts. (with Hirata, A., Sugiyama, J. & Komagata, K.) Ann. Jap. Soc. for Biosci. Biotech. Agr., Hukuoka, April 1990.
Ultrastructure, behavior of nuclei, and phylogeny on Sympodiomycopsis paphiopedili, the new genus and species in Deuteromycetes. (with Sugiyama, J., Tokuoka, K., Hirata, A. & Komagata, K.) Ann. Jap. Soc. for Biosci. Biotech. Agr. Hukuoka, April 1990.
Ploidy differences and behavior of nuclei, and their taxonomic significance in basidiomycetous yeasts. (with Joo, W.-H., Kuroiwa, T. & Sugiyama, J.) Ann. Mycol. Soc. Japan, Shizuoka, May 1990.
Rhodosporidium, Rhodotorular and related basidiomycetous yeasts: The taxonomic reconstruction. (with Sugiyama, J., Joo, W.-H., Hamamoto, M. & Komagata, K.) IMC-4, Resensberg, Germany, 1990.
Quantitative differences of nuclear DNA contents and behavior of nuclei, and their taxonomic significance in basidiomycetous yeasts. (with Joo, W.-H., Kuroiwa, T. & Sugiyama, J.) IUMS-1990, Osaka, Japan, 1990.

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