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]
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- 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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