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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0090301. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
Research Coordination Networks in Biological Sciences: A Phylogeny for Kingdom Fungi
STEERING COMMITTEE
Meredith Blackwell (PI), Louisiana State University;
Joseph W. Spatafora (co-PI), Oregon State University
John W. Taylor (co-PI), University of California, Berkeley
Mary L. Berbee, University of British Columbia
David S. Hibbett, Clark University
Scott Kroken, Postdoctoral Associate Representative <scott.kroken@syngenta.com>
Tim James, Graduate Student Representative
PARTICIPANTS
Margaret E. Barr, University of Massachusetts, active and retired
Thomas D. Bruns, University of California, Berkeley
Paula T. DePriest, NMNH, Smithsonian Institution
Andrea Gargas, University of Wisconsin
David M. Geiser, Pennsylvania State University
Benjamin D. Hall, University of Washington
Thomas C. Harrington, Iowa State University
David S. Hibbett, Clark University
Karen W. Hughes, University of Tennessee
Sabine M. Huhndorf, Field Museum of Natural History
Cletus P. Kurtzman, Microbial Properties, ARS, USDA
Robert W. Lichtwardt, University of Kansas
Joyce E. Longcore, University of Maine
Yajuan Liu, University of Washington
François Lutzoni, Duke University, flutzoni@duke.edu
David J. McLaughlin, University of Minnesota
Joseph B. Morton, West Virginia University
Gregory Mueller, Field Museum of Natural History
Kerry O’Donnell, Microbial Properties, ARS, USDA
Ronald H. Petersen, University of Tennessee
Donald H. Pfister, Harvard University
David Porter, University of Georgia
Martha J. Powell, University of Alabama
Jack D. Rogers, Washington State University
Gary J. Samuels, US National Fungus Collection, ARS, USDA
Emory G. Simmons, University of Massachusetts, retired and active
Gregory S. Saenz, Torrey Mesa Research Institute, Syngenta, Inc., San Diego, CA
Christopher Schardl, University of Kentucky
Rodney Roberts, USDA ARS Tree Fruit Research Laboratory, Wenatchee, WA
Rytas Vilgalys, Duke University
POSTDOCS
Sung-Oui Suh <ssuh@unix1.sncc.lsu.edu>
Department of Biological Sciences
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
225-578-8562
Jamie Platt <plattj@nature.berkeley.edu>
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology,
111 Koshland Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA  94720-3102 USA
510-642-8441
Jamie Platt is a postdoc with John Taylor working on species, population, and reproductive mode questions in Aspergillus fumigatus.  She did her Ph.D. with Joey Spatafora on "Lichens, Earth Tongues, and Endophytes: Evolutionary Patterns Inferred from Phylogenetic Analyses of Multiple Loci".
Takao Kasuga <TAKAO.KASUGA@roche.com>
Roche Molecular Systems
1145 Atlantic Avenue, Suite 100
Alameda, CA 94501 USA
510-814-2947

Scott Kroken <scott.kroken@syngenta.com>
Torrey Mesa Research Institute, Inc.
3115 Merryfield Row, Suite 100
San Diego, CA  92121-1125 USA
858-812-1214

Teresa Pawlowska <tpawlows@nature.berkeley.edu>
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology,
111 Koshland Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA  94720-3102 USA
510-642-8441

David Jacobson <djjacob@leland.stanford.edu>
Department of Biological Sciences
Stanford University
Stanford, CA  94305 USA
650-725-1839

Jolanta Miadlikowska <jolantam@fmnh.org>
Department of Biology
Duke University
Box 90338
Durham, North Carolina  27708 USA

GRADUATE STUDENTS
Ning Zhang <nzhang@unix1.sncc.lsu.edu>
Department of Biological Sciences
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
225-578-8562

Sharon E. Mozley <emozley@dogwood.botany.uga.edu>
Department of Botany
Miller Plant Sciences
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602 USA
706-542-1782
Sharon Mozley is a Ph.D. student in David Porter's lab at the University of Georgia. Her research involves a specific clade of chytrids within the Chytridiomycetes called the Nowakowskiella clade. By combining both molecular and morphological characters, she hopes to hammer out a more well-defined phylogeny for the clade. Part of this will be to determine the generic limits of the genera within the clade that will in turn be used to create a key to genera. This work is a part of a larger chytrid PEET grant, the main goal of which is to update the monograph by Frederick K. Sparrow (1980).  You can check out her personal page by clicking on her name. 

Ameena Nalim <fan106@psu.edu>
Department of Plant Pathology
Penn State University
University Park, PA 16802 USA
814-863-0145

Christine Baker <cjbaker@iastate.edu>
Department of Plant Pathology
351 Bessey Hall
Iowa State University
Ames, IA  50011 USA
515-294-3921

Jason Johnson <rotjason@iastate.edu>
Department of Plant Pathology
351 Bessey Hall
Iowa State University
Ames, IA  50011 USA
515-294-3921

Merlin M. White <mmwhite@ukans.edu>
Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045 USA
785-864-3740

MatÌas J. Cafaro < matcaf@ku.edu>
Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045 USA
785-864-3740

Jeremy Dettman <jeremyd@uclink4.berkeley.edu>
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology,
111 Koshland Hall
University of CA
Berkeley, CA  94720-3102 USA
510-642-8441

Elizabeth Turner <eturner@nature.berkeley.edu>
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
111 Koshland Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA  94720-3102 USA
510-642-8441

Valerie Reeb <vreeb@fmnh.org>
Department of Biology
Duke University
Box 90338
Durham, North Carolina  27708 USA

Carla Rydholm <clr@duke.edu>
Department of Biology
Duke University
Box 90338
Durham, North Carolina  27708 USA

James Chambers <jchamb7389@aol.com>
Department of Biological Sciences
Box 870344
The University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487

Peter Letcher <letch006@bama.ua.edu>
Department of Biological Sciences
Box 870344
The University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487

Edward Grand <egrand@utk.edu>
Department of Botany
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN  37996 USA
865-974-6217

Andrew N. Miller <amiller@fieldmuseum.org>
The Field Museum of Natural History
Botany Department
1400 S. Lake Shore Dr.
Chicago, IL  60605-2496

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