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Joseph W. SpataforaProfessor and Associate Chair,
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Mycology; systematics and evolutionary biology of fungi
Research in our laboratory is focused on molecular systematics and population genetics of fungi. Particular emphases include the evolutionary biology of fungal symbioses as they relates to the evolution of host shifts, the phylogenetic integration of ecologically disparate groups of fungi, and population genetics of closely related organisms with different reproductive life histories.
Conrad Schoch
Eva Marie Muehe (Non Degree Exchange Student)
Ryan Kepler (PhD expected 2009)
Cedar Hesse (PhD expected 2011)
BOT 461/561 Introductory Mycology
BOT 490/590 Special Topics in Mycology/ Fungal Systematics
BOT 490/590 Special Topics in Mycology/ Evolution and Ecology of Fungal Symbioses
BOT 490H Special Topics in Mycology/ Spring Fungi of the Oregon Cascades
BOT 490/590 Special Topics in Mycology/ Fungal Taxonomy
BOT 505 Mouldy Thursday: OSU Mycology Discussion Group
BOT 699 Special Topics: Phylogenetic Analysis
"Tree of Life", Ascomycete Root Page
Introductory Mycology virtual classroom
Spatafora, J.W. and M. Blackwell. 1993. Molecular systematics of unitunicate perithecial ascomycetes: The Clavicipitales-Hypocrealer connection. Mycologia 85:912-922.
Spatafora, J.W. and M. Blackwell. 1994. The polyphyletic origins of ophiostomatoid fungi. Mycological Research 98:1-9.
Spatafora, J.W. 1995. Ascomal evolution amoung filamentous ascomycetes: evidence from molecular data. Can. J. Bot. 73 (Suppl.1): 811-815.
Spatafora, J.W., T.G. Mitchell and R. Vilgalys. 1995. Analysis of genes encoding for small-subunit rRNA sequences in studying phylogenetics of dematiaceous fungal pathogens. J. Clin. Microbiol. 33: 1322-1326
Spatafora, J. W., B. Volkmann-Kohlmeyer and J. Kohlmeyer. 1998. Independent terrestrial origins of the Halosphaeriales (marine Ascomycota). Amer. J. Bot. 85: 1569-1580.
Suh, S.-O., J. W. Spatafora, G.R.S. Ochiel, H. C. Evans and M. Blackwell. 1998. Molecular phylogenetic study of a termite pathogen, Cordycepioideus bisporus. Mycologia 90:611-617.
Platt, J.L. and J.W. Spatafora. 1999. A re-examination of generic concepts of baeomycetoid lichens based on phylogenetic analyses of nuclear SSU and LSU ribosomal DNA. The Lichenologist 31: 409-418.
Gernandt, D.S., J.L. Platt, J.K. Stone, J.W. Spatafora, A. Holst-Jensen, R.C. Hamelin, and L.M. Kohn. 2001. Phylogenetics of Helotiales and Rhytismatales based on partial small subunit nuclear ribosomal DNA sequences. Mycologia 93: 915-933.
Humpert, A.J., E.L. Muench, A. Giachini, M.A. Castellano, and J.W. Spatafora. 2001. Molecular phylogenetics of Ramaria and related genera: evidence from nuclear large subunit and mitochondrial small subunit rDNA sequences. Mycologia 93: 465-477.
Sung, G.-H., J.W. Spatafora, R. Zare, K.T. Hodge, and W. Gams. 2001. A revision of Verticillium sect. Prostrata. II. Phylogenetic analyses of SSU and LSU nuclear rDNA sequences from anamorphs and
teleomorphs of the Clavicipitaceae. Nova Hedwigia 72: 29-46
Sullivan, R., M.S. Bergen, R. Patel, G.F. Bills, S.C. Alderman, J.W. Spatafora, and J.F. White, Jr. 2001. Neoclaviceps monostipa: features of an enigmatic clavicipitalean fungus and the phyletic status of the anamorphic genus Ephelis. Mycologia 93: 90-99.
Grubisha, L.C., J.M. Trappe, R. Molina, and J.W. Spatafora. 2001. Biology of the ectomycorrhizal genus, Rhizopogon V. Phylogenetic relationships in the Boletales: evidence from nuclear large subunit rDNA sequences. Mycologia 93: 82-89.
