Research projects

Pushing the boundaries of fungal exploration

Fungal conservation:
Understudied fungi in understudied habitats
Evolutionary biology:
Laboulbeniomycetes classification and speciation
Community ecology:
Complexity and regulators of multitrophic interactions
Diversity and genomic-scale phylogeny of the class Leotiomycetes
New Leotiomycetes phylogeny with missing taxa from Siberian peatlands
Long-term fungal inventory in Cusuco National Park, Honduras
All-fungal taxa inventory at a drumlin archipelago
Microbial communities of the romaine lettuce phylloplane
Host-segregated diversity of Hesperomyces virescens, a common parasite of ladybirds
Laboulbenia hyalopoda and L. notiophili—synonyms or two species?
Evolutionary relationships among higher clades of Laboulbeniomycetes
Laboulbeniales fungi associated with ectoparasitic bat flies: host specificity patterns of tritrophic associations
Biotic and abiotic factors affecting parasitism
Have host shifts promoted diversification of Laboulbeniales on bat flies?
Hesperomyces virescens on elytron of the invasive alien species Harmonia axyridis (photo: Gilles San Martin)
Tuft of Arthrorhynchus nycteribiae thalli on a Penicillidia conspicua bat fly (photo: Walter Pfliegler)
Stamnaria yugrana on a dead branch of Equisetum sylvaticum
Phylogenetic tree based on a Bayesian analysis of 3156 concatenated orthologous single-copy genes recognized using BUSCO from 49 selected Leotiomycetes genomes plus two outgroup genomes (from Johnston et al. 2019)
Representatives of phylum Ascomycota collected at the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area
Representatives of phylum Basidiomycota collected at the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area