Expertise

Expertise: conservation mycology, fungal biodiversity and conservation, fungal-arthropod interactions, biology of parasites and symbionts, systematics and evolutionary biology of fungi, fungi and humans, biology of parasites and symbionts

Current Projects

  • Revision of Stigmatomycetinae
  • New Zealand Laboulbeniales
  • Molecular phylogeny of Laboulbeniales
  • Biology of Hesperomyces on the introduced ladybug beetle Harmonia axyridis
  • Levels of specificity in Laboulbeniales
  • Re-curation and identification of Thaxter hosts
  • Checklist of world taxa with synonymies
  • Database of world literature

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Organizational Affiliations

Department of Environmental Biology, Academic Departments and Divisions, College of Environmental Science and Forestry

Education

BS
Newcastle University, UK
1997, PhD