Members of our
research group
Our research group
germinated in January 2005
and now includes high school interns, undergraduates, graduate
students, technical
support staff, and visiting researchers from around
the world. If you'd like to learn more about volunteer positions,
independent study
opportunities, or graduate assistantships in our
group (and/or in the Mycological Herbarium), please contact Betsy
Arnold.
This is our group as of
spring 2013.
Dr.
Betsy
Arnold
Principal investigator
PhD, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona (2002)
Ecology, evolution, and systematics of fungal endophytes;
evolution of symbioses
CV: click here.
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Dr.
Jana
U'Ren
Postdoctoral researcher
PhD, Plant Pathology, University of Arizona (2011)
Diversity, distributions, molecular phylogenetics, and genomics of
symbiotic fungi
CV: click here.
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Kayla
Arendt
MS student, Plant Pathology (co-advised by David
Baltrus)
Diversity and phenotypic effects of endohyphal bacteria
associated with foliar endophytes
CV: click here.
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Yu-Ling
Huang
PhD student, Plant Sciences
Plant-fungal coevolution
CV: click here.
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Justin
Shaffer
PhD student, Plant Pathology (co-advised by David
Baltrus)
Diversity and ecological effects of endohyphal bacteria
associated with tropical seed-associated fungi; fungal ecology
CV: click here.
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Dustin
Sandberg
MS student, Plant Pathology
Diversity, distributions, and host affiliations of endophytes
associated with aquatic plans
CV: click here.
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Nicholas
Massimo
Research technician
Diversity, ecology, and molecular systematics of fungal endophytes
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Cole
Steen
Research technician
Diversity, ecology, and molecular systematics of fungal endophytes
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Lorna
Battista
Undergraduate; honors thesis student
Diversity of aquatic fungi
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Celine
Bui
Undergraduate research assistant
Fungal ecology and microbiology
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James
Devore
Undergraduate research assistant
Fungal ecology and microbiology
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Kayla
Garcia
Undergraduate; REU fellow
Fungal ecology and endohyphal bacteria
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Anyang
Ndobegang
Undergraduate research assistant
Fungal ecology and microbiology
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Thao
Truong
Undergraduate research assistant
Fungal ecology and microbiology
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Former graduate students (lab alumni)
Dr. Michele Hoffman, Plant Pathology:
graduated 5/2010 - postdoctoral fellow, USDA
Dr. Jana U'Ren, Plant Pathology: graduated
12/2011 - postdoctoral fellow, School of Plant Sciences, University of
Arizona
Dr. Mariana del Olmo Ruiz, Plant Pathology:
graduated 8/2012 - lecturer in mycology, UNAM, Mexico
Dr. Ellen Martinson, Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology: graduated 12/2012 - postdoctoral fellow, University of
Rochester
Dr. Mary Jane Epps, Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology: graduated 12/2012 - postdocoral fellow, North Carolina State
University
Interns, trainees, and visitors
from other institutions
2013, Carolina
Sarmiento, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
2013, Dr. Camilo
Zalamea, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
2012,
Adriana
Corrales,
University
of
Illinois
2012, Julien Ponchart, Universite Laval
2012, Peter Cerda, University of Texas Pan
American
2012, Edelio Bazan, University of Texas Pan
American
2011, 2012, Brittany Peña, University
of Texas Pan American
2010-2011, Ochana Otto ('Otto'), Tucson High
Magnet School
2010-2013, Wes MacDonald, MacDonald Home School
2010, Rowena Dolino, teacher at Tsehootsooi
Middle School, Navajo Nation (AZ START program)
2010, Jim Uomoto, teacher at Pueblo High
Magnet School, Tucson (AZ START program)
2010-2011, Frankie Orozco, student at
Tucson High Magnet School, Tucson (Pima County)
2010, Abby Cochrane, student at Catalina
Foothills High Magnet School, Tucson (NSF)
2010, Jessica Bolaños, SENACyT Panama
2010, Seth Kauppinen, UC Berkeley
2010, Sarah Higginbotham, Smithsonian Tropical
Research Institute
2010-2011, Sheri Steidl, Yavapai Community
College (NSF)
2009, Rowena Dolino, teacher at Tsehootsooi
Middle School, Navajo Nation (AZ START program)
2009, Catherina
Caballero-George, SENACyT Panama
2009, Magaly de Chial, Universidad de Panama
2008-2011, Demetra Kandalepas, Louisana State
University
2008, Steve Uyeda, teacher at Sunnyside High
School and instructor at Pima Community College (AZ START program)
2008, Alex (JJ) Delgado, first-year
student at Pima Community College (Arizona Biology Network)
2006-2007, Cheyenne Weeks-Galindo, Pima
Community College (tropical seed-associated fungi) (Arizona Biology
Network)
2006, Courtney Kluger, Duke University
(tropical seed-associated fungi) (NSF REU)
2005, 2007, Mary Shimabukuro, Dine
College (fungal endophytes of ponderosa pine) (Arizona Biology Network)
Other lab alumni
Jakob Riddle, in graduate school
Nandi Devan, employed in ecology and
conservation biology
Brett Baxter, employed in medical field
Chan Jung, applying to medical school
Jamie Moy, in graduate school
Courtney Klopper, off to graduate school
Brittany Wohl, privately employed
Syed Ali Raza, off to medical school
Janka Vanova, off to pharmacy school
Emily Hendershot, graduated
Patrick Campbell, off to pharmacy school
Barbara Beauchamp, teaching science in
economically challenged schools
Barney Gilley, applying to graduate programs
Abby Cochrane, high school intern...now a UA
undergraduate
Darren Stensrud, off to IonTorrents
Andrea Woodard, applying to graduate
programs
Max Xiong, now an undergrad at the University
of Chicago
Phornpoj Intarakamhang, applying to graduate
programs
Erica Untch, teaching near Tucson
Doug Mahana, off to graduate school at NYU
Jamal Alafifi, in
graduate school
Yujin (Youchin) Huh,
off to pharmacy school
Chan Maketon,
off to graduate school
Dylan Grippi, off to the MS program
at Emory...and the Ph.D. program at Georga Tech
Cara Gibson (honorary lab member),
entomologist with NEON
Rachel
Gallery
(honorary
lab
member)
microbiologist
with
NEON
Lindsay Higgins, graduate student in the
Department of Biology, University of Utah
Linh Huynh, off to pharmacy school
Ming-Min (Ming) Lee...earned a MS in the
Department of Entomology, UA, and now is a lab manager in that
department
Elan Snitkin, Tucson High School, now an
undergraduate at Pima Community College
Rebecca Porter, St. Gregory High School,
now an undergraduate at Duke University
Julia Maddison, University High School,
now an undergraduate at the University of British Columbia
Vanessa Chicharello, now an intern at the
USDA, Washington, DC
Lindsay Cook, currently an undergraduate
at the UA
Anita Bhakta, currently an undergraduate
at the UA
Kiona Brown, currently a senior at Tucson High
School
Jason Ong, applying to graduate programs
Ben Wilder, in graduate school
Felicia Quintana, Hilary Brown, Melissa
Kohmetscher, Patricia Espiritu
Volunteers, Diné College
project
2006: Amanda Way, Liang Shen, Kelly
Farrell (Duke University) and Claire Heinitz (UA).
2007: Rebecca Porter (Duke University),
Mariana del Olmo R., Fabiola Santos R., and Christine Coursodon (UA)
...and thanks to Ming-Min Lee, Julia Maddison,
Michele Hoffman, and Jana U'Ren for help with this project throughout
its duration!
Students conducting lab rotations
Yu-Ling Huang (ABBS): effects of
wildfire on fungal endophytes
Mana Ohkura (PLP): diversity of
endophytes and endohyphal bacteria from the Navajo Nation
Simon Stump (EEB): Fungal communities
associated with Erodium cicutarium, an invasive plant in SE
Arizona
Amritha Wickramage
(PLP): diversity and specificity of fungi from the Chuska Mountains,
Navajo Nation
David Jarvis (PLS/IGERT in Genomics):
evolution of ecological modes in the Ascomycota
Jana U'Ren (PLS/IGERT in Genomics):
evolutionary origins of tropical seed-associated fungi
Mary Jane Epps (EEB): diversity and
ecological roles of nectar-inhabiting microbes
Mariana del Olmo Ruiz (PLP): estimating
diversity of tropical foliar endophytes.
Libby Landeen (EEB): endolichenic
bacteria.
Michele Hoffman (PLP): endophytes of
Cupressaceae
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