Duke University Postdoctoral Fellow 1993 - 1994
Louisiana State University Ph.D., Botany 1986 -1992
Louisiana Tech University B.S., Zoology 1982 -1986

Systematics and Population Genetics of Fungi
Molecular Evolution of Ribosomal RNA Genes
Theory and Practice of Phylogenetics

BOT 461/561: Introductory Mycology
BOT 490/590: Special Topics: Fungal Systematics
BOT 490/590: Special Topics: Evolution and Ecology of Fungal Symbioses
BOT 505: Mouldy Thursday, OSU Mycology Discussion Group

Spatafora, J. W., B. Volkmann-Kohlmeyer and J. Kohlmeyer. 1996. Independent terrestrial origins of the Halosphaeriales (marine Ascomycota). Molec. Biol. Evol. (submitted).

Spatafora, J. W. 1995. Ascomal evolution among filamentous ascomycetes: evidence from molecular data. Can. J. Bot. S811-S815.

Spatafora, J. W., T. G. Mitchell and R. Vilgalys. 1995. Phylogeny of dematiaceous fungal pathogens: analysis of small subunit ribosomal DNA sequences. Jour. Clinical Microbiol. 33: 1322-1326.

Spatafora, J. W. and M. Blackwell. 1994a. The polyphyletic origins of ophiostomatoid fungi. Mycological Research 98: 1-9.

Spatafora, J. W. and M. Blackwell. 1994b. Cladistic analysis of partial ssrDNA sequences among unitunicate, perithecial ascomycetes and its implication on the evolution of centrum development. In Ascomycete Systematics. (ed.) Hawksworth, D. L. Plenum Press, London.

Blackwell. M. and J. W. Spatafora. 1994. Molecular data sets and broad taxon sampling in detecting morphological convergence. In Ascomycete Systematics. (ed.) Hawksworth, D. L. Plenum Press, London.

Spatafora, J. W. and M. Blackwell. 1993. Molecular systematics of unitunicate perithecial ascomycetes: The Clavicipitales-Hypocreales connection. Mycologia 85: 912-922.

Blackwell, M., J. W. Spatafora, D. Malloch and J. W. Taylor. 1993. Consideration of higher taxonomic relationships involving Pyxidiophora. Pp.105-108. In Ceratocystis and Ophiostoma: Taxonomy, Ecology and Pathology. (eds.) Wingfield, M. J., K. A. Seifert and J. F. Webber. APS, St. Paul.

Kaltenboeck, B. K., J. W. Spatafora, X. Zhang, K. Kousoulas, M. Blackwell and J. Stortz. 1992. Efficient production of single-stranded DNA as long as 2 kb for sequencing of PCR-amplified DNA. Biotechniques 12(2): 164-171.

Mycological Society of America (endowment committee)
British Mycological Society
Society of Systematic Biology
Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution

Fungal Biodiversity of Guyana, South America. (1997); $4000; Smithsonian Institution, Biological Diversity of the Giuanas Program.

USDA Forest Service Cooperative Agreement (1996-1999); $32,930; P.I.; Morphological and Molecular Revisions of the genus Rhizopogon as a Basis for Mycological and Ecological Research. (PNW 96-5021-1-CA)

Cordyceps of Guyana (1996); $3800; Smithsonian Institution, Biological Diversity of the Giuanas Program.

A.W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Plant Systematics (1994).

Postdoctoral Research Associate, NIH grant to R. Vilgalys and T.G. Mitchell (1993).

C.W. Edgerton Honor Dissertation Award. Department of Botany, Louisiana State University. (May 1993).

Mycological Society of America's Student Paper Prize, Nuclear-encoded small subunit ribosomal DNA and ascomycete evolution (August 1991).

Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, NSF BSR-9101088, Two Independent Nuclear Gene Data Sets, SSU rDNA and BvATPase, and Pyrenomycete Evolution (May 15, 1991 -Dec.15, 1992).

Integrations of marine and terrestrial forms in ascomycete phylogenetics. VI International Marine Mycology Symposium. Portsmouth, England, UK, July 1995 (with B. Volkmann-Kohlmeyer and J. Kohlmeyer).

Ascomal evolution and the radiation of filamentous Ascomycetes: Evidence from molecular data. International Mycological Congress V. Vancouver, Canada, August 1994.

Molecular systematics of ascomycetes. East Carolina University. Oct. 1993. Use of molecular characters and cladistic analysis in Ascomycetes. Society for Invertebrate Pathology, Asheville, NC, August 1993 (with M. Blackwell).

Molecular systematics of unitunicate perithecial Ascomycetes. First International Workshop on Ascomycete Systematics, Paris, France, May 1993 (with M. Blackwell).

Terrestrial origins of the Halosphaeriales from insect-associated fungi. Mycological Society of America. San Diego, CA. August, 1995 (with B. Volkmann-Kohlmeyer and J. Kohlmeyer).

Polyphyletic origins of ophiostomatoid fungi. International Mycological Congress V. Vancouver, Canada, August 1994.

Phylogenetic placement of the "black yeasts" (Ascomycota). First International Workshop on Ascomycete Systematics, Paris, France, May 1993 (with R. Vilgalys and T. G. Mitchell) (Abstract).

Monophyly and higher-level systematics of Ascomycetes. Mycological Society of America, Portland, August 1992 (with M. Blackwell) (Abstract).

Taxonomic studies of the form genus Ambrosiella based upon rDNA sequences. Mycological Society of America, Portland, August 1992 (with S. Cassar and M. Blackwell) (Abstract).

Convergent evolution among arthropod-dispersed perithecial ascomycetes. Mycological Society of America, Portland, August 1992. (with M. Blackwell) (Abstract).

Analysis of Pyxidiophora spp. using rDNA sequences. Mycological Society of America, Portland, August 1992 (with B. E. Sawyer and M. Blackwell) (Abstract).

Nuclear-encoded small subunit ribosomal DNA and ascomycete evolution. Mycological Society of America, San Antonio, August 1991 (with M. Blackwell) ( Abstract).