Juan Carlos Villarreal A. Website: https://www.bio.ulaval.ca/en/departement-et-professeurs/professeurs-et- personnel/professeurs/fiche/show/villarreal-juan-carlos/
Citizenship: Panama
Current address: Phone: +1 418 5597330 (Canada) Département de Biologie, Université Laval, Google scholar: 2329 citations, h-index Québec (Québec), G1V 0A6, Canada 22 (accessed 15 March 2019) http://scholar.google.com/citations?user Email: [email protected], juan- =R4DpS5oAAAAJ&hl=en [email protected]
CAREER • Associate Professor, Université Laval, Department of Biologie, Canada (Nov. 2015-) • Collaborator, Center of Nordic Studies, Université Laval (since 2016) • Regular member, Center d’étude de la fôret (since 2018) • Member, L'Institut de biologie intégrative et des systèmes (IBIS), l'Université Laval • Research Associate, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland: (October 2015-) • Earl S. Tupper Fellow, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (August 2015-) • Sibbald Fellow, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland: (Jan.-July 2015) • Post-doctoral researcher, Institute of Systematic Botany and Mycology, University of Munich (LMU): (2012-2014). PI: Susanne S. Renner
EDUCATION • Ph.D., University of Connecticut, UCONN (2011) Evolutionary Biology Supervisors: Bernard Goffinet, Louise Lewis and Kent Holsinger Thesis: Genetic and evolutionary consequences of a shift to asexuality in bryophytes: Insights from the Southern Appalachian hornwort Nothoceros aenigmaticus • M.Sc., Southern Illinois University–Carbondale, SIUC (2005) Supervisor: Karen Renzaglia Thesis: A comparative anatomical and ultrastructural study of two phylogenetically significant hornworts: Leiosporoceros dussii and Phaeomegaceros fimbriatus • B.Sc., University of Panamá (2003) Supervisor: Noris Salazar Allen Thesis: Estudio morfológico y anatómico del género Megaceros en Panamá
RESEARCH Bryophyte taxonomy and systematics, particularly Neotropical taxa; evolution of carbon concentrating mechanisms, population genetics and genomics of bryophytes and cycads; fungal and cyanobacterial symbioses in bryophytes, lichens and cycads.
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS: undergraduate* and master students** are marked and underlined
1. Sierra, A.M.**, J. Bechteler, D. Cardoso D, C. Zartman & J.C. Villarreal A. 2018. Divergence time analyses suggest a Miocene origin of the narrow Amazonian endemic rheophytic Ceratolejeunea temnantha (Spruce) Reiner-Drehwald (Porellales, Lejeuneaceae). Bryophyte Diversity and Evolution. 40(2): 55–67. 2. Renzaglia, K.S., J.C. Villarreal A. & D. Garbary. 2018. Morphology supports the setaphyte
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hypothesis: mosses plus liverworts form a natural group. Bryophyte Diversity and Evolution. 40(2): 11–17. 3. Villarreal, A., J.C., Monique Turmel; Maurane Bourgouin-Couture*, Jérôme Laroche, Noris Salazar-Allen, Fay-Wei Li, Shifeng Cheng, Karen Renzaglia & Claude Lemieux. 2018. Genome- wide organellar analyses from the hornwort Leiosporoceros dussii show low frequency of RNA editing. Plos One. * undergraduate. doi: /10.1371/journal.pone.0200491 4. Lewis, L.R., Ickert-Bond, S., Biersma, E.M, Convey, P., Goffinet, B., Hassel, K., Kruijer, K., La Farge, C., Metzgar, J., Stech, M., J.C. Villarreal, McDaniel, S.F. 2017. Future directions and priorities for Arctic bryophyte research. Artic Science 3: 475-497. 5. Lang, D., --J.C. Villarreal, --50 authors.2017. The P. patens chromosome-scale assembly reveals moss genome structure and evolution. The Plant Journal 93: 515–533. 6. Li, F.-W.f, J.C. Villarrealf, Szövenyi, P. 2017. Hornworts: an overlooked window into carbon- concentrating mechanism. Trends in Plant Science 22(4): 275-277. f Equal contribution. 7. Villarreal, J.C., Ducket, J.G., Pressel, S. 2017. Morphology, ultrastructure and phylogenetic affinities of the single-island endemic Anthoceros cristatus Steph.(Ascension Island). Journal of Bryology 39: . http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03736687.2017.1302153 8. Renzaglia, K.S., J.C. Villarreal, Piatkowsky, B.T., Reagan, J.L. & Merced, A. 2017. Hornwort stomata: architecture and fate shared with 400 million year old fossil plant without leaves. Plant Physiology. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.17.00156 9. Long, D.G., Forrest, L.L., J.C. Villarreal & Crandall-Stotler. 2016. The genus Aitchisoniella Kashyap (Marchantiopsida, Cleveaceae) new to China, and its taxonomic placement. Journal of Bryology 38: 308-311. 10. Long, D.G., Forrest, L.L., J.C. Villarreal & Crandall-Stotler. 2016.Taxonomic changes in Marchantiaceae, Corsiniaceae and Cleveaceae (Marchantiidae, Marchantiophyta). Phytotaxa 252(1): 077-080. 11. Villarreal, J.C., Crandall-Stotler, B.J., Hart, M.L., Long, D.G. & Forrest, L.L. 2016. Divergence times and the evolution of morphological complexity in an early land plant lineage (Marchantiopsida) with a slow molecular rate. New Phytologist 209(4):1734-46. doi: 10.1111/nph.13716 12. Söderström, L. --40 authors, J.C. Villarreal. 2016. World Checklist of hornworts and liverworts. Phytokeys 59: 1-828. 13. Chantanaorrapint, S., Penjor P & J.C. Villarreal. 2015. Taxonomic notes on Phaeoceros himalayensis, with the lectotypification of Anthoceros himalayensis. Phytotaxa 231(2): 193-196. 14. Forrest, L.L., D.G. Long, P.M. Hollingsworth, D.C. Cargill & J.C. Villarreal. 2015. On Monocarpus (Monocarpaceae, Marchantiopsida), an isolated salt-pan complex thalloid liverwort allied to the Sphaerocarpales. Australian Systematic Botany 28: 137-144. 15. Li, F.-W., M. Melkonian, C.J, Rothfels, J.C. Villarreal, D.W. Stevenson, S.W. Graham, G. K-S. Wong, K.M. Pryer & S. Mathews. 2015. Phytochrome diversity in green plants and the origin of canonical plant phytochromes. Nature Communications 6: 7852 doi:10.1038/ncomms8852. 16. Villarreal, J.C. & K. Renzaglia. 2015. The hornworts: important advancements in early land plant evolution. Journal of Bryology 37(3): 157-170 (invited review). 17. Villarreal, J.C., D.C. Cargill, A. Hagborg, L. Söderström & M. von Konrat. Notes on Early Land Plants. 61. 2015. Taxonomic changes in hornworts. Phytotaxa 208: 092-096. 18. Li, F.-W., M. Melkonian, C.J, Rothfels, J.C. Villarreal, D.W. Stevenson, S.W. Graham, G. K-S. Wong, K.M. Pryer & S. Mathews. 2015. Origin and evolution of phototropins in plants. New Frontiers in Plant Sciences 6: 637. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2015.00637 19. Villarreal, J.C., N. Cusimano & S.S. Renner. 2015. Biogeography and diversification rates in hornworts – the limitations of diversification modeling. Taxon 64: 229-238. 20. Brown, R.C., B.E. Lemmon, M. Shimamura, J.C. Villarreal & K.S. Renzaglia. 2015. Spores of relictual bryophytes: diverse adaptations to life on land. Review of Palaeobotany and Palinology 216: 1-17. 21. Sustaita, D., C.L. Owen, J.C. Villarreal & M.A. Rubega. 2014. Morphometric tools for distinguishing between sexes of California populations of the loggerhead shrike. Southwestern Naturalist 59:560-567. 22. Wicket, N., --42 authors, D.W. Stevenson, J.C. Villarreal, J.A. Leebens-Mack. 2014. A phylotranscriptomics analysis of the origin and early diversification of land plants. Proceedings of
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the National Academy of Sciences, USA. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/10/28/1323926111.full.pdf+html 23. Mastasci, N., --40 authors, D.W. Stevenson, J.C. Villarreal, G.K. Wong. 2014. Data access for the 1000 (1KP) project. Gigascience 3:17. http://www.gigasciencejournal.com/content/3/1/17 24. Laenen, B., --J.C. Villarreal, --15 authors. Extant diversity of bryophytes emerged from successive post-Mesozoic diversification bursts. 2014. Nature Communications. 5: 6134. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6134 25. Li, F.-W., J.C. Villarreal, --32 authors, D.W. Stevenson, K.M. Pryer. 2014. Horizontal gene transfer of a chimeric photoreceptor, neochrome, from bryophytes to ferns. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 111: 6672–6677, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1319929111. 26. Villarreal, J.C., L.L. Forrest, E. Cooper & D.G. Long. 2014. Phylogenetic affinities and conservation status of the liverwort Telaranea murphyae in Britain. Journal of Bryology 36: 191- 199. doi:10.1179/1743282014Y.0000000106.1. 27. Villarreal, J.C. & S.S. Renner. 2014. A review of molecular clock calibrations and substitution rates in liverworts, mosses, and hornworts, and a timeframe for a taxonomically cleaned-up genus Nothoceros. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 78: 25-35. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.04.014. 28. Villarreal, J.C. & S.S. Renner. 2013. Correlates of monoicy and dioicy in hornworts, the apparent sister group to vascular plants. BMC Evolutionary Biology 13: 239. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-13- 239. 29. Bainard, J. & J.C. Villarreal. 2013. Genome size increases in recently diverged hornwort clades. Genome 56: 431-435. doi: 10.1139/gen-2013-0041. 30. Desiró A., J.G. Duckett, S. Pressel, J.C. Villarreal & M. Bidartondo. 2013. Fungal symbioses in hornworts: A chequered story. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B. 280: 20130207. doi:10.1098/rspb.2013.0207. 31. Villarreal, J.C., L.L. Forrest, N. Wickett & B. Goffinet. 2013. The plastid genome of the hornwort Nothoceros aenigmaticus: Phylogenetic signal in inverted repeat expansion, pseudogenization and intron gain. American Journal of Botany 100: 467-477. 32. Villarreal, J.C. & S.S. Renner. 2012. Hornwort pyrenoids: carbon-concentrating mechanisms evolved and were lost at least five times during the last 100 million years. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 109: 18873–18878. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1213498109. 33. Johnson, M., ---36 authors, J.C. Villarreal,-- & K. Wong. 2012. Evaluating methods for isolating total RNA and predicting the success of sequencing phylogenetically diverse plant transcriptomes. PLoS One 7(11): e50226. 34. Villarreal, J.C., L.L. Forrest, K. McFarland & B. Goffinet. 2012. Chloroplast, mitochondrial and nuclear microsatellites from the Southern Appalachian hornwort, Nothoceros aenigmaticus (Dendrocerotaceae). American Journal of Botany 99: e88-e90. DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1100392. 35. Villarreal, J.C., L.V. Campos & B. Goffinet. 2012. Parallel evolution of endospory in hornworts: the case of Nothoceros renzagliensis, sp. nov. Systematic Botany 37: 31-37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1600/036364412X616594. 36. Garcia, C., C. Sergio, J.C. Villarreal & F. Lara. 2012. The genera Dendroceros Nees and Megaceros Campb. in São Tomé e Príncipe (Africa, Gulf of Guinea) and description of a new species, Dendroceros paivae. Cryptogamie, Bryologie et Lichenologie 33: 3-21. 37. Sérusiaux, E., J.C. Villarreal, T. Wheeler & B. Goffinet. 2011. Recent origin, active speciation and dispersal for the lichen genus Nephroma (Peltigerales) in Macaronesia. Journal of Biogeography 38: 1138–1151. 38. Villarreal, J.C., D.C. Cargill, A. Hagborg, L. Söderström & K.S. Renzaglia. 2010. Hornwort diversity: Patterns, causes and future work. Phytotaxa 9: 150-166.. 6th most cited paper in the journal from years 2009-2013. 39. Villarreal, J.C., B. Goffinet, R.J. Duff & D.C. Cargill. 2010. Phylogenetic delineation of the genera Nothoceros and Megaceros. The Bryologist 113: 106-113. 40. Villarreal, J.C., B. Goffinet & D.C. Cargill. 2010. Phaeomegaceros squamuliger subspecies hasselii (Dendrocerotaceae, Anthocerotophyta), a new taxon from the Southern Hemisphere. Nova Hedwigia 91: 349-360. 41. Duff, R.J., J.C. Villarreal, D.C. Cargill & K.S. Renzaglia. 2007. Progress and challenges in developing a phylogeny and classification of the hornworts. The Bryologist 110: 214-243.
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42. Villarreal, J.C., G. Hässel de Menéndez & N. Salazar Allen. 2007. Nothoceros superbus (Dendrocerotaceae), a new species of hornwort from the Neotropics. The Bryologist 110: 279- 285. 43. Villarreal, J.C. & K.S. Renzaglia. 2006. Structure and development of Nostoc strands in Leiosporoceros dussii (Anthocerotophyta): a novel symbiosis in land plants. American Journal of Botany 93: 693-705. (Journal cover). DOI:10.3732/ajb.93.5.693 44. Villarreal, J.C. & K.S. Renzaglia. 2006. Sporophyte structure in the Neotropical hornwort Phaeomegaceros fimbriatus: implications for phylogeny, taxonomy and character evolution. International Journal of Plant Sciences 167: 413-427. 45. Dauphin, G., T. Pócs, J.C. Villarreal & N. Salazar Allen. 2006. Nuevos Registros de Hepáticas y Anthocerotófitas para Panamá. Tropical Bryology 27: 73-85. 46. Cargill, D.C., R.J. Duff, J.C. Villarreal & K.S. Renzaglia. 2005. Generic concepts in hornworts: historical review, contemporary insights and future directions. Australian Systematic Botany 18: 7- 16.
BOOK CHAPTERS AND TRIBUTE PAPERS - PEER REVIEWED
47. Hanson, D., K.S. Renzaglia & J.C. Villarreal. 2014. Diffusion limitation and CO2 concentrating mechanisms in bryophytes. In Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration: Photosynthesis in Early Land Plants, D.T. Hanson & S.K. Rice (eds). Vol. 37: 95-112 Springer, Dordrecht. DOI:10.1007/978-94-007-6988-5_6. 48. Villarreal, J.C. 2013. Hornworts (genera Anthoceros and Phaeoceros). In The liverworts and hornworts of Tristan da Cunha, J. Váňa & J.J. Engel, J.J. (eds.). Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 105; 32-35, 85-86. 49. Renzaglia, K.S., J.C. Villarreal & R.J. Duff. 2009. New insights into morphology, anatomy and systematics of hornworts. In Bryophyte Biology II, B. Goffinet & J. Shaw (eds.), pp 139-171. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511754807.004 50. Duff, R.J., D.C. Cargill, J.C. Villarreal & K.S. Renzaglia. 2004. Phylogenetic relationships of the hornworts based on rbcL sequence data: novel relationships and new insights. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 98: 41-58.
EDITED VOLUMES
51. Villarreal, J.C., W. Frey & D.C. Cargill (eds.). 2010. Bryophyte Biology, Phylogeography, Systematics and Evolution in the Southern Hemisphere. Nova Hedwigia 91(3-4): 1–250 pp. (contributed peer-reviewed papers on biogeography, niche modeling, cryo-microscopy, floristics and evolution of Southern Hemisphere bryophytes).
BOOK REVIEWS AND POPULAR PUBLICATIONS
52. Villarreal, J.C., L. Rochefort, C. Boismenu & M. Guêné-Nanchen.2017. Future Arctic: from species to ecosystems. Proceedings of the workshop Future Arctic. 53. Villarreal, J.C. 2014. New insights on early land plant diversification: pyrenoid evolution and sexual system of hornworts. Field bryology 112: 55-57. 54. Pressel, S., J. Duckett & J.C. Villarreal. 2013. Hornwort heaven: recount of the expedition into the Himalayan foothills of northern Indian. Field bryology 110: 39-46. 55. Villarreal, J.C. & N. Salazar Allen. 2012. The enigmatic hornworts of the miniature forest of Cape Horn (English and Spanish). In Miniature forest of Cape Horn: Ecotourism with a hand lens. B. Goffinet, R. Rozzi, L. Lewis, W. Buck & F. Massardo (eds.) University of North Texas Press, pp. 118-126. 56. Villarreal, J.C. 2010. Before the vascular plants. Book review of “Syllabus of Plant Families A. Engler’s Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien. 3. Bryophytes and seedless vascular plants.” 2009. Eds.: W. Frey, M. Stech & E. Fischer. The Bryologist 113: 431–434
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PAPERS IN REVIEW
57. OneKP Initiative. A Phylogenomic View of Evolutionary Complexity in Green Plants a. In review in Nature. Submitted on September 15. 58. Lavoie, C.*, M. Renaudin**, P.A. Picard*, R. Troy McMullin, J. Gagnon, C. Roy, J.P. Bellenger & J.C. Villarreal. Functional diversity of N2-fixing cyanobacteria associated to the lichen Stereocaulon- across temperate, boreal and tundra biomes. Submitted on December 2 to Journal of Biogeography. 59. Chaoxian, Z., J.C. Villarreal, S. Xun; R. Zhu. Evolutionary history of the Rubisco small subunit (rbcS) across the tree of life uncovers an unexpected diversification pattern with three independent origins of the cyanobacterial rbcS. Journal of Molecular Evolution
PRESS RELEASES, NEWS, RADIO INTERVIEWS AND BLOGS
1. LA PRENSA, PANAMA, 2018 https://impresa.prensa.com/panorama/Cientifico-panameno-seducido- Artico_0_5159484062.htm 2. BBC MUNDO 2018: HTTP://WWW.BBC.COM/MUNDO/NOTICIAS-43811164 3. LA PRENSA, PANAMA 2017,2018: HTTPS://IMPRESA.PRENSA.COM/MOSAICO_DOMINICAL/PANAMENO- ESTUDIA-ARTICO_0_4855764410.HTML; HTTPS://IMPRESA.PRENSA.COM/VIVIR/HONGOS-PLANTAS- MISTERIOS_0_5064993515.HTML 4. WORKSHOP FUTURE ARCTIC- 2017. Radio Canada: http://ici.radio- canada.ca/premiere/emissions/radio-canada-cet-apres-midi/segments/entrevue/25078/arctique- lichen-foret-montmonrency; LeFil, UniversitéLaval: https://www.lefil.ulaval.ca/future-arctic-a- foret-montmorency/ 5. Uncovering the affinities of Telaranea murphyae (Villarreal et al. 2014. J.Bryol): Scilly Today: http://www.scillytoday.com/2014/09/04/scientific-mystery-solved-as-rare-tresco plant-identified/ BBC Radio Solent https://www.facebook.com/BBCRadioSolent/photos/a.339507729502662.1073741840.326 856317434470/611621795624586/?type=1 Royal Botanic Garden Press release http://www.rbge.org.uk/about-us/news/stories/unmasked-the-botanical-kiwi-who-hitched-to-britain
6. IAB blog, including http://internationalassociationofbryologists.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/an-alien- in-need-of-protection.html; http://internationalassociationofbryologists.blogspot.de/2013/12/peat- whisky-and-genomes.html
RESEARCH GRANTS (FUNDED)
• $65,976 (CAD). Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (2018- 2020). “ Determining critical thresholds of landscape disturbance in boreal and mixed coniferous forests in eastern Canada » (P.I. Nicole Fento, UQAT). • $1,100,000 (US) National Science Foundation, USA (2017): “Diversity, ecology, and genetics of hornwort-cyanobacterium symbiosis”. (P.I. Fay-Wei Li, J. Meeks, J. Sparks, J.C. Villarreal). JCVA is an international collaborator, no direct funding is received. Active collaboration including grant-writing, data collecting, fieldwork and analyses. • $100,000 (US) SENACYT- Panama. “Cicadófitas y sus simbiontes: diversidad genética y química como potencial en la conservación de especies” (2018-2019). • “Open Green Genomes: a framework for comparative plant genomics”. Led by Jim Leebens-Mack (University of Georgia). Funding for sequencing 35 plant genomes, including hornworts at the Joint Genome Institute. I contributed with the writing and material for sequencing. 2017. • $149,144 (CAD) Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), Fonds des leaders John-R.- Evans. Grant for infrastructure. 2017.
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• $32,000 (CAD) Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies (FQRNT) (2017-2019) – “Documenter la diversité génétique et chimique de gymnospermes tropicales”. • $140,000 (CAD) Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NERSC, CRSNG in French) (2016-2021)- RGPIN/05967-2016 “Spatial and temporal diversity of the bryophyte Arctic flora and associated cyanobacterial and fungal biota”. • €168,995 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (2012-2014): “Understanding the evolution of key traits in hornworts, the sister group to vascular plants”. (PI: S.S. Renner, co-PI: J.C. Villarreal, DFG does not allow post-doctoral researchers to be PI). • € 3,737 SYNTHESYS Grant (2012): “Barcoding of European hornworts”. (PI: J.C. Villarreal, co-PIs: L.L. Forrest and D. Long. Hosted by the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (RBGE)). • € 3,600 University of Munich (LMU), STIBET grant (2012): “Tutoring and training masters and doctoral students in DNA techniques and phylogenetic analyses”. (PI: J.C. Villarreal). • $9,594 Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, US National Science Foundation (2009): “Genetic and evolutionary consequences of the shift to asexuality in bryophytes: Insights from the Southern Appalachian hornwort Nothoceros aenigmaticus”. (PI: B. Goffinet, co-PI: J.C. Villarreal. NSF does not allow doctoral students to be PI). • $3,100 Ronald Bamford Endowment Fund, UCONN (2009): “Microsatellite library development, transcriptomic work in N. aenigmaticus”. (PI: J.C. Villarreal). • $300 Southern Appalachian Botanical Society (2008): “Exploratory fieldwork in Southern Appalachians”. (PI: J.C. Villarreal). • $1000 International Association of Plant Taxonomists (2008): “Origin of the clonal Southern Appalachian endemic Megaceros aenigmaticus”. (PI: J.C. Villarreal). • $1000 International Association of Bryologists, Stanley Green Research Grant (2007): “Phylogeny of Nothoceros” (PI: J.C. Villarreal).
RESEARCH GRANTS (PENDING AND NOT FUNDED) • Sentinelle Nord, U. Laval (2016): NOT FUNDED “Les routes constituent-elles des corridors favorisant l’invasion du Nord par des espèces indésirables?”. (PI: Louis Bernier, U. Laval, J.C. Villarreal et al.). • Sentinelle Nord, U. Laval (2016): NOT FUNDED “Mining the Arctic Microbiome for High Therapeutic and Industrial Value Bioproducts”. (PI: Roger Levesque, U. Laval, J.C. Villarreal et al.).
RESEARCH GRANTS (WRITTEN AND OBTAINED BY STUDENTS AND POST-DOCS WITH MY SUPERVISION) • Fundación SENECA, Murcia- Spain (2018): “Nordic lichens, their microbes and their viruses”. (PI: Marta Alonso Garcia, U. Laval, 2018-2019). • Smithsonian Institution, Short-term fellowship (2018): “Symbiosis between cycads, cyanobacteria and ants”. (Undergraduate student: Phillip Bell-Doyon, U. Laval). • Cycad Society, Research fellowship (2018): “Symbiosis relationships of the only epiphytic cycad”. (Undergraduate student: Phillip Bell-Doyon, U. Laval). • Sentinelle Nord, U. Laval (2017): “Arctic bryophytes and their microbiomes”. (Doctoral student: Laura Muñoz, U.
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Laval, declined in July 2018).
OTHER GRANTS AND FUNDING (ALL IN CAD) • $1000 Sentinelle Nord (2017): Funding for the workshop Future Arctic. • $1200 Center for Norther Studies (2017): Funding for the workshop Future Arctic. • $1000 Faculty of Forestry (2017): Funding for the workshop Future Arctic. • $1000 Department of Biology (2017): Funding for the workshop Future Arctic.
AWARDS • $400 Hattori Prize Award, International Association of Bryologists (IAB) (2017): Best paper or series of papers published within the previous two years in a journal or book by a member of IAB. • $500 A.J. Sharp Award, American Bryological and Lichenological Society (ABLS) (2010): Best student paper, BSA Meeting, Rhode Island. • $5000 Presidential Summer Graduate Research Award, UCONN (2009): Nomination- based award. • $500 Extraordinary Doctoral Travel Award, UCONN (2009). • $500 William Sullivant Award (ABLS): Best published paper in the Bryologist 2007, for "Progress and challenges toward developing a phylogeny and classification of the hornworts". • ~$500 William Steere Foundation of the NY Botanical Garden (2005): Funded two week stay at NY Botanical Garden to study type material. • $500 Botanical Society of America, BSA - Graduate research award (2004): “ A novel symbiotic association in land plants, cyanobacterial strands in Leisporoceros dussii”. (PI: J.C. Villarreal). • $500 Organization of Tropical Studies- Post-Course Research Award (Declined after acceptance at SIUC). • $500 Corredor Biologico Mesoamericano del Pacífico Panameño-Travel Award (2002). • $500 Humboldt Field Research Institute, Maine, Travel Award 2001.
FELLOWSHIPS • $60,000 Earl’s Tupper Fellowship, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama (August 2015-August 2018). • $28880 Sibbald Fellowship, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) (Jan-July 2014). Including salary and research money. • $2000 Doctoral Fellowship, UCONN (2009). • $2000 Organization of Tropical Studies and University of Costa Rica (2003): Fellowship to attend graduate course. • $3000 STRI, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2000-2003): Learning molecular techniques and fieldwork in Panamá.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE • Fellow, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama. August 2015-. “Genomic scale interactions between plants and nitrogen-fixing bacteria” • Fellow, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. January-August 2015. “Morphological and molecular evolution of the complex thalloids, including the model system Marchantia polymorpha” • Post-doctoral researcher, Institute of Systematic Botany and Mycology, University of Munich (LMU), Germany: April 2012-2014, employed within DFG project “Understanding the evolution of key traits in hornworts, the sister group to vascular plants.”
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• Consultant, The Field Museum, Chicago, Biodiversity Synthesis Group, Encyclopedia of Life (May 2009): compiled and verified worldwide checklist of hornworts; identification of biodiversity hotspots with scientists from New Zealand, USA and Australia. • Visiting researcher, The Field Museum, Chicago, with K. Feldheim & M. von Konrat (June 2008): developed microsatellites for Nothoceros aenigmaticus. Helped develop a database on hornwort biodiversity. • Research assistant, Department of Plant Biology, SIUC, with K. Renzaglia, (2003- 2005): collaborative project funded by US National Science Foundation: Research, Biodiversity, Phylogeny and Biogeography of Hornworts. Personal responsibilities: gathering ultrastructural and anatomical data, collecting and culturing specimens, taxonomic work, preparing illustrations and manuscript writing.
POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHERS: • Marta Alonso García, Université Laval (Canada). Financed by the SENECA foundation, Murcia. Starting on May 2018. Topic: Lichen population genetics and microbiome, especially Cladonia.
DOCTORAL AND MASTER STUDENTS * WITH PUBLICATIONS • Dennis Escolástico, Université Laval (Canada). Doctoral student, September 2018 -. • Anthony Piot, Department of Forestry, Université Laval (Canada). Doctoral student, co- supervision. Main supervisor: Ilga Porth. Starting on September 2017. • Adriel Sierra, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, Brasil. Co-supervisor of master’s thesis. 2017- 2018. • EXTERNAL DOCTORAL AND MASTER STUDENTS • Adriel Sierra, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, Brasil. Co-supervisor of master’s thesis. 2017- 2018. • Enrique Hernández-Rodríguez (co-supervision, working on boreal bryophytes in dr. Nicole Fenton’s lab, UQAT), 2018- • Sameera Liyanage (co-supervision, working on boreal bryophytes in dr. Nicole Fenton’s lab, UQAT), 2017-
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS * WITH PUBLICATIONS • Sandrine Toupin, Université Laval (Canada): Systematics of lichens and diversity of photobionts. 2017-2019. • Gustavo Salado, Universidad de Panamá- STRI: genomic resources for cycads. 2018- 2019. • Aurélie Beaulie-Laliberté, Université Laval (Canada) : Molecular work on lichens. 2018. • Camille Lavoie, Université Laval (Canada): Systematics of lichens and diversity of photobionts. 2017-2018. • Pierre-Alain Picard, Université Laval (Canada): Systematics of lichens and diversity of photobionts. 2017-2018. • Philip Bell-Doyon, Université Laval- STRI (Panama): Symbiosis between cycads, cyanobacteria and ants. 2018. • Ivan Bigot, Université Laval (Canada): Systematics of mosses and diversity of cyanobionts. Fall 2017. • Emmanuelle Marchand, Université Laval (Canada): Systematics of lichens and diversity of photobionts. Winter 2018. • Raphaël Bouchard, Université Laval (Canada): Cyanobacterial diversity in hornworts. Winter and Fall 2017. Class: Introduction to Research. • Maurane Bourgouin-Couture*, Université Laval (Canada): Organellar genomics of hornworts and RNA editing. Summer 2016. • Yessenia Guadalupe. Universidad de Panamá, co-supervisor of bachelor’s thesis:
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Morphology of the hornwort Leiosporoceros and its cyanobacterial symbionts. • Maycol Madrid. Intern, STRI-SENACYT (Panama): Symbiotic association of cyanobacteria and plants, genomics and population diversity.
VISITORS AND FELLOWS • Adriel Sierra, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, Brasil. Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP), fellow. January-June 2018. • Gabriel Peñaloza, Universidad de Minas Gerais, Brasil. Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP), fellow. January-June 2019. • Loïc Soumila, University of Montpellier. Stage on the use of CRISPR-Cas on Poplar Main supervisor: Ilga Porth January-June 2018.
TECHNICAL AND FIELD ASSISTANTSHIPS: • STRI, Panamá (with N. Salazar Allen) (2001-2003): collected and databased bryophyte specimens from Panamá and Costa Rica. Maintained bryophyte cultures. • University of Panamá & Autoridad del Canal de Panamá (2001): collected and identified bryophyte specimens during environmental assessment of canal expansion in three remote areas of Central Panamá. • University of Panamá, National Herbarium, Panamá (with M. Correa) (2000): collected and databased vascular plant specimens.
INVITED SEMINARS (* speaker): • Villarreal, J.C.* 2019. Royal Botanic Garden, Scotland, UK • Villarreal, J.C.* 2018. Concordia University, Montréal, Canada • Villarreal, J.C.* 2018. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama • Villarreal, J.C.* 2018. Field Museum, Chicago, USA • Villarreal, J.C.* 2018. Mer Bleue workshop, McGill University • Villarreal, J.C.* 2017. University of Alberta, Canada. • Villarreal, J.C.* 2017. Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Canada • Villarreal, J.C.* 2017. Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada • Villarreal, J.C.* 2015. Duke University, USA • Villarreal, J.C.* 2016. L'Institut de biologie intégrative et des systèmes. Université Laval • Villarreal, J.C.* 2015. Université Laval, Québec • Villarreal, J.C.* 2015. RBGE, Scotland, UK. • Villarreal, J.C.* 2014. Instituto de Investigaciones Científicas (INDICASAT), Panama. • Villarreal, J.C.* 2014. Universidad de Panama, Centro Regional de Chitré. • Villarreal, J.C.* 2014. Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France • Villarreal, J.C.* 2014. Eastern China Normal University, Shanghai, China. • Villarreal, J.C.* 2014. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama. • Villarreal, J.C.* 2013. Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK. • Villarreal, J.C.* 2013. Department of Syst. Botany, University of Göttingen, Germany. • Villarreal, J.C.* 2013. Annual Paper Readings of the British Bryological Society, London. • Griffiths, H*., M. Meyer, J.C. Villarreal. 2013. C4 + CAM Biology, Urbana- Champaign, Illinois, USA. Keynote for plenary session. Invitation to H. Griffiths. • Villarreal, J.C.* 2013. Keynote address in the Bryophyte Biology session of the International Congress of Bryologists, London, UK. • Villarreal, J.C.* & S.S. Renner. 2013. A symposium organized by the “Botanische Staatssammlung München” on the occasion of its 200th anniversary, Munich, Germany • Villarreal, J.C.* 2012. Job interview, RBGE. Short-list of 11 from 110 applicants. • Pressel, S.*, J. Duckett & J.C. Villarreal. 2012. Jaypee University, Shimla, India. • Villarreal, J.C.* 2012. International symposium of molecular systematics of bryophytes,
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New York Botanical Garden, New York, USA. • Villarreal, J.C.* 2012. Institute of Plant Systematics, University of Bonn. • Griffiths, H*., M. Meyer, J. Royles, A. Horwath, J. Ogée, L. Wingate & J.C. Villarreal. 2012. Society of Experimental Biology, Salzburg, Austria. Invitation to H. Griffiths. • Villarreal, J.C.*, K. McFarland, K.S. Renzaglia & B. Goffinet. 2009. V Congreso Colombiano de Botánica, Nariño, Colombia. • Villarreal, J.C.*, K. McFarland & B. Goffinet. 2009. Early Land Plants Today/Encyclopedia of Life Meeting. Field Museum, Chicago, USA. • Villarreal, J.C.*, R.J. Duff & K.S. Renzaglia. 2008. Department of Botany, The Field Museum, Chicago, USA. • Renzaglia, K.S., J.C. Villarreal, S. Schuette, J. Duckett* & R. Ligrone. 2007. World Conference of Bryology, Malaysia. Invitation to K.S. Renzaglia. • Villarreal, J.C.* & K.S. Renzaglia. 2007. Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA. • Villarreal, J.C.* & K.S. Renzaglia. 2006. IX Congreso Latinoamericano de Botánica-VII Simposio Latinoamericano de Briología. Santo Domingo, República Dominicana. • Renzaglia, K.S., J.C. Villarreal*, S. Schuette & R.J. Duff. 2004. XV World Congress of the International Association of Bryologists, Mérida, Venezuela. Invitation to K.S. Renzaglia.
CONTRIBUTED RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS • Forrest, L.L.*, D.G. Long, M.L. Hollingsworth, J.C. Villarreal & P.M. Hollingsworth. 2013. International Congress of Bryologists, London, UK. • Wickett, N*., ---25 authors; J.C. Villarreal, K. Wong. 2012. Botanical Society of America, National Congress, Columbus, Ohio, USA. • Villarreal, J.C.*, K. McFarland, J. Bainard & B. Goffinet. 2011. All Taxa Bioinventory in the Southern Appalachians, USA. • Villarreal, J.C.*, K. McFarland & B. Goffinet. 2010. Botanical Society of America, National Congress, Rhode Island, USA. • Sérusiaux, E., J.C. Villarreal A., T. Wheeler & B. Goffinet*. 2010. Botanical Society of America, National Congress, Rhode Island, USA. • Forrest, L.L.*, D.G. Long, M.L. Hollingsworth, J.C. Villarreal A., A. Clark, J. Tosh & P. Hollingsworth. 2010. Botanical Society of America, National Congress, Rhode Island. • Villarreal, J.C.*, K. McFarland & B. Goffinet. 2008. Botanical Society of America, National Congress, Vancouver, Canada. • Villarreal, J.C.* & K.S. Renzaglia. 2005. Botanical Society of America, National Congress, Austin, USA. • Villarreal, J.C.*, R.J. Duff & K.S. Renzaglia. 2005. XVII International Botanical Congress, Vienna, Austria. • Villarreal, J.C.*, S. Schuette, J. Duff, D.C. Cargill & K.S. Renzaglia. 2004. Botanical Society of America, National Congress, Utah, USA. • Villarreal, J.C.*, S. Schuette, J. Witters, K.S. Renzaglia & W. Taylor. 2004. Botanical Society of America, Utah, USA. • Villarreal Aguilar, J.C.* & N. Salazar Allen. 2002. 8 vo Congreso Latinoamericano y Segundo Colombiano de Botánica, Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Cartagena, Colombia.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
• Université Laval, Canada Biodiversity I: September-December 2017, 2018 • Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama A 2-week intensive course on bryophyte taxonomy and evolution: August 2017
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• Université Laval, Canada Biodiversity I: October-December 2016 • Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama A class on symbiosis and bryophyte diversity: February 2016 • Université Laval, Canada Helping to develop the fungi and lichen components of the class Biodiversity I: November-December 2015 • Universidad de Panamá, Panamá Bryophyte lecture and laboratory as part of the class on systematic of seedless plants: September 2015 • Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland Bryology section of the Master’s program at RBGE: February 2014, 2015. • Supervising M.Sc. student Mr. Hannes Becher during 1.5 months in Munich January 2nd - February16th 2012. Project: On the Molecular Phylogeny of the Hornwort genus Phaeomegaceros. • Teaching assistant, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCONN Evolution of Green Plants (course taught by L. Lewis & B. Goffinet): Spring 2010. Biology of Bryophytes and Lichens (taught by B. Goffinet): Spring 2008, 2011. Introduction to Botany (taught by P. Lewis & B. Goffinet): Fall 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2010. Introduction to Biology (taught by A. Fry): Spring 2006, 2008 and Fall 2008. • Teaching assistant, Department of Plant Biology, SIUC Plant diversity (course taught by S. Sipes): Fall 2004. • Teaching assistant, McGill University, City of Knowledge, Panamá Neotropical Environments (course taught by C. Potvin): Jan. 2001. Social change in Panamá (course taught by U. Locher): Feb. 2001. Environmental Management (course taught by T. Meredith): Mar. 2001.
ACADEMIC COURSES ATTENDED • Woods Hole Marine Laboratories, USA (2009): Workshop on Molecular Evolution (organized by M. Cummings). • Universidad de Costa Rica & Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa Rica (2003): Graduate course in Tropical Ecology and Conservation. • Humboldt Field Research Institute & University of Maine, USA (2001): Biosystematics and ecology of temperate bryophytes (taught by N. Slack & N. Miller).
SERVICE
EXTERNAL DEGREE EXAMINATION • Theo Onda (advised by Connie Lovejoy). Variabilité temporelle, diversité et biogeographie des ciliés et dinoflagellés dans l’Océan Arctique. 2017. Université Laval, Canada. Ph.D. candidate • Valerie Langlois (advised by Alexander Culley). Variabilité temporelle, diversité et biogeographie des ciliés et dinoflagellés dans l’Océan Arctique. 2017. Université Laval, Canada. Master candidate • Benjamin Laenen (advised by A. Vanderpoorten). Thesis: Large scale phylogenetic patterns of diversification in bryophytes. 2013. Université de Liège, Belgium. Ph.D. candidate
DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE
• Organizing the “Mi-Parcours” for doctoral students. Université Laval. Fall 2017 • External judge of the award Richard Bernard fellowship. Université Laval. Summer 2017
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AD-HOC REVIEWER • American Journal of Botany; Annals of Botany; Arctoa; Australian Journal of Systematic Botany; Biological Journal of the Linnean Society; Cryptogamie, Bryologie et Lichenologie; Bryologist; Cambridge University Press; Fieldiana; Frontiers in Plant Sciences; Journal of Biogeography; Journal of Bryology; Journal of Experimental Botany; Nova Hedwigia; Phytokeys; Phytotaxa; Plant and Cell Physiology; Proceedings of the Royal Society B; Systematics and Biodiversity; Taiwania; Tropical Bryology.
SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZATION • Co-organization of the symposium entitled: “Future Arctic: A global initiative on bryophyte and lichen Arctic research: from species to ecosystems ” Canada. Co-organizer: L. Rochefort– May 24-26 2017. • Co-organization of the symposium entitled: “Biology, genomics and evolution on the complex thalloids, including Marchantia” RBGE, Scotland. Co-organizer: L.L. Forrest – July 14-15 2015. • Co-organization of the symposium entitled: “Bryophyte biology, genomics and evolution on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Munich Herbarium” Germany. Co- organizer: S.S. Renner – March 22 2013.
FIELD EXPERIENCE: • Canada (Hudson Bay, James Bay, boreal forest and subarctic); Colombia (Nariño); Costa Rica; Dominican Republic; India (East and West Himalayas: Shimla and Darjeeling); Mexico; Panamá; USA (especially Southern Appalachians, California); Venezuela (Mérida); Germany (Hessen).
RELEVANT SKILLS • Curational work and databasing. Taxonomic revisions. Anatomy, development and taxonomy of bryophytes, particularly hornworts. Scanning and transmission electron microscopy. PCR amplification and cycle sequencing. Microsatellite primer design and testing. Plastid genome assembly and annotation. Phylogenetic and dating analyses. M.Sc. and undergraduate training and supervision in phylogenetic work. University lecturing experience (as teaching assistant): botany, bryology, Phylogenetic theory and techniques. Analyses of transcriptomic and genomic data.
REFERENCES Susanne Renner ([email protected]), Institute of Systematic Botany and Mycology, University of Munich, Menzinger Str. 67, 80638, Munich, Germany, Phone: (49) 89 17861 194.
Bernard Goffinet ([email protected]), Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 75 North Eagleville Road, University of Connecticut, Storrs CT 06269, USA. Phone: (01) 860 486 6306.
Karen Renzalia ([email protected]), Department of Plant Biology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, 62901, USA. Phone: (01) 618 453 3229.
Noris Salazar Allen ([email protected]), Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado postal 2072, Balboa. República de Panamá. (507) 212-8112.
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