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Matthew E. Smith, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Plant Pathology & Curator of the UF Fungal Herbarium (FLAS) University of Florida 2517 Fifield Hall Gainesville FL 32611-0680 Phone: +1.352.273.2837 Email: [email protected] Web: http://plantpath.ifas.ufl.edu/faculty/matthew-e-smith/ EDUCATION 2006 Ph.D. – Graduate Group in Ecology, University of California at Davis 1997 B.S. – Biological Sciences, University of California at Davis FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND SCHOLARSHIPS 2017 u University of Florida Term Professorship Award (2017–2020) 2017 u SEC Travel Grant [$1930] 2016 u Alexopoulos Prize, Mycological Society of America [$1000] 2015 u University of Florida Excellence Award for Assistant Professors [$5000] 2012 u American Phytopathological Society travel award – Providence, RI [$500] 2012 u FESIN – N. America Mycoflora workshop grant – New Haven, CT [$900] 2010 u Duke Preparing Future Faculty Program – Duke University 2010 u FESIN Metagenomics Scholarship – Scotland, UK [$2,000] 2007–2009 u Farlow Postdoctoral Fellowship – Harvard University [$80,000] 2006 u North American Truffling Society – Student Scholarship [$1,000] 2005 u Mycological Society of America – Best Student Presentation [$1,000] 2003 u San Francisco Mycological Society – Student Scholarship [$500] 2001, 2002 u Sonoma Mycological Association – Student Scholarship [$500] GRANTS 2017 u University of Florida College of Agricultural and Life Sciences OSBS seed grant: “DNA barcoding the macrofungi of Ordway-Swisher: documenting biodiversity and building herbarium resources for the iconic fungi of north Florida ecosystems” PI: Smith ME. co- PI: Richter BS, Healy RA. [$48,356] 1 Matthew E. Smith Curriculum Vitae 2016 u National Science Foundation Grant, Systematics and Biodiversity Science Cluster: “Ambrosia beetles and fungi: a comprehensive global survey of an increasingly important symbiosis” PI: Hulcr J. co-PI: Smith ME. [$668,983] DEB-556283 2016 u CSP Community Sequencing Project, Joint Genome Institute, US Dept. of Energy: “Genomics of the early diverging lineages of fungi and their transition to terrestrial, plant- based ecologies”. Funded Proposal 1978 2015 u National Science Foundation Grant, Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC): “Digitization TCN: Collaborative: The Microfungi Collections Consortium: A Networked Approach to Digitizing Small Fungi with Large Impacts on the Function and Health of Ecosystems” PI: Smith ME, Co-PIs: Brewer M, Kluse J. [$201,681] DBI- 1502763 2015 u National Science Foundation Grant, Genealogy of Life Cluster: “The Zygomycetes Genealogy of Life (ZyGoLife) – the conundrum of Kingdom Fungi” PI: James TY, co-PI: Smith ME. [$690,389] BIO-1441715 2015 u National Peanut Board, Southeastern Peanut Research Initiative – “Increasing our understanding of the population diversity of Sclerotium rolfsii, the white mold pathogen, in Southeastern peanut production areas” (PI: Dufault N, Co-PI: Smith ME) [$9,517] 2015 u University of Florida, Natural Area Teaching Lab (NATL) Minigrant – “NATL Lichen Biodiversity Survey”, co-advisor for Barry Kaminsky (MS Student, Biology) [$500] 2014 u National Science Foundation Grant, Systematics and Biodiversity Science Cluster: “Symbiotic ectomycorrhizal fungi in southern South America – macroecology and evolutionary history from community to landscape scale” PI: Smith ME, co-PI: Matheny PB. [$450,239] DEB-1354802 2014 u Southern Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE): “Propagation of the edible Pecan Truffle (Tuber lyonii) in pecan nurseries” PI: Smith ME, Collaborator: Tim Brenneman [$14,978] 2013 u University of Florida College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Early Career Grant: “Elucidating the Biology and Ecology of the Pecan Truffle (Tuber lyonii) in Pecan Orchards of Florida and nearby Southeastern States.” PI: Smith ME. [$42,032] 2012 u University of Florida, Natural Area Teaching Lab (NATL) Minigrant – “Documenting the common macrofungi of the NATL reserve”, advisor for student consortium [$500] 2012 u Instructional Improvement Grant from University of Florida College of Agricultural and Life Sciences: “Modernizing the Infrastructure for Hands-On Laboratory Education in Plant Pathology“ – Matthew E. Smith (PI), Brantlee Richter (co-PI) [$10,000] 2011–2013 u National Science Foundation Grant to Advance Digitization of Biological Collections (ADBC): “The Macrofungi Collection Consortium: Unlocking a Biodiversity Resource for Understanding Biotic Interactions, Nutrient Cycling and Human Affairs.” Principle Investigator Barbara Theirs at NYBG with collaborators at 35 fungal herbaria (Co-PI, N. Cellinese; senior personnel, M.E. Smith) [$31,428] 2 Matthew E. Smith Curriculum Vitae 2009–2011 u National Science Foundation Grant: “Ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity of the Guiana Shield, South America (#0816695)” with co-author T. Henkel (California State University at Humboldt). PI for administrative purposes – R. Vilgalys (Duke University) [$580,000] 2007–2009 u Farlow Postdoctoral Research Grant – Harvard University [$10,000] 2006 u AH & HV Smith Research Fund – Mycological Society of America [$1,000] 2003 u Forest Ecology Research Award – Mycological Society of America [$1,000] PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS 89) Benny GL, Smith ME (2018) Notes on Syncephalis (Zoopgales, Zoopagomycota) from the Farlow Herbarium with the description of a new species, Syncephalis aethiopica. Mycologia. <Accepted Manuscript> 88) Alvarez-Manjarrez J, Garibay-Orijel R, Smith ME. (2017) Caryophyllales are the main hosts of a unique set of ectomycorrhizal fungi in a Neotropical dry forest. Mycorrhiza. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00572-017-0807-7 87) Healy RA, Horner HT, Bonito GM, McLaughlin DJ, Smith ME (2017) An ultrastructural study of spore wall development and septal pores in species of the Pachyphlodes (Pezizaceae, Pezizales) lineage, with a description of the new species Pachyphlodes annagardnerae. Mycological Progress. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11557-017-1348-3 88) Kuhar F, Smith ME, Mujic A(p), Truong C(p), Nouhra E. (2017) A systematic overview of Descolea (Agaricales) in the Nothofagaceae forests of Patagonia. Fungal Biology. 121(10): 876-889 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.funbio.2017.06.006 87) Chuang S-C, Ho H-M, Tsai J-L, Reynolds N, Smith ME, Benny GL, Chien C-Y (2017) Preliminary phylogeny of Coemansia (Kickxellales) with the description of four new species from Taiwan. Mycologia. <Online Early> https://doi.org/10.1080/00275514.2017.1401892 86) Ge Z-W, Brenneman T, Bonito G, Smith ME. (2017) Soil pH and mineral nutrients strongly influence truffles and other ectomycorrhizal fungi associated with commercial pecans (Carya illinoinensis). Plant and Soil. 418(1-2): 493-505. DOI: 10.1007/s11104-017-3312-z 85) Desirò A, Rimington W, Jacob A, Vande Pol N, Smith ME, Trappe JM, Bidartondo MI, Bonito G (2017) Multigene phylogeny of Endogonales, an early diverging lineage of fungi associated with plants. IMA Fungus. 8(2): 245–257. doi:10.5598/imafungus.2017.08.02.03 84) Healy RH, Donald Pfister, Alija B. Mujic, Daniela Torres, Eduardo Nouhra, Guiliana Furci, Smith ME. (2017) Pseudotricharina lanigera, a new species from the Patagonian region of Argentina. Ascomycetes.org 9(4):135-138. 83) Truong C, Kuhar F, Kaplan Z, Smith ME. (2017) Out of Gondwana: Southern temperate Amanita lineages and the description of the first sequestrate species from the Americas. Fungal Biology 121(8): 638-651. doi: 10.1016/j.funbio.2017.04.006. 3 Matthew E. Smith Curriculum Vitae 82) Smith ME, Henkel TW, Williams GC, Aime MC, Fremier AK, Vilgalys R (2017) Investigating niche partitioning of ectomycorrhizal fungi in specialized rooting zones of the monodominant leguminous tree Dicymbe corymbosa. New Phytologist 215(1): 443-453 doi: 10.1111/nph.14570 81) Lazarus KL, Benny GL, Ho H-M, Smith ME (2017) Phylogenetic systematics of Syncephalis (Zoopagales, Zoopagomycotina), a genus of ubiquitous mycoparasites. Mycologia 109(2) :333-349. doi: 10.1080/00275514.2017.1307005. 80) Renolds NK Smith ME, Tretter ED, Gause J, Heeney D, Cafaro MJ, Smith JF, Novak SJ, Bourland WA, White MM (2017) Resolving relationships at the animal-fungal divergence: A molecular phylogenetic study of the protist trichomycetes (Ichthyosporea, Eccrinida). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 109: 447-464. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2017.02.007 79) Truong C, Mujic AB, Healy R, Kuhar F, Furci G, Torres D, Niskanen T, Sandoval-Leiva PA, Fernández N, Escobar JM, Moretto A, Palfner G, Pfister D, Nourha E, Swenie R, Sánchez-García M, Matheny PB, Smith ME. (2017) How to know the fungi: combining field inventories and DNA-barcoding to document fungal diversity. New Phytologist. 214(3) :913-919. DOI: 10.1111/nph.14509 78) Orihara T, Smith ME. (2017) Unique phylogenetic position of the African truffle-like fungus Octaviania ivoryana (Boletaceae, Boletales) and the proposal of a new genus, Afrocastellanoa. Mycologia. 108(2): 323-332. doi: 10.1080/00275514.2017.1301750doi/full/10.1080/00275514.2017.1301750 77) Kumar LM, Smith ME, Nouhra ER, Orihara T, Pfister DH, McLaughlin DJ, Healy RA (2017) A molecular and morphological re-examination of the generic limits of truffles in the Tarzetta-Geopyxis lineage - Paurocotylis, Hydnocystis, and Densocarpa. Fungal Biology. 121(3) :264–284. DOI: 10.1016/j.funbio.2016.12.004. 76) Sulzbacher MA, Grebnec T, Cabral TS, Gianchi AJ, Goto BT, Smith ME, Baseia IG. (2016) Restingomyces, a new sequestrate genus from the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest that is phylogenetically related to early-diverging taxa in Trappeaceae
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  • A Checklist of Clavarioid Fungi (Agaricomycetes) Recorded in Brazil

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    A checklist of clavarioid fungi (Agaricomycetes) recorded in Brazil ANGELINA DE MEIRAS-OTTONI*, LIDIA SILVA ARAUJO-NETA & TATIANA BAPTISTA GIBERTONI Departamento de Micologia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. Nelson Chaves s/n, Recife 50670-420 Brazil *CORRESPONDENCE TO: [email protected] ABSTRACT — Based on an intensive search of literature about clavarioid fungi (Agaricomycetes: Basidiomycota) in Brazil and revision of material deposited in Herbaria PACA and URM, a list of 195 taxa was compiled. These are distributed into six orders (Agaricales, Cantharellales, Gomphales, Hymenochaetales, Polyporales and Russulales) and 12 families (Aphelariaceae, Auriscalpiaceae, Clavariaceae, Clavulinaceae, Gomphaceae, Hymenochaetaceae, Lachnocladiaceae, Lentariaceae, Lepidostromataceae, Physalacriaceae, Pterulaceae, and Typhulaceae). Among the 22 Brazilian states with occurrence of clavarioid fungi, Rio Grande do Sul, Paraná and Amazonas have the higher number of species, but most of them are represented by a single record, which reinforces the need of more inventories and taxonomic studies about the group. KEY WORDS — diversity, taxonomy, tropical forest Introduction The clavarioid fungi are a polyphyletic group, characterized by coralloid, simple or branched basidiomata, with variable color and consistency. They include 30 genera with about 800 species, distributed in Agaricales, Cantharellales, Gomphales, Hymenochaetales, Polyporales and Russulales (Corner 1970; Petersen 1988; Kirk et al. 2008). These fungi are usually humicolous or lignicolous, but some can be symbionts – ectomycorrhizal, lichens or pathogens, being found in temperate, subtropical and tropical forests (Corner 1950, 1970; Petersen 1988; Nelsen et al. 2007; Henkel et al. 2012). Some species are edible, while some are poisonous (Toledo & Petersen 1989; Henkel et al. 2005, 2011). Studies about clavarioid fungi in Brazil are still scarce (Fidalgo & Fidalgo 1970; Rick 1959; De Lamônica-Freire 1979; Sulzbacher et al.
  • Fungi of the Fortuna Forest Reserve: Taxonomy and Ecology with Emphasis on Ectomycorrhizal Communities

    Fungi of the Fortuna Forest Reserve: Taxonomy and Ecology with Emphasis on Ectomycorrhizal Communities

    bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.16.045724; this version posted April 18, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC 4.0 International license. Fungi of the Fortuna Forest Reserve: Taxonomy and ecology with emphasis on ectomycorrhizal communities Adriana Corrales1 and Clark L. Ovrebo2 1 Department of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Universidad del Rosario. Bogota, 111221, Colombia. 2 Department of Biology, University of Central Oklahoma. Edmond, OK. USA. ABSTRACT Panamanian montane forests harbor a high diversity of fungi, particularly of ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi, however their taxonomy and diversity patterns remain for the most part unexplored. Here we present state of the art fungal taxonomy and diversity patterns at Fortuna Forest Reserve based on morphological and molecular identification of over 1,000 fruiting body collections of macromycetes made over a period of five years. We compare these new results with previously published work based on environmental sampling of Oreomunnea mexicana root tips. We compiled a preliminary list of species and report 22 new genera and 29 new fungal species for Panama. Based on fruiting body collection data we compare the species composition of ECM fungal communities associated with Oreomunnea stands across sites differing in soil fertility and amount of rainfall. We also examine the effect of a long-term nitrogen addition treatment on the fruiting body production of ECM fungi. Finally, we discuss the biogeographic importance of Panama collections which fill in the knowledge gap of ECM fungal records between Costa Rica and Colombia.
  • Re-Thinking the Classification of Corticioid Fungi

    Re-Thinking the Classification of Corticioid Fungi

    mycological research 111 (2007) 1040–1063 journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/mycres Re-thinking the classification of corticioid fungi Karl-Henrik LARSSON Go¨teborg University, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Box 461, SE 405 30 Go¨teborg, Sweden article info abstract Article history: Corticioid fungi are basidiomycetes with effused basidiomata, a smooth, merulioid or Received 30 November 2005 hydnoid hymenophore, and holobasidia. These fungi used to be classified as a single Received in revised form family, Corticiaceae, but molecular phylogenetic analyses have shown that corticioid fungi 29 June 2007 are distributed among all major clades within Agaricomycetes. There is a relative consensus Accepted 7 August 2007 concerning the higher order classification of basidiomycetes down to order. This paper Published online 16 August 2007 presents a phylogenetic classification for corticioid fungi at the family level. Fifty putative Corresponding Editor: families were identified from published phylogenies and preliminary analyses of unpub- Scott LaGreca lished sequence data. A dataset with 178 terminal taxa was compiled and subjected to phy- logenetic analyses using MP and Bayesian inference. From the analyses, 41 strongly Keywords: supported and three unsupported clades were identified. These clades are treated as fam- Agaricomycetes ilies in a Linnean hierarchical classification and each family is briefly described. Three ad- Basidiomycota ditional families not covered by the phylogenetic analyses are also included in the Molecular systematics classification. All accepted corticioid genera are either referred to one of the families or Phylogeny listed as incertae sedis. Taxonomy ª 2007 The British Mycological Society. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Introduction develop a downward-facing basidioma.