Rytas Vilgalys, Professor of Biology and Curator of Fungi, Duke Herbarium

Office Location:	354 Bio Sci Building
Office Phone:	(919) 660-7361, (919) 660-7362
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://www.biology.duke.edu/fungi/mycolab/

Teaching (Fall 2013):

• BIOLOGY 540L.01, MYCOLOGY Synopsis

  French Sci 1244, TuTh 03:05 PM-06:05 PM

Education:

Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1985

Specialties:

Fungi

Research Interests: Phylogenetic systematics and molecular evolution in fungi

Keywords:

Fungal Systematics • Evolution and population genetics of pathogenic fungi • Mating biology and population genetics • Environmental Mycology

Current Ph.D. Students  

• Gwendolyn Williams  
• Jeri L. Parrent  
• Daniel Henk  
• Greg Bonito  
• Jason A Jackson  
• Hannah Reynolds  

Postdocs Mentored

• Jessie Uehling (2012/12-present)  
• Soledad Benitez-Ponce (2011-present)  
• Brantlee Richter (2010-2011)  
• Matthew Smith (2009-2011)  
• Teresa Porter (2008 - 2010)  
• Andrii Grygansky (2008-present)  
• Timothy James (2003 - 2006)  
• Annette Golonka (2002 - 2006)  
• Valerie Hofstetter (2002 - 2006)  
• Ana Litvintseva (2001 - 2006)  
• Austin Ganley (2000 - 2002)  
• Robert Marra (2000 - 2003)  
• Ursula Peintner (1999 - 2001)  
• Anja Forche (1998 - 2000)  
• James Johnson (1997 - 2000)  
• Jianping Xu (1996 - 2000)  
• Jean-Marc Moncalvo (1995 - 2002)  
• Wendy Untereiner (1995 - 1996)  
• Joseph Spatafora (1992 - 1994)  
• Marc Cubeta (1992 - 1994)  
• Louise Lewis (1989 - 1992)  
• Wieland Meyer (1989 - 1992)  
• Steven L. Rehner (1988 - 1989)  
• Marianela Rodriguez (20102012 - present)  

Recent Publications

1. Henkel TW, Husbands D, Bonito GM, Vilgalys R, Smith ME, New species of Xerocomus (Boletales) from the Guiana Shield, with notes on their mycorrhizal status and fruiting occurrence, Mycologia, vol. in press (2012)  [abs]
2. Hersh, M., James Clark, Rytas Vilgalys, Evaluating the impacts of multiple generalist fungal pathogens on temperate tree seedling survival., Ecology, vol. 93 (2012), pp. 511–520  [abs]
3. Bonito, Gregory, Matthew E. Smith, Michael Nowak, Rosanne A. Healy, Gonzalo Guevara, ,Efren Cázares, Akihiko Kinoshita, Eduardo R. Nouhra, Laura S. Domínguez, Leho Tedersoo, Claude Murat, Yun Wang, Baldomero, Arroyo Moreno, Donald H. Pfister, Kazuhide Nara, Alessandra Zambonelli, James M. Trappe, Rytas Vilgalys, Historical biogeography and diversification of truffles in the Tuberaceae and their newly identified Southern hemisphere sister lineage, PLOS ONE (in press) (2012)  [abs]
4. Husbands, Dillon R., Terry W. Henkel, Gregory Bonito, Rytas Vilgalys, and Matthew E. Smith, New species of Xerocomus (Boletales) from the Guiana Shield, with notes on their mycorrhizal status and fruiting occurrence, Mycologia (2012)  [abs]
5. Porter, T. M., M. Rodriguez, B. Robbertse, R. Yoder, P. M. Letcher, J. E. Longcore, J. W. Spatafora, and R. Vilgalys, Chytrid transcriptome pyrosequencing: application to phylogenetic systematics, submitted to Mol. Phylog. Evol. (2012)  [abs]