Meet the IMS Board of Directors 2019-2024
Research and interests:
• Relationship between soil/mycorrhizal biodiversity & ecosystem functions
• Application of mycorrhizas in agriculture, forestry, & others
• Natural selection in plant holobionts & mycorrhizas
• Soil metabarcoding bioinformatics & community ecology
• Southern temperate rainforests` biogeochemistry
• Lead of the South American Mycorrhizal Research Network
• Editorial Board: Frontiers in Microbiology/Genetics and Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment
Research and interests:
• Mycorrhizal and fungal ecology.
• Mycorrhiza-plant interaction.
• Mycorrhizal traits.
• Application of mycorrhizal fungi and mycorrhiza in ecological restoration and sustainable agriculture.
• Mycology.
• Conservation biology.
• Science communication and outreach.
• Gender gap in STEM
Research and interests
• plant-soil interactions and biogeochemical cycles working in tropical, subtropical, boreal and temperate forests, grasslands, agroecosystems and peatlands.
I have broad interests and expertise, but from a mycorrhizal perspective I have particular focus on:
• Understanding how ectomycorrhizal fungi acquire organic forms of nutrients
• The role of mycorrhizal fungi in shaping multitrophic interactions and driving plant-soil feedback
• The ecology of fungal networks, including common mycorrhizal networks
• The use of isotope tracers to quantify resource transfers and exchange in ecosystems
Curator of the Canadian Collection of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (CCAMF)
Research and Interests include:
• In vivo and in vitro cultures of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
• Molecular systematics and genetics of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
• Soil fertility and soil microbiome in agricultural and forest ecosystems
Research and Interests
• The broad aim of my research is to identify and understand how signals are sent and perceived by plants and their associated microbiota to coordinate development and enable this ecosystem to survive under less than ideal conditions.
Research and Interests
• ecosystem ecologist focussing on the development and application of molecular tools to determine the role of mycorrhizal and other fungi in community and ecosystem-level outcomes.
• major focus is the role of mycorrhizas in woody plant establishment, including the invasion of wilding conifers
• long-standing interest in fungal community ecology, including both deterministic (e.g., niche partitioning) and stochastic mechanisms.
• editor for New Phytologist
• served on the editorial board of Mycorrhiza and Plant & Soil.
Research and Interests:
• use of microbes in sustainable agrosystems and restoration
• community ecology of arbuscular mycorrhizas in undisturbed, natural systems.
• Associate Editor for two peer-reviewed journals and has
• served on the NSERC Scholarships and Fellowships panel (Ecology) (2013-15)