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The University of Western Ontario
Department of Biology

Fungal ecology and systematics

My NEW office is in room 3047, Biological & Geological Sciences Building
(enter through doors closest to Western Science Centre)

Telephone:
  • Office (519) 661-2111 x88647
FAX: (519) 661-3935

Email: rgthorn@uwo.ca
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Research Projects

Teaching

  • Flora and Vegetation of Ontario (BIO-2404, September-December 2009 and alternate years) [Official course web-site is accessed through WebCT]
  • Introduction to the Fungi BIO-3218, January-April 2010) [Official course web-site is accessed through WebCT]
  • Evolution of Plants (BIO-3404F, September-December 2010 and alternate years)
  • Plants as a Human Resource ( BIO-2217b January-April); will be taught in 2010 by Dr. Richard Gardiner
  • Environmental Biology (BIO-2485b, January-April) is now taught by Ben Rubin .
  • The former Field Studies in Plant Sciences (PS-490a) has become "Flora and Vegetation of Algonquin Park," an Ontario Universities' Program in Field Biology field course (not offered in 2008-9). Click here to view other OUPFB field courses.

Costa Rica

Conservation

Save valuable pieces of Costa Rican tropical forest : an urgent appeal for funds for the Rincon Rainforest

Some Useful Links

Area de Conservación Guanacaste Home Page

Organization for Tropical Studies Home Page

INBio Home Page (Instito Nacional de Biodiversidad) [or try its faster mirror site in Alberta ]

Biotropica : the journal

Revista de Biología Tropical

Photo Gallery

Photo gallery of Costa Rican fungi, occasional scenes, and other critters [will return soon]

Students

Graduate Student Opportunities

Fungal ecology, including plant-fungal, fungal-invertebrate, and fungal-microbial interactions; fungal systematics and phylogeny; fungal diversity and conservation

Current and Recent Graduate and Undergraduate Students

  • Aniruddho Hoque (MSc student; Diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in tallgrass prairies) 09/2008--
  • Jennifer McDonald (PhD student; Systematics of Stigmatolemma and the cyphelloid Resupinateae) 09/2007--
  • Holly Stover (NSERC - USRA and 4th year thesis student; Importance of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to plant diversity in tallgrass prairies) 05/2009--

    Former students:

  • Michael Lynch (MSc student; Impacts of tillage on soil basidiomycetes) 09/2002-12/2004, has moved on to his PhD in the lab of Dr. Kirsten Muller at the University of Waterloo. Co-winner of the Canadian Botanical Association 2007 Luella Weresub Award for best Canadian student paper in mycology published in 2006 , based on the first paper from his MSc work. Click here to see the paper (pdf).
  • Mirjam Urb (MSc student; Fungi associated with caterpillars in Costa Rica) 09/2003-01/2006, has moved on to her PhD in the lab of Dr. Don Sheppard at McGill University in Montreal
  • Alexandra Koziak (MSc student; Nematoctonus in Costa Rica) 09/2003-03/2006, has moved on to teacher's college in Calgary
  • Tammy Robinson (Honours BSc student; Ramaria from Newfoundland) 09/2005-04/2006
  • Barbara Bahnmann (MSc student; Diversity of Agaricomycetes in agricultural soils) 01/2004-04/2009.

Last update: 6 November 2009
Created and maintained by R. Greg Thorn