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Betsy Arnold (Postdoctoral Research Associate)NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Microbial Biology Department of Biology aearnold@duke.edu Education: Academic post starting January, 2005: Temporary contact numbers: Awards: International fellowships Intramural fellowships Small awards for research and travel Research Interests:
Current Research: Phylogenetic diversity of tropical foliar endophytes: a multilocus approach to integrate endophytes into Ascomycota phylogeny Implications of fungal endophytes for host plant defense, defensive chemistry, and gene expression in woody plants Diversity and species composition of foliar endophytes associated with Magnolia grandiflora, with special reference to isolation media, unculturable endophytes, and molecular diversity Diversity, species composition, and evolution of cryptic lichenicolous fungi associated with selected species of Peltigera, with J. Miadlikowska, V. Hofstetter, and F. Lutzoni Maintenance of endophytic symbioses under altered environmental conditions, esp. with regard to elevated atmospheric CO2; with R.L. Eells, D.A. Henk, F. Lutzoni, and R. Vilgalys. Diversity and demographic effects of seedborne and seed-infecting fungi for neotropical Cecropia, with J.Dalling and R. Gallery. Grants: Publications: Arnold, A.E., L.C. Mejía, D.A. Kyllo, E.I. Rojas, Z. Maynard, N.A. Robbins and E.A. Herre. In press. Fungal endophytes limit pathogen damage in a tropical tree. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA). Arnold, A.E. and L.C. Lewis. In press. Ecology and evolution of fungal endophytes, and their roles against insects. Ecological and Evolutionary Advances in Insect-Fungus Associations (F. Vega and M. Blackwell, eds.). Oxford University Press, Oxford. Lutzoni F, Kauff F, Cox C, McLaughlin D, Celio G, Dentinger B, Padamsee M, Hibbett D, James TY, Baloch E, Grube M, Reeb V, Hofstetter V, Schoch C, Arnold AE, Miadlikowska J, Spatafora J, Johnson D, Hambleton S, Crockett M, Shoemaker R, Sung GH, Lücking R, Lumbsch T, O’Donnell K, Binder M, Diederich P, Ertz D, Gueidan C, Hall B, Hansen K, Harris RC, Hosaka K, Lim YW, Liu Y, Matheny B, Nishida H, Pfister D, Rogers J, Rossman A, Schmitt I, Sipman H, Stone J, Sugiyama J, Yahr R, Vilgalys R, (2004). Assembling the fungal tree of life: progress, classification, and evolution of subcellular traits. American Journal of Botany 91: 1446-1480. Arnold, A.E. Ubiquity, abundance, and richness of foliar endophytes: consistency among diverse woody hosts in a lowland tropical forest. Submitted 12/2004, Microbial Ecology. Eells, R.L., D.A. Henk, A.E. Arnold, F. Lutzoni and R. Vilgalys. Assessing diversity of foliar fungal endophytes in a loblolly pine plantation. Submitted 12/2004, American Naturalist. Arnold, A.E. and E.A. Herre. 2003. Canopy cover and leaf age affect colonization by tropical fungal endophytes: Ecological pattern and process in Theobroma cacao (Malvaceae). Mycologia 95: 388-398 Arnold, A.E. and N.M. Asquith. 2002. Herbivory in a fragmented tropical forest: patterns from islands at Lago Gatún, Panamá. Biodiversity and Conservation 11: 1663-1680. Arnold, A.E., Z. Maynard and G. Gilbert. 2001. Fungal endophytes in dicotyledonous neotropical trees: patterns of abundance and diversity. Mycological Research 105: 1502-1507. Arnold, A.E., Z. Maynard, G. Gilbert, P.D. Coley and T.A. Kursar. 2000. Are tropical fungal endophytes hyperdiverse? Ecology Letters 3:267-274. Asquith, N.M., J. Terborgh, A.E. Arnold and M. Riveros-C. 1999. The fruits the agouti ate: Hymenaea courbaril seed fate when its disperser is absent. Evidence from Lago Guri, Venezuela. Journal of Tropical Ecology 15:229-235. Technical reports and other publications: Arnold, A.E. In press. Fungal endophytes in tropical forests: a case study for assessing biodiversity of tropical microfungi. Current Trends in Mycological Research (S. Deshmukh, ed.). Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi. Van Bael, S.A., Z. Maynard, N. Robbins, J. Bischoff, A.E. Arnold, L.C. Mejía, D.A. Kyllo and E.A. Herre. In press. Emerging perspectives in the ecology of tropical fungal endophytes. Title TBA, J. White, editor. Herre, E. A., Van Bael, S.A., Z. Maynard, N. Robbins, J. Bischoff, R. Cordero, A.E. Arnold, L.C. Mejía, D.A. Kyllo. In press. Tropical plants as chimera. Title TBA. Mejia, L. C., E. Rojas, Z. Maynard, A.E. Arnold, D. Kyllo, N. Robbins, and E.A. Herre. 2003. Inoculation of beneficial endophytic fungi into Theobroma cacao tissues. In Proceedings of the 14th International Cocoa Research Conference, Accra-Ghana. Arnold, A. E. 2001. Fungal endophytes in neotropical trees: Abundance, diversity, and ecological interactions. In Tropical Ecosystems: Structure, Diversity and Human Welfare (K. N. Ganeshaiah, R. Uma Shaanker, & K. S. Bawa, eds.). Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi: pp. 739-743. Arnold, A. E., L. Mejía, E. Rojas, Z. Maynard, N. Robbins and E. A. Herre. 2001. Organismos endofíticos: Microorganismos en plantas. (Endophytic organisms: microorganisms in plants.) El Uso de Microorganismos Benéficos en la Agricultura Moderna. Universidad E.A.R.T.H., Guácimo, Limón, Costa Rica. Arnold, A.E. 1999. Fungal endophytes of tropical trees: methods and potential for biological control of fungal pathogens of cocoa. Proceedings of the Research Methodology of Biocontrol of Plant Diseases Workshop, San Jose: CATIE. Arnold, A.E. 1999. Sustainable cocoa: the fungal community component. American Cocoa Research Institute’s Features in Integrated Pest Management for Cocoa: Online, at http://www.oardc.ohiostate.edu/cocoa/main_ftr.htm. |
