ISS member web sites

This is a growing reference library and communications vehicle designed to help facilitate contact with each other, discover research of colleagues, and access pertinent symbiosis information, ideas and images. When you send your symbiosis research web site to dzook@bu.edu, we will include the link in this listing.

Anemones/dinoflagellates:

Virginia Weis, Oregon State University, Dept. of Zoology, 3029 Cordley Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331, http://oregonstate.edu/%7eweisv/weis.html

Applied uses of insect symbiosis:

Carol Lauzon, California State University, http://www.sci.csuhayward.edu/biology/faculty/bios/lauzon.html

Applied uses of mycorrhizae:

Ajit Varma, Amity University of India, http://www.amity.edu/aihms/Faculty.htm

Azolla/anabaena:

Francisco Carrapiço, University of Lisbon, http://azolla.fc.ul.pt/Francisco.Carrapico_e.html

Matthias Horn, University of Vienna, http://microbial-ecology.net/horn.asp

Bark beetles/fungi:

Marr Ayres, Dartmouth College, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Gilman Lab, Hanover, NH, 03755, http://www.dartmouth.edu/~mpayres/

Kier Klepzig, Forest Insect Research, USDA, 2500 Shreveport Hwy, Pineville, LA, 71360, http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/4501/

Diana L. Six, University of Montana, USA, http://www.forestry.umt.edu/personnel/faculty/six/

Coral-dino bleaching:

Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Universty of Queensland, Centre for Marine Studies, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia, 4067, http://www.marine.uq.edu.au/staff/ohg.html and http://www.marine.uq.edu.au/ohg/GBR-2002/

Corals/dinoflagellates:

Tamar Goulet, University of Mississippi, USA, http://olemiss.edu/depts/biology/people/faculty/goulet2/index.php

Rosalind Hinde, University of Sydney, Australia, http://www.bio.usyd.edu.au/staff/hinde/hinde.htm

Todd Lajeunesse, Florida International University, http://www.fiu.edu/~lajeunes/

Cyanobacterial symbioses:

Birgitta Bergman, Department of Botany, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden, http://www.botan.su.se/Fysiologi/CYANO/HOME/HTM

Bruce Osborne, University College, Dublin, http://www.ucd.ie/botany/bruce_osborne.htm

Bjorn Solheim, University of Tromsø, Dramsveien 201, N-9037, Tromsø, Norway, http://www.ib.uit.no/plantefysiologi/index.htm

Deep sea vent symbioses:

Monika Bright, University of Vienna, http://www.hydrothermalvent.com/php/index.php and http://www.univie.ac.at/marine-biology/mbright.htm

Colleen Cavanaugh, Harvard University, http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/cavanaugh

Charles Fisher, Penn State University, http://www.bio.psu.edu/People/Faculty/Fisher/fisher.htm

Earthworms/bacteria:

Seana Davidson, University of Washington, http://stahl.ce.washington.edu/staff/skdavid.html

Elysia/Vaucheria:

Mary Rumpho, University of Maine, http://www.umaine.edu/bmmb/faculty/index.php/profile/mary_rumphokennedy and http://devbio2.umesci.maine.edu/symbio/

Endophytic fungi:

Regina Redman, Montana State University, http://www.rcn.montana.edu/participants/detail.aspx?nav=3&id=63

Rusty Rodriguez, University of Washington, http://wfrc.usgs.gov/about/profiles/Prof_Rodriguez.htm

Christopher Schardl, University of Kentucky, Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40546 USA, http://www.ca.uky.edu/agcollege/plantpathology/schardl.htm

Euprymna-Vibrio

Margaret McFall-Ngai, University of Wisconson, http://www.medmicro.wisc.edu/department/faculty/mcfall-ngai.html

Michele K. Nishiguchi, New Mexico State University, Department of Biology, PO Box 30001 Dept. 3AF, Las Cruces, New Mexico, 88003-8001, http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~biology/Faculty%20&%20Staff/Nishiguchi/Mishiguchi.htm

Foraminifera/algae:

Joan Bernhard, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, http://www.whoi.edu/hpb/Site.do?id=3172

Pamela Hallock-Muller, University of S. Florida, Department of Marine Science, St. Petersburg, FL, http://www.marine.usf.edu/reefslab/

John Lee, City College, NY, http://www1.ccny.cuny.edu/current/SURIC/mentors/John-Lee.cfm

Frankia/actinorhizal plants:

Louis S. Tisa, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA, http://microbiology.unh.edu/faculty/Tisa/TISA98.html

Geosiphon pyriformis:

Arthur Schüssler, Universität Darmstadt, Department of Botany, Schnittsparhstr. 10, Darmstadt, Germany 64287,

http://www.tu-darmstadt.de/fb/bio/bot/schuessler/geosiphon/geosiphon.html

Hydrothermal vent symbioses:

Monika Bright, Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology, Uniuversity of Vienna, Althanstr. 14, 1090 Austria, http://www.hydrothermalvent.com

Insect symbiosis (various)

Takema Fukatsu, Institute for Biological Functions, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Professor, Department of General Systems Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, http://staff.aist.go.jp/t-fukatsu/English%20Top.html

Michael Poulsen, University of Copenhagen, Dept. of Population Biology, Zoological Institute, Universitetsparken 15, Copenhagen East, 2100 Denmark http://www.zi.ku.dk/popecol/webbio/mpoulsen.htm and http://www.zi.ku.dk/cses/. The latter is the Center for Social Evolution and Symbiosis at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Insects/bacteria:

Abdelaziz Heddi, Insa de Lyon, http://csiges7.insa-lyon.fr/bf2i/asp/en/gabarit_laboratoire_detail_personne.asp?cd_laboratoire=BF2I&Lang=en&Frames=True&Connexion=LabwebBF2I&Cd_dossier=16

Scott O'Neill, Queensland University, http://www.qimr.edu.au/research/acithn/projects/scotto.html

Tom Wilkinson, University College, Dublin, http://www.ucd.ie/bioenvsci/staff/academic/wilkinson_tom/index.htm

Leafcutter ants/fungi/bacteria:

Cameron Currie, University of Wisconson, http://www.bact.wisc.edu/gradstudies/facultyListing.php?id=25

Leech/bacteria:

Joerg Graf, Unievrsity of Connecticut, Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology, 91 N. Eagleville Road, U-3125, Storrs, CT 06268, http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~mcbstaff/graf/Graf/html and http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~mcbstaff/graf/Sym.html

Lichen chemistry:

Elfie Stocker-Wörgötter, University of Salzburg, http://www.sbg.ac.at/pfl/stocker.htm

Lichens:

Daniele Armaleo, Duke University, Department of Biology, Durham, North Carolina 27708-0338, USA, http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Biology/faculty/armaleo

Darwyn Coxson, University of Northern British Columbia, 3333 University Way, Prince George, V2N4Z9 Canada, http://wetbelt.unbc.ca/canopy-synopsis.htm

Martin Grube, Karl-Franzens University of Austria, http://www.uni-graz.at/~grubem/home.html

François Lutzoni, Duke University, Department of Biology, Box 90338, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA, http://www.lutzonilab.net/francois/index.shtml and http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Biology/faculty/francois.lutzoni

Marine symbioses:

Jose Lopez, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Division of Biomedical Marine Research, 5600 US 1 North, Ft. Pierce, FL 34946 USA, http://www.hboi.edu/dbmr/lopez.html

Chris Loban, University of Guam, Division of Natural Sciences, Mangilao, Guam, 96923, includes videos of two unusual symbiotic ciliates, http://www.uog.edu/dns/lobban.htm and http://www.uog.edu/classes/bi-100/Lobbans/a_personal_example.htm

Joel L. Sachs, University of Texas at Austin, Integrative Biology, 1 University Station, C0930, Austin, TX 78712-0253, http//cluster3.biosci.utexas.edu/grad/sachs/Web/

Hank Trapido-Rosenthal, Bermuda Biological Station for Research, Ferry Reach GE 01, Bermuda, http://www.bbsr.edu/About_BBSR/Faculty_Profiles/hank/hank

Mycetocytes/aphids:

Angela Douglas, Department of Biology, University of York, PO Box 373, York, YO10 5YW, England, http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/biol/staff/aed.htm

Mycorrhizae:

Paola Bonfante, University of Torino, http://www.bioveg.unito.it/italiano/personale/bonfante.htm

Silvia Perotto, University of Torino, http://www.bioveg.unito.it/italiano/personale/perotto.htm

Gopi Podila, University of Alabama, http://www.uah.edu/colleges/science/biology/podila.htm

Andy Taylor, Swedish University of Agriculture, Dept. of Forest Mycology and Pathology, SE 750-07, Uppsala, Sweden, http://www.mykopat.slu.se/mycorrhiza/mycpro.html

Sari Timonen, University of Helsinki, Department of Applied Biology, PO Box 27, 00014 Finland, http://www.mm.helsinki.fi/~sstimone/

Hakan Wallander, Lund University, Department of Microbial Ecology, 223 62 Lund, Sweden, http://www.biol.lu.se/ekomibi/mycorr.html

Plastid evolution:

Charles Delwiche, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-5815, USA. http://life.umd.edu/labs/delwiche/home.html

Rhizobium/legumes:

Frans deBruijn, Directeur de recherches INRA, DR1, Laboratory of Plant-Microbe Interactions (ex LBMRPM), UMR INRA-CNRS 2594/441,
Chemin de Borde-Rouge, Auzeville, BP 27, 31326 Castanet-Tolosan Cedex, France, http://capoul.toulouse.inra.fr/centre/lipm/index.htm

Ann Hirsch, UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA, http://research.mednet.ucla.edu/cfm/lifesci/MCDBfaculty.cfm?FacultyKey=52http://www.mcdb.ucla.edu/Research/Hirsch

Kevin Vessey, Department of Plant Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, http://husky1.smu.ca/-kvessey/

Trichomycete fungi and insects:

Robert W. Lichtwardt, Emeritus Professor of Botany, University of Kansas, Dept. of Plant Biology, 8002 Haworth Hall, Lawrence, KS 66045-2106, http://www.ukans.edu/"eeb/Main/lichtwar.htm

Merlin H. White, University of Kansas, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 1200 Sunnyside Avenue, Mycology Lab, 8002 Haworth Hall, Lawrence, KS 66045-2106, http://www.nhm.ku.edu/-fungi

Viruses in symbiosis:

Marilyn Roossinck, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, http://www.noble.org/PlantBio/Roosnk/Index.htm