Curriculum Vita

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Education:

Ph.D., Plant Biology (emphasis Microbial Ecology), May 2009 (Summa Cum Laude), Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences, Tempe, Arizona.

M.S., Plant Biology (emphasis Mycology/Taxonomy), December 2004, Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences, Tempe, Arizona. 


B.A., Education, May 1992, Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana.

Research Support:


• PNW Interdisciplinary Award: Chemical Characterization of E. coli Suppressing Metabolites from an Endophytic Stemphylium Spinach Isolate, PNW College of Science. Role: Co-PI; Co-PIs: Lindsay Gielda, Dawit Gizachew, and Libbie Pelter; Period 2017-2018.

• Importing U.S. National Fungus Collections Specimen Data into MyCoPortal, a Fungal-Based Implementation of Symbiota Software, U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Role: Contractor; Period 2016-2017.

• Summer Research Grant Award: Characterization of Fungal Interactions with E. coli O157:H7 on Lettuce Plants, PNW College of Science. Role: Co-PI; Co-PI: Lindsay Gielda. Period 2016-2017.

• Research Grant Award: Stability in the Corn Microbiome, PNC College of Science Interdisciplinary Research Center. Role: PI; Period 2015-2016.

• Digitization TCN: Collaborative: The Microfungi Collections Consortium: A Networked Approach to Digitizing Small Fungi with Large Impacts on the Function and Health of Ecosystems, National Science Foundation. Role: Consultant; Lead PI: Andrew Miller (University of Illinois); Period: 2015-2018.

• MnDrive Postdoctoral Scholars Award: Carbon Inputs Coupled with Microbial Inoculants to Restore Beneficial Soil Microbial Communities, Suppress Plant Diseases, and Sustain Productivity for Minnesota Potatoes, UMN MnDrive. Role: Co-PI; Co-PI: Linda Kinkel (University of Minnesota); Period 2014-2015.

• The Macrofungi Collection Consortium: Unlocking a Biodiversity Resource for Understanding Biotic Interactions, Nutrient Cycling and Human Affairs, National Science Foundation. Role: Collaborator; Lead PIs: Barbara Thiers (New York Botanical Garden) and Roy Halling (New York Botanical Garden); Period: 2012–2015.

• Fungal Marker Gene Database, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Role: Collaborator; PIs: Mitchell L. Sogin (Marine Biological Laboratory) and Rob Knight (University of Colorado); Period: 2012–2013.

• Surveying Unexplored Soil Biodiversity in Sub-Saharan Africa to Enhance Agricultural Productivity, Winslow Foundation Grant. Role: Collaborator; PIs: Diana Wall (Colorado State University) and Noah Fierer (University of Colorado); Period: 2010–2012.

• Microbes Associated with Surfaces and Food Items in the Kitchen: Diversity, Distribution, and Sources of Bacteria, Sloan Foundation. Role: Collaborator; PIs: Noah Fierer (University of Colorado) and Rob Knight (University of Colorado); Period: 2011–2012.

• Turning Sand into Sandstone with Microbial Biomineralization, CU Innovative Research Program. Role: Collaborator; PIs: Noah Fierer (University of Colorado) and John Zhai (University of Colorado); Period: 2011–2012.

Teaching Experience (*courses with a lab component): 



Purdue University Northwest (formerly PNC and PUC), Department of Biological Sciences, Westville, IN 



• Instructor: BIOL 22100* Introduction to Microbiology: Non-Majors (fall semester 2016, spring and summer semesters 2017), BIOL 24400* Genetics: Majors (fall semester 2017), BIOL 31600* Microbiology: Majors (spring semester 2016), BIOL 49200* Mycology: Majors (spring semester 2016, fall semester 2017), BIOL 59500 Special Assignments: Bioinformatics (spring semester 2017)

Purdue University North Central, Department of Biology and Chemistry, Westville, IN 



• Instructor: BIOL 22100* Introduction to Microbiology: Non-Majors (fall semester 2015, spring and summer semesters 2016), BIOL 32200/32300* Microbiology: Majors (fall semester 2015), BIOL 49500 Special Assignments: Microbial Ecology (spring semester 2016)

University of Colorado, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Boulder, CO 



• Instructor: EBIO 4800/5800 Critical Thinking in Biology: Microbial Ecology (fall semester 2011 and 2012), EBIO 3400* Microbiology (summer semester 2011, 2012, and 2013)
• Guest lecturer: EBIO 4800/5800 Critical Thinking in Biology: Soil Ecology (fall semesters 2009 and 2010)

Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences, Tempe, AZ

• Teaching Assistant/Guest Lecturer: PLB 400/401* Lichenology (spring semesters 2005, 2007, and 2009), PLB 402* Mycology (spring semesters 2004 and 2007)
• Teaching Assistant: PLB 108* Introduction to Plant Biology (traditional lab sections - spring semester 2003), PLB 108* Introduction to Plant Biology (online lab sections - spring semester 2003 and fall semesters 2003, 2005, and 2007)

Positions Held:

• Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences Department, Purdue Univ. Northwest (August 2015 – current)
• Curator of Fungi at the Bell Museum of Natural History (August 2013 – May 2015)
• Assistant Professor, Plant Pathology Department, University of Minnesota (August 2013 – May 2015)
• Data Portal Manager (http://mycoportal.org), The Macrofungi Collection Consortium, NSF Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections Program (July 2012 – August 2013)
• Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Colorado, Fierer Laboratory (December 2010 – 2013)
• Adjunct Researcher, The Denver Botanic Garden (March 2011 – 2013)
• Museum Associate, University of Colorado Museum Herbarium (May 2013 - current)
• Visiting Fellow, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (August 2009 – December 2010)
• Research Assistant NSF funded “Prokaryotic Diversity of Biological Soil Crusts in Aridlands of North America” (eukaryotic extension, Doctoral dissertation project) Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ (fall semester, 2006 and spring semester, 2008)
• Herbarium Staff, Arizona State University Lichen Herbarium (voluntary, June 2004 – 2009)
• Lichen Identification Expert Forest Inventory and Analysis program, USDA Forest Service (May 2004 – March 2008)
• Coordinator American Bryological and Lichenological Society Lichen Exchange, Arizona State University Lichen Herbarium (voluntary, December 2003 – November 2005)

Training Student Researchers (*served on graduate committee):



• Tim Clemons (Undergraduate), Purdue Univ. Northwest, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Westville, IN – fungal taxonomy and molecular biology (fall 2017)
• Justin Golday* (Graduate), Purdue Univ. Northwest, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Westville, IN – mycology and molecular biology (fall 2017)
• Chris Miller* (Graduate), Purdue Univ. Northwest, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Hammond, IN – high-throughput sequencing and microbial ecological analyses (fall 2017)
• John Downing (Undergraduate), Purdue Univ. Northwest, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Westville, IN – mycology and molecular biology (spring 2017)
• Taylor Smith-Graber* (Graduate), Indiana Univ./Purdue Univ. Ft. Wayne, Dept. of Biology, Ft. Wayne, IN – microbial ecological analyses (fall 2016 – spring 2017)
• Chris Weliczko (Undergraduate), Purdue Univ. Northwest, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Westville, IN – molecular biology (spring 2017)
• Mattison Chayhitz (Undergraduate), Purdue Univ. Northwest, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Westville, IN – fungal taxonomy and molecular biology (spring 2016)
• Jamie Price (Undergraduate), Indiana Univ./Purdue Univ. Ft. Wayne, Dept. of Biology, Ft. Wayne, IN – high-throughput sequencing and microbial ecological analyses (spring 2016)
• Rachel Kunnen (Undergraduate), Purdue Univ. Northwest, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Westville, IN – mycology and molecular biology (spring 2016 - fall 2017)
• Victoria Conn (Undergraduate), Purdue Univ. North Central, Dept. of Biology and Chemistry, Westville, IN – mycology and molecular biology (fall 2015)
• Zewei Song (Postdoctoral researcher), University of Minnesota, Dept. of Plant Pathology, St. Paul, MN – mycology and molecular microbial ecology (fall 2013 – spring 2015)
• Christine Avena* (Graduate), University of Colorado at Boulder, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Boulder, CO - molecular microbial ecology (fall 2014 - fall 2016)
• Noble Lilliestierna (Graduate), University of Colorado at Boulder, Dept. of Architectural and Civil Engineering, Boulder, CO - biological mineralization (spring 2011 – fall 2012)
• Garrett Cropsey (Undergraduate honor's thesis), University of Colorado at Boulder, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Boulder, CO - molecular biology/ecology (fall 2009 – spring 2010)
• Sheetal Boosi (Graduate), ASU School of Life Sciences, Tempe, AZ - molecular biology (fall 2008)
• Jessica Groch (Undergraduate), ASU School of Life Sciences, Tempe, AZ - molecular biology (spring 2008)
• Anne Barber (Undergraduate), ASU School of Life Sciences, Tempe, AZ - slime mold classification and general research (fall 2007)
• Angel A. Garcia (Undergraduate), Universidad Metropolitana, San Juan, PR - molecular biology/ecology (summer 2007)
• Xavier Arturo Lopez (Undergraduate), Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador - systematic mycology (fall 2006 – spring 2008)
• Rebeca A. Guerro (Graduate), University of Texas, El Paso, TX - molecular biology (summer 2006)
• Samantha Standley (Undergraduate), ASU Plant Biology Department, Tempe, AZ - molecular biology (spring 2004)

Professional Services:

• Ad Hoc Reviewer: USGS (internal), BMC Evolutionary Biology, the Bryologist, Canotia, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, ISME Journal, Journal of Arid Environments, Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society, Microbial Ecology, Mycologia, Mycological Progress, Mycotaxon, PLoS ONE, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Soil Biology and Biochemistry
• Peer Reviewer for research proposals: Austrian Science Fund, National Science Foundation, and Icelandic Research Fund
• Cheif Mycologist: North American Mycological Association Regional Foray (2017)
• Consultant and Website Manager: Mycology Collections Portal (http://www.mycoportal.org, 2006–current)
• Production Editor and Website Manager: Canotia (http://www.canotia.org - a publication of the ASU Vascular Plant Herbarium, 2006–2012).
• Project Coordinator and Website Manager: The Arizona Mycota Project (AMP, enlisting civilian scientists to document fungal diversity in Arizona, 2006–current)

Professional Skills:


• Proficient in the use of bioinformatics, database management, phylogenetic, and statistical software such as Mega, MySQL, Primer, R, QIIME, and SYMBIOTA.

Specialized Publications:



Bates, S.T., F. Bungartz, R. Luecking, M.A. Herrera-Campos, and A. Zambrano. (eds). 2011. Biomonitoring, Ecology,and Systematics of Lichens: Recognizing the Lichenological Legacy of Thomas H. Nash III on his 65th Birthday. Bibliotheca Lichenologica 106: 1–422 (including 16 full colour plates). 



Publications (peer-reviewed):

Miller, A.N. and S.T. Bates. 2018. The Mycology Collections Portal (MyCoPortal). IMA Fungus 8: 65–66..

Bates, S.T., J.S. Golday, R. Kunnen, and N.J. Pilla. 2017. Checklist of Indiana fungi I: Macrofungi. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science 126: 12–34.

Price, J.T., F.V. Paladino, M.M. Lamont, B.E. Witherington, S.T. Bates, and T. Soule. 2017. Characterization of the juvenile green turtle (Chelonia mydas) microbiome throughout an ontogenic shift from pelagic to neritic habitats. PLoS ONE 12: e0177642.

Matny, O., Z. Song, and S.T. Bates. 2017. Geographic distribution of Fusarium culmorum chemotypes associated with wheat crown rot in Iraq. Journal of Plant Protection Research 57: 43–49.

Dickie, I.A., J.A. Cooper, J.L. Bufford, P.E. Hulme, and S.T. Bates. 2017. Loss of functional diversity and network modularity in introduced plant–fungal symbioses. AoB PLANTS 9:plw084.

Bates, S.T., R.M. Chapman, M.B. Islam, A. Schwabe, E.C.P. Wardenaar, and V.S. Evenson. 2016. The phylogenetic placement of the secotioid fungus Araneosa columellata within Agaricus. Mycotaxon 131: 103-110.

Nguyen, N.H., Z. Song, S.T. Bates, S. Branco, L. Tedersoo, J. Menke, J.S. Schilling, and P.G. Kennedy. 2016. FUNGuild: an open annotation tool for parsing fungal community datasets by ecological guild. Fungal Ecology 20: 241–248.

Beier, G., S.C. Hokanson, S.T. Bates, and R.A. Blanchette. 2015. Aurantioporthe corni gen. et comb. nov., an endophyte and pathogen of Cornus alternifolia . Mycologia 107: 66-79.

Song, Z., D. Schlatter, P. Kennedy, L.L. Kinkel, H.C. Kistler, N. Nguyen, and S.T. Bates. 2015. Effort versus reward: Preparing samples for fungal community characterization in high-throughput sequencing surveys of soils. PLoS ONE 10:e0127234.

McCluskey, K., S.T. Bates, K. Boundy-Mills, A. Broggiato, A. Cova, P. Desmeth, C. DebRoy, D. Fravel, G. Garrity, M. del Mar Jimenez Gasco, L. Joseph, D. Lindner, M.W. Lomas, J. Morton, D. Nobles, J. Turner, T. Ward, J. Wertz, A. Wiest, and D. Geiser. 2014. Meeting report: 2nd workshop of the United States Culture Collection Network. May 19-21, 2014, State College, PA, USA. Standards in Genomic Sciences 9: 27-31.

Prober, S.M., J.W. Leff, S.T. Bates, E.T. Borer, J. Firn, W.S. Harpole, E. Lind, E.W. Seabloom, P.B. Adler, J.D. Bakker, E.E. Cleland, N.M. DeCrappeo, E. DeLorenze, N. Hagenah, Y. Hautier, K.S. Hofmockel, K.P. Kirkman, J.M.H. Knops, K.L. La Pierre, A.S. MacDougall, R.L. McCulley, C.E. Mitchell, A.C. Risch, M. Schuetz, C.J. Stevens, R.J. Williams, and N. Fierer. 2015. Plant diversity predicts beta but not alpha diversity of soil microbes across grasslands worldwide. Ecology Letters 18: 85–95.

Ramirez, K.S., J.W. Leff, A. Barberán, S.T. Bates, J. Betley, T. Crowther, E.F. Kelly, E. Oldfield, E.A. Shaw, C. Steenbock, M.A. Bradford, D.H. Wall, and N. Fierer. 2014. Soil biodiversity patterns in New York City's Central Park are similar to those observed globally. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 281: 20141988.

Bates, S.T., S. Ahrendt, H. Bik, T. Bruns, J.G. Caparaso, J. Cole, M. Dwan, N. Fierer, D. Gu, S. Houston, R. Knight, J. Leff, C. Lewis, D. McDonald, H. Nilsson, A. Porras-Alfaro, V. Robert, C. Schoch, J. Scott, L. Taylor, L. Wegener-Parfrey, and J.E. Stajich. 2013. Meeting report: Fungal ITS workshop (October 2012). Standards in Genomic Sciences 8: 118–123.

Bates, S.T., J.C. Clemente, G.E. Flores, W.A. Walters, L. Wegener Parfrey, R. Knight, and N. Fierer. 2013. Global biogeography of highly diverse protistan communities in soil. The ISME Journal 7: 652–659. Flores, G.E., S.T. Bates, J.G. Caporaso, C.L. Lauber, J.W. Leff, R. Knight, and N. Fierer, N. 2013. Diversity, distribution and sources of bacteria in residential kitchens. Environmental Microbiology 15: 588–596.

Koljalg, U., H. Nilsson, K. Abarenkov, L. Tedersoo, A. Taylor, M. Bahram, S.T Bates, T. Bruns, J. Bengtsson-Palme, T. O'Callaghan, B. Douglas, T. Drenkhan, U. Eberhardt, M. Duenas, T. Grebenc, G. Griffith, M. Hartmann, P. Kirk, P. Kohout, E. Larsson, B. Lindahl, R. Luecking, M. Martin, B. Matheny, N. Nguyen, T. Niskanen, J. Oja, K. Peay, U. Peintner, M. Peterson, K. Poldmaa, L. Saag, I. Saar, A. Schussler, J. Scott, C. Senes, M. Smith, A. Suija, L.D. Taylor, M. Telleria, M. Weiss, and K-H. Larsson. 2013. Towards a unified paradigm for sequence-based identification of Fungi. Molecular Ecology 22: 5271–5277.

Marusenko Y., S.T. Bates, I. Anderson, S.L. Johnson, T. Soule, and F. Garcia-Pichel. 2013. Ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria are structured by geography in biological soil crusts across North American arid lands. Ecological Processes 2: 9e.

Neher D.A., T.R. Weicht, S.T. Bates, J.W. Leff, and N. Fierer. 2013. Changes in bacterial and fungal communities across compost recipes, preparation methods, and composting times. PlosOne 8: e79512.

Barberan, A., S.T. Bates, E.O. Casamayor, and N. Fierer. 2012. Using network analysis to explore co-occurrence patterns in soil microbial communities. The ISME Journal 6: 343–351.

Bates, S.T., D. Berg-Lyons, C.L. Lauber, W.A. Walters, R. Knight, and N. Fierer. 2012. A preliminary survey of lichen associated eukaryotes using pyrosequencing. The Lichenologist 44: 137–146.

Bates, S.T., F. Garcia-Pichel, and T.H. Nash III. 2012. Patterns of diversity for fungal assemblages of biological soil crusts from the southwestern United States. Mycologia 104: 353–361.

Fierer, N., J.W. Leff, B.J. Adams, U.N. Nielsen, S.T. Bates, C.L. Lauber, S. Owens, J.A. Gilbert, D.H. Wall, and J.G. Caporaso. 2012. Cross-biome metagenomic analyses of soil microbial communities and their functional attributes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109: 21390–21395.

Bates, S.T., D. Berg-Lyons, J.G. Caporaso, W.A. Walters, R. Knight, and N. Fierer. 2011. Examining the global distribution of dominant archaeal populations in soil. The ISME Journal 5: 908–917.

Bates, S.T., G.W.G. Cropsey, J.G. Caporaso, R. Knight, and N. Fierer. 2011. Bacterial communities associated with the lichen symbiosis. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 77: 1309–1314.

Bergmann, G.T., S.T. Bates, K.G. Eilers, C.L. Lauber, J.G. Caporaso, W.A. Walters, R. Knight, and N. Fierer. 2011. The under-recognized dominance of Verrucomicrobia in soil bacterial communities. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 43: 1450–1455.

Flores, G.E., S.T. Bates, D. Knights, C.L. Lauber, J. Stombaugh, R. Knight, and N. Fierer. 2011. Microbial biogeography of public restroom surfaces. PlosOne 6: e28132.

Bates, S.T., A. Barber, E. Gilbert, R.T. Schroeder, and T.H. Nash III. 2010. A Revised catalog of Arizona lichens. Canotia 6: 26–43.

Bates, S.T., F. Garcia-Pichel, and T.H. Nash III. 2010. Fungal components of biological soil crusts: insights from culture-dependent and culture-independent studies. Bibliotheca Lichenologica 105: 197-210.

Bates, S.T., T.H. Nash III, K.G. Sweat, and F. Garcia-Pichel. 2010. Fungal communities of lichen-dominated biological soil crusts: diversity, relative microbial biomass, and their relationship to disturbance and crust cover. Journal of Arid Environments 74: 1192–1199.

Bates, S.T., F. Farruggia, E. Gilbert, R. Gutierrez, D. Jenke, E. Makings, E. Manton, D. Newton, and L.R. Landrum. 2009. Vascular Plants of Arizona: Solanaceae. Part II: Key to the genera and Solanum L. Canotia 5: 1–16.

Bates, S.T. and F. Garcia-Pichel. 2009. A culture-independent study of free-living fungi in biological soil crusts of the Colorado Plateau: their diversity and relative contribution to microbial biomass. Evironmental Microbiology 11: 56–67.

Bates, S.T., R.W. Roberson and D.E. Desjardin. 2009. Arizona gasteroid fungi I: Lycoperdaceae (Agaricales, Basidiomycota). Fungal Diversity 37: 153–207.

Soule, T., I.J. Anderson, S.L. Johnson, S.T. Bates, and F. Garcia-Pichel. 2009. Archaeal populations in biological soil crusts from arid lands in North America. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 41: 2069–2074.

Bates, S.T. and A. Barber. 2008. A preliminary checklist of Arizona slime molds. Canotia 4: 8–19.

Bidartondo, M.I. (with S.T. Bates among 255 additional signing authors). 2008. Preserving accuracy in GenBank. Science 319: 1616.

Bates, S.T. 2006. A preliminary checklist of Arizona macrofungi. Canotia 2: 47–78.

Bates, S.T., G.S.N. Reddy, and F. Garcia-Pichel. 2006. Exophiala crusticola anam. nov. (affinity Herpotrichiellaceae), a novel black yeast from biological soil crusts in the western United States. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 56: 2697–2702.

Hosaka, K., S.T. Bates, R.E. Beever, M.A. Castellano, W. Colgan, III, L.S. Dominguez, E.R. Nouhra, J. Geml, A.J. Giachini, S.R. Kenney, N.B. Simpson, J.W. Spatafora, and J.M. Trappe. 2006. Molecular phylogenetics of the gomphoid-phalloid fungi with the establishment of the new subclass Phallomycetidae and two new orders. Mycologia 98: 949–959.

Sweat, K.G., W.A. Iselin, S.T. Bates, and T.H. Nash III. 2004. The lichens of Parashant National Monument, Arizona: A preliminary study. Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science 37: 85–90.

Publications (non-peer-reviewed):

Evenson, V.S., A.W. Wilson, and S.T. Bates. 2018. Of medicine, mountain, and mushrooms: The life and legacy of Sam Mitchel. FUNGI Magazine 10: 28-36.

Henson, A., C. Lea, and S.T. Bates. 2013. Lichens of granitic rocks in Rocky Mountain National Park, Larimer County, Colorado, U.S.A. Evansia 30: 17–23.

Bungartz, F. and S.T. Bates. 2011. Introduction: Tom H. Nash III at 65 years: A lichenological legacy. Bibliotheca Lichenologica 106: v–xvi.

Bungartz, F., F.I. Nugra-Salazar, X. Arturo-Lopez, F. Ziemmeck, and S.T. Bates. 2008. Plantas no vasculares en Galapagos (liquenes, briofitos y hongos): Nuevos registros, amenazas y potencial como bioindicadores una primera evaluacion. Pp. 147–152. In: Informe Galapagos 2007-2008. Puerto Ayora, Galapagos, Ecuador.

Bates, S.T. 2006. The ABLS lichen exchange: history and procedure. Evansia 23: 43–44.

Workshops Organized/Taught:

• Microfungi Collection Consortium (MiCC) Portal Management Workshop, University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign, IL. (July 2015)
• Macrofungi/Microfungi Collection Consortium (MaCC/MiCC) Coordinating Workshop, Annual Meeting of the Mycological Society of America, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (June 2014)
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation: Fungal ITS Workshop, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO (October 2012)
• Mushrooms and Lichens of the Colorado, Aspen Center for Environmental Studies, Aspen, CO (August 2011)
• Colorado Mountain Mushrooms, Aspen Center for Environmental Studies, Aspen, CO (August 2010 and 2012)
• USDA Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis Program Forester Training Session, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO (May 2009)

Workshops Attended:

• Forming an Integrated Understanding of Function Across Fungi, Santa Barbara, CA (March 2017)
• iDigBio API Hackathon, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (June 2015)
• United States Culture Collection Network Workshop, Penn State University, State College, PA (May 2014)
• iDigBio Education and Outreach Workshop, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (January 2014)
• iDigBio Augmenting Optical Recognition Working Group Hackathon, The Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Fort Worth, TX (February 2013)
• Sao Paulo School on Ecological Networks, in conjunction with the State University of Campinas, the University of Sao Paulo and the Brazilian Association for Ecological Science, São Pedro, Brazil (September 2011)
• Managing Herbarium Data Using SYMBIOTA Software, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (August 2011)
• First International Workshop on Tropical Lichenology, in conjunction with the TICOLICHEN project, Costa Rican Lichen Biodiversity Inventory, Las Cruces Biological Station (Organization for Tropical Studies), Costa Rica (October 2004)

Meetings Attended:

• North American Mycological Association Regional Foray, Greer, AZ (August 2017)
• Annual Meeting of the Indiana Branch of the American Society for Microbiology, Ft. Wayne, IN (April 2016)
• Indiana Academy of Science Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN (March 2016)
• iDigBio 2015 Annual Summit, Arlington, VA (November 2015)
• Annual Meeting of the American Phytopathological Society, Minneapolis, MN (August 2014)
• Gordon Research Conference: Cellular & Molecular Fungal Biology, Holderness, NH (June 2014)
• Annual Meeting of the Mycological Society of America, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (June 2014)
• Annual Meeting of the Mycological Society of America, Yale University, New Haven, CT (July 2012)
• Plant and Animal Genome XX, San Diego, CA (January 2012)
• Earth Microbiome Project and National Ecological Observatory Network Joint Meeting, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO (November 2011)
• LTER Fungal/Microbial Genomics Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (May 2011)
• Thirteenth International Symposium on Microbial Ecology, Seattle, WA (August 2010)
• Botany 2010 - Joint Meeting with the American Bryological and Lichenological Society and the Botanical Society of America, Providence, RI (July 2010)
• Annual Meeting of the Mycological Society of America, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY (June 2010)
• Closing Conference: Conservation and Sustainable Management of Below-Ground Biodiversity, World Agro-Forestry Centre (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya (May 2010)
• Annual Meeting of the Mycological Society of America, Penn State University, State College, PA (August 2008)
• Sixth Annual Meeting of the International Association for Lichenology, Asilomar, CA (July 2008)
• Annual Meeting of Arizona Botanists, Desert Botanical Gardens, Phoenix, AZ (February 2008)
• Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ (November 2005)
• Deep Hypha Group Meeting, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (March 2005)
• Annual Meeting of Arizona Botanists, Desert Botanical Gardens, Phoenix, AZ (February 2005)
• Annual Meeting of the Mycological Society of America, University of North Carolina, Asheville, NC (July 2004)
• Annual Meeting of the Arizona Imaging and Microanalysis Society, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ (April 2004)
• Annual Meeting of the Mycological Society of America, Asilomar, CA (July 2003)
• Annual Meeting of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ (March 2003)

Oral Presentations:

• North American Mycological Association Regional Foray, Greer, AZ; entitled “Arizona fungi: A mycological journey” (August 2017)
• Indiana Academy of Science Biodiversity Symposium, Indianapolis, IN; entitled “Expanding the inventories of Illinois and Indiana fungi using digitized specimen data”; A.N. Miller and S.T. Bates, (March 2017).
• Indiana University/Purdue University Fort Wayne Spring 2017 Biology Dept. Seminar Series, Fort Wayne, IN; entitled "Mycology in the 'biome' era" (February 2017)
• Northern Illinois University Fall 2016 BIOS Seminar Series, DeKalb, IL; entitled "Integrating mycological fata for a high-throughput era" (November 2016).
• Indiana Academy of Science Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN; entitled “Toward a checklist of Indian fungi” (March 2016).
• Purdue University Calumet Seminar Series, Hammond, IN; entitled “A world unseen: Exploring microbial diversity and ecology in terrestrial systems” (February 2015).
• iDigBio 2015 Annual Summit, Arlington, VA; entitled “Mycoportal: Taxonomic thesaurus” (November 2015).
• Gordon Research Conference: Cellular & Molecular Fungal Biology, Holderness, NH; entitled “High-throughput sequencing of fungal communities: Mycological discovery and microbial interactions”; S.T. Bates (June 2014)
• United States Culture Collection Network Workshop, Penn State University, State College, PA; entitled “The University of Minnesota Mycological Culture Collection”; S.T. Bates (May 2014)
• North American Mycological Association Annual Foray, Harriet, AK; entitled “The Macrofungi Collection Consortium Project”; S.T. Bates (November 2013)
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation: Fungal ITS Workshop, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; entitled “Detecting biogeographic patterns of soil microbes using high-throughput sequencing”; S.T. Bates, J.G. Caporaso, D. McDonald, J.R. Rideout, D.L. Taylor, R. Knight, and N. Fierer (October 2012)
• Annual Meeting of the Mycological Society of America, Yale University, New Haven, CT; entitled “High-throughput sequencing to explore the biogeography of soil fungi and the use of network analyses to examine fungal-bacterial interactions”; S.T. Bates, J.G. Caporaso, D.L. Taylor, and N. Fierer (July 2012)
• Annual Meeting of the Mycological Society of America, FESIN North American Mycoflora Workshop, Yale University, New Haven, CT; entitled “Fungal diversity in the Southwestern United States”; S.T. Bates (July 2012)
• Plant and Animal Genome XX, San Diego, CA; entitled “Global distribution of dominant archaeal populations in soil”; S.T. Bates, D. Berg-Lyons, J.G. Caporaso, W.A. Walters, R. Knight, and N. Fierer (January 2012)
• Thirteenth International Symposium on Microbial Ecology, Seattle, WA; entitled “Examining the global distribution of dominant archaeal populations in soil”; S.T. Bates, D. Berg-Lyons, J.G. Caporaso, W.A. Walters, R. Knight, and N. Fierer (August 2010)
• Annual Meeting of the Mycological Society of America, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY; entitled “Across-biome survey of soil fungal communities using barcoded pyrosequencing approach”; S.T. Bates, K. McGuire, and N. Fierer (June 2010)
• Conservation and Sustainable Management of Below-Ground Biodiversity, World Agro-forestry Centre (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya; entitled “Continental-scale analysis of total soil biodiversity using molecular techniques”; D. Wall, E. Ayres, U. Nielsen, R. Bardgett, J. Garey, T. Wu, S.T. Bates, and N. Fierer (May 2010)
• Annual Meeting of the Mycological Society of America, Penn State University, State College, PA; entitled “Fungi associated with biological soil crusts in the Western United States using culture-independent methods”; S.T. Bates, T.H. Nash III, and F. Garcia-Pichel (August 2008)
• Sixth Annual Meeting of the International Association for Lichenology, Asilomar, CA; entitled “Investigation of fungal populations and diversity associated with biological soil crusts (BSCs) in the Western U.S. using culture-independent methods”; S.T. Bates, T.H. Nash III, and F. Garcia-Pichel (July 2008)
• Annual Meeting of Arizona Botanists, Desert Botanical Gardens, Phoenix, AZ; entitled “Fungal diversity in Arizona - What do we know? What can we expect?”; S.T. Bates (February 2008)
• Biological Crust Researchers Meeting, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; entitled “Fungi associated with biological soil crusts: Assessing diversity by culture-independent methods”; S.T. Bates, T.H. Nash III, and F. Garcia-Pichel (December 2007)
• Eighth Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ; entitled “Biological soil crusts and the pursuit of novel fungal diversity”; S.T. Bates, T.H. Nash III, and F. Garcia-Pichel (November 2005)

Poster Presentations:

• Annual Meeting of the Indiana Branch of the American Society for Microbiology, Turkey Run State Park, IN (April 2017); entitled “Molecular characterization and species validation of Amanita stannea nom. prov.”; S.T. Bates, M. Chayhitz, J. Downing and V. Evenson, (April 2017)
• Purdue University Northwest Student Research Day, Westville, IN; entitled “Molecular characterization and species validation of Amanita stannea nom. prov.”; S.T. Bates, M. Chayhitz, J. Downing and V. Evenson, (April 2017)
• Purdue North Central Annual Student Research Day; entitled “A checklist of Indian Fungi”; S.T. Bates, J. Golday, R. Kunnen and N. Pilla, (Second place in the overall poster competition, March 2016)
• Purdue North Central Annual Student Research Day; entitled “The distribution and diversity of corn leaf fungal endophytes at the millimeter scale”; V. Conn and S.T. Bates (March 2016)
• International Mycological Congress, Bangkok, Thailand; entitled “The Symbiota portal for North American collections of plants, fungi, and lichens: How to address the problem of incorrect taxa”; R. Lücking, E. Gilbert, N. Franz, P. Morris, S.T. Bates, B. Thiers, and C. Gries (August 2014)
• Annual Bell Museum Patron Reception, Bell Museum of Natural History, Minneapolis, MN; entitled “The NSF Macrofungi Collection Consortium: Progress toward digitization of the Bell Museum Herbarium Fungal Collection (University of Minnesota)”; R. Gross, M. Taft, E. Wardenaar, and S.T. Bates (March 2014)
• Annual Meeting of the Mycological Society of America, Austin, TX; entitled “The Macrofungi Collection Consortium (MaCC) project: Unlocking a biodiversity resource for research and conservation”; B.M. Thiers, S.T. Bates, and R.E. Halling (August 2013)
• Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections, Rapid City, SD; entitled “The Macrofungi Collections Consortium: Results from year one and considerations for the future”; D.S. Asencio, B.M. Thiers, and S.T. Bates (June 2013)
• LTER Fungal/Microbial Genomics Meeting, Albuquerque, NM; entitled “Soil fungi: broad-scale ecological patterns and networks of co-occurrence with soil bacteria”; S.T. Bates, C.L. Lauber, W.A. Walters, J.G. Caporaso, R. Knight, and N. Fierer (May 2011)
• General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology 2011, New Orleans, LA; entitled “Are bdelloid rotifer communities structured by soil biogeochemistry and bacterial composition?”; M.S. Robeson II, A.J. King, D.M. Welch, S.T. Bates, R.C. Lynch, J.L. Darcy, and S.K. Schmidt (May 2011)
• Botany 2010, Providence, RI; entitled “Bacterial communities of lichens: structure and potential functions”; S.T. Bates, G. Cropsey, J.G. Caporaso, W.A. Walters, R. Knight, and N. Fierer (July 2010)
• Annual Meeting of the Mycological Society of America, University of North Carolina, Asheville, NC; entitled “Arizona members of the Geastraceae and Lycoperdaceae (Basidiomycota, Fungi): monography, phylogeny and spore ultrastructure”; S.T. Bates, R.W. Roberson and D.E. Desjardin (July 2004)
• Annual Meeting of the Arizona Imaging and Microanalysis Society, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; entitled “Basidiospore ultrastructure in gastroid fungi: Assessing phylogenetically informative characters and creating utilitarian taxonomy”; S.T. Bates, R.W. Roberson, M.F. Wojciechowski, and D.E. Desjardin (April 2004)
• Annual Meeting of the Mycological Society of America, Asilomar, CA; entitled “Arizona puffballs and earthstars (Lycoperdaceae and Geastraceae, Basidiomycota, Fungi)”; S.T. Bates, R.W. Roberson, and D.E. Desjardin (July 2003)
• Annual Meeting of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ; entitled “Arizona puffballs and earthstars”; S.T. Bates, R.W. Roberson, and D.E. Desjardin (March 2003)

Public Talks and Invited Lectures:



• Indiana Native Plant and Wildflower Society North March Meeting, Elkhart, IN; entitled "A phytrocentric view of fungal diversity" (March 2017)
• Ohio Mycological Society, Lancaster, OH; entitled "Two centuries of mycological activity in the United States" (November 2016)
• Colorado Mycological Society, Denver, CO; entitled "A historical perspective on two centuries of mycological activity in the United States" (May 2016)
• University of Minnesota Student Mycology Club, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN; entitled “Poised for a new era of mycological discovery?” (Februrary 2014)
• Minnesota Mycological Society, St. Paul, MN; entitled “The world beyond morels: Fungal diversity in the digital age” (February 2014)
• Meet the Scientists Lecture Series, Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver, CO; entitled “Microbiota: Appreciating an unseen world” (March 2013)
• Iceberg Pass, National Geographic 2012 BioBlitz, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO; entitled “Alpine lichens and mushrooms” (August 2012)
• Roaring Fork Club, Basalt, CO; entitled “Mushrooms of the Colorado mountains” (August 2012)
• Colorado Mycological Society, Denver, CO; entitled “Juggling species names in an molecular era: What does it mean and why does it matter?” (June 2012)
• Colorado Mycological Society, Denver, CO; entitled “Exploring microbes associated with lichens” (July 2011)
• Colorado Native Plant Society Lecture Series, Boulder, CO; entitled “Lichens: Diversity, utility, and their inner world” (April 2011)
• Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Graduate Student Brown Bag Lecture Series, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; entitled “Trampled underfoot: Interactions and ecological patterns for terrestrial bacteria and fungi” (February 2011)
• North American Mycological Association 50th Anniversary Foray, Winter Park, CO; entitled “Exploring fungal diversity in the Western U.S.: Soil, sequences, and ecology” (August 2010)
• Colorado Mycological Society, Denver, CO; entitled “Gasteroid fungi, gasteromycetologists, and history” (June 2010)
• Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences Seminar Series, Arizona State University West Campus, Phoenix, AZ; entitled “Fungal communities associated with biological soil crusts in the western United States: A culture-independent approach” (April 2009)
• Arizona Native Plant Society, Phoenix, AZ; entitled, “Arizona fungi: What do they look like and why do they matter?” (April 2006)
• School of Life Sciences Graduate Student Brown Bag Lecture Series, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; entitled, “Dark secrets: Fungi associated with biological soil crusts” (March 2006)
• Sonoma County Mycological Society, Santa Rosa, CA; entitled, “Southwestern puffballs and earthstars: Monography, phylogeny and spore ultrastructure in the Lycoperdaceae and Geastraceae” (September 2004)
• USDA Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory, Beltsville, MD; entitled, “Arizona members of the Geastraceae and Lycoperdaceae (Basidiomycota, Fungi)” (February 2004)
• San Diego Mycological Society, San Diego, CA; entitled, “Puffballs and earthstars: Arizona, gasteromycetes and history” (January 2004)
• Conservation Club, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; entitled, “Baselines, biodiversity, and conservation: Arizona puffballs and earthstars” (October 2003)
• The Flagstaff Arboretum, Flagstaff, AZ; entitled, “The mushrooms of northern Arizona” (August 2003).

Field Experiences:

• National Geographic BioBlitz, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO (August 2012)
• Central Park soil sampling expedition, New York, NY (July 2012)
• Extensive field work in Arizona and Colorado collecting lichens and macrofungi (2004 – 2013)
• Macrofungi of Galapagos Island, Santa Cruz, Ecuador (October 2006)
• Biota survey of Lone Mountain, Parashant-Grand Canyon National Monument, AZ (May 2005)
• Survey of lichens for the Parashant-Grand Canyon National Monument, AZ (May 2003)

Professional Affiliations:

• American Bryological and Lichenological Society
• American Phytopathological Society
• American Society for Microbiology
• North American Mycological Association
• Mycological Society of America
• Sigma Xi

Language:


• Proficient in Spanish