User:Enderwilson

I am a mycologist with a primary interest in the systematic evolution and ecology of macrofungi in the Agaricomycotina (Basidiomycota). I am currently the Assistant Curator of Mycology in the Department of Research and Conservation at Denver Botanic Gardens. My position is to manage, grow, and study the collections in the Sam Mitchel Herbarium of Fungi to better understand the diversity of macrofungi in the Southern Rocky Mountain region. I received my Ph.D. in the laboratory of Dr. David Hibbett at Clark University in 2009. The title of my dissertation was, "Molecular Ecology and Evolution in the Sclerodermatineae (Boletales, Basidiomycota)". I spent several years as a postdoc at Chicago Botanic Garden sponsored by Dr. Greg Mueller where I studied the evolution and ecology of the model ectomycorrhizal mushroom genus Laccaria and the general biodiversity of Agaricomycotina. I also spent one year at Purdue University as a postdoctoral research in Dr. Cathie Aime's Lab where I worked to help interpret the evolution of host associations in the plant parasitic rust fungi, the Pucciniales.