Lisa Grubisha, PhD.

Lisa was an EPSCoR Postdoctoral fellow with the Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks from 2005-2007. 

She is currently a postdoc with the USDA-ARS, Department of Plant Sciences, Forbes Building Rm 303
P.O. Box 210036
The University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721

grubishl AT cals.arizona.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS

EDUCATION

Ph.D.- University of California Berkeley, California, Plant and Microbial Biology, 2005

MSc.-  Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, Botany and Plant Pathology, 1998.

BS - University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Zoology, 1988

PUBLICATIONS

• Baumgartner K, Grubisha LC, Fujiyoshi P, Garbelotto M, Bergemann SE. 2009. Microsatellite markers for the diploid basidiomycete fungus Armillaria mellea. Molecular Ecology Resources doi: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2008.02494.x

• Bruns TD, Peay KG, Boynton PJ, Grubisha LC, Hynson NA, Nguyen NH, Rosenstock NP. 2009. Inoculum potential of Rhizopogon spores increases with time over the first 4 yr of a 99-yr spore burial experiment New Phytologist 181: 463–470.

• Grubish LC & Cotty PJ. 2009. Twenty-four microsatellite markers for the aflatoxin-producing fungus Aspergillus flavus. Molecular Ecology Resources 9, 264–267.

• Grubisha LC, Bergemann SE, Bruns TD. 2007. Host islands within the California Northern Channel Islands create fine-scale genetic structure in two sympatric species of the ectomycorrhizal fungus Rhizopogon. Molecular Ecology 16: 1811–1822

• Grubisha LC, Kretzer AM, Bruns TD. 2005. Isolation and characterization of microsatellite loci from the truffle-like ectomycorrhizal fungi Rhizopogon occidentalis and Rhizopogon vulgaris. Molecular Ecology Notes 5:608-610.

• Grubisha LC, Trappe JM, Bruns TD. 2005. Preliminary record of ectomycorrhizal fungi on two California Channel Islands. Eds. Garcelon, DK, Schwemm, CA. In: Proceedings of the Sixth California Islands Symposium, Ventura, California, December 1-3, 2003, pp. 171-183. National Park Service Technical Publication CHIS-05-01, Institute for Wildlife Studies, Arcata, California.

• Grubisha LC, Trappe JM, Beyerle AR, Wheeler D. 2005. NATS truffle and truffle-like fungi 12: Rhizopogon ater sp. nov. and R. brunsii sp. nov. (Rhizopogonaceae, Basidiomycota). Mycotaxon 93:345-353.

• Grubisha LC. 2005. Patterns of distribution of ectomycorrhizal fungi on two of the Northern Channel Islands, with special emphasis on the population genetic structure of Rhizopogon occidentalis and Rhizopogon vulgaris. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California.

• Grubisha LC, Trappe JM, Molina R, Spatafora JW. 2002. Biology of the ectomycorrhizal genus, Rhizopogon VI.  Re-examination of infrageneric relationships inferred from phylogenetic analyses of internal transcribed spacer sequences. Mycologia 94: 607-619.

• Grubisha LC, Trappe JM, Molina R, Spatafora JW. 2001. Biology of the ectomycorrhizal genus Rhizopogon. V. Phylogenetic relationships in the Boletales inferred from LSU rDNA sequences. Mycologia 93: 81-88.

• Kretzer AM, Bidartondo MI, Grubisha LC, Spatafora JW, Szaro TM, Bruns TD. 2000. Regional specialization of Sarcodes sanguinea (Ericaceae) on a single fungal symbiont from the Rhizopogon ellenae (Rhizopogonaceae) species complex. American Journal of Botany 87:1778-1782.

• Molina R, Trappe JM, Grubisha LC, Spatafora JW. 1999. Rhizopogon. In: Cairney JWG, Chambers SM, eds. Ectomycorrhizal Fungi: Key Genera in Profile. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, p 129-161.