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Conrad L. Schoch is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research spans fields including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Environmental Science, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within these domains, Schoch has contributed notably to subfields such as Molecular Biology, Ecology, Plant Science, Cell Biology, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their work frequently appears in scientific venues including Nucleic Acids Research, IMA Fungus, Nature Microbiology, Database, and Systematic Biology. Schoch's research interests center on topics such as Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions, Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions.

Among recent publications by Conrad L. Schoch are:

  • NCBI Taxonomy: a comprehensive update on curation, resources and tools (2020) in Database
  • Unambiguous identification of fungi: where do we stand and how accurate and precise is fungal DNA barcoding? (2020) in IMA Fungus
  • GenBank (2020) in Nucleic Acids Research
  • Database resources of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (2023) in Nucleic Acids Research
  • GenBank (2021) in Nucleic Acids Research

Collaborations are a significant aspect of Schoch's academic work. Frequent co-authors include Barbara Robbertse, Ilene Karsch-Mizrachi, Robert Lücking, M. Catherine Aime, and Andrew N. Miller. These collaborations reflect interdisciplinary engagement across microbiology and molecular biology fields.

Best Publications

  • Nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region as a universal DNA barcode marker for Fungi

    Conrad L. Schoch;Keith A. Seifert;Sabine Huhndorf;Vincent Robert

  • Reference sequence (RefSeq) database at NCBI: current status, taxonomic expansion, and functional annotation

    Nuala A. O'Leary;Mathew W. Wright;J. Rodney Brister;Stacy Ciufo

  • A higher-level phylogenetic classification of the Fungi

    David S Hibbett;Manfred Binder;Joseph F Bischoff;Meredith Blackwell

  • Reconstructing the early evolution of Fungi using a six-gene phylogeny

    Timothy Y. James;Frank Kauff;Conrad L. Schoch;P. Brandon Matheny

  • The revised classification of eukaryotes

    Sina M. Adl;Sina M. Adl;Alastair G. B. Simpson;Christopher E. Lane;Julius Lukeš

  • NCBI Taxonomy: a comprehensive update on curation, resources and tools.

    Conrad L Schoch;Stacy Ciufo;Mikhail Domrachev;Carol L Hotton

  • Genome sequencing and analysis of the biomass-degrading fungus Trichoderma reesei (syn. Hypocrea jecorina).

    Diego Martinez;Diego Martinez;Randy M Berka;Bernard Henrissat;Markku Saloheimo

  • Revisions to the Classification, Nomenclature, and Diversity of Eukaryotes

    Sina M. Adl;David Bass;David Bass;Christopher E. Lane;Julius Lukes;Julius Lukes

  • Assembling the fungal tree of life: progress, classification, and evolution of subcellular traits

    François Lutzoni;Frank Kauff;Cymon J. Cox;David McLaughlin

  • The Ascomycota Tree of Life: A Phylum-wide Phylogeny Clarifies the Origin and Evolution of Fundamental Reproductive and Ecological Traits

    Conrad L. Schoch;Gi Ho Sung;Francesc López-Giráldez;Jeffrey P. Townsend

  • A class-wide phylogenetic assessment of Dothideomycetes

    C. L. Schoch;P. W. Crous;J. Z. Groenewald;E. W. A. Boehm

  • Diverse Lifestyles and Strategies of Plant Pathogenesis Encoded in the Genomes of Eighteen Dothideomycetes Fungi

    Robin A. Ohm;Nicolas Feau;Bernard Henrissat;Conrad L Schoch

  • A multigene phylogeny of the Dothideomycetes using four nuclear loci.

    Conrad L. Schoch;Robert A. Shoemaker;Keith A. Seifert;Sarah Hambleton

  • Effector diversification within compartments of the Leptosphaeria maculans genome affected by Repeat-Induced Point mutations

    Thierry Rouxel;Jonathan Grandaubert;James K. Hane;Claire Hoede

  • Contributions of rpb2 and tef1 to the phylogeny of mushrooms and allies (Basidiomycota, Fungi)

    P Brandon Matheny;Zheng Wang;Manfred Binder;Judd M Curtis

  • Using average nucleotide identity to improve taxonomic assignments in prokaryotic genomes at the NCBI.

    Stacy Ciufo;Sivakumar Kannan;Shobha Sharma;Azat Badretdin

  • A five-gene phylogeny of Pezizomycotina

    Joseph W. Spatafora;Gi Ho Sung;Desiree Johnson;Cedar Hesse

  • An overview of the systematics of the Sordariomycetes based on a four-gene phylogeny

    Ning Zhang;Lisa A. Castlebury;Andrew N. Miller;Sabine M. Huhndorf

  • Diverse Lifestyles and Strategies of Plant Pathogenesis Encoded in the Genomes of Eighteen Dothideomycetes Fungi

    R.A. Ohm;N. Feau;B. Henrissat;C.L. Schoch

  • Corrigendum: Genome sequencing and analysis of the biomass-degrading fungus Trichoderma reesei (syn. Hypocrea jecorina)

    Diego Martinez;Randy M Berka;Bernard Henrissat;Markku Saloheimo

Frequent Co-Authors

Pedro W. Crous
Pedro W. Crous Utrecht University
Joseph W. Spatafora
Joseph W. Spatafora Oregon State University
Cécile Gueidan
Cécile Gueidan Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Kevin D. Hyde
Kevin D. Hyde Mae Fah Luang University
Robert Lücking
Robert Lücking Freie Universität Berlin
David L. Hawksworth
David L. Hawksworth Royal Botanic Gardens
David M. Geiser
David M. Geiser Pennsylvania State University
Vincent Robert
Vincent Robert Utrecht University
Zheng Wang
Zheng Wang Shanghai Jiao Tong University
M. Catherine Aime
M. Catherine Aime Purdue University West Lafayette

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