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  • 2006 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

David M. Geiser is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on agricultural and biological sciences, with notable contributions to biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The main subfields of their work include plant science, cell biology, molecular biology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and studies on small animals.

The research topics covered by Geiser's publications include plant pathogens and fungal diseases, mycotoxins in agriculture and food, mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions, yeasts and rust fungi studies, plant disease resistance and genetics, plant pathogens and resistance, and plant pathogenic bacteria studies.

Geiser's recent papers include the following:

  • Phylogenomic Analysis of a 55.1-kb 19-Gene Dataset Resolves a Monophyletic Fusarium that Includes the Fusarium solani Species Complex, 2020, Phytopathology
  • Unambiguous identification of fungi: where do we stand and how accurate and precise is fungal DNA barcoding?, 2020, IMA Fungus
  • Fungal taxonomy and sequence-based nomenclature, 2021, Nature Microbiology
  • DNA Sequence-Based Identification of Fusarium: A Work in Progress, 2021, Plant Disease
  • No to Neocosmospora: Phylogenomic and Practical Reasons for Continued Inclusion of the Fusarium solani Species Complex in the Genus Fusarium, 2020, mSphere

Frequent co-authors in their work include Frank N. Martin, Imane Laraba, Kerry O'Donnell, Takayuki Aoki, and N. Li.

Their work has been published frequently in the following venues:

  • Plant Disease
  • Phytopathology
  • Mycologia
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Microbiology

David M. Geiser was awarded the distinction of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2006.

Best Publications

  • A higher-level phylogenetic classification of the Fungi

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

  • A Metagenomic Survey of Microbes in Honey Bee Colony Collapse Disorder

    Diana L. Cox-Foster;Sean Conlan;Edward C. Holmes;Edward C. Holmes;Gustavo Palacios

  • Phylogenetic Species Recognition and Species Concepts in Fungi

    John W. Taylor;David J. Jacobson;Scott Kroken;Takao Kasuga

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

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

  • FUSARIUM-ID v. 1.0: A DNA sequence database for identifying Fusarium

    David M. Geiser;María del Mar Jiménez-Gasco;Seogchan Kang;Izabela Makalowska

  • Molecular Evidence for the Early Colonization of Land by Fungi and Plants

    D. S. Heckman;D. M. Geiser;B. R. Eidell;R. L. Stauffer

  • Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of Fusarium oxysporum: An efficient tool for insertional mutagenesis and gene transfer

    E. D. Mullins;X. Chen;P. Romaine;R. Raina

  • 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

  • Genealogical concordance between the mating type locus and seven other nuclear genes supports formal recognition of nine phylogenetically distinct species within the Fusarium graminearum clade

    Kerry O’Donnell;Todd J. Ward;David M. Geiser;H. Corby Kistler

  • Internet-Accessible DNA Sequence Database for Identifying Fusaria from Human and Animal Infections

    Kerry O'Donnell;Deanna A. Sutton;Michael G. Rinaldi;Brice A.J. Sarver

  • Cryptic speciation and recombination in the aflatoxin-producing fungus Aspergillus flavus

    David M. Geiser;John I. Pitt;John W. Taylor

  • A multi-locus phylogeny for Phytophthora utilizing markers derived from complete genome sequences.

    Jaime E. Blair;Michael D. Coffey;Sook Young Park;David M. Geiser

  • An adaptive evolutionary shift in Fusarium head blight pathogen populations is driving the rapid spread of more toxigenic Fusarium graminearum in North America

    Todd J. Ward;Randall M. Clear;Alejandro P. Rooney;Kerry O’Donnell

  • Global molecular surveillance reveals novel Fusarium head blight species and trichothecene toxin diversity.

    David E. Starkey;Todd J. Ward;Takayuki Aoki;Liane R. Gale

  • MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETIC DIVERSITY, MULTILOCUS HAPLOTYPE NOMENCLATURE, AND IN VITRO ANTIFUNGAL RESISTANCE WITHIN THE FUSARIUM SOLANI SPECIES COMPLEX

    Kerry O'Donnell;Deanna A. Sutton;Annette Fothergill;Dora McCarthy

  • The genome of Nectria haematococca: contribution of supernumerary chromosomes to gene expansion.

    Jeffrey J. Coleman;Jeffrey J. Coleman;Steve D. Rounsley;Marianela Rodriguez-Carres;Marianela Rodriguez-Carres;Alan Kuo

  • The Amsterdam Declaration on Fungal Nomenclature

    David L. Hawksworth;David L. Hawksworth;Pedro W. Crous;Scott A. Redhead;Don R. Reynolds

  • Phylogenetic analyses of RPB1 and RPB2 support a middle Cretaceous origin for a clade comprising all agriculturally and medically important fusaria

    Kerry O’Donnell;Alejandro P. Rooney;Robert H. Proctor;Daren W. Brown

  • Members of the Fusarium solani Species Complex That Cause Infections in Both Humans and Plants Are Common in the Environment

    Ning Zhang;Kerry O'Donnell;Deanna A. Sutton;F. Ameena Nalim

  • A five-gene phylogeny of Pezizomycotina

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Kerry O'Donnell
Kerry O'Donnell National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research
Seogchan Kang
Seogchan Kang Pennsylvania State University
Pedro W. Crous
Pedro W. Crous Utrecht University
Todd J. Ward
Todd J. Ward United States Department of Agriculture
John W. Taylor
John W. Taylor University of California, Berkeley
Deanna A. Sutton
Deanna A. Sutton The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Conrad L. Schoch
Conrad L. Schoch National Institutes of Health
Vincent Robert
Vincent Robert Utrecht University
Cécile Gueidan
Cécile Gueidan Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Gary J. Samuels
Gary J. Samuels United States Department of Agriculture

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