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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1998 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Meredith Blackwell is affiliated with Louisiana State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these areas, they contribute extensively to the understanding of Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions as well as Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases.

The scientist's work spans several subfields including Plant Science, Cell Biology, Paleontology, Molecular Biology, and Biomedical Engineering. Their research topics also cover Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Slime Mold and Myxomycetes Research, Infectious Diseases and Mycology, and Plant and animal studies.

Meredith Blackwell has published notable recent papers, including:

  1. Laboulbeniomycetes: Evolution, natural history, and Thaxter's final word (2020), published in Mycologia
  2. Laboulbeniomycetes: Intimate Fungal Associates of Arthropods (2020), published in Annual Review of Entomology
  3. The dispersal of microbes among and within flowers by butterflies (2023), published in Ecological Entomology
  4. Abolitionist considerations and anti-carceral propositions for the carceral university: Examining higher education in prison and systems-impacted students (2025), published in Theory Into Practice

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Meredith Blackwell include Danny Haelewaters, Donald H. Pfister, Michał Gorczak, Patricia Kaishian, and André De Kesel.

The scientist's publications appear repeatedly in venues such as Mycologia, Annual Review of Entomology, Ecological Entomology, and Theory Into Practice.

Meredith Blackwell was awarded as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1998 and later as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012.

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

  • A higher-level phylogenetic classification of the Fungi

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

  • The Fungi: 1, 2, 3 … 5.1 million species?

    Meredith Blackwell

  • 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

  • Fungal entomopathogens: new insights on their ecology

    Fernando E. Vega;Mark S. Goettel;Meredith Blackwell;David Chandler

  • Comparative genomics of biotechnologically important yeasts

    Robert Riley;Sajeet Haridas;Kenneth H Wolfe;Mariana R Lopes

  • Primer -- The Fungi

    Jason E. Stajich;Mary L. Berbee;Meredith Blackwell;David S. Hibbett

  • Phylogenetic Distribution of Fungal Sterols

    John D. Weete;Maritza Abril;Meredith Blackwell

  • The beetle gut: a hyperdiverse source of novel yeasts.

    Sung-Oui Suh;Joseph V. McHugh;David D. Pollock;Meredith Blackwell

  • Preserving accuracy in GenBank

    Thomas D. Bruns;Meredith Blackwell;Ivan Edwards;Andy F.S. Taylor

  • The Fungal Tree of Life: from Molecular Systematics to Genome-Scale Phylogenies.

    Joseph W. Spatafora;M. Catherine Aime;Igor V. Grigoriev;Francis Martin

  • Morphological and ecological similarities : wood-boring beetles associated with novel xylose-fermenting yeasts, Spathaspora passalidarum gen. sp. nov. and Candida jeffriesii sp. nov

    Nhu H. Nguyen;Sung Oui Suh;Christopher J. Marshall;Meredith Blackwell

  • Chapter 6 – Fungal Entomopathogens

    Fernando E. Vega;Nicolai V. Meyling;Janet Jennifer Luangsa-ard;Meredith Blackwell

  • Wood ingestion by passalid beetles in the presence of xylose-fermenting gut yeasts.

    Sung-Oui Suh;Christopher J. Marshall;Joseph V. Mchugh;Meredith Blackwell

  • Molecular systematics of unitunicate perithecial ascomycetes: the clavicipitales-hypocreales connection.

    Joseph W. Spatafora;Meredith Blackwell

  • Research Coordination Networks: a phylogeny for kingdom Fungi (Deep Hypha).

    Meredith Blackwell;David S. Hibbett;John W. Taylor;Joseph W. Spatafora

  • The polyphyletic origins of ophiostomatoid fungi

    Joseph W. Spatafora;Meredith Blackwell

  • Insect-Fungal Associations: Ecology and Evolution

    Fernando E. vega;Meredith Blackwell

  • The role of yeasts as insect endosymbionts.

    F. E. Vega;P. F. Dowd;M. Blackwell

  • Preserving accuracy in GenBank

    M. I. Bidartondo;Thomas D. Bruns;Meredith Blackwell;Ivan Edwards

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph W. Spatafora
Joseph W. Spatafora Oregon State University
Pedro W. Crous
Pedro W. Crous Utrecht University
Cletus P. Kurtzman
Cletus P. Kurtzman National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research
David M. Geiser
David M. Geiser Pennsylvania State University
Conrad L. Schoch
Conrad L. Schoch National Institutes of Health
Zheng Wang
Zheng Wang Shanghai Jiao Tong University
John W. Taylor
John W. Taylor University of California, Berkeley
David J. McLaughlin
David J. McLaughlin University of Minnesota
M. Catherine Aime
M. Catherine Aime Purdue University West Lafayette
Jason E. Stajich
Jason E. Stajich University of California, Riverside

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