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Richard C. Hamelin is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research predominantly addresses topics related to plant pathogens and fungal diseases, forest insect ecology and management, mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions, plant pathogens and resistance, yeasts and rust fungi studies, insect-plant interactions and control, as well as forest ecology and biodiversity studies.

Their main fields of study include Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Environmental Science. Subfields where Richard C. Hamelin has contributed include Plant Science, Cell Biology, Ecology, Insect Science, and Molecular Biology.

Frequent publication venues where their work appears are bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Evolutionary Applications, PLoS ONE, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, and PhytoFrontiers™.

Richard C. Hamelin has collaborated often with several coauthors, including Nicolas Feau, Erika Dort, Melody A. Keena, Angela Dale, and Renate Heinzelmann.

Representative recent papers authored or coauthored by Richard C. Hamelin include:

  • Hybridization and introgression drive genome evolution of Dutch elm disease pathogens, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Oh the places they'll go: improving species distribution modelling for invasive forest pests in an uncertain world, 2020, Biological Invasions
  • Ecological generalism drives hyperdiversity of secondary metabolite gene clusters in xylarialean endophytes, 2021, New Phytologist
  • CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Editing: An Unexplored Frontier for Forest Pathology, 2020, Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Evolution and Adaptation of Forest and Crop Pathogens in the Anthropocene, 2020, Phytopathology

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

  • Revised Bethesda Guidelines for Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer (Lynch Syndrome) and Microsatellite Instability

    Asad Umar;C. Richard Boland;Jonathan P. Terdiman;Sapna Syngal

  • Obligate biotrophy features unraveled by the genomic analysis of rust fungi

    Sébastien Duplessis;Christina A. Cuomo;Yao-Cheng Lin;Andrea Aerts

  • 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

  • Mutations at Coding Repeat Sequences in Mismatch Repair-deficient Human Cancers Toward a New Concept of Target Genes for Instability

    Alex Duval;Richard Hamelin

  • Finding needles in haystacks: Linking scientific names, reference specimens and molecular data for Fungi

    Conrad L. Schoch;Barbara Robbertse;Vincent Robert;Duong Vu

  • Alternative genetic pathways in colorectal carcinogenesis

    Sylviane Olschwang;Richard Hamelin;Pierre Laurent-Puig;Bénédicte Thuille

  • A truncating mutation of HDAC2 in human cancers confers resistance to histone deacetylase inhibition

    Santiago Ropero;Mario F Fraga;Esteban Ballestar;Richard Hamelin

  • Random amplified microsatellites (RAMS) — a novel method for characterizing genetic variation within fungi

    J. Hantula;M. Dusabenyagasani;R. C. Hamelin

  • Multipopulation Analysis of Polymorphisms in Five Mononucleotide Repeats Used to Determine the Microsatellite Instability Status of Human Tumors

    Olivier Buhard;Francesca Cattaneo;Yick Fu Wong;So Fan Yim

  • The Genomes of the Fungal Plant Pathogens Cladosporium fulvum and Dothistroma septosporum Reveal Adaptation to Different Hosts and Lifestyles But Also Signatures of Common Ancestry

    Pierre J. G. M. De Wit;Ate van der Burgt;Bilal Ökmen;Ioannis Stergiopoulos;Ioannis Stergiopoulos

  • Genome and transcriptome analyses of the mountain pine beetle-fungal symbiont Grosmannia clavigera, a lodgepole pine pathogen

    Scott DiGuistini;Ye Wang;Nancy Y. Liao;Greg Taylor

  • Distinct patterns of KRAS mutations in colorectal carcinomas according to germline mismatch repair defects and hMLH1 methylation status

    Carla Oliveira;Jantine L. Westra;Diego Arango;Miina Ollikainen

  • Quasimonomorphic mononucleotide repeats for high-level microsatellite instability analysis

    Olivier Buhard;Nirosha Suraweera;Aude Lectard;Alex Duval

  • De novo genome sequence assembly of a filamentous fungus using Sanger, 454 and Illumina sequence data.

    Scott DiGuistini;Nancy Y. Liao;Darren Platt;Gordon Robertson

  • A Comprehensive Analysis of Genes Encoding Small Secreted Proteins Identifies Candidate Effectors in Melampsora larici-populina (Poplar Leaf Rust)

    Stéphane Hacquard;David L. Joly;Yao-Cheng Lin;Emilie Tisserant

  • Identification of root rot fungi in nursery seedlings by nested multiplex PCR.

    R C Hamelin;P Bérubé;M Gignac;M Bourassa

  • Evaluation of mitochondrial genes as DNA barcode for Basidiomycota

    Agathe Vialle;Agathe Vialle;Nicolas Feau;Mathieu Allaire;Maryna Didukh

  • Development of a multiplex immunocapture RT-PCR assay for detection and differentiation of tomato and tobacco mosaic tobamoviruses.

    V Jacobi;G.D Bachand;R.C Hamelin;J.D Castello

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Louis Bernier
Louis Bernier Université Laval
Stephen B. Goodwin
Stephen B. Goodwin Purdue University West Lafayette
Yousry A. El-Kassaby
Yousry A. El-Kassaby University of British Columbia
Bernard Henrissat
Bernard Henrissat Technical University of Denmark
Igor V. Grigoriev
Igor V. Grigoriev Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Gert H. J. Kema
Gert H. J. Kema Wageningen University & Research
Niklaus J. Grünwald
Niklaus J. Grünwald Oregon State University
Roger C. Levesque
Roger C. Levesque Université Laval
Erika Lindquist
Erika Lindquist United States Department of Energy
Robert D. Guy
Robert D. Guy University of British Columbia

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