Francois M. Lutzoni
Professor of Biology
Education
Ph.D., Duke University 1995
M.S., Ottawa University 1990
B.S., Grinnel College and University of Laval 1987
Oita, S., A. Ibáñez, F. Lutzoni, J. Miadlikowska, J. Geml, L. A. Lewis, E. F. Y. Hom, I. Carbone, J. M. U’Ren, and A. E. Arnold. “Climate and seasonality drive the richness and composition of tropical fungal endophytes at a landscape scale (Accepted).” Communications Biology 4, no. 1 (December 1, 2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01826-7. Full Text
Haridas, S., R. Albert, M. Binder, J. Bloem, K. LaButti, A. Salamov, B. Andreopoulos, et al. “101 Dothideomycetes genomes: A test case for predicting lifestyles and emergence of pathogens.” Studies in Mycology 96 (June 2020): 141–53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.simyco.2020.01.003. Full Text
Darnajoux, Romain, Nicolas Magain, Marie Renaudin, François Lutzoni, Jean-Philippe Bellenger, and Xinning Zhang. “Molybdenum threshold for ecosystem scale alternative vanadium nitrogenase activity in boreal forests.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 116, no. 49 (December 2019): 24682–88. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1913314116. Full Text
U’Ren, Jana M., François Lutzoni, Jolanta Miadlikowska, Naupaka B. Zimmerman, Ignazio Carbone, Georgiana May, and A Elizabeth Arnold. “Host availability drives distributions of fungal endophytes in the imperilled boreal realm.” Nature Ecology & Evolution 3, no. 10 (October 2019): 1430–37. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0975-2. Full Text
Armaleo, Daniele, Olaf Müller, François Lutzoni, Ólafur S. Andrésson, Guillaume Blanc, Helge B. Bode, Frank R. Collart, et al. “The lichen symbiosis re-viewed through the genomes of Cladonia grayi and its algal partner Asterochloris glomerata.” Bmc Genomics 20, no. 1 (July 23, 2019): 605. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-019-5629-x. Full Text
Carbone, Ignazio, James B. White, Jolanta Miadlikowska, A Elizabeth Arnold, Mark A. Miller, Nicolas Magain, Jana M. U’Ren, and François Lutzoni. “T-BAS Version 2.1: Tree-Based Alignment Selector Toolkit for Evolutionary Placement of DNA Sequences and Viewing Alignments and Specimen Metadata on Curated and Custom Trees.” Microbiology Resource Announcements 8, no. 29 (July 18, 2019). https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.00328-19. Full Text
Chen, Ko-Hsuan, Hui-Ling Liao, Jean-Philippe Bellenger, and François Lutzoni. “Differential gene expression associated with fungal trophic shifts along the senescence gradient of the moss Dicranum scoparium.” Environmental Microbiology 21, no. 7 (July 2019): 2273–89. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.14605. Full Text
Chagnon, P. L., N. Magain, J. Miadlikowska, and F. Lutzoni. “Species diversification and phylogenetically constrained symbiont switching generated high modularity in the lichen genus Peltigera.” Journal of Ecology 107, no. 4 (July 1, 2019): 1645–61. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13207. Full Text
Lutzoni, François, Michael D. Nowak, Michael E. Alfaro, Valérie Reeb, Jolanta Miadlikowska, Michael Krug, A Elizabeth Arnold, et al. “Contemporaneous radiations of fungi and plants linked to symbiosis.” Nature Communications 9, no. 1 (December 21, 2018): 5451. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07849-9. Full Text
Miadlikowska, J., N. Magain, C. J. Pardo-De La Hoz, D. Niu, T. Goward, E. Sérusiaux, and F. Lutzoni. “Species in section Peltidea (aphthosa group) of the genus Peltigera remain cryptic after molecular phylogenetic revision.” Plant and Fungal Systematics 63, no. 2 (December 1, 2018): 45–64. https://doi.org/10.2478/pfs-2018-0007. Full Text
Pages
Magain, N., J. Miadlikowska, B. Goffinet, E. Sérusiaux, and F. Lutzoni. “Macroevolution of Specificity in Cyanolichens of the Genus Peltigera Section Polydactylon (Lecanoromycetes, Ascomycota).” In Systematic Biology, 66:74–99, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syw065. Full Text
Lutzoni, François, and Rytas Vilgalys. “Integration of morphological and molecular data sets in estimating fungal phytogenies.” In Canadian Journal of Botany, 73:649–59. Canadian Science Publishing, 1995. https://doi.org/10.1139/b95-307. Full Text
Selected Grants
Collaborative Research: Leveraging historical collections and new surveys to characterize foundational shifts in vital symbioses in the threatened Arctic awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2020 to 2023
Digitization TCN: Collaborative Research: Building a global consortium of bryophytes and lichens: keystones of cryptobiotic communities awarded by National Science Foundation (Co-Principal Investigator). 2020 to 2023
Spatio-temporal factors shaping symbiotic networks: a case study with cyanolichens awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2019 to 2022
Collaborative Research: Filling the largest phylogenetic void of the fungal genealogy of life and integrating symbiotic, environmental and physiological data awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2016 to 2021
Molecular Mycology and Pathogenesis Training Program awarded by National Institutes of Health (Mentor). 2019 to 2021
Genetics Training Grant awarded by National Institutes of Health (Mentor). 1979 to 2020
SG: Combining phylogenetic and network analyses for the study of symbiotic systems: a case study using lichens awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2016 to 2019
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Assessing the Importance of Trophic Lability for Fungal Endophytism Using the Moss Dicranum scoparium and its Associated Fungi awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2017 to 2018
Dimensions: Collaborative Research: An Interdisciplinary Study of Hyperdiverse Endophytic Fungi and Their Function in Boreal Forests awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2011 to 2016
Digitization TCN: Collaborative Research: North American Lichens and Bryophytes: Sensitive Indicators of Environmental Quality and Change awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2011 to 2016