S.T. Bates, Ph.D.

Current Position: Visiting Fellow

Office: Rm. 1B56, CIRES Bldg.

Phone: (303) 492-2099

Email: scott.thomas.bates@gmail.com

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Scott T. Bates, Ph.D.
CIRES Visiting Fellow
University of Colorado at Boulder
Rm. 318 - CIRES Bldg.
Boulder, CO 80309

ASU

Research Interests:

My research focuses on microbial communities and organisms in the kingdom Eumycota (Fungi):

examining community structure and diversity of microbes associated with biological crusts in arid lands using molecular-based methodologies - with a special emphasis on free-living fungi and lichens

documenting diversity of lichenized and non-lichenized macrofungi present in the Southwestern United States

molecular and classical systematics of the gasteroid fungi in the families Lycoperdaceae and Geastraceae

documenting spore ultrastructure of basidiomycetous gasteroid fungi using scanning electron microscopy

Recent publications:

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	Bates, S.T., T.H. Nash III, K.G. Sweat, F. Garcia-Pichel. (2010). Fungal communities of lichen-dominated biological soil crusts: Diversity, relative microbial biomass, and their relationship to disturbance and crust cover. Journal of Arid Environments 74: 1192-1199.

	Bates, S.T., F. Garcia-Pichel, and T.H. Nash III. (2010). Fungal components of biological soil crusts: insights from culture-dependent and culture-independent studies. Bibliotheca Lichenologica105: 9-22.

	Bates, S.T., F. Farruggia, E. Gilbert, R. Gutierrez, D. Jenke, E. Makings, E. Manton, D. Newton, and L.R. Landrum. (2009). Vascular Plants of Arizona: Solanaceae. Part II: Key to the genera and Solanum L. Canotia 5(1): 1-16.

	Soule, T., I.J. Anderson, S.L. Johnson, S.T. Bates, and F. Garcia-Pichel. (2009). Archaeal populations in biological soil crusts from arid lands in North America. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 41(10): 2069-2074.

	Bates, S.T., R.W. Roberson, and D.E. Desjardin. (2009). Arizona gasteroid fungi I: Lycoperdaceae (Agaricales, Basidiomycota). Fungal Diversity 37: 153-207.

	Bates, S.T. and F. Garcia-Pichel. (2009). A culture-independent study of free-living fungi in biological soil crusts of the Colorado Plateau: their diversity and relative contribution to microbial biomass. Environmental Microbiology 11(1): 56-67.

	Bates, S.T. and A. Barber. (2008). A preliminary checklist of Arizona slime molds. Canotia 4(1): 8-19.

	Hosaka, K., S.T. Bates, R.E. Beever, M.A. Castellano, W. Colgan, III, L.S. Dominguez, E.R. Nouhra, J. Geml, A.J. Giachini, S.R. Kenney, N.B. Simpson J.W. Spatafora, and J.M. Trappe. (2006). Molecular phylogenetics of the gomphoid-phalloid fungi with the establishment of the new subclass Phallomycetidae and two new orders. Mycologia 98(6): 949-959.

	Bates, S.T., G.S.N. Reddy, and F. Garcia-Pichel. (2006). Exophiala crusticola anam. nov. (affinity Herpotrichiellaceae), a novel black yeast from biological soil crusts in the western United States. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 56(11): 2697-2702.

	Bates, S.T. (2006). A preliminary checklist of Arizona macrofungi. Canotia 2(2): 47-78.

	Sweat, K.G., W.A. Iselin, S.T. Bates, and T.H. Nash III. (2004). The lichens of Parashant National Monument, Arizona: A preliminary study. Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science 37(2): 85-90.