• Born 14 November 1965 (Bowling Green, OH, USA); married 11 October 1997 (Tonya R. Boschmann); two children (Anise Ferne, born 15 March 2005 & Ian Willow, born 16 April 2007)
   

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D., Plant Biology, Microbiology) - May 2009 (Magna Cum Laude) - School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
• Master of Science (M.S., Plant Biology, Mycology) - December 2004 - School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) - May 1992 - Goshen College, Goshen, IN
   

• Herbert M. Saylor Memorial Scholarship presented by the Sonoma County Mycological Society (May, 2004)
• ASU School of Life Sciences Initiative Program Grant (January, 2004)
• Michael A. Cichan Memorial Award presented by ASU School of Life Sciences (December, 2003)
• ASU Graduate and Professional Students Association (GPSA) Research Grant Awards (November, 2003)
• Sigma Xi Grants-In-Aid (April, 2003)
   

• Investigations of the Biological Soil Crusts and Associated Fungi at Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument, Grant # NPS H1200-04-0002.  Role: collaborator;  PI: Dr. T.H. Nash III; Period: 2006-2009
   

  Teaching:

• Teaching Assistant and Lecturer - PLB 400/401 - Lichenology, Arizona State University (spring semester: 2005, 2007 & 2009)
• Teaching Assistant and Lecturer - PLB 402 - Mycology, Arizona State University (spring semester: 2004 & 2007)
• Teaching Assistant - PLB 108 - Introduction to Plant Biology (traditional lab sections), Arizona State University (spring semester: 2003)
• Teaching Assistant - PLB 108 - Introduction to Plant Biology (online lab sections), Arizona State University (spring semester: 2003 & fall semester: 2003, 2005 & 2007)

  Training Student Researchers:

• Sheetal Boosi (Master's student), ASU School of Life Sciences, Tempe, AZ molecular biology (fall, 2008)
• Jessica Groch (undergraduate), ASU School of Life Sciences, Tempe, AZ molecular biology (spring, 2008)
• Anne Barber (undergraduate), ASU School of Life Sciences, Tempe, AZ slime mold classification and general research (fall, 2007)
• Angel A. Garcia (undergraduate), Universidad Metropolitana, San Juan, PR molecular biology/ecology (summer, 2007)
• Xavier Arturo Lopez (undergraduate), Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador systematic mycology (fall, 2006 - spring, 2008)
• Rebeca A. Guerro (Master's student), University of Texas, El Paso, TX molecular biology (summer, 2006)
• Samantha Standley (undergraduate), Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ molecular biology (spring, 2004)

  Positions Held:

• Research Assistant NSF funded Prokaryotic Diversity of Biological Soil Crusts in aridlands of North America (eukaryotic extension, Doctoral dissertation project) ASU School of Life Sciences, Tempe, AZ (fall semester, 2006 & spring semester, 2008)
• Herbarium Staff ASU Lichen Herbarium (voluntary, June, 2004 - current)
• Lichen Identification Expert Forest Inventory and Analysis program, USDA Forest Service (May, 2004 - March, 2008)
• Coordinator American Bryological and Lichenological Society Lichen Exchange (voluntary, December, 2003 - November, 2005)
• Third Grade Teacher - ESL classroom, Osborn School District, Phoenix, AZ (1997 - 2002)
• Crew Chief High School Volunteer program, Student Conservation Association (summers, 1994 - 1996)
• Environmental Educator Elementary Environmental Education program, Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville, NY (1993-1994).
• Wilderness Trip Leader Teen Adventures program, Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville, NY (1993)
• English Language Instructor Centro de Estudios Inter-Americanos, Cuenca, Ecuador (1992 - 1993)

  Meetings:

• Annual Meeting of the Mycological Society of America (MSA), State College, PA (August, 2008)
• Sixth Annual Meeting of the International Association for Lichenology (IAL), Asilomar, CA (July, 2008)
• Annual meeting of the Arizona Botanist, Desert Botanical Gardens, Phoenix, AZ (February, 2008)
• Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ (November, 2005)
• Deep Hypha Group Meeting, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (March, 2005)
• Annual meeting of the Arizona Botanist, Desert Botanical Gardens, Phoenix, AZ (February, 2005)
• Annual meeting of the Mycological Society of America (MSA), University of North Carolina, Asheville, NC (July, 2004)
• Annual meeting of the Arizona Imaging & Microanalysis Society (AIMS), Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ (April, 2004)
• Annual meeting of the Mycological Society of America (MSA), Asilomar, CA (July, 2003)
• Arizona Nevada Academy of Science meeting (ANAS), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ (March, 2003)

  Workshops:

• First International Workshop on Tropical Lichenology, in conjunction with TICOLICHEN, Costa Rican Lichen Biodiversity Inventory, Las Cruces Biological Station (O.T.S. Organization for Tropical Studies), Costa Rica (October, 2004)
• Spring Fungi of the Sierra Nevada course through San Francisco State University's Summer Field Campus program (June, 1999 - 2002)

  Field:

• Extensive field work in Arizona collecting lichen and macrofungi (2004 - current)
• Macrofungi of Galapagos Island, Santa Cruz, Ecuador (October, 2006)
• Biota survey of Lone Mountain, Parashant-Grand Canyon National Monument, AZ (May, 2005)
• Survey of lichens for the Parashant-Grand Canyon National Monument, AZ (May, 2003)

  Services:

• Consulted Mycologist, for mushroom poisoning cases, veterinary clinics throughout the greater metropolitan Phoenix area  (2007 - current)
• Production Editor/Website Manager, Canotia - a publication of the ASU Vascular Plant Herbarium, Tempe, AZ; http://collections.asu.edu/herbarium/canotia.html (2006 - current) 
• Project Coordinator/Website Manager, Arizona Mycota Project; http://www.azfungi.org/amp/ (2006 - current)
• Website Manager, A Checklist of Arizona Macrofungi and Slime Molds; http://www.azfungi.org/checklist/ (2006 - current)
• Editorial Service, ad hoc reviewer for USGS (internal), BMC Evolutionary Biology, Canotia, Journal of Arid Environments, Microbial Ecology, Mycologia, and Mycotaxon (2005 - current)
• Consulted Biologist, ASU School of Life Sciences 'Ask a Biologist' webiste; http://askabiologist.asu.edu (2006 - 2009)
• Trainer, Lichen workshops for foresters, Forest Inventory and Analysis program, USDA Forest Service (2004 - 2007)
• Grant Reviewer, ASU Graduate and Professional Students Association (GPSA) Research Grant Awards (February, 2004)
   

  Oral Presentations:

• Annual Meeting of the Mycological Society of America (MSA), State College, PA; entitled Fungi associated with biological soil crusts in the Western United States using culture-independent methods - S.T. Bates, T.H. Nash III and F. Garcia-Pichel (August, 2008)
• Sixth Annual Meeting of the International Association for Lichenology (IAL), Asilomar, CA; entitled Investigation of fungal populations and diversity associated with biological soil crusts (BSCs) in the Western U.S. using culture-independent methods - S.T. Bates, T.H. Nash III and F. Garcia-Pichel (July, 2008)
• Fifth Annual Arizona Botanist Meeting, Phoenix, AZ; entitled Fungal Diversity in Arizona - What can we expect? What we know? (February, 2008)
• First Annual meeting - ASU researchers Biological Crust Day, Tempe, AZ; entitled Fungi Associated with Biological Soil Crusts: Assessing Diversity by Culture-Independent Methods (December, 2007)
• Eighth Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau, Flagstaff, AZ; entitled Biological Soil Crusts and the Pursuit of Novel Fungal Diversity (November, 2005)

  Poster Presentations:

• Arizona State University School of Life Sciences Fifteenth Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, Tempe, AZ; entitled Lichen biodiversity in northeastern Arizona - A.C. Barber, K.G. Sweat, S.T. Bates and T.H. Nash III (March, 2008)
• Annual meeting of the Mycological Society of America (MSA), Asheville, NC; entitled Arizona members of the Geastraceae and Lycoperdaceae (Basidiomycota, Fungi): monograpy, phylogeny and spore ultrastructure - S.T. Bates, R.W. Roberson and D.E. Desjardin (July, 2004)
• Annual meeting of the Arizona Imaging & Microanalysis Society (AIMS), Tempe, AZ; entitled Basidiospore ultrastructure in gastroid fungi: Assessing phylogenetically informative characters and creating utilitarian taxonomy - S.T. Bates, R.W. Roberson, M.F. Wojciechowski and D.E. Desjardin (April, 2004)
• Annual meeting of the Mycological Society of America (MSA), Asilomar, CA; entitled Arizona Puffballs and Earthstars (Lycoperdaceae and Geastraceae, Basidiomycota, Fungi) - S.T. Bates, R.W. Roberson and D.E. Desjardin (July, 2003)
• Arizona Nevada Academy of Science meeting (ANAS), Flagstaff, AZ; entitled Arizona Puffballs and Earthstars - S.T. Bates, R.W. Roberson and D.E. Desjardin (March, 2003)

  Public Talks and Invited Lectures:

• Fungal Communities Associated with Biological Soil Crusts in the Western United States: A Culture-independent Approach - Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences Seminar Series, ASU West Campus, Phoenix, AZ (invited - April, 2009)
• Arizona Fungi: What Do They Look Like and Why Do They Matter? - Arizona Native Plant Society, Phoenix, AZ (invited - April, 2006)
• Dark Secrets: Fungi Associated with Biological Soil Crusts - ASU School of Life Sciences graduate student "Brown Bag" lecture series, Tempe, AZ (invited - March, 2006)
• Southwestern puffballs and earthstars: monography, phylogeny and spore ultrastructure in the Lycoperdaceae and Geastraceae - Sonoma County Mycological Society, Santa Rosa, CA (invited - September, 2004)
• Arizona members of the Geastraceae and Lycoperdaceae (Basidiomycota, Fungi) - USDA Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboritory, Beltsville, MD (February, 2004)
• Puffballs and Earthstars: Arizona, Gasteromycetes and History - San Diego Mycological Society, San Diego, CA (invited - January, 2004)
•  Baselines, Biodiversity and Conservation: Arizona Puffballs and Earthstars ASU - Conservation Club, Tempe, AZ (invited - October, 2003)
• The Mushrooms of Northern Arizona - The Flagstaff Arboretum, Flagstaff, AZ (invited - August, 2003)

Workshop Presentations:

• Lichens Communities as Biomonitors, Applications for Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) - USDA Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis program forester training session, Durango, CO (May, 2009)
• Lichens, Biomonitors, and Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) - USDA Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis program forester training session, Ft. Collins, CO (May, 2007)

• 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 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. Evironmental 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: 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.
   

• Bungartz, F., F.I. Nugra-Salazar, X. Arturo-Lopez, F. Ziemmeck and S.T. Bates. 2008. Plantas no vasculares en Galapagos (liquenes, briofitos y hongos): Nuevos registros, amenazas y potencial como bioindicadores una primera evaluacion. Pp. 147-152. In: Informe Galapagos 2007-2008. Puerto Ayora, Galapagos, Ecuador.
• Bates, S.T. 2006. The ABLS lichen exchange: history and procedure. Evansia 23(2): 43-44.

• American Bryological and Lichenological Society
• American Society for Microbiology
• North American Mycological Association
• Mycological Society of America
• Sigma Xi

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