• 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)
   

• Ph. D. Candidate (Plant Biology) - present - School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
• Master of Science (Plant Biology) - December 2004 - School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
• Bachelor of Arts - 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 fungi at Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument”, National Parks Service, Grant # PARA-00003 ($10,000).  Role: collaborator;  PI: Dr. T.H. Nash III; Period: 2006-2008
   

  Teaching:

• Teaching Assistant and Lecturer - PLB 401 – Lichenology, Arizona State University (spring semester, 2005 & 2007)
• Teaching Assistant and Lecturer - PLB 402 - ycology, 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:

• 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 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 Galápagos 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:

• Production Editor – Canotia, a publication of the ASU Vascular Plant Herbarium, Tempe, AZ (2006 - current) 
• Website Manager/Designer – Arizona Mycota Project, http://www.azfungi.org/amp/ (2006 - current)
• Editorial Service – ad hoc reviewer for USGS (internal), Canotia, Microbial Ecology, and Mycologia (2005 - current)
• Consulted Biologist – ASU School of Life Sciences 'Ask a Biologist' webiste, http://askabiologist.asu.edu (2006 & 2007)
• 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:

• 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:

• 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” (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” (April, 2004)
• Annual meeting of the Mycological Society of America (MSA), Asilomar, CA; entitled “Arizona Puffballs and Earthstars (Lycoperdaceae and Geastraceae, Basidiomycota, Fungi)” (July, 2003)
• Arizona Nevada Academy of Science meeting (ANAS), Flagstaff, AZ; entitled “Arizona Puffballs and Earthstars” (March, 2003)

  Public Talks and Invited Lectures:

• “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, 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. and A. Barber. (in review) A preliminary checklist of Arizona slime molds. Canotia
• Bates, S.T. and F. Garcia-Pichel. (in review). Free-living fungal populations and their diversity in biological soil crusts from the Colorado Plateau studied by culture-independent methods. Evironmental Microbiology
• Garcia-Pichel, I.J. Anderson, T. Soule, S.L. Johnson and S.T. Bates. (submitted). Archaeal populations of biological soil crusts from arid lands and their role in nitrification. Applied and Environmental Microbiology
• Bates, S.T., R.W. Roberson and D.E. Desjardin. (in revision). Arizona gasteroid I: Lycoperdaceae (Agaricales, Basidiomycota). Fungal Diversity
• 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
   

• American Bryological and Lichenological Society
• Arizona Mushroom Club
• Arizona Nevada Academy of Science
• North American Mycological Association
• Mycological Society of America
• Sigma Xi
• Sonoma County Mycological Association
   

• Proficient in Spanish
   

* Updated 15 Feb 2008

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