Greg Thorn, Phd
Associate Professor, Fungal Ecology and Systematic
Department of Biology
University of Western Ontario
Canada
Biography
Greg Thorn, PhD Associate Professor, Fungal Ecology and Systematics, of Department of Biology at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.
Research Interest
Major research areas in Thorn’s lab include phylogeny of fungi inhabiting soil, litter and wood, discovery and description of fungal diversity, and determining the effects of disturbance, including agriculture, climate change and forestry, on fungal diversity and ecosystem function.
Publications
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Crous PW, Wingfield MJ, Le Roux JJ, Richardson DM, Strasberg D, Shivas RG, Alvarado P, Edwards J, Moreno G, Sharma R, Sonawane MS. Fungal Planet description sheets: 371–399. Persoonia: Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi. 2015 Dec;35:264.
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Asemaninejad A, Weerasuriya N, Gloor GB, Lindo Z, Thorn RG. New primers for discovering fungal diversity using nuclear large ribosomal DNA. PloS one. 2016 Jul 8;11(7):e0159043.
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Sandoval-Leiva PA, McDonald JV, Thorn RG. Gymnopanella nothofagi, a new genus and species of gymnopoid fungi (Omphalotaceae) from Chilean Nothofagus forest. Mycologia. 2016 Jul 1;108(4):820-7.
