Dr. Nicole Pietrasiak
Assistant Professor
Plant and Environmental Sciences
New Mexico State University
Mexico
Biography
Assistant Professor of Environmental Soil Microbiology Plant & Environmental Sciences Department, N328 Skeen Hall, New Mexico State University PO Box 30003, MSC 3Q, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA Tel: 575-646-1910; npietras@nmsu.edu PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS/EMPLOYMENT 2015-present Assistant Professor, Plant & Environmental Sciences Department, New Mexico State University. 2015-2015 Research Associate and Lab Manager, The Holden Arboretum, Kirkland, Ohio. 2014-2015: Collection Curator and Research Associate, John Carroll University. 2012-2013: Post-Doctoral Researcher, John Carroll University. EDUCATION 2008 – 2012: Ph.D., Soil and Water Sciences, University of California – Riverside. 2005 – 2007: M.S., Biology, John Carroll University. 2002 – 2003: Study abroad, Geography and Environmental Biology, St. Andrews University, Scotland UK. 1998 – 2005: Diploma of Geography, Major: Geography, 1st Minor: Biology 2nd, Minor Geology, University of Leipzig, Germany.
Research Interest
Soil Microbiology, Phycology, Desert Soil Ecology, Biocrusts
Publications
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Shalygin, S.*+ , Shalygina, R., Johansen, J.R., Pietrasiak, N., Berrendero, E., Bohunická, M., Mareš, J. & Sheil, C.A. Cyanomagarita gen nov. (Nostocales, Cyanobacteria): Convergent evolution resulting in a cryptic genus. Journal of Phycology, in press.
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Zanella, A., Fritz, I., Pietrasiak, N., Matteodo, M., Ponge, J.F., Nadporozhskaya, M., Juilleret J., Tatti D., Le Bayon C., Rotschild L. & Mancinelli R. Para Humus Systems and Forms In HUMUSICA, a new humus manual. Applied Soil Ecology, in review.
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Johansen, J.R., Mareš, J., Pietrasiak, N., Bohunická, M., Zima, J., Jr., Štenclová, L., and Hauer, T. Highly divergent 16S rRNA sequences in ribosomal operons of Scytonema hyalinum (Cyanobacteria). PLOS ONE, in review.
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Mai, T. * + , Johansen, J.R., Pietrasiak, N., Bohunická, M. & Martin, M. Revision of the Synechococcales (Cyanobacteria) through recognition of four families including Oculatellaceae fam. nov. and Trichocoleaceae fam. nov. and seven new genera containing 14 species. Phytotaxa, in review.
