CURRICULUM VITAE
Dennis E. Desjardin, Ph.D.
Mycologist
Department of Biology, San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Ave., San Francisco, CA 94132
(415) 338-2439 e-mail:
http://www.mycena.sfsu.edu
Personal:
Born: 18 May 1950; Crescent City, California
Child: Spenser L. Desjardin Wife: Dr. Wipapat Kladwang
Address: 890 Serena Drive, Pacifica, CA 94044 [650-359-9087]
Professional Education:
Ph.D. - Botany: Mycology. 1989. University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
“The genus Marasmius from the southern Appalachian Mountains.”
Major Advisor: Dr. Ronald H. Petersen
Master of Arts - Ecology and Systematic Biology. 1985. San Francisco State University.
“The marasmioid fungi of California.”
Major Advisor: Dr. Harry D. Thiers
Bachelor of Science - Biology: Botany. 1983. San Francisco State University.
Academic Positions:
1997–present: Professor, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
1993–1997: Associate Professor, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
1991–present: Director, H. D. Thiers Herbarium, San Francisco State University
1990–1993: Assistant Professor, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
1989–1990: Assistant Professor, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Professional Responsibilities:
• Teaching eight courses at SFSU:
The World of Plants (Biol. 150)
Introductory Biology II (Biol. 240)
Fungi of the Sierra Nevada (Biol. 315)
Evolution and Diversity of Plants (Biol. 500)
Biology of the Fungi (Biol. 504)
Mushroom Taxonomy (Biol. 800)
Fungal Symbioses (Biol. 862)
Advances in Fungal Systematics (Biol. 862)
• Fellows Nominating Committee, California Academy of Sciences (2008-12; Chair 2010-2012)
• Fellows Advisory Committee, California Academy of Sciences (2008-present)
• Councilor for Systematics and Evolution, Mycological Society of America (1996-1998)
• Mycologia Memoirs Committee, Mycological Society of America (1998-2001)
• Distinctions Committee, Mycological Society of America (1999-2000; Chair 1999-2000)
• Awards Committee, Mycological Society of America (1993-1996; Chair 1996; 2007-present)
• Nomenclature Committee, Mycological Society of America (1993-1996; Chair 1996)
• Scientific Advisor, Mycological Society of San Francisco (1990-present)
• Associate Editor, International Journal of Agricultural Technology (2005-2009)
• Associate Editor, Mycologia (2003-2006)
• Associate Editor, Fungal Diversity (2002-present)
• Associate Editor, Fungal Diversity Press, Hong Kong (2002-present)
• Board of Directors, Sierra Nevada Field Campus
• Scientific Advisory Board, Golden Gate National Recreation Area
• Coordinator, Graduate Programs in Ecology & Systematic Biology, SFSU (1994-1998)
• Coordinator, Organismal and Population Biology faculty, Dept. of Biology, SFSU (1998-2000)
• Consultant to Hospitals and Poison Control Centers on mushroom toxicity cases; consultant to SF Housing Commission on dry rot cases; consultant in numerous court cases involving dry rot, moulds, and hallucinogenic mushrooms.
Awards and Honors:
Top Ten New Species Award, International Institute for Species Exporation, 2011
Top Ten New Species Award, International Institute for Species Exporation, 2010
Distinguished Faculty Award for Excellence in Professional Achievement, San Francisco State University, 2007
Fellow, Mycological Society of America, 2005
Alexopoulos Prize — Outstanding Young Researcher, Mycological Society of America,
1998
William H. Weston Award —Teaching Excellence, Mycological Society of America, 1998
Fellow, California Academy of Science, 1995
Presidential Award, San Francisco State University, 1995
Chancellor’s Award, University of Tennessee, 1989
Graduate Fellowship, Mycological Society of America, 1986
12 academic scholarships from various organizations and institutes
Publications:
Submitted – In Review:
Chew, A.L.C., Desjardin, D.E., Tan, Y.-S., Desjardin, D.E., Musa, M.Y., Sabaratnam, V. Bioluminescent fungi from peninsular Malaysia – a taxonomic and phylogenetic overview. Fungal Diversity: accepted
Perry, B.A., Desjardin, D.E. New species of Mycena from California. Mycotaxon: in review
Published or In Press – Peer-Reviewed:
2014. Desjardin, D.E., Wood, M.G., Stevens, F.A. California Mushrooms: The Comprehensive Identification Guide. Portland, Oregon: Timber Press. In press.
2014. Halling, R.E., Desjardin, D.E., Fechner, N., Arora, D., Soytong, K., Dentinger, B.T.M. New Porcini (Boletus sect. Boletus) from Australasia. Mycologia 106: in press
DOI: 10.3852/13-340
2014 Chew, A.L.C., Tan, Y.-S., Desjardin, D.E., Musa, M.Y., Sabaratnam, V. Four new bioluminescent taxa of Mycena sect. Calodontes from Peninsular Malaysia. Mycologia: in press DOI: 10.3852/13-274
2014. Desjardin, D.E., Hemmes, D.E., Perry, B.A. A ruby-colored Pseudobaeospora species is described as new from material collected on Hawai`i island. Mycologia 106: 456–463. DOI: 10.3852/13-030
2014. Jenkinson, T.S., Perry, B.A., Shaffer, R., Desjardin D.E. Cryptomarasmius gen. nov. is established in the Physalacriaceae to accommodate members of Marasmius section Hygrometrici. Mycologia 106: 86–94. DOI: 10.3852/11-309
2013. Lodge, D.J., Padamsee, M., Matheny, P.B., Aime, M.C., Cantrell, S.A., Boertmann, D., Kovalenko, A., Vizzini A., Dentinger, B.T.M., Kirk, P.M., Ainsworth, A.M., Moncalvo, J.-M., Vilgalys, R., Larsson, E., Lücking, R., Griffith, G.W., Smith, M.E., Norvell, L.L., Desjardin, D.E., Redhead, S.A., Ovrebo, C.L., Lickey, E.B., Ercole, E., Hughes, K.W., Courtecuisse, R., Young, A., Binder, M., Minnis, A.M., Linder, D.L., Ortiz-Santana, B., Haight, J., Læssøe, T., Baroni, T.J., Geml, J., Hattori, T. Molecular phylogeny, morphology, pigment chemistry and ecology in Hygrophoraceae (Agaricales). Fungal Diversity 64: 1–99. DOI 10.1007/s13225-013-0259-0
2013. Chew, A.L.C., Tan, Y.-S., Desjardin, D.E., Musa, M.Y., Sabaratnam, V. Taxonomic and phylogenetic re-evaluation of Mycena illuminans. Mycologia 105: 1325–1335. DOI: 10.3852/13–009
2013. Zhao, R.-L., Desjardin, D.E., Callac, P., Parra, L.A., Guinberteau, J., Soytong, K., Karunarathna, S., Zhang, Y., Hyde, K.D. Two new species of Agaricus sect. Xanthodermatei from Thailand. Mycotaxon 122: 187–195. ISSN 0093-4666 (print), ISSN 2154-8889 (online)
2013. Nagy, L.G., Kemp, R., Desjardin, D.E., Vágvögyi, C., Papp, T. Phylogenetic analyses of Coprinopsis sections Lanatuli and Atramentarii identify multiple species within morphologically defined species. Mycologia 105: 112–124. DOI: 10.3852/12-136
2012. Redhead, S., Moncalvo, J.-M., Vilgalys, R., Desjardin, D.E., Perry, B.A. Atheniella. Index Fungorum no. 14: 31/12/2012. ISSN 2049-2375.
2012. Jadrane, I., Kornievsky, M., Desjardin, D.E., He, Z.-H., Cai, L., Hyde, K. First report of flower anthracnose caused by Colletotrichum karstii in white Phalaenopsis orchids in the United States. Plant Disease 96(8): 1227.
2012. Zhao, R.-L., Hyde, K.D., Desjardin, D.E., Raspé, O., Soytong, K., Guinberteau, J., Karunarathna, S.C., Callac, P. Agaricus flocculosipes sp. nov., a new potentially cultivatable species from the palaeotropics. Mycoscience 53: 300–311.
2012. Oliveira, A., Desjardin, D.E., Perry, B.A., Stevani, C.V. Evidence that a single bioluminescent system is shared by all known bioluminescent fungal lineages. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences 11: 848–852.
DOI: 10.1039/c2pp25032b.
2012. Niveiro, N., Popoff, O., Desjardin, D.E., Albertó, E. Mycena moconensis, a new species of section Polyadelphia from Argentina. Mycotaxon 119: 167–173.
2011. Zhao, R.-L., Karunarathna, S., Raspé, O., Parra, L.A., Guinberteau, J., Moinard, M., De Kesel, A., Barroso, G., Courtecuisse, R., Hyde, K.D., Guelly, A.K., Desjardin, D.E., Callac, P. Major clades in tropical Agaricus. Fungal Diversity 51: 279–296.
2011. Bruns, T.D., Desjardin, D.E. Spongiforma squarepantsii. What's in a name? and what's the underlying biology? Mushroom the Journal 107(28): 55–59.
2011. Desjardin, D.E., Hemmes, D.E. Agaricales of the Hawaiian Islands. 9. Five new white-spored species from native montane wet forests. Mycologia 103(6): 1441–1450.
2011. Capelari, M., Desjardin, D.E., Perry, B.A., Asai, T., Stevani, C.V. Neonothopanus gardneri: a new combination for a bioluminescent agaric from Brazil. Mycologia 103(6): 1433–1440.
2011. Desjardin D.E., Peay, K. Bruns, T. Spongiforma squarepantsii, a new species of gasteroid bolete from Borneo. Mycologia 103(5): 1119–1123.
2011. Hemmes, D.E., Desjardin D.E. Earthstars (Geastrum, Myriostoma) of the Hawaiian Islands including two new species, Geastrum litchiforme and Geastrum reticulatum. Pacific Science 65(4): 477–496.
2010. Dentinger, B.T.M., Ammirati, J.F., Both, E.E., Desjardin, D.E., Halling, R.E., Henkel, T.W., Moreau, P.-A., Nagasawa, E., Soytong, K., Taylor, A.F., Watling,R., Moncalvo, J.-M., and McLaughlin, D.J. Molecular phylogenetics and historical biogeography of porcini mushrooms (Boletus section Boletus). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 57(3): 1276–1292.
2010. Zhao, R.-L., Desjardin, D.E., Soytong, K., Perry, B.A., Hyde, K.D. A monograph of Micropsalliota in Northern Thailand based on morphological and molecular data. Fungal Diversity 45: 33–79.
2010. Miller, G.L., Desjardin, D.E., Tredway, L.P. First report of Marasmiellus mesosporus causing Marasmiellus blight on seashore paspalum. Plant Disease 94(11): 1374
2010. Keirle, M.R., Avis, P.G., Desjardin, D.E., Hemmes, D.E. and Mueller, G.M. Geographic origins and phylogenetic affinities of the putative Hawaiian endemic Rhodocollybia laulaha. Mycotaxon 112: 463-473.
2010. Desjardin, D.E., Perry, B.A., Lodge, D.J., Stevani, C.V. and Nagasawa, E. Luminescent Mycena: new and noteworthy species. Mycologia 102(2): 459-477.
2009. Hemmes, D.E., Desjardin, D.E. Stinkhorns of the Hawaiian Islands. Fungi 2(3): 8-10.
2009. Horak, E., Guzman, G. and Desjardin, D.E. Four new species of Psilocybe from Malaysia and Thailand, with a key to the species of sect. Neocaledonicae and discussion on the distribution of the tropical and temperate species. Sydowia 61: 25-37.
2009. Desjardin, D.E. and Perry, B.A. A new species of Phallus from São Tomé, Africa. Mycologia 101(4): 543-545.
2009. Wannathes, N., Desjardin, D.E., Hyde, K.D., Perry, B.A. and Lumyong, S. A monograph of Marasmius (Basidiomycota) from Northern Thailand based on morphological and molecular (ITS sequences) data. Fungal Diversity 37: 209-306.
2009. Bates, S.T., Roberson, R.W. and Desjardin, D.E. Arizona gasteroid fungi. I: Lycoperdaceae (Agaricales, Basidiomycota). Fungal Diversity 37: 153-207.
2009. Kerekes, J.F. and Desjardin, D.E. A monograph of the genera Crinipellis and Moniliophthora from Southeast Asia including a molecular phylogeny. Fungal Diversity 37: 101-152.
2009. Tan, Y-S., Desjardin, D.E., Perry, B.A., Vikineswary, S. and Noorlidah, A. Marasmius sensu stricto in peninsular Malaysia. Fungal Diversity 37: 9-100.
2009. Desjardin, D.E., Binder, M., Roekring, S., Flegel, T. Spongiforma, a new genus of gasteroid boletes from Thailand. Fungal Diversity 37: 1-8.
2009. Dentinger B.T.M., Lodge D.J., Munkacsi A.B., Desjardin D.E., McLaughlin D.J. Phylogenetic placement of an unusual coral mushroom challenges the classic hypothesis of strict coevolution in the Apterostigma pilosum group ant-fungus mutualism. Evolution
63: 2172-2178.
2009. Wannathes, N., Desjardin, D.E., Lumyong, S. Four new species of Marasmius sect. Globulares from Northern Thailand. Fungal Diversity 36: 155-163.
2009. Matheny, P.B., Aime, M.C., Bougher, M.L., Buyck, B., Desjardin, D.E., Horak, E., Kropp, B.R., Lodge, D.J., Soytong, K., Trappe, J.M, Hibbett, D.S. Out of the paleotropics? Historical biogeography and diversification of the cosmopolitan ectomycorrhizal mushroom family Inocybaceae. J. Biogeography 36: 577-592.
2008. Zhao, R.L., Desjardin, D.E., Jeewon. R., Soytong, K., and Hyde, K.D. A new species of bird's nest fungi: characterisation of Cyathus subglobisporus sp. nov. based on morphological and molecular data. Persoonia 21: 71-76.
2008. Zhao, R.L., Desjardin, D.E., Soytong, K., and Hyde, K.D. Advances in the phylogenesis of Agaricales and its higher ranks and strategies for establishing phylogenetic hypotheses. J Zhejiang Univ Sci B 9: 779-786.
2008. Desjardin, D.E., Wilson, A.W., Binder, M. Durianella, a new gasteroid genus of boletes from Malesia. Mycologia 100(6): 956-961.
2008. Hemmes, D.E., Desjardin, D.E. Annotated list of boletes and Amanita in the Hawaiian Islands. North American Fungi 3(7): 167-176.
2008. Petersen, R.H., Desjardin, D.E., Krüger, D. Three type specimens designated in Oudemansiella. Fungal Diversity 32: 81-96.
2008. Sulzbacher, M.A., Desjardin, D.E., and Putzke, J. Calathella colombiana (Basidiomycota): a new record of a cyphelloid fungus from Brazil. Mycotaxon 105: 37- 42.
2008. Mendes, L.F., Bastos, E. L., Desjardin, D.E., and Stevani, C.V. Influence of culture conditions on mycelial growth and bioluminescence of Gerronema viridilucens. FEMS Microbiology Letters 282: 132–139.
2008. Desjardin, D.E., Oliveira, A.G. and Stevani, C.V. Fungi bioluminescence revisited. Photochem. Photobiol. Sci. 7(2): 170-182.
2007. Noorlidah, A.N., Vikineswary, S., Yusoff, M., Desjardin, D.E. and Jones, E.B.G. Macrofungi at the southwestern region of Endau-Rompin National Park, Johor, Malaysia. In: The Forests and Biodiversity of Selai, Endau-Rompin (eds. H. Mohamed and M. Zakaria-Ismail), pp. 39-54.
2007. Tan, Y-S., Desjardin, D.E., Vikineswary, S. and Abdullah, N. The genus Marasmius in Peninsular Malaysia. In: Malaysian Fungal Diversity (eds. E.B.G. Jones, K.D. Hyde and S. Vikineswary), Chapter 5, pp. 61-73.
2007. Le, H.T., Verbeken, A., Nuytinck, J., Lumyong, S. and Desjardin, D.E. Lactarius in Northern Thailand: 3. Lactarius subgenus Lactariopsis. Mycotaxon 102: 281-291.
2007. Le, H.T., Stubbe, D., Verbeken, A., Nuytinck, J., Lumyong, S., and Desjardin, D.E. Lactarius in Northern Thailand: 2. Lactarius subgen. Plinthogali. Fungal Diversity 27: 61–94.
2007. Desjardin, D.E. and Braga-Neto, R. Mycena lacrimans, a rare species from Amazonia, is bioluminescent. Edinburgh Journal of Botany 64(3): 1-7.
2007. Wannathes, N., Desjardin, D.E. and Lumyong, S. Mating studies, new species and new reports of Marasmius from northern Thailand. Mycological Research 111: 985-996.
2007. Zhao, R-L., Jeewon, R., Desjardin, D.E., Soytong, K, and K.D. Hyde. Ribosomal DNA phylogenies of Cyathus: Is the current infrageneric classification appropriate? Mycologia 99(3): 385-395.
2007. Tan, Y-S., Desjardin, D.E., Vikineswary, S., and N. Abdullah. New species and mating studies of Marasmius from Malaysia. Fungal Diversity 25: 187-217.
2007. Le, H.T., J. Nuytinck, A. Verbeken, D.E. Desjardin and S. Lumyong. Lactarius in Northern Thailand: 1. Lactarius subgenus Piperites. Fungal Diversity 24: 173-224.
2007. Desjardin, D.E., M. Capelari and C. Stevani. Bioluminescent Mycena species from Sao Paulo, Brazil. Mycologia 99: 317-331.
2006. Zhao, R-L., Desjardin, D.E., Soytong, K, and K.D. Hyde. Proposed synonyms in Cyathus. Mycotaxon 97: 327-335.
2006. Mueller, G.M., J.P. Schmit, P.R. Leacock, B. Buyck, J. Cifuentes, D.E. Desjardin, R.E. Halling, K. Hjortstam, T. Iturriaga, K-H. Larsson, D.J. Lodge, T.W. May, D. Minter, M. Rajchenberg, S.A. Redhead, L. Ryvarden, J.N. Trappe, R. Watling and Q. Wu. Global diversity and distribution of macrofungi. Biodiversity and Conservation 16: 37-48.
2006. Matheny, P.B. et al. (28 authors). Six major clades of Agaricales inferred from RNA polymerase II and nuclear ribosomal RNA genes. Mycologia 98: 984-997.
2006. Horak, E. and D.E. Desjardin. Agaricales of Indonesia. 6. Psilocybe (Strophariaceae) from Java, Bali and Lombok. Sydowia 58: 15-37.
2006. Desjardin, D.E. and C. Ovrebo. New species and new records of Marasmius from Panama. Fungal Diversity 21: 19-39.
2005. Wilson, A.W. and D.E. Desjardin. Phylogenetic relationships in the gymnopoid and marasmioid fungi (Basidiomycetes, euagarics clade). Mycologia 97: 667-679.
2005. Desjardin, D.E., M. Capelari and C.V. Stevani. A new bioluminescent agaric from São Paulo, Brazil. Fungal Diversity 18: 9-14.
2005. Noorlidah Abdullah, Vikineswary S., M. Yusoff, and D.E. Desjardin. Higher fungi of Northeast Langkawi. Malayan Journal of Science 24: 95-102.
2004. Desjardin, D.E., T. Flegel, and T. Boonpratuang. Basidiomycetes. pp. 37-49. In: Thai Fungal Diversity, Eds. E.B.G. Jones, M. Tantichareon, K.D. Hyde, Univ. of Hong Kong Press.
2004. Wannathes, N., D.E. Desjardin, A. Retnowati, Y.S. Tan, and S. Lumyong. A redescription of Marasmius pellucidus, a species widespread in South Asia. Fungal Diversity 17: 203-218.
2004. Keirle, M., D. E. Hemmes and D. E. Desjardin. Agaricales of the Hawaiian Islands. 8.
Agaricaceae: Coprinus and Podaxis; Psathyrellaceae: Coprinopsis, Coprinellus and
Parasola. Fungal Diversity 15: 33-124.
2004. Wilson, A. W., D. E. Desjardin and E. Horak. Agaricales of Indonesia. 5. The genus Gymnopus from Java and Bali. Sydowia 56(1): 137-210.