RESEARCH INTERESTS Systematics, biogeography, and ecology of macrofungi; fungal biodiversity; mycorrhizas EDUCATION Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, B.A. in Botany. 1976 Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, M.S. in Botany, Major Advisor: W. J. Sundberg. 1979 The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Ph.D. in Botany: Major Advisor: R. H. Petersen. 1982 Visiting Scientist, Inst. Physiological Botany, Uppsala University, Sweden (with Nils Fries). 1982-1983. Postdoctoral Fellow, Mountain Lake Biological Station, Pembroke, Virginia. 1983. Postdoctoral Research Associate, Botany, U. Washington, Seattle. (with J. F. Ammirati). 1984-1985. PRIMARY APPOINTMENTS Curator, Mycology, Department of Botany, The Field Museum, Chicago. 2001-present Chair, Department of Botany, The Field Museum, Chicago. 1996-2005 Associate Curator, Mycology, Department of Botany, The Field Museum, Chicago. 1993-2001 Assistant Curator, Mycology, Department of Botany, The Field Museum, Chicago. 1985-1992 ADJUNCT APPOINTMENTS Associate Chair, Committee on Evolutionary Biology, The University of Chicago. 2004-present Lecturer, Committee on Evolutionary Biology, The University of Chicago. 1994-present Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology, University of Illinois, Chicago. 1995-present SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES Co-Coordinator. Field Museum Biodiversity Explorers High School Internship Program. 1995-1998 Chief Content Specialist for permanent exhibit "Life Underground: Foundations of the Biosphere" 1995-1999. Over 2 million people have visited the exhibit since its opening. International Coordinator of Fungal Programs, National Institute of Biodiversity (INBio), Costa Rica. 1999-present. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Fungi Specialist Group, member. 1999-present. The Nature Conservancy, Illinois Chapter, Science Advisory Committee. 2000-present. President, Mycological Society of America. 2006-2007 (Vice President then Pres. Elect, 2004-2006). EXTENDED FIELD WORK NORTH AMERICA: Canada: British Columbia, 1981, 1984; Nova Scotia, 1978; Ontario, 1984, USA: CA, CO, FL, GA, ID, IN, IL, KY, LA, MA, MI, MN, MO, MS, NY, NC, OH, OR, SC, TN, TX, VA, WA, WV, WI, WY, 1978-present; Mexico: Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas, 1988, Verracruz,2002. CENTRAL AMERICA and CARRIBEAN: Costa Rica, 1986, 1989, 1991-2005; Guatemala, 2002, 2004; Honduras, 1991; Panama, 2005; Puerto Rico, 1998. SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina 1987-1988; Brazil, 1987; Chile, 1987-1988; Ecuador, 1987; Colombia, 1987; Venezuela, 1987. EUROPE: Germany, 1990; the Netherlands, 1982; Sweden, 1982; Russia, 2003; Ukraine, 2003. ASIA: China, 1996-1998, 2002, 2006. Australasia: Australia 2005, 2006; New Zealand, 1999, 2006; Papua New Guinea 2006. BOOKS AND JOURNAL VOLUMES Mueller, G. M. 1992. Systematics of Laccaria (Agaricales) in the Continental United States and Canada, with Discussions on Extralimital Taxa and Descriptions of Extant Types. Fieldiana: Botany, n.s., 30. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History. 158 pp. Carranza , J. and G. M. Mueller, eds. 1996. Fungi of Costa Rica: Selected Studies on Biodiversity and Ecology. Revista de Biología Tropical, no. 44 (Supplement) 4. 154 pp. Mueller, G. M. and Q.-X. Wu, eds. 1997. Mycological Contributions of Rolf Singer: Field itinerary, Index to New Taxa, and List of Publications. Fieldiana, Botany: n.s., 38. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History. 124 pp. Mata, M., R. Halling, and G. M. Mueller. 2003. Macrohongos de Costa Rica/ Costa Rica Macrofungi. Vol. 2. Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio), Costa Rica. 240 pp. Mueller, G. M., G. F. Bills, and M. S. Foster, eds. 2004. Biodiversity of Fungi: Inventory and Monitoring Methods. Elsevier Academic Press, San Diego, CA. 777 pp. Halling, R. E. and G. M. Mueller. 2005. Common Mushrooms of the Talamanca Mountains, Costa Rica. New York Botanical Garden Press, NY. 197 pp. McFarland J. and G. M. Mueller. Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois and Neighboring Midwestern States. University of Illinois Press. (in press). SELECTED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS Mueller, G. M. and B. A. Strack. 1992. Evidence for a mycorrhizal host shift during migration of Laccaria trichodermophora and other agarics into neotropical oak forests. Mycotaxon 45: 249-256. Petersen, R. H. and G. M. Mueller. 1992. New South American taxa of Cantharellus, C. nothofagorum, C. xanthoscyphus, and C. lateritius var. colombianus. Boletin de la Sociedad Argentina de Botánica 28: 195-200. Mueller, G. M. and J. F. Ammirati. 1993. Cytological studies in Laccaria (Agaricales). II. Assessing phylogenetic relationships among Laccaria, Hydnangium, and other Agaricales. American Journal of Botany 80: 322-329. Mueller, G. M., A. von Hofsten, A. Axén, and B. A. Strack. 1993. Basidiospore wall ultrastructure of the false-truffle Hydnangium and its phylogenetic significance. Mycologia 85: 890-893. Mueller, G. M. and E. M. Pine. 1994. DNA data provide evidence on the evolutionary relationships between mushrooms and false truffles. McIlvainea 11(2): 61-74. Mueller, G. M. and R. E. Halling. 1995. Evidence for high biodiversity of Agaricales (Fungi) in neotropical montane Quercus forests. Pages 303-312. In Churchill, S. P., Balslev, H., Forero, E., and Luteyn, J. L., eds., Biodiversity and Conservation of Neotropical Montane Forests. The New York Botanical Garden Press. Wu, Q.-X. and G. M. Mueller. 1995. The genus Craterellus (Basidiomycetes, Aphyllophorales) in Costa Rica and Colombia. Documents Mycologiques XXV (98-100): 487-496. Mueller, G. M. 1996. Distribution and species composition of Laccaria (Agaricales) in tropical and subtropical America. In Carranza , J. and G. M. Mueller, eds. Fungi of Costa Rica: Selected Studies on Biodiversity and Ecology. Revista de Biología Tropical 44 (Suppl.) 4: 131-136. Mueller, G. M. and Q.-X. Wu. 1997. Summary of Rolf Singer's contributions to mycology. In. Mueller, G. M. and Q.-X. Wu, eds. Mycological Contributions of Rolf Singer: Field Itinerary, Index to New Taxa, and List of Publications, 1-7. Fieldiana, Botany: n.s. 38. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History. Wu, Q.-X. and G. M. Mueller. 1997. Biogeographic relationships between the macrofungi of temperate eastern Asia and eastern North America. Canadian Journal of Botany 75 (12): 2108-2116. Mueller, G. M., C. B. Fischbein, and S. E. Aks. 1998. Approach to mushroom poisoning. Pages 769-771 In Leikin, J. B. and F. P. Paloucek, eds. Poisoning and Toxicology Compendium with Symptoms Index. Lexi-Comp Inc., Hudson (Cleveland), Ohio. Aruguete, D. M., J. H. Aldstadt, and G. M. Mueller. 1998. Accumulation of several heavy metals and lanthanides in mushrooms (Agaricales) from the Chicago region. The Science of the Total Environment 224: 43-56. Halling, R. E. and G. M. Mueller. 1999. A new species and a new record for the genus Xerula (Agaricales) from Costa Rica. Mycotaxon 71: 105-110. Halling, R. E. and G. M. Mueller. 1999. New boletes from Costa Rica. Mycologia 91: 893-899. Halling, R. E., G. M. Mueller, and M. J. Dallwitz. 1999. A new Phylloporus (Basidiomycetes, Boletaceae) with a key to species in Costa Rica and Colombia. Mycotaxon 73: 63-68. Kropp, B. R. and G. M. Mueller. 1999. Laccaria. Pages 65-88 In Cairney, J.W. G. and S. M. Chambers, eds. Ectomycorrhizal Fungi: Key Genera in Profile. Springer Press, Berlin. Schmit, J. P., J. F. Murphy, and G. M. Mueller. 1999. Macrofungal diversity in a temperate oak forest: A test of species richness estimators. Canadian Journal of Botany 77: 1014-1027. Wu, Q.-X, G. M. Mueller, F. M. Lutzoni, Y.-Q. Huang, and S.-Y. Guo. 2000. Phylogenetic and biogeographic relationships of eastern Asian and eastern North American disjunct Suillus species (Fungi) as inferred from nuclear ribosomal RNA ITS sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 17: 37-47. Mueller, G. M., Q.-X. Wu, Y.-Q. Huang, S.-Y. Guo, R. Aldana Gomez, and R. Vilgalys. 2001. Assessing biogeographic relationships between North American and Chinese macrofungi based on molecular data. Journal of Biogeography 28: 271-281. Halling, R. E. and G. M. Mueller. 2001. Tylopilus bulbosus sp. nov. from Costa Rica. Harvard Papers in Botany 6: 109-112. Halling, R. E. and G. M. Mueller. 2002. Agarics and boletes of neotropical oakwoods. Pages 1-10 In Watling, R., J. C. Frankland, A. M. Ainsworth, S. Isaac, and C. H. Robinson, eds. Tropical Mycology : Vol. 1, Macromycetes. CABI Publishing, Wallingford, Oxon, UK Moskovits, D. K., C. Fialkowski, G. M. Mueller, and T. A. Sullivan. 2002. Chicago Wilderness: A new force in urban conservation. Annals of Missouri Botanical Garden 89: 153-163. Fischbein, C.B., G. M. Mueller, P. R. Leacock, M. S. Wahl, and S. E. Aks. 2003. Digital imaging: A promising tool for mushroom identification. Academic Emergency Medicine 10: 808-811. Guzmán-Dávalos, L., G. M. Mueller, J. Cifuentes, A. N. Miller, and A. Santerre. 2003. Traditional infrageneric classification of Gymnopilus is not supported by ribosomal DNA sequence data. Mycologia 95: 1204-1214. Halling, R. E. and G. M. Mueller. 2003. Leccinum (Boletaceae) in Costa Rica. Mycologia 95: 488-499. Mueller, G. M., J. P. Schmit, S. M. Huhndorf, L. Ryvarden, T. E. O'Dell, D. J. Lodge, P. R. Leacock, M. M. Mata, L. Umaña, Q.-X. Wu, and D. Czederpiltz. 2004. Recommended protocols for sampling macrofungi. Pages 168-172, In: Mueller, G. M., G. Bills, and M. S. Foster, eds. Biodiversity of Fungi: Inventory and Monitoring Methods. Elsevier Academic Press, San Diego, CA. Lodge, D. J., J. Ammirati, T. E. O'Dell, and G. M. Mueller. 2004. Collecting and describing macrofungi. Pages 128-158, In: Mueller, G. M., G. Bills, and M. S. Foster, eds. Biodiversity of Fungi: Inventory and Monitoring Methods. Elsevier Academic Press, San Diego, CA. O'Dell, T. E., D. J. Lodge, and G. M. Mueller. 2004. Approaches to sampling macrofungi. Pages 163-168, In: Mueller, G. M., G. Bills, and M. S. Foster, eds. Biodiversity of Fungi: Inventory and Monitoring Methods. Elsevier Academic Press, San Diego, CA. Buschbom, J. and G. Mueller. 2004. Resolving evolutionary relationships in the lichen-forming genus Porpidia and related allies (Porpidiaceae, Ascomycota). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 32: 66-82. Halling, R. E., M. Mata, and G. M. Mueller. 2004. Three new Boletes for Costa Rica. Pages 141-147, In: C. L. Cripps ed., Fungi in Forest Ecosystems: Systematics, Diversity, and Ecology. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 89. Fischbein, C. S. Aks, and G. M. Mueller. 2004/2005. Mushroom poisoning. Pages 533-540, In: Erickson, T. B., W. R. Ahrens, S. E. Aks, C. R. Baum, and L. Ling, eds. Pediatric Toxicology: Diagnosis and Management of the Poisoned Child. McGraw-Hill Press. 624 pp. Buyck, B., R. E. Halling, and G. M. Mueller. 2005. The inventory of Russula in Costa Rica: Discovery of two very rare North American species in montane oak forest. Bollettino del Gruppo Micologico "G. Bresadola" (Nuova Serie) 46: 57-74. Schmit, J. P., G. M. Mueller, Y.-Q. Huang, P. R. Leacock, J. L. Mata, and Q.-X. Wu. 2005. Assessment of tree species richness as a surrogate for macrofungal species richness. Biological Conservation 121: 99-110. Hawksworth, D. L. and G. M. Mueller. 2005. Fungal communities: Their diversity and distribution. Pp 27-37. In: J. Dighton, J. White, and P. Oudemans eds. The Fungal Community: Its Organization and Role in the Ecosystem, 3rd ed. CRC Taylor and Francis, New York Schmitt, I., G. Mueller, and T. Lumbsch. 2005. Ascocarp morphology is homoplaseous and phylogenetically misleading in some pyrenocarpous lichens. Mycologia 97: 362-374. Osmundson, T. W., C. L. Cripps, and G. M. Mueller. 2005. Morphological and molecular systematics of Rocky Mountain alpine Laccaria. Mycologia 97: 949-972. Buschbom, J. and G. M. Mueller. 2005. Testing "species pair" hypotheses: evolutionary processes in the lichen-forming species complex Porpidia flavocoerulescens and Porpidia melinodes Molecular Biology and Evolution 23: 574-586. Mueller, G. M., R. E. Halling, J. Carranza, M. Mata, J. P. Schmit. 2006. Saprotrophic and ectomycorrhizal macrofungi of Costa Rican Oak Forests. Pp. 55-68 In: M. Kappelle (ed). Ecology and Conservation of Neotropical Montane Oak Forests. Ecological Studies, Springer. Avis, R., I. A. Dickie , and G. M. Mueller. 2006. A "dirty" business: Testing the limitations of terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (TRFLP) analysis of soil fungi. Molecular Ecology 15: 873-882. Mueller, G. M. and J. P. Schmit. 2007. Fungal biodiversity: What do we know? What can we predict? Biodiversity and Conservation 16: 1-5. 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. M. Trappe, R. Watling, and Q.-X Wu. 2007. Global diversity and distribution of macrofungi. Biodiversity and Conservation 16: 37-48. Schmit, J. P. and G. M. Mueller. 2007. An estimate of the lower limit of global fungal diversity. Biodiversity and Conservation 16: 99-111. Mueller, G. M. and K. Hosaka. Biogeography and host preference of austral members of Laccaria - Hydnangium, a model clade of ectomycorrhizal fungi. Submitted to Mycological Research. SELECT ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS Halling, R. E. and G. M. Mueller. 1996-present. Macrofungi of Costa Rica. http://www.nybg.org/bsci/res/hall/costaric.html Mueller, G. M. 1997. The mushroom genus Laccaria in North America. http://www.fieldmuseum.org/research_collections/botany. Wu, Q.-X. and G. M. Mueller. 1997. Comparative studies on the macrofungi of China and eastern North America. http://www.fieldmuseum.org/ research_collections/botany (expanded and revised, March 1998). Mueller, G. M. and M. Mata. 2000. Inventory of Costa Rican fungi. http://www.inbio.ac.cr/papers/gt_Hongos/en/index.htm Schaub, M., G. Tonkovich, P. R. Leacock, W. Alverson, C. Dunn, K. Havens, and G. M. Mueller. 2002-present. vPlants: A virtual herbarium of the Chicago region. http://www.vplants.org/ SELECT REPORTS AND MANUALS DISTRIBUTED (not published) Mueller, G. M. and M. Mata. 1998. Report of the International Workshop on the Fungal Inventory of Costa Rica. INBio, Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica. 36 pp. Mueller, G. M. and M. Mata. 1999. Protocols for the National Inventory of Costa Rican Fungi. INBio, Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica. 13 pp. Leacock, P. and G. Mueller. 2000. Urban Watch target organisms: Mushrooms and other fungi. In Illinois UrbanWatch Monitoring Manual. Field Museum and Illinois Department of Natural Resources, eds. Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Springfield, IL. Mueller, G. M., B. Yang, and S. Ge. 2003. Fungi. Pages 72-73, 92-95 In China: Yunnan, Southern Gaoligongshan. Rapid Biological Inventories Report 4. The Field Museum, Chicago. RECENT WORKSHOPS AND SYMPOSIA ORGANIZED Mueller, G. M., M. Mata, L. Umaña, F. Fernandez, S. Huhndorf. 2001. Workshop on macrofungi and microfungi. National Biodiversity Institute (INBio), Costa Rica. (co-organizer) Halling, R. E., J. Carranza, and G. M. Mueller. 2001. Workshop for Central American students: Training on macrofungi. University of Costa Rica, San Pedro. (co-organizer) Mueller, G. M. 2002. Symposium entitled "Diversidad fúngica en Costa Rica" Latin American Congress of Mycology, Xalapa, Mexico. (organizer) Mueller, G. M., J. P. Schmit, and R. Courtecuisse. 2002. Symposium entitled "Fungal Biodiversity: What do we know? What can we predict?" International Mycological Congress, Oslo, Norway. (co-organizer). Mueller, G. M. 2002. Symposium entitled "A diversity of Fungal Diversity Studies" International Mycological Congress, Oslo, Norway. (organizer) Mueller, G. M., M. Mata, R. E. Halling, and J. Carranza. 2003. Workshop II for Central American students: Advance Training on Macrofungi. National Biodiversity Institute (INBio), Costa Rica (co-organizer). Carranza, J. and G. M. Mueller. 2005. Workshop and symposium on biodiversity of Central American macrofungi. University of Panama and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (co-organizer). Mueller, G. M. and H. T. Lumbsch, T. 2006. Symposium entitled "Phylogeography" International Mycological Congress, Cairns, Australia. (co-organizer). GRADUATE STUDENT THESIS COMMITTEES AND POSTDOC SUPERVISION Graduate Students: Milagro Mata Hidalgo, U. Costa Rica, Licenciatura, 1995 [External Member] (Curator of Macrofungi, INBio, Costa Rica); Loengrin Umaña Tenorio, U. Costa Rica, Licenciatura, 1995 [External Member] (Curator of Microfungi, INBio, Costa Rica); Juan Luis Mata, U. Costa Rica, M.S. 1998 [External Member] (Assistant Professor, U. Southern Mississippi); Sara Foster, U. Illinois, Chicago, M.S. 1998 [Member] (employed in industry); John Paul Schmit, U. Chicago, Ph.D. 1999 [Chair] (Quantitative Ecologist, National Park Service); Andrew Miller, Ph.D. 2003, U. of Illinois at Chicago [Co-Chair] (Mycologist, Illinois Natural History Survey); Jutta Buschbom, U .of Chicago, Ph.D. 2003 [Chair], (Postdoc in Germany); Laura Gúzman Dávalos, UNAM, Mexico, Ph.D. 2003 [Co-Chair] (Professor, U. Guadalajara, Mexico; Kelly Gravier, Ph.D. Candidate, U. of Chicago [Co-Chair]; Matthew Kierle, PhD Candidate, U. of Chicago [Chair]; Sara Branco, PhD Candidate, U. Chicago [Chair] PostDocs: John (Jack) F. Murphy, 1995-1997 (currently Assistant Prof. Linfield College, McMinnville, Oregon), John Paul Schmit, 1999-2000 (currently Quantitative Ecologist, National Park Service), Patrick Leacock, 1997-present, Peter Avis, 2004-present, Kentaro Hosaka, 2005-present.
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