Speaker Biography

John Taylor

John W. Taylor is Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology and Curator of the University Herbarium, both at the University of California at Berkeley. His research focuses on the evolution of fungi, including fungal phylogenetic relationships, the timing of deep fungal divergences, species recognition, speciation, species maintenance, selection, and accounting for intraspecific variation. His current focus is on comparative genomics of two groups of fungi, the model fungi in the genus Neurospora, and disease causing fungi in the genus Coccidioides. Publications from his laboratory number more than 160; one has 5,000 citations. Taylor has served as President of the Mycological Society of America and as an associate editor or member of the editorial board of Mycologia, Mycological Research, Fungal Genetics and Biology and the Annual Review of Microbiology. He has received awards for excellence in teaching from the Mycological Society of America and the College of Natural Resources at Berkeley. He is a fellow of the California Academy of Science, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Microbiology.

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