March 2023 Uehling lab hiring for 2 postdoctoral scholar positions
Uehling lab seeks 2 NSF funded postdoctoral scholars on fungal endosymbiont research. Salaries $54,840, start dates May 1, 2023 (or as negotiated)
Position 1: (primarily computational) evaluating evolutionary questions about interactions of human Mucoromycota fungal pathogens and their endosymbiotic bacteria using population and evolutionary genomics approaches
Position 2: (hybrid molecular & computational) evaluating how endosymbiotic bacteria contribute to ecological community assembly and evolutionary diversification of Moriterellomycotina fungi using field work, culturing, and evolutionary genomics approaches
For both positions, see attached PDFS and email jessie[dot]uehling[at]oregonstate[dot]edu for for information
January 2023 OSC Herbarium begins imaging international lichen and bryophyte specimens on NSF funded project
Over 25 US herbaria are working together to digitize images for over 1.2 Million specimens under NSF TCN 2001500: Building a global consortium of bryophytes and lichens: keystones of cryptobiotic communities. OSC will contribute specimens from around the world currently living at OSU.
November 2022 The OSC fungal herbarium receives new specimen cabinets
The OSC herbarium received 3 new specimen cabinets! Excitingly, we have ~20% more room for collections in our new herbarium space in our new building. These cabinets will serve to house our newly obtained truffle collections from Drs. Jim Trappe and Mike Castellano, and other incoming fungal specimens.
October 2022 The Australasian Mycological Society (@ausmycsoc) to host the Uehling lab
October 2022 Jessie To speak at Lincoln County Mycological Society meeting on Psilocybin Services
September 2022 Brandon Stairs receives the Darvin DeShazer Scholarship from the Sonoma Mycological Society (SOMA)
August 2022 – Kim Syring defends her senior honors thesis today on her Ganoderma in the PNW project
July 2022 – Uehling lab arrives in newly renovated lab space
in New Cordley let the unpacking beginJune 2022 – Graduate student Brandon Stairs receives CMS Freeman Rowe Educational Scholarship
May 2022 – Uehling lab hosts fungal endosymbiont section at the CanFunNet conference
April 2022 – Undergraduate researcher Kim Syring presents her research at OSU-CAS Celebrating Undergraduate Excellence symposium
March 2022 – Uehling lab recruits undergraduate computational researchers at Orange and Black Days
During the OSU College of Agricultural Sciences Orange and Black Days, we prepared a demo of how to extract DNA from fungal tissues and how the resulting data are tied to evolutionary analyses. Prospective incoming freshman learned about course work in our new major Biological Data Sciences
March 2022 – Postdoc Kevin Amses delivers invited talk at Asilomar
March 2022 – Uehling lab does field work for NSF Dimensions of Biodiversity RESEARCH
February 2022 – Jessie is recognized for her research and policy development service
Jessie was selected together with a group of women shaping the future of the psychedelics research and policy development as the 16 Most Influential Women in Psychedelics. In her interview she shared the importance of mycological research and where fungal applied biology intersects with addressing mental health.
January 2022 – Jessie is featured on the Mushroom Revival Podcast
Lab PI Jessie Uehling was a guest on the educational podcast Mushroom Revival this week. Have a listen to hear an overview on the state of research in the field, what the lab is up to, and more.
January 2022 – Brandon receives NATS Henry Pavelek Sr. Memorial Scholarship
Masters Student Brandon Stairs wins the Henry Pavelek Sr. Memorial Scholarship Fund from the North American Truffling Society. Congrats Brandon!!
December 2021 – Welcome new postdoc Dr. Paris Salazar-Hamm!!
Dr. Salazar-Hamm completed her PhD research focused on the connection between environmental and clinical Coccidioides (Valley Fever) fungi with Dr. Don Natvig and the University of New Mexico. Paris is coming to the Uehling lab to work on our Collaborative NSF-BBSRC funded research looking at if/how endosymbionts influence virulence of their human pathogenic Mucoromycota fungal hosts. You can connect with Paris on Twitter or Linked in. Welcome Paris!!
November 2021 – OSU Mycology (BOT 461/561) back to in person, experiential learning
After several terms of remote learning, we are thrilled to announce the mycologists are back in lab and in the field learning fungal biology. Though not without challenges, we have visited several sites for IRL forays, used microscopes for accurate species level IDs in lab, and benefited greatly from teaching and learning in real time. Cheers to the next generation of mycologists.
October 2021 – Team Poplar visits OSU BPP
Professor Rytas Vilgalys and Phd Student Jake Nash visited the Corvallis area to sample poplar associated fungi. While in town we celebrated Professor Jim Trappe’s 90th Birthday together with the mycofam at a distanced outdoor BBQ. Keep on Trufflin yall
September 2021 – US National Parks representative Kelli Daffron visits Uehling lab
Kelli is a Pathways Biological Technician at Lewis & Clark National Historical Park (LEWI) and as a project manager for the North Coast Watershed Association (NCWA), where her work focuses on promoting native biodiversity and water quality monitoring. She visited lab to learn DNA extraction, PCR, and Sanger sequence analyses in pursuit of our shared research goal to better understand ECM diversity in LEWI and Ganoderma population diversity in the PNW.
September 2021 – Uehling lab is hiring a new computational postdoc!!
To apply: Send the following documents to jessie.uehling@oregonstate.edu
One PDF including:
A cover letter
2-page research statement
CV
See more at the following link or below
August 2021 Uehling lab celebrates a new publication
This is an open access review of Coccidioides Biology written by an all female team and highlighting the role of female Cocci researchers in the field. see more on the Current Clinical Microbiology Reports website
April 2021 Welcome to lab Postdoctoral Scholar, Dr. Kevin Amses
March 2021 Congratulations to new Masters student & fellowship recipient Brandon Stairs!!
March 2021 Welcome to lab, PhD student Kyle Mondron!!
March 2021 UG researcher Kim Syring accepted to summer REU program
March 2021 OSC Macrofungal Herbarium research updates
Forest Service / Bureau of Land Management Interagency Special Status /
Sensitive Species Program (ISSSSP) and The Biodiversity Research Collective (BRC) to obtain barcode scanners for databasing digitized specimen information. These scanners will enable our barcoding of the macrofungal collection and help us to avoid human error when entering fungal collection accession data into data bases. Modernizing the OSC fungal collection is a gift that will continue giving to future researchers to generations to come. Many thanks to the BRC!!
New shelf boxes for the macrofungi To increase OSC infrastructure quality, we used BRC funds to purchase herbarium shelf boxes. We then employed student workers to replace the older boxes. We then standardized the labels on each shelf box, and used the new boxes to decompress parts of the OSC fungal collections which were causing damage to specimens due to overcrowding. We are very grateful for the BRC funding and new infrastructural upgrades!!
October 2020- The Trappe-Castellano truffle collection (>50,000 specimens) will be accessioned into the OSC herbarium
The Oregon State University Fungal Herbarium’s Curator Dr. Jessie Uehling recently received a grant from the United States Forest Service, Northern Research Station to accession over 35,000 truffle fungi into the OSC collection. Oregon State University herbarium already houses approximately 15,000 collections from the Trappe-Castellano herbarium. The fungi were collected, curated, and preserved by world renowned truffle experts Drs. James Trappe and Michael A. Castellano. Joining a long history of OSU scientists and truffle biology field leaders before them, together Drs. Trappe and Castellano collected and described over 1,000 new species and documented over 5,000 additional species from the Americas, Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa, and New Zealand. There is no greater truffle research resource in the world, and we are honored to care for the Trappe-Castellano collection and make it publicly available to researchers. This grant will enable the employment and training of under-represented minorities in the herbarium and serve as a training ground for the next generation of mycologists.
September 2020- Uehling lab is hiring!! Postdoctoral Research Position in Fungal Endosymbiont Evolutionary Genomics
TO APPLY: attach the following electronic documents to an email to me at Jessie.Uehling@oregonstate.edu. 1) A resume/CV; 2) 2 page Research Interest Statement; 3) A cover letter indicating how your qualifications and experience have prepared you for this position; 4) You will also be required to submit the names of at least three professional references, their e-mail addresses and telephone numbers as part of the application process.
September 2020- Uehling lab is hiring!! Postdoctoral Research Position in Fungal Endosymbiont Evolutionary Genomics
Job Location: Corvallis Salary: $52,704 Applications Due: October 31st, 2020 Start Date: February 2021
The goal of this research is to investigate how endosymbiotic bacteria (EB) contribute to ecological community assembly and evolutionary diversification of early-divergent fungi in the phylum Mucoromycota. Mucoromycota are ubiquitous soil fungi with global distribution and immense ecological and economical significance. They include obligate plant mutualists (Glomeromycotina) as well as decomposers and root endophytes (Mucoromycotina and Mortiellomycotina). Mucoromycota-EB symbioses are highly coevolved, ancient, and functionally diverse. The understanding of how of and how EB shape global diversity of Mucoromycota is limited. To fill this knowledge gap, we plan to sample similar, physically isolated and leverage culture-independent approaches to test hypotheses concerning the roles of dispersal, abiotic and biotic filtering in shaping Mucoromycota communities. Further we plan to employ culture-dependent methods to evaluate the role of endobacteria in shaping Mucoromycota taxonomic diversification. We will integrate these data, allowing for inferences about the significance of EB in micro- and macroevolution of Mucoromycota.
The objectives of the position are to support research on fungal bacterial interactions in the Botany and Plant Pathology Department at Oregon State University. This position will support the lab in 1) Conducting field, lab and computational research projects on bacterial fungal symbioses; 2) Culturing and sequencing microbial diversity including fungi and bacterial symbionts; 3) Surveying the microbial communities through collecting and analyzing molecular data (i.e. DNA/RNA) 4) Developing integrative approaches to study fungal bacterial interactions in in vitro (on plates in lab) and in green house studies in plant based interaction settings; 5) Assisting in lab management, ordering materials, and training. 6) Maintaining laboratory notebooks, protocols and reagents to maximize the efficient use of resources; 7) Maintaining current knowledge of EHS & OSHA safety rules and ensure that all laboratory personnel are informed and aware of all rules and regulations; 8) Generating and analyzing data and contributing writing to scientific manuscripts; 9) provides educational and outreach activities to describe the research to the K-12 level education system in Oregon.
Position Duties
SUMMARY: This position will support the soil microbiology and ecology programs that 1) surveys the microbial communities through collecting and analyzing field samples (i.e. soils and plant biomass); 2) utilizes clearing and competition assays to evaluate the functional repercussions of fungal bacterial symbioses using transcriptomics, metabolomics, and proteomics; 3) develops integrative approaches to analyze several sources of genomics data sets; 4) disseminates the research findings to the public and industries through extension action.
Minimum/Required Qualifications Ph.D. in molecular biology, bioinformatics, microbial ecology, evolutionary biology, microbiology, or plant-fungal-bacterial interactions. Experience in computational biology, generating genomics data sets, programming preferably in Python and R, Mycology/Bacteriology/Microbiology coursework, field work, and expertise in ecological theory. Preferred (Special) QualificationsStrong writing skills and publication record, public speaking experience, working knowledge of Microsoft Office Programs such as WORD, EXCEL, and OUTLOOK, knowledge of pacific northwest flora, fungal bacterial interactions experimental design, and microfluidics.
Application Instructions
When applying you will be required to attach the following electronic documents to an email to me at Jessie.Uehling@oregonstate.edu. See more here
1) A resume/CV; 2) 2 page Research Interest Statement; 3) A cover letter indicating how your qualifications and experience have prepared you for this position; 4) You will also be required to submit the names of at least three professional references, their e-mail addresses and telephone numbers as part of the application process.
For additional information please contact: Jessie Uehling at Jessie.Uehling@oregonstate.edu
This position requires driving a University vehicle or a personal vehicle on behalf of the University; therefore, the incumbent must successfully complete a Motor Vehicle History Check, possess and maintain a current, valid driver’s license in their state of residence, be determined to be position qualified and self-report convictions as per OSU STANDARD 576-056-0000 et seq. Offers of employment are contingent upon meeting all minimum qualifications including the Motor Vehicle Check Requirement. OSU commits to inclusive excellence by advancing equity and diversity in all that we do. We are an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer, and particularly encourage applications from members of historically underrepresented racial/ethnic groups, women, individuals with disabilities, veterans, LGBTQ community members, and others who demonstrate the ability to help us achieve our vision of a diverse and inclusive community
September 2020 – OSC receives NSF funding to digitize lichens and bryophytes
This project, led by Dr. Jessica Budke, director of the UT Herbarium (TENN) together with co-Principal Investigator Dr. Jessie Uehling colleagues from 25 institutions will image over 1 million lichens and bryophytes and engage countless undergraduate researchers in the OSC herbarium, and we plan to focus on offering opportunities to aid the establishment of underrepresented students in STEM!!
The project, Building a Global Consortium of Bryophytes and Lichens Keystones of Cryptobiotic Communities (GLOBAL), will enable researchers from around the world to access specimen metadata and photos of the plants.
This grant will include several novel technologies including using a Object-to-Image-to-Data approach to read and decipher information from images of specimen labels, and Artificial Intelligence to flag mis-identified specimens. We will then leverage a Crowd Sourced approach via Symbiota to aid in label transcription, providing many opportunities to engage in biodiversity research from home.
Partner Institutions
Academy of Natural Sciences Arizona State University Brigham Young University Duke University Louisiana State University Miami University Michigan State University Missouri Botanical Garden New York Botanical Garden Ohio State University The Field Museum University of Alaska University of California, Berkeley University of Cincinnati University of Colorado University of Florida
August 2020 – Biodiversity Research Collective funds OSC fungal collection!!
The OSC fungal herbarium recently teamed up with the Biodiversity Research Collective, led by Jessie Uehling to curate the macrofungal and lichen collections. We leveraged a small grant to hire talented students who replaced and labeled specimen boxes, formatted >1,200 specimen accessions into public data bases like MycoPortal. They also boxed, moved and reorganized our collection in our new building!! This exciting work will facilitate generations of future research via access to the world renowned OSC fungal collection.
April 2019 – OSU Herbarium gets funding!!
April 2019 – Dr. Bruce McCune secures $200,000 in funding for the curation of the OSU lichen collection together with Shirley Tucker. Efforts will be made towards accessioning Drs. Riley and McCune’s collections and in documenting Leptogium (see above) diversity in the Pacific NorthWest. Congrats Bruce and all!!
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