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JESSIE K UEHLING
JKU@DUKE.EDU 919.660.7369
EDUCATION
Ph.D. (Genetics & Genomics) Duke University 2017
M.Sc. (Mycology) Humboldt State University 2012
B.S. (Botany) Humboldt State University 2010
PUBLICATIONS
2017
1.) Deveau A, Bonito G, Millet L, Bindschedler S, Uehling J, Becker M, Hacquard S, Hervé, V, Lastovetsky O, Mieszkin S, Vajna B, Paoletti M, Bonfante P, van Elsas JD. 2017. Bacterial – Fungal Interactions: impacts, mechanisms and challenges. FEMS Microbiology Reviews. In review.
2.) Uehling J, Deveau A, Paoletti M. 2017. Innate Immune response and NLR based non-self recognition in Fungi and Eukaryotes. PLoS Pathogens Pearls. In review.
3.) Uehling J, Gryganskyi A, Hameed K, Tschaplinski T, Misztal PK, Wu S, Desirò A, Vande Pol N, Du Z, Zienkiewicz A, Zienkiewicz K, Morin E, Tisserant E, Splivallo R, Hainaut M, Henrissat B, Ohm R, Kuo A, Yan J, Lipzen A, Nolan M, LaButti K, Barry K, Goldstein AH, Labbé J, Schadt C, Tuskan G, Grigoriev I, Martin F, Vilgalys R, Bonito G. Comparative genomics of Mortierella elongata and its bacterial endosymbiont Mycoavidus cysteinexigens. Environmental Microbiology. In press. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.13669. PDF
2016
4.) Li Z, Yao Q, Dearth S, Entler M, Castro Gonzalez M, Uehling J, Vilgalys R, Hurst G, Campagna S, Labbé J, Pan C. 2016. Integrated Proteomics and Metabolomics Reveal Symbiotic Metabolism and Multimodal Regulation in a Fungal-Endobacterial System. Environmental Microbiology. 19(3):1041-1053. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.13605. PDF
5.) Spatafora J, Benny G, Lazarus K, Smith M, Berbee M, Bonito G, Corradi N, Gryganskyi A, James T, Taylor T, Uehling J, Vilgalys R, White M, Stajich J. 2016. A phylum-level phylogenetic classification of zygomycete fungi based on genome-scale data. Mycologia. (108)5:1028-1046. doi: 10.3852/16-042. PDF
6.) Henkel TW, Obase, K, Husbands D, Uehling J, Bonito G, Aime MC, Smith ME. 2016. New Boletaceae taxa from Guyana: Binderoboletus segoi gen. et sp. nov., Guyanaporus albipodus gen. et sp. nov., Singerocomus rubriflavus gen. et sp. nov., and a new combination for Xerocomus inundabilis. Mycologia, (108)1:158-173) doi: 10.3852/15-075. PDF
2015
7.) Grupe AC, Baker AD, Uehling JK, Smith ME, Baroni TJ, Lodge DJ, Henkel TW. 2015. Sarcodon in the Neotropics I: new species from Guyana, Puerto Rico and Belize. Mycologia 107.3 (2015): 591-606., doi:10.3852/14-185. PDF
2014
8.) Labbé J, Uehling J, Payer T, Plett J 2014. Fungal biology: compiling genomes and exploiting them. New Phytologist. 203(2):359-361. doi: 10.1111/nph.12891. PDF
9.) Henkel TW, Wilson AW, Aime MC, Dierks J, Uehling J, Roy M, Schimann H, Wartchow F, Mueller GM. 2014. Cantharellaceae of Guyana II. New species of Craterellus, new South American distribution records for Cantharellus guyanensis and Craterellus excelsus, and a key to the Neotropical taxa. Mycologia. 106: 307-322. doi: 10.3852/106.2.307. PDF
2013
10.) Smith ME, Henkel TW, Uehling JK, Fremier AK, Clarke HD,R Vilgalys R. 2013. The ectomycorrhizal fungal community in a Neotropical forest dominated by the endemic dipterocarp Pakaraimaea dipterocarpacea. PLoS one 8.1 (2013): doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055160. PDF
2012
11.) Uehling JK, Henkel TW, Aime MC, Smith ME. 2012c. New species and distribution records for Clavulina (Cantharellales, Basidiomycota) from the Guiana Shield, with a key to the lowland neotropical taxa. Fungal Biology. 116(12): 1203-1274. doi: 10.1016/j.funbio.2012.09.004. PDF
12.) Kennedy P, Matheny B, Ryberg M, Henkel T, Uehling J, Smith M. 2012b. Scaling up: examining the macroecology of ectomycorrhizal Fungi. Molecular Ecology. 21:4151–4154. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05703.x PDF
13.) Uehling JK, Henkel TW, Vilgalys R, Smith ME. 2012a. Membranomyces species are common ectomycorrhizal symbionts in North temperate forests. Mycorrhiza. 22(7):577-81. doi: 10.1007/s00572-012-0457-8. PDF
2011
14.) Hodkinson BP, Uehling JK, Smith ME. Lepidostroma vilgalysii, a new basidiolichen from the New World with an inverted thallus. 2011b. Mycological Progress. 11(3): 827-833. doi:10.1007/s11557-011-0800-z. PDF
15.) Uehling JK, Henkel TW, Aime MC, Vilgalys R, Smith ME. 2011b. New species of Clavulina (Cantharellales, Basidiomycota) with resupinate and effused basidiomata from the Guiana Shield. Mycologia 104:547-556. doi: 10.3852/11-130. PDF
16.) Henkel TW, Aime MC, Uehling JK, Smith ME. 2011a. New species and distribution records for Clavulina (Cantharellales, Basidiomycota) from the Guiana Shield. Mycologia 103(4):883-889. doi: 10.3852/10-355. PDF
SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS & FUNDING
2017
NASA Astrobiology Science Conference Student Travel Award
2016
International Society for Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions Student Travel Award
North American Mycological Association Student Travel Award
2015
Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory Go! Graduate fellowship
Oak Ridge National Laboratory the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS) user facility “Microfluidic environmental control platforms for chemical and transcriptomic analysis of fungal-bacterial interactions” Vilgalys R, Uehling J, Millet L, Labbe J, Doktycz M.
2014
Seed Grant from Department of Energy Biosciences Division “Filamentous fungi for biodiesel production using lignocellulosic residuals “ Co-PI Jessy Labbé, Collaborators Wellington Muchero, Timothy Tschaplinski and Rytas Vilgalys.
Duke University Graduate School International Travel Award
Mycological Society of America Backus Award
2013
European Conference for Fungal Genetics student travel grant
Fungal Environmental Sampling and Informatics Network research dissemination grant
Duke University Genetics & Genomics summer training travel grant
2012
California State University Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology travel grant
McConkey Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Alistair McCrone Graduate Fellowship Award, Gregory Mark Jennings Research Dissemination grant, Humboldt State University
Humboldt Bay Mycology Society George Verback Memorial Scholarship
2011
Friends of the Farlow Visiting Scholar Fellowship, Harvard University
Sonoma County Mycological Society Outstanding Graduate Research Scholarship
2010
Cascade Mycological Society Promising Graduate Student Research Grant
Institute for Tropical Ecology & Conservation Sarah Glanzer Memorial Fellowship
LANGUAGES
Unix Perl R Python
TEACHING & LEADERSHIP
TEACHING
Mycology Instructor of Record 3 hours lecture + laboratory, twice per week Fall 2016.
Teaching assistant at Triangle Science Tweet Up Mushroom Identification in Duke Forest, 2013.
Instructor at the Fungal Biology teaching station during North Carolina elementary schools’ Forest days, 2013-2014.
Teaching assistant at fungal biology workshop at Iwokrama Rainforest Reserve, Guyana 2011.
Introductory Botany teaching assistant, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA 2010.
Botany 105 laboratory assistant technician, Humboldt State University, Arcata CA, 2009-2010.
MEETING ORGANIZATION
Bacterial Fungal Interactions at the European Fungal Genetics Conference in Paris, France. Co-organizers: Greg Bonito (MI State), Jessy Labbe (DOE-ORNL), Aurelie Deveau (INRA-Nancy, FR) 2016.
Mycological Society of America Program committee 2015-2016
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY SERVICE
Mycological Society of America Student Section Chair, Vice Chair, and Secretary 2012-2016.
Duke Graduate and Professional Student Council general assembly representative for the University program in genetics & genomics 2013-2014.
NSF STEM graduate challenge collaborative team leader,” Engaging graduate students in professional societies via technology & social media using a self-perpetuating travel-trade model: a case study” 2013.
PEER REVIEWS
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
BMC Microbiology
Phytopathology
New Phytologist
Mycoscience
RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIPS
Department of Energy Populus microbiome project, Plant Microbe Interfaces & Zygomycete genome sequencing project “ZyGoLife” NSF DEB1441715. 2016-2017.
Alternative energy sources derived from fungi project “Filamentous fungi for biodiesel production using lignocellulosic residuals” Department of Energy SEED Grant 2015-2016.
Department of Energy Populus microbiome project Plant Microbe Interfaces 2014-2015.
Ectomycorrhizal fungi in Guyana project, NSF DEB0918591 2011-2012.
EXTERNAL TRAINING
Advanced Bacterial Genetics Course, Proteomics Course, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2013, 2014.
Plant Systems Biology group internships at the Environmental Sciences Division, Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Funded by GO Fellowship & CNMS grants, 2014-2015.
FIELD WORK
New Haven CT
Blacksburg VA
Lufkin TX
Durham NC
Riggins ID
Mt. Ayanganna, Guyana
Mabura, Guyana
Pagaima Savanah, Guyana
Potaro River Basin, Guyana
Institute for Tropical Ecology and Conservation (ITEC) Bocas del Toro, Panama
SOCIAL MEDIA COVERAGE
“American Pecan Truffle May Be Coming to a Plate Near You, By Way of Extremely Cute Courier” Scientific American Blog. Coverage of educational short film available on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h514cjmJD84, 2013.
