Joseph F. Bischoff
Institutional address:
Dept. of Plant Biology and
Pathology
Rutgers University, Cook College
369 Foran Hall, 59 Dudley Road
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Phone: (732) 932-9375 x347
Fax: (732) 932-9377
E-mail: jbischof@eden.rutgers.edu
Research interests
Evolutionary history, diversity, and host substrate
shifts of Ascomycetes, especially in the fungal
family Clavicipitaceae.
Education
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New
Brunswick, NJ, Ph.D. in Fungal Systematics, expected
December, 2003
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Cook
College, New Brunswick, NJ, B.S., Natural Resource
Management, 1996
Professional Training
Bodega Bay phylogenetics workshop, University of
California at Davis, Davis, CA, 5/03
Tropical Biology: an ecological approach, Organization
for Tropical Studies, San Jose, Costa Rica, 6/01
– 8/01
Positions held
Assistant Curator, Chrysler
Herbarium (CHRB), Rutgers University, 7/02 –
present
Teaching Assistant, General Biology,
Department of Life Sciences, Rutgers University, 9/01
– 6/02
Graduate Research Assistant,
Aeromycology Project: investigating airborne human
pathogenic fungi. Laboratory of Dr. James White,
Department of Plant Pathology, Rutgers University,
6/00 – 7/01
Teaching Assistant, Forestry Field
Course, Department of Ecology and Evolution, Rutgers
University, 1/00 – 5/00
Consulting Arborist, Tree Tech Inc.,
Mount Freedom, NJ, 12/98 – 3/00
Memberships
Mycological Society of America
Botanical Society of America
American Phytopathological Society
New Jersey Certified Tree Expert (License #394)
Professional service
Search Committee Member, Plant
systematist faculty position Rutgers University, 9/00
– 5/01.
Peer Reviewer, Mycologia,
Mycological Society of America, 2001.
Resource Person, Introduction to
Tropical Biology Course, Organization for Tropical
Studies, La Selva, Costa Rica 6/02.
International field experience
Costa Rica (general collecting but mainly
Hypocreales), (general collecting), Guyana
(Hypocreales), Panama (Hypocreales).
Grants and awards
New Jersey Mycological Association 2003: Ray Fatto
Award, $1000.
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute 2003:
Evaluation of abundance and diversity of microfungi
in soil and leaf litter of Barro Colorado Island,
$4980 (PI; J.F. White, Jr. is Co-PI).
Peter Selmer Loft Memorial Scholarship 2002, $1000.
Norman F. Childers Scholarship 2002, for academic
record and dedication to the field of Plant Biology,
$640.
Rutgers University Graduate School Predissertation
Travel Award 2002, $500.
New Jersey Association of Landscape Contractors
Student Fellowship 2001, $1000.
Organization for Tropical Studies Post Course
Research Fellowship 2001, A survey of clavicipitalean
insect pathogens in four wet forests in southern
Central America, $500.
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Post Course
Research Fellowship 2001, A survey of clavicipitalean
fungal pathogens in four wet forests in southern
Central America, $500.
Published articles and book chapters
Bischoff, J.F., R. Sullivan, N.L.
Hywel-Jones, L. Struwe, & J.F. White Jr. 2003.
Resurrection of Blistum tomentosum and its exclusion
from Polycephalomyces (Hyphomycetes, Deuteromycota)
based on 28S rDNA sequence data. Mycotaxon 86:
433-444.
Bischoff, J.F. & J.F. White Jr.
2003. The plant symbionts of the Clavicipitaceae. In:
Clavicipitalean fungi: evolution biology, chemistry,
and biocontrol. J.F. White Jr., C. Bacon, & N.L.
Hwyel-Jones (Eds.), Markel - Dekker, NY, NY.
White, J.F., Jr., F. Belanger, W. Meyer, R.F.
Sullivan, J.F. Bischoff, & E.A.
Lewis. 2002. Clavicipitalean fungal epibionts and
endophytes – development of symbiotic
interactions with plants. Symbiosis 33: 201-213.
Manuscripts submitted
Bischoff, J.F., R. Sullivan, K.
Kjer, & J.F. White, Jr. The tribe Ustilaginoideae
(Clavicipitaceae, Hypocreales): an evaluation of its
morphology and phylogenetic affinity, Mycologia.
Bischoff, J.F. & J.F. White Jr. Torrubiella
piperae sp. nov. (Clavicipitaceae, Hypocreales)
a new teleomorph of the Verticillium lecanii
complex, Studies in Mycology.
Bischoff, J.F. & J.F. White Jr. Stilbella
iwokramensis (Ascomycotina, Hypocreales) a new
entomopathogenic species from Guyana, Proceeding of
the Academy of Natural Sciences .
Manuscripts in preparation
Bischoff, J.F., J.F. White, Jr., L.
Struwe & N.L. Hywel-Jones. Anamorph –
Teleomorph link of Polycephalomyces to
entomopathogenic Cordyceps (Clavicipitaceae,
Hypocreales).
Bischoff, J.F. & J.F. White, Jr.
Clarification of host substrate and phylogenetic
affinity of the fungal genus Ascopolyporus
(Clavicipitaceae, Hypocreales).
Abstracts
Bischoff, J.F. & J.F. White, Jr.
Evaluation of anamorphic states in Clavicipitaceae
(Hypocreales) and their use in determining monophyly
within the family. Mycological Society of America
(MSA) Annual Meeting, Carmel, CA, July 2003.
Bischoff, J.F., J.F. White, Jr.,
& L. Struwe. Molecular support for the monophyly
of the fungal plant pathogens Ustilaginoidea and
Munkia and corroboration of their placement in
Clavicipitaceae. Northeastern Ecology and Evolution
Conference (NEEC), Rutgers University, New Brunswick,
NJ, April 2003 [poster].
Bischoff, J.F. & J.F. White, Jr.
Preliminary study regarding the phylogenetic
relationship between the clavicipitalean form genera
Munkia and Ustilaginoidea. Mid-Atlantic Mycological
Society of America (MAMSA) Annual Meeting, United
States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD,
April 2002 [poster].
Bischoff, J.F., R. Sullivan, J.F.
White, Jr. & N.L. Hywel-Jones. Phylogenetic
evidence for the monophyly of particular entomogenous
Cordyceps and the form genus Polycephalomyces.
Mycological Society of America (MSA) Annual Meeting,
Salt Lake City, UT, August 2001 [poster].
Invited lectures
“Conidial states and their role in determining
monophyly in Clavicipitaceae (Hypocreales),”
Cacao Endophyte Working Group, Rutgers University,
New Brunswick, NJ, April 2003.
“What recent collections from Central &
South America are telling us about fungal
evolution,” Department of Ecology, Evolution and
Natural Resources, Rutgers University, New Brunswick,
NJ, January 2003.
“A brief look at the host and morphological
diversity of the fungal family Clavicipitaceae
(Hypocreales, Ascomycota),” Department of
Ecology and Evolution, University of Connecticut,
Storrs, CT, August 2002.
“Introduction to modern mycology,” La Selva
Biological Station, Organization for Tropical
Studies, Costa Rica, July 2002.
“Tropical Biology: a summer with the
Organization for Tropical Studies,” Department
of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Rutgers
University, New Brunswick, NJ September 2001.