Dr. Gerald Bills is a Visiting Scientist in our lab.  Gerald Bills is also Senior Research Fellow at nearby Merck Research Laboratories in Rahway, New Jersey.  He has broad interests in the life-cycle biology, ecology, and systematics of filamentous fungi of potential interest to pharmaceutical research.  He and coworker Jon Polishook have been active in the development and refinement of isolation techniques for filamentous fungi, especially plant-inhabiting and soil-borne fungi, and in the quantitative measurement of fungal diversity.
 
 

Sullivan, R.F., G.F. Bills, N.L. Hywel-Jones & J.F. White, Jr. 2000. Hyperdermium: a new clavicipitalean genus for some tropical epibionts of dicotyledonous plants. Mycologia 92: 908-918.

Sánchez, J., V. González, O. Salazar, J. Acero, M.A. Portal, M. Julián, V. Rubio, G.F. Bills, J.D. Polishook, G. Platas, S. Mochales & F. Peláez. 2000. Phylogenetic study of Hypoxylon and related genera based on ribosomal ITS sequences. Mycologia 92: 964-977.

Polishook, J.D., F. Peláez, G. Platas, F.J. Asensio & G.F. Bills. 2000. Observations on Aspergilli in Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica. Fungal Diversity 4:81-100.

Bills, G., A. Dombrowski, S.A. Morris, O. Hensens, J.M. Liesch, D.L. Zink, J. Onishi, M.S. Meinz, M. Rosenbach, J.R. Thompson & R.E. Schwartz. 2000. Hyalodendrosides A and B: antifungal triterpenoid glycosides from a lignicolous hyphomycete, Hyalodendron sp. Journal of Natural Products. 63: 90-94.

Bills, G.F., G. Platas, F. Peláez & P. Masurekar. 1999. Reclassification of a pneumocandin-producing anamorph, Glarea lozoyensis. gen. et sp. nov., previously identified as Zalerion arboricola. Mycological Research 103: 179-192.

Polishook, J.D., G.F. Bills & D.J. Lodge. 1996. Microfungi from decaying leaves of two rain forest trees in Puerto Rico. Journal of Industrial Microbiology 17: 284-294.

Bills, G.F. 1996. Isolation and analysis of endophytic fungal communities from woody plants. pp. 31-65. In. S.C. Redlin & L.M. Carris. Endophytic fungi in grasses and woody plants: Systematics, ecology, and evolution. APS Press, St. Paul, MN.

Bills, G.F. & F. Peláez. 1996. Endophytic isolates of Creosphaeria sassafras. Mycotaxon 57: 471-477.

Farr, D.F. & G.F. Bills. 1995. Wojnowicia colluvium sp. nov. isolated from conifer litter. Mycologia 87: 518-524.

Bergstrom, J.D., C. Dufresne, G.F. Bills, M. Nallin-Omstead & K. Byrne. 1995. Discovery, biosynthesis, and mechanism of action of the zaragozic acids: Potent inhibitors of squalene synthase. Annual Review of Microbiology 49: 607-639.

Bills, G.F. 1995. Analyses of microfungal diversity from a user's perspective. Canadian Journal of Botany 73 (Suppl.1): S33-S41.

Bills, G.F. & J.D. Polishook. 1994 (1996). Microfungi from decaying leaves of Heliconia mariae (Heliconiaceae). Brenesia 41-42: 27-43.

Bills, G.F., A.Y. Rossman & J. D. Polishook. 1994. Rediscovery of Albosynnema elegans and Solheimia costaspora. Sydowia 46: 1-11.

Bills, G.F., F. Peláez, J.D. Polishook, M.T. Diez-Matas, G.H. Harris, W.H. Clapp, C. Dufresne, K.M. Byrne, M. Nallin-Omstead, R.G. Jenkins, M. Mojena, L. Huang & J.D. Bergstrom. 1994. Distribution of zaragozic acids (squalestatins) among filamentous ascomycetes. Mycological Research 98: 733-739.

Bills, G.F. & J.D. Polishook. 1994. Abundance and diversity of microfungi in leaf litter of a lowland rain forest in Costa Rica. Mycologia 86: 187-198.

Bills, G.F. & J.D. Polishook. 1993. Selective isolation of fungi from dung of Odocoileus hemionus (mule deer). Nova Hedwigia 57:195-206.

Bills, G.F., R.A. Giacobbe, S.H. Lee, F. Peláez & J.S. Tkacz. 1992. Tremorgenic mycotoxins, paspalitrem A and C, from a tropical Phomopsis. Mycological Research 96: 977-983.

Bills, G.F. & J.D. Polishook. 1992. A new species of Mycoleptodiscus from living foliage of Chamaecyparis thyoides  Mycotaxon 43: 453-460.

Bills, G.F. & J.D. Polishook. 1992. Recovery of endophytic fungi from Chamaecyparis thyoides. Sydowia 44: 1-12.

Bills, G.F. & J.D. Polishook. 1991. Microfungi from Carpinus caroliniana. Canadian Journal of Botany 69: 1477-1482.

Bills, G.F. & H.V.T. Cotter. 1989. Taxonomy and ethnomycology of Lactarius subsection Dapetes in Nepal. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden. 49: 192-197.

Bills, G.F., G.I. Holtzman & O.K. Miller, Jr. 1986. Comparison of ectomycorrhizal-basidiomycete communities in red-spruce versus hardwood forests of West Virginia. Canadian Journal of Botany 64: 760-768.

Bills, G.F. 1986. Distribution of Lactarius in the high-elevation forests of the southern Appalachians. Mycologia 78: 80-85.

Bills, G.F. 1986. Notes on Lactarius in the high-elevation forests of the southern Appalachians. Mycologia 78: 70-79.

Bills, G.F. 1985. Southern Appalachian Russulas. III. The identity of Russula eccentrica and R. morgani (Russulaceae). Brittonia 37: 360-365.

 Cotter, H.V.T. & G.F. Bills. 1985. Comparison of the spatial patterns of the sexual and vegetative states of Boletinellus merulioides. Transactions of the British Mycological Society 85: 520-524.

Farr, D.F., G.F. Bills, G.P. Chamuris & A.Y. Rossman. 1989. Fungi on Plants and Plant Products in the United States. American Phytopathological Society Press, St. Paul. 1252 pp.