Catherine Aime Email: maime@agcenter.lsu.edu Assistant Professor,Louisiana State University Cathie Aime, Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology, conducts basic systematics research on fungi and teaches mycology and forest pathology. Her specializations are on rust fungi, the largest group of plant pathogens with over 7000 species; fungi that cause disease of cacao (Theobroma cacao) and other tropical tree crops; and tropical basidiomycetes including smuts, yeasts, and mushrooms. Curriculum Vitae
Name: Dr. Catherine Aime Country of birth: United States Nationality: Position Title: Assistant Professor Institution: Louisiana State University Contact Address: Department of Plant Pathology & Crop Physiology 302 Life Sciences Building Baton Rouge LA 70803 USA Email: maime@agcenter.lsu.edu Tel: - Specialty Area:
Education:
1995 B.S., Biology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
1999 M.S. Biology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA.
2001 Ph.D. Biology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA.
Positions held (since terminal degree):
2001-2003 Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
2003-2007 Research Molecular Biologist, United States Department of Agriculture-ARS, USA.
2007-present Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University, Agricultural Center, Department of Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.
Expertise:
Honors and Awards (since terminal degree):
2006 Awarded, as part of team, USDA-ARS Beltsville Area's Technology Transfer Award for extraordinary assistance to APHIS/PPQ at ports in the U.S. and around the world .
A selection of major research accomplishments: Discoveries and first reports
1) Resolved the phylogenetic placement and evolutionary history of the chocolate pathogens Moniliophthora roreri and Crinipellis perniciosa.
A Selection of refereed journal publications (2002-present)
Dixon LJ, Castlebury LA, Aime MC, Glynn NC, Comstock JC. 2010. Phylogenetic relationships of sugarcane rust fungi. Mycological Progress. 9:459-468.
Henkel TW, Smith ME, Aime MC. 2010. Guyanagaster, a new wood-decaying sequestrate genus of Agaricales from the Guiana Shield. American Journal of Botany. 97:1474-1484.
Aime MC, Largent DL, Henkel TW, Baroni TJ. 2010. The Entolomataceae of the Pakaraima Mountains of Guyana IV: new species of Calliderma, Paraeccilia and Trichopilus. Mycologia. 102: 633-649.
Bruckart WL, Eskandari FM, Berner DK, Aime MC. 2010. Life cycle of Puccinia acroptili on Rhaponticum (= Acroptilon) repens. Mycologia. 102(1): 62-68.
Henkel TW, Aime MC, Largent DL, Baroni TJ. 2010. The Entolomataceae of the Pakaraima Mountains of Guyana III: New species of Rhodocybe. Mycoscience. 51(1): 23-27.
Holcomb GE, Aime MC. 2010. First report of Plumeria spp. rust caused by Coleosporium plumeriae in Louisiana and Malaysia and Catheranthus roseus, a new host of this rust. Plant Disease. 94(2):272.
Kaur R, Knott C, Aime MC. 2010. First report of rust disease caused by Puccinia sparganioides on Spartina alterniflora in Louisiana. Plant Disease. 94:636.
Mostert L, Bester W, Jensen T, Coertze S, van Hoorn A, Le Roux J, Retief E, Wood A, Aime MC. 2010. First report of leaf rust of blueberry caused by Thekopsora minima on Vaccinium corymbosum in the Western Cape, South Africa. Plant Disease. 94:478.
Vega FE, Simpkins A, Aime MC, Posada F, Peterson SW, Rehner SA, Infante F, Castillo A, Arnold AE. 2010. Fungal endophyte diversity in coffee plants from Colombia, Hawai’i, Mexico and Puerto Rico. Fungal Diversity. 3:122-138.
Aime MC, Vila J, Moreau P-A. 2009. Crepidotus subfulviceps comb. nov. a stipitate Crepidotus from temperate North America and Europe. Mycotaxon 110:283-287.
Blomquist CL, McKemy JM, Aime MC, Orsburn RW, Kinnee SA. 2009. First report of bamboo rust caused by Kweilingia divina on Bambusa domestica in Los Angeles County, California. Plant Disease. 93:201.
Matheny PB, Aime MC, Bougher N, Buyck B, Desjardin D, Horak E, Kropp B, Lodge DJ, Soytong K, Trappe JM, Hibbett DS. 2009. Out of the Paleotropics Historical biogeography and diversification of the cosmopolitan ectomycorrhizal mushroom family Inocybaceae. Journal of Biogeography. 36:577-592.
Lodge DJ, Laessoe T, Aime MC, Henkel TW. 2008. Wet montane and cloud forest specialists among neotropical Xylaria species. North American Fungi. 3:193-213.
Meinhardt, LW, Rincones J, Bailey BA, Aime, MC, Griffith GW, Pereira GAG. 2008. Moniliophthora perniciosa, the causal agent of witches' broom disease of cacao: What's new from this old foe? Molecular Plant Pathology. 9(5):577-588.
Thomas SE, Crozier J, Aime MC, Evans HC, Holmes KA. 2008. Molecular characterisation of fungal endophytic morphospecies associated with the indigenous forest tree, Theobroma gileri in Ecuador. Mycological Research. 112:852-860.
Vega FE, Posada FJ, Aime MC, Pava-Ripoll M, Infante F, Rehner SA. 2008. Entomopathogenic fungal endophytes. Biological Control. 46:72-82.
Vega FE, Posada F, Aime MC, Peterson SW, Rehner SA. 2008. Fungal endophytes in green coffee seeds. Mycosystema. 27(1):75-84.
Aime MC, Rossman AY. 2007. First report of the rust Phragmidium violaceum in California. Plant Disease. 91:1517.
Deadman ML, Sadi AA, Maqbali YA, Aime MC. 2007. First report of Puccinia triticina on wheat in Oman. Plant Disease. 91:113.
Deadman ML, Maqbali YA, Subhi AA, Yahyai RA, Sa'di AA, Aime MC. 2007. First report of rust caused by Tranzschelia discolor on peach in Oman. Plant Disease. 91(5):638.
Hibbett DS, Binder M, Bischoff JF, Blackwell M, Canon PF, Eriksson OE, Huhndorf S, James T, Kirk PM, Lücking R, Lumbsch HT, Lutzoni, F, Matheny PB, McLaughlin DJ, Powell MJ, Redhead S, Schoch CL, Spatafora JW, Stalpers JA, Vilgalys R, Aime MC, Aptroot A, Bauer R, Begerow D, Benny GL, Castlebury LA, Crous PW, Dai YC, Gams W, Geiser DM, Griffith GW, Gueidan C, Hawksworth DL, Hestmark G, Hosaka K, Humber RA, Hyde KD, Ironside JE, Kõljalg U, Kurtzman CP, Larsson KH, Lichtwardt R, Longcore J, Miadlikowska J, Miller A, Moncalvo JM, Mozley-Standridge S, Oberwinkler F, Parmasto E, Reeb V, Rogers JD, Roux C, Ryvarden L, Sampaio JP, Schuessler A, Sugiyama J, Thorn RG, Tibell L, Untereiner WA, Walker C, Wang Z, Weir A, Weiss M, White MM, Winka K, Yao, YJ, Zhang N. 2007. A higher-level phylogenetic classification of the Fungi. Mycological Research. 111:509-547.
Phillips-Mora W, Aime MC, Wilkinson MJ. 2007. Biodiversity and biogeography of the cacao (Theobroma cacao) pathogen Moniliophthora roreri in tropical America. Plant Pathology. 56:911-922.
Posada, F, Aime MC, Peterson SW, Rehner SA, Vega FE. 2007. Inoculation of coffee plants with the fungal entomopathogen Beauveria bassiana (Ascomycota: Hypocreales). Mycological Research. 111:749-758.
Aime MC. 2006. Toward resolving family-level relationships in rust fungi (Uredinales). Mycoscience. 47(3):112-122.
Aime MC, Matheny PB, Henk DA, Frieders EM, Nilsson RH, Piepenbring M, McLaughlin DJ, Szabo LJ, Begerow D, Sampaio JP, Bauer R, Weiss M, Oberwinkler F, Hibbett DS. 2006. An overview of the higher-level classification of Pucciniomycotina based on combined analyses of nuclear large and small subunit rDNA sequences. Mycologia. 98(6):896-905.
Aime MC, Miller OK. 2006. Proposal to conserve the name Chroogomphus against Brauniellula (Gomphidiaceae, Agaricales, Basidiomycota). Taxon. 55(1):228-229.
Chlebicki A, Aime MC. 2006. New distribution and host records for Puccinia atrofusca and other notable Puccinia species (Uredinales) from central Asia. Polish Botanical Journal. 51(1):87-91.
Crozier J, Thomas SE, Aime MC, Evans HC, Holmes KA. 2006. Molecular characterization of endophytic morphospecies isolated from stems and pods of Theobroma cacao. Plant Pathology. 55: 783-791.
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Deadman ML, Sadi AMA, Maqbali YMA, Livingston S, Aime MC. 2006. First report of Puccinia sorghi on maize in Oman. Plant Disease. 90:826.
Farr DF, Aime MC, Rossman AY, Palm ME. 2006. Species of Colletotrichum on Agavaceae. Mycological Research. 110:1395-1408.
Henkel TW, Aime MC, Mehl H, Miller SL. 2006. Cantharellus pleurotoides, a new and unusual basidiomycete from Guyana. Mycological Research. 110:1409-1412.
Henkel TW, James TY, Miller SL, Aime MC, Miller OK. 2006. The mycorrhizal status of Pseudotulostoma volvata (Elaphomycetaceae, Eurotiales, Ascomycota). Mycorrhiza. 16(3):241-244
Kong H, Patterson CD, Mitchell RE, Buyer JS, Aime MC, Lydon J. 2006. A mutation in an exbD gene alters tagetitoxin production by Pseudomonas syringae pv. tagetis. Canadian Journal of Microbiology. 52:1027-1035.
Matheny PB, Curtis JM, Hofstetter V, Aime MC, Moncalvo JM, Ge ZW, Yang ZL, Slot JC, Ammirati JF, Baroni TJ, Bougher NL, Hughes KW, Lodge DJ, Kerrigan RW, Seidl MT, Aanen DK, DeNitis M, Daniele GM, Desjardin DE, Kropp BR, Norvell LL, Parker A, Vellinga EC, Vilgalys R, Hibbett DS. 2006. Major clades of Agaricales: a multilocus phylogenetic overview. Mycologia. 98 (6):982-995.
Phillips-Mora W, Cawich J, Garnett W, Aime MC. 2006. First report of frosty pod rot (moniliasis disease) caused by Moniliophthora roreri on cacao in Belize. Plant Pathology. 55:584. (Doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3059.2006.01378.x).
Phillips-Mora W, Coutino A, Ortiz CF, Lopez AP, Hernandez J, Aime MC. 2006. First report of Moniliophthora roreri causing frosty pod rot (moniliasis disease) of cocoa in Mexico. Plant Pathology. 55:584. (Doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3059.2006.01418.x).
Scholler M, Aime MC. 2006. On some rust fungi (Uredinales) collected in an Acacia koa-Metrosideros polymorpha woodland, Mauna Loa Road, Big Island, Hawaii. Mycoscience. 47:159-165.
Tunali B, Yildirim A, Aime MC, Hernandez JR. 2006. First report of rust disease caused by Uromyces galegae on Galega officinalis in Turkey. Plant Disease. 90:525.
Aime MC, Phillips-Mora W. 2005. The causal agents of witches broom and frosty pod rot of cacao (chocolate, Theobroma cacao) form a new lineage of Marasmiaceae. Mycologia. 97(5):1012-1022.
Aime MC, Vilgalys R, Miller OK. 2005. The Crepidotaceae (Basidiomycota, Agaricales): Phylogeny and taxonomy of the genera and revision of the family based on molecular evidence. American Journal of Botany. 92(1): 74-82.
Hernandez JR, Aime MC, Henkel TW. 2005. The rust fungi (Uredinales) of Guyana. Sydowia. 57(2):189-222.
Kapooria RG, Aime MC. 2005. First report of the rust fungus Olivea scitula on Vitex doniana in Zambia. Plant Disease. 89:431.
Osterbauer N, Trippe A, French K, Butler T, Aime MC, McKemy J, Bruckart WL, Peerbolt T, Kaufman D. 2005. First report of Phragmidium violaceum infecting Himalaya and evergreen blackberries in North America. Online. Plant Health Progress. doi:10.1094/PHP-2005-0923-01-BR.
Tunali B, Yildirim A, Aime MC, Hernandez J, Berner D. 2005. First report of the rust fungus Coleosporium tussilaginis on Tussilago farfara in Turkey. Plant Disease. 89:1131.
Berner DK, Eskandari FM, Rossman AY, Aime MC, Kashefi J. 2004. First report of Anthracnose of Crupina vulgaris Caused by a Colletotrichum sp. in Greece. Plant Disease. 88:1161.
Rossman AY, Aime MC, Farr DF, Castlebury LA, Peterson KR, Leahy R. 2004. The coelomycetous genera Chaetomella and Pilidium represent a newly discovered lineage of inoperculate discomycetes. Mycological Progress. 3(4):275-290.
Aime MC, Henkel TW, Ryvarden L. 2003. Studies in neotropical polypores 15: new and interesting species from Guyana. Mycologia. 95(4): 614-619.
Matheny PB, Aime MC, Henkel TW. 2003. New species of Inocybe from Dicymbe forests of Guyana. Mycological Research. 107(4):495-505.
Aime MC, Ball J. 2002. The mating system in two species of Crepidotus. Mycotaxon. 81:191-194.
Aime MC, Baroni TJ, Miller OK. 2002. Crepidotus thermophilus comb. nov., a reassessment of Melanomphalia thermophila, a rarely collected tropical agaric. Mycologia. 94(6):1059-1065.
Aime MC, Miller OK. 2002. Delayed germination of basidiospores in temperate species of Crepidotus (Fr.) Staude. Canadian Journal of Botany. 80:280-287.
Miller OK, Aime MC, Camacho F, Peintner U. 2002. Two new species of Gomphidius from the Western United States and Eastern Siberia. Mycologia. 94(6):1044-1050.
Miller SL, Aime MC, Henkel TW. 2002. Russulaceae of the Pakaraima Mountains of Guyana. I. New species of pleurotoid Lactarius. Mycologia. 94(3):545-553.
Moncalvo JM. Vilgalys R, Redhead SA, Johnson JE, James TY, Aime MC, Hofstetter V, Verduin SJW, Larsson E, Baroni TJ, Thorn RG, Jacobsson S, Clémençon H, Miller OK. 2002. One hundred and seventeen clades of euagarics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 23:357-400.
Book chapters: Aime MC. 2004. Intercompatibility tests and phylogenetic analysis in the Crepidotus Sphaerula group complex: Concordance between ICGs and nuclear rDNA sequences highlight phenotypic plasticity within Appalachian species. Pp. 71-80. In: Cripps CL (Ed). Fungi in Forest Ecosystems: Systematics, Diversity, and Ecology. New York Botanical Gardens, NY. Miller OK, Aime MC. 2001. Systematics, Ecology, and World Distribution in the Genus Chroogomphus (Gomphidiaceae). Pp.315-333. In: Misra JK and Horn BW (Eds). Trichomycetes and Other Fungal Groups: Robert W. Lichtwardt Commemoration Volume. Science Publishers, Inc. Enfield, NH, USA.
Invited presentations at major international conferences (2002-present-Maximum 8)
Aime MC. Basal rusts and the origins of heteroecism. 9th International Mycology Congress, Invited Symposium Speaker, 1-6 August 2010, Edinburg, Scotland. Aime MC. The Basidiomycota. The American Phytopathological Society Centennial Meeting, Invited Symposium Presentation, 26-30 July 2008, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Aime et al. An overview of the higher-level classification of Pucciniomycotina based on combined analyses of nuclear large and small subunit rDNA sequences. Asian Mycology Congress, Invited Symposium Presentation, 2-6 December 2007, Penang, Malaysia: Aime, MC and Isikhuemhen, O. From the field to the table: How to identify a good mushroom candidate for cultivation. First Africa Conference on Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms, Invited Speaker, Plenary Session, 25 October 2006, Kampala, Uganda. Aime MC. New phylogenies: Revelations on cacao pathogens and the diseases they cause.American Phytopathological Society/Mycological Society of America joint annual meeting, Invited Symposium Presentation, 29 July - 2 August 2006, Quebec City, Canada. Aime, M.C. & T.W. Henkel. Strategies for bio-inventory: Lessons from Guyana.Mycological Society of America/Mycological Society of Japan joint annual meeting, Invited Workshop Presentation, 31 July - 4 August 2005 Hilo, Hawaii, USA. M.C. Aime, T. Henkel, and M. Chin. Ectomycorrhizal and saprotrophic fungal diversity in Western Guyana. Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation Annual Meeting, Invited Symposium Presentation, July 12-16, 2004, Miami, Florida, USA.
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