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Frank Kauff
Dr.
Biology
Duke University
Education:
2002 Ph. D. (Biology), University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
1997 Diploma (= M.S., Biology), University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Research Interests:
Phylogenetics, and all that's related
Python, esp. Biopython
Current Research:
Bioinformatics of AFTOL
Development of a simulation framework for host-parasite coevolution (cooperation with Daniel Henk)
Fungal genomics (cooperation with Jason Stajich and Cymon Cox)
Grants:
2001 - Visiting Scholarship Grant of the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, USA
2000 - Visiting Lichenologist Program, Michigan State University Herbarium, East Lansing (MI), USA
1997 - Dissertation fellowship "Landesgraduiertenförderung Rheinland-Pfalz", Germany
Publications:
Kauff F, Buedel B, (2005). Ascoma ontogeny and apothecial anatomy in the Gyalectaceae (Ostropales, Ascomycota) support the reestablishment of the Coenogoniaceae. Bryologist (in press).
Lutzoni F, Kauff F, Cox C, McLaughlin D, Celio G, Dentinger B, Padamsee M, Hibbett D, James TY, Baloch E, Grube M, Reeb V, Hofstetter V, Schoch C, Arnold AE, Miadlikowska J, Spatafora J, Johnson D, Hambleton S, Crockett M, Shoemaker R, Sung GH, Lücking R, Lumbsch T, O’Donnell K, Binder M, Diederich P, Ertz D, Gueidan C, Hall B, Hansen K, Harris RC, Hosaka K, Lim YW, Liu Y, Matheny B, Nishida H, Pfister D, Rogers J, Rossman A, Schmitt I, Sipman H, Stone J, Sugiyama J, Yahr R, Vilgalys R, (2004). Assembling the fungal tree of life: progress, classification, and evolution of subcellular traits. Amer. J. Bot. 91: 1446-1480.
Kauff F, Lutzoni F, (2002). Phylogeny of the Gyalectales and Ostropales (Ascomycota, Fungi): among and within order relationships based on nuclear ribosomal RNA small and large subunits. Mol. Phylogen. Evol. 25: 138-156.
Kauff F, Rudall P, Conran J, (2000). Systematic root anatomy of Asparagales and other monocotyledons. Plant Syst. Evol. 223: 139-154.
Selected Abstracts
Kauff F, Buedel B, Lutzoni F, (2003). Ascoma ontogeny and apothecial anatomy in the Gyalectaceae (Ostropales, Ascomycetes) and the restoration of the Coenogoniaceae. Inoculum 54(3):29.
Hofstetter V, Kauff F, Vilgalys R, (2003). Phylogeny of the Lyophyllae (Agaricales, Basidiomycetes): Systematic vs. ecological transitions in Basidiomycota. Inoculum 54(3):25.
Kauff F, Lutzoni F, Buedel B, (2002). Phylogeny of Ostropales and Gyalectales - evidence from molecular and ontogenetical data. 7th International Mycological Congress 7, Oslo, Norway.
Kauff F, Cox CJ, Lutzoni F, (2004). Bioinformatics of AFTOL (Assembling the Fungal Tree of Life). Evolution 2004, Fort Collins, USA.
Cox CJ, Kauff F, (2004). Of Snakes and mushrooms: The use of (Bio)Python in the AFTOL project. Inoculum 55(4).
Cox CJ, Kauff F, Lutzoni F, (2004). A data management framework for the AFTOL project. International Association for Lichenology 5, Tartu, Estonia.
Hofstetter V, Miadlikowska J, Gueidan C, Reeb V, Arnold AE, Kauff F, Cox CJ, Yahr R, Lutzoni F, (2004). What do protein-coding genes (ATP6, EF1-alpha and RNA polymerase II) bring to molecular systematics of lichens? International Association for Lichenology 5, Tartu, Estonia.
Software
Test for tree compatibility: COMPAT
Kauff F, Lutzoni F. 2002. Phylogeny of the Gyalectales and Ostropales (Ascomycota, Fungi): among and within order relationships based on nuclear ribosomal RNA small and large subunits. Mol. Phyl. Evol. 25: 138-156
Ambiguous Regions Coding: ARC
Miadlikowska, Lutzoni, Goward, Zoller, Posada (2003) "New approach to an old problem: Gap-rich regions from ITS and rDNA large-subunit are incorporated into phylogenetic analyses to resolve the Peltigera canina species complex.", Mycologia 95(6):1181-1203.
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