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Jean-Marc Moncalvo
Senior Curator
Mycology

Ph.D., University of Lausanne, Switzerland, 1991

Jean-Marc Moncalvo is the Senior Curator of Mycology in the Department of Natural History at the ROM, and a cross-appointed Professor in the Departments of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Cell and Systems Biology at the University of Toronto.

Jean-Marc grew up on the shore of Lake Geneva and in the Swiss Alps. After completing his Ph.D. at the University of Lausanne, and a modest career in soccer, he travelled extensively throughout Asia with his wife Jasmine and spent three years as a visiting scientist at National Taiwan University in Taipei. He then moved with his family to North America to work as a research associate in the Department of Biology at Duke University in North Carolina. Jean-Marc joined the ROM in 2002 to take over responsibility for the extensive fungal collection.

Jean-Marc's research deals with molecular systematics, taxonomy, phylogeographic relationships, biological diversity and ecology of fungi, particularly of gilled mushrooms. He has published over 60 papers in scientific journals and books, and is regularly invited to talk at departmental seminars, international conferences, and mycology workshops. At the University of Toronto, Jean-Marc teaches an undergraduate course on fungi and a graduate course on molecular phylogenetics, and supervises graduate students and post-doctoral fellows.

His research has been supported by many funding agencies, including the Société Académique Vaudoise in Switzerland, the National Swiss Foundation for Scientific Research, the Microbiological Research Foundation of the Republic of China, the A.W. Mellon Foundation, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. National Park Service, the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Sustainable Forest Management Network, and the ROM Governors.

Recent Publications

In press
Seifert, K.A., R.A. Samson, J.R. deWaard, J. Houbraken, C.A. Lévesque, J.M. Moncalvo, G. Louis-Seize, and P.D.N. Hebert. "Prospects for fungus identification using CO1 DNA barcodes, with Penicillium as a test case." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

2006
Moncalvo, J.M., R.H. Nilsson, B. Koster, S.M. Dunham, T. Bernauer, P.B. Matheny, T. McLenon, S. Margaritescu, M. Weiß, S. Garnica, E. Danell, G. Langer, E. Langer, E. Larsson, K.H. Larsson, and R. Vilgalys. "The cantharelloid clade: dealing with incongruent gene trees and phylogenetic reconstruction methods." Mycologia, 98: 937–948.

2006
Matheny, P.B., J.M. Curtis, V. Hofstetter, M.C. Aime, J.M. Moncalvo, Z.W. Ge, Z.L. Yang, J.C. Slot, J.F. Ammirati, T.J. Baroni, N.L. Bougher, K.W. Hughes, D.J. Lodge, R.W. Kerrigan, M.T. Seidl, D.K. Aanen, M. DeNitis, G.M. Daniele, D.E. Desjardin, B.R. Kropp, L.L. Norvell, A. Parker, E.C. Vellinga, R. Vilgalys, and D.S. Hibbett. "Major clades of Agaricales: a multilocus phylogenetic overview." Mycologia, 98: 984–997.
2006
Johnston,. P.R., S.R. Whitton, P.K. Buchanan, D. Park, S.R. Pennycook, J.E. Johnson, and J.M. Moncalvo. "The basidiomycete genus Favolaschia in New Zealand." New Zealand Journal of Botany, 44: 65-87.

2005
Thorn, R.G., J.M. Moncalvo, S.A. Redhead, D.J. Lodge, and M.P. Martín. "A new poroid species of Resupinatus from Puerto Rico, with a reassessment of the cyphelloid genus Stigmatolemma." Mycologia, 97: 1140-1151.

2005
O'Brien, H.E., J.L. Parrent, J.A. Jackson, J.-M. Moncalvo, and R. Vilgalys. "Fungal community analysis by large-scale sequencing of environmental samples." Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 71: 5544-5550.

Research Projects
Molecular systematics of gilled fungi and allies
Biological diversity and biogeographic relationships of mushrooms
The DNA barcoding of fungi
Fungal environmental genomics

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Other Links
The TRTC Fungarium
The Secret Mushroom Garden
Assembling the Fungal Tree of Life
All Fungi Barcoding
The Big Hairy Index of Mycology
University of Toronto Faculty Page

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Department of Natural History
100 Queen's Park
Toronto, ON
M5S 2C6

Tel: 416.586.5522
Fax: 416.586.5553
E-mail: Jean-Marc Moncalvo

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In press	Seifert, K.A., R.A. Samson, J.R. deWaard, J. Houbraken, C.A. Lévesque, J.M. Moncalvo, G. Louis-Seize, and P.D.N. Hebert. "Prospects for fungus identification using CO1 DNA barcodes, with Penicillium as a test case." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
2006	Moncalvo, J.M., R.H. Nilsson, B. Koster, S.M. Dunham, T. Bernauer, P.B. Matheny, T. McLenon, S. Margaritescu, M. Weiß, S. Garnica, E. Danell, G. Langer, E. Langer, E. Larsson, K.H. Larsson, and R. Vilgalys. "The cantharelloid clade: dealing with incongruent gene trees and phylogenetic reconstruction methods." Mycologia, 98: 937–948.
2006	Matheny, P.B., J.M. Curtis, V. Hofstetter, M.C. Aime, J.M. Moncalvo, Z.W. Ge, Z.L. Yang, J.C. Slot, J.F. Ammirati, T.J. Baroni, N.L. Bougher, K.W. Hughes, D.J. Lodge, R.W. Kerrigan, M.T. Seidl, D.K. Aanen, M. DeNitis, G.M. Daniele, D.E. Desjardin, B.R. Kropp, L.L. Norvell, A. Parker, E.C. Vellinga, R. Vilgalys, and D.S. Hibbett. "Major clades of Agaricales: a multilocus phylogenetic overview." Mycologia, 98: 984–997.
2006	Johnston,. P.R., S.R. Whitton, P.K. Buchanan, D. Park, S.R. Pennycook, J.E. Johnson, and J.M. Moncalvo. "The basidiomycete genus Favolaschia in New Zealand." New Zealand Journal of Botany, 44: 65-87.
2005	Thorn, R.G., J.M. Moncalvo, S.A. Redhead, D.J. Lodge, and M.P. Martín. "A new poroid species of Resupinatus from Puerto Rico, with a reassessment of the cyphelloid genus Stigmatolemma." Mycologia, 97: 1140-1151.
2005	O'Brien, H.E., J.L. Parrent, J.A. Jackson, J.-M. Moncalvo, and R. Vilgalys. "Fungal community analysis by large-scale sequencing of environmental samples." Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 71: 5544-5550.