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Andrea Porras-Alfaro

Associate Professor
microbial molecular ecology
western illinois university
United States of America

Professor Food and Nutrition
Biography

  Ph.D. - University of New Mexico, 2008 M.S. - University of Puerto Rico, 2004 B.S. - Instituto Tecnologico de Costa Rica, 2000  

Research Intrest

 My laboratory focuses studies fungal symbiotic associations, their emergent properties, and the effect of global climate change on fungal diversity and community structure. We are interested in ecological roles of fungi, their diversity, biogeographical distributions, and potential applications of novel fungal consortia.

List of Publications
Porras-Alfaro A, Kuan-Liang L, Kuske CR, Xie. 2014. From Genus to Phylum: LSU and ITS rRNA operon regions showed similar classification accuracy influenced by database composition. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 80: 829-840
Porras-Alfaro A, Raghavan S, Garcia M, Sinsabaugh RL, Natvig DO, Lowrey TK. 2014. Endophytic fungal symbionts associated with gypsophilous plants. Botany 92: 295-301
Dean SL, Farrer EC, Porras-Alfaro A, Suding KN, Sinsabaugh RL. 2014. Assembly of Root Associated Bacteria Communities: Interactions between abiotic and biotic factors. Environmental Microbiology Reports. DOI: 10.1111/ 1758-2229.12194

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