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Dr. Nicole Pietrasiak

Assistant Professor
Plant and Environmental Sciences
New Mexico State University
Mexico

Professor Environmental Sciences
Biography

Assistant Professor of Environmental Soil Microbiology Plant & Environmental Sciences Department, N328 Skeen Hall, New Mexico State University PO Box 30003, MSC 3Q, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA Tel: 575-646-1910; [email protected] PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS/EMPLOYMENT 2015-present Assistant Professor, Plant & Environmental Sciences Department, New Mexico State University. 2015-2015 Research Associate and Lab Manager, The Holden Arboretum, Kirkland, Ohio. 2014-2015: Collection Curator and Research Associate, John Carroll University. 2012-2013: Post-Doctoral Researcher, John Carroll University. EDUCATION 2008 – 2012: Ph.D., Soil and Water Sciences, University of California – Riverside. 2005 – 2007: M.S., Biology, John Carroll University. 2002 – 2003: Study abroad, Geography and Environmental Biology, St. Andrews University, Scotland UK. 1998 – 2005: Diploma of Geography, Major: Geography, 1st Minor: Biology 2nd, Minor Geology, University of Leipzig, Germany.

Research Intrest

Soil Microbiology, Phycology, Desert Soil Ecology, Biocrusts

List of Publications
Shalygin, S.*+ , Shalygina, R., Johansen, J.R., Pietrasiak, N., Berrendero, E., Bohunická, M., Mareš, J. & Sheil, C.A. Cyanomagarita gen nov. (Nostocales, Cyanobacteria): Convergent evolution resulting in a cryptic genus. Journal of Phycology, in press.
Zanella, A., Fritz, I., Pietrasiak, N., Matteodo, M., Ponge, J.F., Nadporozhskaya, M., Juilleret J., Tatti D., Le Bayon C., Rotschild L. & Mancinelli R. Para Humus Systems and Forms In HUMUSICA, a new humus manual. Applied Soil Ecology, in review.
Johansen, J.R., Mareš, J., Pietrasiak, N., Bohunická, M., Zima, J., Jr., Štenclová, L., and Hauer, T. Highly divergent 16S rRNA sequences in ribosomal operons of Scytonema hyalinum (Cyanobacteria). PLOS ONE, in review.
Mai, T. * + , Johansen, J.R., Pietrasiak, N., Bohunická, M. & Martin, M. Revision of the Synechococcales (Cyanobacteria) through recognition of four families including Oculatellaceae fam. nov. and Trichocoleaceae fam. nov. and seven new genera containing 14 species. Phytotaxa, in review.
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