Keith Seifert
Keith Anthony Seifert (* 1958 ) is a Canadian mycologist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Seifert ".
Life
Seifert graduated from the University of Waterloo with a bachelor's degree and the University of British Columbia with a master's degree. He received his PhD in 1985 from Utrecht University (CBS Fungal Diversity Center). He then spent four years with Forintek Canada Corporation in Ottawa. Since 1990 he has been on the Canada's Department of Agriculture's Mycology Group . Seifert is Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University and Adjunct Professor at Ottawa University .
He is particularly concerned with the group of hyphomycetes of the hose fungi , especially with those of the genus Penicillium and Fusarium , which produce mycotoxins . He deals with the DNA-based phylogenetics of fungi and is involved in the project to develop DNA barcoding for fungi. He was head of the International Commission on Mushroom Taxonomy.
He is co-editor of the Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology , the CBS Biodiversity Series, Mycoscience , Studies in Mycology, and Sydowia .
Fonts
- with ZW De Beer, MJ Wingfield :. Ophiostomatoid Fungi: Expanding Frontiers. CBS Biodiversity Series 12 , The Netherlands: CBS Fungal Diversity Center, Utrecht, 2013
- with CL Schoch, SM Huhndorf, VA Robert, JL Spouge, CA Lévesque, W. Chen and the Fungal Barcoding Consortium: Nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region as a universal DNA barcode marker for Fungi. , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS), Volume 109, 2012, pp. 6241-6246
- with GA Morgan-Jones, W. Gams, B. Kendrick (Eds.): The Genera of Hyphomycetes. CBS Biodiversity Series 10. , CBS Fungal Diversity Center, Utrecht, 2011
- with T. Graefenhan, H.-J. Schroers, H.-I. Nirenberg: An overview of the taxonomy, phylogeny, and typification of nectriaceous fungi in Cosmospora, Acremonium, Fusarium, Stilbella, and Volutella. , Studies in Mycology, Volume 68, 2011, pp. 79-113
- with AS Amend, RA Samson, TD Bruns: Indoor fungal composition is geographically patterned and more diverse in temperate zones than in the tropics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS) , Volume 107, 2010, p. 13748– 13753
- Edited by Michael Wingfield, Joan Webber: Ceratocystis and ophiostoma: taxonomy, ecology, and pathogenicity , APS Press 1993
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seifert, Keith |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Seifert, Keith Anthony |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian mycologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1958 |