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Valérie Reeb Valérie Reeb

Department of Biological Sciences
University of Iowa
468A Biology Building, Iowa City, IA 52242
Phone: 319-335-1214; Fax: 319-335-1069
E-mail: Valerie-Reeb@uiowa.edu




Education:
  • 2005 Ph.D. Biology, Duke University, U.S.A.
  • 1993 M.S. Botany, University of Orléans, France.
  • 1991 DEUG Biology, University of Strasbourg, France.
Research Interests:

Molecular phylogeny of fungi and protists
Divergence time of major fungal lineages using non-clock methods
Origin of lichenization within the Ascomycota
Evolution of group I intron and encoded homing endonucleases in lichen-forming fungi

Current Research:

Assembling the Tree of Eukaryotic Microbial Diversity


Publications:

2007

Reeb, V.
, P. Haugen, D. Bhattacharya and F. Lutzoni. Evolution of Pleopsidium (lichenized Ascomycota) S943 group I introns and the phylogeography of an intron-encoded putative homing endonuclease.
Journal of Molecular Evolution 64:285-298. PDF


2006


Miadlikowska, J., F. Kauff, V. Hofstetter, E. Fraker, M. Grube, J. Hafellner, V. Reeb, B.P. Hodkinson, G. Hestmark, M. Kukwa, M.G. Otalora, A. Rauhut, C. Scheidegger, E. Timdal, S. Stenroos, I. Brodo, D. Ertz, P. Diederich, R. Lücking, J.C. Lendemer, E. Tripp, R. Yahr, P. May, G.B. Perlmutter, D.M. Hillis, W.R. Buck, C. Gueidan, A.E. Arnold, I. Martinez, C. Robertson and F. Lutzoni. Systematics of the Lecanoromycetes: New insights from nuclear ribosomal and protein coding genes into classification and evolution of the Lecanoromycetes. Mycologia 98:1088-1103. PDF Supplement

2006

Spatafora, J.W., D. Johnson, G.-H. Sung, K. Hosaka, B. O′Rourke, M. Serdani, R. Spotts, F. Lutzoni, V. Hofstetter, E. Fraker, C. Gueidan, J. Miadlikowska, V. Reeb, T. Lumbsch, R. Lücking, I. Schmitt, A. Aptroot, C. Roux, A. Miller, D. Geiser, J. Hafellner, G. Hestmark, A.E. Arnold, B. Büdel, A. Rauhut, D. Hewitt, W. Untereiner, M.S. Cole, C. Scheidegger, M. Schultz, H. Sipman and C. Schoch. A five-gene phylogenetic analysis of the Pezizomycotina. Mycologia 98:1018-1028. PDF Supplement

2006

James, T.Y., F. Kauff, C. Schoch, P.B. Matheny, V. Hofstetter, C.J. Cox, G. Celio, C. Guiedan, E. Fraker, J. Miadlikowska, T. Lumbsch, A. Rauhut, V. Reeb, A.E. Arnold, A. Amtoft, J.E. Stajich, K. Hosaka, G.-H. Sung, D. Johnson, B. O'Rourke, M. Binder, J.M. Curtis, J.C. Slot, Z. Wang, A.W. Wilson, A. Schüßler, J.E. Longcore, K. O'Donnell, S. Mozley-Standridge, D. Porter, P.M. Letcher, M.J. Powell, J.W. Taylor, M.M. White, G.W. Griffith, D.R. Davies, J. Sugiyama, A.Y. Rossman, J.D. Rogers, D.H. Pfister, D. Hewitt, K. Hansen, S. Hambleton, R.A. Shoemaker, J. Kohlmeyer, B. Volkmann-Kohlmeyer, R.A. Spotts, M. Serdani, P.W. Crous, K.W. Hughes, K.Matsuura, E. Langer, G. Langer, W.A. Untereiner, R. Lücking, B. Büde, D.M. Geiser, A. Aptroot, W.R. Buck, M.S. Cole, P. Diederich, C. Printzen, I. Schmitt, M. Schultz, R. Yahr, A. Zavarzin, D.S. Hibbett, F. Lutzoni, D.J. McLaughlin, J.W. Spatafora, R. Vilgalys. Reconstructing the early evolution of the fungi using a six gene phylogeny. Nature 443, 818 - 822.

2005

Bhattacharya D., V. Reeb, D. Simon and F. Lutzoni. Phylogenetic evidence for the reverse splicing spread of group I introns in fungal ribosomal DNA. BMC Evolutionary Biology 5:68.

2004

Reeb, V.
, F. Lutzoni and C. Roux. Contribution of RPB2 to multilocus phylogenetic studies of the euascomycetes (Pezizomycotina, Fungi) with special emphasis on the lichen-forming Acarosporaceae and evolution of polyspory. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 32:1036-1060. PDF

2004

Lutzoni, F., F. Kauff, C.J. Cox, D. McLaughlin, G. Celio, B. Dentinger, M. Padamsee, D. Hibbett, T.Y. James, E. Baloch, M. Grube, V. Reeb, V. Hofstetter, C. Schoch, A.E. Arnold, J. Miadlikowska, J. Spatafora, D. Johnson, S. Hambleton, M. Crockett, R. Shoemaker, G.-H. Sung, R. Lücking, T. Lumbsch, K. O'Donnell, M. Binder, P. Diederich, D. Ertz, C. Gueidan, K. Hansen, R.C. Harris, K. Hosaka, Y.-W. Lim, B. Matheny, H. Nishida, D. Pfister, J. Rogers, A. Rossman, I. Schmitt, H. Sipman, J. Stone, J. Sugiyama, R. Yahr and R. Vilgalys. Assembling the fungal tree of life: progress, classification, and evolution of subcellular traits. American Journal of Botany 91(10): 1446-1480.

2004

Haugen, P., V. Reeb, F. Lutzoni and D. Bhattacharya. The evolution of homing endonuclease genes and group I introns in nuclear rDNA. Molecular Biology and Evolution 21(1): 129-140.

2001

Lutzoni, F., M. Pagel and V. Reeb. Major fungal lineages are derived from lichen symbiotic ancestors.
Nature 411: 937-940.

2000

Lutzoni, F., P. Wagner, V. Reeb and S. Zoller. Integrating ambiguously aligned regions of DNA sequences in phylogenetic analyses without violating positional homology. Systematic Biology 49(4): 628-651.

2000

Bhattacharya, D., F. Lutzoni, V. Reeb, D. Simon and F. Fernandez. Widespread occurrence of spliceosomal introns in the rDNA genes of ascomycetes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 17(12): 1971-1984.

1997

Bjelland, T., G. Halleraker, V. Reeb and T. Tønsberg. The chemotypes of Cetrelia olivetorum in Norway.
Graphis Scripta 8: 5-7.