Aberdeen Mycorrhiza Research Group

 

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Dr Ian Anderson Associate Professor University of Western Sydney & The Macaulay Institute Tel:+44 (0) 1224 395000 E-mail:i.anderson@macaulay.ac.uk

 

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Research interests

• Diversity and ecology of ectomycorrhizal fungi
• Population structure and dynamics of ectomycorrhizal fungi
• Interactions between ectomycorrhizal and saprotrophic fungi
• Molecular ecology of soil fungi
• Development of RNA and functional based techniques for soil fungi

Postgraduate supervision

• Present students

• Brian Pickles
• Sietse van der Linde
• Albina Franco

• Past students

• Susanna Saari, PhD (2006)
• Hironari Izumi, PhD (2006)
• Luis Villarreal-Ruiz, PhD (2006)

Publications

• Anderson, I. C. & Cairney, J. W. G. (2007). Ectomycorrhizal fungi: exploring the mycelial frontier. FEMS Microbiology Reviews [DOI:10.1111/j.1574-6976.2007.00073.x] (in press).
• Artz, R. R. E., Anderson, I. C., Chapman, S. J., Hagn, A., Schloter, M., Potts, J. M. & Campbell, C. D. (2007). Changes in fungal community composition in response to vegetational succession during the natural regeneration of cutover peatlands – potential implications for carbon sequestration. Microbial Ecology (in press).
• Fransson, P. M. A., Anderson, I. C. & Alexander, I. J. (2007). Does carbon partitioning in ectomycorrhizal pine seedlings under elevated CO2 vary with fungal species? Plant & Soil (in press).
• Anderson, I. C., Bastias, B. A., Genney, D. R., Parkin, P. I. & Cairney, J. W. G. (2007). Basidiomycete fungal communities in Australian sclerophyll forest soil are altered by repeated prescribed burning. Mycological Research (in press).
• Saari, T. A., Saari, S. K., Campbell, C. D., Alexander, I. J. & Anderson, I. C. (2007). FragMatch – a program for the analysis of DNA fragment data. Mycorrhiza (in press).
• Izumi, H., Moore, E. R. B., Killham, K., Alexander, I. J. & Anderson, I. C. (2006). Characterisation of endobacterial communities in ectomycorrhizas by DNA and RNA based molecular methods. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 39: 891-899.
• Anderson, I. C. & Parkin, P. I. (2006). Detection of active soil fungi by RT-PCR amplification of precursor rRNA molecules. Journal of Microbiological Methods 68: 248-253.
• Singh, B. K., Nazaries, L., Munro, S., Anderson, I. C. & Campbell, C. D. (2006). Multiplex-terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism for rapid and simultaneous analysis of different components of the soil microbial community. Applied & Environmental Microbiology 72: 7278-7285.
• Izumi, H., Anderson, I. C., Alexander, I. J., Killham, K. & Moore, E. R. B. (2006). Diversity and expression of nitrogenase genes (nifH) associated with ectomycorrhizas of Corsican pine (Pinus nigra). Environmental Microbiology 8: 2224-2230.
• Anderson, I. C. (2006). Molecular ecology of ectomycorrhizal fungal communities: new frontiers. In: Molecular approaches to soil, rhizosphere and plant microorganism analysis (ed. J. E. Cooper & J. R. Rao), CABI, Wallingford, UK. pp 183-197.
• Genney, D. R., Anderson, I. C. & Alexander, I. J. (2006). Fine scale distribution of pine ectomycorrhizas and their extramatrical mycelium. New Phytologist 170: 381-390.
• Izumi, H., Anderson, I. C., Alexander, I. J., Killham, K. & Moore, E. R. B. (2006). Endobacteria in some ectomycorrhiza of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris). FEMS Microbiology Ecology 56: 34-43.
• Johnson, D., Ijdo, M., Genney, D. R., Anderson, I. C. & Alexander, I. J. (2005). How do plants regulate the function, community structure and diversity of mycorrhizal fungi? Journal of Experimental Botany 56: 1751-1760.
• Rangel-Castro, J. I., Killham, K., Ostle, N., Nicol, G. W., Anderson, I. C., Scrimgeour, C. M., Ineson P., Meharg A. & Prosser, J. I. (2005). Use of in situ 13CO2 pulse labelling and stable isotope probing to determine the effect of liming on grassland soil microbial community structure. Environmental Microbiology 7: 828-838.
• Saari, S. K., Russell, J., Campbell, C. D., Alexander, I. J. & Anderson, I. C. (2005). Pine microsatellite markers allow roots and ectomycorrhizas to be linked to individual trees. New Phytologist 165: 295-304.
• Anderson, I. C. & Cairney, J. W. G. (2004). Diversity and ecology of soil fungal communities: increased understanding through the application of molecular techniques. Environmental Microbiology 6: 769-779. [PDF 103KB]
• Villarreal-Ruiz, L., Anderson, I. C. & Alexander, I. J. (2004). The interaction between an isolate from the Hymenoscyphus ericae aggregate and roots of Pinus and Vaccinium. New Phytologist 164:183-192.
• Anderson, I. C., Campbell, C. D. & Prosser, J. I. (2003). Diversity of fungi in organic soils under a moorland-Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) gradient. Environmental Microbiology 5: 1121-1132. [PDF 448KB]
• Hitchcock, C. J., Chambers, S. M., Anderson, I. C. & Cairney, J. W. G. (2003). Discrimination of Pisolithus albus and P. microcarpus isolates using simple sequence repeat markers. Mycological Research 107: 699-706.
• Anderson, I. C., Campbell, C. D. & Prosser, J. I. (2003). Potential bias of fungal 18S rDNA and ITS PCR primers for estimating fungal biodiversity in environmental samples. Environmental Microbiology 5: 36-47. [PDF 850KB]
• Anderson, I. C., Chambers, S. M. & Cairney, J. W. G. (2001). ITS-RFLP and ITS sequence diversity in Pisolithus from central and eastern Australian sclerophyll forests. Mycological Research 105: 1304-1312.
• Anderson, I. C., Chambers, S. M. & Cairney, J. W. G. (2001). Variation in nitrogen source utilization by Pisolithus isolates maintained in axenic culture. Mycorrhiza 11: 53-56.
• Anderson, I. C., Chambers, S. M. & Cairney, J. W. G. (2001). Distribution and persistence of Australian Pisolithus spp. genets at native sclerophyll field sites. Mycological Research 105: 971-976.
• Anderson, I. C., Chambers, S. M. & Cairney, J. W. G. (2001). Characteristics of glutamine uptake by two Australian Pisolithus species. Mycological Research 105: 977-982.
• Cairney, J. W. G., Anderson, I. C. & Chambers, S. M. (1999). Molecular investigation of the population ecology and biodiversity of Pisolithus spp. in eastern Australia. In: Mycorrhizas in Sustainable Tropical Agriculture and Forest Ecosystems (ed. F. A. Smith, K. Kramadibrata, R. D. M. Simanungkalit, N. Sukarno & S. T. Nuhmera), LIPI, Bogor, pp. 49-53.
• Cairney, J. W. G., Chambers, S. M. and Anderson, I. C. (1999). Pisolithus systematics - molecular methods provide fresh insights. Mycologist 13: 31-35.
• Anderson, I. C., Chambers, S. M. & Cairney, J. W. G. (1999). Intra- and interspecific variation in patterns of organic and inorganic nitrogen utilisation by three Australian Pisolithus species. Mycological Research 103: 1579-1587.
• Anderson, I. C., Chambers, S. M. & Cairney, J. W. G. (1998). Molecular determination of genetic variation in Pisolithus tinctorius isolates from a defined region in NSW, Australia. New Phytologist 138: 151-162.
• Anderson, I. C., Chambers, S. M. & Cairney, J. W. G. (1998). Use of molecular methods to estimate the size and distribution of mycelial individuals of the ectomycorrhizal basidiomycete Pisolithus tinctorius. Mycological Research 102: 295-300.

 Selected conference presentations

• Grelet, G. A., Duff, B., Meharg, A. A., Johnson, D., Anderson, I. C. and Alexander, I. J. (2006) Genetic and functional diversity within the Hymenoscyphus ericae aggregate. 5th International Conference on Mycorrhiza (ICOM 5), Granada, Spain.
• Fransson, P., Anderson, I. C. and Alexander, I. J. (2006) Symbiotic soil fungi drive carbon allocation below ground. 5th International Conference on Mycorrhiza (ICOM 5), Granada, Spain.
• Saari, S., Campbell, C. D, Anderson, I. C. and Alexander, I. J. (2006) The influence of monoterpenes on Scots pine ectomycorrhizal communities. 5th International Conference on Mycorrhiza (ICOM 5), Granada, Spain.
• Genney, D. R., Anderson, I. C. and Alexander, I. J. (2006) Fine scale distribution of pine ectomycorrhizal fungi. 5th International Conference on Mycorrhiza (ICOM 5), Granada, Spain.
• van der Linde, S., Humphrey, J., Genney, D., Alexander, I. J. and Anderson, I. C. (2006) Below-ground detection and quantification of rare pinewood mycorrhizal fungi. 5th International Conference on Mycorrhiza (ICOM 5), Granada, Spain.
• Pickles, B. J., Genney, D., Anderson, I. C. and Alexander, I. J. (2006) Spatial ecology of Scots pine ectomycorrhizal communities. 5th International Conference on Mycorrhiza (ICOM 5), Granada, Spain.
• Franco, A., Mitchell, R., Campbell, C. D., Anderson, I. C. and Alexander, I. J. (2006) The ectomycorrhizal fungi of birch colonising calluna moorland in Northern Scotland. 5th International Conference on Mycorrhiza (ICOM 5), Granada, Spain.
• Bougoure, D. S., Parkin, P. I., Cairney, J. W. G., Alexander, I. J. and Anderson, I. C. (2006) Scots pine trees influence fungal diversity in understorey ericaceous roots. 5th International Conference on Mycorrhiza (ICOM 5), Granada, Spain.
• Izumi, H., Moore, E. R. B., Killham, K., Alexander, I. J. and Anderson, I. C. (2006) Diversity and expression of nitrogenase genes (nifH) from ectomycorrhizas of Corsican pine (Pinus nigra). 5th International Conference on Mycorrhiza (ICOM 5), Granada, Spain.

Invited oral presentations

• 2006 - University of Aberdeen, UK. "Networking in the forest: The spatial ecology of ectomycorrhizas".  
• 2006 - Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Edinburgh University, UK. "Spatial ecology of ectomycorrhizal fungi".  
• 2006 - Phillipps University Marburg, Germany. Invited Keynote. Community structure and dynamics symposium. “Community structure and ecology of pine ectomycorrhizal fungi”.
• 2006 - International Conference on Mycorrhiza (ICOM 5), Granada, Spain. “Fine scale distribution of pine ectomycorrhizal fungi”.
• 2004 - University of Copenhagen, Denmark. “Diversity and ecology of pine ectomycorrhizal fungi”.
• 2004 - University of Aberdeen, UK. “Estimating fungal biodiversity in soil: application of molecular methods, biases, and choice of primers”.

Research experience

• 2004 - present. Senior Research Scientist, The Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen, UK.
• 2002 - 2004. Research Scientist, The Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen, UK
• 2000 - 2002. Postdoctoral Research Fellow , The Macaulay Institute & University of Aberdeen, UK. The Soil Health Initiative.

Education & Background

• 2001 PhD. University of Western Sydney, Australia.
• 1996 BSc. (Hons) First Class, University of Western Sydney, Australia.

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