Bidartondo, Martin I.
Job Title
Senior Lecturer (joint appointment with Imperial College, London)
Department
Jodrell
Section
Science Teams:
Joined Kew:
2004Foreign Language(s):
SpanishQualifications & Appointments
BS, Univ. Alaska (Fairbanks), 1996
PhD, Univ. California (Berkeley), 2001.
Role
Current areas of research (75% of appointment) include linking tree health to ectomycorrhizal communities under changing environmental conditions (supported by NERC, the Forestry Commission and Forest Research). Teaching (15%) includes lecturing for MSc/MRes courses in Biosystematics at the Natural History Museum, in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation and in Forest Protection and Conservation at Silwood Park, and undergraduate Ecology and Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. Administrative duties (10%) include every aspect of the day-to-day running of a fungal molecular laboratory.
Projects
Selected Recent Publications
M. Bidartondo MI, Read DJ, Trappe JM, Merckx V, Ligrone R, Duckett JG. 2011. The dawn of symbiosis between plants and fungi. Biology Letters 7: 574-577.
Waterman RJ, Bidartondo MI, Stofberg J, Combs JK, Gebauer G, Savolainen V, Barraclough TG, Pauw A. 2011. The effects of above- and belowground mutualisms on orchid speciation and coexistence. American Naturalist 177: E54-E68.
Bidartondo MI, Duckett JG. 2010. Conservative ecological and evolutionary patterns in liverwort-fungal symbioses. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 277: 485-492.
Cox F, Barsoum N, Lilleskov E, Bidartondo MI. 2010. Nitrogen availability is a primary determinant of conifer mycorrhizas. Ecology Letters 13: 1103 - 1113.
Brock P, Döring H, Bidartondo MI. 2009. How to know unknown fungi: the role of a herbarium. New Phytologist 181: 719-724.
Selected Earlier Publications
Collier, FA & Bidartondo, MI. 2009. Waiting for fungi: the ectomycorrhizal invasion of lowland heathlands. Journal of Ecology, doi 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2009.01544.x
Bidartondo, MI & Read, DJ. 2008. Fungal specificity bottlenecks during orchid germination and development. Molecular Ecology 17: 3707-3716.
Bidartondo, MI et al. 2008. Preserving accuracy in GenBank. Science 319: 1616.
Merckx, V & Bidartondo, MI. 2008. Breakdown and delayed cospeciation in the arbuscular mycorrhizal mutualism. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 275: 1029-1035.
Waterman, RJ & Bidartondo, MI. 2008. Deception above, deception below: pollination and mycorrhizal biology of orchids. Journal of Experimental Botany 59: 1085-1096.
