JOHN FRANCIS MURPHY

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Address (previous)
Department of Botany
The Field Museum
Roosevelt Road at Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60605-2496
Phone: (312) 922-9410 ext 722 Fax: (312) 427-2530

e-mail: jmurphy@tfm.fieldmuseum.org

Current address

Deep Spring College

HC 72, Box 45001

via Dyer, Nevada, 899010-9803

Phone: (760) 872-2000

e-mail: weiphy@deepsprings.edu

Education
B.A. (Environmental Biology), Humboldt State University, 1987.
M.S. (Biology), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1992.
Ph.D. (Biology), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1995.

Professional Positions
Postdoctoral Research Associate, The Field Museum, 1995-1997.
Assistant Professor and Dean of Academic Affairs, Deep Springs College, starting Sept., 1997.

Publications:

Chicago region Biodiversity Atlas (contributing author). In prep.

"Intersterility groups in Collybia subnuda." 1997. Murphy, JF. Mycologia 89(4): 566-577.

Flora Peoriana, 2nd ed. In press. Brendel, F, J Murphy, F Swink, and G Wilhelm.

"Diversity and local distribution of mating alleles in Marasmiellus praeacutus and Collybia subnuda (Basidiomycetes, Agaricales)." 1997. Murphy, JF, and OK Miller, Jr. Canadian Journal of Botany 75: 8-17.

"Fungal inventories - a status report and exhortation." 1996. Murphy, JF. McIlvainea 12 (2): 75-88.

"Microevolutionary studies in Marasmiellus praeacutus and Collybia subnuda, two litter-decomposing basidiomycetes." 1995. Doctoral dissertation, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

"Mycorrhizal syntheses with Alnus serrulata (Ait.) Willd." 1994. Murphy, JF, and OK Miller, Jr. Castanea 59(2): 156-166.

"The population biology of two litter decomposing agarics on a southern Appalachian mountain." 1993. Murphy, JF, and OK Miller, Jr. Mycologia 85(5): 769-776

"The ecology and population biology of two litter decomposing basidiomycetes." 1992. Master's thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Recent Professional Presentations:

Murphy, J. F., S. Packard, D. K. Moskovits, and G. M. Mueller. 1996. "Chicago Wilderness, a model for conservation of biodiversity within an urban setting." Society for Conservation Biology annual meeting, Providence, RI.

Murphy, J. F., and G. M. Mueller. 1996. "Higher fungi of the Chicago region in the twentieth century." Mycological Society of America annual meeting, Indianapolis, IN.

Schmit, J. P., J. F. Murphy, and G. M. Mueller. "Diversity and abundance of macromycetes in Cowles Bog, Indiana Dunes." 1996. Mycological Society of America annual meeting, Indianapolis, IN.

Murphy, J. F. 1995. "Intersterility groups in Collybia subnuda." 1995. Mycological Society of America annual meeting, San Diego, CA.

Murphy, J. F. 1995. "Microevolutionary studies in Marasmiellus praeacutus and Collybia subnuda, two litter-decomposing basidiomycetes." Dissertation seminar.

Murphy., J. F. 1994. "The ecology of fungi, with some notes on fungal conservation." Invited lecturer, North American Mycological Association national meeting, Asheville, NC.

Teaching experience

Assistant Professor, Biology Faculty, Deep Springs College, Deep Springs, California. Began Sept., 1997. Courses include Introductory Biology, Introductory Botany, Introductory Mycology, and Natural History of the Great Basin.

Lecturer, Introductory Mycology (Bot. 332). University of Wisconsin, Madison. Fall, 1996.

Multiple short courses and lectures on Introductory Mycology and mushroom hunting for the Field Museum, the Illinois Mycological Society, the Illinois Chapter of the Nature Conservancy, the Asheville Mycological Club, and the North American Mycological Association.

Graduate Teaching Assistantships at Virginia Tech included rotations in Introductory Mycology , Plant Systematics, General Microbiology Lab, and General Biology Lab. My student teaching evaluations at VPI were consistently over 3.7 on a 4 pt. scale.

Invited lecturer on molecular biology for Introductory Biology classes (for majors and nonmajors), Spring, 1995 (by Dr. Mary Lipscomb, course instructor).

Grants received
Sigma Xi, grants-in-aid of research award #9203. May 1, 1992. $400, matched by VPI Dept. of Biol.
Highlands Biological Station grant in aid of research. March, 1993. $600, matched by VPI Dept. of Biol.


Professional Societies
Mycological Society of America
Society for Conservation Biology
Illinois Mycological Association

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